Patent ID: 8047736

Claim:
A floor scrubber comprising: a housing; a brush assembly rotatably mounted on the housing, wherein said brush assembly has an upper surface, a lower surface and a plurality of bristles extending downwardly from the lower surface; an aperture defined in the brush assembly and extending from the upper surface to the lower surface thereof, wherein the aperture is disposed intermediate the bristles and is of a first diameter; a disperser mounted on the brush assembly a distance beneath the lower surface and directly below the aperture, wherein said disperser is of a second diameter that is greater than the first diameter of the aperture; and a liquid supply system in fluid communication with the brush assembly; said liquid supply system including a tube that terminates in the aperture, wherein the supply system is adapted to feed cleaning liquid through the tube and the aperture in the brush assembly and onto the disperser, and wherein the disperser is adapted to change the direction of the flow of all of the liquid exiting the aperture from a vertical direction to a radial direction and toward the plurality of bristles.