Cleaning device

• US 20040187236A1
• Filed: 04/09/2004
• Published: 09/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KAO Corporation
• Original Assignee: KAO Corporation
• Inventors: Tawara, Hirotoshi, Noda, Yukio
• Granted Patent: US 7,003,840 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/48
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/22 Floor-sweeping machines, hand-driven
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/33 having means for storing dirt
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4036 Parts or details of the surface treating tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4041 Roll shaped surface treating tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4077 Skirts or splash guards
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4091 Storing or parking devices, arrangements therefor; Means allowing transport of the machine when it is not being used
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 25/005 using adhesive or tacky surfaces to remove dirt, e.g. lint removers

Abstract

In a cleaning device, the scraping up body and the rotating body rolling the adhesive roll are rotatably supported to the frame, and the adhesive roll is rotatably arranged on the scraping up body and the rotating body in parallel.

Claims

1. A cleaning device comprising:

a frame;

a scraping up body;

an adhesive roll; and

a rotating body rolling with the adhesive roll;

means for contacting said adhesive roll with the rotating body,

wherein the scraping up body and the rotating body are rotatably supported by the frame, the adhesive roll is arranged to rotate in parallel with the scraping up body and the rotating body, and the adhesive roll is positioned maintain a constant distance from an outer periphery of the scraping up body.

2. A cleaning device according to claim 1, wherein the outer periphery of the adhesive roll contacts at least the outer periphery of the scraping up body.

3. A cleaning device according to claim 1, wherein a supporting guide for the rotating shaft of the adhesive roll is provided along an expected track which the rotating shaft of the adhesive roll draws on the frame when the outer diameter of the adhesive roll is reduced.

4. A cleaning device according to claim 1, wherein a biasing means is provided which makes the adhesive roll pressure contact with the rotating body.