DE19933587C1 - Golf ball washing appts has a closed container for the golf ball and washing liquid with a crank handle to turn a drive shaft with spur gearing to rotate the ball in all directions at brush rollers and a rolling mat - Google Patents

Abstract

The appts. to clean a golf ball has a container (1), of plastics or metal, which can be closed and sealed. A crank handle turns a shaft (4) to rotate two brush roller carrier disks (6,7). A spur gearing (8) give the rotary drive to the brush roller (12). The golf ball (16) is between the brush roller (12) and the bristles (13) at a spacer bush (11), so that the golf ball (16) rolls on a profiled mat (14) with rotation on all sides. The container is filled with a washing liquid (17) which can be drained.

Description

The invention is based on the preamble of the type of golf ball washing and defined in claim 1 Cleaning equipment consisting essentially of a system of routing or fixed Holders for golf balls and rotating fixed brushes exist in closed containers.

State of the art is small equipment of golf ball washers with which a small number of golf balls are cleaned with brushes in a washing liquid, using a hand crank to rotate actuate.

For example, golf ball washers are known from US Pat. No. 3,981,039 and GB Pat. which consist of a closed cylindrical container. On the circular inner floors fixed circular brushes are attached.

By means of a hand crank arranged at the top, outside of the container, a drive shaft is centric protrudes downward into the container, arranged. The drive shaft is in the container with a Mit took connected. The entered through an input opening arranged on the top of the container Brought golf ball is cranked on or between the brushes by the rotating one Carrier sheet moved in a circular path. By reversing the movement, it is cleaned Bring the golf ball to the entry opening for removal.

State of the art are still those from the German Reich patent 527 359 and the US patent 1871139 A well-known golf ball washer. With the hand crank is over a horizontal drive shaft driven, one of two disc brushes arranged in the container, between which the to be cleaned golf balls are introduced, movable all around.

Alternatively, entrainment is provided on the end face between the two disc brushes fixedly arranged in the container wheel for the golf balls to be cleaned, arranged rotating around the drive shaft. Between the disc brushes there is a revolving rotary movement of those placed in the container Golf balls take place without inevitable twisting.

Golf ball washers are also from DE utility model 86 09 967 and DE patent 4 47 961 known in which on the inner bottom of a cylindrical container box-shaped fixed Hal Mountings for golf balls are attached.  

Due to the hand crank located outside the container, the drive shaft is centric protrudes downward into the container, connected with a routing brush. Through the crank The flat brush is moved in a circular motion over the golf balls inserted into the holders moving along the path. The golf ball is thus rotated and cleaned.

The disadvantage of using this golf ball washer is that an all-round automatic rotation Movement of the golf balls, with the removal of earth residues as well as parts of the turf and the cleaning of all surface segments on the golf balls takes place, is not necessarily feasible. It is more likely that the golf balls will only take in the direction of the circular lanes of the take sheet metal or the rotating flat brush, which is moved flat over the golf balls, rotated and therefore not cleaned on all sides. In addition, this rolling leads to constant constant the circular paths for a short-term local wear of the flat brushes.

The invention specified in claim 1 is based on the task of training small equipment of golf ball washers to optimize the golf balls in the Inevitably twist the golf ball washer and clean it effectively on all sides.

The object is achieved by the features specified in claim 1.

It is particularly advantageous in this inventive training that

• - A circular movement of by a manual drive via a drive shaft inside the container Golf balls put up between brush rollers, shaft brushes and a striped rolling mat are taken and
• - A faster rectified rotary movement of the brush rollers compared to the movement of the Shank brushes on a spacer bush and the immovable, diagonally profiled, strip-shaped Rolling mat are coordinated with each other and thus an effective cleaning of the surrounding golf balls cause
• - by the brush roller movement and the oblique profile of the strip-shaped roll mat a directional superimposition of the rotary movements and thus an inevitable rotation of the Golf make balls
• - An appropriate structure and arrangement of the functional elements in the container was created, the corresponds to the conditions of a small device.

Further developments of the invention are specified in claims 2 to 9. These further developments complement the inventive solution according to claim 1 with respect

• - A spherical shape of the container, consisting of two hemispheres
• - The pressure-tight detachable connection of the upper and lower part
• - The derivability of the washing liquid
• - Locking the container on a stand  
• - The formation of the stand as a liquid container for derived washing liquid
• - The training of the golf washer for preferably five golf balls
• - The definition of the increased rotational speed of the driven brush rollers
• - Operation with a hand crank

An embodiment of the invention and its further embodiment is simplified in the figures is shown and explained in more detail below:

Fig. 1 is a front view of a golf ball washer in the middle section

FIG. 2 is a view in the arrow direction according to FIG. 1

The golf ball washer according to FIG. 1 and 2 essentially consists of a spherical tank 1, the hollow of two hemispheres consists. The upper part is pressure-tight and detachably attached to the lower part with connecting screws 19 .

The container 1 consists of a plastic material which is consistency with the washing liquid. The golf ball washer is designed for the simultaneous cleaning of five golf balls 16 . On the drive shaft 4 , which can be moved by means of a crank handle 5, a spacer bush 11 and the two brush roller carrier disks 6 and 7 fastened to it are mounted on both sides in the container 1 with the same axis.

