Boiler for steam mop
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Publication Date
- 2013-08-15
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION
[0001] The present invention relates to a steam mop, especially to a boiler for a steam mop.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] The traditional mop is disposed with a handle, which is bound with a bundle of cloth. The user works on the handle to make the cloth sweep the floor. The kind of traditional mop needs to be periodic cleaned. Besides, the smudge on the floor, especially the oil and grease, is difficult to be cleaned. For the above questions, a steam mop is provided in the market, which is applied with a heater to heat the water to generate steam to wash the floor. And the cleaning effect is better, especially for the oil and grease. The existing steam mop can clean the floor with the effect of sterilization as well.
[0003] However, the exiting steam mop has disadvantages when used: firstly, as the boiler is applied with an elongated water cavity disposed with a heating element, the steam can not vaporize completely, the steam mop will drips water when used. S...
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[0030]Refer to the FIG. 1 to the FIG. 6. The detailed embodiment of the present invention of a boiler for a steam mop includes a boiler 1, a water inlet pipe 2, a heating element 3, a steam pipe 4 and a steam nozzle 5.
[0031]The boiler 1 is cuboid shaped, and four holes are disposed inside along the length direction. Two holes 11 and 13 in the diagonal position are disposed as the liquid way, while another two holes 12 and 14 in another diagonal position are disposed as the way for the heating element 3. The holes 12 and 14 are separately disposed with a crack 121 and 141 on the wall for the material of expanding when heated and contracting when cooled. Two ends of the heating element 3 are separately extended out of the two ends of the boiler 1 and insulated by silica gel cap 9. A cover 8 is disposed in the lower of the boiler 1 to close the two holes 11 and 13. A lateral hole 15 is disposed inside the boiler 1 beside the cover 8 to connect the two holes 11 and 13. The holes 11, 13 ...