WO2004012570A1

WO2004012570A1 - Mopping device for wet floors

Info

Publication number: WO2004012570A1
Application number: PCT/EP2003/008468
Authority: WO
Inventors: Gernot M. Hirse
Original assignee: Carl Freudenberg Kg
Priority date: 2002-08-01
Filing date: 2003-07-31
Publication date: 2004-02-12
Also published as: AU2003260343A1; DE10235304A1

Abstract

Disclosed is a mopping device for wet floors, comprising a handle (1) and a mop support (3) that is connected thereto and supports at least one mop (7) made of an absorbent material. Said mop (7) is provided with a head section (8) that is connected to the mop support (3) and a mopping section (10) that is made of dangling strips, threads, or rags. The handle (1) is mounted on the mop support (3) so as to be pivotable about a single swivel pin (4). The outline of said handle (1) has a non-round, preferably elongate-rectangular or triangular contour.

Description

Moist Soil wiping device

The invention relates to a wet-floor mopping device with a wiper handle and a mop holder connected to it, which carries at least one mop made of absorbent material, which in each case has a head section connected to the mop holder and a wiscri section consisting of hanging strips, threads or rags, the under Knot formation can be squeezed out of a sieve cup or the like.

Round mops can be squeezed out easily in sieve cups placed on buckets or in lever-operated presses; however, they do not allow precisely controlled movement on the floor, especially in corners, narrow spaces, on stairs and in other places that are difficult to access. Mops with an elongated floor plan are in terms of their

Limited possibilities of movement, especially on stairs; an increased effort is required for pressing out.

The frequently used wiscrimops, commonly referred to as "spaghetti mops", with relatively long threads hanging as a bundle, can in practice only be guided over the floor surface to be cleaned because of their length with centrifugal movements. This means that large, free floor areas can be wiped quickly; handling is exhausting and unergonomic. In addition, the mop cannot or only insufficiently narrow areas and corners. These mops can only be pressed in presses between press plates and are predominantly used only in the commercial sector.

Wet floor wipers are in different

Known from management forms. In the household area, wet-floor mopping devices are preferably used, the mop of which is designed as a round mop. Its wiping section consists of a round or oval bundle of threads, strips or rags made of absorbent material in the hanging state. Such round mops can be pressed out between lever-actuated press plates, are provided with a wringing device (G 93 20 060) or can be pressed out in a usually round sieve cup, which can be hung in a conventional cleaning bucket (FR 1 582 827).

However, the simple squeezing option, for example in a light and inexpensive sieve goblet, is offset by the disadvantage that a round mop on the floor cannot be guided in a targeted manner. A round contact surface is formed under the top section of the round mop, in which an increased contact pressure can be exerted on the floor. The strips, threads or rags of the wiping section lying on the floor, however, form an undefined mass which can only be moved over a larger area of the floor by hardly controllable spinning movements.

In addition, wet floor mopping devices are primarily used in the professional floor cleaning sector, in which the wiping section of the mop hangs in the raised state as an essentially flat structure from the mop holder, which is also essentially flat and has at least one straight mop edge that can be guided in a controlled manner over the floor surface to be cleaned. However, these wet-floor mopping devices cannot be squeezed out in simple round sieve cups, but instead require the use of complex express devices which are either movably arranged on the mopping device (EP 0 457 943 AI) or have specially designed water containers (EP 0 207 641 Bl).

In most cases, the pressing is carried out using a lever on the pressing device (DE-GM 76 23 538). For this, a substantial stability of the water container is available, which is achieved either by significantly increased weight or the arrangement in a mobile frame. Because of the considerable effort for the squeezing device and its dimensions and weight, these wet floor mopping devices are generally not used in the household sector.

The object of the invention is to design a wet floor mopping device of the type mentioned in such a way that it has a simple structure and is therefore inexpensive to manufacture, enables simple squeezing out of sieve cups, but also enables controlled guidance on the floor surface to be cleaned. This object is achieved in that the wiper handle is pivotally mounted on the mop holder by only one Scriwenkach.se.

Due to the fact that the wiper handle can only be swiveled around an axis, a defined distribution of the mop on the floor results even with a round outline contour of the mop holder. The pivotability, which is restricted to one pivoting direction, means that the user can control the position of the mop on the floor in a defined manner. For this reason, the mop can be moved to all corners of the floor surface to be cleaned. on the other hand, the mop is pressed against the floor surface over the entire length of the mop holder, so that an essentially uniform pressure is achieved in all surface areas to be cleaned. With this guidance of the mop on the floor, all surface areas of the floor surface to be cleaned can be used in all desired areas

Guideways of the mop are swept without spinning motion; in particular, transverse guidance over a larger surface width is also possible in overlapping loops (so-called figure of eight guidance).

