Surface treatment method and apparatus

Abstract

This is a surface treating device and method of treating surfaces in which a supply of surface treating material is carried in a first package by a handle and a surface treating backing device with means to gradually advance the surface treating material from the first package over the backing device in increments or continuously in such manner that clean, or relatively clean, surface treating material is always being used with soiled or contaminated surface treating material being accumulated and stored within a second package in such manner that the two packages can be removed and replaced simultaneously in order to assure that relatively clean surface treating material will always be used during surface treatment.

We claim:  
     
         1 . A surface treatment apparatus comprising: a handle; a treatment material backing device in cooperative relationship with said handle; a supply of surface treating material contained within a package cooperatively mounted with relation to said handle; means to advance surface treating material from said supply across said backing device; and means to receive used surface treating material.  
     
     
         2 . The method of treating surfaces comprising: placing a replaceable package of surface treating material into a surface treating device; causing a quantity of surface treating material to be passed over a surface being treated; and causing the quantity of surface treating which has been passed over the surface to be returned to the replaceable package while simultaneously causing a fresh quantity of surface treating material to be passed over the surface being treated.