GB2274052A - Electrostatic fabric cleaner - Google Patents

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GB2274052A
GB2274052A GB9300414A GB9300414A GB2274052A GB 2274052 A GB2274052 A GB 2274052A GB 9300414 A GB9300414 A GB 9300414A GB 9300414 A GB9300414 A GB 9300414A GB 2274052 A GB2274052 A GB 2274052A
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Patrick Joseph Broderick
Julie Ann Broderick
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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
    • A47L9/00—Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/02—Nozzles
    • A47L9/04—Nozzles with driven brushes or agitators
    • A47L9/0461—Dust-loosening tools, e.g. agitators, brushes
    • A47L9/0466—Rotating tools
    • A47L9/0477—Rolls
    • 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
    • A47L13/10—Scrubbing; Scouring; Cleaning; Polishing
    • A47L13/40—Cleaning implements actuated by electrostatic attraction; Devices for cleaning same; Magnetic cleaning implements
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B03—SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03C—MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03C3/00—Separating dispersed particles from gases or vapour, e.g. air, by electrostatic effect
    • B03C3/28—Plant or installations without electricity supply, e.g. using electrets
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B03—SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03C—MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03C7/00—Separating solids from solids by electrostatic effect
    • B03C7/006—Charging without electricity supply, e.g. by tribo-electricity, pyroelectricity
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B03—SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03C—MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03C7/00—Separating solids from solids by electrostatic effect
    • B03C7/02—Separators
    • B03C7/06—Separators with cylindrical material carriers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B03—SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS OR USING PNEUMATIC TABLES OR JIGS; MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03C—MAGNETIC OR ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION OF SOLID MATERIALS FROM SOLID MATERIALS OR FLUIDS; SEPARATION BY HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRIC FIELDS
    • B03C7/00—Separating solids from solids by electrostatic effect
    • B03C7/02—Separators
    • B03C7/08—Separators with material carriers in the form of belts

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  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Cleaning In General (AREA)
  • Treatment Of Fiber Materials (AREA)
  • Nozzles For Electric Vacuum Cleaners (AREA)

Abstract

A domestic cleaner for a fabric surface comprises a rotable loop or cylinder A, e.g. of polyethylene, provided with respective means B and C at different points on its circumference for electrostatically charging and discharging its surface. In use, the charged portion is brought into contact with the substrate to be cleaned. Particles of dust etc adhering thereto are transported to a point E where they are removed by means such as a rotating brush or a second charged belt F. The particles may then be further transported by suction to a bag. <IMAGE>

Description

21st CENTURY FABRIC CLEANER This invention relates to a carpet or fabric cleaner whose pick up method is reliant upon a static electricity charge and its induced opposite charge. This technique may be used as a sole method of operation or as a compliment to the traditional vacuum cleaner.
The method described uses the attractive forces of oppositely charged particles to attract each other. This is seen as a technological advancement over the traditional vacuum technique as used in contemporary carpet cleaners. This application o technology could be further adapted to replace the clothes brush. In this instance we have a charged receptive surface and oppositely charged particles of household dirt.
The present invention is principally designed around either a polythene loop or a polythene cylinder that is charged with static electricity (a material with similar properties may be used). As this positively charged area of material is rolled over the fabric surface, the loose particles of household dirt on the surface are induced with a negative electrical charge and are thus attracted to the positively charged surface named A and stick to it.
A spec example of the invention will now be described by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1: shows in section, both a polythene loop and a polythene cylinder named A, with their charge point C and their discharge point B.
Fiqure 2: shows both the loop and the cylinder picking up household dirt on their charged surfaces and discharging the household dirt from their discharged or neutral surfaces.
Figure 3: shows a cleaning device E which can operate between the points B and C in the area named X.
Figure 4: shows a second charged belt F running in series with belt A and transporting the household dirt to point G where the belt is discharged by device E and the household dirt deposited in the dust bag D.
Figure 5: shows the cleaning device E depositing the household waste into the disposal schute of a standard vacuum cleaner for disposal by suction.
With reference to the drawings, as the charged surface is rotated, it leaves contact with the fabric surface and the remaining charge is discharged from the belt at point B and the deposited material is cleaned from the belt in area X and transported to the dust bags. The belt A is cleaned either by a rotating brush head device or simular device, named E (or by another statically charged belt F, working with a higher potential difference, which would then carry the dirt to the disposal point G where the cleaning device E is located) at the mouth of the dust bag D.
The cleaning device can feed into a conventional vacuum suction waste pipe as shown in Figure 5. This would particularly be the case when the device is used in series with the traditional vacuum cleaner.
A safety device will be incorporated within the machine to prevent the passing of "electric shocks" whilst the machine is charged.
METHOD OF CHARGING The belt or cylinder may be charged and discharged simular to the methods used in a Van De Graaff Electrostatic Generator.
Alternative devices may be found using electrostatic devices such as the electrostatic induction machines designed by Bonetti, Holtz, Lemstrom, Pidgeon, Toepler, Tudsbury or Wimhurst and Wommelsdorf.
A more basic method could be used which is to apply friction between cotton (or a simular fabric) and the polythene so as to induce an electric charge onto the surface of the polythene.

