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EP 0 272 940 A3 |
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EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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Date of publication A3: |
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26.07.1989 Bulletin 1989/30 |
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29.06.1988 Bulletin 1988/26 |
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Date of filing: 23.12.1987 |
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International Patent Classification (IPC)4: A47L 11/164 |
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24.12.1986 GB 8630853
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- UNILEVER PLC
London EC4P 4BQ (GB)
GB
- UNILEVER N.V.
3013 AL Rotterdam (NL)
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Quainton, Aylesbury HP22 4BL (GB)
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MARKS & CLERK,
57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields
London WC2A 3LS
London WC2A 3LS (GB) |
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(57) A holder for holding and propelling a fibrous cleaning pad in a floor cleaning machine,
which holder comprises a pair of spaced apart, generally parallel and coaxial circular
disc-like members (1.2), namely an upper disc member (1) provided with means (3) for
engaging directly or indirectly with a drive motor of the floor cleaning machine and
a lower disc member (2) having a generally planar lower surface provided with means
(5) for holding a fibrous cleaning pad; the upper and lower disc members being resiliently
connected by means of a regularly arranged array of leaf springs (6), each spring
being secured at one end to the upper disc member and at its other end to the lower
disc member, and the springs being arranged with their longitudinal axes generally
tangential to the radii of the disc members.