Powered cleaner/polisher

• US 7,313,838 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2003
• Issued: 01/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: SC Johnson & Son Incorporated
• Original Assignee: SC Johnson & Son Incorporated
• Inventors: Wietfeldt, John R., Paas, Edward L., Long, David C.
• Primary Examiner(s): KARLS, SHAY LYNN
• Application Number:
  US10/723,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20040103490A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,497 Days
• Field of Search: 15/4, 15/221, 15/222, 15/24, 15/29, 15/971, 15/98, 15/491, 15/501, 15/502, 15/522
• US Class Current: 15/22.2
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/02 power-driven carriers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/125 with supply of cleaning agents
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4005 Arrangements of batteries or cells; Electric power supply arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4036 Parts or details of the surface treating tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4069 Driving or transmission means for the cleaning tools
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 23/04 with oscillating grinding tools; Accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B24B 29/00 Machines or devices for polishing surfaces on work by means of tools made of soft or flexible material with or without the application of solid or liquid polishing agents polishing tools in general B24D13/00
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 1/72 Ethers of polyoxyalkylene glycols
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 7/263 Ethers
• CPC Class Codes: C11D 7/265 Carboxylic acids or salts thereof

Abstract

A motorized cleaning/polishing device includes a housing and a carrier with a detachable cleaning/polishing attachment. The housing contains a rechargeable battery, motor and flex mount having flexible pillars to which the carrier is mounted. The carrier is also coupled to the motor drive shaft via an eccentric element and bearing. The carrier may have a foam layer with hook fasteners adhered to its underside for removably attaching any one of various attachments to the carrier. Cleanser or polish can be impregnated in the attachment wet or dry, or it can be contained in a perforated or water dissolvable packet sandwiched between the carrier and the attachment. A removable scrub brush can also be attached to the carrier so that its bristle head orbits in front of the device. The device is particularly suited to orbit in the 2,500 to 10,000 OPM range.

Claims

1. A portable powered cleaning device, comprising:

a housing having a lower opening;

a battery powered motor mounted in the housing, the motor having a drive shaft;

a carrier coupled to the motor so as to reciprocate with respect to the housing;

a cleaning attachment removably attached to the carrier; and

a scrub brush having bristles mounted separately from and external to the cleaning attachment and mounted to the carrier to be able to reciprocate therewith in an orbital path when the drive shaft is rotated, wherein the scrub brush includes an elongated body disposed between the carrier and the cleaning attachment.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the scrub brush is detachable from the carrier.