CN107012929A - Drainpipe cleaning equipment - Google Patents

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CN107012929A
CN107012929A CN201710063721.0A CN201710063721A CN107012929A CN 107012929 A CN107012929 A CN 107012929A CN 201710063721 A CN201710063721 A CN 201710063721A CN 107012929 A CN107012929 A CN 107012929A
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H·K·贝克
S·阿胡贾
S·S·霍奇森
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Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of drainpipe cleaning equipment, its obstruction capture element for including handle and being detachably connectable to the handle.Alar part, hangnail or hook portion are extended radially out from obstruction capture element.Alar part, hangnail or hook portion provide oblique angle protuberance, and it captures and keeps the grumeleuse of the chip in drainage pipeline, so as to which the grumeleuse is pulled out and dredging drainpipe from drainpipe.Different tool terminals can be detachably connectable to obstruction capture element or smooth extended element to provide multi-functional characteristic.Handle, obstruction capture element, smooth extended element and instrument can be using such as fastening fastener or side be opened and be buckled or the fast joint type connector of screw thread coupling is connected to each other.In addition to drainpipe is cleared up, equipment can also be assembled with the instrument of such as magnet, pawl, light fixture, video camera and/or video camera, to withdraw object and to check the space it is difficult to directly observe.

Description

Drainpipe cleaning equipment
Crosscorrelation application
The application is the U.S. Patent application No.15/009 submitted on January 28th, 2016,613 part continuation application, and And require the U.S. Provisional Patent Application No.62/420,552 submitted on November 10th, 2016 and submit on January 30th, 2015 U.S. Provisional Patent Application No.No.62/109,742 priority, each of which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Technical field
The present invention relates to the equipment of the drainage pipeline of the obstruction for dredging tank, bathtub, shower or closestool, and more In particular relate to drainpipe cleaning equipment, the equipment can be assembled with more than one length, and is adapted in use to Different tool terminal, to service with dredging or cleaning drainage pipeline or fetch thing from drainage pipeline or similar restricted clearance The relevant different purposes of body.
Background technology
Tank, bathtub, the drainage pipeline of shower or closestool are often because of hair, toothpaste, solid waste and paper etc. Accumulation of debris and block and can not proper drainage.The snakelike part of drainpipe has been often used in dredging drainpipe road, but arranges The snakelike part of water pipe is more it is desirable that for relative to the obstruction close to draining tube opening.Luoma United States Patent (USP) No.6 is authorized, 775,873 are related to the equipment for going hair removal from drainpipe.Luoma equipment includes elongated flexible strip, and it has in bar An end on be integrally formed handle.Bar has the alternate barbed portion along sidepiece.Bar can be inserted into due to In the drainpipe that hair is gathered and blocked, and barbed portion is used to grasp hair, so that hair can be drawn out row with bar Water pipe and be removed from drainpipe.Louma equipment is probably useful, but its purposes is limited by following factor, i.e., solid Fixed length, ability, the ability from drainline clearance hair and other chips of bending of compromising in drainage pipeline, and Louma equipment is limited to from drainline clearance hair and can not provided for servicing any other purpose.Therefore, exist For the demand of improved drainpipe cleaning equipment.
The content of the invention
In one embodiment, the invention provides a kind of drainpipe cleaning equipment, it includes having opposite two ends Handle and grasping part, one of end has handle connector.Block capture element detachable using proximal connector Ground is connected to handle connector, and the obstruction capture element has a body, and the body has length and near-end, distal end and near Terminal adapter.Preferably, multiple alar parts are extended radially out relative to the longitudinal axis of body from body.One scheme of alar part is tool There are outward appearance, arrangement and the direction of wing, difference is multigroup alar part.The purpose of alar part is to provide oblique angle protuberance, institute The grumeleuse that oblique angle protuberance will capture and kept the chip in drainage pipeline is stated, so that grumeleuse can be drawn out from drainpipe.Phase Hoping feature is, handle, obstruction capture element and multiple alar parts have intensity, rigidity, flexibility and the length of combination, to cause Obstruction capture element can be promoted through the drainage openings in tank and entered in drainage pipeline by user, be preferably used for catching Obturator, grumeleuse, agglomerate or the material block for obtaining the chip in drainage pipeline close and pull out it and dredging drainpipe from drainage pipeline Road.Blocking the distal end of capture element preferably has tool connector.
In another embodiment, the instrument with mechanical device and member connector is connected in the way of allowing to be disconnected To the tool connector for blocking capture element.In order to removably connect, preferably each connector uses fastening fastener (its Hole including receiving column), quick release coupled connection mechanism, button mechanism, side open buckle mechanism or threaded connection.The present invention There is provided a kind of multifunctional equipment, it is used for generally but not necessarily in the row close to the position of drainage openings dredging obstruction Waterpipe.Multifunctionality can be provided, and be partly because wide variety of instrument and can be removably attached to obstruction and catch Obtain component or similar extension of section.The mechanical device of instrument can be any one of elements below or device:Pointed Element, the element of fillet, hemispherical element, hangnail element, hangnail spear body, the spear body with multiple hangnails including multiple arrows Spear body, the regracting spear body with multiple hangnails, the spiral spear body with multiple hangnails, can rotate and with multiple hangnails Spiral spear body, javelin portion, the javelin portion with multiple fish hooks or J hooks, push rod/scraper, pull bar/scraper, brush, magnet, screw Cone, helical spring, the element with adhesive, stirring cleaner, hook, light fixture, video camera, video camera, video camera With lamp assembly and include the component of video camera, light fixture and wireless transmission component.
The present invention provides a kind of equipment in one embodiment, and the equipment has elongated of one or more sections Body, they can be assembled into a variety of different lengths and be disassembled, and the body has in multiple alar parts, hangnail or hook portion extremely Few one kind, the body can be used together with handle and be optionally able to together with instrument make in one end opposite with handle With.The equipment of the embodiment can be packaged and be comprising detachable drainpipe cleaning equipment in retail shop or online sales The external member of (preferably with one or more tool terminals).The external member can include the handle with connector A, with elongated At least one obstruction of body is removed obstacles, and (slender body has connector B in portion at one end for component or/or smooth extended element And there is connector C on the other end).With connector D and sized and shaped for insertion tank, bathtub or closestool So that the instrument that object is withdrawn inside dredging drainpipe road or cleaning drainage pipeline or inside drainage pipeline is excellent in drainage pipeline Choosing is comprised in the external member.User can be by being connected to connector A by connector B and being connected to connector D Meet device C and assemble drainpipe cleaning equipment.User can use drainpipe cleaning equipment with dredging drainpipe and and then dismantle Equipment.Each part can be cleaned, stored or reused, or dirty part can be dropped, and some parts are by again Use.One scheme of connector is to fasten retention mechanism, and one of connector has multiple holes and the connector matched With multiple columns, the multiple column can be received in the hole in the way of fasten and coordinate, to be formed between elements Connect firmly but removably.
Another embodiment of drainpipe cleaning equipment includes slender body and multiple J-shapeds or barb-type hook portion, described Hook portion is fixed to the body, the embedded body or integrally formed with the body near an end, thereby using Person can promote slender body through the row in tank, bathtub, shower, closestool or similar pipeline engineering device with hook portion Water opening simultaneously enters in the drainage pipeline of obstruction, and the grumeleuse of chip, agglomerate or material block are fished out and dredged from drainage pipeline Drainpipe.It is possible to want to set handle or grasping part on the other end of body, to make it easy to promote body and hook portion Enter in drainage pipeline and pull out them, and in another embodiment, dismountable handle is set.Another side Case is to provide a variety of different length by providing extended element between slender body and handle for equipment, wherein, extension Component is removably to be connected to handle, and slender body is removably to be connected to extended element.Using the program, use Person can be by handle, one or more extended elements and the slender body with hook portion is attached together;The row for dredging obstruction Waterpipe;And then drainpipe cleaning equipment is dismantled.Alternative solution for hook portion includes arrow, in a row in axostylus axostyle Multiple arrows and spear body with fixed or retractible hangnail.
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After the detailed description of illustrative examples proposed below is considered in conjunction with the accompanying, this hair can be best understood from It is bright, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the side view of the drainpipe cleaning equipment according to the present invention;
Fig. 2 is according to the present invention, the positive part of fast joint type connector and the biopsy cavity marker devices side view of female one Figure, wherein, before showing a case that each several part is connected to each other;
Fig. 3 is the side view in partial cross-section of the Fig. 2 looked over from left side fast joint type connector;
Fig. 4 is positive part and the side view in partial cross-section of female one of Fig. 2 fast joint type connector, wherein, After showing a case that each several part is connected;
Fig. 5 is along the positive and the sectional view of female one after the connection of line 5-5 Fig. 4 looked over connector;
Fig. 6 is according to the present invention, the positive part of fast joint type connector and the biopsy cavity marker devices side view of female one Figure, wherein, before showing a case that each several part is connected to each other;
Fig. 7 is the side view in partial cross-section of the Fig. 6 looked over from left side fast joint type connector;
Fig. 8 is positive part and the side view in partial cross-section of female one of Fig. 6 fast joint type connector, wherein, After showing a case that each several part is connected;
Fig. 9 is along the positive and the sectional view of female one after the connection of line 9-9 Fig. 8 looked over connector;
Figure 10 is the fast joint type connector with the positive part being engaged with each other and female one according to the present invention Side view, wherein, positive part and female one can not easily be taken apart;
Figure 11 is the sectional view of the fast joint type connector along line 11-11 Figure 10 looked over;
Figure 12 is the side view in partial cross-section of the fast joint type connector according to the present invention, wherein, show each several part Situation before being connected with each other;
Figure 13 be looked over from left side and the first and second parts be connected with each other after Figure 12 fast joint type connect Connect the side view in partial cross-section of device;
Figure 14 is the side view of the Figure 13 looked over from left side fast joint type connector;
Figure 15 is the sectional view of the fast joint type connector along line 15-15 Figure 13 looked over;
Figure 16 is the side of push rod/scraper tool of the fast joint type connector with positive, double forks according to the present invention View;
Figure 17 is the bottom end view of Figure 16 push rod/scraper tool;
Figure 18 is to be used for push rod/scraper tool with the screw thread of another element removable attachment according to having for the present invention Side view;
Figure 19 is that detachably connected element and have magnet in tool ends end each other using screw thread according to having for the present invention Drainpipe cleaning equipment side view;
Figure 20 is the side view of tool terminal, and the tool terminal has the cavity volume and tool for receiving magnet according to the present invention There is the fast joint type connector of positive, double forks;
Figure 21 is the side view of tool terminal, and the tool terminal has the cavity volume and tool for receiving magnet according to the present invention There is screw thread coupling;
Figure 22 is the side view of tool terminal, and the tool terminal has body, one in the body according to the present invention The brush and the screw thread coupling on another end of the body received in individual end;
Figure 23 is the side view of the stirring cleaner (wisk) according to the present invention;
Figure 24 is the cross-sectional side elevational view of the spear body with hangnail according to the present invention, and its hangnail is in the position withdrawn;
Figure 25 shows Figure 24 spear body with hangnail, and its hangnail is in the position of expansion;
Figure 26 is the sectional view of the spear body with hangnail along line 26-26 Figure 25 looked over;
Figure 27 is the side view of the spear body with spiral hangnail according to the present invention;
Figure 28 is the side view of the drainpipe cleaning equipment according to the present invention;
Figure 29 is the side view of the drainpipe cleaning javelin (harpoon) according to the present invention;
Figure 30 is the side view of the flashlight according to the present invention;
Figure 31 is the side view of the brush according to the present invention;
Figure 32 is the side view of the drainpipe cleaning equipment according to the present invention;
Figure 33 is tight along the fastening in the closed position in line 33-33 Figure 32 looked over drainpipe cleaning equipment Firmware;
Figure 34 is Figure 33 but the stereogram of fastening fastener in an open position.
Embodiment
For it is having blocked and can not proper drainage tank, bathtub, shower etc. drainage pipeline, the present invention provides It is used for the equipment for cleaning the drainage pipeline.Drainpipe often blocks because of the accumulation of chip, and the accumulation of chip is frequent Form is grumeleuse, and the grumeleuse is often the combination of hair and other chips.The equipment of the present invention is one in one embodiment The component of part is planted, the part includes handle, blocks remove obstacles component and terminal member, it can be used from drainpipe drawing Then the grumeleuse of chip and/or expulsion and the grumeleuse of broken chip, the grumeleuse of chip can be cleaned out from drainpipe.The present invention Equipment be described at this for its application in pipeline engineering drainage pipeline, but to can be used for cleaning any for the equipment The obstruction of pipeline, and it is not only pipeline engineering drainage pipeline.For example, pipeline is in Food processing, oil and natural gas industry, essence Used in refining and petrochemical industry and paper pulp and paper-making industry.Equipment can be additionally used in the space of sword scholar and detection of concealed, described to hide Space be included in the inside of the pipeline in any pipe applications and in any kind of cabin.
