Patent ID: 8464386

Claim:
A manual floor cleaning apparatus, comprising: a frame; a dispensing roller mounted to the frame and adapted to carry a roll of cleaning media thereon, the dispensing roller operable to dispense cleaning media by rotating in a first rotational direction; a collection roller mounted to the frame and adapted to collect the cleaning media in a roll form once a portion of the cleaning media has transitioned across a cleaning surface of the frame positioned between the dispensing roller and the collection roller; a tensioning arrangement mounted to the dispensing roller and operable impart a tensioning force on the cleaning media by rotating he dispensing roller in a second rotational direction opposite the first direction; wherein the tensioning arrangement comprises a one-way clutch; wherein the one-way clutch includes first and second clutch members which are mounted to the dispensing roller such that they may freely rotate relative thereto; wherein the first clutch member includes a plurality of detents, and the second clutch member includes a plurality of ramped structures, the plurality of detents, and the second plurality of ramped structures such that both the first and second clutch members rotate in the first rotational direction with the dispensing roller; and further comprising a rack and a pinion, the pinion fixedly mounted to the second clutch member for rotation with the second clutch member such that the pinion rotates in the first rotational direction with the first and second clutch members to move the rack in a linear first direction, wherein movement of the rack in the linear first direction compresses a biasing element operably connected to an end of the rack.