摘要 |
A mop head (30) and a wringer device(10) combination is described in which the mop head (30) includes a body (31) and a holder (40), the mop head body (31) supporting mop material (33), and the holder (40) mounting the mop head (30) to a handle (45), the mop head holder (40) having a first part (41) secured to or integral with the body (31), a second part (42) which interengages, in use with the handle (45), and a connecting portion (48) connecting the first and second holder parts (41, 42), and wherein the wringer device (10) includes a wringing chamber (11), a pair of pressure bars (22, 24), and an actuating mechanism (25) relatively to move the pressure bars (22, 24) between an open condition in which the mop head body (31) is receivable between the pressure bars (22, 24) into the wringing chamber (11), and a closed condition in which the pressure bars (22, 24) are alongside one another and are spaced from one another by a space (S), and the pressure bars (22, 24) act on a bearing surface or surfaces (50) of the mop head (30) to urge the mop head body (31) towards a bottom wall (17) of the wringing chamber (11) to wring the mop material (33), with the connecting portion (48) of the holder (40) extending along the space (S) between the pressure bars (22, 24), the connecting portion (48) having a thickness (T) less than a separation distance (D) or minimum separation distance between the pressure bars (22, 24). |