US1059877A - Cleaning-machine. - Google Patents

Description

W. B. KEIGHLEY.

CLEANING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1. 1910.

1,059,877.. Patented Apr. 22, 1913.

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1 WLG W. B. KEIGHLEY.

CLEANING MACHINE. APPLIGATION FILED 1111111 1910.

Patented Apr. 22, 1913.

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, W. B. KEIGHLBY.

CLEANING MACHINE.

v APPLIGATIGN 'FILED MAR. 1, 1910.

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Patented Apr. 22, 1913.

W. B. KEIGHLBY. CLEANING MACHINE.

APPLIGATION LED MAR' l' m0' Patented Apr. 22, 1913.

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I L i. w n u WILLIAM BOTTOMLEY IKEIGHIEY, VINEIJAND, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOB TO 'IHE KEIGHLEY COMPANY, JING., 0F VINELAND; NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION 0F NEW Jansma,` v

cLEAmNG-MAOHINE.

.Specication of Letters '.llatenc.4

Patented Apr. 22, 19013.

To all whom t mayl concern Be it known that I, WIILIAM B. KEIGH- LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing in Vineland, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Cleaning-Machines, of which the following is a specification. One object of my invention is to provide a convenient and efficient machine for removing soil marks or foreign material from thesurface of any object and more particusented to one or more additional brushes to' complete'the cleaning.

The invention also contemplates novel means for supplying predetermined amounts of cleaning Huid to a rotary brush or other ',device, designed uto deliver said liquid to a .shoe or other object to be cleaned.

I also desire to provide a machineof the genera-l character noted, with means for carrying off the surplus liquid as well as the lint, dirt, or other solid material removed from the shoes or other objects operated on, as well asineans for separating such material from the air employed for conveying it away from the machine.

Another object of my invention is to pro-.

vide relatively compact and vsubstantial means for supporting and actuating a plurality of cleaning wheels in a machine of the general type noted.

These objects and `other advantageous ends I secure vas hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1, is a side elevation of my improved machine, illustrating the general arrangement of its parts; Fig. 2, is a front elevation of the machine shown in Fig. 1,

porting frame or other suitable structureupon which my improved cleaning machine 1s carried and thls latter includes a casing 2 containing a'suction fan whose outlet 3 com- -municates with the top of a dust collecting box or casing 4 preferably `mounted alongside of the structure 1. This box contains a `number of transverse screens or sieves 5 whose meshes decrease in size from the uppermost screen.toward that nearest the bottom; 'there being openings 6 in the side of the casing adjacent the bottom thereof for thekescape-'of the cleaned air. The fan withL in the casing 2. is mounted on a shaft 7 passing Aaxially through said casing and supported in horizontal bearings; it being noted that the intake of the fan is preferably concentric with said shaft and projects at one side of the fan casing; terminating in two hoods 8 and 9 hereafter referred to. The shaft 7 projects outside of the casing 2 on that side ythereof opposite the intake conduit 2a andV has fixed to it a number of pulleys 10, 11, 12, and 13, of which in the present instance the first is an ordinary crowned pulley and the three last are grooved. y

Supported in suitable bearings 14 pro` jecting forwardly from the top of the frame 1 is a tubular shaft 15 extending parallel with the shaft 7 and having concentrically mounted within it two other Itubular shafts 16 and 17 and a central spindle 18. Said shaft 15 has mounted on it two pulleys 19 and 20, of which the first is loose and the second is fixed to it; there being a driving belt 21 extending between said pulleys and a driving pulley 22 mounted on a countershaft 23 supported in suitable bearings near the bottom part of the structure 1. Also .fixed to the shaft 15 is a crown pulley 24 that three, or more than four may beV employed if desired.

The free ends of the shafts are provided with various forms of cleaning or polishing wheels and in. the present instance the shaft 16 has fixed to it a polishing wheel. 29 of' relatively large diameter. Immediately belyond this wheel is a wheel 30 fixed to theshhft 17, forappl g cleaning fluid to the shoes or other ohiuecfs'operated'on'.- Bey`ondthe second wheel is`a third and -rela.- tivel small wheel' 31 ;-usually a. bristle brus fixed to the central shaft lor spindle 18. i s

The various pulleys 26, 27, and 28, as well as the pulleys from the shaft 7 are so proportioned that the shaft 16, 17, and 18 are turned at the proper speeds to give the most desirable peripheral velocities to the various wheels 29, 30, and 31; the'various pulleys-being connected by belts or cords 32, 33, 34 as shownin Fig. 4.

