CN101238264A - Adaptable nozzle attachment for pool cleaner - Google Patents
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Abstract
An adjustable nozzle attachment for a pool cleaner includes a planar member having an upper surface and a lower surface with an orifice formed through the planar member adapted for coupling to a vacuum suction source. A plurality of attaching means are formed on the lower surface of the planar member, each of which is adapted to interchangeably or selectively receive at least one of a plurality of rollers and a plurality of brushes that extend from the lower surface and support the nozzle attachment during movement over a surface being cleaned. When installed, the plurality of rollers and brushes change the nozzle attachment's flexibility characteristics, thereby permitting a user to adjust the overall flexibility of the nozzle attachment, based upon the typ of surface to be cleaned.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of equipment that is used to clean the immersed surface of swimming pool, hot tub and mineral spring.More especially, the present invention relates to a kind of adaptable nozzle attachment that is used for pool cleaner.
Background technology
The swimming pool cleaning equipment is used for through the surface of swimming pool so that remove the water of dirt and fragment and filtration swimming pool knownly.The common volume of this swimming pool cleaning equipment is big.In light weight and hand-held pool cleaner is favourable, and this is because they make the user operate pool cleaner easily on the surface in swimming pool, mineral spring or pond.Multiple mechanical pool cleaner is known, and these cleaners utilize by what be communicated with filtration system pump and are connected the current that flexible aspiration tube extracts via cleaner.
In the United States Patent (USP) NO.6797157 of the common transfer of authorizing Erlich, the hand-held pool cleaner of highly portable passes through the rechargeable battery energy supply, and comprises main body and the suction ozzle that is used to aspirate swimming pool water.Nozzle attachment comprises a plurality of sleeves that separate, and sleeve is used for dirt and fragment are broken away from from pool surface, makes pool cleaner aspirate the fragment that is broken away from thus.As selection, nozzle attachment can comprise the protuberance that is positioned at the permanent fixation on the base, causes base concordant with pool surface so that prevent the swabbing action of pool cleaner.But this fixing protuberance does not roll or is not easy and slides surfacewise, and can hinder the motion of cleaner head thus.
For example the pool cleaner of Zhuan Ye pool cleaner cleaning has all types on conventional known surface and the swimming pool of shape.For example, pool surface can form gunite surface, tile surface or its combination.On ground, swimming pool is equipped with vinyl liner, and its surface is normally smooth and semiflexible.The material whitewashing is sand and concrete combination, so that cover the framework of the swimming pool in the ground.The gunite surface swimming pool has texture and hard.The surface can smoothly or have texture, and has the recess between the patch block of being formed on, and wherein is provided with waterproof sealing agent (mortar).The gunite surface of roughening and to a certain extent tile surface can cause the brush and the parts of plastics extreme wear of cleaner head.
Owing to be used to keep shape, profile and the surface of the container of certain water gaging to change, wish more for the surface of a kind of particular type of swimming pool and shape, to use one type nozzle attachment mutually for amusement or each swimming pool of purpose attractive in appearance, hot tub, mineral spring or other.In order to adapt to the cleaning on dissimilar surfaces, many professional swimming pool cleanup crew or customer with a plurality of amusements of for example having different surfaces and/or water receptacle attractive in appearance (for example swimming pool and/or hot tub) do not select, and can only buy the cleaning equipment that separates on the dissimilar surfaces that are applicable to that they run into.Therefore, for buying and safeguarding a plurality of cleaning equipments, the cleaner that does not have to clean the dissimilar surface of amusement and/or water receptacle attractive in appearance can cause other cost.
Therefore, this area needs and can provide the nozzle attachment that best cleaning can be adaptive for amusement with different surfaces material, texture and/or shape and water receptacle attractive in appearance.
Summary of the invention
Relevant with prior art before this defective overcomes by the adaptable nozzle attachment of the present invention that is used for pool cleaner.Ozzle is adjustable attachment, according to the surface type that will be cleaned, makes the user selectively brush and/or roller are attached on the soffit of nozzle attachment.
