Molded cleaning device with a squeegee
AssigneeQuickie Manufacturing Corporation
InventorJace Alan Weaver
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Abstract
A cleaning device and a method of manufacturing a cleaning device are provided. The method may include molding a squeegee blade out of a first material, providing a mold insert including a slot, providing a mold including a mold cavity, placing a first portion of the molded squeegee blade into the slot of the mold insert with a second portion of the molded squeegee blade exposed externally of the mold insert, placing the mold insert with the molded squeegee blade therein into the mold cavity, and subsequently molding a head member of the cleaning device, out of a second material of greater hardness than said first material, to the second portion of said previously molded squeegee blade by adding the second material to the mold cavity.
Claims11
A method of manufacturing a cleaning device, the method comprising:
- molding a squeegee blade out of a first material;
- providing a mold insert including a slot;
- providing a mold including a mold cavity;
- placing a first portion of the molded squeegee blade into the slot of the mold insert with a second portion of the molded squeegee blade exposed externally of the mold insert;
- placing the mold insert with the molded squeegee blade therein into the mold cavity;
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- subsequently molding a head member of the cleaning device, out of a second material of greater hardness than said first material, to the second portion of said previously molded squeegee blade by adding the second material to the mold cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.