JP4909382B2 - Cleaning body - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a cleaning body used when dust is removed and collected, and particularly to a cleaning body provided in a suction port of a head of a vacuum cleaner or an air conditioner.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a brush is rotatably provided at a suction port of a head of a vacuum cleaner, and dust on the floor surface is scraped and sucked by the brush. By providing a brush at the suction port of the vacuum cleaner head, cleaning can be performed more efficiently than when there is no brush.

  However, wood and glass constituting the floor surface are easily charged positively, and the dust charged negatively attracts and adheres to the floor surface electrically. In this way, if dust attracts and adheres to the floor surface, even if you try to remove the dust by lifting it from the floor surface with a brush, the dust will not lift from the floor surface, There is a risk that the dust will not be removed.

  This invention is made | formed in view of the said situation, The main objective is to provide the cleaning body for cleaning efficiently.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, the invention of claim 1 includes a strip-shaped base member, a plate-shaped core that will be erected on the base, into a sheet A wiping member that is formed and folded at the center in the width direction so as to cover the core material, and both end portions in the width direction are fixed to the base material, and both end portions in the width direction of the wiping member are The material constituting the wiping member is overlapped and welded to the base material, and the charging order is negative with respect to the material constituting the core material, and an elastic material is extruded to form the base material and the core. It is the cleaning body characterized by integrally forming the material .

The invention according to claim 2 is formed in a belt-like base material, a brush-like core material standing on the base material, and a sheet shape, and is folded at the center in the width direction to A wiping member disposed so as to cover and having both end portions in the width direction fixed to the base material, and both end portions in the width direction of the wiping member are overlapped and welded to the base material to constitute the wiping member The material is a cleaning body characterized in that the charging order is on the negative side of the material constituting the core material, and the base material and the core material are formed by pile weaving.

Furthermore, the invention according to claim 3 includes at least one cleaning body according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the base material is held on the peripheral side surface of the rod-like rotating body. Then, the wiping member is provided so as to protrude from the rotating body, and the rotating body is rotatably provided at the suction port of the head.

  According to the cleaning body of the present invention, cleaning can be performed efficiently.

It is a perspective view which shows Example 1 of the cleaning body of this invention. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the cleaner with which the cleaning body of FIG. 1 is applied. It is a perspective view which shows the rotary body with which the cleaning body of FIG. 1 was mounted | worn. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG. It is the schematic which looked at the head of the cleaner of FIG. 3 from the back side. It is a schematic sectional drawing of the head of the cleaner of FIG. It is the schematic which shows the state currently cleaned with the cleaner of FIG. It is sectional drawing which shows Example 2 of the cleaning body of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows Example 3 of the cleaning body of this invention.

  Hereinafter, the Example of the cleaning body of this invention is described concretely based on drawing.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing Example 1 of the cleaning body of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of FIG.

  The cleaning body 1 includes an elongated rectangular base material 3, a core material 5 provided upright on the base material 3, and a wiping member that is arranged to cover the core material 5 and is fixed to the base material 3. 7 is provided in the main part.

In the present Example 1, the base material 3 and the core material 5 are integrally formed by pile weaving.
Specifically, a pile fabric is formed by arranging pile yarns to be woven into warp yarns and weft yarns. Of these, the brush-like portion constituted by the pile yarn is used as the core material 5, the base fabric at the base of the core material 5 is used as the base material 3, and the brush-like core material 5 is erected on the base material 3. ing.

In the first embodiment, a brush-like core material 5 is provided linearly along the longitudinal direction at the center in the width direction of the substrate 3. The warp yarn and weft yarn constituting the substrate 3 are made of natural fibers such as cotton or chemical fibers such as polyester.
As the pile yarn constituting the core material 5, natural fibers such as cotton or chemical fibers such as nylon, polyester, acrylic, and polypropylene (PP) are used.
The base material 3 on which the core material 5 is provided is cured by applying an acrylic, urethane or SBR coating agent on the back surface thereof.

