Fluid dispenser having a liquid release bottle with suction bellows or a liquid squeeze bottle incorporated into a flat mop

• US 9,980,621 B1
• Filed: 01/09/2017
• Issued: 05/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Worldwide Integrated Resources Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Worldwide Integrated Resources Incorporated
• Inventors: Morad, Fred I., Acosta, Robert A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chiang, Jennifer C
• Application Number:
  US15/402,153
• Time in Patent Office: 505 Days
• Field of Search: 401138
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/22 with liquid-feeding devices
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/23 connectable to the water mains

Abstract

A fluid dispenser having a liquid release bottle with suction bellows which is incorporated into a flat mop. This embodiment includes an exterior wall, an interior chamber surrounded by an exterior wall and a cap on the liquid intake member. The exterior wall includes a suction bellows to create a suction within the interior chamber of the liquid release bottle. A downward force on the handle activates a suction bellows to create a suction on the interior chamber of the liquid release bottle enabling fluid retained in the interior chamber to flow out of a duck-bill valve and into flexible tubing which will then flow through the tubing and out an opening of a yoke so that the fluid can flow onto a front of a scrubbing portion of the mop to facilitate cleaning. An alternative embodiment replaces the liquid release bottle with a liquid squeeze bottle.

Claims

1. An apparatus adopted for use with a flat mop including a handle having a distal end and a proximal end, a yoke having a distal end affixed to the proximal end of the handle, the yoke having a proximal end movably affixed to a coupling member affixed to a flat mop, the apparatus comprising:

a. a fluid dispenser having a liquid release bottle with suction bellows incorporated into the handle, the suction bellows at a location adjacent to the distal end of the flat mop, the liquid release bottle with suction bellows including an exterior wall, the release bottle and suction bellowing having an interior surface surrounding an interior chamber, an upper collar having a proximal end affixed to and in fluid communication with a distal end of the suction bellows, a blocking member having a proximal end affixed to the upper collar, the blocking member having a distal end affixed to a proximal end of an integration member, the integration member having a distal end affixed to a handle end cap, the upper collar in fluid communication with a liquid intake member covered by a covering cap;

b. the handle having a handle longitudinal interior channel extending from a location adjacent a lower end of said liquid release bottle to the proximal end of the yoke, said yoke having a yoke longitudinal interior channel extending from the location where the yoke is connected to said handle to a cutout in said yoke, the handle longitudinal interior channel aligned with the yoke longitudinal interior channel; and

c. the liquid release bottle with suction bellows further includes a collar integrally formed with the liquid release bottle with suction bellows at its proximal end, a connection valve assembly is retained within collar and includes a seal orifice including an O-ring seal, a duck-bill valve with an interior opening, and an air vent, both the O-ring orifice and the duck-bill valve fit inside upper the cylindrical portion of the connection valve, in addition, the connection valve has a bottom valve opening that connects to the flexible tubing by a bottom valve opening being surrounded by a bottom valve external circumferential wall that has a diameter sized to press fit and form an airtight connection with a handle interior channel opening of the handle at the distal end of the flexible tubing which extends through said aligned handle longitudinal interior channel and said yoke longitudinal interior channel, the flexible tubing extending out of said cutout in said yoke and terminating at a proximal end adjacent an upper surface of the flat mop;

d. whereby the interior chamber of the liquid release bottle is filled with cleaning liquid through the liquid intake member after the covering cap is removed and after the covering cap is replaced, a downward force on the end cap causes the suction bellows to create an interior suction within the interior chamber of the liquid release bottle, thereby causing the duck-bill valve to open and enabling cleaning liquid to be dispensed through the flexible tubing, the cleaning liquid flowing out of the proximal end of the tubing and at a location distal from said flat mop and onto a surface to be cleaned by the flat mop.

2. An apparatus adopted for use with a flat mop including a handle having a distal end and a proximal end, a yoke having a distal end affixed to the proximal end of the handle, the yoke having a proximal end movably affixed to a coupling member affixed to a flat mop, the apparatus comprising:

a. a fluid dispenser having a liquid release bottle with suction bellows incorporated into the handle, the liquid release bottle with suction bellows including an exterior wall, the release bottle and suction bellowing having an interior surface surrounding an interior chamber, an upper collar having a proximal end affixed to and in fluid communication with a distal end of the suction bellows, a blocking member having a proximal end affixed to the upper collar, the blocking member having a distal end affixed to a proximal end of an integration member, the integration the member having a distal end affixed to a handle end cap, the upper collar in fluid communication with a liquid intake member covered by a covering cap;