Fig. 1 is the side view of one embodiment of the present of invention.It is clear that drainpipe cleaning equipment 10 includes tee handle bar 12, obstruction Hinder component or obstruction capture element 14 and tool terminal 16.Drainpipe cleaning equipment 10 is vertical by having of constituting of each part To the elongated rod shaped members of axis.Handle 12 has elongated portion 12a, and the elongated portion has and drainpipe cleaning equipment The axially coincident longitudinal axis in 10 longitudinal direction.The elongated portion 12a of handle 12 has two opposite ends, and an end is to grab Hold part 12b and another end is handle connector 12c.Grip portion 12b is the material of a segment length in the present embodiment Material, it has the longitudinal direction axially vertical with elongated portion 12a longitudinal direction axially and is centered in elongated portion 12a end, So as to form "T"-shaped shape.Other types of grasping can also be used to provide for people to keep the utensil of handle 12, for example, be thin Ball on long part 12a end or the finger-like grasping part along the surface of elongated portion.The grip portion of handle can be with It is finger-like grasping part, finger-hole, smooth d-axis or the element with the Roman number shape for numeral one on axle.Handle connects It can be any suitable connector to meet device 12c, and the connector is preferably quick and easy to use and preferably provided Dismountable connection.In this embodiment, handle connector 12c is the negative portion of side release buckle elaborated further below Point.
Obstruction removes obstacles component 14 in this embodiment including elongated cylindrical rod or body 14a and multiple alar part 14b.This Body 14a has the longitudinal axis axially coincident with the longitudinal direction of drainpipe cleaning equipment 10.Alar part 14b removes obstacles component relative to obstruction 14 body 14a longitudinal axis radially outwardly stretches out.In this embodiment, handle terminal adapter 14c is releasably attached To handle connector 12c, but handle 12 and obstruction are removed obstacles, component 14 for example can be manufactured into overall list by injection molding Member.Obstruction removes obstacles component 14 with tool end 14d and instrument terminal adapter 14e.Tool terminal 16 has tool connector 16a, the tool connector is releasably connected to block the instrument terminal adapter 14e for component 14 of removing obstacles.Tool terminal 16 has There is body 16b, and tool connector 16a is located on a body 16b end, and the body 16b has somewhat fillet And somewhat sharp end, the end terminates at sophisticated 16d.Tool terminal 16 can be referred to as nose of an ox (bull nose). The purpose of tool terminal 16 is pierced into and stretched into the grumeleuse of the chip of obstruction drainpipe, agglomerate or material block.User can be by Drainpipe cleaning equipment 10 is pushed into the drainage pipeline of the grumeleuse of chip, agglomerate or material block obstruction, and causes tool terminal 16 through the grumeleuse of chip, agglomerate or material block, and then pulls out drainpipe cleaning equipment 10 from drainage pipeline, and simultaneously because For grumeleuse, agglomerate or material block be blocked the alar part 14b removed obstacles on component 14 capture and tangle and by the grumeleuse, agglomerate or material of chip Block is pulled out from drainage pipeline.Another embodiment of the present invention eliminates tool terminal 16, eliminates to block and remove obstacles on component 14 Instrument terminal adapter 14e simultaneously simply provides end for blocking the tool end 14d for component 14 of removing obstacles, and the end can Be point or fillet end.Another embodiment have further been omitted handle connector 12c and handle terminal adapter 14c, And removed obstacles in obstruction other types of handle or grip portion are provided on component 14, it can be that obstruction is removed obstacles component 14 nothing but End, thus there is provided such a drainpipe cleaning device, it consists essentially of bar or bar with alar part, so as in row The grumeleuse, agglomerate or material block of chip are captured and kept in waterpipe.
Removed obstacles component 14 referring to Fig. 1 obstruction, alar part 14b can be hangnail or hook portion, the hangnail or hook portion will be captured The grumeleuse of chip is so as to which chip is extracted out from drainage pipeline, but in this embodiment, the shape of the similar wing of each alar part 14b Shape.In this embodiment, each alar part 14b is arranged in pairs, and on body 14a two opposite sides.Typical a pair of alar parts In alar part 14b be represented as element 18 and 20 in Fig. 1, so as to provide alar part shape and arrangement be described in more detail.The wing Portion 18 and 20 is typical alar part 14b.Body 14a preferably shape of cross sections are circular or ellipse, but its cross section can Think square or rectangular shape.
In order to describe alar part 14b, body 14a can be considered as the fuselage as aircraft.Typical alar part 18 as shown in Figure 1 to A left side is extended radially out, and typical alar part 20 is extended radially out to the right from the body 14a for blocking component 14 of removing obstacles.Typical case Alar part 18 and 20 be located on body 14a two opposite sides, preferably about 180 degree is separated, but the angle can be 160 Change between degree and 200 degree, it is preferred that being in 170 to 190 degree.In this embodiment, each alar part 14b has parallel four The shape of side shape.Typical alar part 18 and 20 has leading edge 18a and 20a and back edge 18b and 20b, the typical wing respectively Portion 18 and 20 has inward flange 18c and 20c respectively, and the inward flange is attached to body 14a, preferably for example passes through injection molding It is formed overall unit.Typical alar part 18 and 20 has outward flange 18d and 20d, the outward flange and body 14a respectively Separate.Outward flange 18d and 20d are arranged essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis of drainpipe cleaning equipment 10.Inward flange 18c and 20c is basic On be respectively parallel to outward flange 18d and 20d.Leading edge 18a and 20a are substantially parallel to back edge 18b and 20b.Front Edge 18a and 20a will be the edge that initially enters drainage pipeline, and more farther than back edge 18b and 20b away from handle 12, it is described after Edge will enter drainage pipeline after being pushed into the leading edge in drainage pipeline.Along leading edge 18a and 20a line and this Body 14a intersects, and forms " V " shape shape, and this seems the shape of arrow, and arrow is pointed to away from handle 12.For typical alar part The arrowhead form of a pair of opposite alar part 14b of typical case described by 18 and 20 allows user to be pushed into drainpipe cleaning equipment 10 In the grumeleuse of chip into drainage pipeline, and then in the way of grumeleuse capture is on alar part 14b by drainpipe cleaning equipment 10 pull out from drainage pipeline, so as to which grumeleuse is extracted out from drainage pipeline, thus dredging drainpipe road.
The purpose of alar part 14 is the grumeleuse that the hair for blocking drainpipe and other chips are captured thereon.Any shape Or alar part, hangnail or the hook portion of arrangement can be used.Accompanying drawing shows the equipment being made up of injection moulding, and if Alar part, hangnail or hook portion be 180 degree positive and negative 10,15 or 20 degree etc. separate if, then alar part, hangnail or hook portion can be more prone to Ground is moulded.Each alar part can be easily staggered rather than each other across paired.Each alar part can be parallel with including The shape of the quadrangle of quadrangle is incited somebody to action if straight line can be had the shape of triangle by use or can have Any complete shape of hangnail or hook portion is provided, wherein the hangnail or hook portion will capture and keep hair and other chips Grumeleuse, so as to which grumeleuse is extracted out from drainage pipeline.Alar part, hangnail or hook portion can randomly be separated around bar or Separated with 90,120 or 180 degree or horizontal alignment or staggeredly.The bar without alar part, hangnail or hook portion can be molded, And it is then cut out bar, is preferably cut with an angle, to provide hangnail.Other manufacturing technologies can be used to make Make the equipment according to the present invention.
Fig. 2 to 5 shows fast joint type connector, and it can be used to each several part of drainpipe cleaning equipment 10 Link together.Fig. 2 to 5 fast joint type connector is a kind of side release buckle (side-release buckle).Fig. 6 to 9 is Another embodiment of side release buckle, shows another fast joint type connector.Connector in Fig. 2 to 4 is typically handle Handle connector 12c on hand 12, obstruction remove obstacles handle terminal adapter 14c and instrument terminal adapter 14e on component 14 and Tool connector 16a on tool terminal 16.Reference is blocked into the connection between component 14 and handle 12 of removing obstacles is used for understand Tool terminal 16 is connected to the same type of connector for blocking component 14 of removing obstacles.Fig. 2 shows that handle 12 and obstruction are removed obstacles The each several part of component 14, wherein being the situation before two parts are connected to each other.Handle connector 12c is with the side of partial sectional view Formula is illustrated, and is the female one of connector.Handle connector 12c is open at the 12d of outer end, and cavity volume 12e is by interior Surface 12f is limited.Handle connector 12c has relative slotted section 12g and 12h, and they provide and are passed through in cavity volume 12e Side opening.Handle terminal adapter 14c is the positive part of connector, and it has a pair relative fork 14f and 14g.Fork 14f With shaft portion 14h, expansion and pointed head point 14i and the axle portion in larger-diameter head point 14i and small diameter Divide the shoulder 14j limited between 14h.Fork 14g has shaft portion 14k, expansion and pointed head point 14m and larger The shoulder 14n that the head of diameter point is limited between 14m and the shaft portion 14k of small diameter.During handle terminal adapter 14c also has Entreat guide post 14p.
Fig. 2 shows handle 12 and blocks each several part for component 14 of removing obstacles, and they are before being connected to each other and in such as Same orientation shown in Fig. 1.The view of the connector for Fig. 2 that Fig. 3 is looked on the left of Fig. 2.Fig. 4 is with partial sectional view Mode shows connection each other and is in the handle 12 in same orientation as shown in Figure 1 and blocks each several part for component 14 of removing obstacles. Fig. 5 is the sectional view along line 5-5 Fig. 4 looked over.By the way that fork 14f and 14g are inserted into the cavity volume 12e of handle 12, Block component 14 of removing obstacles and be connected to handle 12.Fork 14f and 14g are sufficiently flexible and elastic, so as to fork 14f and 14g is pressed into cavity volume 12e and curved inwardly, and expands outward to handle connector then as fork 14f and 14g Their normal position is recoiled in 12c slotted section 12g and 12h.Handle terminal adapter 14c shoulder 14j and 14n connects Handle connector 12c slotted wall is closed, thus connects and keeps removing obstacles component 14 with the obstruction that handle 12 is engaged.Block structure of removing obstacles Part 14 is disengaged by following measures with handle 12, i.e., by fork head 14f and 14g push close to together until shoulder 14j and 14n loses with the side wall of slotted openings 12g and 12h in handle connector 12c and contacted, and will be taken off with handle connector 12c Fork 14f and 14g from engagement are pulled out and are pulled out the obstruction being disengaged with handle 12 component 14 of removing obstacles.Tool terminal 16 And its tool connector 16a is removably coupled the work for blocking component 14 of removing obstacles using same element in the same way Has terminal adapter 14e.
Fig. 6 to 9 is similar to Fig. 2 to 5, and shows for the dismountable, alternate design of fast joint type connector. Negative connector 30 is illustrated in partial cross with the orientation shown in the handle connector 12c in Fig. 2.Positive connection Device 32 is illustrated with the orientation same shown in the handle terminal adapter 14c of component 14 of removing obstacles of the obstruction in Fig. 2.As Fig. 3 is Fig. 2 Like that, Fig. 7 is Fig. 6 side view to side view.Fig. 8 shows the positive connector 32 engaged with negative connector 30, so as to Link together two elements are explained with the explanation similar mode of the offer of reference picture 4.Similar with Fig. 5, Fig. 9 is along line The sectional view of the connector 30 and 32 for Fig. 8 that 9-9 is looked over.Negative connector 30 has end 30a, and the end has opening 30b, the opening is passed through in the cavity volume 30 limited by inner surface 30d.End 30a has the edge 30e of chamfering, the chamfering Edge towards cavity volume 30c slope inwardly, to help to receive positive connector 32 in cavity volume 30c.Side opening 30f and 30g is the opening in the outer wall for limit cavity volume 30c, and is arranged relative to each other.
Positive connector 32 as shown in Fig. 6 to 9 has an axle 32a on its end, the axle terminate at two it is parallel Fork 32b and 32c, they are spaced apart.Fork 32b and 32c is towards their the inside constriction of terminal, to help to be tucked into the moon In the negative cavity volume 30c of property connector 30.It is used to insert in positive connector 32 as shown in figure 8, shoulder 32d and 32e are provided The utensil being engaged by locking after into negative connector 30.Fork 32b and 32c have the outer surface 32f and 32g of constriction, it The amount roughly the same with the edge 30e of chamfering is set to by oblique angle.Fork 32b and 32c have outermost end 32h and 32i, institute Outermost end is stated with external diameter smaller compared with the internal diameter of the cavity volume 30c in negative connector 30.With fork 32b and 32c It is pushed into cavity volume 30, fork 32b and 32c curve inwardly until shoulder 32d and 32e are pushed inwardly and are sufficient so that fork 32b and 32c are bent outwardly, and positive connector 32 thus is attached into negative connector 30.By by fork 32b and 32c courts Push to each other and be sufficient so that shoulder 32d and 32e and slid in and out by cavity volume 30c, connector 30 and 32 can be disengaged.
