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A FLOOR CLEANING DEVICE - Patent of Addition

  • Firoz Siddiqui
  • Firoz Siddiqui
  • 138/MUM/2015
  • India
  • no
  • Mechanical
  • 14/01/2015
  • listing
  • According to the present invention there is provided a floor cleaning device for swiping and cleaning a floor and facilitating in collecting the swiped dirt for disposal. The floor swiping device having a floor swiping member and a collecting member. The floor swiping member facilitating in swiping the floor and gathering dirt at a location. The collecting member detachably secured to the floor swiping member. Therefore, the floor is cleaned by the floor swiping member with the collecting member secured thereto, the collecting member is detached for collecting the dirt gathered by the floor swiping member for disposing it off. Further, the floor swiping member includes a handle portion and a swiping portion extending from the handle portion. The swiping portion may be bristles, cloth, mop, sponge and the like. The collecting member includes a handle portion and a collecting pan portion extending from the handle portion. Further, the collecting pan portion has extending side edges for increasing the space for collecting larger volume of dirt and also preventing the dirt from spilling from the collecting pan portion. The handle portion of the floor swiping member is debatably secured to the handle portion of the colleting pan portion. Specifically, the handle collecting member is hollow and adapted to receive and secured the handle portion of the floor swiping member. In an embodiment, the handle portion of the collecting member includes plurality of grooves and the handle portion of the floor swiping member includes plurality of projections that slide and lock with the grooves to provide a press fit arrangement therebetween. In another embodiment, the handle portion of the collecting member includes plurality of openings and the handle portion of the floor swiping member includes plurality of elastic projections that slide and lock in the openings to provide a press fit arrangement therebetween, the elastic projection are pressed to pass through the openings for unlocking the collecting member from the floor swiping member. In yet another embodiment, the handle portion of the collecting member includes inner threads and the handle portion of the floor swiping member includes outer threads thereby threadably engaging with the collecting member.

Abstract

The present invention provides a floor cleaning device for swiping and cleaning a floor and facilitating in collecting the swiped dirt for disposal. The floor swiping device having a floor swiping member and a collecting member. The floor swiping member facilitating in swiping the floor and gathering dirt at a location. The collecting member detachably secured to the floor swiping member. Therefore, the floor is cleaned by the floor swiping member with the collecting member secured thereto, the collecting member is detached for collecting the dirt gathered by the floor swiping member for disposing it off.