Foam type carpet cleaner
First Claim
1. A foam type carpet cleaner comprising motor means to drive a carpet cleaning brush and fan means for producing an air-stream, air duct means for conveying the air-stream to a foam spreader, moving-air driven rotatable fan mounted for rotation in the duct and adapted to be driven by the air-stream, means to supply drops of a foamable mixture to the duct, upstream of the fan to impinge on said fan and be converted into fine mixture droplets, foam producing screen means located in the duct downstream of the fan through which the droplets are blown by the air-stream to produce a foam, said foam being conveyed by the duct to the foam spreader whereby the foam is applied to a carpet, to be cleaned, and brushed thereover by the carpet cleaning brush.
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Abstract
The invention is directed to improvements in foam type carpet cleaners and, more particularly, to the production of a relatively dry water-detergent mixture foam which is producted by applying drops of the mixture into an airstream duct in which is located a rotating propeller, or fan blade, driven by the airstream, the propeller contacting the drops and producing a fine droplet dispersion of the mixture, which dispersion is blown, by the same air stream, through a fine mesh screen to produce a foam which is applied, to a carpet to be cleaned, by a foam spreader. The foam is then brushed through the nap of a carpet by a rotating brush associated with the spreader. A debris collector is preferably associated with the brush to pick up carpet debris and spent foam.
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- 1. A foam type carpet cleaner comprising motor means to drive a carpet cleaning brush and fan means for producing an air-stream, air duct means for conveying the air-stream to a foam spreader, moving-air driven rotatable fan mounted for rotation in the duct and adapted to be driven by the air-stream, means to supply drops of a foamable mixture to the duct, upstream of the fan to impinge on said fan and be converted into fine mixture droplets, foam producing screen means located in the duct downstream of the fan through which the droplets are blown by the air-stream to produce a foam, said foam being conveyed by the duct to the foam spreader whereby the foam is applied to a carpet, to be cleaned, and brushed thereover by the carpet cleaning brush.
- 5. A foam type carpet cleaning device comprising, motor driven air-stream producing means and rotatable carpet cleaning brush means, an air-stream duct for conveying the air-stream to a foam spreader, means to supply drops of a water and detergent foam producing mixture to an air-stream driven rotating fan means to be dispersed thereby into small mixture droplets, soap bubble producing means located downstream of the fan means to convert the droplets into a foam, which foam is conveyed, by the air-stream, to the foam spreader, the foam spreading container, closely associated with the carpet cleaning brush, being provided with apertures adapted to spread foam on a carpet to be cleaned by the brush.
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