Figure 10 and 11 shows a kind of fast joint type connector, and it is that easily assembling still can not easily be torn open for a kind of permission The connector unloaded.Negative connector 34 has and the feature of the negative connector 30 in Fig. 6 very similar feature.Feminine gender connection Device 34 has end 34a, and the end has opening 34b, and the opening is passed through the cavity volume 34c limited by inner surface 34d.End Portion 34a has the edge 34e of chamfering, and the edge of the chamfering slopes inwardly towards cavity volume 34c, to contribute to positive connector Receive in cavity volume 34c.Side opening 34f and 34g are the openings in the outer wall for limit cavity volume 34c, and positioned opposite to each other.Sun Property connector 36 have end, the end terminates at axle 36a.The alar part 36b and 36c (as shown in figure 11) of constriction have respectively The leading edge 36d and 36e of constriction, can be as can be seen from Figure 10.Shoulder 36f and 36g constriction alar part 36b and 36c from axle 36a to It is defined in place of outer extension.Unlike separating and soft and elasticity fork 32b and 32c, axle 36a for the positives connectors 32 of Fig. 6 Alar part 36b and 36c with constriction are solid overall parts.However, due to the suitable headroom and scalability of material And compressibility, the axle 36a of positive connector 36 can be forced into the cavity volume 34c of negative connector 34, until shoulder Portion 36f and 36g are expanded in opening 34f and 34g respectively, so that positive connector 36 is engaged with negative connector 34.Or Person's axle 36a compresses or negative wall 34f and 34g expand or both of which has, thus there is provided a kind of energy storage state, it is even Normal condition is back to after the completion of connecing.But, it is not desired to, damage is not being produced to either connector or two connectors Positive connector 36 can be disengaged with negative connector 34 in the case of evil.
Figure 12 to 15 shows the alternate embodiment for the fast joint type connector that can be easily separated from connection.Fig. 2 to 6 Fast joint type connector is axially engaged.The longitudinal axis of Figure 12 to 15 fast joint type connector transverse to connector Engagement.As best shown in fig. 12, connector 40 is formed with the bar part 40a upwardly extended, and the bodily form of connector 42 1 Into there is the bar part 42a that extends downwardly.Length of the connector 40 along connector 40 has recessed part 40b.A pair of flanges 40c and 40d transverse to connector 40 longitudinal axis extend into recessed part 40b.Figure 13 shows what is be engaged with each other Connector 40 and 42, and Figure 15 shows the sectional view along the connectors 40 and 42 looked over of the line 15-15 in Figure 13.This To flange 40c and 40d figure 15 illustrates.Connector 40 in fig .15 have positioned at right side wall 40e, and flange 40c and 40d stretches out to the left from wall 40e.Each flange 40c and 40d outward flange are extruded flange 40c and 40d with being inserted into toward each other Opening in mode constriction.Recess 40f and 40g are formed in flange 40c and 40d outer wall respectively.40h and 40i points of shoulder It is not defined adjacent to recess 40f and 40g.
Connector 42 in Figure 12 has recessed cavity volume 42b, and it can also find out in fig .15.Connector 42 has court To the opening 42c of connector 40, it can most preferably find out in fig. 14.The 42c that is open is more narrower than cavity volume 42b, because prominent Portion 42d and 42e are protruded inwardly from and are defined opening 42c toward each other.Protuberance 42d and 42e are sized to respectively even Connect in the recess 40f and 40g of device 40 and coordinate.The flange 40c and 40d of connector 40 are dimensioned such that and designed so that logical Cross and make flange receive the recessed appearance in connector 40 by opening 42c flange 42c and the 42d power cooperation extruded toward each other In chamber 42b, after the power cooperation, elastic flange 40c and 40d return it is normal, thus by flange 40c and 40d shoulder 40h Engaged with 40i with the protuberance 42d and 42e of connector 42, as shown in figure 15.Identical group of the appearance found on connector 42 Chamber, opening and protuberance are set on connector 40.Identical group of the flange and recess found on connector 40 is in connector Set on 42.While flange on connector 42 is pressed into the cavity volume in connector 40, the flange on connector 40 It is pressed into the cavity volume in connector 42, so that connector 42 is engaged with connector 40.By by flange extrusion one Rise, connector 42 can be disassembled from connector 40.Referring to Figure 15, screwdriver can be inserted into the A of space, to cause at this Abutment and similarly for other abutments the flange 40c and 40d of connector 40 is disengaged with connector 42.
Figure 16 is the side view of push rod/scraper tool 50, and the instrument is that one kind can be connected with replacement terminal instrument 16 To the instrument for blocking component 14 of removing obstacles.Push rod/scraper tool 50 has fast joint type tool connector 52, and it can be inserted into In the instrument terminal adapter 14e for removing obstacles component 14 to obstruction.Tool connector 52 has a pair of fork 52a and 52b and center Guide post 52c.Push rod/scraper tool 50 has elongated body 54, and the elongated body will typically, but not necessarily, has It is shaped as circular or ellipse cross section.Body 54 has connector end 54a, and tool connector 52 is in connector end Body 54 is attached at portion 54a, is preferably attached by way of being integrally formed with body 54, for example, passes through injection molding Mode is attached.Body 54 has working tips 54b, and push rod/blade element 56 is attached to the working tips of body 54 54b, be preferably attached by way of integrally formed, but by way of quickly connecting including can be connected through a screw thread Mode is attached.Push rod/blade element 56 has body end 56a, and it has and the identical size of body 54 and/or diameter;And Outer end 56b, its diameter with will be roughly the same or slightly by the diameter of the drainage pipeline of the drainpipe cleaning equipment processing of the present invention It is micro- bigger or smaller.Push rod/blade element 56 is flared out, and in this embodiment between body end 56a and outer end 56b With tapered form.Figure 17 is that the end for the push rod/scraper tool 50 observed at the outer end 56b of push rod/blade element 56 is regarded Figure.The outer end 56b of push rod/blade element 56 has surface 56c, and the surface has the bowl shape of spill.Push rod/blade element 56 outer end 56b has periphery 56d.
Push rod/scraper tool 50 is used for the inside for cleaning drainage pipeline, and the chip being attached to inside drainage pipeline is driven Go out.User assembles drainpipe cleaning equipment to be removed obstacles component 14 with handle 12, at least one obstruction, and may ground terminal extremely The connected multiple obstructions in end are removed obstacles component, and push rod/scraper tool 50 is attached to obstruction and removed obstacles the remote handle 12 of component 14 End.Push rod/scraper tool 50 is inserted into drainage pipeline to be cleaned by user, and as obstruction is removed obstacles component quilt It is inserted into drainage pipeline and promotes push rod/scraper tool 50 through drainage pipeline.Push rod/blade element 56 is preferably with treating The inwall of the drainage pipeline of cleaning is in close contact.The periphery 56d of push rod/blade element 56, which is preferably sized so that, closely to be coordinated In drainage pipeline.As push rod/scraper tool 50 is pushed into drainage pipeline by user, outside push rod/blade element 56 All 56d scrape the inwall of drainage pipeline.Chip is scraped from the inwall of drainage pipeline, is collected into the bowl of push rod/blade element 56 In shape end surfaces 56c, and from drainage pipeline Open Side Down trip push away.Remove obstacles component to extend row by the additional obstruction of increase The length of water pipe cleaning equipment, user push rod/scraper tool 50 can be inserted into drainage pipeline until it is required so Far.Push rod/scraper tool 50 is pushed into drainage pipeline until it is required it is so remote after, user clears up drainpipe Equipment is pulled out from drainage pipeline, and causes water to flow through drainpipe the chip displaced is flushed to the downstream part of pipe-line system In.Drainpipe cleaning equipment can be disassembled, be cleaned and be stored for subsequent use, or can be dropped.
Figure 18 is the side view of push rod/scraper tool 58, its structure with push rod/scraper tool 50 in Figure 16 and 17 and Function is similar, and difference is that push rod/scraper tool 58 has screw thread coupling 60, to substitute together with push rod/scraper tool 50 The fast joint type tool connector 52 used.Push rod/scraper tool 58 has body 58a, connector end 58b and opposite Push rod/scraper end 58c.Body 58a cross section has the shape of hexagon, and is preferably sized so that reception is used for Push rod/scraper 58 is screwed to the standard-sized spanner blocked in component of removing obstacles or in handle or extended element.Threaded connection Device 60 has elongated body 60a, and the elongated body has male threads 60b on its outer surface.
Figure 16 to 18 push rod/scraper tool 50 is shown having fixed size.The bowl-type end of instrument can be by rubber Glue material is made, and it is sufficiently rigid so that chip to be wiped off from wall, but is also the sufficiently flexible inwall to comply with pipeline Shape.Push rod/scraper tool 50 is promoted and expels the chip on the inwall of pipeline, and chip then can be rushed downstream Wash.Pull bar/scraper tool can also be used, and it allows user to wipe chip off and as instrument is drawn from the inside of pipeline Go out pipeline and chip is pulled out.Pull bar/scraper tool can preferably be pushed through broken in pipeline when it is promoted The grumeleuse of bits is in the position somewhat closed.After the grumeleuse by chip, pull bar/scraper tool is drawn out drainage pipeline, And pull bar/scraper tool will preferably open and rub and scrape the inwall of pipeline.The mechanism of umbrella shape is used as analogizing.With drawing Bar/scraper tool is urged into and through the grumeleuse of chip, and this by the tip for closing umbrella just as being forced through grumeleuse.With pull bar/ Scraper tool is drawn out pipeline, and umbrella shape mechanism will allow pull bar/scraper tool to open and against the inwall of pipeline, so as to will be broken Consider to be worth doing and wiped off from the inwall of pipeline.Umbrella analogizes the mechanical organ that may mean that and can be used, but more likely, will make Use polymeric material.Pull bar/scraper tool can be made up of polymeric material, with what is for example set up on the downside of mushroom cap Spoke, this will cause mechanism to close and opened when pulled when being promoted.
Alternate design for pull bar/scraper tool is to use sacculus or airbag apparatus, and larger draining tube airbag can be with It is pushed into space-time in larger-diameter pipeline, and then fills the water or air of pressurization, for example, is utilized and come from by flexible pipe The water of pressure source is filled, hereafter, and draining tube airbag is drawn out pipeline, and this wipes chip from the inwall of pipeline off.Drainpipe Cleaning equipment more likely uses small draining tube airbag, and is used in the pipeline of minor diameter, such as from service water The drainage pipeline of groove, bathtub or shower is used.Less pull bar/scraper tool has inflatable air bag and by air bag It is connected to the flexible pipe of air pump.Air pump can be hand-held air-blowing, the bicycle tyre air pump or electrically driven (operated) extruded repeatedly Air pump, such as the air pump to automobile tyre inflation, to pump air into air bag.After air bag is full of, pull bar/ Scraper tool is drawn out pipeline, thus chip is wiped off from the inwall of pipeline and chip is pulled out with pull bar/scraper tool Pipeline.
Figure 19 shows the side view of the embodiment 64 of the drainpipe cleaning equipment according to the present invention, wherein, use screw thread Connection by obstruction section 66 of removing obstacles to be detachably connectable to handle element 68.Tool elements 70 are connected to obstruction and removed obstacles section 66 End, the end is opposite with the end that section 66 is connected to handle element 68.Handle element 68 has elongated body 68a, It has two opposite ends 68b and 68c.Grasping part 68d is attached to end 68b, to provide tee handle bar convenient use.Appoint What suitable element is used as allowing user to grasp and using the handle of drainpipe cleaning equipment.User can To grasp the end for blocking component of removing obstacles, and the end is used as handle.End 68c and grasping end 68b is on the contrary, and excellent Selection of land has hole 68d, and the hole provides opening on the 68c of end.Hole 68d is elongated cavity volume, its longitudinal axis with it is elongated Body 68a longitudinal axes coincident.Body 68a or can cannot have the moon being located on the inner surface for limiting hole 68d Property screw thread.
Obstruction removes obstacles section 66 with handle end 66a and opposite tool end 66b.Screw 66c is embedded in resistance In the handle end 66a for filling in section 66 of removing obstacles.Screw 66c, which can be screwed to, to be blocked in the handle end 66a for section 66 of removing obstacles, Or obstruction can be molded to when section is formed removes obstacles in section 66.Screw 66c is made preferably of metal, and Block section of removing obstacles to be preferably made from plastic.Preferably, the body 68a of handle element 68 has a hole 68d, but screw 66c Can be tapping screw, the tapping screw can be screwed in solid body 68a.If handle element 68 is moulded by flexibility Material is made with hole, then hole need not be limited by female thread.Screw 66c can be screwed in the hole limited by smooth wall. Obstruction section 66 of removing obstacles can be connected to handle element 68 by the way that screw 66c is screwed in handle element 68, and can be with It is disconnected by unscrewing screw 68.Similarly, tool elements 70 (can be any instrument described herein and other Suitable instrument) there is positive screw 70a, its can be screwed be connected to obstruction remove obstacles section 66 tool end 66b and from It is disconnected.Screw system is a kind of dismountable connector, and it is the other fast joint types described for Fig. 2 to 15 The replacement of connector.The connector of Figure 19 screw system and Fig. 2 to 15 is considered as connecting for the quick of this specification Connect formula connector.
Figure 19 shows another embodiment of the present invention, wherein, magnet 72a, 72b and 72c are embedded in obstruction and removed obstacles area In the tool end 66b of section 66.Obstruction remove obstacles section the embodiment for user provide one kind fetch be easy to magnetic attraction Object instrument.For example, if iron-based screw is unexpectedly fallen into the drainage pipeline being connected with tank, screw will likely It is trapped in P- stench traps.The embodiment 64 of the drainpipe cleaning equipment can be inserted into drainage pipeline, and is inserted Into P- stench traps, and the screw lost should magnetically be adsorbed to one in magnet 72a, 72b or 72c, to fetch. Tool end 66b and handle end 66a each have a cross section, and the cross section is the shape of hexagon, to receive guarantor Hold or rotate the spanner for blocking section 66 of removing obstacles.Magnet 72a, 72b and 72c are received in the tool end for blocking section 66 of removing obstacles In the different faces of 66b hexagon.Can be removed obstacles along the obstruction length insertion obstruction of section of one or more magnets be removed obstacles area In section 66, the replacement or supplement in tool end 66b with magnet are used as.
