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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
May. 06, 1997
Masato Suzuki, Miyakoda, JP;
Amano Corporation, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Abstract
A squeegee assembly to be used in a floor surface cleaning machine having an elongated squeegee body, a pair of flexible front and rear blades forwardly/backwardly spacedly arranged in parallel relation on the squeegee body, and a blower for applying a sucking function to an interval between the pair of flexible blades so that a dirty liquid gathered by the pair of flexible blades is sucked up from a floor surface for collection, the squeegee assembly being characterized in that a floor contact surface of the flexible front blade in a progressing direction of the cleaning machine is formed in a serrated configuration by continuously arranging generally triangular blade surfaces in a longitudinal direction.