The wet-floor mopping device according to the invention is also particularly suitable for cleaning stairs, because the mop rests flat on the surface to be cleaned even when the mop handle is inclined. Nevertheless, the mop should be operated like a broom, without the need for the user to change its location. This contributes to an increase in occupational safety. Others too Locations that are difficult to access are significantly improved.

No special press is required for pressing out the mop; rather, in the raised state of the wet-floor wiping device, the hanging strips, threads or rags of the wiping section form an essentially concentrated bundle that can be pressed out in a simple manner in a sieve cup or strainer basket, but also in a press. Since only a vertical squeezing force is exerted by means of the wiper handle and therefore no que forces occur, the sound strength of a conventional one is sufficient

Cleaning bucket. The wet floor mopping device is therefore particularly suitable for use in the household sector.

The mop carrier preferably has a non-circular contour in the floor plan. The connection of a non-circular, for example oblong-rectangular, square or triangular outline contour of the mop holder with the swiveling speed limited to only one swivel axis results in a simple and safe guiding of the wet floor mopping device on the floor with the simplest constructional means. The non-circular contour of the mop holder causes the mop holder to be aligned with the floor surface.

Weaving the outline contours already mentioned, the mop support can also have a triangular outline in the outline. The corners can be guided particularly favorably in corners of the floor to be cleaned. The triangular contour favors the raised state of the Wet floor device to form a narrowly defined bundle of the wiping section. A contour outline of the mop holder with corners of less than 90 ° enables the mop to be guided deep into rectangular corners of the floor surface to be cleaned.

Further advantageous embodiments of the

The idea of the invention is the subject of further

Subclaims.

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Exemplary embodiments of the invention are illustrated below, which are shown in the drawing. It shows:

1 is a wet floor mopping device according to a first embodiment in a vertical section,

2 the wet-floor mopping device according to FIG. 1 in a top view, with the wiper handle omitted,: o

3 shows a side view of a pivot bearing of the wiper handle modified from FIG. 1,

Fig. 4-11 in plan views corresponding to FIG. 2 more: 5 modified forms of leadership,

Fig. 12 a wet floor mopping device, partly in a vertical section,

13 shows a section along the line XIII-XIII in FIG. 12 in another application position, Fig. 14 is a top view of another wet floor mop and

Fig. 15 a) -d) the options for guiding the wet floor mopping device with an elongated floor plan.

The wet-floor mopping device shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 has a wiper handle 1 which is pivotably attached to a mop holder 3 by means of a joint 2. In the joint 2, the wiper handle 1 can be pivoted about only one pivot axis 4, which extends essentially parallel to the plane of the mop holder 3.

The mop support 3 has a mop support plate 5 which is connected to an upper plate 6 having the joint 2. A mop 7 made of absorbent material has a head section 8, which in the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2 is arranged between the mop support plate 5 and the upper plate 6. In the raised state (FIG. 1) of the wet-floor mopping device, strips, threads or rags of the absorbent material hang down from two lateral connection edges 9 of the head section 8, which form a wiping section 10 which is shown in FIGS. 6, 8-11 and 14 is shown abbreviated. The minimum length of the wiping section 10, which hangs laterally from the head section 8, is selected such that the wiping section can be pressed out in a conventional sieve cup or press-out sieve with knot formation. 2, 4-6, 8-11 and 14, the strips forming the wiping section 10 are each shown lying flat in a plan view.

In the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2, the mop support 3 has an elongated rectangular contour in plan. The pivot axis 4 of the wiper handle 1 extends transversely to the two mutually opposite connection edges of the head section 8, from which the strips, threads or rags forming the wiping section 10 of the mop emanate.

1, the wiper stem 1 can be pivoted in both directions about the pivot axis 4, the pivotability in the embodiment according to FIG. 3 is limited by a stop 11 between the wiper stem 1 and the upper plate 6 in the joint 2, that the wiper handle 1 from the ge shown in Fig. 3, orthogonal to the mop carrier position is pivotable in only one direction, which is shown in Fig. 3 is indicated by an arrow 12.

From the execution according to Fig. 4 differs from the previously described embodiment only in the layout of the mop support plate 5.1, which here essentially consists of two isosceles triangles which are connected to one another at their apex. The constriction resulting in the central region of the mop carrier 3 leads to the fact that in the raised state (shown in a plan view in FIG. 7) there is also a lateral constriction of the wiping section 10 which hangs down. 7 is hinted that one becomes one in this way. Introduce bundles of strip-shaped wiping section 10 into a round sieve cup 13, which is only indicated in FIG.

5 differs from the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 4 only in that the pivot axis 4 of the Wi shear handle extends parallel to the connecting edges 9, which laterally delimit the head section 8 and to which the strips of the wiping section 10 are connected.