Figure 20 is the side view of tool terminal 74, and the tool terminal has cavity volume 74a, and magnet can be in the cavity volume Receive.Cavity volume 74a is the hole limited by cylindrical inner wall 74b.Magnet 74c can be bonded in cavity volume 74a or be matched somebody with somebody by power The mode of conjunction is held in place.Magnet 74c outer surface is visible in fig. 20, because tool terminal 74 is with partial sectional view Mode show.Tool terminal 74 has the fast joint type positive connector 74d of double forks, and it can be connected to obstruction and remove obstacles member Part, as described by reference picture 2 to 5.
Figure 21 is the side view of tool terminal 76, and the tool terminal has cavity volume 76a, and magnet can be in the cavity volume Receive.Cavity volume 76a is the hole limited by cylindrical inner wall 76b.Magnet is in cavity volume 76a with identical mode quilt described in reference picture 20 Receive.Tool terminal 76 have body 76c and screw 76d, the screw on the outer surface have male threads, the screw from The body 76c end opposite with cavity volume 76a is stretched out.Magnetic tool terminal 76 can be threaded io handle, block structure of removing obstacles Part or extension rod are simultaneously disconnected from them.Extension rod can remove obstacles element similar to obstruction, as long as being provided on end The material of a segment length with tie point just, but not used for cleaning hair and other chips alar part.
Figure 22 is the side view of tool terminal 78, and the tool terminal has elongated body 78a, one from body 78a The screw 78b that individual end the is stretched out and brush 78c of another end stretching from body 78a.Screw 78b has on the outer surface There is male threads 78d.Male threads 78d can be the type of tapping screw thread, for being threaded io flexible plastics material body.Brush 78c is shown partially, and with multiple bristle 78e.
Figure 23 is the side view of the tool terminal as stirring cleaner 80, and it includes cylindrical body 80a, the body tool There is the connector end 80b and positive quick release connector 80c in connector end.Cylindrical body has opposite Open end 80d.Two or more wire rods are kept with end in cylindrical body 80a and ring portion 80e and 80f are located at cylindrical body Outer mode is set by annular.Ring portion is opened and is maintained in desired position for 80e and 80f points by distance piece 80g.Ring portion 80e and 80f forms so-called stirring cleaner, and instrument 80 is referred to as stirring cleaner.Stirring cleaner can be used for will be viscous The chip for being attached to the inwall of drainage pipeline expels and breaks up the chip grumeleuse in drainage pipeline.
Figure 24 to 26 shows hangnail spear body 82, and it has retractible hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c and 82d.Figure 24 is down The cross-sectional side elevational view of spear body 82 is pierced, wherein hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c and 82d is in retracted position.Figure 25 is hangnail spear body 82 Cross-sectional side elevational view, wherein hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c and 82d be in open and expansion position.Figure 26 is the line along Figure 25 The sectional view for the hangnail spear body 82 that 26-26 is looked over.Hangnail spear body 82 has cylindrical body 82e, as shown in figure 26, the tubular The cross section of body is rectangular shape.Cylindrical body has open end 82f and 82g.Opening 82g, which is manufactured into, compares shoulder 82j and 82i are smaller, wherein the shoulder is from the feather edge of body 82e downside end extend into opening 82g.It is used as rectangle Cylinder, body 82e have width side 82j and narrow side 82k.Narrow side 82k has two pairs of opposite grooves.Hangnail 82a and 82b are first To being received in opposite groove, and hangnail 82c and 82d is received in second pair of opposite groove.Hangnail spear body 82 is preferably by plastics It is made, but it can also be made of metal.Bar 82m with arrow-shaped end 82n is in cylindrical body 82e with arrow end The modes of 82n outside are received.Hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c and 82d are hingedly attached to bar 82m by soft.Hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c and 82d outward flange form very sharp keen triangle, and triangle bottom hinge be connected to bar 82m or with bar It is integrally formed and is made of a soft.Bar 82m has first group of screens groove 82p and 82q, and the screens groove is in the bar Opposite edge on separate a short distance across and with arrow end 82n each other.Bar 82m has second group of screens groove 82r And 82s, the screens groove be located at the bar opposite edge on each other across and with arrow end 82n it is adjacent.From body 82e The feather edge shoulder 82h and 82i that stretch out and enter in open end 82g of lower end be used as screens projection, itself and screens Groove engages bar 82m being maintained in temporary holding location.Hangnail spear body 82 has the connector as described by Figure 10 and 11 Such connector 82t, it, which is provided, is used to be connected to handle, blocks the fast joint type connection of remove obstacles component or extension rod Device.Hangnail spear body 82 can be alternatively with the threaded connection of Figure 10 and 11 connector, Figure 19 or different types of quickly connecting Formula connector is connect to be connected.
The drainpipe cleaning equipment with hangnail spear body 82 of the present invention is deployed in drainpipe, and mode is to pass through shoulder 82h and 82i are accordingly engaged with screens groove 82p and 82q and so that bar 82m is secured in place, the screens groove 82p and 82q and arrow Cephalic par 82n is separated, and arrow end 82n stretches out from cylindrical body 82e, and hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c and 82d are retracted into cylinder In shape body 82e.When hangnail spear body 82 meets with the grumeleuse of chip, agglomerate or expects block and is pushed into the grumeleuse of chip, bar 82m is pushed further into cylindrical body until shoulder 82h and 82i are engaged with screens groove 82r and 82s respectively, the screens groove Arrow end 82ns of the 82r and 82 near or adjacent to bar 82m.As bar 82m is pushed into cylindrical body, hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c Rectangle, cylindrical body 82e narrow side wall 82k a part are engaged with 82d, wherein being defined in the narrow side wall 82k opposite Groove, it is as shown in figure 25 that this causes hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c and 82d to be extended radially outwardly to from retracted position as of fig. 24 Expanded position.Hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c and 82d pass inside or through the agglomerate or material block of chip, and hereafter, drainpipe cleaning equipment can To be pulled out from drainpipe, and hangnail 82a, 82b, 82c and 82d are captured and keep the grumeleuse of chip, agglomerate or material block, and they are frequent Hair including carrying odorous chip secretly, to extract out and to take out from drainage pipeline.
Figure 27 is the side view of spiral spear body 84, and it has body 84a, and the body is preferably elongated bar, described thin Long bar has the cross section of rectangular shape.Rectangular shape provides opposite side 84b two wide and two opposite narrow sides 84c.Narrow side 84c has the hangnail 84d that multiple length along body 84a are separated.Spiral spear body 84 can be on one end With the fast joint type connector as described by Fig. 6 to 9, but any suitable connector can be used.Figure 27 Rotary connector 84e is shown, it allows body 84a to be rotated around its longitudinal axis.Another end of spiral spear body 84 Terminate at tip 84f.Rotary connector 84e has elongated body 84g, and it on one end there is the positive quickly to connect Meet formula connector 84h and there is the space 84i of closing on opposite end.The space 84i of closing by cylindrical wall 84j, be located at Partition wall 84k and lower wall 84m between connector 84h and cylindrical wall 84 are limited.Lower wall 84m has cylindrical openings 84n.Spiral shell Revolving the body 84a of spear body 84 has the upper end 84p opposite with tip 84f.Upper end 84p has elongated axle 84q, described thin Long axle has the end 84r for the body 84a for being attached to elongated bar, and axle 84q has circular cross section.Axle 84q has Upper end, it terminates at cone-shaped component 84s.Because cone-shaped component 84s has the bigger diameter of the diameter than axle 84q, shoulder Portion 84t is defined and is formed.Cone-shaped component 84s constrictions are into the tip 84u opposite with shoulder 84t.Cone-shaped component is in closing Space 84i in receive, and shoulder 84t abut lower wall 84m, cone-shaped component 84s is maintained in the space 84i of closing by this. Axle 84q can rotate in opening 84n.As spiral body 84a is pushed into the grumeleuse, agglomerate or material block of chip by user In, revolving force is applied to spiral body 84a, and because axle 84q can rotate, spiral body 84a can rotate.
Being equipped according to the invention with the drainpipe cleaning equipment of spiral spear body 84 can be inserted into the drainpipe of obstruction, Wherein, tip 84f can be stretched into or be pierced into the obstruction, grumeleuse or material block of chip, and hangnail 84d can be captured and be kept chip Grumeleuse so that the grumeleuse of chip can be drawn out drainpipe with dredging drainpipe.It is spiral-shaped it is believed that allow spiral spear body energy Enough ratios preferably tolerate the elbow in drainage pipeline with the circular or pipe of rectangular cross section or the bar with rectangular cross section.Spiral shell Rotation shape is it is also believed that permission spiral spear body preferably cleans the pars intramuralis of drainage pipeline than other designs in some situations.Spiral Shape can also be extended with bigger radius and girth, and more is also had in addition to distortion or as its replacement There is the shape of gimlet or helix.Spiral spear body 84 can also be made with rectangular cross section, the length of fixation and The bar of integral grip part, more like as shown in Figure 27, but substituting connector 84e has handle, and with desired length Degree, the desired length can be about 30 to 50 inches, preferably approximately 36 inches (75 to 125 centimetres, preferably approximately 90 lis Rice).
Figure 28 is the side view of another embodiment of the present invention.Drainpipe cleaning equipment 86 includes tee handle bar 88, extension structure Part 90 and javelin portion 92.Drainpipe cleaning equipment 86 has tee handle bar as shown in the figure, but does not need grasping part or handle, And any kind of grasping part or handle can be used.Handle 88 has elongated body 88a, the elongated body tool There are two opposite ends 88b and 88c.Grip element 88e is attached at transverse to body 88a on the 88b of end.Feminine gender quickly connects Formula connector 88e is met to be attached to body 88a on the 88c of end or be integrally formed therewith.Extended element 90 has elongated body 90a, the end 9b adjacent with handle 88 and opposite end 90c.There is the end 90b of extended element 90 positive quickly to connect Formula connector 90d is met, it engages and coupled with the negative fast joint type connector 88e on handle 88.Extended element 90 has Guide fins 90e, the guide fins provide the guiding by drainage pipeline so that extended element is placed in the middle in drainage pipeline And it will prevent javelin portion 92 from capturing the joint in drainage pipeline when javelin portion 92 is drawn out drainage pipeline.Extended element 90 There is negative fast joint type connector 90f on the 90c of its end.Extended element 90 is illustrated and described in Figure 28 as light Sliding bar, but the obstruction with multiple alar part 14b in Fig. 1 is removed obstacles or blocked, capture element 14, which can be substituted, uses.
Javelin portion 92 has end 92b, Yi Jixiang that central elongate body 92a, javelin portion 92 are connected with extended element 90 Anti- end 92c.End 92b has positive fast joint type connector 92d, and it is quickly connected with the feminine gender on extended element 90 Formula connector 90f is engaged and coupled.Opposite end 92c terminates at pointed tip 92e.Body 92a has circular or ellipse Cross section.Length of the two row's hangnail 92f (preferably with fishing hook form) along body is set.The hangnail 92f respectively arranged divides each other Open about 160 to 200 degree, preferably approximately 170 to 190 degree and more preferably about 180 degree.Hook portion be one kind be bent or It is bent and be used to capture and keep the device of something.
It is preferred that and typically barb-type hangnail 94 is described below for all hangnail 92f.Barb-type hangnail 94 has interior Curved surface 94a, it has the interior shape of alphabetical " J ", wherein, the bottom of alphabetical " J " is aduncate hook.Barb-type hangnail 94 have smooth outside sweep surface 94b, and it has the shape of circular arc.Near-end 94e is attached to, is fixed to, embedded or and javelin The body 92a in portion 92 is integrally formed.The distal end 94f of typical hangnail 94 terminates at sharp angle protuberance 94g, and it is determining for hangnail Justice.A protuberance 94g end is overlapped with the distal end 94f of hangnail 94, and protuberance 94g another end is towards the table that curves inwardly Face 94a is extended internally, thus provides hook on the distal end 94f of typical hangnail 94, and hangnail 94 will be fixedly connected to by this Distal end 94f by through something.Fish hook can be described as a kind of device for having been used for fishing for centuries, and it has Tip for being pierced into fish mouth or the flesh of fish;It is used as the hangnail that the protuberance for extending and preventing fish from breaking off relations is left from arrow;In arrow It is on opposite end and for fish hook to be connected to the eyelet of fishing line or bait;It is used as one of the hook that arrow is connected with eyelet The shank divided;The bending close to arrow or bent portion in shank;And as in elbow between shank and arrow away from From gap.Describe typical barb-type hangnail 94 the suitable character property of explanation of fish hook.Barb-type hangnail 92f is oriented to The end 92e of smooth outside sweep surface 94b towards the body 92a in javelin portion 92 outer tip is arranged.Typical hangnail 94 Near-end 94es of the distal end 94f than hangnail 94 farther away from outer end 92e because longitudinal axis of the hangnail 94 on body 92a Line is arranged with an acute angle.The near-end 94e insertions of typical hangnail 94 are attached to or integrally formed with body 92a, and than remote 94f is held closer to the outer end 92e in javelin portion 92, wherein handle 88 of the distal end closer to drainpipe cleaning equipment 86.More Hangnail 92f close to outer end 92e is more shorter than the hangnail 92f closer to end 2b, and at the 92b of end, javelin portion 92 is connected to Extended element 90.Each hangnail 92f the most long hangnail 92f of most short hangnail 92f and adjacent end 92b close to outer end 92e it Between gradually become longer, wherein, at the end 92b, javelin portion 92 is connected to extended element 90.Therefore, javelin portion 92 Outer peripheral profile has with isosceles triangle similar or identical shape, wherein the isosceles triangle has at least two edges Hangnail 92f outline etc. the length of side and neighbouring javelin portion 92 and the junction of extended element 90 base.