Adjustable nozzle attachment comprises the plane institution movement with upper surface and soffit.The aperture is passed plane institution movement and is formed, and is applicable to the connection vacuum suction source.A plurality of attachment arrangements are formed on the soffit of plane institution movement.
In one embodiment, each attachment arrangement is applicable to that the public location at soffit receives roller or brush interchangeably.As selection, attachment arrangement can be removed and fastening roller and brush at the diverse location place selectively along soffit.In this embodiment, each attachment arrangement is exclusively used in and receives roller or brush selectively.In any embodiment, according to the type on the surface that will be cleaned, the user can schematically remove brush and roller (or vice versa) is installed.
In a preferred embodiment, attachment arrangement is that brush and/or roller receive recess wherein.Other device of attachment comprises magnet, hook and loop fasteners, friction or locking be slidingly matched part, screw member and other mechanical fastening device well known in the art.
The structure of attachment arrangement makes the user regulate the overall flex of nozzle attachment when being a plurality of rollers and brush combination, thereby adapts to the surface type that is cleaned.Therefore, the ability of exchanging roller and brush and adjusting the flexibility of nozzle attachment thus provides more effective and useful nozzle attachment, thereby cleans the different surfaces of amusement and/or water receptacle attractive in appearance (for example pond, hot tub, swimming pool etc.).
By a plurality of brushes and the roller that provide single vacuum attachment spare head and buyer/user to install according to the surface that will be cleaned, the present invention has also reduced the manufacturing cost of amusement and/or water receptacle attractive in appearance.
The ability of conversion attachment of the present invention is also attractive especially for the buyer with two or more amusements and/or water receptacle attractive in appearance (for example swimming pool and/or mineral spring), can remove brush, and roller (perhaps vice versa) is installed, thereby is changed vacuum cleaning/the pick up flexibility and the operating characteristics of attachment.
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Instruction of the present invention can consider in conjunction with the drawings that following detailed understands easily, in the accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 represents a kind of pattern according to one embodiment of the invention operation pool cleaner;
Fig. 2 represents the Zoom Side elevation of pool cleaner shown in Figure 1;
Fig. 3 represents the top perspective of an embodiment of nozzle attachment of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the bottom perspective view of the nozzle attachment of Fig. 3;
Fig. 5 is the top perspective of another embodiment of nozzle attachment of the present invention;
Fig. 6 is the bottom view of the nozzle attachment of Fig. 5; And
Fig. 7 is the bottom view of another embodiment of nozzle attachment of the present invention.
In order to help to understand, adopted identical reference number in due course, so that total identical or similar elements in the expression accompanying drawing.In addition, unless stated otherwise, the drawing of expression and explanation is not proportionally drawn in the accompanying drawing, but only represents for purpose of explanation.
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The invention provides the various embodiments of the adaptable nozzle attachment that is applicable to the multiple band texture underwater surface of cleaning.Nozzle attachment is applicable to the multiple pool surface of cleaning, for example pvdf surface, whitewashing and patch block and other band texture and not with the surface of texture.Notice that pool cleaner also can be used for cleaning the multiple container that contains water, for example mineral spring, hot tub, ornamental external door pond and other amusement and water receptacle attractive in appearance.
The present invention is usually at " nozzle attachment ".But the present invention has applicable to any other ozzle head, dust collecter, panel, vacuum head or other and is used to regulate and guided liquid-flow cleans for example extended part of the opening of the vessel surface of swimming pool simultaneously.
In one embodiment of the invention, adjustable nozzle attachment comprises the plane institution movement with upper surface and soffit, and wherein the upper surface and the soffit formation of described plane institution movement is passed in the aperture.The aperture is applicable to and is connected on the vacuum source, for example submersible vacuum cleaner.A plurality of attachment arrangements are formed on the soffit place of plane institution movement, and wherein each attachment arrangement is applicable at least one that receives a plurality of rollers and a plurality of brushes interchangeably.
In one embodiment, plane institution movement is made by flexible material, for example synthetic polymer, natural or synthetic rubber, perhaps other proper flexibility material.The flexibility of plane institution movement can be by being connected roller on the attachment arrangement and/or brush type and user dispose selectively and control.For example, roller can exchange selectively and be connected on the soffit of nozzle attachment, for use in the swimming pool with gunite surface material.In this case, plane institution movement roughly keeps its flexible characteristic, and can follow the profile of the pool surface area that will be cleaned.Be that the flexible flat member will roughly be taked the common radius of curvature that finds in the whitewashing swimming pool.
