“Clean Sweep”
Working with the Bona team the TricorBraun Design Group set out on what was to be a journey into the unknown: designing an entire mop. Using another popular disposable mop product as a measuring stick, Bona wanted an equal or better functioning product minus all the parts, pieces and production costs associated with the other mop product.
The first course of action was to journey out into the field with Kirk Francis from Bona. Kirk and David Snyder, with the TricorBraun Design team, traveled out to every local retailer that sold mops, vacuums or anything handle ware related. The new mop design had to be ergonomic, sleek, easy to use, and above all functional.
After sifting through dozens of different handle ware products, David sat down to come up with the new lines that would create this new “super mop.” Most mops out there had short plastic handles, stock metal cylinder tubes for stems and either just a floor pad or a floor pad and onboard reservoir. The key was to integrate all of the above while at the same time decrease the number of parts to reduce production cost.
Partnering up with Afa Polytek, the TricorBraun Design team combined our new super mop design with Afa’s proprietary pumping system to eject floor cleaning product from the onboard reservoir via an integrated trigger located near the end of the handle. Eliminating parts and pieces, this gave the new design not only an easier to use mop but less cost to produce and assemble product.
Concealing the stock looking metal shaft that most other mops had was an element we really wanted to bring to this design. Using a cool, clean lined, soft curved handle, we ran the new handle body two-thirds the length of the stock metal shaft to conceal it. This gave the consumer an extended, ergonomic “grab on with both hands mop” that allows and gives a more extended cleaning ability element to the design.
To finish off the custom design we integrated the new embossed floor plate and an onboard reservoir bottle insert cup. Using some of the same handles and integrated clean lines, we were able to aesthetically give the mop a finished looking, high-end custom feel.
One other element that was a key ingredient to the function of the mop was the hinge and how the mop head functioned together with the hinge. In our research, we found most mops out there had a restricted rotation to the mop head itself. Restricted rotation meant restricted cleaning ability. The TricorBraun Design team wanted this to be something new to the market; that is to come up with a hinge design that allowed for a full 360 degree rotating mop head that gave the end user a more extended ability to clean those more difficult areas to get at, such as corners, under couches etc. The new head design not only allows for a full rotation, but also allows the mop head to remain flat on the floor at any angle, in any direction, while rotating. This maximizes the mops ability to clean and gives the end user an easier to use product.
The mop is sold as a single unit with one replace bottle cartridge. Other cartridges are sold separately and cover a large range of different treatment products such as wood and tile.
The Bona Hardwood Floor mop won a package design award from Graphic Design USA magazine in the Structural/Technological Innovation category for its unsurpassed design.
“Clean Sweep”
Working with the Bona team the TricorBraun Design Group set out on what was to be a journey into the unknown: designing an entire mop. Using another popular disposable mop product as a measuring stick, Bona wanted an equal or better functioning product minus all the parts, pieces and production costs associated with the other mop product.
The first course of action was to journey out into the field with Kirk Francis from Bona. Kirk and David Snyder, with the TricorBraun Design team, traveled out to every local retailer that sold mops, vacuums or anything handle ware related. The new mop design had to be ergonomic, sleek, easy to use, and above all functional.
After sifting through dozens of different handle ware products, David sat down to come up with the new lines that would create this new “super mop.” Most mops out there had short plastic handles, stock metal cylinder tubes for stems and either just a floor pad or a floor pad and onboard reservoir. The key was to integrate all of the above while at the same time decrease the number of parts to reduce production cost.
Partnering up with Afa Polytek, the TricorBraun Design team combined our new super mop design with Afa’s proprietary pumping system to eject floor cleaning product from the onboard reservoir via an integrated trigger located near the end of the handle. Eliminating parts and pieces, this gave the new design not only an easier to use mop but less cost to produce and assemble product.
Concealing the stock looking metal shaft that most other mops had was an element we really wanted to bring to this design. Using a cool, clean lined, soft curved handle, we ran the new handle body two-thirds the length of the stock metal shaft to conceal it. This gave the consumer an extended, ergonomic “grab on with both hands mop” that allows and gives a more extended cleaning ability element to the design.
To finish off the custom design we integrated the new embossed floor plate and an onboard reservoir bottle insert cup. Using some of the same handles and integrated clean lines, we were able to aesthetically give the mop a finished looking, high-end custom feel.
One other element that was a key ingredient to the function of the mop was the hinge and how the mop head functioned together with the hinge. In our research, we found most mops out there had a restricted rotation to the mop head itself. Restricted rotation meant restricted cleaning ability. The TricorBraun Design team wanted this to be something new to the market; that is to come up with a hinge design that allowed for a full 360 degree rotating mop head that gave the end user a more extended ability to clean those more difficult areas to get at, such as corners, under couches etc. The new head design not only allows for a full rotation, but also allows the mop head to remain flat on the floor at any angle, in any direction, while rotating. This maximizes the mops ability to clean and gives the end user an easier to use product.
The mop is sold as a single unit with one replace bottle cartridge. Other cartridges are sold separately and cover a large range of different treatment products such as wood and tile.
The Bona Hardwood Floor mop won a package design award from Graphic Design USA magazine in the Structural/Technological Innovation category for its unsurpassed design.