It is two-dimentional in practice that javelin portion 92, which has described as, because in one embodiment, javelin portion 92 Mode using injection molding is manufactured, and this is more suitable for somewhat two-dimentional object.The body in javelin portion 92 92a can be the bar that cross section is rectangular shape.Depending on selected manufacturing process, javelin portion 92, which can have, surrounds body The hangnail 92f of 92a periphery arrangement.The embodiment in the javelin portion 92 shown in Figure 28 is preferably by injection molding mode with poly- Compound is manufactured, and the polymer will produce i.e. rigidity but also the hangnail 92f of soft and elastic, something like hairbrush or with hard brush Bristle on the toothbrush of hair.It is contemplated that determining system for manufacturing the material and method of toothbrush, hairbrush, cleaning brush and broom Make the method for optimizing in javelin portion 92.For manufacture hangnail 92f and/or javelin portion 92 feasible material include nylon, acrylic acid, Polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene and butadiene rubber, the particularly butadiene with the high butadiene content for rigidity Rubber.
Javelin portion 92 can alternatively be manufactured using the wire rod of a pair of distortions, such as the feasible terminal work of the present invention Shown in the brush of one of tool description, for example, see in Figure 31.Javelin portion is manufactured using the wire rod rather than injection moulding of distortion can To produce such a javelin portion, barb-type or J-shaped hangnail that its whole periphery with the wire rod around distortion is separated.Respectively Bristle can be traversed, transverse to a wire rod arrangement;Second wire rod will be attached on bristle and arrange;And each wire rod is twisted to Bristle is fixed between wire rod.The single wire rod that annular is set can be used, rather than two independent wire rods.Can It is nonmetallic to use plastics to wire rod, and brush is heated to cause plastic wire and bristle to be melt into a bigger entirety Unit.It is the hook portion for obtaining expectation set using the challenge of the wire rod of distortion.
(it has by tank, bathtub, shower, the closestool or similar of the grumeleuse of chip, agglomerate or material block obstruction user The drainage pipeline of pipe-line system equipment) the one or more extended elements 90 being connected with javelin portion 92 can be utilized, preferably made Javelin portion 92 is rushed across into drainage openings with handle 88 to be inserted into drainage pipeline.Drainpipe cleaning equipment 86 is pushed into simultaneously by user Through drainage pipeline, until outer pointed tip 92e is pushed through blocking the grumeleuse of the chip of drainage pipeline, agglomerate or material block. Barb-type hangnail 92f smooth outside sweep surface allows hangnail 92f somewhat easily to slip into and/or by the solidifying of chip Block, agglomerate or material block.As hangnail 92f is pushed into the grumeleuse of chip, agglomerate or material block, hangnail 92f will be towards body 92a is to interior folding or collapses, and somewhat simulates umbrella that is straight, closing.Javelin portion 92 and its hangnail 92f are pushed away in user After grumeleuse, agglomerate or the material block of the dynamic chip for entering and/or passing through obstruction drainage pipeline, user can be lenitively by Figure 28 Drainpipe cleaning equipment 86 from drainage pipeline pull out.As user pulls back in javelin portion 92 towards draining tube opening, Hangnail 92f will be opened as umbrella, and hangnail 92f bent portion captures and keeps the grumeleuse, agglomerate or material of chip Each composition of block, so that chip can be pulled out from drainage pipeline and from draining tube opening.If each hook portion is in hangnail 92f distal end Upper to set (this is preferred but optional), then the grumeleuse of chip, agglomerate or material block even can be formed with protuberance than no use The situation of 94g that hook portion is more firmly attached to javelin portion 92.Hangnail that is hook-type or only bending will capture and The composition in the grumeleuse, agglomerate or material block of chip is kept, particularly if if hair is one of composition of chip.
Figure 29 is the side view of different embodiments of the invention for javelin portion.Drainpipe cleaning equipment 96 includes elongated Bar 96a, the elongated bar has two opposite ends 96b and 96c, preferably but not necessarily with tee handle bar 96d, The tee handle bar is integrally formed with bar 96a on the end 96b of bar.Drainpipe cleaning equipment 96 is shown having tee handle bar 96d, but need not grasp or handle, and any kind of grasping or handle can be used.Being grabbed as finger on straight-bar The spine and trough or ball for holding the fillet in portion will be suitable as handle.Javelin portion 96a has the cross section of rectangular shape, but It is that cross section can also be circular or ellipse shape.Javelin portion 96e is on the end 96c opposite with handled end Or be formed about.Javelin portion 96e substantially can be described, manufactured and be used identically with the javelin portion 92 in Figure 28. Javelin portion 96e has multiple J-shaped hook portion 96f.Letter " J " in Arial fonts provides the suitable shape for J-shaped hook portion 96f The extraordinary displaying of shape, but the hangnail 92f of the barb-type in Figure 28 can be substituted and used.
Figure 29 drainpipe cleaning equipment 96 is roughly the same with Figure 28 drainpipe cleaning equipment 86, and difference is following. Figure 29 drainpipe cleaning equipment 96 is overall unit, is manufactured preferably by way of injection molding, including J-shaped hook portion 96f, and Figure 28 drainpipe cleaning equipment 86 has single part, each single part, which is utilized, can generally make each part point Being detachably connected for solution is assembled together, and the part is handle 88, one or more extended elements 90 and javelin portion 92.Bar 96a in Figure 29 has a cross section of rectangular shape, and the body 90a of Figure 28 extended element 90 have it is circular or The cross section of the shape of ellipse.Figure 29 drainpipe cleaning equipment 96 uses J-shaped hook portion 96f, and Figure 28 drainpipe is cleared up Equipment 86 use hangnail 92f, wherein the hangnail 92f there is the protuberance at straight oblique angle in far-end with provide hangnail and thus Shape with fish hook.In addition to being distinguished more than, equipment 96 is roughly the same with equipment 86.Because bar 96a, which has, is shaped as square The cross section of shape, so bar 96a has wide a pair side and narrow a pair side.Multiple J-shaped hook portions and bar 96a each narrow bodily form of side one It is attached into or with it.Bar 96a end 96c has outermost end 96g.Each J-shaped hook portion 96f can be identical with length or with difference Length, and can be arranged with different length random assortment, as the hangnail 92f in Figure 28.However, the implementation in Figure 29 The J-shaped hook portion 96f with different length is illustrated to arrange near outermost end 96 with the hook portion of shortest length, and with hook Portion 96f is gradually arranged further away from the farthest greater length of hook portions of end 96g.J-shaped hook portion is oriented to embody towards most Outer end 96g smooth curve, and with leaving outermost end 96g oblique angle.
Javelin portion 96e in Figure 28 javelin portion 92 and Figure 29 can be alternatively manufactured on centrally located axle at least One arrow, rather than with hook portion on the axis of centres.Arrow has the shape of wedge shape.Arrow has body, the body tool There is about isometric sidepiece, the sidepiece is intersected at a bit as isosceles triangle.It is right for the javelin portion of the present invention Preferably with the " V " shape shape turned upside down for the bottom opposite with putting of arrow so that the central point of bottom and end The distance between end is significantly more shorter than the sidepiece of arrow.Arrow have be similar to as symbol ">" mean the symbol of " being more than " Shape.Shape " → " is an example of the arrow on the centrally located axle provided by computer, word processor. (end of one is adjacent with another bottom) end-to-end on one axis of centres arrangement one (>), two (>>), three (>> >) or four arrows (>>>>) will produce for the suitable javelin portion of the present invention.The embodiment by with the shape shown in Figure 25 The similar shape of shape, difference is that the integral body for having barbed fixation has the shape of arrow.
Figure 30 is the side view in partial cross-section of tool terminal or flashlight 98, and it has elongated body 98a and light fixture 98b.Body 98a has connector end 98c and light fixture end 98d.Positive fast joint type connector 98e and connector end Portion 98c is integrally formed or is attached with it.Connector 98e can be used to flashlight 98 being connected to Figure 28 handle 88 or prolong Stretch component 90 or be connected to Fig. 1 obstruction and remove obstacles component 14.User may be not intended to illuminate in weeper deeper Light, but user may want to illuminate different, small, compact or dark space, and the space can be by connecting Flashlight tool 98 to extended element and/or handle is reached.Body 98a has on the end opposite with connector 98e to be opened Mouthful, and body has deep cylindrical bore 98f, and it can receive at least one, preferably two or multiple batteries, the electricity Pond preferred size is AAA, AA, C or D.Body 98a has drilling 98g, and the side of female thread at end 98d outer end Wall 98h defines drilling 98g.Capping 98i has male threads 98j, and it screws togather with the female thread in the wall 98h of side and engaged, with Just drilling 98f and 98g is closed.Capping 98i has centre-drilling hole, and the centre-drilling hole has two different diameters, including by The less drilling of side wall 98k restrictions with female thread and the larger drilling limited by side wall 98m.Bulb 98n bags The base portion with male threads is included, the base portion is received in the side wall 98k of capping 98i female thread.Bulb 98n has glass Glass bulb 98p, it has the utensil for being used for providing light.Metal spring 98q is fixed in drilling 98f bottom.With switch 98s Electric wire 98r spring 98q is connected to bulb 98n base portion.Bulb 98n is enclosed in by side wall 98m by transparent window 98t In the larger drilling limited.Two AA battery 98u and 98v are received in deeper, cylindrical bore in end-to-end mode In 98f.These different parts can be assembled, to manufacture the flashlight for being operable to provide the light for being used to illuminate space 98.The replacement of manufacture flashlight 98 is to buy the commercially available flashlight of standard size, the business of design and material, and is manufactured one There is connector on individual end and there is the body of cavity volume on another end, it is as shown in figure 20 as with cavity volume 74a Tool terminal 74.The body can be molded in the end perimeter of flashlight or the end of flashlight is adhered to this In the cavity volume of body.
Figure 30 shows traditional flashlight, and it can be examined for the visible space in addition to needing light.It is another It is very small video camera to plant tool terminal, and it preferably includes light fixture, can otherwise can not be seen to check The space examined.Miniature video cameras with light fixture can be connected to the end for multiple extension rods needed for desired length The other end in portion, preferably extension rod is connected to handle.Cable can be tied up along extension rod, by with the miniature of light fixture Video camera is connected to power supply and monitor, to be powered to light fixture and video camera and to observe what is transmitted by video camera Image.LED lamp needs considerably less electric energy, and can be powered by the battery with button or coin shapes and size.Depending on Frequency camera terminal instrument can include camera chain, and it can wirelessly transmit image;One or more LED lamps;With And one or more battery, such as AAA batteries or coin battery.Suitable camera chain (it is preferably equipped with light fixture) can be with By with such as video, video camera, mini, miniature, camera lens, LED, light fixture, endoscope, borescope, sewer, inspection, USB, Wirelessly, the vocabulary of bluetooth and/or waterproof retrieves internet to find.Many to need to check video camera using miniature video, it is filled Fit on adjustable length element, the element is sufficiently rigid to be pushed into hiding space and be soft enough Reversed and pitch of the laps with realizing, this aspect is the drainage pipeline for the main downcomer line for detecting such as family, especially by clear Wash the accessible drainage pipeline of tree (clean-out tree).
Figure 31 is the side view of the brush 99 with elongated body 99a, wherein the elongated body has connector end Portion 99b and positive fast joint type connector 99c.Body 99a has brush end 99d, itself and the connector end 99b phases Instead.The wire rod 99e and 99f of a pair of torsions are fixed in body 99a, and are stretched out from brush end 99d.The bristle of different length 99g is fixed between the wire rod 99e and 99f of torsion, and big with the wire rod 99e and 99f relative to torsion from the wire rod of torsion About 90 degree of angle is extended radially out.360 degree of all-round stretchings of the bristle 99g from the wire rod 99e and 99f reversed.Wire rod 99e and 99f is formed by single wire rod, and itself is annularly disposed close to outer end 99h, and this causes close to outer end 99h with hemispheric shape Shape 99i makes bristle 99g point to.
Figure 32 to 34 shows another embodiment of the present invention, and it has the fastening fastener for bindiny mechanism.Figure 32 It is the side view of the drainpipe cleaning equipment 100 according to the present invention.Figure 33 is draining looked over along line 33-33, Figure 32 In the sectional view for closing the fastening fastener for position in pipe cleaning equipment.Figure 34 is as shown in figure 33 but in open position The stereogram for the fastening fastener put.
