A hand-guided floor cleaning machine with a base, a driven brush element that is configured to engage with a floor surface in a cleaning plane, a fluid applicator for applying cleaning liquid to the floor surface, and a suction foot that is secured via a mount on the base and configured to receive dirty liquid from the floor surface. The mount has a first pivoting arm, which is articulated on the base with the machine end so as to be pivotable about a first pivot axis which runs parallel to a cleaning plane, a guide wheel, which is coupled to the first pivoting arm, and a second pivoting arm, which is articulated on the first pivoting arm so as to be pivotable about a second pivot axis which runs parallel to the first pivot axis. The suction foot is attached to a distal end of the second pivoting arm.

Provided are a cleaner having a circulation system of collecting water used in damp cloth, filtering the same, and supplying the filtered water to the cloth, and a control method thereof. The cleaner includes a storage unit storing water, a collecting unit intaking water used in a cloth and introducing intaken water to an upper side of the storage unit, a filter unit filtering water collected by the collecting unit, a water supply unit allowing water within the storage unit to flow out from a lower portion of the storage unit so as to be supplied to the cloth, a vacuum motor operated to cause water to be intaken to the storage unit through the collecting unit, and a pump operate to allow water to be transferred through the water supply unit.

A surface cleaner with suction and simplified operation, which can be moved by hand using a push bar (30) over a cleaning surface on the floor, and consists of a pot-shaped housing (6) that is open towards a cleaning surface, in which housing at least one rotor arm (7) having spray nozzles (10) attached to it is driven to rotate under the action of a high-pressure medium, wherein a manually operated valve device (1, 3, 25, 26) is present, which supplies the high-pressure medium selectively to one or more rotor arms (7) and/or to the suction device (8), wherein, for two-handed operation, the manually operated valve device consists of two spatially separated operating handles (1, 3) with manually operated operating levers (25, 26), which are arranged at the two ends of the push bar (30) of the surface cleaner.

The present invention relates to the field of floor treatment machines for scrubbing, polishing, sanding or burnishing floors, and in particular machines in which one or more driven rotatable work heads (such as scrubbing brushes) are provided for agitating the floor surface. In one aspect there is provided a walk-behind floor treatment machine comprising: a base portion provided with and supported by at least one rotatable work head for treating the floor, a handle portion for steering or guiding the machine along a working direction of travel and adapted to be pivotable with respect to the base portion, drive means for rotating the work head with respect to the base portion, floor-engaging wheel means for supporting the handle portion, the wheel means having a substantially transverse axis of rotation so as to permit travel in the working direction, the wheel means being coupled to the base portion by a linkage which permits vertical travel of the base portion and associated work head or heads with respect to the wheel means, but which provides transverse constraint to limit or prevent yawing of the base portion with respect to the wheel means, wherein a lower region of the handle portion is pivotably connected to the wheel means via an articulated joint, the arrangement being such that the handle portion may be manipulated to act on the wheel means so as to yaw steer the wheel means about a yaw axis defined by the floor-engaging contact of the wheel means, the yawing of the wheel means causing the base portion to yaw in response to yaw steering. The wheel means may comprise a wheel, roller or ball, preferably a single wheel, roller or ball, disposed at a lower region of the handle portion. The wheel means preferably has a fixed transverse axis of rotation.

The present invention relates to the field of floor treatment machines for scrubbing, polishing, sanding or burnishing floors, and in particular machines in which one or more driven rotatable work heads (such as scrubbing brushes) are provided for agitating the floor surface. In one aspect there is provided a walk-behind floor treatment machine comprising: a base portion provided with and supported by at least one rotatable work head for treating the floor, a handle portion for steering or guiding the machine along a working direction of travel and adapted to be pivotable with respect to the base portion, drive means for rotating the work head with respect to the base portion, floor-engaging wheel means for supporting the handle portion, the wheel means having a substantially transverse axis of rotation so as to permit travel in the working direction, the wheel means being coupled to the base portion by a linkage which permits vertical travel of the base portion and associated work head or heads with respect to the wheel means, but which provides transverse constraint to limit or prevent yawing of the base portion with respect to the wheel means, wherein a lower region of the handle portion is pivotably connected to the wheel means via an articulated joint, the arrangement being such that the handle portion may be manipulated to act on the wheel means so as to yaw steer the wheel means about a yaw axis defined by the floor-engaging contact of the wheel means, the yawing of the wheel means causing the base portion to yaw in response to yaw steering. The wheel means may comprise a wheel, roller or ball, preferably a single wheel, roller or ball, disposed at a lower region of the handle portion. The wheel means preferably has a fixed transverse axis of rotation.

