Multiple layer surface working pads

Claim 2

For use with a floor maintenance machine having a floor pad driving arbor, a pad support plate mounted on said arbor and means for attaching a floor pad to said support plate, a composite floor pad comprising a stack of individual floor pads and interposed between opposing floor pad surfaces in said stack, relatively thin pieces of adhering material, the opposite faces of which have a multitude of hooking elements which penetrate the surfaces of floor pads and releasably secure one individual pad to another in supporting drawing relationship.

Claim 3

In an apparatus adapted for scrubbing, stripping, buffing or polishing and comprising a driven working member which includes an axially extending shaft, a plane-faced support member fixed with respect to said shaft and substantially perpendicular to said shaft, and having pad means for working a surface fixed with respect to said support plate, the improvement wherein said pad means comprises a plurality of separate pads formed of uniform, lofty, open, non-woven, three-dimensional material formed of many interlaced randomly extending, flexible, durable, tough, resilient fibers, and wherein the plurality of pads is arranged in a stacked array in which each of said pads is adhered to a next adjacent pad by respective adhering means including a relatively thin carrier and a plurality of oppositely facing providing a multitude of projecting tiny hooked-shaped elements for engaging said fibers.

Claim 4

In an apparatus adapted for scrubbing, stripping, buffing or polishing and comprising a driven working member which includes an axially extending shaft, a plane-faced support member fixed with respect to said shaft and substantially perpendicular to said shaft, and having pad means for working a surface fixed with respect to said support plate, the improvement wherein said pad means comprises a plurality of separate pads formed of uniform, lofty, open, non-woven, three-dimensional material formed of many interlaced randomly extending, flexible, durable, tough, resilient fibers, and wherein the plurality of pads is arranged in a stacked array in which each of said pads is adhered to a next adjacent pad by respective adhering means including a relatively thin carrier and a plurality of oppositely facing providing a multitude of projecting tiny hooked-shaped elements for engaging said fibers.

Claim 5

A pad holder comprising a thin circular flexible carrier having two sides and having a circular opening at the center thereof, and having a plurality of substantially uniformly spaced-apart adhering members on each of said sides thereof, and wherein each of said adhering members includes a flexible support material providing a multitude of projecting tiny hooking filaments projecting from the exposed surfaces thereof, wherein reSpective adhering members on one side of said carrier disc are back-to-back with respect to respective adhering members on the other side of said carrier disc, to provide a plurality of oppositely facing pairs of adhering members, and wherein each respective pair is maintained attached to the carrier and together by a staple.

Claim 6

A pad holder comprising a thin circular flexible carrier having two sides and having a circular opening at the center thereof, and having a plurality of substantially uniformly spaced-apart adhering members on each of said sides thereof, and wherein each of said adhering members includes a flexible support material providing a multitude of projecting tiny hooking filaments projecting from the exposed surfaces thereof, wherein reSpective adhering members on one side of said carrier disc are back-to-back with respect to respective adhering members on the other side of said carrier disc, to provide a plurality of oppositely facing pairs of adhering members, and wherein each respective pair is maintained attached to the carrier and together by a staple.

Claim 7

A pad holder comprising a thin circular flexible carrier having two sides and having a circular opening at the center thereof, and having a plurality of substantially uniformly spaced-apart adhering members on each of said sides thereof, and wherein each of said adhering members includes a flexible support material providing a multitude of projecting tiny hooking filaments projecting from the exposed surfaces thereof, wherein respective adhering members on one side of said carrier disc are back-to-back with respect to respective adhering members on the other side of said carrier disc, to provide a plurality of oppositely facing pairs of adhering members, and wherein each respective pair is maintained attached to the carrier.

Claim 8

A pad holder comprising a thin circular flexible carrier having two sides and having a circular opening at the center thereof, and having a plurality of substantially uniformly spaced-apart adhering members on each of said sides thereof, and wherein each of said adhering members includes a flexible support material providing a multitude of projecting tiny hooking filaments projecting from the exposed surfaces thereof, wherein respective adhering members on one side of said carrier disc are back-to-back with respect to respective adhering members on the other side of said carrier disc, to provide a plurality of oppositely facing pairs of adhering members, and wherein each respective pair is maintained attached to the carrier.