Drainpipe cleaning equipment 100 includes tee handle bar 102, obstruction and removes obstacles or block capture element 104, its can with Any tool terminal assembling described by this.Drainpipe cleaning equipment 100 is elongated, rod the component of each part, It has longitudinal axis.Handle 102 has elongated portion 102a, and the elongated portion has and drainpipe cleaning equipment 100 The longitudinal axis of longitudinal axes coincident.The elongated portion 102a of handle 102 has two opposite ends, and an end is grasping Part 102b and another end is handle connector 102c.Grip portion 102b is the material of a segment length in the present embodiment Material, it has a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis transverse to elongated portion 102a longitudinal axis and in the elongated portion It is placed in the middle on 102a end, so as to form "T"-shaped shape.Other types of grasping can be used for providing for keeping handle for people The utensil of hand 102, such as ball on elongated portion 102a end or the finger-like grasping along the surface of elongated portion. The grip portion of handle can be located on axle finger-like graspings, finger-hole, smooth d-axis or with sieve for digital one The element of horse letter shapes.
As seen in figs. 33 and 34, handle connector 102c is in this embodiment including elongated bar 102d and in the bar In multiple holes for setting in a linear fashion or opening 102e, wherein the bar has horizontal stroke general rectangular and slightly oval in shape Section.Each hole 102e has two different internal diameters, i.e., less diameter and larger diameter.Bar 102d has receiving side 102f and non-reception side 102g.The receiving side 102f that is partially toward of hole 102e small diameter is open.Hole 102e's is larger straight The non-reception side 102g that is partially toward in footpath is open.
Obstruction removes obstacles component 104 in this embodiment including elongated cylindrical bar or body 104a and multiple alar parts 104b.Body 104a has longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis and the longitudinal axes coincident of drainpipe cleaning equipment 100.Alar part 104b is extended radially out relative to the longitudinal axis for the body 104a for blocking component 104 of removing obstacles.Each alar part 14b tools in Fig. 1 There is the shape of parallelogram, wherein, the two opposite sides of alar part have identical length.Each alar part 104b is different, reason It is that alar part 104b has trapezoidal shape, it is a kind of quadrangle with only a pair of parallel side.Alar part 14b and 104b Each there is the side for being attached to body, the side is more shorter than the side being extended from body.Alar part 104b's is attached to body 104a side is longer than its two opposite sides, and being each substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of body and putting down each other in these sides OK.The alar part 104b side transverse to body is bringing together with the increase to body distance to be arrived together, and uneven each other OK.In addition, for relative to forming retouching for V-shape and leading edge with arrowhead form and the alar part 14b of back edge State the description for being equally applicable to alar part 104b.
In the present embodiment, although handle 102 and obstruction remove obstacles component 104 can for example by way of injection molding quilt The unit being integrated is manufactured, but handle terminal adapter 104c is detachably connectable to or can be connected to handle connector 102c.Obstruction removes obstacles component 104 with distal end or tool ends end 104d and instrument terminal adapter 104e.Handle terminal adapter 104c The multiple column 104g set in a linear fashion including elongated bar 104f and in the bar 104f, wherein the bar has There is general rectangular and cross section slightly oval in shape.Each column 104g has the shank 104g ' and bulb of cylinder 104g ", wherein, an end of the shank is attached to the bar 104f, and the bulb is attached on the contrary with the bar 104f To the shank 104g '.
Block component 104 of removing obstacles and be connected to handle 102 as follows.Receptions of multiple column 104g in handle connector 102c Set on the 102f of side, to cause each column 104g close to a hole 102e.Then bar 104f is pressed against bar 102d, and ball Head 104g " is forced through hole 102e.Bulb 104g " diameter less times greater than the diameter of the part of small diameter in the 102e of hole and Size is approximately equal to larger-diameter part in the 102e of hole.As bulb 104g " is forced through hole 102e, bulb 104g " quilts Compression or hole 102e extend or both is carried out simultaneously.After bulb 104g " is forced through hole 102e, hole 102e's The part of small diameter is closely fit with around shank 104g ', and hole 102e larger-diameter part is around bulb 104g " is closely fit with.Such connector is referred to as fastening fastener.Similar fastening fastener is being authorized Mitchell United States Patent (USP) No.2, described in 397,801, it is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Same mode is described with reference picture 34, blocking the tool ends end or distal end 104d of component 104 of removing obstacles has tool ends end Connector 104e, its handle connector 102c as handle 102, wherein, instrument terminal adapter 104e has multiple holes 104e′.Tool ends end 104d has receiving side 104h (not shown) and non-reception side 104i.Hole 104e ', which has, is located at receiving side 104h small diameter and the larger diameter positioned at non-reception side 104i.Second blocks component 106 of removing obstacles is fastened using fastening Mechanism 105 is connected to obstruction and removed obstacles component 104, and this is by be connected to handle 102 for obstruction component 104 of removing obstacles and describe together The column that second obstruction is removed obstacles on component is aligned and is pressed into and reality by the mode of sample with the hole 104e ' that obstruction is removed obstacles on component 104 Existing.3rd obstruction component 108 of removing obstacles is removed obstacles component 106, the fastening fastener using fastening fastener 107 and be connected to obstruction With the structure as shown in Figure 33 to 34.Each component of removing obstacles that blocks can be connected by this way end-to-end each other, to produce Drainpipe cleaning equipment with desired length.Handle removes obstacles component preferably by the polymeric material of soft elasticity with each obstruction Material is made.Blocking component of removing obstacles can be cut to provide desired length and the desired shape for end.Such as Fig. 1 The tool terminal of shown tool terminal 16 can be manufactured with multiple columns, and the column, which has, is directed to handle terminal adapter 104c described bulb.Tool terminal includes obstruction capture element, pointed element, fillet member, hemispherical element, hangnail member Part, hangnail spear body, the spear body of the spear body with multiple hangnails including multiple arrows, the retractible spear body with multiple hangnails, Spiral shape spear body with multiple hangnails, it can rotate and with the spiral shape spear bodies of multiple hangnails, javelin portion, with multiple fishes The javelin portion of hook or J hooks, push rod/scraper, pull bar/scraper, brush, magnet, gimlet, helical spring, the element with adhesive, Stir cleaner, hook, light fixture, video camera, video camera, video camera and lamp assembly and including video camera, The component of light fixture and wireless transmission component.These any tool terminals can be produced for being attached to handle using fastening fastener Hand 102 blocks component 104 of removing obstacles.Tool terminal can be manufactured with column, and the column uprightly outwards stretches out, so as to Received in the corresponding aperture during handle 102 or obstruction remove obstacles component 104,106 or 108.Handle 102 and tool ends end 104 by Show with hole, and handle terminal adapter 104c and tool terminal or other obstructions component of removing obstacles have been described with vertical Post, but this position can be overturned.One element needs one or more holes, preferably two or more holes, and another Element needs the column of preferably at least respective amount, but each element can another element has hole with column.
On advantages and benefits of the present invention, by authorizing Luoma United States Patent (USP) No.6, being used for for 755,873 illustrations is clear Reason tank, the instrument of the prior art of shower and the obstruction in bathtub drainage pipe be length fix and generally about 18 to 21 inches long (about 45 to 55 centimetres).One limitation of these instruments is exactly fixed length, and this can not always allow device Reach the position of obstruction.In addition, these most of devices are disposable, and it is unrelated with the physical length for dredging, it is whole Individual device is generally discarded.The key benefits of the present invention include:(a) length is due to the multiple sections for quickly connecting/being disconnected But it is variable;(b) because different sections is assembled together, so being only used for the area being operated to obstruction in bottom Section is somewhat possible to be dropped, and each section on top can be retained and reuse;(c) handle passes through quick release mechanism Section is connected to, so that handle need not be dropped and can repeatedly reuse, thus money and natural resources is saved;With And (d) such as tip, javelin portion, hangnail spear body, regracting spear body, spiral shape hangnail element, magnet, brush, push rod/scraper, drawing Bar/scraper and stir the instrument of cleaner and may be added to the bottom of section, to help more added with effect and efficiently clear Manage drainpipe, and such as flashlight, light fixture, video camera, video camera and lamp assembly and including video camera, lamp The instrument of tool and the component of wireless transmission component may serve as the purpose of addition, the particularly purpose for O&E.
Thus, one aspect of the present invention is can to increase the ability of section, to extend the length of drainpipe cleaning plant, This can allow user to cross vertical drainage pipeline into P- stench traps, extension and main drainage pipeline to remove obturator. These sections can desirably increase.If user to remove obturator can remove obstruction by using a section Words, then that is exactly all desired.If this is to be enough to be competent at, then be disconnected permission user and remove used area Section and abandoned, or it is cleaned to reuse.If necessary to if more sections, if being blocked in draining In guard system it is deeper if, then can simply increase section.After cleaning work completion, user can be by each section It is disconnected, to allow user to clear up each section or to abandon them.This can save time, money and provide naturally Source.Due to the flexibility quickly connected, this way of example has a number of other advantages.Polytype drainpipe fettler Tool can be attached in bottom or be integrated into component, this allow user for it is specific the problem of come customizing device.If in bullet Go out at formula drainpipe control-rod and block, then use a section;Block in P- stench traps --- use 2 or 3 Section;Block in extension --- use 3 or 4 sections;Block in main drainpipe --- increase additional area as required Section is to reach at obstruction.Other annexes can be used for the difficult obstruction of rare processing.Have if there is to magnetic attraction The lost article of reaction, then use magnetic attachment.In order to clear up the inside of drainage pipeline, brush annex is used.Can easily by It is favourable that hand, which is connected and departed from drainpipe cleaning equipment and is connected,.By the end of a variety of instruments and device or in device The interior ability being connected that is connected and departs from make it that device compared with any device of prior art more more increase by flexible and cost Effect.
Another aspect of the present invention is a kind of handle, and the handle can be attached to the inhomogeneity of one or more length The bar or component of type, to provide the variable length of instrument, the instrument can be used for a variety of purposes, including draining Pipe cleaning, article are reclaimed, illuminated and remote detection.Handle can be short grip portion, or handle can be for expecting Length include the bar of grip portion and a body length.Bar or component can link together to provide desired length, and And handle can be connected to.Component can be used and then dismantled.Accompanying drawing shows drainpipe cleaning rod, and it has similar In the protuberance of wing, but any kind of fork, hangnail or hook portion can be used.Substitute the protrusion with wing shapes Portion, obstruction of the invention remove obstacles component can use fork, hangnail, hook portion and following american documentation literature description cleaning member Part and attachable-detachable components of the present invention are used together with handle:Authorize Nirmel No.5,769,960, authorize Hondo No.5,836,032, the No.6,131,229 for authorizing Lincuna et al., the No.6,775,873 for authorizing Louma, award The No.7,584,513 that gives Turner, the No.8,365,337 for authorizing Tash, authorize the 9,194,114 of Petry, authorize Gwen's 9,217,243 and authorize Carfagnini D511,278.For fork, hangnail, hook portion and clear up element these in Component can be removed obstacles and handle is combined with attachable-dismountable bar described herein, element, obstruction by holding.Obstruction is removed obstacles Component can have wing protuberance shown in the drawings of the invention or fork in listed patent document, hangnail, hook portion and clear Manage any one in element or combinations thereof.Tool terminal can be detachably connectable to obstruction and remove obstacles component, or end The ending tool component that can be removed obstacles with obstruction is integrally formed or be permanently attached to obstruction and remove obstacles component.
One aspect of the present invention is by the ability that even each element is connected together quickly, so as to without the help of all Some work are carried out in the small space that can not be observed if the auxiliary equipment of video camera by people.The present invention is considered in pipeline engineering row For fetching and checking and terminal in other applications is used in water pipe system, in motor vehicle repair of machine.For this Invention, term " fast joint type " means such a connection, its without the help of such as spanner instrument and will not be by one Individual element is torqued into another element threadably to be realized by hand.Threaded connection relies on frictional connection, and it is due to the positive With female thread against each other realization.The flexible and elasticity of " fast joint type " join dependency material of the present invention.Therefore, Polymeric material can be used to " fast joint type " connector of the manufacture present invention and the obstruction of the present invention is removed obstacles element And extension rod, wherein the obstruction is removed obstacles, element and extension rod can be pushed through P- stench trap pipeline engineering joints, described Joint usually require 90 degree turn-take after 180 degree turn-take.
" fast joint type " connector of the present invention relies on a kind of negative connector and a kind of positive connector, wherein, One or two kinds of connectors move away normal condition or position when being attached, and are returned to normally after connection is completed State or position, and one or two kinds of connectors have certain type of locking mechanism, after being completed in connection Maintain connection.Reference picture 2, including negative handle connector 12c and positive handle terminal adapter 12c side release buckle are of the invention One example of fast joint type connector.In Fig. 2 to 5, there is fork somewhat to be removed obstacles parallel to obstruction by fork 14f and 14g The normal condition that the longitudinal axis of component 14 stretches out.As positive fork 14f and 14g is inserted into negative handle connector 12c, The head point 14i of each fork shape and size cause together with handle connector 12c inner surface 12f shape and size Each fork, which is squeezed, to be pressed against, so that fork is moved to energy storage state from normal condition.On head point, 14i passes through cavity volume After 12e, the energy stored in fork is released, and fork be back to they than by be pressed against it is more separated just In normal state.After normal condition is back to, shoulder 14i and 14n are used to handle terminal adapter 14c being locked to handle connection In device 12c.After connection is completed, Fig. 6 to 9 side release buckle has the deformation from normal condition to energy storage state, and it is passing through Normal, undeformed state is returned to after cavity volume.Fig. 2 to 9 shows fast joint type connector, and it can easily be connected Connect and be disconnected.Figure 10 and 11, which is shown, to be readily attached together but it is difficult to the fast joint type connector being disconnected.Axle 36a compresses or negative wall 34f and 34g extend or both situation is all carried out, thus there is provided energy storage state, it is in connection Normal condition is back to after completion.The fast joint type connector of the present invention is related to the material when connection is carried out and is deformed to In energy storage state;Normal condition is returned to after connection is completed;And for maintaining connection after having been completed in connection Locking mechanism.Figure 32 to 34 fastening fastener is an example of fast joint type connector, wherein, is being connected into the departure date Between and simultaneously, material is deformed in energy storage state, in this case, ball bubble head 104g " compressions or hole 102e expand or Person's both of which is the normal state that is then back to after assembling, and is connected there is provided maintenance is used for after assembling The locking mechanism connect, it is that ball bubble head 104g " has the bigger diameter of the diameter than hole 102e in this case.Such as Figure 18 With the threaded connection shown in 19 for the present invention it is not intended that being fast joint type connector.In the present invention, fast joint type Connector is not related to need multiple twist motion, and this is necessary for producing threaded connection.Fast joint type connects Connect device in the present invention and need not such as spanner for the instrument that is attached.