A cosmetic applicator includes a bottle and one or more sections that are removably attachable to one another in a stacked configuration. The bottle includes a reservoir, a first roller ball housing, a first fastener, and a first recess including a second fastener. Each section includes a receptacle, a second roller ball housing, a third fastener, and a second recess including a fourth fastener. The first recess removably receives the second roller ball housing. The second recess of a first section removably receives the second roller ball housing of a second section. The third fastener of a first section engages the second fastener of the bottle and the fourth fastener of a second section to allow connection of a section to the bottle and connection of the sections to each other, thereby enabling attachment of the bottle and the sections to one another in an interchangeably stacked configuration.

The present invention relates to the field of floor treatment machines for scrubbing, polishing, sanding or burnishing floors. In these machines one or more driven rotatable work heads (such as scrubbing brushes) are provided for agitating the floor surface. There is provided a walk-behind floor treatment machine comprising: a base portion provided with and supported by at least one rotatable work head for treating the floor, a handle portion for steering or guiding the machine along a working direction of travel and adapted to be pivotable with respect to the base portion, drive means for rotating the work head with respect to the base portion, floor-engaging wheel means for supporting the handle portion, the wheel means having a substantially transverse axis of rotation so as to permit travel in the working direction, the wheel means being coupled to the base portion by a linkage which permits vertical travel of the base portion and associated work head or heads with respect to the wheel means, but which provides transverse constraint to limit or prevent yawing of the base portion with respect to the wheel means, wherein a lower region of the handle portion is pivotably connected to the wheel means via an articulated joint, the arrangement being such that the handle portion may be manipulated to act on the wheel means so as to yaw steer the wheel means about a yaw axis defined by the floor-engaging contact of the wheel means, the yawing of the wheel means causing the base portion to yaw in response to yaw steering, and wherein a handle pivot lock mechanism is provided in which the adoption of a predetermined handle portion orientation permits one or more locking feature to act on one or more corresponding constraint feature so as to prevent pivoting movement of the handle portion with respect to the base portion. The predetermined handle orientation may be a vertical orientation. In the predetermined orientation the locking feature becomes aligned with the constraint feature so as to permit mutual engagement, and when the orientation is not achieved misalignment prevents engagement of the features.

A transmission arrangement (113) comprising a first axle (24) that is rotatable about a first axis (33) and is connected to a first pulley (25) that is arranged to drive an endless power transferring means (26) that further is adapted to drive a second pulley (27) that is rotatable about a second axis (34), where the transmission arrangement (113) comprises a first idle pulley (101) and a second idle pulley (102) which both are adapted to guide the endless power transferring means (26), where the first idle pulley (101) is rotatable around a first idle pulley axis (103) and the second idle pulley (102) is rotatable around a second idle pulley axis (104), where the distance between the idle pulley axes (103, 104) is fixed and where the idle pulley axes (103, 104) are pivotable around a common pivot axis (105), wherein the first pulley (25) is positioned between the idle pulleys (101, 102) and the second pulley (27) such that a distance between any one of the idle pulley axes (103, 104) and the second axis (34) exceeds a distance between any one of the idle pulley axes (103,104) and the first axis (33).

The invention provides an article of manufacture useful for simultaneously maintaining, cleaning and polishing hard surfaces comprising independently a driver element (non-woven web) having a central opening and one or more equidistant or non-equidistant openings therein and polishing inserts elements disposed in said equidistant or non-equidistant openings, wherein said article upon cleaning and polishing a surface provides a consistent and improved surface smoothness and reflected image quality. The invention also provides a kit for cleaning and polishing hard surfaces comprising: (a) a driver element having a central opening and one or more equidistant or non-equidistant openings; (b) polishing inserts elements for said driver element having equidistant or non-equidistant openings; and wherein said kit provides said hard surface with a consistent and improved surface smoothness and reflected image quality.

The invention provides an article of manufacture useful for simultaneously maintaining, cleaning and polishing hard surfaces comprising independently a driver element (non-woven web) having a central opening and one or more equidistant or non-equidistant openings therein and polishing inserts elements disposed in said equidistant or non-equidistant openings, wherein said article upon cleaning and polishing a surface provides a consistent and improved surface smoothness and reflected image quality. The invention also provides a kit for cleaning and polishing hard surfaces comprising: (a) a driver element having a central opening and one or more equidistant or non-equidistant openings; (b) polishing inserts elements for said driver element having equidistant or non-equidistant openings; and wherein said kit provides said hard surface with a consistent and improved surface smoothness and reflected image quality.