MOBILE SEWER OR LIKE CLEANING MACHINE

• US 3,774,630 A
• Filed: 10/29/1971
• Issued: 11/27/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Charles J. Prange
• Original Assignee: Charles J. Prange
• Inventors: Prange, Charles J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Scott, Samuel
• Application Number:
  US05/193,771
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• Field of Search: 137/355.12,355.16,355.17,355.18,355.19,355.20,355.21,355.22,355.23,355.24 242/86.5R
• US Class Current: 137/355.12
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/33 Hollow or hose-like material
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/4402 Guiding arrangements to control paying-out and re-storing of the material guides per se B65H57/00
• CPC Class Codes: E03F 9/00 Arrangements or fixed installations methods or devices for cleaning or clearing sewer pipes, e.g. by flushing sediment traps, rakes, screens, or the like, arranged in sewer lines E03F5/14; cleaning pipes in general, devices for cleaning pipes B08B9/02 ; gullies provided with flushing means for cleaning or emptying E03F5/0402; devices to remove obstructions in waste-pipes or sinks E03C1/30
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/012 using reels cores for coiled material, e.g. reels, in general B65H75/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6899 With hose reel storage means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6954 Reel with support therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6962 Basket or holder for folded coiled hose

Abstract

A mobile sewer conduit cleaning machine has an isolated cleaning hose reel compartment enclosing a reel having a narrow large diameter drum on which the hose is randomly coiled, and a hose guide roller is centered on the body below the reel compartment.

Claims

1. In a mobile sewer cleaning or like machine, having an equipment mounting body, means within said body defining a rearwardly open reel compartment that extends substantially the height of said body but the width of which is materially less than said height, a hose reel mounted for rotation about a generally horizontal axis within said compartment, said reel comprising a narrow width drum extending between parallel sides, the drum diameter being materially greater than the axial width of the drum, a cleaning hose randomly coiled on said drum having its inner end adapted For coupling to a source of cleaning liquid under pressure and means defining a downwardly recessed drainage well in the bottom of said compartment directly below said reel.

2. In the machine defined in claim 1, a hose guide roller mounted on a support projecting longtudinally from the rear of said body substantially in vertical alignment with the lateral center of said reel drum.

3. In the machine defined in claim 2, said support being adjustable to displace said roller toward or away from said body.

4. In a mobile sewer or like cleaning machine, a support vehicle, means defining a rearwardly open hose reel comparement on said support vehicle, said compartment having a width laterally of the vehicle that is small relative to its height, means mounting a cleaning hose reel in said compartment for rotation about a horizontal axis, said reel having a hose receiving drum the diameter of which is at least twice as large as its axial width, and a hose guide roller mounted on said support vehicle rearwardly of and below said drum compartment, said guide roller being positioned intermediate the sides the drum, whereby during winding the hose will randomly coil along the entire width of said drum without intermediate guiding.

5. In the machine defined in claim 4, means defining a well in the floor of said compartment below the reel within the reel compartment, said well being formed with drainage means.

6. In the mobile machine defined in claim 4, said guide roller being adjustable toward and away from said support vehicle whereby to dispose said hose for directly descending a manhole or the like while maintaining the support in a non-interfering location.