Patent ID: 7930794

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, the cleaning element holder having a holding part extending elongate while having a plurality of spaced apart components extending in a direction crossing an extending direction of the cleaning element holder, the cleaning element having a plurality of non-coextensive insert regions into which the plurality of spaced apart components of the holding part are inserted so that individual ones of the plurality of spaced apart components of the holding part are received in separate ones of the plurality of non-coextensive insert regions, said plurality of non-coextensive insert regions have lengths and are non-coextensive along their entire lengths, wherein the cleaning element is attached to the cleaning element holder while being twisted along an extending portion of the holding part through insertion of the plurality of spaced apart components of the holding part into the non-coextensive insert regions.