Rotary segmented floor stripping pad

A floor stripping pad for stripping wax from a floor comprising:

• a plurality of planar, polygonal, symmetrical, pad segments,
• each pad segment having a thickness “T”,
• each pad segment comprising an open textured, non-woven polymer fiber material,
• said plurality of pad segments being secured together in partially overlapping circumferential relation to form an annular segmented pad having an upper stripping surface configured to engage a floor in its entirety and also having an opposed lower stripping surface configured to engage said floor in its entirety,
• each pair of adjacent pad segments having overlapping side edge portions which are secured together, between said each pair of adjacent pad segments, along an attachment line extending in a radial direction between a radially inner most edge of each pair of adjacent pad segments to a radially outer most edge of each pair of adjacent pad segments, said radially inner most edges being exposed,
• said overlapping side edge portions and said thickness “T” of each of said pad segments cooperating such that each pad segment is disposed at an angle to said floor and presents a radially extending, angled leading cutting edge forward of said attachment line for engagement with said floor in a direction of rotation on each of said upper and lower stripping surfaces, and further such that said annular segmented pad is reversible with said upper and lower stripping surfaces being useful in the same direction of rotation,
• said angled leading cutting edges of each pair of adjacent pad segments further forming a radially extending fluid flow channel therebetween in which stripping fluid and dissolved stripped wax is centrifugally pushed radially outward during rotation about an axis on said floor.