Patent ID: 7640618

Claim:
A cleaning article having a brush portion, comprising: a fusible base sheet having a strip-forming region where a plurality of cuts form a plurality of strips, each strip having at least two cut edges extending inwardly from an outermost free edge of the strip; wherein said cut edges of each strip are on respective opposite sides of each of the strips; and a fiber bundle layer including fusible fibers, said fiber bundle layer being located on and fusion-bonded to said base sheet to provide a joining portion extending across fibers of said fiber bundle layer in a region other than said strip-forming region, said strips being combined with the fibers of said fiber bundle layer to provide the brush portion, and wherein said fusible fibers are exposed so that a portion of a length of said fibers contacts a surface to be cleaned; and a fusible holding sheet laid on and fusion-bonded to said base sheet to provide two holding spaces; and a holder provided to be inserted into said two holding spaces.