As selection, brush is attached at the soffit of the nozzle attachment of the swimming pool that is used to have vinyl liner interchangeably.In this case, plane institution movement becomes semi-rigid, can to a greater degree material be swept and remove from half flexible ethylene surface of pool liner thus.
Fig. 1 represents a kind of pattern according to one embodiment of the invention operation pool cleaner 10.Pool cleaner 10 can aspirate material from the surface that will be cleaned, and for example water and granular solid material comprise big relatively size (for example insect, blade, twig).Pool cleaner 10 comprises main body 16, nozzle attachment 36, strainer and is used to discharge one or more floss holes of filtered water.
In one embodiment, pool cleaner 10 can be the battery-powered pool cleaner, as authorizes in common all United States Patent (USP)s 6797157 of Erlich and describe, and this patent integral body is hereby expressly incorporated by reference.But, those skilled in the art will appreciate that pool cleaner 10 can comprise any vacuum source (for example pump) so that the suction that material is removed from underwater environment is provided.For example, the vacuum source of pool cleaner 10 (for example main body) can connect flexible pipe thereby use from the outside location of swimming pool between nozzle attachment 35 and main body 16.
In first pattern of operation shown in Figure 1, pool cleaner 10 can be attached on the bar 12, makes the user clean pool surface when standing in the swimming pool outside.Operation second, in the hand-held mode, pool cleaner 10 comprises integral handle 14 (see figure 2)s, make user and pool cleaner 10 be immersed in the swimming pool together, so that grasping and directed pool cleaner 10, and on the surface of swimming pool, handle pool cleaner 10.
Fig. 2 represents the side elevation view of pool cleaner 10 shown in Figure 1.The embodiment of pool cleaner shown in Figure 2 comprises submergeible main body 16.Main body 16 can comprise having the molded plastics that meets human engineering and streamline-shaped, and the level and smooth and curved surface of lower resistance for example is provided in water.
The main body 16 of pool cleaner 10 comprises stretches out handle 14.In one embodiment, handle forms by molded plastics is whole, makes pool cleaner 10 can hand and carry easily and handle.Main body 16 can be included in the hollow section (not shown) of filling water in the immersion processes, makes pool cleaner 10 not float after the submergence fully.Pool cleaner 10 is constructed with roughly medium buoyancy, makes it can be relatively easily and handle under water on any orientation along any level that is cleaned, vertical or curved surface.
A plurality of water outlets or open 24 and be present in the main body 16 make the water that filters turn back to swimming pool, and make water flow into and flow out cavity.In preferred embodiment shown in Figure 2, water outlet 24 symmetries are directed, so that discharge the water that filters on the direction of the central axis 56 that is approximately perpendicular to bar attachment members 20.The symmetric orientation of water outlet 24 helps to prevent that the water expulsion pressure that leaves the discharge water of any single water discharging 24 from causing pool cleaner 10 to move on undesirable direction.Therefore, pool cleaner 10 is handled in use easily, and the motion of mainly determining in response to the user uses the handle 14 that is attached on the bar attachment members 20 or bar 12.
Equally as shown in Figure 2, filter housings 26 can be attached on the main body 16 by locking bolt and hinge arrangement.Filter housings 26 holds at least one strainer 40 so that hold back undesirable material, for example fragment.Releasable locking bolt 28 is installed in the latch aperture 30, makes filter housings 26 pivot around hinge 32 and leaves main body 16, makes fragment from filter housings 26 turned letters.In one embodiment, hinge 32 is permanently affixed at filter housings 26 on the main body 16 with the structure that pivots.In another embodiment, hinge 32 can be dismountable hinge, and wherein after being pivoted to predetermined angular, filter housings 26 can be from hinge 32 dismountings.As selection, the securing member that engages at least two spring clips of other member or other type can be provided with and be used for making filter housings 26 dismounting fully on the main body 16.In the embodiment of this back, strainer can advantageously be combined in and be positioned between filter housings 26 and the main body 16 and on the two way seal member that engages, thereby forms liquid-tight seal between them.