The wiping member 7 is in the form of a rectangular elongated sheet. As the wiping member 7, a woven fabric, a knitted fabric or a non-woven fabric formed of natural fibers such as cotton or chemical fibers such as polyester, or a synthetic resin sheet is used.
In the first embodiment, the wiping member 7 is formed of a material having a negative charging order with respect to the material constituting the core material 5.
For example, when the core material 5 is made of nylon, the wiping member 7 is made of cotton, polyester, vinyl chloride, or the like.

  The wiping member 7 is disposed so as to cover the core material 5, and both end portions 7 a and 7 a in the width direction are fixed to the base material 3. Specifically, the wiping member 7 is disposed so as to be folded back at the widthwise center portion 7 b and cover the core material 5. The wiping member 7 is welded with the widthwise both ends 7 a, 7 a being superimposed on the widthwise both ends of the plate surface of the substrate 3. In Example 1, the wiping member 7 is fixed to the base material 3 by ultrasonic welding. Thus, the wiping member 7 has its widthwise end portions 7a and 7a superimposed on the upper surface of the base material 3, and is ultrasonically welded to the base material 3 along the longitudinal direction. At this time, ultrasonic welding may be performed continuously or separately.

The cleaning body 1 having such a configuration is provided, for example, at a suction port of a head provided at the tip of a handle of a vacuum cleaner.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a cleaner to which the cleaning body of the first embodiment is applied.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the vacuum cleaner 21 has a base end portion of a bellows-like hose 25 detachably connected to the vacuum cleaner body 23, and a cylindrical handle 27 is connected to the tip end portion of the hose 25. . A head 29 is detachably provided at the tip of the handle 27, and a rotary body 31 to which the cleaning body 1 of this embodiment is attached is rotatably attached to the head 29.

  FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a rotating body on which the cleaning body of this embodiment is mounted, and FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG.

  The rotating body 31 is formed in an elongated cylindrical shape, and grooves 33 that are gently twisted from one end in the axial direction to the other end in the axial direction on the outer peripheral surface at four equally spaced intervals in the circumferential direction. Is formed.

  Each groove 33 of the rotator 31 has a bottom 33b that is wider than the opening 33a to the outer peripheral surface of the rotator 31, and has a substantially T-shaped cross section. In the cleaning body 1, the base material 3 is disposed on the bottom 33 b of the groove 33 of the rotating body 31, while the wiping member 7 and the core material 5 are provided to protrude radially outward from the opening 33 a of the groove 33. The rotary body 31 is attached to the rotary body 31 by being pushed into the groove 33 of the rotary body 31 from one axial end of the rotary body 31 toward the other axial end.

By making the base material 3 wider than the opening 33 a of the groove 33, the cleaning body 1 is detached from the cleaning body 1 from the groove 33 in the radial direction in a state where the cleaning body 1 is mounted. Is prevented. Further, in the state where the cleaning body 1 is attached to the rotating body 31, the longitudinal dimension of the cleaning body 1 is slightly shorter than the axial dimension of the rotating body 31 so that both axial ends of the rotating body 31 remain. In addition, the cleaning body 1 is attached to the rotating body 31.
In the first embodiment, the cleaning body 1 is mounted in each of the four grooves 33 of the rotating body 31.

