Domestic cleaning apparatus

Claim 1

Portable apparatus for cleaning venetian blinds or the like, comprising a housing adapted to be hand-held, a pair of contiguously-mounted slat-cleaning elements mounted on rotatable hollow shafts projecting from the housing, said shafts being free at their ends remote from said housing, an electrically-operated motor mounted in said housing and coupled to rotate said shafts, a reservoir formed in the housing for storing cleaning liquid and having an outlet port, conduit means coupling said outlet port with the hollow interior of said shafts, and means forming perforations in the walls of said shafts in the region thereof mounting said slat-cleaning elements, to permit said cleaning elements to receive cleaning liquid, there being a plurality of said perforations spaced apart lengthwise along each said hollow shaft, the portions of said elements which are external to the housing being free of mechanical interconnections to permit the apparatus to engage a slat to be cleaned by movement of the apparatus laterally with respect to the slat so that opposite sides of a slat are engaged simultaneously by said elements.