Trailer mounted cleaner

• US 3,179,117 A
• Filed: 03/02/1964
• Issued: 04/20/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles M. Rohda, Robert Gibson Rolla
• Original Assignee: Charles M. Rohda, Robert Gibson Rolla
• Inventors: ROBERT GIBSON ROLLA, Rohda, Charles M.
• Application Number:
  US04/348,601
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• US Class Current: 134/107
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/00 Vehicles adapted to transport, to carry or to comprise special loads or objects ambulances or other vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances A61G3/00; hearses A61G21/00; fire-fighting land vehicles A62C27/00; refuse-collecting vehicles B65F3/00, B65F7/00; snow-removing vehicles E01H; armoured or armed vehicles F41H7/00; self-propelled mine-clearing vehicles F41H11/16
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 3/04 for exteriors of land vehicles B60S3/002, B60S3/004 take precedence; specially adapted for railway vehicles B60S3/006

Claims

1. IN A TRAILER MOUNTED CART CLEANING DEVICE OF THE NATURE AFORESAID, THE COMBINATION, COMPRISING, A RECTANGULAR TRAILER FRAME HAVING REARWARD PAIRED OPPOSED WHEELS TO AID LOCOMOTION AND A FORWARD CENTRALLY LOCATED PIVOTABLY MOUNTED LEVELING WHEEL, CARRIED BY A FORWARDLY PROJECTING HITCH, ADAPTED TO RAISE OR LOWER SUCH HITCH TO LEVEL THE TRAILER FRAME;

A RECTANGULAR BOX-LIKE TRAILER BODY MOUNTED UPON SAID FRAME COMPRISING A FORWARD CHAMBER HAVING DOORS MOUNTED ON EACH SIDE THEREOF FOR ACCESS, A CENTRAL CHAMBER CARRYING WORKING MECHANISM AND A REARWARD ENCLOSED WASHING CHAMBER HAVING DOWNWARDLY OPENING DOORS ON EACH SIDE THEREOF, PIVOTABLY SUPPORTED BY HORIZONTAL HINGES AT THEIR LOWERMOST PORTION TO ALLOW SAID DOORS TO BE LOWERED TO FORM RAMPS FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS OF CARTS TO AND FROM SAID CHAMBER;

A PRIMARY TRAM TRANSVERSELY CARRIED BY THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE FLOOR OF SAID WASHING CHAMBER, COMMUNICATING WITH A SECONDARY PARALLEL TRAM CARRIED BY THE INGRESS RAMP, ADAPTED TO MOVE CARTS TO BE CLEANED UP SAID INGRESS RAMP AND THROUGH SAID WASHING CHAMBER;

INWARDLY PROJECTING FLAPS ABOUT THE INNER PERIPHERY OF THE ENTRANCE AND EXIT TO SAID WASHING CHAMBER ADAPTED TO PREVENT THE EXCESSIVE SPRAY OF WATER THEREFROM;

A FLOOR IN SAID WASHING CHAMBER HAVING ALTERNATE GROOVES AND RIDGES ON EACH SIDE OF SAID CENTRAL TRAM ADAPTED TO JOSTLE NESTED CARTS PASSING THERETHROUGH A RECIRCULATING WATER SYSTEM COMPRISING TWO ELEVATED STORAGE TANKS, HAVING MEANS OF PROVIDING WATER THERETO, COMMUNICATING THROUGH A MANUALLY ADJUSTABLE VALVE TO SUMP, DISPOSED BELOW THE FLOOR OF SAID WASHING CHAMBER SO THAT WATER MAY FLOW BY GRAVITY FROM SAID CHAMBER THERETO, A FILTER COMMUNICATING WITH SAID SUMP AND A PUMP COMMUNICATING WITH SAID FILTER ADAPTED TO TAKE WATER FROM SAID SUMP, THROUGH SAID FILTER AND FORCE IT INTO THE HEATING COILS OF A WATER HEATING DEVICE, A SECOND PUMP COMMUNICATING WITH SAID HEATING COILS ADAPTED TO FURTHER PRESSURIZE SAID WATER AND DISTRIBUTE IT TO A PLURALITY OF SPRAY CIRCUITS, EACH CONTAINING A PLURALITY OF SPRAY HEADS DISPOSED IN THREE RINGS ABOUT THE CENTRAL INTERNAL PERIPHERY OF AFORESAID WASHING CHAMBER, EACH OF SAID SPRAY NOZZLES BEING SO ADJUSTED AS TO CREATE A VORTEX-LIKE DISTRIBUTION OF WATER WITHIN SAID CHAMBER;

AND MEANS OF PROVIDING HEAT TO SAID HEATING UNIT AND POWER TO SAID PUMPING UNITS AND SAID TRAM.