Brushroll

• US 6,003,198 A
• Filed: 07/31/1998
• Issued: 12/21/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Scott Fetzer Company (Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: The Scott Fetzer Company (Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated)
• Inventors: Stegens, Alfred H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Till, Terrence R.
• Application Number:
  US09/127,674
• Time in Patent Office: 508 Days
• Field of Search: 15/41.1, 15/179, 15/182, 15/383, 15/389, 15/391, 15/392
• US Class Current: 15/392
• CPC Class Codes: A46B 13/02 power-driven carriers
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 9/0455 Bearing means therefor

Abstract

A brushroll having a pulley driven spindle with an end assembly at each end rotatably mounting the spindle in a vacuum cleaner nozzle. On the pulley end of the spindle, a projecting pin is knurled at one end and inserted into the end of the spindle. An outboard portion of the pin is threaded. The knurling on the pin forms an abutment shoulder outboard of the end of the spindle. The drive pulley is threaded onto the threaded end of the pin until it contacts a bearing and presses it against the abutment shoulder, so as to prevent the pin from being jacked out of the spindle when the pulley is threaded onto the pin.

Claims

1. In a vacuum cleaner spindle assembly including a spindle, pins projecting from the ends of said spindle, end caps, and bearings having inner races fitted on said pins, the improvement comprising a positive stop on one of said pins, said one pin having a threaded end portion outboard of said stop, and a pulley threaded on said threaded end portion, whereby said stop prevents endwise movement of said pin by threading said pulley onto said end portion.

3. The improvement as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2 wherein said positive stop is an abutment shoulder.

4. The improvement as claimed in claim 3 wherein said abutment shoulder is formed by knurling extending axially on said one pin.

5. The improvement as claimed in claim 4 wherein said one pin is fixed in the end of said spindle by said knurling.

2. In a vacuum cleaner spindle assembly including a spindle, disks carried by said spindle at its ends, pins projecting from the ends of said spindle through said disks, end caps having bearing receiving pockets, and bearings having inner races fitted on said pins and outer races fitted in said bearing receiving pockets, the improvement comprising a positive stop on one of said pins engagable by the inner race of the bearing on said one pin, said one pin having a threaded end portion outboard of said stop, and a pulley threaded on said threaded end portion to press the inner race of the adjacent bearing against said stop.

6. The improvement as claimed in claim 2 wherein said pulley has a threaded socket that receives the threaded end portion of said one pin, and wherein said one pin has a second shoulder outboard of its threaded portion which is spaced from the bottom of said threaded socket when said inner race is held in place by said positive stop.

7. The improvement as claimed in claim 6 wherein said one pin has an end extension outboard of said second shoulder, said end extension projecting through said pulley and terminating adjacent its outer face.

8. In a power actuated vacuum cleaner roll assembly including a spindle, disks carried by said spindle at its ends, pins fixed in the ends of said spindle by axial knurling, said pins projecting from the ends of said spindle through said disks, end caps, bearings having inner races fitted on said pins, and a pulley carried on one pin for rotating said spindle, the improvement comprising:

an abutment shoulder on said one pin adjacent the outer face of the associated disk;

a reverse threaded portion on said one pin outboard of said shoulder, said pulley being threaded on said threaded portion, whereby rotation of said pulley acts to tighten it against the bearing without pulling said one pin endwise from said spindle.

9. The improvement as claimed in claim 8 wherein said pulley has a threaded socket that receives the threaded portion of said one pin, said one pin has a second shoulder outboard of said threaded portion and spaced from the bottom of said threaded socket when said pulley is tightened against said bearing shoulder, and wherein said one pin has an end extension outboard of said second shoulder, said end extension projecting through said pulley and terminating adjacent its outer face.