Patent ID: 6611986
Filing Date: 2003-09-02
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
A disposable cleaning pad dispenser system comprising:a pad dispenser comprising an elongated member having a chamber within the member, the chamber surrounded by side walls and having an open top; a plurality of disposable cleaning pads stacked one upon the other to form an elongated column having a topmost cleaning pad, the column having a size and shape that fits through the open top and fits within the chamber of the pad dispenser; a cleaning wand having a near end and distal end, the wand comprising: a hollow elongated member having a near end and a distal end and an elongated opening therethrough to thereby-form an open near end and an open distal end; an end plate mounted to the open distal end and slidably engageable with the side walls of the chamber; a rod having a near end and distal end slidably mounted within such elongated opening; a spring biased piston attached to the near end of the rod and slidably mounted within the open near end of the elongated member; a plurality fingers for gripping a cleaning pad, the fingers attached to the distal end of the rod; wherein the fingers are slidably extendable from the distal end of the elongated member when the piston is depressed to project below the end plate and slidably retractable into the distal end of the elongated member upon the spring biased return of the piston member when released; and wherein the fingers are spring biased to open when extended from the distal end of the elongated member; whereby when the distal end of the wand is placed through the open top of the pad dispenser, the end plate slidably engages the side walls, and when the piston is depressed, the fingers extend from the distal end of the elongated member and below the end plate and when the fingers are placed against the top most cleaning pad and the piston released, the fingers close to grip the cleaning pad and maintain the pad substantially flat against the bottom of the end plate.