EP0412060A1 - Besen veränderbarer Gestalt für das Reinigen und/oder Waschen von Fussböden - Google Patents

Besen veränderbarer Gestalt für das Reinigen und/oder Waschen von Fussböden Download PDF

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EP0412060A1
EP0412060A1 EP90830339A EP90830339A EP0412060A1 EP 0412060 A1 EP0412060 A1 EP 0412060A1 EP 90830339 A EP90830339 A EP 90830339A EP 90830339 A EP90830339 A EP 90830339A EP 0412060 A1 EP0412060 A1 EP 0412060A1
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Enrico Spinelli
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Fimm Di Spinelli Ing Enrico & C Sas
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A46—BRUSHWARE
    • A46B—BRUSHES
    • A46B7/00—Bristle carriers arranged in the brush body
    • A46B7/02—Bristle carriers arranged in the brush body in an expanding or articulating manner
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L13/00—Implements for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings

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  • This invention relates to a "variable-configuration broom for cleaning and/or washing floors”.
  • this invention relates to an ar­ticle of the type mentioned above, whose structure is characterized by a very high adaptability or flexibility and lends itself to a practical employment.
  • Brooms made up of one or more bundles of wool or cotton or synthetic yarn, or of bundles of strips or anyway of any material suitable for cleaning and/or polishing floors are commonly employed for cleaning floors. Such brooms are commonly called "mops”.
  • Such kind of tool is however affected by a drawback. Indeed, due to its abundant bunch or bundle of material, it can wet a wide area of a floor, but, as the material itself is fastened to a very small support, the largest portion of the same is just merely laid on the floor without being pressed against the same, so that the cleaning effect obtained is very limited.
  • the user In order to obtain an efficient cleaning action, the user has to pass the mop over the floor a number of times, to cause the small surface of the support, which is the only surface on which the user can exert a strong pressure, to wipe each point of the floor itself.
  • some brooms commercially available have a two-part support which is rectangular in shape, the two parts being hinged to one another at an end in a scissors-like way; said brooms are employed for cleaning large rooms or large reception-rooms and, by closing said so-called “scissors", it is possible to cause the broom to pass through narrow spaces.
  • said "scissors-like" member is closed, the support is again of elongated shape so that it is impossible to wash and/or squeeze the broom in a bucket.
  • the object of this invention consists in the obtain­ment of a broom whose support, which is made up of a number of member, each of the same bearing a part of the cleaning fibres, can take various sizes and configur­ations, merely under control of the user. More particu­larly, the two fundamental configurations are those of "closed” and open.
  • the broom according to the present invention can take two extreme positions, i.e., the "closed” and the “open” position, as well as any inter­ mediate positions if that is suitable.
  • the "closed” position the members of the support are gathered in the smallest space so that the broom can be employed in a way similar to that of the small-support brooms of the present time, and so that the most difficult points can be reached and the broom can be very easily washed in a bucket.
  • the members of the support are so arranged as to increase one dimension, so as to supply the cleaning and/or washing fibres with a wider support, and so that a wide area can be efficiently washed with a powerful action in a limited number of strokes.
  • the user will employ the broom in the "closed” state for washing and squeezing the same in the bucket, or for performing a cleaning operation in small spaces; while the user will employ the broom in the "open” state for cleaning wide areas of a floor in a small number of strokes, so saving both time and labour.
  • a so-called “variable-configuration broom for cleaning and/or washing floors” of the type having a handle and a support bearing the cleaning and/or washing fibres, which support is coupled to the lower end of said handle, and it is made up of at least two members, and preferably of three members, the handle being coupled to the first one of the same, while the other ones are connected to the first member and/or to each other by means of hinges, of guides or other kinematic chains which are suitable to cause the broom to take two extreme positions, i.e., respectively the closure position in which the size ratio of the width to the length of the support is close to one and the open position in which the support has definitely elongated configuration.
  • a pipe can be provided coaxially and external to said handle, which pipe is fastened to said central member, the motion of said members being controlled by means of said pipe.
  • the movable coupling between said three members of the support can be realized by means of a first toothed wheel which is supported by said central member, and two further toothed wheels or sector gears which are supported by said lateral members, at the point cor­responding to the axis of hinging with the central member, a member being also provided for allowing the user to cause the motion to occur, said driving member being possibly made up of said coaxial pipe.
  • the handle of the broom can be connected to the cen­tral member of the support in a fixed or a removable way, or through a ball-and-socket joint or a hinge that allows the handle to be sloped.
  • the coupl­ing between the handle and a member of the support can be controlled and limited both in sloping and rotation by a cam and by a corresponding conjugated surface, which are supported respectively by said member of the support and by the handle or member which is integral with the same, or also vice-versa.
  • the broom according to the present invention can take also the intermediate positions between those of opening and closing.
  • fibres that perform the cleaning action can be coupled to the support in an unremovable way.
  • Such fibres can also be coupled to the supporting members in a removable way, for instance by means of a guiding member provided within each member and a cor­responding slider that bears the fibres and couples with said guiding member.
  • the broom according to present invention is provided with a central member 1 and with two side members 2 and 3 acting as a support of the cleaning fibres 4.
  • the handle 10 is coupled to the central member 1 by means of a ball-­and-socket joint 11 so that the broom can be oriented at will.
  • the reference numeral 12 points out an inclined pos­ition of the handle 10.
  • the pipe 6 also takes a position like that of the handle 10.
  • the three portions of the cleaning fibres 4 are coupled in a slidable way along grooves (not shown) to the members 1, 2 and 3, so that such portions can be substituted in case of wear with other ones of a different kind.
  • they can also be made unremovable.
  • the two toothed wheels 8 and 9 can be made up of two sector gears whose toothed portion is just at the points corresponding to the coupling zone with the wheel 7.
  • the whole device is protected by the carter 13 in order to prevent dirtiness and the like from entering.
  • the handle 12 of the broom is provided with the ball-­and-socket joint 11 for taking all possible positions
  • said handle is coupled to a member 14 which is in turn fastened at the bottom to a vertical arm 16 through the pin 15, the wheel 7 being rotatable on the axis of said arm, so that the handle can oscillate on the vertical plane at right angles to said pin 15.
  • a cam 17 which is shaped at the top and on whose top surface a surface 18 borne by said member 14 is coupled, is arranged integrally with the wheel 7 around said vertical arm 16.

