Squeeze flat mop cleaning tool having adjustable squeeze opening
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing squeeze flat mop cleaning tools face challenges with long flat mop plates, leading to high and cumbersome mop buckets, and the installation mode of squeezer devices fails to provide a stable and adjustable squeezing force, causing friction issues and instability during use.
Innovation Solution
A squeeze flat mop cleaning tool with an adjustable squeeze opening, featuring a scraper plate that rotates to change the size of the squeeze opening, allowing for a narrow position for increased squeezing force and a larger position for easier lifting, utilizing a support member and elastic devices to facilitate this adjustment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the flat mop plate is made long to improve mopping effect and efficiency, then the cleaning performance is improved, but the mop bucket height must be increased correspondingly, making packaging and transportation inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The scraper plate is designed to be rotatable relative to the support member, allowing the squeeze opening size to be dynamically adjusted. During squeezing operation, the scraper plate rotates to a first position providing a smaller squeeze opening for better squeezing effect; during lifting, it rotates to a second position providing a larger squeeze opening to reduce friction and prevent bucket lifting.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the parameter of squeeze opening size by rotating the scraper plate between different positions. This parameter change allows the system to adapt to different operational requirements: small opening for effective squeezing, large opening for easy lifting, thereby resolving the contradiction between mopping efficiency and bucket height.
2Device complexity
If the squeezer installation mode uses a fixed squeeze opening, then the structure is simple, but the mop bucket may be lifted due to friction when the flat mop is lifted, and stable squeezing force cannot be obtained
Solution Approach 1:
The scraper plate is made rotatable relative to the support member through a hinge connection, transforming the fixed squeeze opening into a dynamic adjustable one. This allows the system to adapt the squeeze opening size to operational needs, ensuring stable squeezing during mopping and reduced friction during lifting.
Solution Approach 2:
The scraper plate automatically adjusts its position based on operational requirements. During squeezing, the wiper pushes the scraper plate to the first position; during lifting, the scraper plate rotates to the second position under its own weight or spring force, eliminating the need for complex control mechanisms while maintaining reliability.
3Ease of manufacture
If the squeeze opening size is fixed, then the manufacturing is simple, but it cannot provide both high squeezing force and easy lifting operation
Solution Approach 1:
The rotatable scraper plate design allows the squeeze opening size to be dynamically changed between operations. The structure remains relatively simple with just a hinge connection, while providing the flexibility to optimize both squeezing force and lifting ease by adjusting the scraper plate position according to operational phase.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The adjustable squeeze opening provides a high water yield and effective cleaning while reducing the risk of the mop bucket being lifted, enhancing user experience with improved friction and ease of operation.
Implementation Method 1
an elastic device which acts on the scraper plate to place the scraper plate in a narrow position
Implementation Method 2
the wiper drives the scraper plate to rotate upwards, thereby enlarging the squeeze opening
Data Source
AI summary
A squeeze flat mop cleaning tool having an adjustable squeeze opening is provided. The squeeze flat mop cleaning tool comprises a mop bucket and a flat mop; the flat mop comprises a mop stick and a flat mop head, and a wiper is provided on the flat mop head; the mop bucket has an independent squeezing area and an independent cleaning area, and a squeeze device is mounted on the mop bucket; the squeeze device comprises a scraper plate and a support member, and a squeeze opening is formed between the scraper plate and the support member. The scraper plate is rotatably provided on the mop bucket, and the size of the squeeze opening can be changed by the rotation of the scraper plate.