June 26, 2007

There is disclosed a cleaning article including a brush portion. The brush portion has a plurality of strips and at least one layer of a fiber bundle.

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11/018,075

December 20, 2004

15/229.3   15/209.1 15/226 15/227 15/229.1

A47L   13/12   (20060101)   A47L   13/20   (20060101)   A47L   13/38   (20060101)  

This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/957,552 filed on Oct. 1, 2004, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/070,928 filed on Mar. 8, 2002 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,813,801, which in turn claims the benefit of PCT application Ser. No. PCT/JP01/05840 filed on Jul. 5, 2001, which in turn claims the benefit of Japanese Application Nos. 2000-208756 filed on Jul. 10, 2000 and 2001-113750 filed on Apr. 12, 2001. The PCT/JP01/05840 was published as WO 02/03846 on Jan. 17, 2002. The Japanese priority applications identified above are incorporated herein by reference.

Jul 10, 2000 [JP] 2000-208756 Apr 12, 2001 [JP] 2001-113750

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