Portable cleaning apparatus

• US 4,357,730 A
• Filed: 03/11/1980
• Issued: 11/09/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Franz Lex
• Original Assignee: Franz Lex
• Inventors: Lex, Franz
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US06/129,455
• Time in Patent Office: 973 Days
• Field of Search: 15/23, 15/344, 15/384, 15/390
• US Class Current: 15/344
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/204 having combined drive for brushes and for vacuum cleaning
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/40 Parts or details of machines not provided for in groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, or not restricted to one of these groups, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4013 Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like
• 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 11/4069 Driving or transmission means for the cleaning tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4077 Skirts or splash guards
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 5/26 with driven dust-loosening tools

Abstract

In a portable cleaning apparatus, at least two rotatable cleaning members are mounted within a casing and contra-rotationally driven by an electrical motor and step-down gearing arranged between the motor and the cleaning members with a releasable clutch connecting the driving motor to the cleaning members. A cover is mounted over the rotatable cleaning members and the electrical motor and the casing includes a vent channel communicating with the cover. Suction from the at least two cleaning members to a dust collector, mounted at the end of the vent channel formed as a handhold, is provided by a blower driven by the electrical motor. The axes of the driving motor and the at least two cleaning members are parallel with one another and a blower rotor connected to a shaft of the driving motor is arranged behind an opening out of the cover into the casing as viewed from the direction of air flow.

Claims

1. Portable cleaning apparatus, comprising:

a casing;

at least two rotatable cleaning members at least partially mounted within said casing;

an electrical driving motor and step-down gearing for rotating said at least two cleaning members;

said casing forming a suction inlet therein;

a removable cover mounted on said suction inlet and partially covering said at least two cleaning members;

a vent channel formed within said casing and having an inlet communicating with said suction inlet;

a blower driven by said electrical driving motor and providing suction from said at least two cleaing members into said suction inlet and to a dust collector;

and

said at least two cleaning members being rotated in opposite directions to direct dust between said at least two rotatable cleaning members and towards said suction inlet.

2. Cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a suction nozzle adapted to be attached to said cover.

3. Cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said step-down gearing is arranged between said driving motor and said at least two cleaning members.

4. Cleaning apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a releasable clutch for connecting said driving motor to said at least two cleaning members.

5. Cleaning apparatus according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the axes of said driving motor and said at least two cleaning members are perpendicular to each other, and the blower rotor connected to the shaft of the driving motor is arranged, as seen in the direction of air flow, behind said suction inlet into said casing and between the driving motor and the step-down gearing, and said dust collector is arranged at the end of an adjacent dust vent channel which is preferably formed as a handhold.

6. Cleaning apparatus according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the axes of the driving motor and said at least two cleaning members are parallel with each other and the blower rotor connected to the shaft of the driving motor is arranged, as seen in the direction of air flow, behind said suction inlet, said step-down gearing is arranged adjacent the blower rotor on the side of the driving motor, and said dust collector is arranged at the end of said vent channel formed as a handhold.

7. Cleaning apparatus according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the axes of the driving motor and said at least two cleaning members are parallel with each other and the blower rotor connected to the shaft of the driving motor is pivoted on the side opposite said step-down gearing, and said dust collector is arranged before the blower rotor.