In the embodiment according to Fig. 8, the outward-pointing tips of the mop support plate 5.2 located under the head section 8 are made even narrower. The upper plate 6 and / or the mop support plate 5 .2 can - just as in the other exemplary embodiments - consist of elastically deformable material. This significantly improves the knot formation when squeezing in a silicon cup.

In the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 9, the mop support plate 5.3 lying under the head section 8 of the mop 7 has an approximately T-shape in plan view. In the example according to Fig. 10, the mop support 3 approximately has a triangular contour in plan, the two connecting edges 9 being arranged at an angle to one another.

The triangular outline contour of the mop holder 3 is even more pronounced in the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 11. The head section 8 of the mop 7 forms here Floor plan of an isosceles triangle, from whose three connecting edges 9 each strip of the wiping section 10 extend. The pivot axis 4 extends parallel to one of the three connecting edges 9.

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6 differs from the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 4 only in that all four sides of the square head section 8 form connecting edges 9, of which strips are

0 Wipe out section 10.

FIG. 12 shows a wet floor mopping device in the working state on a floor surface 14 to be cleaned, partly in a side view and partly in section.

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In the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 13, the mop support plate 5. 4 of the mop holder 3 arranged in the interior of the multi-layer led out head section 8 of the mop 7, each on both sides

: 0 the wiping section 10 consisting of hanging strips or threads is connected. The mop support plate 5.4 is completely protected and does not touch the floor.

5 In the embodiment according to Fig. 14 has the mop holder 3, as in the example according to FIG. 2 an oblong rectangular outline contour. However, the strips forming the wiping portion 10 are here ^■ at connecting edges 9 on the narrow sides of the elongated

O rectangular head section 8 connected. The Schwenkacti.se 4 runs parallel to the narrow sides. The longitudinal edges 8a of the head section 8 are used for lateral tipping as in Fig. 13 as cleaning-effective edges that can be guided over the floor with increased contact pressure. In the illustrated, slightly crossed arrangement of two or more head sections 5 8 results in a particularly effective lateral stability without the mop support 3 being used for this. The material of the head sections 8 can be selected differently in order to achieve different cleaning effects with the L0 edges of the head sections 8 lying on the floor.

The head from sections 8 can also be crossed more, up to a right-angled arrangement.

In Fig. 15 a) -d) are different with arrows

L5 guidance options shown schematically, which result from the elongated floor plan of the wiper z. B. according to Fig. 1-3 and the swiveling it in joint 2 around

Result pivot axis 4, which extends transversely to the longitudinal direction. In Fig. 15 c) and d) the mop carrier is over

10 which extends at right angles to the pivot axis 4

Edge edge tilted, as in Fig. 13 shown.

Claims

claims

1. Wet floor-wiping device having a wiper shaft (1) and an associated mop support (3) carrying a ^'consisting of absorbent material mop (7) is at least 5, the respective one connected to the mop support (3) the head portion (8.8 ') and a wiping section (10) consisting of hanging strips, threads or rags, which can be squeezed out with a knot in 0 a sieve cup (13) or the like, characterized in that the wiper handle (1) on the mop support (3) by only one Swivel axis (4) is pivotally mounted.

5 2. Wet floor mopping device according to claim 1, characterized in that the mop support (3) has a non-circular contour in the floor plan.

3. wet floor mopping device according to claim 2, characterized in 0 that the mop support (3) has an elongated rectangular contour in plan.

4. wet floor mopping device according to claim 2, characterized in that the mop support (3) in the floor plan one

! 5 has a triangular contour.

5. Wet floor mopping device according to claim 1, characterized in that the mop support (3) has an upper plate (6) and a mop support plate (5) arranged underneath.

0 5.1-5.4).

6. wet floor mopping device according to claim 4, characterized in that the upper plate (6) and / or the mop support plate (5) consists of elastic material.

7. wet floor mopping device according to claim 2, characterized in that the mop support plate (5.1) ii plan essentially consists of two isosceles triangles, which are connected to each other at their tip.

8. wet floor mopping device according to claim 1, characterized in that the wiping section (10) of the mop (7) forming strips, threads or rags from two mutually opposite connection edges (9) of the head section (8) and that the

Swivel axis (4) of the wiper handle extends transversely to the two connecting edges (9).

9. wet floor mopping device according to claim 1, characterized in that the wiping section (10) of

Wiper mops (7) forming strips, threads or rags of two mutually opposite connecting edges (9) of the

Head section (8) and that the

Swivel axis (4) of the wiper handle (1) extends parallel to the connecting edges (9).

10. Wet floor mopping device according to claim 1, characterized in that the wiping section (10) of the mop (7) forming strips, threads or rags hang from all edges of the mop holder.

11. wet floor mopping device according to claim 1, characterized in that the mop support (3)

Mop carrier plate (5.4), which is arranged inside a multi-layer head section (8 ^Λ ) of the mop (7), on the sides of which a wiping section (10) consisting of hanging strips, threads or rags is connected.