Portable cleaning container
US4815160A · kind A · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 3, 1987 |
| Grant date | Mar 28, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 3, 2007 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA47L13/58
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A portable cleaning container for use with a conventional mop and wringer for cleaning floors and other surfaces. The container includes a bucket with a drain opening formed through the bucket floor and closable by an elastomeric stopper supported on the end of a threaded drive rod extending through a threaded bore formed through a drive rod mount attached to the inside of the bucket within a stopper drive recess formed in the wall of the bucket and extending vertically from the floor of the bucket above the drain opening. A filter recess is formed in portions of the upper surface of the bucket floor to receive an interior filter having a planar portion that extends across the filter recess and a semitubular portion that extends about lower portions of the stopper drive recess to enclose the entrance of the drain opening to the bucket interior. Troughs in the planar portion of the interior filter and corrugations in the floor of the bucket adjacent the filter recess trap detritus when the bucket is drained. A pivoting external filter is mounted on the underside of the bucket floor for movement between a position underlaying the drain opening and a position to one side of the bucket…
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