Floor cleaner

• US 4,815,157 A
• Filed: 10/28/1987
• Issued: 03/28/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kisha HOKY
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Hoky
• Inventors: Tsuchiya, Toshihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): MOORE, CHRISTOPHER K
• Application Number:
  US07/113,767
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 15/342, 15/41 R, 15/41 B, 15/42, 15/388, 15/41 A, 15/43
• US Class Current: 15/42
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/33 having means for storing dirt
• 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 11/4069 Driving or transmission means for the cleaning tools
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4072 Arrangement of castors or wheels

Abstract

A floor cleaner of the present invention has wheels provided on a main body casing which is journaled to a proximal portion of an operation handle, a rotary cleaning body on each side end portion of which is mounted a driven roller which is freely engageable by a respective one of the wheels, individual rotatable auxiliary rotary cleaning bodies located at both side end portions of the main body casing, respectively, and ducts communicating one of the dust collecting chambers, the chambers having dust intakes that respectively face the rotary cleaning body.

Claims

1. A floor cleaner for sweeping up dust from a floor, said cleaner comprising:

a main casing having a front portion, a rear portion, and opposite sides extending from said front to said rear portions;

a handle to which said main casing is rotatably mounted;

a rotary cleaning body rotatably mounted to said main casing and disposed therein between said front and said rear portions,

dust collecting chambers defined at the front and the rear portions of said casing, respectively, each of said dust collecting chamber having an opening confronting said rotary cleaning body;

driven rollers disposed adjacent the opposite sides of said casing at opposite end portions of said rotary cleaning body, respectively, said driven rollers integral with said rotary cleaning body so as to rotate therewith;

rotatable drive wheels mounted to said casing and disposed at the opposite sides of said casing adjacent said driven rollers for supporting said casing on a floor, said drive wheels engageable with said driven rollers for rotating said driven rollers; and

individual auxiliary rotary cleaning bodies disposed adjacent the opposite sides of said casing at said front portion thereof, respectively, for sweeping up dust from a floor which lies under said main casing adjacent said sides thereof when the cleaner is moved over the floor, and said main casing having ducts extending therein which are open between a respective one of said auxiliary cleaning bodies and the dust collecting chamber at the front portion of said casing.

2. A cleaner as claimed in claim 1,

wherein said main casing comprises a front wall at said front portion thereof, the opposite sides of said casing intersect said front wall to define respective front corners of said casing, and said auxiliary cleaning bodies are rotatably mounted to said casing and disposed therein at said front corners thereof, and

further comprising an auxiliary driven roller integral with each of said auxiliary cleaning bodies and disposed inwardly thereof with respect to said main casing, and auxiliary wheels mounted to said casing and freely engageable with each said auxiliary driven roller, respectively, for rotating each said auxiliary roller.

3. A floor cleaner as claimed in claim 2,

wherein said auxiliary bodies each have inner portions extending inwardly of the opposite end portions of said rotary cleaning body, respectively, in said casing in a direction extending between the opposite sides of said casing.

4. A floor cleaner as claimed in claim 1,

wherein said auxiliary bodies each have inner portions extending inwardly of the opposite end portions of said rotary cleaning body, respectively, in said casing in a direction extending between the opposite sides of said casing.