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  • Cleaning Implements For Floors, Carpets, Furniture, Walls, And The Like (AREA)
EP90830339A 1989-08-01 1990-07-19 Besen veränderbarer Gestalt für das Reinigen und/oder Waschen von Fussböden Withdrawn EP0412060A1 (de)

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IT3381289U IT218364Z2 (it) 1989-08-01 1989-08-01 Scope per pavimenti a configurazione variabile
IT3381289U 1989-08-01

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DE19617955A1 (de) * 1996-05-04 1997-11-13 Gernot Hirse Reinigungsgerät
EP0933042A2 (de) * 1998-02-02 1999-08-04 Nobel di Tagliavini Cesare E C. S.n.c. Gelenkbesen
EP1576902A2 (de) * 2004-03-18 2005-09-21 G&S Metal Products Company, Inc. Eckbesen
CN104042169A (zh) * 2014-06-22 2014-09-17 余爱芳 固定座嵌插型扫帚
CN104055468A (zh) * 2014-06-22 2014-09-24 朱劲丰 活动夹座扫帚
CN104083132A (zh) * 2014-06-22 2014-10-08 余爱芳 多体夹合型扫帚
WO2017089631A1 (es) * 2015-11-27 2017-06-01 Jorge Macias Roncero Cepillo de barrer perfeccionado
US20170202347A1 (en) * 2014-10-20 2017-07-20 Salvador Alvarez Double Action Push Broom
US10750850B2 (en) 2014-10-20 2020-08-25 Ultra Industries Llc Double action cleaning tool
US11317705B2 (en) 2014-10-20 2022-05-03 Ultra Industries Llc Double action cleaning tool

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GB168658A (en) * 1920-06-04 1921-09-05 Tom Bass O Brien Improvements in or relating to brooms, brushes or the like articles
US2051058A (en) * 1935-05-07 1936-08-18 Citizens Trust Company Combined wax applier, polisher, and carpet sweeper
FR2121458A1 (de) * 1971-01-04 1972-08-25 Buret Jean Pierre

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GB168658A (en) * 1920-06-04 1921-09-05 Tom Bass O Brien Improvements in or relating to brooms, brushes or the like articles
US2051058A (en) * 1935-05-07 1936-08-18 Citizens Trust Company Combined wax applier, polisher, and carpet sweeper
FR2121458A1 (de) * 1971-01-04 1972-08-25 Buret Jean Pierre

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DE19617955A1 (de) * 1996-05-04 1997-11-13 Gernot Hirse Reinigungsgerät
DE19617955C2 (de) * 1996-05-04 2000-07-13 Gernot Hirse Reinigungsgerät
EP0933042A2 (de) * 1998-02-02 1999-08-04 Nobel di Tagliavini Cesare E C. S.n.c. Gelenkbesen
EP0933042A3 (de) * 1998-02-02 1999-09-01 Nobel di Tagliavini Cesare E C. S.n.c. Gelenkbesen
US6058551A (en) * 1998-02-02 2000-05-09 Nobel Di Tagliavini Cesare E C. S.N.C. Articulated broom
EP1576902A2 (de) * 2004-03-18 2005-09-21 G&S Metal Products Company, Inc. Eckbesen
EP1576902A3 (de) * 2004-03-18 2006-06-28 G&S Metal Products Company, Inc. Eckbesen
CN104055468A (zh) * 2014-06-22 2014-09-24 朱劲丰 活动夹座扫帚
CN104042169A (zh) * 2014-06-22 2014-09-17 余爱芳 固定座嵌插型扫帚
CN104083132A (zh) * 2014-06-22 2014-10-08 余爱芳 多体夹合型扫帚
CN104042169B (zh) * 2014-06-22 2016-08-17 余爱芳 固定座嵌插型扫帚
CN104055468B (zh) * 2014-06-22 2016-08-17 朱劲丰 活动夹座扫帚
CN104083132B (zh) * 2014-06-22 2016-08-24 余爱芳 多体夹合型扫帚
US20170202347A1 (en) * 2014-10-20 2017-07-20 Salvador Alvarez Double Action Push Broom
US10028573B2 (en) * 2014-10-20 2018-07-24 Alvarez & Casias, Llc Double action push broom
US10750850B2 (en) 2014-10-20 2020-08-25 Ultra Industries Llc Double action cleaning tool
US11317705B2 (en) 2014-10-20 2022-05-03 Ultra Industries Llc Double action cleaning tool
WO2017089631A1 (es) * 2015-11-27 2017-06-01 Jorge Macias Roncero Cepillo de barrer perfeccionado
EP3384806A4 (de) * 2015-11-27 2019-08-14 Jorge Macias Roncero Verbesserte kehrbürste

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