CN1172630A

CN1172630A - Guardrail cleaner

Info

Publication number: CN1172630A
Application number: CN 96106998
Authority: CN
Inventors: 大村泰俊
Original assignee: Guang Rong Industrial Corp; Well Group
Current assignee: Guang Rong Industrial Corp; Well Group
Priority date: 1996-08-05
Filing date: 1996-08-05
Publication date: 1998-02-11

Abstract

A guardrail cleaner includes a frame equipped with upper rollers for mating with an upper guardrail edge and a lower roller for pressing against the guardrail rear surface, a dirve wheel for moving the cleaner along the guardrail by tracting on the surface thereof, rotating device for rotating the drive wheel, a wire buffing wheel for cleaning the guardrail surface, and a device for rotating the wire buffing wheel. The cleaner is optionally equipped with a dirt catcher and/or paint spraying nozzles.

Description

Guardrail cleaner

The present invention relates to a kind ofly move at its self-powered drive lower edge guardrail and clean the guardrail cleaner on guardrail surface.

Though the surface along the expansion hurdle of road pavement scribbles smooth lacquer, they still can be made dirty by dust, earth etc. gradually, need regularly carry out hand sweeping.Guardrail on the very long road of hand sweeping is a kind of very dull work, needs sizable willpower.

Though an available open-top car that revolving brush and water injector are housed cleans guardrail,, a large amount of money of cost is uneconomic on this simple working of cleaning guardrail.And, need be with a large amount of water because cleaning is long apart from the guardrail on the road, so, need the water of subsidiary water tank continually and make the operating efficiency reduction.Though also often expect making the work of cleaning guardrail to realize mechanization, be difficult to this idea is tried out.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of when it can clean guardrail surface and guardrail cleaner simple in structure expeditiously when its self-powered drive lower edge guardrail moves.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention provides a kind of guardrail cleaner, it contains:

The framework that the contacted lower roll in rear surface of a plurality of top rolls that match with the upper limb of guardrail and at least one and guardrail lower edge is housed;

One is installed on the framework, is used for drive that sweeper is moved along guardrail in the mode of executing on the guardrail surface;

Be installed on the framework, be used for driving the tumbler that above-mentioned drive rotates;

At least one is rotatably supported in and is used between the upper and lower bearing cleaning the Steel wire polishing wheel on guardrail surface in the mode of friction; With

The device that above-mentioned Steel wire polishing wheel is rotated;

A dirt absorber is installed, so that collect dust and the dry ground that scans out from the guardrail surface by emery wheel on framework.

In the rear end of framework a plurality of paint spray nozzles are installed.

Match to merge by the upper limb that makes top roll and guardrail according to guardrail cleaner of the present invention the contacted mode in rear surface of lower roll and guardrail lower edge is clamped on the guardrail.When drive rotated, sweeper just moved at its self-powered drive lower edge guardrail, because guardrail cleaner of the present invention needn't be equipped with it was bearing in special entity on the guardrail, so simple in structure.

And owing to be provided with Steel wire polishing wheel, the mode of the whole waved surface by the guardrail that rubs is at one time cleaned guardrail, so do not need water and compressed air etc. during cleaning.Therefore, do not need to do the additional of any water, gas, cleaning works efficient height.Dust that Steel wire polishing wheel cleans out and dry ground are collected in the dirt absorber, the road surface of can not making dirty.When guardrail cleaner is equipped with paint spray nozzle, can makes things convenient for and side by side long section guard is cleaned and spray paint.

From below with reference to the description of the drawings, will be clearer to above-mentioned purpose and feature of the present invention with other, in the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is the plane of the guardrail cleaner of one embodiment of the present of invention;

Fig. 2 is the front view of the guardrail cleaner of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is the side view of the guardrail cleaner of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is the front view of the guardrail cleaner of an alternative embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 5 is the plane of the guardrail cleaner of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is the side view of the guardrail cleaner of Fig. 4.

Fig. 1,2 and 3 illustrates the guardrail cleaner of one embodiment of the present of invention.This guardrail cleaner contains a framework 10, goes up V-shaped groove roller 1 and is fixed on the opposite end on framework 10 tops by support arm 1a for two that are used for matching with the top edge of guardrail G.Side engages in order to prevent that the lower roll 2 that framework separates with guardrail G is fixed on the opposite end of framework 10 bottoms by support arm 2a after a pair of and the guardrail.The length of support arm 2a can be regulated to adjust the contact point of lower roll and guardrail.

At the place, an end near framework 10 drive 3 is set, it makes guardrail cleaner move along guardrail in the mode that drags on the guardrail surface, rotates for making drive 3, is with the motor 3a of decelerator to be connected with it with one.The other end at framework 10 is provided with an auxiliary wheel 5, and still, under the situation of thinking it unnecessary to make with it sweeper to move along guardrail reposefully, this auxiliary wheel 5 can save.

At Steel wire polishing wheel 4 of central rotatably support (main clearing apparatus) of framework 10, the axle of this emery wheel 4 passes the upper member 10c of framework 10 and is connected with motor 4a on being installed in this upper member 10c.This motor 4a drives emery wheel 4 and rotates with the speed of regulation.In the present embodiment, Steel wire polishing wheel 4 by down, in, last three parts form, they are assemblied in and just are fixed into an integral body when spool last.This structure makes it might only change the most serious part of wearing and tearing when needed, and also can make the part location of replacing according to the shape of guardrail.The whole circumference of steel wire emery wheel 4 does not need all to be covered with the steel wire tip, and particularly, Steel wire polishing wheel 4 can replace to lean against privately and install and to the vertical long brush configuration that radially extends.

