Cleaning pad

• US 6,996,871 B1
• Filed: 11/27/2000
• Issued: 02/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: Policicchio, Nicola John
• Primary Examiner(s): Spisich, Mark
• Application Number:
  US09/723,025
• Time in Patent Office: 1,905 Days
• Field of Search: 152/08, 152/091, 152/23, 152/24, 152/26, 152/28, 152/291, 152/296, 152/31, 152/32
• US Class Current: 15/228
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/20 Mops
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/256 for mops made of cloth

Abstract

An improved cleaning pad is provided. This cleaning pad includes at least one cleaning layer; and

at least one functional cuff attached to the cleaning pad. This cuff can be made of a cuff material and has an inner surface and an outer surface capable of contacting a surface to be cleaned. The functional cuff is designed such that the ratio of the glide force resulting from the contact of the inner surface of the cuff material against itself relative to the glide force resulting from the contact of the outer surface of the cuff material against the material of the surface to be cleaned is smaller than 1.

Claims

1. A cleaning implement for cleaning a floor surface comprising:

(a) a handle;

(b) a disposable cleaning pad comprising a cleaning layer having an upper surface adapted to be at least indirectly connected to the handle and a lower surface adapted to be moved along the surface of a floor, said cleaning layer further including leading and trailing edges; and

(c) a free floating looped functional cuff connected to said cleaning layer adjacent one of the edges thereof, said cuff comprising a cuff material having an inner surface and an outer surface, said outer surface includes a textured material selected from one of an apertured film and a scrim, said functional cuff being movably secured to the cleaning layer such that the cuff is flipped as the cleaning layer is moved back and forth on the floor surface such that opposed outer surfaces of the looped cuff are alternately brought into engagement with the floor surface.

2. The cleaning implement of claim 1, wherein said cleaning pad further comprises a second free-floating functional cuff.

3. The cleaning implement of claim 1, wherein said apertured film has a male and a female side wherein said female side forms the inner surface of said cuff material.

4. The cleaning implement of claim 3, wherein said male side is at least partially covered with a non-woven material.

5. A cleaning pad for cleaning a floor surface comprising:

at least a cleaning layer; and

at least a free floating looped functional cuff connected to said cleaning layer, said cuff comprising a cuff material having an inner surface and an outer surface, said outer surface being capable of contacting a surface to be cleaned wherein said cuff material includes a textured material comprising an apertured film, said apertured film having a male side and a female side wherein said female side forms the inner surface of said cuff material.

6. The cleaning pad of claim 5, wherein said cleaning pad further comprises a second free floating looped functional cuff.

7. The cleaning pad of claim 6, wherein said functional cuffs comprise a single layer of material.

8. The cleaning pad of claim 5, wherein said male side is at least partially covered with a non-woven material.

9. The cleaning pad of claim 5, wherein said functional cuff comprises a multi-layer material.

10. The cleaning pad of claim 9, wherein said multi-layer material comprises a first layer which forms the outer surface of said cuff, at least partially attached to a second layer which forms the inner surface of said cuff.

11. The cleaning pad of claim 10, wherein said first layer comprises a non-woven material.

12. The cleaning pad of claim 5, wherein said disposable cleaning pad further comprises a plurality of absorbent layers, wherein said absorbent layers have multiple widths in the z-dimension.

13. The cleaning pad of claim 5, wherein said cleaning pad further comprises a second free floating looped functional cuff comprising a scrim.

14. A cleaning pad for cleaning a floor surface and for use with a handle, the cleaning pad comprising:

a cleaning layer having an upper surface adapted to be at least indirectly connected to the handle and a lower surface adapted to be moved along the surface of a floor, said cleaning layer further including leading and trailing edges;

a free floating looped functional cuff connected to said cleaning layer adjacent one of the edges thereof, said cuff comprising a cuff material having an inner surface and an outer surface, said outer surface includes a textured material selected from one of an apertured film and a scrim, said functional cuff being movably secured to the cleaning layer such that the cuff is flipped as the cleaning layer is moved back and forth on the floor surface such that opposed outer surfaces of the looped cuff are alternately brought into engagement with the floor surface.