Multi-surfaces cleaning implement

US7536743B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Jerome Joo Ge Goh · San Francisco, US
• Christine Marie Kurjan · Mountain View, US
• Jennifer Ellen Davis-Wilson · Redwood City, US
• Leo Kopelow · San Francisco, US
• Jan Hendik Maria Verbiest · La Morrocoya, VE
• Arthur Bryon Stackpole · Mason, US
• Thomas George Crowe · Lawrenceburg, US
• Elizabeth Rohrbaugh · Hamilton, US
• Tracey Ann Wurzelbacher · Hamilton, US
• Matthew Lloyd Newman · Mason, US
• Erin Lang · Cincinnati, US
• Ramona Zenkich · Chillicothe, US
• Jeffrey Thomas Halter · Cincinnati, US
• Anthony John Watkins · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 3, 2004
• Grant date: May 26, 2009
• Expiry date: Oct 8, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B25G3/38
• WIPO field: Furniture, games
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A cleaning implement is provided for cleaning surfaces with a cleaning substrate. The cleaning implement includes a handle connected via a universal joint to a mop head. The mop head includes a bumper pad, which is made of a deformable and nonabsorbent material. The bumper pad can be deformed in the Z direction and within the X-Y plane. The cleaning implement can also include a motor for causing a portion of the mop head to move relative to the handle.