In the present embodiment, be fixed on the framework 10 to the lower member 10a of the framework 10 of 4 main supporting roles of Steel wire polishing wheel and can do moving of vertical direction.Specifically, the groove that forms on relative two ends of the lower member 10a of framework and the framework 10 matches, and on the left and right set screw 6 that its bottom surface is bearing in screw among the shelf 10b is meshed, above-mentioned shelf 10b extends internally from the relative side of framework 10.When the lower member 10a of framework will be when position shown in Figure 2 descends; Can temporarily dirt absorber 7 (following explanation again) be removed, in order to turn set screw 6, the loading and unloading of the convenient Steel wire polishing wheel 4 of this structure.

Above-mentioned dirt absorber 7 is bearing in the below of Steel wire polishing wheel 4 by two relative shelf 10b, and its opening opens wide towards Steel wire polishing wheel 4, and it also has a suction pipe 8 that is connected with the contaminants collector (not shown).

When the guardrail cleaner that uses said structure cleans guardrail, at first the shape and the Steel wire polishing wheel 4 of the profile phase coupling of the guardrail that will clean are packed in the framework 10, V-shaped groove roller 1 is matched, so that support the weight of sweeper by guardrail G with the upper limb of guardrail G.Regulate the length of support arm 2a, lower roll 2 is matched with the lower edge of guardrail, and Steel wire polishing wheel 4 is contacted with the surface of guardrail G.Lower roll 2 is used for preventing that the lower part of framework 10 from separating with guardrail.With regard to this effect of lower roll 2, single lower roll is also enough.

As previously mentioned, sweeper of the present invention is installed on the guardrail G by the mode that guardrail G is clamped between top roll 1 and the lower roll 2, then, and hotwire 3a and 4a.Like this, sweeper is just along with tightly advancing along guardrail G in the rotation of the drive 3 on guardrail surface.At this moment, the size that makes drive 3 be pressed in the power on the guardrail depend on sweeper its deadweight under angular momentum and lower roll 2 be pressed in the guardrail lower edge the rear surface on power.

Steel wire polishing wheel 4 is driven by motor 4a and rotates, to wipe lip-deep dust of guardrail and dry ground.Dust that is thrown away by Steel wire polishing wheel 4 and dry ground bump against near the Steel wire polishing wheel 4 the dust board 9, and fall in the dirt absorber 7, are siphoned away by suction pipe 8 then, and are collected by the contaminants collector (not shown).Generator to the contaminants collector power supply is carried by a specialised vehicles with the motor that has power supply.

Fig. 4,5 and 6 illustrates the guardrail cleaner of another embodiment of the present invention.The difference of this embodiment and Fig. 1,2 and 3 illustrated embodiments is in addition, and two Steel wire polishing wheels 4 have been installed in tandem, and the tail end of framework 10 has been installed a paint supply pipe 12 of being furnished with the paint spray nozzle 11 of a plurality of arranged verticals.

As shown in Figure 5, two Steel wire polishing wheels 4 are driven by motor 4a and rotate along equidirectional with identical speed, adopt the sweeper of present embodiment, and the surface of guardrail is subjected to the friction of two emery wheels, double removal dust and dry ground are sprayed paint by 11 pairs of surfaces of cleaning of paint spray nozzle then.

The paint supply pipe 12 of supporting paint spray nozzle 11 is by the bearing 13a supporting of protruding lower branch arm 13 on outside framework 10 tail ends, and can do upper and lower slip.A horizontal cam 17 is fixed on the paint supply pipe 12.Mechanism's (in the present embodiment, a pin 16 and a horizontal cam 17 of making eccentric rotary with respect to belt pulley 15 is contained in this mechanism) that a kind of rotational motion of the belt pulley 15 that will be driven by vee-belt by motor 14 (Fig. 4) converts up-and-down movement to is in vertical reciprocating motion paint supply pipe 12 repeatedly.Therefore, owing to paint spray nozzle 11 advances along expanding the hurdle in up-and-down movement, so the guardrail surface can varnish with lacquer equably.

Therefore, can finish changing by machine by the guardrail cleaning works that the workman does usually, improve efficient significantly according to guardrail cleaner of the present invention.

Owing to adopted one or more Steel wire polishing wheels as clearing apparatus, the dust that sticks on the guardrail can be disposed under different water or compressed-air actuated situation with dry ground.In addition, the dirt that is thrown away by emery wheel can be collected, and prevents to scatter towards periphery.Therefore, can expect,, have very big effect if the present invention is applied in the time of need carrying out a large amount of guardrail cleanings and japanning work.

Obviously, can carry out multiple improvement and change to the present invention according to above-mentioned explanation.Therefore, should be understood that the present invention can adopt and put into practice with top described different additive method within the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. guardrail cleaner, contain:

The framework that a plurality of top rolls and at least one lower roll are housed, described top roll matches with the edge that ends of guardrail, and described lower roll then contacts with the rear surface of guardrail lower edge;

A drive that is installed on the said frame is used for making sweeper to move along guardrail in the mode that drags on the guardrail surface;

At least one is rotatably supported between the upper and lower bearing, be used for cleaning in the mode of friction the Steel wire polishing wheel on guardrail surface; With

The device that above-mentioned Steel wire polishing wheel is rotated.

2. according to the guardrail cleaner of claim 1, it is characterized in that it also contains one and is installed on the framework, is used for collecting the dust that cleared out from the guardrail surface by emery wheel and the dirt absorber of dry ground.

3. according to the guardrail cleaner of claim 1, it is characterized in that it also contains a plurality of paint spray nozzles that are installed in back-end framework.