Air-drafting dust remover for power sander

• US 5,993,305 A
• Filed: 10/31/1998
• Issued: 11/30/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chu, Eric
• Original Assignee: Chu, Eric
• Inventors: Chu, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Banks, Derris Holt
• Application Number:
  US09/184,139
• Time in Patent Office: 395 Days
• Field of Search: 451/357, 451/359, 451/360, 451/353, 451/451, 451/453, 451/454, 451/455, 451/456, 451/457, 451/442, 451/87, 144/252
• US Class Current: 451/357
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 23/03 the tool being driven in a combined movement
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 23/04 with oscillating grinding tools; Accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 55/10 specially designed for portable grinding machines, e.g. hand-guided

Abstract

A dust remover for power sander includes a dust collecting hood secured on the sander and fluidically communicated with a vacuum system formed in or attached to the sander, having a resilient bellows portion formed on a lower portion of the hood for covering a sanding pad as driven by a motor of the sander and a bottom flange having a plurality of apertures or perforations circumferentially formed in the flange, with the bellows portion resiliently expanding to retain the bottom flange on a working surface; whereby upon vacuum suction in the sander to form at least an air stream as drafted from the outside into the inside of the hood, the dusts, as produced when operating the sander, will be sucked inwardly into the hood as laden in the air stream to be finally collected and disposed for preventing air pollution and for enhancing occupational health.

Claims

1. A dust remover for power sander comprising a dust collecting hood secured to a power sander having a sanding pad operatively grinding a working piece with said sanding pad covered within said hood;

said dust collecting hood made of elastomers and including a bellows portion protruding downwardly from an upper peripheral portion of said hood, and a bottom flange formed on a bottom of the bellows portion and resiliently contacting a grinding surface of the working piece, having a plurality of apertures circumferentially formed in the bottom flange, said bellows portion and said bottom flange of said hood defining an air drafting passage between said hood and said sanding pad;

said hood, said sander and a discharge tube connected thereto being fluidically communicated with a vacuum suction system for forming at least an air stream drafted from outside of the hood, through the apertures formed in said bottom flange and discharging through said discharge tube of said sander, whereby upon operation of said sanding pad to produce dust adjacent to said sanding pad and upon suction of the vacuum suction system, the dust will be drafted as laden in the air stream and discharged through the air drafting passage and the discharge tube in said sander for an efficient dust removal of the sander.

2. A dust remover according to claim 1, wherein said bellows portion of said hood resiliently expands said bottom flange beyond a bottom surface of said sanding pad of said sander to closely contact the working piece.

3. A dust remover according to claim 1, said apertures of said bottom flange are continuously formed in the bottom flange on or adjacent to a bottom edge of said flange and selected from a corrugated shape, a saw-toothed shape, square-wave shape, a cycloidal and spiral shape and a ring shape consisting of apertures.

4. A dust remover according to claim 1, wherein said sander includes a pneumatic motor for driving said sanding pad for grinding a surface, and said vacuum suction system formed in said sander and including a Venturi tube having a throat formed adjacent to an air outlet of the pneumatic motor to be communicated between said air drafting passage and said discharge tube, whereby upon air entering in said sander and ejecting into said throat of said Venturi tube, a vacuum will be formed to suck air from outside of the hood, through the apertures in the bottom flange and the air drafting passage in said hood and to simultaneously draft dust as laden in the air as sucked by said Venturi tube for removing and collecting the dust.

5. A dust remover according to claim 1, wherein said hood has at least a reinforcing rib formed therein for reinforcing the hood.

6. A dust remover according to claim 1, wherein said hood is provided with a spring member therein to increase a resilience of said hood.

7. A dust remover according to claim 1, wherein said dust collecting hood is securable to a sander selected from a pneumatic sander driven by a pneumatic motor and an electric sander driven by an electric motor.

8. A dust remover for power sander according to claim 1, wherein said dust collecting hood is formed on a sander driven by an electric motor and said vacuum suction system is connectable to said hood and said sander for sucking and removing dust therefrom.

9. A dust remover according to claim 1, wherein said vacuum suction system includes a dust collecting box having a dust collecting bag stored in said box and connectable to said hood, and having a plurality of air outlet holes formed in said box for discharging air exhausted from the bag.

10. A dust remover for power sander comprising a dust collecting hood generally formed as a flare shape, and having an upper peripheral portion secured to a power sander having a sanding pad mounted therein, and a bottom flange gradually diverging downwardly from the upper peripheral portion to surround said sanding pad and to resiliently contact a working piece and to be positioned slightly beyond a bottom of said sanding pad for well covering a grinding surface of the working piece within said bottom flange of said hood, having a plurality of apertures circumferentially formed in said bottom flange;

said hood made of elastomeric materials having good elasticity and flexibility;

said sander communicated with a vacuum suction system;

said hood defining an air drafting passage between said hood and said sanding pad for drafting an air stream from outside of said hood, through said apertures in said bottom flange, to enter the sander to suck dust laden in the air stream to be discharged by a discharge tube of said sander upon operation of the vacuum suction system.