Cleaning tool and method of manufacturing cleaning part thereof

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide a cleaning tool that exhibits adequate cleaning performance even in the cleaning of narrow crevices. The cleaning tool of the present invention comprises a cleaning component and a handle component, wherein the cleaning component is designed such that a sheet-like fiber bundle and a sheet are joined to produce a sheet laminate having a joining portion, this sheet laminate is bent along the joining portion to form a bulky component formation portion, the sheet laminate in which said bulky component formation portion has been formed is bent so that bulky component formation portions are across from each other, and integrated such that the contact surfaces of the opposing sheet-like fiber bundles are joined together, and support rods of the handle component are inserted into a handle insertion component having handle insertion openings made at one end of the bulky component formation portions and formed inside the bulky component formation portion.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a cleaning tool comprising a cleaning component and a handle component, and to a method for manufacturing a cleaning component for said cleaning tool. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] Dusters have been used in the past as cleaning tools for removing dust that builds up on chests and other such furniture; computers, lighting devices, and other such electrical products; and interior walls, thresholds and sills, and so forth. A duster is constructed such that a plurality of cord-like bands are attached to the distal end of a handle component, and the surface of a dusty object is hit with the cord-like bands to remove the dust. Therefore, a conventional duster had no wiping function, so it was unable to remove dust without scattering it into the air. [0005] Proposals that have been made in order to help solve this drawback to dusters include a cleaning tool in which a clea...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] The cleaning tool of the present invention is constituted such that the sheet laminate is bent and the contact surfaces of the opposing sheet-like fiber bundles are partially joined together to form a bulky component formation portion, and the sheet laminate in which said bulky component formation portion has been formed is bent and the contact surfaces of the opposing sheet-like fiber bundles are joined, forming in a bulky form the bulky portion handle insertion openings made at one end and the handle insertion component in the bulky component formation portion. Accordingly, this cleaning tool can be made in a slender shape, which means that dust and dirt in narrow crevices can be efficiently wiped clean. Also, since a sheet-like fiber bundle produced by bundling fibers is used for the cleaning component in this cleaning tool, even if dust is hiding in narrow grooves in a tight space, the fibers that make up the sheet-like fiber bundle can reach into these narrow grooves and efficiently clean out any dust hiding in these grooves, affording excellent dusting performance.

[0033] The method for manufacturing a cleaning component of the present invention makes it easy to provide a cleaning tool that provides sufficient cleaning performance even in the cleaning of narrow crevices, and when the cleaning tool is equipped with a sheet having a strip component, the handle insertion component can be kept in a bulky form and the periphery of the handle insertion component can be surrounded by the sheet-like fiber bundle, allowing a stouter handle insertion component to be formed.

Problems solved by technology

Therefore, a conventional duster had no wiping function, so it was unable to remove dust without scattering it into the air.

However, with the cleaning tool described in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application H10-43115, the wiping component did not offer sufficient wiping capability, and the tool was inconvenient to use.

With the hand wiper described in Japanese Laid-Open Patent Application 2000-83883, not only was the wiping performance lacking, but narrow spaces could not be properly cleaned.

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