Cage for flailing tube

• US 4,044,953 A
• Filed: 07/27/1976
• Issued: 08/30/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mccord Corporation (Textron Inc)
• Original Assignee: Mccord Corporation (Textron Inc)
• Inventors: Vogel, John D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Blunk, Evon C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kashnikow, Andres
• Application Number:
  US05/708,931
• Time in Patent Office: 399 Days
• Field of Search: 239/4, 239/229, 239/284, 239/288, 239/288.3, 239/288.5, 134/179, 134/182, 134/183
• US Class Current: 239/229
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/10 in the form of a fine jet, e.g. for use in wind-screen washers
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 3/00 Spraying or sprinkling apparatus with moving outlet elements or moving deflecting elements
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/48 Liquid supply therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 1/60 for signalling devices, e.g. reflectors
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/3028 With non-discriminating gas vent or liquid discharge

Abstract

A headlamp cleaning device comprising an elongated horn-like member having an open entrance at one end thereof, a flexible tube anchored within the cage member at a point spaced from the open entrance, the tube including a freely movable portion extending toward the entrance; and means for supplying a high velocity mixture of air and liquid to the tube whereby the tube directs a stream of the mixture toward the headlamp while simultaneously moving in an irregular path within the confines of the open entrance to continuously change the direction of the stream and clean a large area of the headlamp.

Claims

1. An assembly for directing fluid toward a surface comprising;

cage means having an open entrance at one end thereof, a flexible tube having a first end anchored within said cage member at a point spaced from said entrance, said tube including a freely movable portion extending toward said entrance and terminating at a second end adjacent said open entrance, said cage means including a pair of oppositely disposed curved walls, said curved walls being curved away from one another upwardly and outwardly toward said open entrance and away from the longitudinal direction of the flexible tube for engaging said tube to curve said tube between the ends thereof.

2. An assembly as set forth in claim 1 wherein said cage means includes a pair of opposed sidewalls interconnecting said curved walls.

3. An assembly as set forth in claim 2 wherein said cage means has a generally rectangular cross section with said curved walls defining the ends of the rectangle.