US1566164A

US1566164A - Generator-commutator cleaner

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Publication number: US1566164A
Application number: US20708A
Authority: US
Inventors: Herbert P Norton
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-04-04
Filing date: 1925-04-04
Publication date: 1925-12-15
Anticipated expiration: 1942-12-15

Description

Dec. 15 1925- H. P. NORTON GENERATOR COMMUTATOR CLEANER Filed A ril 4.. 1925 w M H 5 y O o -4 02 H A a d J gnmntoz HaRBERT P. NORTON.

PatentedlDeq-IS, 1925. I 1,566,164

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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Application filed April 4, 1925. Serial mi. 20,708.

To all whom it may concern: 13 may be directed. The free end of the Be it known that I, HERBERT P. NORTON, strip 16 is bent outwardly, as indicated at 55 a citizen of the United States, residing at 19, and then down in closely spaced rela- Pierpont, in the county of Ashtabula and tion to the strip 16, as indicated at 20, just State of Ohio, have invented certain new and sufiicient space being provided between the useful Improvements in Generator-Commuportion 20 and the strip 16 to admit of the tator Cleaners. of which the following is end. of the strip 13 being slipped thercbe- 60 a specification, reference being had to the tween. accompanying drawings. In the use of the device, the face of the I This invention relates to generator conistrip 13 lying between the ends of the guide 'mutator cleaners and has for an important strips 15,16 is forced against the commuobject thereof the provision of a device of tator face while the generator is in opera- 65 this character primarily intended for use tion, cleaning the same in the usual manner. in cleaning the generator commutators of The strip being unbacked between the supautomobile ignition systems. ports formed at 17-and 19 may conform to A further object of the invention is to the shaping of commutators of different diprovide a device of-this character which is ameters. The frame 10 is preferably formed 70 of small size and may be readily stored in 'of insulating material. When the strip bea tool box and which includes means for comes worn, it is further withdrawn from 20 storing a strip of sandpaper and guiding the spool until a fresh surface is exposed beand holding the same while the. device is tween the supports 17, 19, and the end porbeing employed for cleaning the commutation torn off so that just sufficient length is 75 tor. p v left to insert this end between 'the strip 16 A further object of the invention is to and the reverted portion 20 thereof.

provide a device of this character which-may It will be obvious that the structure here- -be very cheaply and readily produced. inbefore set forth is capable of a certain Theseand other object-s I attain by the range change and modification without maconstruction shown in the accompanying terially departing from the spirit of my indrawings, wherein for the purpose of illusvention and I accordingly do not limit my tration is shown a preferred embodiment of self to such specific structure'except as heremy invention and wherein inafter claimed. I 1

. Figure 1 is a plan of a generatorcommu- I claim:

'tator cleaner constructed in accordancewith In a commutator cleaner, a frame formed my invention and I at, one end to provide a handle and having Figure 2 is a longitudi-nal sectionalview at its opposite sides thereof a pair of exther'ethrough taken on the line-22 of Fig tended guide strips, the outer end pf one of ure 1. p said guide strips being inbent, the outer end Referring now mor particularly'toj th of the other ,guide strip being outwardly drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a frame vbent and rt d in closely sp d Pela- 40 formed centrally to provide an opening 11 n t0 the guide s ip, the f m b ing hroueh Through the side edges of formed intermediate the ends thereof with the frame a bolt or other suitable pivot, an pening housing a coil of stripped sandas indicated'at 12. is directed through this paper, the end of the strip of sandpaper beopening and provides a means for supportmg passed about the ends of said supporting a roll 13 of sandpaper. One end f th ing strips and engaged betweerfsaid reverted frame is formed to provide a handle 14 portion and the strip to which it is attached, while the opposite end thereof has secured the first named supporting strip b e ing prn at opposite faces thereof apair of outstandvided at spaced vpoints with guide loops in guide strips 15 and 16. V through which the sandpaper strip is dillheguide stri -16 has its free end turned rected. fl inwardly, asat 1 and is provided at spaced In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my points along its length with guide loops signature. v 18 through which the strip 13 from the roll j -IER BERT P. NORTON. V