b. the handle having a handle longitudinal interior channel extending from a location adjacent a lower end of said liquid release bottle to the proximal end of the yoke, said yoke having a yoke longitudinal interior channel extending from the location where the yoke is connected to said handle to a cutout in said yoke, the handle longitudinal interior channel aligned with the yoke longitudinal interior channel; and

c. the liquid release bottle with suction bellows further includes a collar integrally formed with the liquid release bottle with suction bellows at its proximal end, a connection valve assembly is retained within collar and includes a seal orifice including an O-ring seal, a duck-bill valve with an interior opening, and an air vent, both the O-ring orifice and the duck-bill valve fit inside the upper cylindrical portion of the connection valve, in addition, the connection valve has a bottom valve opening that connects to the flexible tubing by a bottom valve opening being surrounded by a bottom valve external circumferential wall that has a diameter sized to press fit and form an airtight connection with a handle interior channel opening of the handle at the distal end of the flexible tubing which extends through said aligned handle longitudinal interior channel and said yoke longitudinal interior channel, the flexible tubing extending out of said cutout in said yoke and terminating at a proximal end adjacent an upper surface of the flat mop.

3. The apparatus in accordance with claim 2, further comprising:

said liquid release bottle is located adjacent to the distal end of said handle.

4. An apparatus adopted for use with a flat mop including a handle having a distal end and a proximal end, a yoke having a distal end affixed to the proximal end of the handle, the yoke having a proximal end movably affixed to a coupling member affixed to a flat mop, the apparatus comprising:

a. a fluid dispenser having a liquid release bottle with suction bellows incorporated into the handle, the suction bellows at a location adjacent to the distal end of the flat mop, the liquid release bottle with suction bellows including an exterior wall, the release bottle and suction bellowing having an interior surface surrounding an interior chamber, an upper collar having a proximal end affixed to and in fluid communication with a distal end of the suction bellows, a blocking member having a proximal end affixed to the upper collar, the blocking member having a distal end affixed to a proximal end of an integration member, the integration member having a distal end affixed to a handle end cap, the upper collar in fluid communication with a liquid intake member covered by a covering cap;

b. the handle having a handle longitudinal interior channel extending from a location adjacent a lower end of said liquid release bottle to the proximal end of the yoke, said yoke having a yoke longitudinal interior channel extending from the location where the yoke is connected to said handle to a cutout in said yoke, the handle longitudinal interior channel aligned with the yoke longitudinal interior channel; and

c. the liquid release bottle having a proximal end in fluid communication with a one-way valve and in fluid communication with a distal end of a flexible tubing which extends through said aligned handle longitudinal interior channel and said yoke longitudinal interior channel, the flexible tubing extending out of said cutout in said yoke and terminating at a proximal end adjacent an upper surface of the flat mop.

5. The apparatus in accordance with claim 4, further comprising:

said liquid release bottle is located adjacent to the distal end of said handle.

6. An apparatus adopted for use with a flat mop including a handle having a distal end and a proximal end, a yoke having a distal end affixed to the proximal end of the handle, the yoke having a proximal end movably affixed to a coupling member affixed to a flat mop, the apparatus comprising:

a. a fluid dispenser having a liquid squeeze bottle incorporated into the handle, the liquid squeeze bottle including an exterior wall and an interior surface surrounding an interior chamber, an upper collar having a proximal end affixed to and in fluid communication with a distal end of the liquid squeeze bottle, a blocking member having a proximal end affixed to the upper collar, the blocking member having a distal end affixed to a proximal end of an integration member, the integration member having a distal end affixed to a handle end cap, the upper collar in fluid communication with a liquid intake member covered by a covering cap;

b. the liquid squeeze bottle retained by a liquid squeeze bottle holder having a lower opening that connects to and is in fluid communication with a connection valve having a bottom valve opening connected to and in fluid communication with a distal end of a flexible tubing extending through a longitudinal interior channel in the handle and a yoke longitudinal interior channel, the flexible tubing extending out of a cutout in said yoke and terminating at a proximal end adjacent an upper surface of the flat mop.

7. The apparatus in accordance with claim 6, further comprising:

said liquid release bottle is located adjacent to the distal end of said handle.

8. An apparatus in accordance with claim 6, further comprising:

said connection valve includes a duck-bill valve.

9. An apparatus in accordance with claim 6, further comprising:

said connection valve includes a one-way valve.