Patent ID: 7234194

Claim:
A cleaning article comprising: a soft and fusible base sheet, having a plurality of cut lines extending inward from an edge of the base sheet, such that a plurality of strips are formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of cut lines; at least one fiber bundle layer, each of which includes fusible filaments, wherein the at least one fiber bundle layers are located on one side of the base sheet and extend across the plurality of strips to the edge of the base sheet; a first joining portion that joins the filaments to said base sheet and that extends through a surface of said at least one fiber bundle layer, said surface being the surface furthest from said base sheet; at least one second joining portion that joins some of the filaments to said base sheet and that does not extend to the surface of said at least one fiber bundle layer, said surface being the surface furthest from said base sheet; and a brush portion defined by the plurality of strips and the at least one fiber bundle layer extending across the plurality of strips.