" fast joint type " connector of the present invention can consider as follows.The equipment assembled can be by by connector B is connected to connector A and is connected to connector C to realize by connector D.Connector A and B and connector C and D are respectively A pair of fast joint type connectors.Each pair fast joint type connector includes positive connector and negative connector.In connection Assembling process in, positive connector insertion negative connector in.Positive and negative connector each has normal condition.It is positive It is deformed to one or two in negative connector when connection is assembled in energy storage state.Positive and negative connector It is each to be in after assembling in normal condition.Positive and negative connector has locking mechanism, to assemble Positive and negative connector is kept together afterwards.Locking mechanism preferably includes the shoulder on positive connector, its Wall on negative connector is received and kept and kept, and the wall is preferably at least partially defined for receiving with shoulder Positive connector a part cavity volume or opening.
Another aspect of the present invention is the building material for equipment.Constitute the one or two of fast joint type connector Connector is preferably adapted to be deformed in energy storage state when connector is joined together.This means building material should When elastic and restorative with certain, so that there is material the stress in the deformation for causing such as to stretch, compress or distort to remove Recover the ability of its original dimensions and shape afterwards.After material deformation, material is preferably returned to its original shapes.It is such a Building material is preferably used, and it assigns drainpipe cleaning equipment and is back to original dimensions and shape after by outer force deformation The performance of shape.Focusing on equipment answering the obturator cleaning of the hair such as from water channel drain pipeline and the grumeleuse of chip With for material desirably with rigidity, flexible, elasticity, intensity and restorative attribute, to cause user by equipment It is forced through P- stench traps and crosses, this usually requires 180 degree bending with by the U-shape of P- stench traps, the distal end of equipment Downwards and then up, turn-taked followed by 90 towards wall, at wall, substantial horizontal movement in distal end is then turn-taked downwards for 90 degree In vertical pipeline into wall.This is significantly to reverse and turn-take.User should can be by equipment and hair and chip Grumeleuse together from drainpipe pull out so that connector, extension rod, obstruction capture element and tool terminal building material it is excellent The intensity for the power that choosing pulls out equipment from drainpipe with disposal user, while recognizing some parts of equipment can comply with Some parts of drain pipe system.Stress, strain, stretch, elongate, compress, deform, reverse and bend it is all after, expect Be that equipment is back to its original shapes and size.Block capture element and extension rod is suitable to no more than 5 inches (13 centimetres) Bending radius, the preferably more than bending radius of 4 inches (10 centimetres), the bending of more preferably not more than 3 inches (8 centimetres) Radius and even more preferably it is bent 180 degree no more than the bending radius of 2 inches (5 centimetres).For the row of small diameter For waterpipe, obstruction capture element and extension rod must be suited to the bending radius no more than 1.5 inches (4 centimetres), preferably No more than the bending radius double flat of 1 inch (2.5 centimetres).Block capture element and extension rod should be preferably in bending Their original dimensions and shape are back to after 180 degree.
There is a variety of different polymeric materials rigidity, flexibility, elasticity, intensity and restorative attribute to meet draining The requirement of pipe cleaning equipment, (1) is opened below into drainage pipeline, 180 degree of being turn-taked in the bottom of P- stench traps, is passed upward through P- and is deposited The exit portion of arm, turn-taking and is downwardly into drainage pipeline by 90 degree;(2) extract out or pull out from drainage pipeline;And (3) It is back to its original dimensions and shape.Material can be without complete restorative fully to recover to its original dimensions and shape Shape, because it is difficult to meet all requirements, and some elements of drainpipe cleaning equipment can after disposable To abandon.In addition to polymeric material, also metal material have meet drainpipe cleaning equipment requirement rigidity, flexibility, Elasticity, intensity and restorative attribute.Generally it is firm but lightweight the alloy presence of the mixture of two or more metals, It has shape memory.Can manufacture drainpipe cleaning equipment using shape memory metallic material, the material by with The eyes mirror holder of original shapes can be bent and will be back in manufacture.
The additional embodiment of the present invention
In one embodiment, the invention provides a kind of hand-held device, by obturator and/or hair from water channel drain Pipe, bathtub drainage pipe and/or shower drain pipe are removed.Described device preferably include fast joint type/release type handle with And at least one fast joint type/release type obstruction captures section, the section can be attached to handle and/or be connected with each other, Cause component longer or shorter with the position depending on the obturator of target.Obstruction capture section can be cylinder or flat Or polygonal or bending or sinusoidal shape.Section can have smooth outer surface, to be used as extension Element, or can have hangnail or fork, to capture and keep hair and other chips.Quick release is connected Any being currently known or following machinery and/or magnetic design, for two elements to be coupled and linked together.It is various not Same instrument can be connected to most bottom or outermost section, to realize that different purposes are included from drainpipe removal obturator, clearly Reason drainpipe, illuminate with light fixture space and withdraw can the object that attracts of magnetic.The example of instrument, which includes being located at, to be used to deeply hinder Pointed or fillet nose of an ox cap on the end of section in plug thing, for going deep into and capturing the javelin portion of obturator, for depth Enter and capture the spear body with one or more hangnails of obturator, for clearing up brush, magnet and light fixture inside pipeline.
The present invention provides drainpipe cleaning javelin portion in one embodiment.The javelin portion includes elongated body, The cross section of the elongated body has the shape of rectangle, polygon, circle or ellipse.Elongated body have near-end with And opposite distal end.The hook portion of multiple J-shapeds or barb-type is fixed to elongated body close to its distal end.Hook portion is directed to embody Towards the flat curve and proximally facing aduncate hook of distal end.Each hook portion preferably, but not necessarily always with hook portion with it is remote End is further spaced from but longer.Drainpipe cleaning javelin portion preferably has the handle on the near-end of elongated body Hand.In one embodiment, drainpipe cleaning javelin portion is manufactured to overall unit by way of injection molding, and It is made up in another embodiment of the single part that can be assembled and dismantle.
In another embodiment, the invention provides a kind of multifunctional equipment, it preferably includes hair obstruction remover. The equipment preferably includes one or more snippets elongated hangnail device and dismountable quick release handle.Hair removing device can be by Insert in the drainpipe at screw clamp, bathtub, shower or closestool.Each section of elongated hangnail device can be about 6 to 18 inches long, preferably 8 to 12 inches (15 to 50 centimetres, preferably 20 to 30 centimetres) are long.Multiple sections can increase end-to-end, To cause length to reach about 30 to 50 inches, preferably approximately 36 inches (75 to 125 centimetres, preferably approximately 90 centimetres).Quickly It is to be preferably used to section being releasably connected to handle and incite somebody to action that release type connection, fastening, which are fastenedly connected or be threadedly coupled, Each section is connected with each other together.Each section preferably has hangnail, more preferably has airfoil alar part, to capture and to protect Hair is held to pull out hair from drainage pipeline.Each section can also be smooth without hangnail or alar part.For different purposes, it is excellent Elected as to clear up from drainage pipeline and blocked, instrument can be removably attached to terminal block, preferably by fasten fastener or Person quick release connector is attached.Attachable instrument can be pushed into obstruction drainage pipeline chip grumeleuse in Just unobstructed obstruction, capture and keep obturator so as to pulled out from drainage pipeline or interrupt obturator and push it against downstream so as to Subsequent downstream flushing.The instrument of section includes fillet or pointed end, such as nose of an ox, push rod/scrape can be attached to Knife, pull bar/scraper, hangnail spear body, the spear body with retractible hangnail, the javelin portion with multiple hangnails, block unobstructed device, Brush, stirring cleaner, magnet, flashlight, light fixture, video camera, video camera, light fixture and wireless transmission component.Equipment is to disappear The person of expense or terminal user provide great flexibility, and natural resources is conserved, because equipment can be again Using and can be used for many purposes.
The additional embodiment of the present invention is described as follows.
1. a kind of device for being used to remove obstruction from drainpipe, including
A) handle:
B) obstruction removes component, and it is detachably connectable to handle and including having width and diameter and length Central spine;
C) the first group of wing portion extended radially outwardly from the backbone;
D) the second group of wing portion extended radially outwardly from the backbone;
E) first group of wing portion is generally trapezoidal, and closer to the handle compared with second group of wing portion Set;And
F) second group of wing portion is generally parallelogram, and forms axially-spaced many on the backbone It is right.
2. according to the device of embodiment 1, wherein, the length in multiple wing portions in second group of wing portion is more than the center The width or diameter of backbone.
3. according to the device of Examples 1 and 2, wherein, each whole length to second group of wing portion along central spine is substantially Separate to first-class side.
4. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 3, wherein, it is opposite that each each pair in second group of wing portion includes generally diameter Wing portion.
5. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 4, wherein, first group of wing portion includes two generally opposite wing portions of diameter.
6. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 5, wherein, each wing portion in first group of wing portion includes being used for along drainpipe Inner surface guide device outermost edge.
7. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 5, wherein, the substantial diametrical that second group of wing portion includes five to 20 pairs is opposite Wing portion.
8. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 7, wherein, obstruction removes component and opens locking mechanism or by fastening by side Retention mechanism is connected to handle, mode be bulb on a component on another component in corresponding aperture in receive.
9. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 8, in addition to for clearing up the accessories apparatus inside drainpipe.
10. according to the device of embodiment 9, wherein, accessories apparatus opens locking mechanism by side and is detachably connectable to obstruction Remove component.
11. according to the device of embodiment 9 and 10, wherein, accessories apparatus is brush.
12. according to the device of embodiment 9 to 10, wherein, accessories apparatus includes magnetic component, attracts for being possible to magnetic Metal object from drainpipe take out.
13. according to the device of embodiment 9 and 10, wherein, accessories apparatus includes gimlet.
14. according to the device of embodiment 9 to 13, wherein, device includes multiple accessories apparatus.
15. according to the device of embodiment 9 to 13, wherein, device includes multiple obstructions and removes component and multiple annexes dress Put.
16. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 8, wherein, device includes multiple obstructions and removes component.
17. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 16, wherein, the length that obstruction removes component is from about 6 to 24 inches (15 To 60 centimetres), preferably 8 to 16 inches (20 to 40 centimetres) and more preferably from about 9 to 14 inches (22 to 36 centimetres), And can be about 10 to 12 inches (25 to 30 centimetres).
18. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 17, wherein, obstruction, which removes component, includes substantially upper conical terminal member, uses In break-through obstruction.
19. according to the device of embodiment 1 to 17 or embodiment 18, wherein, terminal member includes multiple hangnails.
20. according to the device of embodiment 19, wherein, hangnail is extended radially out, and is had towards terminal member The length that end gradually shortens.
21. a kind of device for being used to remove obstruction from drainpipe, including:
A) handle:
B) obstruction removes component, and it is detachably connectable to handle and including having width and diameter and length Central spine;
C) the first group of guiding wing portion extended radially outwardly from the backbone, for be smoothly inserted into drainpipe and from Drainpipe withdrawing device;
D) the wing portion of the second group of substantially parallel quadrangle extended radially outwardly from the backbone, for capturing obstruction Thing;
E) second group of wing portion is generally parallelogram, and forms axially-spaced many on the backbone It is right;And
F) multiple length having in second group of wing portion are more than the width or diameter of central spine.
22. according to the device of embodiment 21, wherein, first group of guiding wing portion is substantially trapezoidal, and with second group Wing portion is compared to be set closer to handle.
23. a kind of drainpipe cleaning equipment or with that can be assemblied together with the external member for the element for producing the equipment, Including:
Handle, the handle has opposite two ends and grip portion, and one of its medial end portions include handle connector; And
Block capture element, it has body, the body has length, near-end and distal end, and the near-end has near Terminal adapter, the proximal connector is releasably connected to the handle connector, and multiple alar parts are from described body phase Extended radially out for the longitudinal axis of the body,
The handle, the obstruction capture element and the multiple alar part have the intensity merged, rigidity, flexibility And length, to cause user that the obstruction capture element is forced through into the discharge outlet of tank and enter drainage pipeline In;And
The handle connector or proximal connector have in multiple holes, the handle connector or the proximal connector Another there are multiple columns, the multiple column by or can be received in the hole to provide fastening fastening machine Structure.
