Wiping device with drive, unit for treating floors with the device and processes for wiping a flat surface with the device and the unit

• US 20070044258A1
• Filed: 11/19/2003
• Published: 03/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gerhard Wetzl, Joachim Damrath, Markus Spielmannleitner
• Original Assignee: Gerhard Wetzl, Joachim Damrath, Markus Spielmannleitner
• Inventors: Damrath, Joachim, Wetzl, Gerhard, Spielmannleitner, Markus
• Application Number:
  US10/537,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20070044258A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/98
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/28 Floor-scrubbing machines, motor-driven A47L11/29 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4011 Regulation of the cleaning machine by electric means; Control systems and remote control systems therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4066 Propulsion of the whole machine
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4069 Driving or transmission means for the cleaning tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/256 for mops made of cloth
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/48 Protective devices, such as bumpers or guard plates
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/60 with squeezing rollers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 2201/00 Robotic cleaning machines, i.e. with automatic control of the travelling movement or the cleaning operation

Abstract

The invention relates to a novel wiping device for cleaning surfaces, characterized in that a motor drive is arranged inside a web width covered during wiping movements.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A device for wiping a flat surface, the device comprising:

a wiping surface covering a web width; and

a motor drive for moving the device, said motor drive lying inside said web width during movement of the device by said drive.