Floor mopping apparatus

Abstract

In the exemplary embodiment, a floor mopping apparatus has a handle portion, a mopping head, and an elongate pole portion. The elongate pole portion connects the handle portion to the mopping head. The mopping head has an equilaterally triangular shape for accessing into corners and has notches in each side of the head for accessing around furniture legs and such. The handle includes a fluid spraying mechanism that allows for spraying a fluid ahead of the mop head during mopping. The handle is otherwise removable from the pole portion for use as a portable pistol for spraying the fluid directly there-from apart from the remainder of the apparatus.

1 . A floor mopping apparatus comprising an elongate pole and a mopping head; said elongate pole comprising a proximal end connected to a handle for grasping and a distal end pivotally connected to said mopping head having a cleaning surface substantially coplanar with the floor to be mopped, wherein said cleaning surface comprises at least two adjacent peripheral cleaning edges connected at a corner of less than ninety angular degrees. 
     
     
         2 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 1  wherein said cleaning surface has a substantially triangular shape. 
     
     
         3 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 2  wherein said triangular shape comprises at least one peripheral cleaning edge having a notch therein, said notch being at least approximately half of an inch deep and at least approximately one inch wide. 
     
     
         4 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 3  wherein said notch is approximately centrally disposed in said at least one peripheral cleaning edge. 
     
     
         5 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 2  wherein said triangular shape is substantially equilateral. 
     
     
         6 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 5  wherein said triangular shape comprises at least one peripheral cleaning edge having a notch therein, said notch being at least approximately half of an inch deep and at least approximately one inch wide. 
     
     
         7 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 6  wherein said notch is approximately centrally disposed in said at least one peripheral cleaning edge. 
     
     
         8 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 7  wherein said at least one peripheral cleaning edge having a notch therein comprises three cleaning edges each having a notch therein, said notches each being at least approximately half of an inch deep and at least approximately one inch wide. 
     
     
         9 . A floor mopping apparatus comprising an elongate pole and a mopping head; said elongate pole comprising a proximal end connected to a handle for grasping and a distal end pivotally connected to said mopping head, wherein said mopping head comprises:
 a planar support surface substantially parallel with the floor to be mopped;   a cleaning element, from the group including an absorbent pad and a dusting sheet, abutted against said support surface and having a planar cleaning surface disposed parallel with said support surface, and three fastening elements for removably securing said cleaning element to said mopping head;   wherein said three fastening elements are substantially disposed in equal spacings about said cleaning element.   
     
     
         10 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein said mopping head has substantially the shape of an equilateral triangle. 
     
     
         11 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 10  wherein said fastening elements are each disposed substantially adjacent a different corner of said equilateral triangle. 
     
     
         12 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 9 , wherein said mopping head comprises three receiving fasteners and said cleaning element is a dusting sheet and is substantially the shape of an equilateral triangle and said three fastening elements each comprise an extension protruding outwardly there-from adapted to be received by one of said receiving fasteners such that said fastening elements and fastening receivers, in combination, secure said cleaning element to said mopping head. 
     
     
         13 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 12  wherein said extensions each protrude outwardly from a different corner of said equilateral triangle. 
     
     
         14 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 13 , wherein said mopping head has substantially the shape of said equilateral triangle. 
     
     
         15 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 14  wherein said fastening receivers are each disposed substantially adjacent a different corner of said equilateral triangle. 
     
     
         16 . A floor mopping apparatus comprising;
 a mopping head;   an elongate pole comprising a proximal end connected to a handle for grasping and a distal end pivotally connected to said mopping head;   an applicator comprising a reservoir for containing a fluid and a dispensing mechanism for dispensing the fluid there-from;   wherein said applicator is detachably attachable to said apparatus and has:
 a first state when attached to said apparatus wherein said applicator communicates with and is only adapted to dispense the fluid to said mopping head; and 
 a second state when detached from said apparatus wherein said applicator portably dispenses the fluid apart from said apparatus. 
   
     
     
         17 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 16  wherein said applicator is said handle when in said first state. 
     
     
         18 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 17  wherein said dispensing mechanism comprises a trigger and pump assembly for causing the fluid from the reservoir to an outlet port through a conduit, and said outlet port is adapted to communicate with said mopping head during said first state. 
     
     
         19 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 18  wherein said trigger and pump assembly is convertible between first and second positions and is biased towards said first position;
 wherein said conduit is a resiliently flexible tube; 
 wherein said pump causes the fluid from the reservoir during conversion from the first position to the second position, and 
 wherein said trigger pinches said resiliently flexible tube during said first position to deny fluid through said flexible tube to said outlet port during said first position. 
 
     
     
         20 . The floor mopping apparatus of  claim 19  further comprising a spraying nozzle, wherein said outlet port is adapted for attachment to said spraying nozzle during said second state.