Abstract: A cleaning implement for spot cleaning a surface includes a cleaning block having a plurality of sides and edges, and is preferably a cube. One or more elongated cleaning strips each have an outside surface, an inside surface, a first end, and an opposing second end. A fastening mechanism is adapted for fixing the first end to the second end, around the cleaning block. Each cleaning strip includes, on at least the outside surface thereof but preferably also on the inside surface thereof, a wear indicator positioned for each side of the cleaning block over which the cleaning strip is attached. Spot cleaning the surface using a side with one of the wear indicators causes the wear indicator to change visually. As such, with each cleaning strip fastened around the cleaning block, the cleaning block may be grasped and used to spot clean the surface.

Abstract: A fan blade cleaning assembly for cleaning a ceiling fan blade includes a sleeve that is elongated for sliding onto a ceiling fan blade. A plurality of brushes is each coupled to the sleeve and each of the brushes is positioned within the sleeve. In this way each of the brushes can clean the ceiling fan blade when the sleeve is slid thereon. Moreover, the plurality of brushes is strategically positioned to clean a top surface and a bottom surface of the ceiling fan blade. A hose is fluidly coupled to the sleeve and the hose can be fluidly coupled to a vacuum source to facilitate the vacuum source to remove the dust and debris from the sleeve.

Abstract: A buffing and polishing member has an uncompressed monolithic body of foam material having slits from an outside surface toward and less than a distance to a rotational axis of the body. The slits, on circumferential spaced planes, extend generally radially from the outside surface toward and less than a distance to the rotational axis to define a plurality of foam fingers and an unslit center portion. A fastening mechanism holds the center portion of the slit foam body in a compressed state along the rotational axis such that the uncompressed outer ends of the foam finger define a spherocylinder.

Abstract: An applicator mounted on a hand T-bar tool has a split tube removably supported on the bar of the tool and a coating material applying sleeve secured to the tube. The tube and sleeve have upwardly and inwardly inclined opposite ends with bottom lips for applying coating materials and liquids to a floor adjacent a side wall.

Abstract: A floor coating application device with a rigid body having attached thereto a removable applicator and a removable weight system. The rigid body having a planar surface with radial edges to facilitate the uniform application of a coating material to a surface. The removable applicator being a material suitable for uniformly spreading a coating material without flaws or shedding and attached to the rigid body in such a manner as to minimize the wicking of coating material through the applicator. The removable weight system capable of providing a consistent force against the rigid body to improve the uniformity of coating thicknesses. The floor coating application device is used to spread coating material with a handle connected to the rigid body or a mechanical coating device.

Abstract: The floor treating device includes a tubular sheepskin sleeve telescoped over a single-piece rectangular wooden block having a bottom side and top side. A handle is threaded into an opening on the top side and passed through an opening in the sleeve. The sleeve is formed from a sheepskin blank or a fur including a base fabric and a dense woven pile of soft fibers to define the outer nap. The inner opening of the sleeve is slightly greater than the block. A top thin member a bottom member with the dense woven pile is superimposed and have the longitudinal edges which are sewn together to form the sleeve. A pair of scrap sheepskin blanks cover on the bottom of the head having the opposed longitudinal edges sewn together to form the sleeve. The sewn seam extends outwardly or inwardly into engagement with the head. One end of the sleeve edges may have the end sewn together to again form a closed end.

Abstract: The floor treating device includes a tubular sheepskin sleeve telescoped over a single piece wooden head having a bottom side and a top side. A handle is threaded into an opening on the top side and passed through an opening in the sleeve. The sleeve is formed from sheepskin blanks of a length of the head length and is formed from a sheepskin blank having a width greater than the bottom side of the head. A single blank has opposed longitudinal edges which are sewn together to form the sleeve. A pair of scrap sheepskin blanks cover on the bottom of the head have the opposed longitudinal edges sewn together to form the sleeve. The sewn seam extends outwardly or inwardly into engagement with the head. One end of the sleeve edges may have the end sewn together to again form a closed end. The sleeve is formed of a tanned sheepskin with the nap exposed for engagement with the floor, and the skin engaging the head, and has a reasonably firm fit to the head.

