Patent ID: 8555449

Claim:
A manual floor cleaning apparatus, comprising: a frame; a dispensing roller mounted to the frame and carrying a roll of cleaning media thereon; a collection roller mounted to the frame for collecting the cleaning media in a roll form once the cleaning media has transitioned across a cleaning surface of the frame positioned between the dispensing roller and the collection roller; an actuation arrangement carried by the frame and connected between the dispensing roller and the collection roller and operable to simultaneously rotate the dispensing roller and the collection roller to advance the cleaning media from the dispensing roller to the collection roller; and further comprising a first and a second pair of roller grips, the first pair of roller grips mounted on the dispensing roller for rotation therewith, and the second pair of roller grips mounted on the collection roller for rotation therewith, wherein each of the first and second pairs of roller grips are positioned to axially compress the roll of cleaning media.