Patent ID: 7144172

Claim:
A cleaning device, comprising a housing having a substantially vertical axis; a sponge-like working element movable between a working position in which said sponge-like working element is located outside said housing for cleaning a surface, and a position in which said sponge-like working element is forcedly moved into an inner hollow in said housing so as to be squeezed and therefore to expel liquid from said sponge-like working element; and a removable plate which in an installed position extends substantially radially above said sponge-like working element so that a user can apply an action to said plate from above and therefore to apply an action on said sponge-like working element from above toward a surface to be cleaned substantially over a whole radial extension of said sponge-like element while when said plate is removed said sponge-like working element is exposed from above and can be used with its lower, peripheral, and upper sides and with its lateral edge to extend into areas to be cleaned which are difficult to access; and a displacing element which is connected with said sponge-like working element and displaces said sponge-like working element between said positions, wherein said displacing element is turnable about said axis so that when said displacing element moves said sponge-like working element from said inner hollow to said working position, said displacing element is turnable and turns said sponge-like working element about said axis.