CN1498189A

CN1498189A - Equipment for cleaning grooved steps of escalator and other grooved surfaces

Info

Publication number: CN1498189A
Application number: CNA028070372A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 伦佐・斯卡尔塞利; 伦佐·斯卡尔塞利
Original assignee: DUPLEX Srl
Current assignee: DUPLEX Srl
Priority date: 2001-03-23
Filing date: 2002-03-19
Publication date: 2004-05-19
Also published as: CA2441602A1; ITFI20010050A1; EP1409391A1; KR20030085048A; US20040111816A1; WO2002076871A1

Abstract

The equipment comprises in combination: a floor cleaning machine with cylindrical rotary brushes (10) composed of essentially radial bristles (10A); and, on the side of this machine, a series of guide members-such as shoes with runners and/or spaced-out rollers (16), with annular ridges (16B)-that are able to engage in the grooves (3) of the step, in order to guide the floor cleaning machine while the bristles pass into said grooves.

Description

Have groove step and other that are used to clean escalator have the device of rooved face

The objective of the invention is to solve the problem of the ledge surface that cleans escalator, this ledge surface has along a series of intensive groove of the sense of motion orientation of escalator.The present invention has also solved other similar problem, for example is used to have the surface of groove motion pavement, no matter is to make for annular and by rubber, still is divided into band, and is used for other purposes.

Since busy daily current, groove is kept clean and need make the standing time of maintenance and cleaning etc. reduce to minimum, the groove assembly of the step of escalator is a problem, need carry out expensive maintenance.

The present invention utilizes the device of simple cheap to solve these problems in mode in full force and effect.

The described device that is used for above-mentioned purpose and similar applications comprises following combination substantially: floor cleaner, and this floor cleaner has the cylindricality rotary brush, and this brush is made up of bristle substantially radially; And guide member, this guide member is at the sidepiece of this machine, and this guide member packs in one or more grooves, so as when bristle to stretch in the groove on described surface the guide floor cleaner; This has prevented sideslip, and can farthest make simple to operate, quick, nothing fatigue and satisfactory.

Guide member can be the roller of opening between at least two, and each roller has at least one ridge and/or a circular groove, and like this, this roller can insert the interior and/or keel of groove of the described tread surface of step.

Can replace roller or with the combination of this roller, guide member can be the boots with runner, in one or more grooves that are used to pack into and slide in this groove.

Preferably, the hair brushing cloth of brush is set to circumferential row, and the interval between the groove of the tread surface of these rows' spaced apart and step adapts; The annular ridge of the roller in the groove of step of packing into has identical structure.

In fact, at least three or even more roller can be arranged.

Guide member (roller and/or have the boots of runner) can be arranged as certain altitude, makes the bristle slight curvature of brush against the bottom of groove, thereby guarantees to clean fully these grooves.

At least three rollers are arranged, and the geometric configuration of roller is for having two narrow annular slots and three annular ridges, and/or the runner boots of longitudinal extension are arranged, this guarantees in the course of the work in the insertion groove, thereby the guiding machine moves along the direction of this groove.

Suppose this floor cleaner type of preferably can reversing, therefore, even in both sides solid handrail is arranged, it also can clean two lateral edges that this has rooved face at an easy rate always.

When being used to clean escalator, operating personal can make machine be held in place in the bottom that escalator begins to occur simply, and it is reorientated in continuous horizontal position, so that cover the whole surface of step.For the pavement of cleaning movement, operating personal can remain on this machine the position that pavement begins.

By specification sheets and the accompanying drawing of representing non-limiting examples of the present invention, can more be expressly understood the present invention, in the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is the part sectional view of floor cleaner, and this floor cleaner is equipped with guide reel, and is arranged in the having on the rooved face an of step of escalator;

Fig. 2 is the lateral plan along the planar I I-II of mark among Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is the schematic plan view of partial cutaway;

Fig. 4 is the cutaway view that passes escalator, and this escalator has matching mechanism, and this matching mechanism is in the position of right side maximum displacement in figure;

Fig. 5 is the planar view of floor cleaner when two diverse locations, is used to clean two opposite edges of two adjacent steps;

Fig. 6 is the work area of the brush enlarged detail in a groove of escalator step or analogue the time; And

Fig. 7 and 8 represented to have guiding device scheme diagrammatic side view and along the cutaway view of the mark VII-VII among Fig. 7, this guiding device becomes to have the boot-shaped shape of runner.

