	US 7,516,508 B2
	Motorized cleaning implement
A. Bryon Stackpole, Jr., Mason, Ohio (US); Thomas George Crowe, Lawrenceburg, Ind. (US); Matthew Lloyd Newman, Lawrenceburg, Ind. (US); Ramona Zenkich, Mt. Lookout, Ohio (US); Tracey Ann Wurzelbacher, Hamilton, Ohio (US); Eric Young Park, Portland, Oreg. (US); Ildefonso Mendoza Resuello, Jr., Portland, Oreg. (US); and David John Sayler, Portland, Oreg. (US)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio (US)
Filed on Mar. 02, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/70,145.
Application 11/070145 is a continuation in part of application No. 10/934875, filed on Sep. 03, 2004.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/636432, filed on Dec. 15, 2004.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/572146, filed on May 18, 2004.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/499851, filed on Sep. 03, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2006/0059639 A1, Mar. 23, 2006
Int. Cl. A47L 11/02 (2006.01); A47L 11/12 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 15—97.1 [15/98; 15/49.1]

26 Claims

1. A motorized cleaning implement for cleaning a surface comprising:

a substantially deformable bumper pad for retaining a cleaning substrate, said bumper pad having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a thickness;

a motor for causing said bumper pad to move relative to said motor in a reciprocating motion, wherein said motor is operably connected to said bumper pad; and

a disposable cleaning substrate removably connected to at least a portion of said bumper pad; said bumer pad comprising weakness means for facilitating the deformation of said bumper pad, wherein said weakness means extend through at least a portion of the thickness of said bumper pad from said top surface or said bottom surface, said weakness means being selected from the group consisting of slits made through a portion of the thickness of said bumper pad from said top or bottom surface, slits made through the whole thickness of said bumper pad, cavities made on said top or bottom surface of said bumper pad, openings extending through the entire thickness of said bumper pad, and any combination thereof.