Floor Check

Abstract

The Floor Check is a scraping tool with special features that allow it to be quickly attached to the ends of broom handles, so it doubles the effectiveness of brooms as cleaning tools. Brooms are some of the most common cleaning tools in the world. They are highly effective at removing loose debris from surfaces; but when wet food and dirt dry and become stuck to the floor, it's necessary to get down and scrape them loose. When using the Floor Check however, it's not necessary to find another tool and get down on the floor; simply turn the broom around, remain standing, scrape off whatever is stuck, and then sweep it away. The Floor Check can be quickly removed from broom handles for use on raised surfaces also. Because of its usefulness, the Floor Check should become as common as the broom itself.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 959,329, filed Aug. 21, 2013.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT[0002]Not Applicable.REFERENCE TO SEQUENCE LISTING, A TABLE, OR A COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTING COMPACT DISK APPENDIX[0003]Not Applicable.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]The Floor Check was created to decrease the time and effort used when completing tasks associated with household clean-up. The need for such a device was discovered as the inventor's child was learning to feed themselves with a spoon, eating apple sauce and crisped rice cereal. Often the child would drop these foods on the floor. Sometimes these accidents would go unnoticed until after the food dried. The inventor would then find himself kneeling on the kitchen floor, scraping off dried applesauce and crisped rice with a butter knife, so he could sweep these things into a dust pan and begin mopping. One winter m...

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Benefits of technology

The Floor Check is a cleaning tool that can be attached to a broom handle. It consists of a scraping blade affixed to a tube shaped body. The Tubular Body allows the Floor Check to be easily and quickly attached and removed from the broom handle. The Floor Check doubles the effectiveness of the broom as a cleaning tool, because it provides an extended reach. It can be quickly removed from the broom handle and used in other areas where the broom handle gets in the way. The features and advantages of the Floor Check create the benefits of faster cleaning, with less exertion, for the person using it.

Problems solved by technology

Eventually, the idea came to the inventor to tape the ice scraper to the end of a broom handle, so he would not have to kneel down on the floor; but then it was difficult to use the blade elsewhere.

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