Patent ID: 9609994
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: A47L,F26B

Claim:
1. A cleaning device for cleaning mop material which freely depends from a holder, the cleaning device having an opening in which the freely depending mop material is receivable, characterised in that the cleaning device includes a pair of bristle carrying parts each carrying a plurality of bristles, each of the bristle carrying parts being rotatable about a respective axis of rotation by at least one motive device, the bristle carrying parts being rotatable in opposite senses of direction such as to draw the hanging mop material introduced into the opening, between the bristle carrying parts, whereby bristles carried by the bristle carrying parts engage the mop material, wherein the cleaning device further includes a wringer mechanism and the wringer mechanism is configured such that the operation of the wringer mechanism ceases the operation of the or each motive device of the bristle carrying parts.