Patent · US Expired

Head for a floor-cleaning mop

US5680667A · kind A · utility

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5Claims

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Assignee

Henkel Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

Franz Kresse · Hilden, DE
Rainer Osberghaus
Hans-Leo Fernschild · Korschenbroich, DE
Gerhard Ostwald · Essen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 9, 1996
Grant date	Oct 28, 1997
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 9, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA47L13/20
WIPO fieldFurniture, games
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A floor-cleaning mop head includes 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, and so forth. The oblong base fabric consists, at least in the zone of the slide-in pockets, of a material which is more highly heat-shrinking than the textile material of which the pockets are made, in order to ensure that the pockets on top of mop remain open even after repeated washing of the mop head, without effecting other useful characteristics of the mop.

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