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US 7,566,671 B2Granted
Cleaning or dusting pad
AssigneeS.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
InventorsDavid A. Hoadley, Ralph Schwarz
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Abstract
A cleaning pad 28 is disclosed. The cleaning pad 28 includes a cleaning pad that includes a combination of fibers 203 bonded to a base sheet 402 such that 100% of the fibers are bonded to the base sheet 402 at a first joining location 407 and between 5-90% are bonded to the base sheet at a second joining location 444. The first and second joining locations may take a variety of forms such as discrete points, points on a line, or sections of a line.
Claims42
A cleaning pad comprising:
- a base sheet;
- a retaining sheet bonded to one side of the base sheet by a central bonding line and a plurality of spot bonds to form two sleeves for receiving attachment members of a cleaning tool;
- and
- a fiber bundle bonded to the side of the base sheet opposite the retaining sheet by the central bonding line and the plurality of spot bonds.
1 more element
A cleaning pad comprising:
- a nonwoven sheet;
- a fiber bundle;
- and
- a retaining sheet;
- wherein the fibers in the fiber bundle are bonded to the nonwoven sheet at a joining line and between 5-90% of the fibers in the fiber bundle are bonded to the nonwoven sheet at at least one spot bond;
- and
- wherein the retaining sheet is attached to the nonwoven sheet by the joining line and at least one spot bond.
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A cleaning pad comprising:
- fiber bundles attached to a nonwoven sheet by a plurality of spot bonds wherein the length of a fiber from a binding site to a free end of a fiber bundle differs from a length of a fiber in an adjacent fiber bundle, and
- a retaining sheet attached to the nonwoven sheet by the spot bonds on one side of the nonwoven sheet opposite the fiber bundles.
A cleaning pad comprising:
- a base sheet;
- a retaining sheet bonded to one side of the base sheet by a plurality of spot bonds defining a portion of a sleeve for receiving an attachment member of a cleaning tool;
- and
- a fiber bundle connected to the base sheet by the spot bonds.
1 more element
A cleaning pad comprising:
- a base sheet;
- a retaining sheet attached to one side of the base sheet by a plurality of spot bonds forming at least a portion of a sleeve for receiving an attachment member of a cleaning tool and
- a fiber bundle comprising a first set of fibers bonded to a base sheet only by a central bonding line and a second set of fibers bonded to the base sheet by the central bonding line and at least one of the plurality of spot bonds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.