IP Library Granted Patent US 10,856,718
Granted Patent B2
US 10,856,718 · App. 16/334,322 · Granted Dec 8, 2020

Cleaning system for cleaning floors

Inventor: Josef Kollmann (Fulda/OT Niederrode, DE)
A47L13/60A47L13/256A47L13/258A47L13/51A47L13/58A47L13/59
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Patent No.
US 10,856,718
App. No.
16/334,322
Granted
Dec 8, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A cleaning system includes a container with a base surface, a top edge, an opening, and side walls integrally formed on the base surface, and designed for holding a cleaning liquid. A mop carrier has a carrier plate, an articulated joint, and a rod handle fastened to the articulated joint. A wringer has a wringing roller, a housing partially enclosing the wringing roller, and a shaft is attached to the housing with an operating handle. On the housing, guide elements are formed leaving a feedthrough gap between the wringing roller and the guide elements, the gap width of which is adjusted to the thickness of the carrier plate of the mop carrier fitted with a mop cover. The wringer is mountable on the carrier plate of the mop carrier and is displaceable thereon in the direction of the base surface, while the mop carrier is fixed in a mop carrier holder.

Claims (20)

1. A cleaning system for cleaning floors, comprising:

a container that has a base surface at the bottom, a top edge at the top, an opening, and side walls that are integrally formed on the base surface, and that is designed for holding a cleaning liquid;

a wringer holder is provided on a first side wall section and a mop carrier holder provided on a second side wall section;

a plurality of wheels situated on a bottom side of the base surface, wherein at least two of the plurality of wheels are situated beneath the first side wall section that bears the wringer holder;

a mop carrier having a carrier plate with a top side and a bottom side, an articulated joint, and a rod handle that is fastened to the articulated joint,

wherein the carrier plate is designed to accommodate a mop cover that covers the bottom side;

a retaining means is situated on the top side of the carrier plate with a shape that conforms to the mop carrier holder, so that the mop carrier is fixable to the mop carrier holder; and

a wringer having a wringer roller, a housing that partially encloses the wringer roller, and a shaft with an operating handle fastened to the housing,

wherein guide elements are provided on the housing such that a feedthrough gap remains between the wringer roller and the guide elements, the gap width of which is adapted to the thickness of the carrier plate of the mop carrier fitted with the mop cover, and

wherein the wringer is mountable on the carrier plate of the mop carrier and displaceable on the mop carrier in the direction toward the base surface of the container, while the mop carrier is fixed in the mop carrier holder so that the wringer roller presses the mop cover against the carrier plate when the mop carrier is relatively moved through the feedthrough gap, and

further wherein the wringer is placeable in a form-fit manner in the wringer holder, so that a force introduced at the operating handle of the wringer causes the container to swivel about a rotational axis that is coaxial with respect to the wheel axes of at least two of the wheels that are situated below the first side wall section.

2. The cleaning system according to claim 1 , further comprising a detachable dirt separator on a base surface top side of the container designed as a separating plate with separating plate openings and spacers directed toward the base surface top side.

3. The cleaning system according to claim 1 , wherein the container has at least one handle on at least one side wall.

4. The cleaning system according to claim 1 , wherein the wringer holder is designed as a protrusion formed as one piece in the first side wall section of the container.

5. The cleaning system according to claim 1 , wherein the mop carrier holder is formed as a recess that is introduced into the second side wall section of the container.

6. The cleaning system according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of wheels comprises two wheels and the system further comprises two support feet, opposite from the two wheels mounted on the bottom side of the base surface, spaced apart from the rotational axis.

7. The cleaning system according to claim 1 , wherein the articulated joint for connecting the carrier plate to the rod handle of the mop carrier is designed as a double joint, and further articulated joints on the carrier plate are designed for dividing the carrier plate into a first and a second carrier plate section.

8. The cleaning system according to claim 1 , wherein the carrier plate has a multipart design made up of carrier plate elements that are detachably joined by connecting means.

9. The cleaning system according to claim 1 , wherein each of the guide elements of the wringer has at least one guide roller that is situated opposite from and in parallel to the wringer roller, and the wringer roller is made of an elastic material.

10. The cleaning system according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the plurality of wheels that is situated on the base surface has a locking brake.

Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2016 118 256 · Sep 27, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190200835A1 · Jul 4, 2019