Holders 37 are attached to both ends of the rotating body 31 to which the cleaning body 1 is attached.
The holder 37 has a cylindrical shape that opens inward in the axial direction, and has an inner diameter corresponding to the outer diameter of the rotating body 31. In the holder 37, rectangular grooves 37 a are formed at four circumferentially spaced intervals on the peripheral side wall of the opening side end, and each groove 37 a opens on the opening side end surface of the holder 37. . And the lower end part of the wiping member 7 of the cleaning body 1 and the core material 5 is inserted in each groove | channel 37a, and the holder 37 is inserted in the axial direction both ends of the rotary body 31. As shown in FIG.
In this way, the holder 37 is attached to both end portions of the rotating body 31 so that the movement of the cleaning body 1 in the longitudinal direction is restricted.
Moreover, the outer peripheral surface of the closing side end 39 of the holder 37 is formed in a gear shape. Further, the holder 37 is provided with a shaft portion 41 that extends axially outward from the central portion of the closing end surface thereof, and a rectangular base 43 is rotatably fitted in the shaft portion 41. Is provided.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of the head of the vacuum cleaner of FIG. 3 as viewed from the back side.
FIG. 7 is a schematic sectional view of the head.

The head 29 has a rectangular box 53 formed with a rectangular recess 51 that opens downward, and a cylindrical part 55 that is provided in the box 53 and into which the handle 27 is detachably fitted. The box 53 has a central portion on the base end side that protrudes in a rectangular shape toward the base end side, and a cylindrical portion 55 is provided on the protruding portion.
Further, a cylindrical roller r is rotatably provided at the distal end portion of the box body 53, and wheels w are provided at two locations with the protruding portion interposed between the proximal end portions.

  The concave portion 51 of the box body 53 communicates with the inner hole of the cylindrical portion 55, and the concave portion 51 of the box body 53 passes through the inner hole of the cylindrical portion 55 when the handle 27 is attached to the cylindrical portion 55. It communicates with 27 inner holes. And when cleaning with the vacuum cleaner 21, the recessed part 51 of the box 53 functions as a suction inlet which sucks in dust.

  The concave portion 51 of the head 29 is provided with a pair of rectangular plate-like attachment pieces 56 and 56 at both ends in the longitudinal direction. The rotating body 31 to which the cleaning body 1 is attached is disposed in the concave portion 51 of the head 29, and the base 43 attached to each shaft portion 41 is fitted between the attachment pieces 56, 56 and can be rotated to the head 29. Retained.

  A motor 57 is built in the head 29, and an annular belt 59 is wound around the rotating shaft of the motor 57. The belt 59 is also looped around the gear-shaped closing side end 39 of one holder 37, and the rotating body 31 is configured to rotate as the motor 57 rotates. Note that the presence / absence of rotation and the rotation speed of the rotating body 31 are operated by the switch portion S provided at the tip of the hose 25 of the cleaner 21.

When cleaning with the vacuum cleaner 21, the rotating body 31 is rotated so that the wiping member 7 of the cleaning body 1 provided on the rotating body 31 sequentially comes into contact with the floor surface to remove the dirt on the floor. In this way, the sheet-like wiping member 7 is brought into contact with the floor surface and is wiped and cleaned, so that the cleaning can be performed efficiently.
Moreover, since the core material 5 is accommodated inside the wiping member 7, the wiping member 7 rotates while being pressed against the floor surface, and the floor surface is appropriately cleaned.

Moreover, when cleaning with the vacuum cleaner 21, the rotating body 31 is rotated so that the wiping member 7 of the cleaning body 1 provided on the rotating body 31 and the core material 5 are rubbed and frictional charging occurs, thereby efficiently generating dust. Can be removed and recovered.
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating a state in which the cleaning body 1 according to the first embodiment is being cleaned by a cleaner.

Specifically, wood and glass that make up the floor surface tend to be positively charged, and dust composed of fibers such as acrylic and polyester tends to be negatively charged. is there.
In the first embodiment, the wiping member 7 is formed of a material having a negative charging order with respect to the core material 5, so that the wiping member 7 and the core material 5 are rubbed by the rotation of the rotating body 31. Therefore, the wiping member 7 is negatively charged. When the wiping member 7 is negatively charged, the negatively charged dust adhering to the floor surface is repelled from the wiping member 7 and is easily lifted from the floor surface. It is sent to the garbage collection part of the vacuum cleaner body via 51.
In addition, dust that is easily charged positively, such as nylon, is guided to the wiping member 7 side when the wiping member 7 is negatively charged, and the vacuum cleaner body dust is collected through the suction port of the head by the suction force of the cleaner body. It is sent to the collection department.
Thus, in this embodiment, the wiping member 7 is negatively charged, so that dust attached to the floor surface can be efficiently collected.

