Patent ID: 8156603

Claim:
A cleaning tool for wiping a region to be cleaned, comprising: an elongate cleaning element holder, and a cleaning element to be attached to the cleaning element holder, wherein: the cleaning element holder has a handle to be held by a user and two holding elements extending parallel in a longitudinal direction from the handle, the holding elements being adapted to be inserted into an insert region of the cleaning element to thereby hold the cleaning element, hinges provided on side surfaces of the handle by which the two holding elements are coupled to the handle, each of the two holding elements of the cleaning element holder being separately and independently rotatable with respect to the handle and separately and independently rotatable with respect to one another in parallel toward each other around an axis that extents in the longitudinal direction, each holding element being on a rotation axis disposed between the holding elements, wherein the rotation axes of the two holding elements are non-coincidental, and whereby, through the rotation of the two holding elements inserted into the insert region, the sectional shape of the cleaning element can be changed in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction of the cleaning element holder.