Pickup cleaning device with static electric bar/roller

• US 20080172809A1
• Filed: 11/01/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Umagination Labs, LP
• Original Assignee: Umagination Labs, LP
• Inventors: Dayton, Douglas C., Park, Sung K.
• Application Number:
  US11/982,529
• Publication Number:
  US 20080172809A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 15/1.52
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/40 Cleaning implements actuated by electrostatic attraction; Devices for cleaning same; Magnetic cleaning implements

Abstract

The invention is directed to a device used for cleaning up hair, fibers and other debris from surfaces, furnishings and carpets. More specifically, the invention relates to picking up such items using a mechanized apparatus with a static electric charged bar or roller and rotating gears that transfer torque to rotate a collecting roller. The collecting roller picks up and stores the hair, fibers and other debris that have been lifted by the static electric charged bar or roller and deposits them in a collection section of the device for disposal.

Claims

1. An apparatus for picking up hair, fibers and other debris on a surface comprising:

a housing;

a handle connected to said housing;

two opposing wheels mounted to said housing;

a collection roller connected to said housing and disposed between said two opposing wheels;

a static roller connected to said housing and disposed below and at a parallel, vertically offset position relative to said collection roller;

a stripper bar adapted to periodically engage with said collection roller to remove hair, fibers and other debris along said collection roller;

wherein said static bar obtains a static electric charge during back and forth motion of said device along said surface.

2. An apparatus of claim 1, wherein a static bar is connected to said housing and disposed at a parallel, vertically offset position relative to a collection roller