A surface cleaning apparatus adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus can dock within a storage tray and charge a power supply. Electrical contacts on the surface cleaning apparatus and the storage tray can be shielded when the surface cleaning apparatus is not docked within the storage tray. Furthermore, the storage tray can include a reservoir for a self-cleaning mode.

A surface cleaning apparatus adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus can dock within a storage tray and charge a power supply. Electrical contacts on the surface cleaning apparatus and the storage tray can be shielded when the surface cleaning apparatus is not docked within the storage tray. Furthermore, the storage tray can include a reservoir for a self-cleaning mode.

A surface cleaning apparatus adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus can dock within a storage tray and charge a power supply. Electrical contacts on the surface cleaning apparatus and the storage tray can be shielded when the surface cleaning apparatus is not docked within the storage tray. Furthermore, the storage tray can include a reservoir for a self-cleaning mode.

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 surface cleaning apparatus includes a controller coupled to a sensor or a set of sensors that collects and transmits data to a remote computing device. The surface cleaning apparatus can use wireless or networking technology with a protocol for wireless communication with the remote computing device. The remote computing device is configured to identify an event at the surface cleaning apparatus and/or a change in the cycle of operation of the surface cleaning apparatus based on the transmitted data. Sensor data can be transmitted from the remote computing device to a different surface cleaning apparatus.

The present invention provides a handheld sweeping and mopping structure, comprising a handle and a body shell, wherein a sweeping and mopping module, a water tank module, a driving module, a garbage collection module, a control module and a power supply module are provided inside the body shell. The handheld sweeping and mopping structure of the present invention can sweep the floor and also mop the floor, has higher efficiency and better effect than the conventional sweeping and mopping mode; and meanwhile, a disposable garbage box which is convenient to replace is used, and it is unnecessary to clean the garbage box repeatedly.

Implementations of a floor cleaning machine are provided. The floor cleaning machine is adapted to mop floors (e.g., tile, linoleum, concrete, and like floors) and comprises: a wheeled carriage assembly having a push handle; and a mop assembly that includes an endless mop belt, moistened with a cleaning solution, that can be driven through a cleaning circuit during which the underlying floor is mopped. The floor cleaning machine is configured so that rotation of at least one wheel of the wheeled carriage assembly drives the endless mop belt through the cleaning circuit. In some implementations, the mop assembly is configured to wring out the endless mop belt as it is driven through its cleaning circuit and the floor cleaning machine further comprises a filtration and recirculation system configured to moisten the endless mop belt and collect cleaning solution wrung from the endless mop belt by the mop assembly.

Implementations of a floor cleaning machine are provided. The floor cleaning machine is adapted to mop floors (e.g., tile, linoleum, concrete, and like floors) and comprises: a wheeled carriage assembly having a push handle; and a mop assembly that includes an endless mop belt, moistened with a cleaning solution, that can be driven through a cleaning circuit during which the underlying floor is mopped. The floor cleaning machine is configured so that rotation of at least one wheel of the wheeled carriage assembly drives the endless mop belt through the cleaning circuit. In some implementations, the mop assembly is configured to wring out the endless mop belt as it is driven through its cleaning circuit and the floor cleaning machine further comprises a filtration and recirculation system configured to moisten the endless mop belt and collect cleaning solution wrung from the endless mop belt by the mop assembly.

A floor cleaning apparatus comprises a handle having a proximal end and a distal end; a housing at the distal end of the handle; a plurality of wheels at a bottom of the housing that rotate relative to the housing when a force is applied to the handle; a plurality of interchangeable and removable surface-cleaning rollers at the housing that rotate relative to the housing and the wheels, and that rotate at a different rate of rotation than the wheels; and a gear assembly that communicates with the wheels to rotate adjacent surface-cleaning rollers in different directions relative to each other to mimic a scrubbing motion.

A sponge roller, a cleaning roller assembly, and a floor cleaner. The sponge roller includes an outer layer and an inner layer. The outer layer is sleeved on the inner layer; the inner layer is made of non-absorbent sponge, and the outer layer is made of absorbent sponge. The sponge roller can be made with a large thickness, thus improving the cleaning capacity of the cleaner. The water is mainly stored in the outer layer, so it can be squeezed out without the exertion of much more external force, and thus the resistance against the rotation of the sponge roller is negligible, thus saving the energy consumption.