Scrubbing machine

• US 3,197,798 A
• Filed: 01/28/1963
• Issued: 08/03/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harlie J. Kimmerle, Mac W. Lutz, Neil F. Brown
• Original Assignee: Harlie J. Kimmerle, Mac W. Lutz, Neil F. Brown
• Inventors: Brown, Neil F., Lutz, Mac W., Kimmerle, Harlie J.
• Application Number:
  US04/254,180
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• US Class Current: 15/320
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/00 Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/302 having rotary tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4016 specially adapted for collecting fluids
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4038 Disk shaped surface treating tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4041 Roll shaped surface treating tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4044 Vacuuming or pick-up tools; Squeegees
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4055 for lifting the tools to a non-working position
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4058 for adjusting the height of the tool
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4069 Driving or transmission means for the cleaning tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4088 Supply pumps; Spraying devices; Supply conduits
• CPC Class Codes: E01H 1/0854 Apparatus in which the mechanically dislodged dirt is partially sucked-off, e.g. dislodging- sweeping apparatus with dirt collector in brush housing or dirt container mechanical dislodging machines with independent suction nozzles E01H1/0827; combined with blowing and suction E01H1/0872

Claims

16. A SWEEPING MACHINE INCLUDING A WHEEL SUPPORTED SWEEPER FRAME, SAID SWEEPER FRAME HAVING A ROTARY FLOOR MAINTENANCE IMPLEMENT ENCLOSURE THAT IS OPEN AT THE BOTTOM AND HAS AN UNOBSTRUCTED EJECTION OPENING, A ROTARY FLOOR MAINTENANCE IMPLEMENT MOUNTED IN SAID ENCLOSURE, A SCRUBBING ATTACHMENT, MEANS ON THE SWEEPER FRAME FOR LIFTING AND DETACHABLY CARRYING SAID ATTACHMENT ADJACENT SAID UNOBSTRUCTED OPENING, SAID ATTACHMENT ININCLUDING AN ATTACHMENT FRAME, A DIRTY WATER COLLECTION TANK MOUNTED ON SAID ATTACHMENT FRAME, MEANS CONNECTED TO THE ATTACHMENT FRAME AND EXTENDING ADJACENT TO SAID UNOBSTRUCTED OPENING FOR COLLECTING LIQUID FROM THE SURFACE SCRUBBED BY SAID IMPLEMENT, SUCTION APPLYING MEANS FLUIDLY CONNECTED TO THE COLLECTION TANK FOR APPLYING A SUCTION THERETO, CONDUIT MEANS CONNECTED TO THE COLLECTION TANK AND EXTENDING ADJACENT TO THE COLLECTION MEANS FOR WITHDRAWING LIQUID FROM THE COLLECTION MEANS AND RETURNING IT TO THE COLLECTION TANK, AND POWER MEANS ON THE SWEEPER FRAME DRIVINGLY CONNECTED TO SAID IMPLEMENT FOR ROTATING IT.