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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Erich Moritsch, Plochingen, DE;
Gilles Troff, Stuttgart, DE;
Assignee:
Alfred Karcher GmbH & Co., Winnenden, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
15320 ; 15339 ; 15353 ; 15385 ;
Abstract
In order to construct a traveling floor cleaning appliance, which has a cleaning tool engaging on a floor surface, a cleaning liquid tank as well as a dirty liquid container and a suction unit for taking up a cleaning liquid sprayed on the floor surface and transferring it into the dirty liquid container, in such a manner that its design is simplified and its weight reduced it is suggested that the cleaning liquid tank be constructed as a one-piece, closed hollow body consisting of plastic and that the dirty liquid container be designed in the form of a double-walled receptacle of the hollow body.