The brush roller carrier disc 6 is firmly connected to the drive shaft 4 and connected via a spur-toothed wheel drive 8 with five brush rollers 12 . For this purpose, the spur gear drive 8 consists of a drive wheel 9 and five transmission wheels 10 , which are arranged axially on the brush rollers 12 . The spur gear drive 8 is dimensioned so that the rotational speed of the co-driven five brush rollers 12 , 2 , 5 times greater than the speed of rotation of the drive shaft 4 driven brush roller carrier disk 6 .

The five brush rollers 12 are mounted on the brush roller carrier disks 6 and 7 at the same angular distance of 72 ° from one another and axially parallel to the drive shaft 4 .

Shaft brushes 13 are arranged radially on the circumference of the spacer bush 11 , projecting into the middle of the distance between two brush rollers 12 .

The radial inner wall 18 of the container 1 and the inside of the lid 15 are located between the two brush roller carrier disks 6 and 7 with a continuous, strip-shaped, made of flexible material, for. B. made of rubber, existing inclined roll mat 14 . When the brush roller carrier disks 6 and 7 rotate and the self-rotating movement of the brush rollers 12 is faster, the five golf balls 16 roll on the rolling mat 14 , the golf balls 16 rotating and cleaning themselves in a twist-oriented manner.

The container 1 is locked with a locking pin 2 in a stand 3 and stably arranged thereon. Washer fluid 17 is received in the container 1 and can be discharged via a control valve. The stand 3 is designed as a liquid container for the derived washing liquid 17 .

Reference list

1

container

2nd

Locking pin (for housing)

3rd

Stand (for housing)

4th

drive shaft

5

Hand crank

6

Brush roller carrier disc

7

Brush roller carrier disc

8th

Forehead gears drive

9

drive wheel

10th

Transmission wheels

11

Spacer

12th

Brush rollers

13

Shaft brushes (on spacer bush)

14

Roll mat

15

Lid (on the container)

16

Golf balls

17th

Washing liquid

18th

Inner wall (in the container)

19th

Connecting screws

Claims (9)

1. Golf ball washer for the removal of earth residues and parts of the turf and cleaning at the same time at least three, individually insertable and removable golf balls from above, consisting of a sealable container, which is arranged on a stand, filled with a washing liquid and in the rotationally driven, externally driven system of movable brushes and the golf balls between them can be rotated in all directions on all sides, characterized in that on a drive shaft ( 4 ) axially aligned, fastened on both sides to a spacer bush ( 11 ), two brush roller carrier disks ( 6 ; 7 ) are mounted, wherein a brush roller carrier disc ( 6 ) is fixedly connected to the drive shaft ( 4 ) and via a spur gear drive ( 8 ) which, between the brush roller carrier discs ( 6 ; 7 ) rotating at the same speed in the same angular distance from each other and axially parallel to the drive shaft ( 4 ), the Golfb ällen ( 16 ) contour-matched brush rollers ( 12 ), rotatable in the same direction at an increased speed, and on the circumference of the spacer sleeve ( 11 ), radially directed, between two brush rollers ( 12 ) projecting shaft brushes ( 13 ) are arranged and the radial inner wall ( 18 ) of the container ( 1 ) between the two brush roller carrier disks ( 6 ; 7 ) are covered with a continuous strip-shaped, diagonally profiled rolling mat ( 14 ) made of flexible material, on which the golf balls ( 16 ) roll. 2. Golf ball washer according to claim 1, characterized in that the container ( 1 ) spherical, consisting of two hollow hemispheres and the outer spherical surface is designed like a golf ball and consists of a plastic or light metal material which is consistent with the washing liquid ( 17 ). 3. golf ball washer according to claim 1, characterized in that the upper part of the container ( 1 ) on the lower part of the container ( 1 ) by means of connecting screws ( 19 ) is attached pressure-tight and detachable. 4. golf ball washer according to claim 1, characterized in that the container ( 1 ) with a locking pin ( 2 ) in a stand ( 3 ) is locked and stably arranged. 5. golf ball washer according to claim 1, characterized in that the washing liquid ( 17 ) from the inside of the container ( 1 ) can be derived via a control valve. 6. Golf ball washer according to claim 1, characterized in that the stand ( 3 ) is designed as a liquid container for the derived washing liquid ( 17 ). 7. Golf ball washer according to claim 1, characterized in that the container ( 1 ) and the brush roller support disks ( 6 ; 7 ) for five golf balls ( 16 ) are dimensioned and designed, the brush rollers ( 12 ) at a distance of five times 72 ° , around the drive shaft ( 4 ), parallel to this, are arranged. 8. golf ball washer according to claim 1, characterized in that the rotational speed of the driven brush rollers ( 12 ) is at least 2.5 times greater than the rotational speed of the driving brush roller carrier disc ( 6 ). 9. golf ball washer according to claim 1, characterized in that the drive shaft ( 4 ) with a hand crank ( 5 ) is movable.