In one embodiment, the impeller (not shown) is arranged in the main body 16 of pool cleaner.Impeller causes the water of filtration to be drawn in the nozzle attachment when rotating, and the process filter bag also is forced to leaving water floss hole 24.In addition, filter housings 26 can be a conical in shape, makes that the conical filter housing helps to form eddy current in wheel rotation simultaneously, and the water suction is flowed out through filter housings 26 and via water outlet 24.In addition, also the recline bottom compressing fragment of strainer of eddy current makes fragment at first in the bottom or the downstream end compression of strainer, makes more fragments remain in the strainer in cleaning filtration interim thus.
Though schematically illustrating, duct element 38 is the short relatively flexible hose of length in Fig. 2, make nozzle attachment 36 locate, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the flexible hose of length also can be used as duct element 38 near the main body 16 of pool cleaner 10.For example, can exist and wish that cleaning has the situation that is difficult to clean Surface at a plurality of turnings and edge, for example the step in the shallow end of swimming pool or hot tub.Can find that with the personnel of handle 14 different cleaning steps on the main body 16 that keeps pool cleaner 10 the most handy hand keeps nozzle attachment 36, so that the guiding cleaning.Flexible " extensions " flexible pipe is used as from main body 16 to ozzle 36 extension, make the cleanup crew with hand along being difficult to the clean Surface nozzle attachment 36 that moves, the negative buoyancy force of main body 16 keeps main body 16 submergences simultaneously, and the another position in water receptacle can be operated.
As selection, the bar attachment can be connected on the end near the nozzle attachment 36 of nozzle attachment 36 or flexible pipe extension, makes the cleanup crew clean any unapproachable surface of attractive in appearance or recreational water container (for example deep end).Therefore, for those difficult surfaces that need extra care, flexible and extendable flexible pipe advantageously adapts to hand or by extension rod and cleans.
Fig. 3 is the top perspective of an embodiment of nozzle attachment 36 of the present invention.Fig. 4 is the bottom perspective view of the nozzle attachment of Fig. 3, and should watch in conjunction with Fig. 3.
The shape of plane institution movement 300 can be the combination that circular, avette, semicircle, polygon (for example triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon and polygon), oval, wing or any other shape or be applicable to combines with the profile of pool surface and guiding liquids (for example water) and solid matter (for example fragment) enter pool cleaner 10.In the exemplary embodiment shown in Fig. 3 and 4, nozzle attachment 36 is essentially rectangular shapes, has the aperture 42 of the center that roughly is formed on plane institution movement 300.
With reference to figure 3, nozzle adapter 310 is connected on the aperture 42 on the upper surface 302 of plane institution movement 300 and the upper surface 302 that reclines forms sealing.In one embodiment, nozzle adapter 310 can be fixing with respect to upper surface 302.As selection, and as shown in Figure 3, nozzle adapter 310 is hinged on conventional nozzle pivot interface or the pivoted frame 312, thereby moves with respect to upper surface 302 along horizontal axis A-A.Movable nozzle adapter 310 can preferably provide bigger surface contact, and can reach bigger extension by the user, and reduces the undesirable stress on the conduit 38, as the prior art conventional known.
In one embodiment, (for example attachment arrangement 320 for a plurality of attachment arrangements
1-320
n(totally be called attachment arrangement 320, wherein n is the integer greater than 1)) be formed on the soffit 304 of plane institution movement 300.Attachment arrangement 320 is provided with size so that receive brush 350 and/or the roller 360 that the user can install interchangeably.Attachment arrangement can be that brush and/or roller are connected any appropriate device on the soffit of plane institution movement 300 selectively.For example, attachment arrangement 320 can be any securing member, for example clip, buckle, anchor clamps, hook and loop, locking bolt, pin, screw, rotation/slide lock rationed marketing/plate and magnetic attachment part, band (for example VELCRO band) and other conventional mounting and fastener, perhaps its any combination.
