Floor cleaning implement

• US 20050000047A1
• Filed: 04/16/2004
• Published: 01/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Polymer Group Incorporated (Berry Global Group Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Polymer Group Incorporated (Berry Global Group Inc.)
• Inventors: Kelly, Karl, Carter, Nick, Mayhorn, Jennifer
• Application Number:
  US10/826,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20050000047A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/104.940
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/256 for mops made of cloth

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a floor cleaning implement, and more specifically, to a floor cleaning implement having a mop head comprised of a three-dimensional surface, wherein the three-dimensional surface readily receives a planar cleaning sheet, such as a woven or nonwoven, which conforms to the contours of the three-dimensional mop head surface. In accordance with the present invention, the planar cleaning sheet may be either a woven fabric or nonwoven fabric, such as a carded web, spunbond, meltblown, air laid, wet laid, or a combination thereof.

Claims

1. A floor cleaning implement comprising a handle, a mop head, and a universal joint connecting said handle to said mop head, wherein said mop head comprises at least one three-dimensional surface and readily receives a planar cleaning sheet that contours to the said three-dimensional surface of said mop head.

2. A floor cleaning implement as in claim 1, wherein said mop head receives said planar cleaning sheet by way of pinch points, adhesives, or fasteners.

3. A floor cleaning implement as in claim 1, wherein said planar cleaning sheet is one or more layers consisting of the group of wovens, nonwovens, films, and the combinations thereof.

4. A floor cleaning implement as in claim 1, wherein said planar cleaning sheet is wet or dry.

5. A floor cleaning implement as in claim 1, wherein said planar cleaning sheet comprises an aqueous or non-aqueous cleaning composition.

6. A floor cleaning implement comprising a handle, a mop head, and a universal joint connecting said handle to said mop head, wherein said mop head comprises a first surface comprising a first three-dimensional surface and a second surface comprising a second three-dimensional surface, wherein said first and second surfaces readily receives a planar cleaning sheet that contours to the said three-dimensional surface of said mop head.

7. A floor cleaning implement that acts as an adapter for a mop head comprising a support surface, wherein said adapter comprises a three-dimensional surface and is fastened to said support surface so as to convert said mop head into a mop head with a three-dimensional surface;

said three-dimensional surface readily receives a planar cleaning sheet that contours to the said three-dimensional surface of said mop head.

8. A floor cleaning implement as in claim 7, wherein said adapter fastens to said support surface by way of clips, clamps, or hooks.