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US1886950A
US1886950A US569866A US56986631A US1886950A US 1886950 A US1886950 A US 1886950A US 569866 A US569866 A US 569866A US 56986631 A US56986631 A US 56986631A US 1886950 A US1886950 A US 1886950A
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French Jeannette
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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
    • A47L11/40—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
    • A47L11/4075—Handles; levers
    • 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
    • A47L11/32—Carpet-sweepers
    • A47L11/33—Carpet-sweepers having means for storing dirt
    • 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
    • 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
    • A47L11/4025—Means for emptying
    • 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
    • A47L11/4052—Movement of the tools or the like perpendicular to the cleaning surface
    • A47L11/4055—Movement of the tools or the like perpendicular to the cleaning surface for lifting the tools to a non-working position
    • 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
    • A47L11/4063—Driving means; Transmission means therefor
    • A47L11/4069—Driving or transmission means for the cleaning tools

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  • This invention relates to surface treating means and my improvements are directed to a hand-propelled device which may be provided with two separateV and distinct cleaning implements, which may be brushes having different characteristics, one being a relatively stiff brush for sweeping carpets, and the like, and the other a soft brush for sweeping hard surfaces; or the treating implements may be of suitable character Jfor polishing,
  • the Aprincipal object of my invention is to provide an improved means embodying a plurality of such sweeping or cleaning devices, each of which may be rendered operative at will while the remaining device or devices are inoperative.
  • the embodiment of my invention herein illustrated I disclose a sweeper having two rotary brushes one of which may be a soft brush and one a stiff brush.
  • the sweeper is provided with traction members which may be wheels of the usual type, and means are provided whereby either one of the brushes may be connected with the wheels so as to be operated thereby and at the same timey the other brush is disconnected from the wheels 0 and raised from the surface so as to remain idle while the sweeper is moving thereover.
  • the sweeper is providr-d with the usual long handle to move it over the Hoor, and as is the practice with this type of sweeper the 'a handle pivoted to the sweeper body so that, in its operative positions, it may extend from one end or the other of-.the sweeper body.
  • the brushes are preferably mounted on parallel axes, in spaced relation with a dust pan between them, and in the preferred construction the arrangement is such that the.
  • operative brush is always the forward brush of the sweeper.
  • My improved sweeper structure includes a casing within which two pairs of traction wheels are journalled, while the respective brushes are disposed within the casing near opposite ends thereof, and respectively beyond the pairs of traction wheels, said brushes carrying circular frictional disks that are adapted to be rotated from the tracl tion wheels with which they are associated.
  • the sweeper handle has ⁇ a bail which is journalled by pivotal portions thereof in opposite sides ofthe casing, said pivotal portions carrying disks with which are connected links that themselves are pivoted to bars which each have a bearing for a brush and are slotted to receive the axles of the traction wheels.
  • the swinging movement4 of the handle in one direction causes the bars, which use the traction wheel axles as fulcra, to raise the brush at one end of the casing out of contact with the Hoor surface and to depress the brush at the other end of the casing purpose.
  • Said box which has a central partition, is adapted to lie between the brushes and has end openings adjacent the brushes to receive dirt, etc., swept up thereby.
  • Figure 1 is a horizontal sectional view of my improved surface treating device taken on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2.
  • Fig. 2 is a side sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 4 is a side sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1, and
  • Fig. 5 is an endwise section taken on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4.
  • the outer cylindrical faces of the wheels are lined with friction material such as rubber, forming the usual traction tires for the Wheels.
  • 6 indicates a handle for the sweeper, which handle is provided at its lower end with a bail or yoke-shaped member 6a pivoted in the side walls of the sweeper casing 1 as shown at 7, and 8 represents the portions of the bail which project inside the casing.
  • Each portion 8 has a collar 9 mounted upon it and secured thereto as by means of a setscrew 10.
  • U-shaped links 11, 12 are pivotally mounted at their upper ends on each disk 13, and said disks are mounted respectively on the projecting portions 8 of the bail and fixed to collars 9.
  • the lower ends of links 11, 12 are pivotally mounted at the inner ends of lever members 14, 15.
  • These lever members have slots 16, 17 by means of which they, are mounted upon the axles 5, of the traction wheels 2, 3, and are capable of rocking thereon.
  • the outer ends of the lever members carry bearings in which sweeping brushes 24, 25 are rotatably mounted.
  • Each of these brushes is formed of a cylindrical core of any suitable material, carrying bristles.
  • the 'bristles of one of the brushes, as for example brush 24. may be stiff Yand adapted for cleaning carpets, rugs and rough surfaces generally, while the bristles of the other brush 25 may be soft and adapted for sweeping polished or waxed oors and,
  • journal 26 Projecting from the ends of the cores 24a, 25a of brushes 24, 25, are journals 26, which extend through and are rotatably mounted near the ends of lever members 14, 15, as shown at 27.
  • the bearing 27 is cut away in order to enable the brushes to be removed and replaced easily.
  • Friction wheels 28, 29, made of any suitable material, are secured to the outer ends of the journals 26.
  • the ends 31, 32 of tension springs 30 are secured to the inner ends of lever members 14, 15, and the tension in the springs pulls the lever members inwardly and maintains contact under pressure between the brush friction wheels 28, 29, and the traction wheels 2, 3.
  • a dust pan 35 which can be removed and replaced through the top of the sweeper casing 1, has lips 36 which rest on the top 37 of the casing 1, thereby supporting and holding the said dust pan in position.
  • the dust pan has a bottom portion 38, the ends 39 of which are bent upwardly and inwardly so as in such position that its teeth engage with the bristles of the brush.
  • a. surface treating machine an elongated casing, two cylindrical treating devices ⁇ mounted on parallel axes transversely of said casing, traction wheels mounted in the casing, a handle pivotally connected with said casing for operating said surface treating machine from either end thereof, and means controlled by the swinging. movement of thehandle toward either end of the machine for operatively connecting the treating device near .the opposite end of the machine to a traction wheel.
  • a body casing In a surface treating machine, a body casing, an elongated handle for moving said casing and operating said machine, said hanf dlehaving a bail pivoted to said casing, lever members pivoted in said casing, treating devices journalled in said lever members, friction wheels carried by said treating devices,
  • each door treating device being capable of frictional o eration by a pair of traction wheels, a hand e having a bailthat is journalled by pivotal portions thereof in opposite sides ofthe casing, disks carried by said pivotal portions, links eccentrically pivoted to said disks, lever members in pvotal engagement with said links, pairs of said lever members having bearin s .res ectively for said treating devices and eing'.
  • ⁇ and Hoor treating devices each ioor treating device being' capable of frictiona'l operation 130 by a pair of traction wheels.
  • a handle having a bail that is journalled by pivotal portions thereof in opposite sides of the casing, disks carried by said pivotal portions, links eccentrically pivoted to said disks, lever members in pivotal engagement with said links, pairs of said lever members having hook-shaped bearings at their outer ends respectively for said treating devices and being.
  • a sweeper in combination, a casing having an opening in its upper portion, brushes supported in said casing, traction wheels 'ournalled in said casing, actuating means etween said traction wheels and brushes to rotate said brushes, a handle forv operating said sweeper, a dust pan capable of being removably tted within said casing, between said brushes, by way of said opening, and a partition for dividing said pan into two spaced 'brushes rotatably supported in said ⁇ casing adjacent the end walls: thereof, traction wheels journalled in and supporting said cas1ng, ⁇ said casing'presenting an opening in brushes.