The surface type that brush 350 that user's selection will be mounted and/or roller 360 depend on swimming pool.For example, Fig. 3 represents to be installed in the brush 350 on the soffit 304 of plane institution movement 300.In addition, Fig. 4 represents how brush 350 and/or roller 360 are installed.
Shown in Fig. 3 and 4, attachment arrangement 320 comprises a plurality of recesses 322 in the soffit 304 that is formed on plane institution movement 300
1-322
n(totally be called recess 322, wherein n is the integer greater than 1).Each recess 322 is provided with size so that receive brush 350 or roller 360 separately.For example, recess 322 is expressed as rectangular shape, comprises rectangular brush head 352 so that keep the brush 350 of a plurality of bristles 354 so that hold.But, those skilled in the art will appreciate that this rectangular shape do not think restriction, and other indenture or otch (for example one or more holes or passage) can be arranged alternately in plane institution movement, so that fixedly roller and/or brush.
In one embodiment, one or more ratchet (not shown) can be formed in each recess, so that location and maintenance brush or roller make brush or roller to unclamp by apply external force on one of parts.As shown in Figure 3, recess 322 is being aimed on the direction of the length of plane institution movement 300, and this direction promotes the direction of nozzle attachment 36 perpendicular to the user.
In one embodiment, recess 322 extends certain distance, makes the sidewall of recess keep brush head 352.In another embodiment, recess is extensible by upper surface 302, size is set so that keep the aperture separately of brush head 352 thereby form.As selection, 322 extensible surpassing on the upper surface 302 of plane institution movement 302 of recess, enter corresponding protruding element 330.Protruding element 330 is arranged on the recess 332, so that keep insert (being brush head 352 and or roller 360).For example, protruding element 332
1Be formed on recess 322
1On, protruding element 330
2Be formed on recess 320
2On etc.Protruding element 330 is provided with size so that receive and cover brush head 352.Recess/protruding element forms near the peripheries of plane institution movements 310 322 and 330, so that 310 guiding of operation nozzle adapter are swept any fragment of falling by brush 350, this helps from pool surface pump up water and fragment.
In one embodiment, the part of recess 322 can comprise wheel well 332 separately.For example, wheel well 332
1-332
p(wherein p is the integer greater than 1) is expressed as respectively and recess 330
1, 330
3, 330
4With 330
nOverlap and form.Though also can have other configuration, in one embodiment, wheel well 330 forms at the center and perpendicular to rectangular recess 322.
As shown in Figure 4, exemplary roller 360 comprises the axle 366 of for example taking turns 364 roller members and extending through the center hub of wheel 364, and is such as known in the art.The part of the axle alignment member 362 coaxial axles 366 on every side of wheel 364 of a pair of rectangular shape.This is provided with size to axle alignment member 362, so as will to take turns 364 and axle 366 be fixed in the recess 322, make wheel well (wheel well) 332 cover the top of wheel 364 from the direction of the upper surface 364 of plane institution movement 300.Wheel well 330 is provided with size, makes wheel 364 around axle 366 vertical rotation, and is not hindered.
Embodiment shown in Fig. 3 or 4 makes the user that brush 350 and/or roller 360 are connected in the plane institution movement 300 interchangeably.Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the size of brush 350 and/or roller 360 and the printing that quantity is design alternative, and the exemplary embodiment of expression is not here thought restriction.Therefore, roughly level and smooth or when not having the pool surface of texture in needs cleanings, vinyl liner surface for example, brush 350 inserts recesses 322.As selection, when the veined pool surface of needs cleaning band, gunite surface for example, brush 350 is removed, and roller 360 can insert recess 322.In addition, the recess 322 of nozzle attachment 36 can be randomly inserted in the combination of roller 360 and brush 350, so that the cleaning tile surface.
Fig. 5 and 6 is top view and bottom views of another embodiment of nozzle attachment of the present invention.The embodiment part that Fig. 5 and 6 embodiment are different from Fig. 3 and 4 is that brush 350 and 360 has difformity and configuration, and also has unique wheel well except recess.
