Floor cleansing device

• US 3,114,922 A
• Filed: 07/13/1961
• Issued: 12/24/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Earnest R. Ballantyne
• Original Assignee: Earnest R. Ballantyne
• Inventors: Ballantyne, Earnest R.
• Application Number:
  US04/123,800
• Time in Patent Office: 894 Days
• US Class Current: 15/50.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/085 with supply of cleaning agents
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/325 Shampoo devices for carpet-sweepers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/40 Parts or details of machines not provided for in groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, or not restricted to one of these groups, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4036 Parts or details of the 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 11/4083 Liquid supply reservoirs; Preparation of the agents, e.g. mixing devices
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4088 Supply pumps; Spraying devices; Supply conduits

Claims

7. A CLEANSING DEVICE OF THE KIND DESCRIBED COMPRISING, A HOUSING HAVING AN ENLARGED WORKPIECE CONTACTING MEANS AND AN ELONGATED HANDLE, A PAIR OF WHEELS AND AN AXLE CONNECTING SAID WHEELS TO SAID HOUSING FOR MOVEMENT THEREOF, A LIQUID DETERGENT STORAGE TANK MOUNTED ON SAID HOUSING, AIR GENERATING PUMP MEANS POSITIONED ADJACENT TO AND IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID STORAGE TANK, AN AREA OF DISPLACED CENTER OF ROTATION ON SAID AXLE, AND LINKAGE MEANS CONNECTING SAID DISPLACED AREA TO SAID PUMP MEANS, SAID AIR FORCIBLY EXPELLING SAID LIQUID DETERGENT AND MEANS FOR MIXING SAID AIR AND SAID DETERGENT TO CONVERT SAID MIXTURE TO FOAM;

AN APPLICATOR POSITIONED IN SAID HOUSING, AND MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING SAID FOAM TO THE WORKPIECE ADJACENT SAID APPLICATOR.