Abstract: A cleaning tool includes a fleece covering and support structures which both supported by a handle. The fleece material is sewn into a hollow cylinder and then turned inside out. A foam structure surrounds the upper end of the handle as it extends into the hollow fleece cylinder. A foam plug lies within the foam structure and cushions the upper end of the handle against the inside of the fleece material. Near the point of entry of the handle into the foam structure, the fleece material is attached to the handle to hold the cleaning tool together. Various shapes of cleaning tool can be formed with the overall outer shape of the fleece dependent upon both the cutting and sewing of the fleece material, as well as the shape of the supporting foam material.

Abstract: A cloth covered sponge mop for cleaning, waxing polishing or drying a motor vehicle which includes a sponge element, a handle with a protective guard, a connecting plate for connecting the sponge element to the handle, and a fabric cover (made of materials such as natural or synthetic sheepskin, terry cloth, or chamois, depending on the activity) entirely enclosing the said sponge element and the connecting plate. The fabric cover element includes an insertion aperture and a closure element, such as Velcro.RTM., for joining the periphery of the aperture and completely enclosing the sponge element and the connecting plate with non-metallic components.

Abstract: An elastic sheet having many kinds of shapes is secured upon the surface of a roller so as to form a combination roller which can create a painted pattern when the roller is rotated such that the paint is thrown onto a surface to be painted by means of centrifugal force whereby the spray splashed thereby creates a pattern. A pattern having different thicknesses of paints and widths of lines can thus be created as a unit of a predetermined repetitive pattern.

Abstract: A decorating tool (1) suitable for creating a broken pattern in e.g. flowable paint, varnish or glazes to simulate for example ragging, sponging and rag-rolling effects. The tool (1) comprises flexible flaps (6a and 6b) attached to a roller (2) so that when the roller (2) is rolled across a coat of paint etc, the flaps (6a, 6b) strike the paint and create the broken pattern. The tool may be used to distress the coating whereupon flaps (6a, b 6b) are preferably made from sheepskin or chamois leather. Also a method for creating a broken pattern by use of the roller (2), especially use of the roller to create a broken pattern in a paint, varnish or glaze containing an additive to retard drying.

Abstract: An apparatus for wet cleaning in particular window panes includes an elongated carrier for a removable, fur-like cleaning body surrounding said carrier and a shaft-like handle being mounted at said carrier rectangularly thereto. The cleaning body has an outer cover with a longitudinal slot by means of which it can be applied to the carrier. This apparatus is superior as compared with the known apparatuses in that a holder is secured to the front end of the handle which has at each of its ends short threaded pins, two elongated arms being screwed onto the threaded pins which forms, together with the holder, the carrier for the cleaning body which is open at both ends. The longitudinal slot in the outer cover of the cleaning body is associated with the holder and comprises a length corresponding to that of the holder together with a threaded pin.

Abstract: A portable ceiling fan blade cleaning device, consisting of a solid frame configured to form an elongated orifice with one terminal end of the frame downwardly extending to juncture with a device extension. A second terminal end of the frame allows a cleaning cloth to be disposed onto the frame such that as the ceiling fan blades slides traversely through the elongated orifice of the frame, the environmental surfaces of the ceiling fan blade are cleaned by the surface application of the cleaning cloth to the surfaces of the ceiling fan blade.

Abstract: A rod-shaped member comprises a respective cleaning wick projecting from the member at each of its two ends, the cleaning wicks extending out of a pin-shaped member end at the one end and being guided in a hollow-cylindrically shaped member end at the other and being bent around a free edge of the latter member end. While crushing the projecting wick, the one end can be introduced into socket-shaped LWG plug connector parts and therefore serves for cleaning LWG end faces ending in depressions, whereby, given suitable dimensioning, a pin-shaped LWG plug connector part can be inserted into the hollow-cylindrically fashioned member end and can be turned therein. Thus, a light waveguide end face at the free end of the plug connector part can be cleaned together with and at the same time as the outside surface of the pin-shaped plug connector part with the same tool.

Abstract: An improved cleaning-and washing-pad material, which pad material comprises in combination: a soft natural or synthetic shearling sheet material forming one surface of the pad material and a tough, nylon-mesh material forming the other surface of the pad, the shearling material and the nylon material sewed together about the peripheral edges to form a cavity therein; and a soft, resilient, substantially open-cell, polyurethane or cellulose sponge material loosely inserted within the hollow cavity to provide body and bulk to the pad, whereby the improved cleaning- and washing-pad material presents a soft water-absorbent surface for washing and a tough scrubbing surface for cleaning purposes.