With reference to figure 6, attachment arrangement 520 can be the attachment arrangement of any kind, as the embodiment with reference to figure 3 and 4 describes.As illustrated in Figures 5 and 6, attachment arrangement 520 comprises recess 522 and the wheel well 532 that schematically is separated from each other formation.In one embodiment, recess 522 form make rectangular recess an end towards orifice 42 and the pattern of the periphery of plane institution movement 500 is pointed in the opposite end of recess.As describing with reference to figure 3 and 4, recess keeps brush 350, and the pattern of recess 522 helps to be directed to central nozzle orifice 42 with sweep the material that falls by brush 350.When it moves through the bottom of swimming pool or sidewall, the whole surf zone under the brush 350 best contact plane members 500.
In one embodiment, recess 522 is extensible by soffit 504 and upper surface 502, so that form the opening (not shown), size is set opening so that the sidewall stationary brush 350 of the opening that reclines.As selection, and as shown in Figure 5, with the similar fashion that the embodiment with respect to Fig. 3 and 4 describes, corresponding protruding element part 532 is being provided with on the upper surface 502 on the recess 552.
For example, roller 560 can comprise the shaft portion 566 of taking turns part 564 and passing the center of wheel 564 via the central hub vertical extent.Axle 566 stretches out on every side of wheel 564.The axle of roller 560 566 can insert notch portion 536, and the size that is provided with greater than wheel 564 of wheel well 532, has the gap for wheel 564, thereby rotates in the clear around its axle 566.Roller 560 can be molded as single-piece or form the assembly of building block.
Embodiment shown in Fig. 5 and 6 makes the user exchange brush 350 and/or roller 560 on plane institution movement 500.Size, shape and the quantity that those skilled in the art will appreciate that brush 350 and/or roller 560 is the factor of design alternative, and the embodiment of expression does not here think restriction.Therefore, when the pool surface that has texture of for example gunite surface need clean, roller 560 can insert recess 522.In addition, the combination of roller 560 and brush 350 can be inserted the recess 522 of nozzle attachment 36, so that the cleaning tile surface.
Fig. 7 is the bottom view of the another embodiment of nozzle attachment 36 of the present invention.Nozzle attachment 36 comprises the plane institution movement 700 of the semicircular in shape of signal, and has formation wherein so that be connected the aperture 42 of the centralized positioning on the nozzle adapter (not shown).Fig. 7 represents the basal surface 704 of plane institution movement 700.
A plurality of recesses 722
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u(totally be called recess 722, wherein u is the integer greater than 1) forms near the periphery of plane institution movement 700.For example, the recess 722 of three essentially rectangulars
3-722
sThe straight edge 706 of reliable hither plane member 700 axially aligns.The 4th recess 722
1Form along central axis on semicircular summit 708 perpendicular to straight edge 706.At least two other recesses 722
2With 722
uBe formed between straight edge 706 and the summit 708.At least two other rectangular recess 722
2With 722
uSchematically be formed on from center port 42 towards plane institution movement on the direction that the periphery of 700 semi-circular portion extends.
The recess 722 of at least three essentially rectangulars comprises wheel well part 734, and wheel well partly is provided with size so that receive the part of the roller of the roller 360 of for example representing with respect to Fig. 3 and 4 and describing.For example, the recess 722 that is formed on 708 places, summit of plane institution movement 700 comprises wheel well 734
1, and three recesses 722
3-733
5Comprise wheel well 734 separately
2-734
w(wherein w is the integer greater than 1).
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that nozzle attachment 36 can be formed on is applicable on pool surface and rolls or inswept Any shape that should the surface.Shown in each exemplary embodiment in, recess is provided with size makes interchangeable roller and brush remove easily and change by another.In addition, wheel well is aligned so that hold roller, make the user can be easily along the direction line nozzle attachment 36 that seesaws.