In the drawings, the structure on the floor of a step of reference number 1 expression escalator represents that by 1A the tread surface of step comprises a plurality of grooves 3, and these grooves extend along the escalator travel direction, and move perpendicular to the direction of the height of step with the arbitrary speed edge.The problem that needs to solve is how to clean the groove 3 of this step 1, particularly described step.Annular or banded similar structures has the motion pavement.

In order to carry out such scheme, the present invention relates to use floor cleaner, especially be the known type floor cleaner of " Duplex " by the applicant's brand name that produce, on market, be added with supplemental characteristic on this floor cleaner, what this made the step of its escalator easy to clean or pavement has rooved face or an allied equipment.

Represented floor cleaner in the drawings, it comprises shell, and suitable the forming on sidepiece 6 of this shell is equipped with container, and this container is equipped with the cleaning agent that is used to distribute, and in the center of shell groove 8 is arranged, and sewage is recovered in this groove 8.This helps the effect of rotary brush, and this rotary brush schematically illustrates with 10, and is arranged in below the container 6, and the part is exposed to the bottom side, so that act on the surface of this machine movement.Brush 10 stretches out from covering 6 side portion structure 6A substantially; Handle 14 is hinged on the top of part 6A at 12 places, this handle 14 can tilt to the both sides of the symmetrical plane of machine, and like this, machine can be worked backward and forward, so that change the moving direction of machine in opposite direction.Brush 10 is along the backward directions amount of stretching out seldom, so that contact with the floor surface of needs cleaning etc.Under special circumstances, the bristle 10A of brush 10 is arranged to along circumferentially alignment, and preferably, this can open with the pitch interval identical with the groove 3 of step 1.Circumferentially the bristle 10A of alignment can penetrate in the groove 3, crooked then bottom 3A (seeing Fig. 6 especially) against this groove 3, thereby brush bristles against bottom and side groove is carried out high-efficiency cleaning.Also can assist cleaning by in a manner known way cleaning agent being supplied with brush from container 6, thereby clean, simultaneously, suitable device makes the liquid that is loaded with dirt return in the container by bristle.Brush 10 can be installed in the side portion structure 6A of cover the end, and rotates in self known mode.At supported end not, in fact brush 10 ends at the rounded ends bristle, and this bristle is used to clean at any turning-in fact be used to clean step 1A and until the handrail 1C (Fig. 4) of escalator that want between clean surface and the wall.In order to clean the opposite edges of step 1, as shown in Figure 5, can use this machine in the two-stage step at least, wherein, and handle 14 reversings, self also reverses machine, so that make the free end of brush 10 face toward one or another handrail 1C along escalator.

Carry out this operation and be not easy by common machines, tangible relatively irregular sideslip trend is arranged when cleaning step or other have rooved face because can observe.In order to prevent these problems, and can easily clean this groove fast, can be arranged on the side portion structure 6A of the cover of machine, be equipped with such annex, shown in Fig. 1 to 6, these annexes comprise three rollers 16, with reference to the accompanying drawings, each roller 16 has two slit 16A and three ridge 16B that determine this slit 16A.The spacing that ridge 16B separates equals the pitch between the conduit 3, and the thickness of annular ridge 16B is less than the width of the groove 3 of step 1,1A.Roller 16 zero loads are installed on the corresponding axle journal 18, and these axle journals 18 are parallel to the rotation axis of brush, in fact can be installed on the shaping plate 20, and this shaping plate 20 is installed on the side of cover 6 side portion structure 6A by screw device.Can change the roller of different geometries, so that adapt to the geometric configuration that rooved face 1,1A are arranged.

In fact annex 20,18,16 can utilize screw 22 and Fast Installation and dismounting, floor cleaner be used to clean rooved face for example escalator step 1,1A the above-mentioned purpose of rooved face is arranged the time, this screw 22 is installed in employed plate 20 on the side component 6A of cover 6.

In order to use floor cleaner with annex, this machine is arranged to like this, machine with any direction when the line of groove 3 moves, the ridge 16B of roller 16 (or at least two rollers) can insertion groove 3 in.The outward flange of the ridge 16B of roller 16 can be shelved on the bottom 3A of groove, and perhaps the bottom of circular groove 16A can place on the protrusion top of wall of groove 3, and the protrusion top of these walls has represented the walking surface of step or other surperficial substantially.The guiding route that is provided by the roller 16 with the ridge 16B in the insertion groove 3 will prevent that machine from breakking away in the time of will cleaning step in the mode that machine moves back and forth with the direction along described groove 3.The Width that this machine can cross each step 1 subsequently is arranged in diverse location, so that continue its cleaning, and around shown in Fig. 5 signal, turning to fully, so that lateral edges against (fixing usually) escalator handrail 1C cleaning step, in these operations therebetween, step moves always, so that people use.

