Floor polisher

• US 4,910,824 A
• Filed: 11/15/1988
• Issued: 03/27/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Amano Corporation 275 Mamedo-Cho Kohoku-Ku Yokohama-Shi Japan
• Original Assignee: Amano Corporation
• Inventors: Terada, Yuuichi, Arai, Tetu, Turumi, Tetuichi, Ikezawa, Ken, Ohta, Takashi, Nagayama, Eiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Roberts, Edward L.
• Application Number:
  US07/271,302
• Time in Patent Office: 497 Days
• Field of Search: 15/49 R, 15/49 C, 15/50 R, 15/50 C, 15/98, 15/320, 15/340.3, 15/340.4, 15/383, 15/385, 51/176, 51/177, 51/178
• US Class Current: 15/98
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/305 the tools being disc brushes
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4011 Regulation of the cleaning machine by electric means; Control systems and remote control systems therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 11/4058 for adjusting the height of the tool

Abstract

A floor polisher, while travelling, causes a pad to rotate at a high speed to polish a floor. The floor polisher has a vertically moving mechanism adapted to move the pad in the vertical direction with respect to the floor, a ground pressure adjusting mechanism adapted to maintain a ground pressure of the pad a set pressure by controlling the vertically moving mechanism, and a floor protecting mechanism adapted to actuate the vertically moving mechanism to lift the pad immediately when the travel of the floor polisher is stopped.

Claims

1. A floor polisher having a pad and means for causing, while the floor polisher is travelling, said pad to rotate at a high speed to polish a floor, said floor polisher comprising:

a vertically moving mechanism adapted to move said pad in the vertical direction with respect to the floor;

a ground pressure adjusting mechanism connected to said vertically moving mechanism for maintaining a ground pressure of the pad at a set pressure by controlling said vertically moving mechanism; and

a floor protecting mechanism connected to said vertically moving mechanism for controlling said vertically moving mechanism to lift the pad immediately when the travel of the floor polisher is stopped.

2. A floor polisher as claimed in claim 1, wherein said vertically moving mechanism is a reversible motor for moving the pad in the vertical direction by revolving a threaded shaft normally or reversely.

3. A floor polisher as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said ground pressure adjusting mechanism is an electronic control device for adjusting the ground pressure of the pad so that it is always a set pressure by detecting a power variation of the motor for rotating the pad and then rotating the motor for vertically moving the pad normally or reversely according to the detected value.

4. A floor polisher as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said floor polisher is a self-travelling type having a travelling motor, and said floor protecting mechanism comprises means for operating said vertically moving mechanism for lifting the pad immediately when the travelling motor is stopped.

5. A floor polisher as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said floor polisher is a hand push type, and said floor protecting mechanism comprises a magnet detecting sensor and a magnetic rotating plate rotatable by the movement of the floor polisher and the rotation of which is detected by said sensor, and said sensor being connected to said vertically moving mechanism to operate said vertically moving mechanism to raise the pad when said sensor detects the stopping of rotation of said rotating plate.

6. A floor polisher as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said floor polisher is a hand push type, and said floor protecting mechanism comprises an optical sensor and a rotating plate rotatable by the movement of the floor polisher and the rotation of which is detected by said sensor, and said sensor being connected to said vertically moving mechanism to operate said vertically moving mechanism to raise the pad when said sensor detects the stopping of rotation of said rotating plate.