Flat Mop Dewatering Frame With Pumped Water Discharge
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing round spin mops are less convenient for cleaning corners and mopping along walls due to their design, while flat mops require a taller bucket for dewatering, leading to a larger bucket size and a shorter mop head to accommodate the dewatering mechanism.
Innovation Solution
A cleaning tool set with a rotatable dewatering frame and an impeller or screw pump integrated into the bucket, allowing for telescopic motion conversion to rotating motion, enabling efficient water drainage without the need for additional storage space, thus allowing a longer flat mop head with a smaller bucket size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a flat mop is used to improve cleaning convenience in corners and along walls, then cleaning ease is improved, but the bucket height must be increased to accommodate the folded mop head during dewatering
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a water pumping device with the water inlet positioned below the dewatering frame, utilizing the vertical dimension to pump water upward and discharge it laterally through outlets on the bucket sidewall. This dimensional reconfiguration eliminates the need for additional vertical space below the dewatering frame, resolving the contradiction between flat mop usage and bucket height requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The invention extracts the water storage function from the space below the dewatering frame by implementing an active water pumping system. The pumping device removes water from the dewatering frame and discharges it through sidewall outlets, eliminating the need for a water storage reservoir and reducing the required bucket height
2Adaptability or versatility
If the bucket height is increased to accommodate the dewatering mechanism for flat mops, then dewatering capacity is improved, but the overall bucket size becomes larger and less convenient for use
Solution Approach 1:
The water discharge function is shifted from the vertical dimension to the lateral dimension. Water is pumped upward through the bottom of the dewatering frame and discharged through outlets positioned on the bucket sidewall at a height suitable for user access, eliminating the need for increased bucket height and overall volume
3Volume of stationary object
If a round mop is used, then the bucket size can be smaller, but cleaning corners and mopping along walls becomes less convenient
Solution Approach 1:
The dewatering frame is designed with universal adaptability to accommodate both flat mop heads and round mop heads. The frame structure and water pumping mechanism work effectively with either mop type, allowing users to benefit from smaller bucket size while maintaining the ability to use flat mops for corner and wall cleaning
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution reduces the bucket height by eliminating the need for a water storage space below the dewatering frame, enabling a longer flat mop head and improved cleaning convenience without increasing the bucket size.
Implementation Method 1
the water pumping device is an impeller pump, which includes a pump body, an impeller, a pump shaft disposed in a center of the impeller
Implementation Method 2
the water pumping device is a screw pump, which includes a pumping column and a rotatable screw disposed out of the central shaft and inside the pumping column
Data Source
AI summary
A cleaning tool set includes a rod; a mop head attached to the rod; a wiper attached to the mop head; and a bucket for receiving the mop; the rod includes an inner rod, an outer rod sleeved at least partially over the inner rod, and a driving mechanism for converting a telescopic motion between the inner rod and an outer rod into a rotating motion of the rod; the bucket includes at least one container, a rotatable dewatering frame with a central shaft. While the mop head is rotating with the rod to be dewatered, the mop head is put in the dewatering frame, and the water pumping device is driven by the drive mechanism to drain water out of the container which has the dewatering frame disposed therein.