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A mop (before 1996 mop , plural: mop) is a device for damp cleaning of smooth floors . It combines the operation of a dry mops , which alone loose dust and lint binds with the wet floor cleaning by scrubbing brush and Feudel (cloths), the adherent on the ground dirt particles dissolved by water.
Jacob Howe of Worcester (Massachusetts) patented a mop with a handle as early as 1837 . The entrepreneur Manuel Jalón Corominas from the Spanish province of La Rioja received a patent for a mop with a conical wringer in the 1950s. In 1956 his product appeared on the Spanish market under the name Fregona (from fregar , to German wipe ).
variants
Two different types of device are currently available under the name:
Damp mop
Modern devices consist of a flat base plate for pulling on a cleaning cover fitted with fringes or loops, which is attached to a handle with a double joint so that it can rotate freely. The cleaning cover is moistened and can pick up dry dirt as well as dirt that sticks to the floor in continuous wiping movements. At the end of the cleaning process, the cover is removed and washed or disposed of. The width of the base plate and thus the cover varies from a few decimeters for private use to far more than a meter for commercial use (wide wiper).
Wet mop
Another design for use in private households was introduced in the mid-1980s under the brand name Wischmop . This consists of a tassel-like bundle of about 25 centimeters long strips of nonwoven or cotton that is attached to a handle without a joint. This device is used in combination with a special bucket , on the edge of which a basket-shaped wringer is placed. The mop is dipped into the bucket filled with water and cleaning agent and thus moistened. Then it is squeezed out in the wringer so that it receives the degree of moisture required for wiping. Depending on the strength of the wringing out, you can then apply a damp wipe or cleaning water to the cleaning surface to soak stubborn dirt. The absorbent fringes allow the water to be removed from the cleaning surface. The mop is then washed out in the bucket and can be wrung out again in the wringer. The wet mop is particularly suitable for quick, locally limited cleaning (e.g. wiping up spilled liquids) as well as for cleaning more heavily soiled floors, but has only a relatively small working width.
In larger rooms, especially in professional use, on the other hand, other systems are used, mostly the mop holder with fringed mop in connection with a mobile bucket and press, which also comply with frame hygiene plans .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden. Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
- ^ Jacob Howe, United States Patent Office: Patent US241 A - Construction op mop-heads and the mode of securing them upon handles. In: Google patent search. Google LLC, June 15, 1837, accessed January 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Procedimiento Ordinario 757/2007-B. (PDF; 3.26 MiB) In: fregona.es. Administracion De Justicia, November 6, 2008, accessed August 20, 2015 (Spanish).
- ↑ Brigitte Kramer: cloth on a stick. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 3, 2012, accessed on February 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Simpfendörfer / Klug: Housekeeping and Housekeeping. Dr. Felix Büchner Verlag, Hamburg 2003, p. 179 f.
- ↑ The Vileda mop: innovation and tradition of a classic. In: vileda.com. Freudenberg Home and Cleaning Solutions GmbH, accessed on January 7, 2018 .
- ↑ State working group: General hygiene plan for schools and other training institutions. (PDF; 402 KiB) (No longer available online.) In: hygieneinspektoren-rlp.de. Thuringian State Office for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, September 2001, archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; accessed on March 17, 2009 (sample framework hygiene plan).