Patent ID: 8813304
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
1. In combination, a mop head and a wringer device, the mop head including a body and a holder, the mop head body supporting mop material, and the mop head holder in use, mounting the mop head to a handle, the mop head holder having a first part secured to or integral with the body, a second part which interengages, in use with the handle, to mount the handle to the mop head, and a connecting portion connecting the first and second holder parts, and wherein the wringer device includes a wringing chamber, a pair of pressure bars, and an actuating mechanism relatively to move the pressure bars between an open condition in which the pressure bars are apart and the mop head body is receivable between the pressure bars into the chamber, and a closed condition in which the pressure bars are alongside one another and are spaced from one another by a space, and the pressure bars act on a bearing surface or surfaces of the mop head to urge the mop head body towards a bottom of the wringing chamber to wring the mop material, and wherein when the pressure bars are in their closed condition acting on the bearing surface or surfaces of the mop head, the connecting portion of the holder extends along the space between the two pressure bars, the connecting portion having a thickness less than a minimum separation distance between the pair of pressure bars.