Mop

• US 8,161,593 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2008
• Issued: 04/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Noble Ideas II Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Noble Ideas II Incorporated
• Inventors: Noble, Edward J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Spisich, Mark
• Application Number:
  US12/341,061
• Publication Number:
  US 20090158542A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,219 Days
• Field of Search: 15/98, 15/99, 151/191, 152/28, 152/31, 152/32
• US Class Current: 15/228
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/20 Mops
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/24 Frames for mops; Mop heads handles B25G

Abstract

A mop comprising a roller and mop pad system and a roll of absorbent mopping material operably coupled to the roller and mop pad system. The mop enables the user to replace the soiled mopping material with clean mopping material by using the roller system to roll the soiled mopping material away from the mop pad and thus replace the soiled mopping material with clean mopping material from a supply roll.

Claims

1. A mop comprising

an elongate handle,

a frame member comprising a supply roller, a take-up roller and a cross bar between the supply and take-up rollers, the handle coupled to the cross bar such that the supply and take-up rollers are positioned on opposite sides of the handle and the handle further including a portion thereof extending below the frame member, the frame member further including a guide roller positioned adjacent the take-up roller;

a roller pad rotatably coupled to an end of the handle portion that extends below the frame member, the roller pad having a soft or flexible exterior; and

an elongate sheet of mopping material coupled to the supply roller, extending around the roller pad and the guide roller and then coupled to the take-up roller so that as the mopping material becomes soiled during use the dirty material may be collected on the take-up roller and a clean portion of the material supplied from the supply roller.

2. A mop comprising

an elongate handle;

a frame member comprising first and second side supports and a cross bar extending there between, the handle coupled to the cross bar and further including a portion thereof extending below the frame member;

a mopping material holder positioned on the frame member on one side of the handle and cross bar;

first, second and third rollers disposed on the frame member below the mopping material holder, each of the rollers being engaged with and operably coupled with a respective one of the other rollers;

a roller pad rotatably coupled to an end of the handle portion that extends below the frame member, the roller pad having a soft or flexible exterior; and

an elongate sheet of mopping material formed as a roll and disposed within the mopping material holder, the sheet of mopping material extending from the holder, between the first and second roller, over the roller pad and then between the second and third roller, wherein as the mopping material becomes soiled during use the dirty material may be fed between the second and third rollers and a clean portion of the material supplied from the holder.