Patent ID: 6941612
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
1. A mop wringer for device for cleaning wet floors comprising: wringer sidewalls; a fixed squeezing plate attached to the wringer sidewalls; a pivoted, movable squeezing plate attached to the wringer sidewalls; a push guide engaged with the movable squeezing plate; and an actuating lever pivotably attached to the wringer sidewalls at an attachment location and connected to the push guide, wherein the actuating lever is a two-armed lever with a shorter level arm arranged on a first side of the attachment location and a longer arm arranged on a second side of the attachment location opposite the first side, and the shorter lever arm is hinged at a free end to the push guide so that in response to a swivel motion of the longer arm of the actuating lever away from the movable squeezing plate, the movable squeezing plate is tilted towards the fixed squeezing plate.