Rotary Floor Machine Attachment

Abstract

The present invention provides an attachment for rotary floor machines and a method for cleaning a floor, the baseboards, and both the treads and stair risers of a set of stairs. The attachment includes a disc-shaped housing with a top surface, a bottom surface and a sidewall. The top surface includes a circulate plate that allows for removably attachment to a drive system of a rotary floor machine. The sidewalls are substantially the height of stair risers and are configured to clean the near-vertical surface of stair risers and baseboards of a floor. The bottom surface is configured to clean the floor and the tread of a set of stairs. The bottom surface and sidewall further include a plurality of raised spikes that align with indented portions on the sidewall pad and floor pad that removably secure the floor pad and sidewall pad thereon.

I claim: 
     
         1 ) A rotary floor machine attachment for cleaning a set of stairs having at least one tread and a stair riser, comprising:
 a housing with a top surface, bottom surface, sidewall, and an interior wall forming a centrally located open aperture that extends from said top surface to said bottom surface;   said sidewall extending perpendicularly from a peripheral edge of said top surface and said bottom surface;   said top surface comprising a circular plate having a mounting flange;   said mounting flange having a means for attachment to a drive system of a rotary floor machine;   said bottom surface further comprising a floor pad;   said sidewall further comprising a sidewall pad;   said floor pad and said sidewall pad having interior and exterior surfaces.   
     
     
         2 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 1 , wherein said housing is substantially disc-shaped. 
     
     
         3 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 1 , wherein said sidewall is substantially the height of the stair risers in a set of stairs. 
     
     
         4 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 1 , wherein said exterior surface of said sidewall pad and said floor pad composed of synthetic fiber, blended fiber, natural fiber or microfibers. 
     
     
         5 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 1 , wherein said bottom surface and said sidewall further comprising a plurality of raised spikes. 
     
     
         6 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 5 , wherein said interior surfaces of said floor pad and said sidewall pad further comprising aligning indented sections to said raised spikes. 
     
     
         7 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 5 , wherein said raised spikes of said floor pad and said sidewall pad are configured to engage and nest in said aligning indented sections to removably attach to said bottom surface and said sidewall. 
     
     
         8 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 1 , wherein said sidewall pad is cylindrical in shape and configured to be placed in contact and removably secured around said sidewall. 
     
     
         9 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 1 , wherein said floor pad circular in shape and configured to be placed in contact and underneath said bottom surface. 
     
     
         10 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 8 , wherein said floor pad further comprises a small center hole. 
     
     
         11 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 1 , wherein said exterior surface of said floor pad and said sidewall pad are configured to polish, buff, clean, scrub, strip and burnish non-carpeted floors, baseboards, and a set of stairs with treads and step risers. 
     
     
         12 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 1 , wherein said mounting flange is centrally located on said circular plate. 
     
     
         13 ) The rotary floor machine attachment of  claim 12 , wherein said mounting flange aligned with said centrally located open aperture. 
     
     
         14 ) A method for cleaning the stair risers of a set of stairs, comprising the steps of:
 selecting a set of stairs having at least one tread and stair riser for cleaning;   mounting a housing having a top surface, bottom surface, sidewall and circular plate with a mounting flange with means for removable attachment to a drive system of a rotary floor machine;   attaching a sidewall pad to said sidewall and a floor pad to said bottom surface by aligning raised portions on said sidewall and said floor pad to aligning indented portions on an interior surface of said sidewall and said floor pad;   placing said sidewall pad against said stair riser and said floor pad against said tread, wherein said sidewall pad and said sidewall substantially sized to match the height of said stair riser;   rotating said sidewall pad and said floor pad thereon powered by said drive system of said rotary floor machine to clean said tread and said stair riser of said set of stairs.