In the first embodiment, the wiping member 7 is fixed to the base material 3 by ultrasonic welding, thereby facilitating manufacture. Moreover, it can respond to a small lot. Moreover, in the first embodiment, the base material 3 and the core material 5 are integrally formed by pile weaving, so that the manufacture is further facilitated.
In addition, although the pile yarn which comprises the core material 5 may be either straight hair or curly hair, the wiping member 7 which wraps the core material 5 can be set as the structure which swelled by using curly hair.

Next, Example 2 of the cleaning body of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 9 is a view showing Example 2 of the cleaning body of the present invention.
Since the cleaning body of the second embodiment is basically the same configuration as the cleaning body of the first embodiment, different parts will be mainly described below, and the same portions are denoted by the same reference numerals. explain.

In the first embodiment, the base material 3 and the core material 5 are integrally formed by pile weaving. However, in this second embodiment, the base material 71 and the core material 73 are a synthetic material having thermoplasticity such as polypropylene (PP). It is integrally formed by extruding resin.
Specifically, a rectangular plate-shaped core material 73 is provided so as to extend upward from the central portion in the width direction of the rectangular plate-shaped base material 71, and the base material 71 and the core material 73 have a substantially inverted cross section T. It is integrally formed in a letter shape.
And the wiping member 7 is provided so that the core material 73 may be covered similarly to the said Example 1. FIG. That is, the sheet-like wiping member 7 is folded back at the widthwise central portion 7b, and the widthwise end portions 7a and 7a are superposed on the upper surfaces of the widthwise end portions of the base material 71 and ultrasonically welded.

Also in the second embodiment, the wiping member 7 is formed of a material having a negative charging order with respect to the material constituting the core material 73.
For example, when the core material 73 is formed of polypropylene, the wiping member 7 is formed of vinyl chloride, polyethylene, acrylic, or the like.

Similarly to the first embodiment, the cleaning body according to the second embodiment is mounted on the rotating body 31 and applied to the cleaner.
At this time, in the cleaning body of the second embodiment, the core member 73 is formed in a plate shape having an elastic force, so that the force to press the wiping member 7 against the floor surface is increased, and the floor surface is more efficiently cleaned. Can be removed. Further, as in the first embodiment, when the wiping member 7 is negatively charged, the negatively charged dust adhering to the floor surface is easily lifted from the floor surface, and is collected in the dust collection portion of the cleaner body. It becomes easy to be done.

Next, Example 3 of the cleaning body of the present invention will be described.
In addition, since the cleaning body of the third embodiment basically has the same configuration as that of the first embodiment, different parts will be mainly described below, and the same portions are denoted by the same reference numerals. I will explain.

  FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing Example 3 of the cleaning body of the present invention.

  In the first embodiment, the wiping member 7 is provided so as to cover the brush-like core material 5, but in the third embodiment, the wiping member is provided only on one side of the core material 5.

  Specifically, in the cleaning body of the third embodiment, similarly to the first embodiment, the base material 3 and the core material 5 are integrally formed by pile weaving. The wiping member 91 is fixed to the base material 3 adjacent to one side of the brush-like core material 5.

The wiping member 91 is in the form of an elongated rectangular sheet, and a woven fabric, a knitted fabric, a non-woven fabric, or a synthetic resin sheet formed of natural fibers such as cotton or chemical fibers such as polyester is used. Also in the third embodiment, the wiping member 91 is formed of a material having a negative charging order with respect to the material constituting the core material 5.
The lower end portion of the wiping member 91 is folded at a right angle, and is provided along the core material 5 on one side in the width direction of the upper surface of the base material 3. And the lower end part of the wiping member 91 is piled up on the upper surface of the base material 3, and is fixed to the base material 3 by ultrasonic welding.

