Tire cleaning brush

• US 4,135,271 A
• Filed: 08/01/1977
• Issued: 01/23/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David D. Teeney, Maurice R. Harding
• Original Assignee: David D. Teeney, Maurice R. Harding
• Inventors: Teeney, David D., Harding, Maurice R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Feldman, Peter
• Application Number:
  US05/820,693
• Time in Patent Office: 540 Days
• Field of Search: 15/114, 15/33, 15/231, 15/21 A, 15/49 R, 15/50 R, 15/49 R, 15/49 B, 15/53 B, 15/DIG. 2, 15/180, 15/160
• US Class Current: 15/53.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 3/042 Wheel cleaning devices integral with vehicle B60S1/00

Abstract

A brush structure including a resilient member which deforms upon contact with a tire sidewall to bias bristles on the resilient member into forceful contact with a moving tire sidewall. A brush assembly is disclosed which supports the present brush structure for movement toward and away from a vehicle wheel assembly and also serves to oscillate the brush against the tire sidewall.

Claims

1. In combination,

an automobile tire cleaning apparatus having a series of yieldable connector plates each terminating in supporting attachment to a brush supporting rigid strip, a motor and eccentric means for imparting rapid rectilinear motion to said strip, and

a brush structure including an attachment strip, fasteners in place along said attachment strip removably securing same to said brush supporting rigid strip, a foamed cellular member carried by said attachment strip, a flexible backing strip in place on said cellular member and having bristles thereon for scrubbing contact with a tire sidewall along a rectilinear path.