Claims (3)

1. A portable fabric cleaner whose method of attraction for household dirt is an electrostatic charge. The household dirt is collected by means of the induction of an opposite electric charge and the ensuing attractive forces of opposite charges. The household dirt is then cleaned from the discharged belt and the process repeats itself.
2. A portable fabric cleaner as claimed in Claim 1 wherein cleansing of the belt is carried out in the "discharged area X" by a rotary brush or otherwise.
3. A portable fabric cleaner as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the cleansing of the belt is taken out by another belt, running in series, with a higher potential difference than the area of belt A travelling through area X.
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EP1106132A2 (en) * 1999-12-03 2001-06-13 Aktiebolaget Electrolux Device for a vacuum cleaner
GB2425715A (en) * 2005-05-05 2006-11-08 Bissell Homecare Inc Vacuum cleaner accessory tool
WO2010043406A1 (en) * 2008-10-17 2010-04-22 Aebi-Schmidt-Holding Ag Gathering street sweeper
WO2011131964A1 (en) * 2010-04-21 2011-10-27 Dyson Technology Limited A surface treating appliance
WO2011131965A1 (en) * 2010-04-21 2011-10-27 Dyson Technology Limited An air treating appliance
DE102010023306A1 (en) * 2010-06-10 2011-12-15 Peter Imm Device i.e. belt brush, for removing impurities from surface area of object, has removing unit removing particles from surface area of object and arranged on discharging electrode or in moving direction of cleaning element

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US4282626A (en) * 1977-10-17 1981-08-11 California Institute Of Technology Cleaning devices
US4490870A (en) * 1982-11-08 1985-01-01 Stanley Taub Method and apparatus for cleaning disks containing encoded information

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GB410079A (en) * 1932-08-04 1934-05-10 Gotthard Fischer Dusting process and appliance
US4186030A (en) * 1976-11-04 1980-01-29 Armstrong John L Carpet cleaning
US4197610A (en) * 1977-10-17 1980-04-15 California Institute Of Technology Cleaning devices
US4282626A (en) * 1977-10-17 1981-08-11 California Institute Of Technology Cleaning devices
US4490870A (en) * 1982-11-08 1985-01-01 Stanley Taub Method and apparatus for cleaning disks containing encoded information

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EP1106132A2 (en) * 1999-12-03 2001-06-13 Aktiebolaget Electrolux Device for a vacuum cleaner
EP1106132A3 (en) * 1999-12-03 2002-03-06 Aktiebolaget Electrolux Device for a vacuum cleaner
GB2425715A (en) * 2005-05-05 2006-11-08 Bissell Homecare Inc Vacuum cleaner accessory tool
GB2425715B (en) * 2005-05-05 2009-05-13 Bissell Homecare Inc Vacuum accessory tool
US9215959B2 (en) 2005-05-05 2015-12-22 Bissell Homecare, Inc. Vacuum accessory tool
US10130224B2 (en) 2005-05-05 2018-11-20 Bissell Homecare, Inc. Vacuum accessory tool
US10932632B2 (en) 2005-05-05 2021-03-02 Bissell Inc. Vacuum accessory tool
WO2010043406A1 (en) * 2008-10-17 2010-04-22 Aebi-Schmidt-Holding Ag Gathering street sweeper
WO2011131964A1 (en) * 2010-04-21 2011-10-27 Dyson Technology Limited A surface treating appliance
WO2011131965A1 (en) * 2010-04-21 2011-10-27 Dyson Technology Limited An air treating appliance
US9089247B2 (en) 2010-04-21 2015-07-28 Dyson Technology Limited Surface treating appliance
DE102010023306A1 (en) * 2010-06-10 2011-12-15 Peter Imm Device i.e. belt brush, for removing impurities from surface area of object, has removing unit removing particles from surface area of object and arranged on discharging electrode or in moving direction of cleaning element

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