  The wiping member 91 is preferably configured to be longer than half of the core material 5 and equal to or shorter than the core material 5 in a state of being fixed to the base material 3. In the state of being erected, the core material 5 is provided slightly lower.

  The cleaning body of Example 3 having such a configuration is attached to a rotating body and applied to a cleaner as in Example 1. In the third embodiment, the rotating body is attached to the head such that the wiping member 91 is arranged on the rotating direction side of the rotating body. In the third embodiment, similarly to the first embodiment, the wiping member 91 is negatively charged, so that negatively charged dust adhering to the floor surface can be efficiently collected and a brush-like shape can be collected. The core material 5 can scavenge floor dust.

  In the third embodiment, the base material 3 and the core material 5 are formed by pile weaving. However, similar to the second embodiment, a synthetic resin having thermoplasticity may be extruded and integrally formed.

The cleaning body of the present invention is not limited to the configuration of each of the above embodiments, and can be changed as appropriate.
In the first embodiment, the base material 3 and the core material 5 are integrally formed by pile weaving, but a brush-like core material may be configured by planting a large number of hairs on a rectangular belt-shaped base material.
Moreover, in the said Example 2, although the base material 71 and the core material 73 were integrally formed by extrusion molding, it is good also as a structure which fixes a rectangular plate-shaped core material to a rectangular plate-shaped base material with an adhesive agent. .

  In each of the above embodiments, the rotating body 31 to which the cleaning body 1 is mounted is rotated by the motor. However, the rotating body may be rotated by wind power generated by the suction force of the cleaner body without providing the motor. Good.

  Moreover, in the said Example 1 and Example 2, although the width direction both ends of the wiping member 7 were piled up on the upper surface of the base material and ultrasonic welding was carried out, the width direction both ends of the wiping member 7 were made into the width direction of a base material. Ultrasonic welding may be performed by contacting the lower surfaces of both ends. Similarly, in Example 3, ultrasonic welding may be performed by bringing the lower end portion of the wiping member 91 folded at a right angle into contact with the lower surface of the base material. In each of the above embodiments, the wiping members 7 and 91 are fixed to the base materials 3 and 71 by ultrasonic welding. However, the wiping members 7 and 91 are attached to the base materials 3 and 71 by thermal welding, high-frequency welding, or vibration welding. It may be fixed.

  Further, in each of the above embodiments, the case where the cleaning body 1 is applied to the suction port of the head of the cleaner has been described. Or may be applied to other devices.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cleaning body 3 Base material 5 Core material 7 Wiping member

Claims (3)

A strip-shaped substrate;
A core plate of that will be erected on the substrate,
It is formed in a sheet shape, is folded at the center in the width direction, is arranged so as to cover the core material, and includes a wiping member that is fixed to the base material at both ends in the width direction,
The width direction both ends of the wiping member are overlapped and welded to the base material,
The material constituting the wiping member has a negative charge order from the material constituting the core material ,
A cleaning body , wherein an elastic material is extruded to integrally form the base material and the core material . A strip-shaped substrate;
A brush- like core material standing on the base material;
It is formed in a sheet shape, is folded at the center in the width direction, is arranged so as to cover the core material, and includes a wiping member that is fixed to the base material at both ends in the width direction,
The width direction both ends of the wiping member are overlapped and welded to the base material,
The material constituting the wiping member has a negative charge order from the material constituting the core material ,
The said base material and the said core material are formed by pile weaving, The cleaning body characterized by the above-mentioned . At least one cleaning body according to claim 1 or 2 is provided,
This cleaning body is provided with the wiping member protruding from the rotating body by holding the base material on the peripheral side surface of the rod-shaped rotating body,
The vacuum cleaner characterized in that the rotating body is rotatably provided in the suction port of the head.

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