Simultaneous floor edge and baseboard cleaner

• US 4,024,597 A
• Filed: 07/06/1976
• Issued: 05/24/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
• Original Assignee: The Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
• Inventors: Fouracre, Roy E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Roberts, Edward L.
• Application Number:
  US05/703,001
• Time in Patent Office: 322 Days
• Field of Search: 15/28, 15/29, 15/49 R, 15/50 R, 15/52, 15/87, 15/93, 15/97 R, 15/98, 15/103, 15/385, 15/21 R, 51/170 T, 51/177, 51/180
• US Class Current: 15/28
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/00 Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4038 Disk 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

Abstract

A housing contains a motor driven by an electrical source and a shaft connected to the motor drives a brush which can clean a tile floor while a bevelled gear attached to the shaft may drive a second bevelled gear connected to a perpendicular shaft which passes through the housing, a brush attached to the perpendicular shaft may clean a sideboard while if the edge of the sideboard cleaning brush is bevelled then the baseboard cleaning brush may also clean the bevelled corner between the floor and the baseboard.

Claims

1. A simultaneous floor edge and baseboard cleaner, comprising:

A housing,

A motor mounted in the housing and connected to an electrical source,

A shaft connected to the motor and extending through the housing downwardly,

A brush attached to a distal end of the shaft, whereby a floor may be cleaned,

A bevelled gear attached to a portion of the shaft,

A second bevelled gear engaging the bevelled gear,

A shaft connected to the second bevelled gear at right angles to the shaft and extending through the housing, and

A brush attached to a distal end of the second shaft, whereby a baseboard may be cleaned.

2. The cleaner of claim 1, further comprising:

An edge of the brush connected to the second shaft forming a bevelled edge, whereby a bevelled corner between the baseboard and the floor may be cleaned by the brush.

3. The cleaner of claim 2, further comprising:

A pair of handles each attached to a side of the housing adjacent to the side through which the second shaft passes, whereby the movement of the cleaner may be controlled.