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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1997
Masato Suzuki, Miyakoda, JP;
Amano Corporation, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A squeegee assembly which includes a laterally elongated cover body, one pair of flexible front and rear blades forwardly/backwardly spacedly arranged in parallel relation on the cover body, and a blower for applying a sucking function to an interval between the pair of blades so that a dirty liquid gathered by the one pair of flexible blades is sucked up from a floor surface for collection, wherein a lower side portion of the front side flexible blade is bent horizontally towards the rear side flexible blade thereby to form a contacting surface, a distal end side thereof is raised such that a small opposing space is formed between the rear side flexible blade and the front side flexible blade and secured to the cover body side, thereby defining a suction chamber, on which the sucking force of the blower is prevailed, at a lower side of the cover body, a plurality of concave or wedge-shaped guide grooves are formed in a bottom surface of the horizontally bent contacting surface, and a dirty liquid sucking cavity for intercommunicating the suction chamber and the opposing space is formed in a surface of the raised portion.