Patent ID: 8468644

Claim:
An apparatus for use in cleaning floors, the apparatus including a flat mop which includes a flat mop head to an upper side of which a handle is secured, and which carries on a lower side, absorbent fabric material, the mop head including a pair of relatively foldable parts which are foldable together to a folded condition, in which folded condition a loop of the fabric material depends from the folded parts of the mop head, a container containing in use a cleaning liquid in which the absorbent fabric material in use is at least partially inserted to wet the absorbent fabric material, a wringer which includes a pair of jaws which are moveable with mechanical assistance when the loop of fabric material is introduced into the wringer, to act upon substantially all of the absorbent fabric material in the wringer to wring the fabric material between the jaws and a wringing surface of the wringer, the pair of jaws being moveable by a wringer mechanism of the wringer between an open position when the loop of absorbent mop fabric material is receivable between the jaws into the wringer towards the wringing surface, and a fully closed position when the jaws together press substantially all the absorbent fabric material towards the wringing surface, and the jaws of the wringer being moveable together by operation of the wringer mechanism, to a fully closed condition in which the widest distance between the jaws, is less than the folded thickness of the foldable parts of the mop head, including any space between the folded parts, such that the foldable parts of the mop head are not receivable between the jaws in the fully closed position.