EP3569128A3 - Wet cleaning device for wet cleaning a floor surface - Google Patents

Wet cleaning device for wet cleaning a floor surface Download PDF

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EP3569128A3
EP3569128A3 EP19170616.7A EP19170616A EP3569128A3 EP 3569128 A3 EP3569128 A3 EP 3569128A3 EP 19170616 A EP19170616 A EP 19170616A EP 3569128 A3 EP3569128 A3 EP 3569128A3
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    • 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
    • A47L11/00—Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L11/28—Floor-scrubbing machines, motor-driven
    • A47L11/282—Floor-scrubbing machines, motor-driven having rotary tools
    • A47L11/283—Floor-scrubbing machines, motor-driven having rotary tools the tools being disc brushes
    • 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
    • A47L11/00—Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L11/29—Floor-scrubbing machines characterised by means for taking-up dirty liquid
    • A47L11/30—Floor-scrubbing machines characterised by means for taking-up dirty liquid by suction
    • A47L11/302—Floor-scrubbing machines characterised by means for taking-up dirty liquid by suction having rotary tools
    • A47L11/305—Floor-scrubbing machines characterised by means for taking-up dirty liquid by suction having rotary tools the tools being disc brushes
    • 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
    • A47L11/00—Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L11/40—Parts or details of machines not provided for in groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, or not restricted to one of these groups, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers
    • A47L11/4013—Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like
    • 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
    • A47L11/00—Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L11/40—Parts or details of machines not provided for in groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, or not restricted to one of these groups, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers
    • A47L11/4013—Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like
    • A47L11/4016—Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like specially adapted for collecting fluids
    • 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
    • A47L11/00—Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L11/40—Parts or details of machines not provided for in groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, or not restricted to one of these groups, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers
    • A47L11/4036—Parts or details of the surface treating tools
    • A47L11/4044—Vacuuming or pick-up tools; Squeegees

Abstract

2.1 Eine derartige Nassreinigungsvorrichtung mit einem Handführungsteil, das um wenigstens zwei Gelenkachsen relativ gelenkig verschwenkbar mit einem in einem Betriebszustand auf der Bodenfläche aufliegenden Bodenteil verbunden ist und drehmomentübertragend mit dem Bodenteil in einer Wirkverbindung steht, wenigstens einem an dem Bodenteil angeordneten Bodenbearbeitungswerkzeugs, das zwei im Betriebszustand auf der Bodenfläche aufliegende und mittels wenigstens eines Antriebs gegenläufig rotierbare Tellerwerkzeuge aufweist, die derart angeordnet und/oder gestaltet sind, dass im Betriebszustand ein permanenter linearer Vortrieb entlang einer Reinigungsrichtung auf das Bodenteil bewirkt ist, und einer - in Bezug auf die Reinigungsrichtung - hinter dem Bodenbearbeitungswerkzeug angeordneten Saugleistenanordnung zum Absaugen von Flüssigkeit von der Bodenfläche, ist bekannt.
2.2 Erfindungsgemäß ist eine in Reinigungsrichtung zwischen dem wenigstens einen Bodenbearbeitungswerkzeug und der Saugleistenanordnung angeordnete Auffangvorrichtung vorgesehen, die von dem Bodenbearbeitungswerkzeug nach hinten transportierte Feststoffpartikel auffängt und sammelt.
2.3 Einsatz bei einer Nassreinigungsvorrichtung

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2.1 Such a wet cleaning device with a hand guide part, which is at least two hinge axes pivotally connected pivotally connected to a resting in an operating condition on the bottom surface and is transmitting torque to the bottom part in operative connection, at least one arranged on the bottom tillage tool, the two in the operating state on the bottom surface resting and by means of at least one drive counter-rotatable disc tools, which are arranged and / or designed such that in the operating state a permanent linear propulsion along a cleaning direction is effected on the bottom part, and one - with respect to the cleaning direction - behind the Tillage tool arranged Saugleistenanordnung for sucking liquid from the bottom surface is known.
2.2 According to the invention, a collecting device arranged in the cleaning direction between the at least one cultivating tool and the suction strip arrangement is provided which collects and collects solid particles transported backwards by the cultivating tool.
2.3 Use with a wet cleaning device
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EP0448824A1 (en) * 1990-03-26 1991-10-02 DULEVO INTERNATIONAL S.p.A. Washing machine for wide surfaces, in particular for industrial floorings
EP2832277A2 (en) * 2013-08-02 2015-02-04 i-mop GmbH Hand-guided soil working device
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EP0448824A1 (en) * 1990-03-26 1991-10-02 DULEVO INTERNATIONAL S.p.A. Washing machine for wide surfaces, in particular for industrial floorings
EP2832277A2 (en) * 2013-08-02 2015-02-04 i-mop GmbH Hand-guided soil working device
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