CA2172077A1 - Head for a floor-cleaning mop - Google Patents

Head for a floor-cleaning mop

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Publication number
CA2172077A1
CA2172077A1 CA002172077A CA2172077A CA2172077A1 CA 2172077 A1 CA2172077 A1 CA 2172077A1 CA 002172077 A CA002172077 A CA 002172077A CA 2172077 A CA2172077 A CA 2172077A CA 2172077 A1 CA2172077 A1 CA 2172077A1
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Prior art keywords
pockets
mop head
carrier
holder insertion
holder
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Abandoned
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CA002172077A
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French (fr)
Inventor
Franz Kresse
Rainer Osberghaus
Hans-Leo Fernschild
Gerhard Ostwald
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Ecolab GmbH and Co oHG
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Franz Kresse
Rainer Osberghaus
Hans-Leo Fernschild
Gerhard Ostwald
Henkel-Ecolab Gmbh & Co. Ohg
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Application filed by Franz Kresse, Rainer Osberghaus, Hans-Leo Fernschild, Gerhard Ostwald, Henkel-Ecolab Gmbh & Co. Ohg filed Critical Franz Kresse
Publication of CA2172077A1 publication Critical patent/CA2172077A1/en
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Classifications

    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47LDOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L13/00Implements for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L13/10Scrubbing; Scouring; Cleaning; Polishing
    • A47L13/20Mops

Abstract

The invention concerns a floor-cleaning mop head having an oblong textile base fabric with, attached to the top at both ends, slide-in pockets for the head-holder and, attached underneath, material designed to collect moisture and dirt in the form of hair tufts, fringes, loops, foam-rubber strips, etc. The aim of the invention is to provide a design which ensures that the pockets on top of the mop head remain open even after the mop head has been washed several times, without the other useful characteristics of the mop being affected. This is achieved by virtue of the fact that the oblong base fabric (2) consists, at least in the zone of the slide-in pockets (3), of a material which is more highly heat-shrinking than the textile material of which the pockets (3) are made.

Description

2~1 720~7 ENGLISH TRANSLATION

A mop head for cle~n; n~ floors This invention relates to a mop head for cleaning floors comprising an elongate textile carrier with holder insertion pockets arranged on top of the carrier at either end thereof and material arranged underneath for taking up dirt and moisture in the form of shaggy strands, fringes, loops, strips of sponge cloth or the like.
Mop heads of the type in question are used for clean-ing floors, for which purpose the mop heads are fitted onto holders. The ends of the holders are inserted into the holder insertion pockets. The holders have a handle so that the holders with the mop head fitted thereon can be conveniently moved over the floors to be cleaned.
A mop head as defined in the preamble, in which the holder insertion pockets can be formed from a textile material, is known from DE-PS 38 09 279. Unfortunately, a mop head such as this can only be inserted into the holder insertion pockets when the pockets have been opened or stand open. However, since the mop heads are frequently passed through presses to remove water and are also regu-larly washed and cleaned in washing machines, the pockets do not stand open, but instead lie flat on the textile carrier. To be able to introduce the holder, therefore, the pockets have first to be opened out by hand.
In order to remedy this situation, other known mop heads are provided with reinforcements in the form of inserted stiff plastic strips or similar elements in the vicinity of the pocket openings. These plastic strips or the like are sewn into the holder insertion pockets.
Unfortunately, reinforcements such as these have a number of disadvantages. Firstly, the stiff strips used cause problems when the mop heads are wrung out in mangles. The mop heads often jam between the rollers of the mangle. In ~ 1 7~17 many cases, reinforcing strips of plastic have often been destroyed so that they are no longer capable of performing their function of keeping the pockets open. In addition, known solutions have disadvantages in regard to the clean-ing, i.e. washing, of the mop heads. The reinforced areas interfere with the tumbling process where the mop heads are washed in washing machines. In addition, the stiff inserts and pockets rub against the textile carrier during washing and thus lead to premature destruction of the mop head.
Moreover, the weight of the machine load is increased by the reinforcements because the holder insertion pockets are now heavier.
In addition, in another known mop head developed by applicants (DE-PS 40 25 646), the holder insertion pockets comprise strips of a water-absorbing and swellable material in the vicinity of the pocket opening. Before a mop head such as this is used for the first time, the dry strips consisting of water-absorbing and/or swellable material come into contact with and take up liquid so that the strips increase in volume or rather expand. This ensures that the holder insertion pockets are automatically opened or kept open, the water-absorbing and/or swellable strips remaining elastic so that they do not have the disadvan-tages of the other known solutions described above.
However, it has been found that, with a mop head of this type, the holder insertion pockets are not always automatically kept open after repeated washing because when the pockets equipped with the particular strips are sewn onto the carrier material, it is only possible to arrange the pockets in such a way that they are slightly raised.
As a result, the holder fits the particular pocket opening almost exactly. Since the pocket/carrier material shrinks where washing is carried out at temperatures of around 60C, it has been found to be difficult to insert the holder into the pockets after washing.