From Figs. 1, 3 and 4, it will be noted that the hood 8 extends over the top and back of the two wheels 29, and and has' an adjustable top and front portion 35, provided with a' series of slots 8b for the reception of screws whereby the amount of its projection. around the'front parts of the wheels may be re lated at will., The rear end'of this lhood is `connected to .the intake conduit 2a of the fan by a branch conduit 2b. As will be noted from Fig. 4, the end .of the said conduit 2 is bent at right angles and extended forwardly tov the hood 9, which extends to the top and back of the smallest wheel 31.

Mounted lin any suitable manner to the rear of the hood 8, (in the present instance vupon the main portion of the conduit 2B) is a casing 36, having its u per portion 36* in the form of a reservoir or the receptionof a bottle 37 designed tohold water or other cleaning luid. From the lower part of this reservoir there extends a tube 3S which projects into the hood 8 and terminates on top of a segmental saddle piece 39 pivoted to the hood by a spindle or rod 40 Aand so shaped as to lie immediately above and substantially parallel with the curved surface of the wheel 30. Between said saddle and said wheel is mounted a thick strip 41' of felt or other suitable absorbent material which preferably rests directl upon the surface of said wheel 30 and is astened to the saddle structure adjacent to said spindle 40. An arm 42 is plvotally mounted on the spindle-40 and supports a liquid catching trough 43 projecting across'the surface of the wheel 30 immediately in front of the top end of the absorbent pad 41; there being a conduit 44 extending from said trough downwardly and rearwardly to a trough 45 carried immediately adj acent the spindle 40, 'for the reception of any liquid collected by said trough 43. Any desired form of drainage pipe (not shown) may be connected to said trough 45. The outlet 38 from the reservoir 36 is so placed that liquidl is delivered to it from the bottle 37 by what is known as a barometric feed; that 1s to say, as the liquid passes out of the tube 38 it graduallyilowers' the liquid level within the lower part of the `reservoir until air is free to entery the 'mouth of the bottle 37.

This permits a further outflow of liquidV and the amount of such liquid is governed by means of aneedle valve 38.

Under operating conditions, with the belt 21 on the fast pulley 20, the pulleyl 24 is driven through the tubular shaft 15, and

said pulley, through the belt 25, in turn drives the pulley 10. Since `this is iixed -to the shaft 7, thefan on the' shaft 2 is driven;

as are also the various'pulleys 11, 12, and 13, and by Ieans vof the belts 32, 33, and 34 these pulleys drivethe pulleys 26, 27, and 28, as well as theshafts to which 'these latter are'fixed and therefore drive the wheels 29, 30 and 31. While theselatter may be `which while being very completely saturated, is prevented from being supplied with too much water by proper adjustment of the valve 38. When in use the dust, etc., collected in the crease of the sole of the shoe, between the upper and the "edge, is cleaned out by applymg it to the brush 31; the forei \material, etc., being carried awaythroug the hood 9 and conduit 2*, owing to the suction created by the fan in the casing 2. The soiled ,portion of the shoe is then touched to the wet brush 30 after which it is cleaned oi dry and olished by the brush 29.v Here again any d is carried away through the vconduit 2 by the suction of the fan and afterwpassage througlh this latter andthe conduit 3, is delivere to the screens in the casing 4. These etfectually catch the dirt orother material carried bythe air, which is nally allowed to pass out of the device through the openings 6. Any surplus liquid supplied by the wet brushv 30 is collected in the trough 43,

irt or lint from whence it vpasses through the tubular arm 44 to the trough 45 and thence out of the machine.

While I have described mymachine as particularly adaptedfor use in cleaning shoes during their manufacture, it is obvivous that it may be employed in many ways around the brush 30 to the rear lower end of the saddle, to which it is attached by a series of hooks 41h or by other suitable means, as shown in Fig. 6. In this case the liquid is delivered through the pipe 38 either to a felt pad as before or directly to the brush 30, which, under the action of centrifugal force, throws the liquid onto the felt band 41a and thus maintains it in a. moist or damp condition; it being understood that the amount of liquid supplied may be regulated by adjustment of the valve 382l which is preferably of the needle type. The shoe or other object to be cleaned is then merely touched to said band in order that a relatively small amount of liquid may be applied to it and it is thereafter applied to the dry polishing brush 29 as before described.

I claim 1. The combination of a rotary kshaft havv ing said shaft; a brush on the shaft; a band of absorbent material extending partially around the brush so as to receive liquid therefrom; and means for supplying liquid for the brush.

2. The combination of a supporting structure; a shaft rotatably mounted thereon; driving meansfor the shaft; a brush fixed to the shaft; a saddle mounted adjacent the brush; a. band ofLabsorbent material attached to the front of the saddle and eX- tending across the face of the brush around the same; with means for delivering liquid lfor the brush.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM BOTTOMLEY KEIGrlILlilY.`

Witnesses:

WILLIAM E. BRADLEY, WM. A. BARR.

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