Diversey, Inc.

Thomas Tement

Dieter Windmeisser

Thomas Bahr

Markus Stofer

Markus Müller

Laurent Ryssen

Martin Forster

Andrew M Bober

Alfred Adolf Widmer

Mehmet Avci

Pedro Manuel Esteves Lopes

An apparatus for cleaning a floor includes a housing, chassis, wheels, motor, steering mechanism, cleaning assembly, optionally a squeegee assembly, and at least one of a side sweeping system, front sweeping system, and pick-up system. The side sweeping system includes a turntable with central axis, a drive wheel disposed in coaxial relationship with the turntable, a sweeper motive device in communication with the drive wheel, a plurality of brushes distributed radially around the drive wheel and adapted to be driven by rotation of the drive wheel, and a pivoting connector configured to enable the side sweeping system to pivot laterally in response to contact with a wall while at least one of the brushes maintains contact with the floor adjacent the wall while the apparatus is in operation, and the brushes move debris disposed on the floor adjacent the wall toward the front of the apparatus.

Floor cleaning apparatus and method of cleaning a floor

A mop includes a first section having a first side, a second section having a second side, and an embedded, semi-permeable layer disposed between the first and second sections to manage an amount of liquid flowing from the first side to the second side.

Double-sided mop

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Widnau, Switzerland

Thomas Tement