2~ 725177 Wo 9S/07047 3 PCT/EP94/02902 Accordingly, the object of the present invention was to provide a solution which would ensure that the pockets would remain open, even after repeated washing of the mop head, without adversely affecting the other performance properties of the mop head.
In a mop head of the type defined at the beginning, this object has been achieved in accordance with the invention by making the elongate carrier, at least in the region of the holder insertion pockets, of a material which undergoes greater shrinkage on heating than the textile material of the holder insertion pockets.
By virtue of this e~bo~limen~ o~ the mop head accordir,g to the invention, the automatic keeping open of the holder n~ertiorl pockets is further improved by re~eated washing of the mop head. This is because the material of the car-rier shrinks to a greater extent than the material of the pockets through washing so that the pockets inevitably undergo additional "arching", i.e. the pocket opens auto-matically and additionally through the difference in shrinkage behavior which clearly benefits insertion of the holder. At the same time, production of the mop head is also made easier because there is no longer any need for additional elements in the form of plastic strips or water-absorbing and/or swellable strips which have to be sewn to the pockets. Since both the material of the pockets and the material of the carrier are elastic, the tumbling process in washing machines is not impeded and the heads are also not subsequently misshapen in mangles. In addi-tion, the blended material of the carrier is absorbent so that the carrier also takes part in the cleaning process.
In one particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention, the carrier consists of a cotton/synthetic blend while the holder insertion pockets consist of a fully synthetic fabric. The blend used for the carrier should be selected to ensure a sufficient difference in shrinkage behaviour between the carrier and pocket material.
The carrier material preferably consists of a cot-ton/polyester, cotton/polyamide or even cotton/polypropy-lene blend.
5The synthetic material for the holder insertion pockets preferably consists of polyester, although basical-ly other materials may be used. However, polyester pockets are particularly durable and inactive in terms of cleaning.
If, for example, the blend used for the carrier 10consists of 65% polyester and 35% cotton and the synthetic used for the pockets consists of polyester, it has been found that, after a mop head according to the invention has been washed five times at 60C, the carrier material shrinks by 4% whereas the pockets shrink by only 1%, 15resulting in the required "stay-open" effect through arching of the pockets.
An example of embodiment of the invention is described in detail in the following with reference to the accompany-ing drawing which is a perspective view of a mop head 20according to the invention.
A flat mop head according to the invention is general-ly denoted by the reference 1 in the drawing. The mop head 1 comprises an elongate textile carrier 2 onto the top of which a holder insertion pocket 3 is sewn at either end to 25receive a holder 4. The holder 4 is connected to a handle 6 in known manner by a universal joint 5.
Whereas the holder insertion pockets 3 consist of a fully synthetic fabric, for example polyester, the carrier 2 consists of a cotton/synthetic blend which shrinks to a 30greater extent than the synthetic fabric used for the holder insertion pockets 3 under the effect of heat, particularly in a washing machine.
On its underneath, i.e. on its "cleaning-active" side, the textile material 2 has a plurality of strips or fringes 357 of sponge cloth or the like arranged adjacent one a-2 i 7~077 nother, the outer edge of the carrier 2 being provided with a surrounding binding tape 8.
The insertion openings of the holder insertion pockets 3 are denoted by the reference 9. The holder insertion pockets 3 preferably have water outlet openings 10 at their other ends.
In one particularly preferred embodiment of the mop head 1 according to the invention, the textile carrier 2 consists of a 65% polyester/35% cotton blend while the holder insertion pockets 3 are made of 100% polyester.
This combination of different materials for the pockets 3 and the carrier 2 provides for different shrink-age behavior during washing of the mop head 1. For ex-ample, it has been found that, after washing 5 times at 60C, the carrier material 2 shrinks by 4% whereas the holder insertion pockets 3 shrink by only 1%. This dif-ference in shrinkage behavior automatically results in arching of the pockets 3 so that the pockets 3 are automat-ically kept open, leaving the pocket insertion openings 9 free for insertion of the holder 4.
The invention is by no means confined to the illus-trated embodiment and may be modified in other ways without departing from the basic concept. Thus, other materials may of course be used for the pockets 3 and the carrier 2 although the material selected for the carrier 2 must shrink to a greater extent than the material of the pockets 3 on exposure to heat during washing.

Claims (4)

1. A mop head for cleaning floors comprising an elongate textile carrier with holder insertion pockets arranged on top of the carrier at either end thereof and material arranged underneath for taking up dirt and moisture in the form of shaggy strands, fringes, loops, strips of sponge cloth or the like, characterized in that the elongate carrier (2), at least in the region of the holder insertion pockets (3), consists of a material which undergoes greater thermal shrinkage than the textile material of the holder insertion pockets (3).
2. A mop head as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the carrier (2) consists of a cotton/synthetic blend while the holder insertion pockets (3) consist of a fully synthetic fabric.
3. A mop head as claimed in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the carrier material (2) consists of a cotton/poly-ester blend, a cotton/polyamide blend, a cotton/polypropy-lene blend or the like.
4. A mop head as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the holder insertion pockets (3) consist of polyester.
CA002172077A 1993-09-09 1994-09-01 Head for a floor-cleaning mop Abandoned CA2172077A1 (en)

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DEP4330493.1 1993-09-09
DE4330493A DE4330493C2 (en) 1993-09-09 1993-09-09 Mop cover for cleaning floors

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EP (1) EP0717605B2 (en)
JP (1) JP3553070B2 (en)
AT (1) ATE152895T1 (en)
CA (1) CA2172077A1 (en)
DE (2) DE4330493C2 (en)
DK (1) DK0717605T3 (en)
ES (1) ES2101571T3 (en)
FI (1) FI106918B (en)
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EP0717605B2 (en) 2004-03-24
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ATE152895T1 (en) 1997-05-15
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WO1995007047A1 (en) 1995-03-16
EP0717605B1 (en) 1997-05-14
US5680667A (en) 1997-10-28
ES2101571T3 (en) 1997-07-01
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