At least sidewindering sub 16 annex places, the position of machine is determined by the outward flange of ridge 16B, is perhaps determined by the bottom of circular groove 16A, so that make the bristle 10A can bending when contacting with the bottom 3A of groove 3, as clearly shown in Figure 6, thus guarantee the bottom 3A of the complete cleaning slot 3 of bristle 10A.

Bristle can be arranged to make the bristle of core longer than exterior bristle, thereby the side that guarantees groove 3 can equally with bottom 3A be cleaned in circumferential line of bristles.

In order to clean the step of escalator, operating personal can be located machine (opening) and remain on the position that step occurs from the escalator bottom simply.This will clean this step when each step occurs, also can select, and repeat to clean the step that reappears after the operation whole circulation; Move this machine then, so that all the other zones of cleaning step; Machine is circumferential, so that the lateral edges of cleaning step.Same method is used to clean the motion pavement of longitudinal slot.

Fig. 7 and 8 has represented a kind of variant, and wherein roller 16 is replaced by the one or more boots with runner 116.These boots can be made by suitable material, this material comprises flexible synthetic resin (resin that for example is called nylon ), and these boots can be made appropriate geometry, so that in their insertion grooves, and the groove 3 of clean surface, the specific limited of the pitch between the 3A are wanted in adaptation.Each runner boots 116 can be single integral body, perhaps is made up of adjacent part.

Another version can be the combination that has roller 16 and runner boots 116 in each groove 1A, and another optional embodiment has roller 16 in a

groove

3,3A, and the runner boots are arranged in

adjacent slot

3,3A.

Should be known in shown in the figure to be example of the present invention, under the situation that does not break away from thought range of the present invention, the shape of these examples and structure can change.Reference number in accessory claim is used for convenient with reference to specification sheets and the requirement of accompanying drawing reading right, is not the protection domain that restriction is represented by claim.

Claims

1. one kind is used to clean the tread surface with parallel slot and the device of similar applications, and this tread surface is generally escalator step and motion pavement; It is characterized in that it comprises following combination: floor cleaner, this floor cleaner have cylindricality rotary brush (10), and this brush is made up of bristle (10A) substantially radially; And guide member, this guide member is at the sidepiece of this machine, and in the insertion groove, this guide member is packed in the groove so that when bristle stretches in the groove on described surface the guide floor cleaner; Therefore this has prevented sideslip, and can farthest make simple to operate, quick, nothing fatigue and satisfactory comparatively speaking.

2. device according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: the guide member that inserts at least one groove comprises the roller of opening between at least two (16), each roller has at least one ridge and/or a circular groove, like this, this roller (16) can insert in the circular groove (3A) of described tread surface of step etc. and/or in the annular ridge (1A).

3. device according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that: guide member comprises the have runner boots of (116), in one or more grooves that are used to pack into and slide in this groove.

4. according to claim 2 and 3 described devices, it is characterized in that: roller-type guide member (16) and runner boot last guide member (116) make up.

5. device according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the bristle (10A) of brush (10) is arranged to circumferential row, these rows spaced apart and have the interval between the groove (3) of groove tread surface to adapt; Roller-type guide member (16) and/or runner boot last guide member (116) are arranged with the same manner.

6. device according to claim 1 is characterized in that: guide member (16 and/or 116) can be arranged as certain altitude, thereby makes bristle (10A) slight curvature of brush (10) against the bottom of the groove (3) of step (1,1A).

7. according to claim 1 and 2 described devices at least, it is characterized in that: it comprises at least three rollers (16) near brush (10), inserts in the groove (3) of step (1,1A) to guarantee in the course of the work at least two rollers.

8. according to the described device of aforementioned any one claim, it is characterized in that: roller (16) has two narrow annular slots (16A) and three annular ridges (16B).

9. according to the described device of aforementioned any one claim, it is characterized in that: this floor cleaner is the type of can reversing, thereby cleans two lateral edges of each step always.

10. have groove step and other that is used to clean escalator has the device of rooved face, and be as mentioned above whole, and shown in the example in the accompanying drawing.