Cleaning device for floors

Abstract

A cleaning device ( 100 ′) for floors, comprising a base body ( 10 ′) with a cleaning surface element ( 20 ), which can be detachably mounted on the front side ( 11 ′) thereof and which can be moistened in a dosed manner with a cleaning fluid. The cleaning device further comprises an adapter-receiving element ( 14 ) for a handle or a stem, a cleaning fluid supply container, a cleaning-fluid distributor area which is disposed on the front side ( 11 ′) of the base body ( 10 ′) and which is connected to the cleaning fluid supply container either directly or by means of at least one distributor channel in the base body ( 10 ′), and at least one cleaning-fluid pump which is used to pump cleaning fluid out of the cleaning fluid supply container into the cleaning surface element. The cleaning fluid pump is formed by an elastically deformable covering element ( 40 ) which seals a pump chamber ( 16;56 ) and which has a guide flange ( 41 ) and a flexible pump plate ( 42 ).

1 . Cleaning device for cleaning floors comprising a base body, on whose front side is a surface cleaning element mounted in a detachable fashion that comes into contact with the surface to be cleaned and that is to be moistened by cleaning fluid, said cleaning device further comprising: 
 (a) means for holding a handle or handle shaft;    (b) at least one cleaning-fluid supply container;    (c) at least one fluid distribution area positioned on the front side of the base body and formed of at least one nozzle recess to distribute and temporarily store the cleaning fluid that is connected either directly or via at least one distributor channel within the base body to the cleaning-fluid supply container; and    (d) at least one cleaning fluid pump to spray the cleaning fluid out of the cleaning-fluid supply container into the surface cleaning element;    the improvement wherein the cleaning-fluid supply container includes a recessed and/or outwardly extending, outwardly open pump chamber, and wherein the cleaning fluid pump is formed by a lid element which seals the pump chamber, is elastically deformable and which includes a guide flange and a flexible pump plate.    
   
   
       2 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein the cleaning-fluid supply container is formed by a hollow base body that includes a pump chamber in its rear side which is open to the outside.  
   
   
       3 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein the cleaning-fluid supply container is formed by a supplemental tank removably placeable onto the base body that includes a recessed and/or outwardly extending, outwardly open pump chamber.  
   
   
       4 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein the lid element is mushroom-shaped with a tube-shaped guide flange and a convex pump plate raised above the rear side of the base body, and wherein the pump chamber is preferably cylindrical in shape.  
   
   
       5 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the base body and supplemental tank includes two pump chambers into each of which a lid element is inserted.  
   
   
       6 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein the pump plate is raised above the surface of the rear side of the base body.  
   
   
       7 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein the base body is a blow-molded hollow plastic body.  
   
   
       8 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein at least one securing element is positioned to hold the surface cleaning element on at least two opposing sides of the base body.  
   
   
       9 . Cleaning device as in  claim 8 , wherein the securing elements are formed of Velcro tabs.  
   
   
       10 . Cleaning device as in  claim 8 , wherein the securing elements are plate-shaped, and wherein chamber recesses are mounted in the base body below the securing elements for receiving the securing elements.  
   
   
       11 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein the surface-cleaning element comprises a moisture-permeable textile or sponge-like material.  
   
   
       12 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein the supplemental tank includes on its lower side facing the base body at least one stud with at least one nozzle that is insertable into a compatible snap recess in the base body.  
   
   
       13 . Cleaning device as in  claim 12 , that wherein the snap recess includes at least two parallel snap rods that extend across the snap recess, and between which the stud of the supplemental tank may be snapped.  
   
   
       14 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein the surface-cleaning element is produced from a material selected from the group consisting of woven fabric, knitted fabric, and micro fiber fleece.  
   
   
       15 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein the fluid distribution area on the base body includes a fluid-distributing capillary matrix.  
   
   
       16 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein at least one flexible sponge element is positioned between the base body and the surface-cleaning element.  
   
   
       17 . Cleaning device as in  claim 16 , wherein the sponge element is connected with the base body by means of Velcro strips mounted in recesses of the base body.  
   
   
       18 . Cleaning device as in  claim 1 , wherein at least one stripping lip of elastomer material is mounted on the front side of the base body to serve as a squeegee.  
   
   
       19 . Cleaning device as in  claim 10 , wherein the plate shaped securing elements each include a cross or star shaped slit.