Be described above the present invention, those skilled in the art will be clear that various different amount technologies, method, material and The improvement of equipment.It should be understood that all that remodeling for meeting scope and spirit of the present invention is to cover claims In the range of.

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1. a kind of drainpipe cleaning equipment, including:
Handle, the handle has two ends conversely and grip portion, wherein, one of described end includes handle and connected Device;And
Block capture element, the obstruction capture element has a body, the body has length, proximally and distally, wherein institute Stating near-end has a proximal connector, and the proximal connector is detachably connectable to the handle connector, and multiple alar parts, Fork, hangnail or hook portion are extended radially out from longitudinal axis of the body relative to the body,
Wherein, the handle, the obstruction capture element and the multiple alar part, fork, hangnail or hook portion have combination Intensity, rigidity, flexibility and length, to cause user that the obstruction capture element is forced through into discharge outlet in tank simultaneously Enter in drainage pipeline.
2. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the distal end of the obstruction capture element has instrument Connector, the drainpipe cleaning equipment also includes instrument, and the instrument has mechanical device and member connector, the structure Part connector is detachably connectable to the tool connector of the obstruction capture element.
3. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 2, it is characterised in that be detachably connectable to the handle connection The handle terminal adapter of device and/or the work for being detachably connectable to the instrument terminal adapter for blocking capture element Tool connector opens buckle mechanism, threaded connection including quick release coupled connection mechanism, button mechanism, side or fastens fastening machine Structure.
4. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the handle connector and the near-end connect Connecing one in device includes one or more openings, aperture or notch, and the handle connector and the proximal connector In another include one or more columns, wherein the column in the way of releasable fasten and coordinate in the opening, hole Received in mouth or notch, so as to which the obstruction capture element is connected into the handle.
5. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the handle connector and the near-end connect Connecing one in device includes multiple openings, and another in the handle connector and the proximal connector is including multiple Column, wherein, the opening has internal diameter or first size, and the column has external diameter or the second size, the external diameter or the Two sizes less times greater than the internal diameter or first size, and the column in the way of releasable fasten and coordinate in the opening It is interior to receive, so as to which the obstruction capture element is connected into the handle.
6. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 5, it is characterised in that the handle and the obstruction capture element It is made up of such a material, the elastic and/or restorative of the material is sufficient so that the enlarged open to receive described stand Then post simultaneously shrinks and engages the column, so as to which the obstruction capture element is fastened into the handle.
7. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 3, it is characterised in that the mechanical device of the instrument is selected from following The group of composition, pointed element, the element of fillet, hemispherical element, hangnail element, hangnail spear body, the lance with multiple hangnails The spear body of body including multiple arrows, the regracting spear body with multiple hangnails, the spiral spear body with multiple hangnails, Ke Yixuan Turn and there is the spiral spear bodies of multiple hangnails, javelin portion, the javelin portion with multiple fish hooks or J hooks, push rod/scraper, pull bar/are scraped Knife, brush, magnet, gimlet, helical spring, the element with adhesive, stirring cleaner, hook, light fixture, video camera, video are taken the photograph Camera, video camera and lamp assembly and the component for including video camera, light fixture and wireless transmission component.
8. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the handle is shaped as alphabetical " T ".
9. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 1, it is characterised in that stretched from the body of the obstruction capture element Each alar part in the multiple alar parts gone out has the shape of triangle, parallelogram or quadrangle.
10. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 9, it is characterised in that from the body of the obstruction capture element The alar part stretched out is arranged in pairs on the two opposite sides of the body, and two in a pair of alar parts alar part is separated Positive and negative 20 degree of 180 degree.
11. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 10, it is characterised in that each alar part in a pair of alar parts has Leading edge and back edge, the leading edge is compared with handle end closer to the tool ends end for blocking capture element, the back Edge compared with the tool ends end closer to the obstruction capture element handle end, along the leading edge of a pair of alar parts set it is straight Line intersects in the body of the obstruction capture element and forms " V " shape shape, and it refers to from the handle end of the obstruction capture element From.
12. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 1, it is characterised in that also including induction element, the guiding element The body of part from the obstruction capture element stretches out, so as to as the obstruction capture element is withdrawn from from the drainage pipeline and is drawn Lead the obstruction capture element and pass through the drainage pipeline.
13. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 12, it is characterised in that the induction element is opposite including a pair Guiding alar part, the guiding alar part has guide edge, and the straight line on the guide edge of each guiding alar part intersects, with Formed " V " shape shape, its from it is described obstruction capture element handle end refer to from.
14. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 13, it is characterised in that magnet is embedded in the obstruction capture element Body in or the proximate distal ends of the embedded body or the distal end of the embedded body in.
15. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the obstruction capture element has 6 and 24 The length of (or 15 to 61 centimetres) between inch.
16. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 15, it is characterised in that the body tool of the obstruction capture element There is between 0.1 and 0.5 inch the diameter of (or 0.25 to 1.27 centimetre).
17. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the grip portion of the handle includes position In the finger grips on axle, finger-hole, smooth shaft, the element of shape with Roman number one or with alphabetical "T"-shaped shape Element.
18. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 1, it is characterised in that the handle connector and the near-end Connector includes a pair of fast joint type connectors, and this includes positive connector and negative connection to fast joint type connector Device, the positive connector is inserted into the negative connector, to realize assembly and connection, the positive connector and described the moon Property connector in each there is normal condition, when connection is assembled, the positive connector and the negative connector One of or both be deformed in energy storage state, each in the positive connector and the negative connector is assembling It is in afterwards in the normal condition, and the positive connector and the negative connector have locking mechanism, so as to even The positive connector and the negative connector are kept together after connecing assembling.
19. a kind of external member, including
Detachable drainpipe cleaning equipment, it includes:
Handle with connector A;
At least one blocks component of removing obstacles, wherein, the component includes body, and the body has length and opposite two There is connector B on end, one of end and have connector C on another end, the connector B can removably connect The connector A is connected to,
The body has along the multiple first wing protuberances at the length interval of the body and along the body The multiple second wing protuberances at length interval, the multiple first wing protuberance and the multiple second wing protuberance Positive and negative about 15 degree of the about 180 degree that is separated from each other;And
At least one instrument, being sized and shaped to of the instrument is inserted in the drainage pipeline of screw clamp, bathtub or closestool, It is described to dredge inside the drainage pipeline or the cleaning drainage pipeline or to withdraw object from the drainage pipeline There is instrument connector D, the connector D can removably be connected to the connector C, and
, can be with by the way that the connector B is connected into the connector A and the connector D is connected into the connector C Realize the drainpipe cleaning equipment assembled.
20. external member according to claim 19, it is characterised in that described connector A, B, C and D are fast joint type connections Device, fastening fastener or screw thread coupling.
21. external member according to claim 19, it is characterised in that one of described connector A or B includes multiple negative slotting Seat, and another includes multiple positive columns, and the positive column can be in the female socket with the side of fasten and coordinate Formula is received, to provide fastening retention mechanism.
22. external member according to claim 21, it is characterised in that connector D can be connected to by fastening retention mechanism Connector C.
23. external member according to claim 19, it is characterised in that the instrument is selected from group consisting of, pointed member Part, the element of fillet, hemispherical element, hangnail element, hangnail spear body, the spear body with multiple hangnails including multiple arrows Spear body, the regracting spear body with multiple hangnails, the spiral spear body with multiple hangnails, it can rotate and with multiple hangnails Spiral spear body, javelin portion, the javelin portion with multiple fish hooks or J hooks, push rod/scraper, pull bar/scraper, brush, magnet, gimlet, Helical spring, the element with adhesive, stirring cleaner, hook, light fixture, video camera, video camera, video camera and lamp Have component and include the component of video camera, light fixture and wireless transmission component.
24. a kind of drainpipe cleaning equipment, including:
Slender body, the slender body has proximally and distally;And
The hook portion of multiple J-shapeds or barb-type, the hook portion is fixed to the body in the near proximal ends of the body, embedded described Body is integrally formed with the body, wherein
Size, intensity, rigidity, flexibility and the length of the slender body are enabled a user to the slender body and hook Portion promotes through the drainage openings in tank and entered in drainage pipeline.
25. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 24, it is characterised in that also including handle, wherein, it is described elongated Body is either directly or indirectly connected to the handle.
26. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 25, it is characterised in that also including positioned at the slender body with Extended element between the handle, wherein, the extended element is removably to be connected to the handle, and described elongated Body is removably to be connected to the extended element, so that the handle, the extended element and the slender body can It is assembled together to form the drainpipe cleaning equipment and can then be disassembled.
27. a kind of drainpipe cleaning equipment, including:
Handle with the first fast joint type connector;
Extended element with body, the body has length and two opposite ends, the connection of the second fast joint type Device is located on an end and the 3rd fast joint type connector is located on the other end;And
For dredging drainpipe road or for object is withdrawn from drainage pipeline or for clearing up inside drainage pipeline or Instrument for light shining in space or for checking space, wherein
The instrument has the 4th fast joint type connector, wherein
The second fast joint type connector can be connected to the first fast joint type connector and can be from described First fast joint type connector is disconnected, and
The 4th fast joint type connector can be connected to the 3rd fast joint type connector and can be from described 3rd fast joint type connector is disconnected.
28. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 27, it is characterised in that the instrument is selected from consisting of Group, obstruction capture element, pointed element, the element of fillet, hemispherical element, hangnail element, hangnail spear body, with it is multiple fall The spear body of thorn including the spear body of multiple arrows, the regracting spear body with multiple hangnails, the spiral spear body with multiple hangnails, Can rotate and with the spiral spear bodies of multiple hangnails, javelin portion, the javelin portion with multiple fish hooks or J hooks, push rod/scraper, Pull bar/scraper, brush, magnet, gimlet, helical spring, the element with adhesive, stirring cleaner, hook, light fixture, video camera, Video camera, video camera and lamp assembly and the component for including video camera, light fixture and wireless transmission component.
29. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 27, it is characterised in that the fast joint type connector includes Fastener is fastened, wherein, the fastener that fastens is including a component with one or more holes and with one or many It is individual from surface stretch out column another component, wherein, one or more of columns in one or more of holes with The mode of releasable fasten and coordinate is received.
30. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 29, it is characterised in that one or more of holes are by cylinder Wall is limited, and the wall has circumferential recess, and one or more of columns have bulb, in the connection of one or more of columns During to one or more of holes, a part for the bulb is received in the circumferential recess.
31. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 29, it is characterised in that each column has the shape of rivet, The rivet has the axostylus axostyle of cylinder and the head on outer end.
32. drainpipe cleaning equipment according to claim 27, it is characterised in that a pair of fast joint type connectors include Positive connector and negative connector, the positive connector are inserted in the negative connector, the positive connector and Each there is normal condition in the negative connector, when connection is assembled, the positive connector and the feminine gender One of connector or both be deformed in energy storage state, in the positive connector and the negative connector it is each even Connect and be in after assembling in the normal condition, and the positive connector and the negative connector have locking mechanism, with Just the positive connector and the negative connector are kept together after assembling.
33. a kind of include the external member of detachable equipment, the external member includes:
Handle with connector A;
At least one extended element, wherein, the component includes body, and the body has length and two opposite ends There is connector B on portion, one of end and have connector C on another end, the connector B can be connected removably To the connector A;And
At least one instrument, being sized and shaped to of the instrument is inserted into drainage pipeline, to dredge the draining Pipeline is cleared up inside the drainage pipeline or withdraws or check the drainage pipeline from the drainage pipeline by object Inside, there is the instrument connector D, the connector D can removably be connected to the connector C,
, can be with by the way that the connector B is connected into the connector A and the connector D is connected into the connector C The drainpipe cleaning equipment assembled is realized, and
Wherein, the instrument is selected from group consisting of, obstruction capture element, pointed element, the element of fillet, hemispherical member Part, hangnail element, hangnail spear body, the spear body with multiple hangnails include spear body, the contracting with multiple hangnails of multiple arrows Spear body, the spiral spear body with multiple hangnails are returned, can be rotated and with the spiral spear bodies of multiple hangnails, javelin portion, with many The javelin portion of individual fish hook or J hook, push rod/scraper, pull bar/scraper, brush, magnet, gimlet, helical spring, with adhesive Element, stirring cleaner, hook, light fixture, video camera, video camera, video camera and lamp assembly and taken the photograph including video The component of camera, light fixture and wireless transmission component.
34. external member according to claim 33, it is characterised in that the connector is to fasten fastener, wherein, a structure The component that part has opening or notch and matched has outwardly directed column, and the column is inscribed in the opening or notch Receive.
35. external member according to claim 33, it is characterised in that the connector A and C includes multiple openings, hole or groove Mouthful, they are preferably with a straight line, and the connector B and D includes multiple upright columns, and each column preferably has handle Portion and head, the column can be received in the opening, hole or notch in the way of press-fitting and fasten and coordinate, thus be provided Fasten fastener.
36. external member according to claim 33, it is characterised in that the connector A and B and connector C and D points Not Wei a pair of fast joint type connectors, each pair fast joint type connector include positive connector and negative connector, institute Positive connector is stated to insert in the negative connector, it is each with just in the positive connector and the negative connector Normal state, when connection is assembled, one of the positive connector and the negative connector or both be deformed to energy storage In state, in the positive connector and the negative connector it is each after assembling be in the normal condition in, And the positive connector and the negative connector have locking mechanism, so as to which the positive is connected after assembling Device and the negative connector keep together.
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