A double-handle mop includes a floor cleaning apparatus, a support shaft, a bend shaft, and a handle. The support and bend shaft are collectively optimized leverage to apply pressure to clean floors, without having to bend over. The bend shaft includes a first elongated section, a second elongated section, and a bend section as the bend shaft is formed into a V-shaped body. The first elongated section is terminally connected to a first shaft end of the support shaft. The second elongated section is terminally connected to a second shaft end of the support shaft. The first and second elongated sections are terminally connected to each other by the bend section, opposite the support shaft. The first shaft end is concentrically mounted with an extension tube of the floor cleaning apparatus. The second shaft end is adjacently connected with the handle that engages with the user.

A double-handle mop includes a floor cleaning apparatus, a support shaft, a bend shaft, and a handle. The support and bend shaft are collectively optimized leverage to apply pressure to clean floors, without having to bend over. The bend shaft includes a first elongated section, a second elongated section, and a bend section as the bend shaft is formed into a V-shaped body. The first elongated section is terminally connected to a first shaft end of the support shaft. The second elongated section is terminally connected to a second shaft end of the support shaft. The first and second elongated sections are terminally connected to each other by the bend section, opposite the support shaft. The first shaft end is concentrically mounted with an extension tube of the floor cleaning apparatus. The second shaft end is adjacently connected with the handle that engages with the user.

A mop base assembly includes a mop base and a sorbent pad. The mop base has a center portion with arms extending outward therefrom in which each of the arms have a hook member. The sorbent pad has attachment sections formed therein. Each of the attachment sections are receivable within a respective hook member of the mop base in order to attach the sorbent pad to the mop base.

A mop base assembly includes a mop base and a sorbent pad. The mop base has a center portion with arms extending outward therefrom in which each of the arms have a hook member. The sorbent pad has attachment sections formed therein. Each of the attachment sections are receivable within a respective hook member of the mop base in order to attach the sorbent pad to the mop base.

A cleaning device is provided that includes a handle, a cleaning implement, a flexible neck, and a collar. The cleaning implement depends from one end the handle. The flexible neck is positioned to allow flexion of the handle. The collar moves with respect to the flexible neck between a first position where movement of the flexible neck is unrestricted by the collar and a second position where movement of the flexible neck is restricted by the collar.

A cleaning device is provided that includes a handle, a cleaning implement, a flexible neck, and a collar. The cleaning implement depends from one end the handle. The flexible neck is positioned to allow flexion of the handle. The collar moves with respect to the flexible neck between a first position where movement of the flexible neck is unrestricted by the collar and a second position where movement of the flexible neck is restricted by the collar.

A self-wringing foam cotton mop includes a mop rod and a foam cotton head connected to a bottom end of the mop rod. A wringing frame is disposed on the mop rod. During mopping, the foam cotton head is separated from the wringing frame. A squeezing mechanism capable is disposed on the wringing frame. The position of the squeezing mechanism when the foam cotton head is moved up relative to the wringing frame is different from the position of the squeezing mechanism when the foam cotton head is moved down relative to the wringing frame, and a first amount of deformation generated by the foam cotton head during an upward movement of the foam cotton head relative to the wringing frame is greater than the second amount of deformation generated by the foam cotton head during a downward movement of the foam cotton head relative to the wringing frame.

A squeeze mop comprises a mop head having a central head region secured relative to a handle and a pair of cleaning pad supports which are pivotally located relative to the central head region and movable towards one another to compress the cleaning pad material therebetween, the mop head further comprising biasing means to rotate the two pad supports away from the position at which the cleaning pad material is compressed between the pad supports, said biasing means comprising an elongate elastomeric element the two ends of which are secured to a respective one of the two cleaning pad supports and wherein the head region comprises a platform section for engagement by the elastomeric element, said platform section being located closer to the handle than the at least one position about which the pad supports are pivotally located relative to the head region.

A cleaning implement includes a body made of a porous material, with the body including a top surface and a bottom surface on opposite sides of the body, a first side surface and a second side surface on opposite sides of the body, and a first end surface and a second end surface on opposite sides of the body. The body also includes segments defined by one or more lengthwise cuts formed in one of the top and bottom surfaces, with each of the one or more lengthwise cuts extending only partially into the body in the thickness direction, and extending in the length direction from the first end surface to the second end surface.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a mop assembly that collects falling liquids from a mop head while the mop head is oriented towards a ceiling. The assembly includes a collection bucket, the collection bucket having one or more sides and a base forming a cavity with an opening, the base having an aperture, a mop handle having a first end, the mop handle passing through the aperture, the opening of the collection bucket oriented towards the first end, and a mop head in communication with the first end, the mop head extending beyond the cavity.