Power floor cleaning apparatus

• US 20070089250A1
• Filed: 10/20/2005
• Published: 04/26/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tien Hsiao
• Original Assignee: Tien Hsiao
• Inventors: Hsiao, Tien
• Application Number:
  US11/256,369
• Publication Number:
  US 20070089250A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/42
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/32 Carpet-sweepers combined with suction cleaners A47L7/02
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/33 having means for storing dirt
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4013 Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4038 Disk shaped surface treating tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4041 Roll shaped surface treating tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4069 Driving or transmission means for the cleaning tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4075 Handles; levers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4077 Skirts or splash guards

Abstract

A power floor cleaning apparatus includes a length-adjustable handle, and a cleaner unit, which is coupled to the handle and has two sweepers for sweeping floor dust into the inside of the cleaner unit, a dustbin, a dust conveyer for conveying dust to the dustbin, a motor-based transmission mechanism for rotating the two sweepers to sweep dust from the floor onto the dust conveyer, and a power supply unit that provides the necessary working voltage to the motor-based transmission mechanism.

Claims

1. A power floor cleaning apparatus comprising:

a housing, said housing comprising a bottom cover shell and a top cover shell covering said bottom cover shell;

a handle connected to said top cover shell of said housing;

a transmission mechanism mounted inside said housing, said transmission mechanism comprising a gearbox, said gearbox having an input end, a first output end, a second output end and a third output end, an actuator adapted to rotate said gearbox, and a transmission belt coupled between said actuator and the input end of said gearbox;

a support mounted inside said housing, said support holding a first axle bearing and a second axle bearing corresponding to said second output end and said third output end;

a first sweeper mounted inside said housing, said first sweeper comprising a head, a radial brush fastened to said head, an axle connected to said head and inserted through an axle bush at said bottom cover shell, and a parachute gear mounted on the axle of said second sweeper and meshed with the first output end of said gearbox;

a second sweeper mounted inside said housing, said second sweeper comprising a cylindrical sweeper body and two pins disposed at two distal ends of said cylindrical weeper body and respectively coupled to the second output end of said gearbox and said first axle bearing;

a dust conveyer mounted inside said housing, said dust conveyer comprising an axle coupled between the third output end of said gearbox and said second axle bearing, and a plurality of arched carrier plates mounted around the periphery of the axle of said dust conveyer; and

a dustbin mounted inside the bottom cover shell of said housing at a rear side of said dust conveyer, said dustbin having a cover disposed in flush with an outside wall of said housing.

2. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said handle comprises a handle body formed of a plurality of rod members that are detachably connected to one another through a respective screw joint, said handle body having a top end and a bottom end, a handle grip at the top end of said handle body, an extension rod axially movable in and out of the bottom end of said handle body, a chuck provided at the bottom end of said handle body and adapted to lock said extension rod, and a swivel connector provided at an outer end of said extension rod and coupled to said housing.

3. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a power switch mounted inside said top cover shell of said housing for power on/off control, a spring member mounted on said top cover shell of said housing corresponding to said power switch, and a button supported on said spring member for pressing by the user t5o switch on/off said power switch.

4. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a locating plate mounted inside said top cover shell and supporting one end of the axle of said first sweeper.

5. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of rollers pivotally mounted in a bottom side of said bottom cover shell of said housing for moving.

6. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said housing further comprises a bumper mounted around the connection area between said top cover shell and said bottom cover shell.

7. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said actuator is a motor.

8. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cylindrical sweeper body of said second sweeper is comprised of a plurality of plate-like brush elements arranged in parallel, said plate-like brush elements each having a plurality of brush portions extending in different directions.

9. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cylindrical sweeper body of said second sweeper comprises a roller-like brush and a frame holding said roller-like brush, said frame comprising an upper clamping plate and a bottom clamping plate fastened to said upper clamping plate to hold down said roller-like brush.

10. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said second sweeper further comprises a guard mounted inside said housing and covered over a top side of said cylindrical sweeper body.

11. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a power supply unit formed of a storage battery and adapted to provide the necessary working voltage to said actuator.

12. The power floor cleaning apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said cylindrical sweeper body of said second sweeper is comprised of a plurality of rolls connected in series and respectively covered with a layer of hook material for the fastening of a cloth pad.