Surface treatment method and apparatus

• US 20040016764A1
• Filed: 07/26/2002
• Published: 01/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Blyth S. Biggs, David Amandus Stegemann
• Original Assignee: Blyth S. Biggs, David Amandus Stegemann
• Inventors: Biggs, Blyth S., Stegemann, David Amandus
• Application Number:
  US10/206,501
• Publication Number:
  US 20040016764A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 221/96
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/24 Frames for mops; Mop heads handles B25G

Abstract

This is a surface treating device and method of treating surfaces in which a supply of surface treating material is carried in a first package by a handle and a surface treating backing device with means to gradually advance the surface treating material from the first package over the backing device in increments or continuously in such manner that clean, or relatively clean, surface treating material is always being used with soiled or contaminated surface treating material being accumulated and stored within a second package in such manner that the two packages can be removed and replaced simultaneously in order to assure that relatively clean surface treating material will always be used during surface treatment.

Claims

1. A surface treatment apparatus comprising:

a handle;

a treatment material backing device in cooperative relationship with said handle;

a supply of surface treating material contained within a package cooperatively mounted with relation to said handle;

means to advance surface treating material from said supply across said backing device; and

means to receive used surface treating material.

2. The method of treating surfaces comprising:

placing a replaceable package of surface treating material into a surface treating device;

causing a quantity of surface treating material to be passed over a surface being treated; and

causing the quantity of surface treating which has been passed over the surface to be returned to the replaceable package while simultaneously causing a fresh quantity of surface treating material to be passed over the surface being treated.