Cleaning pad

• US 7,191,486 B1
• Filed: 08/12/2003
• Issued: 03/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Butler Home Products LLC (Bradshaw International Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Butler Home Products LLC (Bradshaw International Incorporated)
• Inventors: Dunn, Thomas, Michelson, Robert
• Primary Examiner(s): Graham; Gary K.
• Application Number:
  US10/639,752
• Time in Patent Office: 1,316 Days
• Field of Search: 152/31, 152/08, 152/091, 152/101, 152/28, 152/32, 151/472, 151/471, 428/131, 428/178
• US Class Current: 15/228
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/20 Mops

Abstract

A cleaning pad is adapted to be releasably retained on a cleaning implement which includes on its cleaning head either multiple strips of pile-type fastener material or a plurality of attachment structures. The cleaning pad includes a top layer constructed of polyethylene and a bottom layer constructed of rayon. The top and bottom layers are affixed together along their peripheries by a bond line so as to define an enclosed pocket therebetween which is sized and shaped to receive a middle layer constructed of wood pulp paper. Multiple strips of hook-type fastener material are secured on the top layer and are adapted to releasably engage complimentary strips of pile-type fastener material on the cleaning implement. One or more mounting tabs are secured on the bottom layer and are adapted to releasably engage complimentary attachment structures on the cleaning implement. Each mounting tab can be disposed between a retracted, or folded, position and an extended, or unfolded, position.

Claims

1. A cleaning pad adapted to be releasably retained on a cleaning implement, said cleaning implement comprising a cleaning head and at least one of a fastener material and an attachment structure coupled to said cleaning head, said cleaning pad comprising:

(a) a fastener material adapted to engage the fastener material on said cleaning implement;

(b) a mounting tab adapted to engage the attachment structure on said cleaning implement;

(c) a top layer; and

(d) a bottom layer coupled to said top layer;

(e) wherein the mounting tab can be disposed between a retracted position and an extended position and wherein the mounting tab is folded about a fold line so as to define a lower flap and an upper flap and wherein the mounting tab is secured onto the outer surface of the bottom layer and wherein an adhesive secures a portion of the lower flap onto the bottom layer and secures a portion of the upper flap onto a portion of the lower flap, the strength of the adhesive bond between the lower flap and the bottom layer being greater than the adhesive bond between the upper flap and the lower flap.

2. The cleaning pad as claimed in claim 1 wherein the mounting tab includes a free end which extends out from the outer periphery of the bottom layer a distance of approximately 0.6 cm when said mounting tab is in its retracted position.

3. The cleaning pad as claimed in claim 2 wherein the mounting tab is manufactured out of rayon.