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US2563189A (en) * 1947-04-11 1951-08-07 Rigby Ernest Ephraim Brush drive mechanism for carpet sweepers
US2642617A (en) * 1947-10-20 1953-06-23 Masury Young Company Carpet sweeper with brush cleaning fingers
US2708281A (en) * 1953-05-07 1955-05-17 Donald C Gaydos Polishing device
US2841807A (en) * 1952-06-23 1958-07-08 Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co Carpet sweeper
US2842793A (en) * 1955-05-03 1958-07-15 Hoover Co Suction cleaning tool with floating and pressure nozzle
US3457575A (en) * 1965-12-23 1969-07-29 Bissell Inc Sweeper for carpeted and smooth floors
US4357727A (en) * 1980-12-04 1982-11-09 Bissell, Inc. Dual brush floor sweeper

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2563189A (en) * 1947-04-11 1951-08-07 Rigby Ernest Ephraim Brush drive mechanism for carpet sweepers
US2642617A (en) * 1947-10-20 1953-06-23 Masury Young Company Carpet sweeper with brush cleaning fingers
US2841807A (en) * 1952-06-23 1958-07-08 Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co Carpet sweeper
US2708281A (en) * 1953-05-07 1955-05-17 Donald C Gaydos Polishing device
US2842793A (en) * 1955-05-03 1958-07-15 Hoover Co Suction cleaning tool with floating and pressure nozzle
US3457575A (en) * 1965-12-23 1969-07-29 Bissell Inc Sweeper for carpeted and smooth floors
US4357727A (en) * 1980-12-04 1982-11-09 Bissell, Inc. Dual brush floor sweeper

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