Disposable wiping sheet

• US 6,119,298 A
• Filed: 01/12/1999
• Issued: 09/19/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Original Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
• Inventors: Kenmochi, Yasuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Till, Terrence R.
• Application Number:
  US09/228,618
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• Field of Search: 15/208, 15/209.1, 15/210.1, 15/231, 15/232
• US Class Current: 15/231
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/20 Mops
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 1/54 by welding together the fibres, e.g. by partially melting or dissolving in combination with needling D04H1/485

Abstract

A disposable wiping sheet used with a mop-type cleaner device has a bottom surface and a top surface extending in parallel to each other and shaped in a rectangle as viewed in its plan view. The bottom surface is flat but the top surface is relatively low in a pair of side regions extending in parallel to each other with a predetermined width and relatively high in a middle region lying between these side regions.

Claims

1. A disposable wiping sheet comprising:

a sheet member made from a single continuous material and having opposed parallel sides, a first surface, and a second surface opposed to said first surface,

said first surface is substantially planar and said second surface is stepped between said opposed parallel sides with a pair of side regions having a first thickness and a middle region lying between said pair of side regions and having a second thickness, the thickness of the middle region being greater than the thickness of the pair of side regions.

2. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 1, wherein said wiping sheet comprises a fibrous material having a fiber density in said pair of side regions which is higher than a fiber density in said middle region.

3. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 1, wherein a cross-section of said middle region taken along a direction orthogonal to said opposed parallel sides is trapezoidal.

4. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 1, wherein said wiping sheet is removably attachable to a support surface of a cleaning apparatus so that said first surface is in contact with said support surface and said second surface is exposed for wiping surfaces.

5. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 1, wherein the sheet member is rectangular.

6. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 1, wherein a cross-section of said middle region taken along a direction orthogonal to said opposed parallel sides is rectangular.

7. A disposable wiping sheet comprising:

a sheet member made of a nonwoven fabric and having opposed parallel sides, a first surface, and a second surface opposed to said first surface,

said first surface is substantially planar and said second surface is stepped between said opposed parallel sides with a pair of side regions having a first thickness and a middle region lying between said pair of side regions and having a second thickness, the thickness of the middle region being greater than the thickness of the pair of side regions.

8. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 7, wherein the nonwoven fabric comprises thermoplastic synthetic fibers.

9. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 8, wherein said side regions are formed by heating the same under pressure.

10. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 7, wherein said wiping sheet comprises a fibrous material having a fiber density in said pair of side regions which is higher than a fiber density in said middle region.

11. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 7, wherein a cross-section of said middle region taken along a direction orthogonal to said opposed parallel sides is trapezoidal.

12. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 7, wherein said wiping sheet is removably attachable to a support surface of a cleaning apparatus so that said first surface is in contact with said support surface and said second surface is exposed for wiping surfaces.

13. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 7, wherein the sheet member is rectangular.

14. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 7, wherein a cross-section of said middle region taken along a direction orthogonal to said opposed parallel sides is rectangular.

15. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 7, wherein the nonwoven fabric comprises thermoplastic synthetic fibers.

16. The disposable wiping sheet according to claim 15, wherein said side regions are formed by heating the same under pressure.