Device for rinsing out and spin drying a wiping body

• US 20060048330A1
• Filed: 09/09/2005
• Published: 03/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alfred Kã¤Rcher GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Alfred Kã¤Rcher GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Schwarz, Ronald, Rust, Hendrik, Demirtas, Yunus
• Application Number:
  US11/224,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20060048330A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/260
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/58 Wringers for scouring pads, mops, or the like, combined with buckets

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for rinsing out and spin drying a wiping body, which is mounted on a wiping head of a surface cleaning device, comprising a container which has a rinsing region and a spin dryer region, a wiping head mount being mounted rotatably in the spin dryer region, into which wiping head mount the wiping head can be inserted together with the wiping body and which wiping head mount can be driven rotationally by means of a drive device in order to remove moisture from the wiping body, the rinsing region accommodating a cleaning fluid, and it being possible for the wiping head together with the wiping body to be inserted into the rinsing region. In order to further develop the device in such a manner that it has a particularly compact configuration, it is proposed according to the invention that the container is configured in the manner of a bucket which surrounds the rinsing region and the spin dryer region, that the container forms below the spin dryer region a dividing wall which covers a drive compartment accommodating the drive device, and that the rinsing region extends laterally next to the spin dryer region and the drive compartment, the rinsing region forming an insertion section level with the spin dryer region and a liquid-accommodating region level with the drive compartment.

Claims

1. Device for rinsing out and spin drying a wiping body, which is mounted on a wiping head of a surface cleaning device, comprising a container which has a rinsing region and a spin dryer region, a wiping head mount being mounted rotatably in the spin dryer region, into which wiping head mount the wiping head can be inserted together with the wiping body and which wiping head mount can be driven rotationally about an axis of rotation by means of a drive device in order to remove moisture from the wiping body, and the rinsing region accommodating a cleaning liquid, and it being possible for the wiping head together with the wiping body to be inserted into the rinsing region, wherein the container is configured in the manner of a bucket which surrounds the rinsing region and the spin dryer region and wherein the container forms below the spin dryer region a dividing wall which covers a drive compartment accommodating the drive device, and wherein the rinsing region extends laterally next to the spin dryer region and the drive compartment, the rinsing region forming an insertion section level with the spin dryer region and a liquid-accommodating region level with the drive compartment.

2. Device according to claim 1, wherein the container has a basic body which is of unitary configuration, surrounds the spin dryer region and the rinsing region and has a recessed formation which can be covered by a covering, the covering and the recessed formation surrounding the drive compartment.

3. Device according to claim 2, wherein the covering can be connected releasably to the basic body.

4. Device according to claim 1, wherein the liquid-accommodating region extends further down than the spin dryer region.

5. Device according to claim 1, wherein the container has laterally next to the drive compartment a bottom wall which is oriented obliquely with respect to the axis of rotation of the wiping head mount and covers a free space disposed below the bottom wall.

6. Device according to claim 5, wherein the bottom wall bounds the liquid-accommodating region and forms a rinsing plate against which the wiping body can be placed in a planar manner and along which the wiping body can be moved.

7. Device according to claim 6, wherein the rinsing plate carries friction elements on its upper side.

8. Device according to claim 6, wherein the drive device is associated with a control element which can be actuated by the user and is disposed in the region of the free space or in the drive compartment.

9. Device according to claim 8, wherein the control element has a foot switch.

10. Device according to claim 1, wherein the wiping head mount can be placed onto a drive shaft.

11. Device according to claim 10, wherein drive shaft reaches through the dividing wall of the container.

12. Device according to claim 1, wherein the container has at least one handle which is molded onto or into a container wall.

13. Device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one handle is configured as a recessed grip which is molded into a container wall.

14. Device according to claim 12, wherein the at least one handle is disposed on the exterior of the container adjacent to the spin dryer region.

15. Device according to claim 1, wherein the wiping body is mounted on the wiping head so as to form a wiping surface, and wherein the wiping head mount has a receptacle into which the wiping head can be inserted with the surface normal of the wiping surface oriented obliquely or perpendicularly with respect to the axis of rotation of the wiping head mount.

16. Device according to claim 15, wherein the receptacle receives the wiping head with the surface normal of the wiping surface oriented perpendicularly with respect to the axis of rotation of the wiping head mount.

17. Device according to claim 15, wherein the receptacle is bounded by two side walls which are disposed at a distance from each other, receive the wiping head between them and in each case have at least one passage opening.

18. Device according to claim 17, wherein the side walls are configured in the form of a mesh or grid.

19. Device according to claim 15, wherein the wiping head mount is associated with a lid which is disposed level with an upper edge of the container and covers the spin dryer region with the exception of the receptacle of the wiping head mount.

20. Device according to claim 19, wherein the lid is connected integrally to the side walls of the receptacle.

21. Device according to claim 1, wherein the wiping head mount is of unitary configuration.