US1251518A - Glove-cleaning machine. - Google Patents

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H. A. HECKER. G LO VE CLEANING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED OCT. H. 1915.

Patented Jan. 1, 1918.

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GLOVE CLEANING MACHINE. APPLlCATlON FILED OCT. 11. 1915.

Patented Jan. 1, 1918.

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GLOVE CLEANING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 0CT.11; 1915. 1,251,518. Patented Jan. 1, 1918.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO A. I-IECKER, QF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN LAUNDRY MACHINERY COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

GLOVE-CLEANING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 1, 1918.

Application filed October 11, 1915. Serial No. 55,139.

To (LZZVZUILOWL it may concern:

lle it known that I, lIUoo A. Hncxnn, of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glove-Cleaning Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference-numerals marked thereon.

My invention has for its object to improve the construction of cleaning machines for treating gloves and like articles, or appa' ratus designed for similar use, of the general type that embodies a receptacle for containing a suitable cleaning fluid through which the work is caused to travel, during which movement it is brought into contact with suitable cleaning surfaces, such as brushes, that engage the work with a rubbing action, and serve to remove the dirt. In the better known types of machines for this purpose, there is employed a rotary brush carrier within a receptacle, the brushes of which cooperate with a stationary brush arranged in the body of the cleaning fluid, and it is my object to so construct the movable brush carrier as to insure the proper action of the brushes on the work under all conditions, and to prevent the work from being subjected to either an excessive or an insuflicient pressure of the cleaning surfaces. A further object of the invention is to compensate for the wear on the brushes by maintaining a constant relation between them, irrespective of the extent of use to which they have been subjected. An additional object of my invention is to improve the construction and arrangement of machines of this type by features that strengthen it, and add to its general efficiency. To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in the claim at the end of the specification.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of an apparatus constructed in accordance with a preferred embodiment of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on line 3 -3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4: is an enlarged view of a portion of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line 5"- 5 of Fig. 4.

Similar reference numerals in the several figures indicate the same parts.

In the present embodiment of the invention 1 designates a receptacle embodying a top 2, which includes the movable covers 3 through which the cleaning fluid and the work are inserted. The receptacle 1 cmbodies an endless channel composed of two opposite portions connected at thelr ends in the manner shown in Fig. 1, so as to afford a continuous circulating path for the work. The receptacle is provided with stationary cleaning surfaces, preferably in the form of brush members 4:, which are located in the channel at nearly opposite points, at the bottom of the receptacle, and beneath the cleaning surfaces 4 are outlet chambers 5 which are connected to a discharge pipe 6, the'latter having a drain cock 7 at its outer end, through which the cleaning fluid is drained off when the receptacle is to be emptied.

The cleaning surfaces 1 are concave, as shown in Fig. 2, and arranged for cooperation therewith are movable cleaning memhere, which act to carry the work against the stationary members at, and are constructed and arranged in the manner that I will now describe. J ournaled in the opposite portions of the receptacle are spindles 8 and 9, which are operatively connected by gears 10 and 11, while the spindle 9 carries fast and loose pulleys 12 and 13 to receive a driving belt, from which motion is communicated to the spindles for driving the movable brush members, as will be more fully set forth presently.

The movable cleaning members or brushes are designated at it, and mounted on drumlike members 15, which are fixed on the respective spindles 8 and 9. The construction of the drum-like members and the brushes arranged thereon is the same for each side of the receptacle, and for convenience in the present description I will explain only one of these. The drum-like member 15 serves as a carrier for the brushes 14:, of which there are preferably four, having convex working surfaces, each secured in a support 16. The support 16 is cutaway or grooved at its sides to engage guides 17 attached to the carrier, so asto permit slidable movement of the support 16 and the brush member on the carrier in a direction radially of the same. It is necessary to maintain the movable brush member in contact with the stationary brushes as the former passes the latter, and with this in view I employ guide rods 18 which are slida'ble in openings 19. The rods 18 carry enlarged heads '20 engaging the carrier and movable in openings 21 in the support 16; while 22 is a spring surrounding the rods 18 and located between the head 20 and the shoulder :23. Spring 22 acts to force the support 16 and its brush outwardly from the axis of the carrier and radially with relation thereto while at the same time permitting sutiicient yieldability of the movable cleaning member to permit the work to pass between the movable and stationary brushes.

The construction is of particular advantage in so far as it maintains the cooperating cleaning surfaces in the proper operative relation at all times, irrespective of the extent of wear to which the brushes may have been vention is intended to improve, and while I have set forth a specific structure, I do not limit myself to this arrangement but intend to protect by this application any changes that may come within the scope of my improvements and of the claim hereto appended.

I claim as my invention:

In a cleaning machine, the combination with a receptacle, of an annular carrier journaled in the receptacle and provided with guides arranged interiorly and extending radially, a cleaning surface located at the bottom of the receptacle, a cleaning member having guideways engaging the aforementioned guides for permitting radial move ment of the cleaning member with reference to the carrier, the cleaning member having openings extending radially therethrough, guide rods movably arranged in said open ings and having enlargements at their inner ends loosely engaging the carrier, and springs surrounding said guide rods having engagement with the enlargements at one end and shoulders on the cleaning member at the opposite end and acting to eliect outward movement of the cleaning member on the carrier.

HUGO A. HEOKER.

Witnesses i Jos. H. SPELLER, R. L. MENZEL.

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