Though recess and brush are schematically represented as the essentially rectangular shape, other shape is set also.For example, the recess of curved shape and separately brush can be used to fragment is directed to central aperture 42.In addition, brush head 352 can be made by flexibility, the half flexibility or rigidity material of for example plastics, with desired stiffness or the flexibility that helps plane institution movement.That is, when brush 350 inserted recess, according to the rigidity of inserting brush head 352 wherein, the plane institution movement of nozzle attachment 36 can lose some flexibility.In many application, for example clean vinyl pool surface, hope be to have the flexibility that reduces plane institution movement than the brush head of rigidity.As selection, in cleaning during tile surface, hope be nozzle attachment 36 in, to adopt the brush of flexibility more.The material of noticing used structure is selected to the ultraviolet chemicals that can stand to be used for keeping water quality, cleansing composition and the sun.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that similar analysis goes for roller, for example the roller shown in Fig. 4 and 7 360.For those embodiment, the flexibility of axle alignment member 362 can be according to changing by nozzle attachment 36 clean Surface.
In addition, though brush and roller are described and are expressed as to be attached on the plane institution movement of roller attachment via the recess that forms wherein in a plurality of embodiment, this attachment arrangement is not thought to limit.For example, brush and roller can be attached by securing member, for example clip, cooperation buckle and/or other conventional fastener well known in the art.
Therefore, the invention provides a kind of nozzle attachment 36, this attachment comprises detachable and/or interchangeable brush and roller.In addition, pass through to install brush and/or roller according to the type (for example whitewashing, ethene, patch block etc.) of the surf zone that will be cleaned, produce different rigidity in flexible usually plane institution movement, the user can regulate the flexibility of nozzle attachment 36.Therefore, the professional vacuum cleaning head that is used for dissimilar surfaces is different with buying, and user (for example professional swimming pool cleaning service personnel) can buy the single swimming pool cleaning device that is applicable to the kinds of surface type.
Though describe and illustrated the various embodiments in conjunction with instruction of the present invention here in detail, those of ordinary skills will design the many different embodiment that is combined with these instructions all the time easily.
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1. an adjustable nozzle attachment comprises the flexible flat member with upper surface and soffit; Pass plane institution movement and form and be applicable to the aperture that is connected on the vacuum suction source; And a plurality of attachment arrangements that are formed on described soffit place, each attachment arrangement is applicable to and receives at least one roll assembly and brush supporting member interchangeably that described roll assembly and brush supporting member have the roughly structure of rigidity.
2. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, the first of described at least a plurality of attachment arrangements forms near the periphery of described plane institution movement.
3. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, the second portion of described a plurality of attachment arrangements is configured to be applicable to when plane institution movement advances the pattern towards described aperture guiding substance on the surface that is being cleaned.
4. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that described aperture is positioned at central position on nozzle attachment, and the described second portion of the described a plurality of attachment arrangements at least a portion of surrounding described aperture.
5. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, the described first of each of attachment arrangement is provided with size, so that be received in roller separately directed on the common direction.
6. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, the described first of each of attachment arrangement is provided with size so that receive brush.
7. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, described plane institution movement keeps flexibility roughly, and described roller is connected in the described first of attachment arrangement.
8. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, it is roughly flexible that described plane institution movement keeps, and described brush is connected in the described first of attachment arrangement.
9. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, it is roughly flexible that described plane institution movement becomes, and described brush is connected in the described first of attachment arrangement.
10. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that, the described second portion of each of attachment arrangement is provided with size so that receive brush.
11. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, it is roughly flexible that described plane institution movement keeps, and described brush is connected on the described second portion of attachment arrangement.
12. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, it is roughly flexible that described plane institution movement becomes, and described brush is connected in the described first of attachment arrangement.
13. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, also comprises being connected on the upper surface and the nozzle adapter on described aperture.
14. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described plane institution movement is formed by flexible material, and this flexible material is selected from least a in synthetic polymer, natural rubber and the synthetic rubber.
15. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, each attachment arrangement comprises the recess in the soffit that is formed on plane institution movement.
16. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that, described recess is the essentially rectangular shape.
17. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that, at least a portion of described attachment arrangement also comprises wheel well.
18. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 15 is characterized in that, each attachment arrangement also is included in the protruding element that forms on each recess.
19. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, described a plurality of attachment arrangements comprise a plurality of openings, and wherein each opening is provided with size so that receive at least a in described roller and the brush.
20. nozzle attachment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, plane institution movement comprises following shape, and this shape comprises at least a in rectangle, polygon, circle, semicircle, avette, oval, triangle, the wing and combination.
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