US20100115717A1 - Sole cleaning machine - Google Patents

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US20100115717A1
US20100115717A1 US12/610,752 US61075209A US2010115717A1 US 20100115717 A1 US20100115717 A1 US 20100115717A1 US 61075209 A US61075209 A US 61075209A US 2010115717 A1 US2010115717 A1 US 2010115717A1
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Hermann Vogt
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Itec Ingenieurburo fur Hygiene und Lebensmitteltechnik GmbH
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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
    • A47L23/00—Cleaning footwear
    • A47L23/22—Devices or implements resting on the floor for removing mud, dirt, or dust from footwear
    • A47L23/26—Mats or gratings combined with brushes ; Mats
    • A47L23/263—Mats or gratings combined with brushes ; Mats with moving or driven parts, also combined with suction cleaning

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  • the invention relates to a cleaning machine for the soles of shoes, and more particularly, to a cleaning machine for the sole of shoes in particular for personnel locks (entries) in hygienic exclusion areas (clean rooms and the like) that utilizes a wiping grid composed of grate bars as well as a trough, which is arranged below the wiping grid and inside of which two rotatably driven roller brushes are supported that reach between the grate bars of the wiping grid by means of the top circumferential areas thereof. Further included is a wetting apparatus in the area of the trough in order to apply water and liquid cleaners for the cleaning of soles as well as a liquid discharging device in the bottom area of the trough.
  • Such walk-over sole cleaning machines as described above must be cleaned periodically. A differentiation should be made between a main or fundamental cleaning of the entire machine and an interim cleaning of the functional elements of the machine only.
  • the cleaning measures are required to meet the hygienic requirements of such areas as clean rooms.
  • the interim cleaning has the additional purpose of ensuring the adequate operational function of the machine.
  • the respective cleaning procedures are performed periodically. The following deals with the interim cleaning that occurs between the main cleaning events.
  • a cleaning device such as a high or low pressure cleaner
  • rinse water as well as a typically used cleaning foam is applied to the roller brushes and to the inside of the trough.
  • a suitable exposure time must be specified for the cleaning foam, before the roller brushes and the inside of the trough can be rinsed. Because such activities are carried out manually, there are uncertainties regarding the correct cleaning procedure.
  • manual cleaning takes longer to carryout, which results in the machine being out of service longer.
  • a cleaning device is arranged for the roller brushes and the inside of the trough, and additionally a control device is arranged that controls both the operation of the cleaning device and of the wetting apparatus.
  • cleaning of the roller brushes and of the inside of the trough is done automatically. To this end, it is possible to take the degree of soiling into account and cleaning can also be done time-controlled or clocked. If needed, the control device for the cleaning device can also be activated manually in order to manually run the cleaning cycle.
  • the control device is programmable, with the cleaning cycles being especially freely programmable.
  • a cleaning cycle comprises a first rinse-off cycle using water, a foam application phase using an intensive, foaming cleaning agent, a soaking phase for the foaming cleaning agent and finally a rinsing phase again using water.
  • the duration can be set individually for each phase.
  • the roller brushes are rotated during automatic cleaning, in the rinse-off phase, the foam application phase and the rinsing phase, which significantly increases the cleaning efficiency by exposing the entirety of the roller to the particular phase being carried out.
  • a connection of the cleaning device to a foam system which controls the addition of water to the cleaning agent and foams the mixture using air.
  • the foam application provides particularly good wetting of the surfaces of the roller brushes and of the inside of the trough to be cleaned, which significantly improves the effect of the cleaning agent.
  • liquid cleaning agents or rinse only agents such as water can be employed in place of the foaming cleaning agents as well.
  • foaming process using air is omitted and the desired cleaning effect is achieved through the addition of chemical additives to the respective cleaning agent.
  • an additional embodiment of the invention provides an acoustic and/or optical signal enunciator that indicates the automatic cleaning process is running and provides an indication that the walk-over sole cleaning machine should not be used as intended during the cleaning cycle.
  • FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a walk-over sole cleaning machine
  • FIG. 2 shows a schematic cross-section of the sole cleaning device of FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 1 one can see an underframe in the form of a housing 1 that encloses a trough 2 .
  • the trough 2 has a rectangular shape and two roller brushes 3 are located in the trough 2 , whereby the rotational axes of said roller brushes are oriented parallel to each other and extend in the longitudinal direction of the trough 2 .
  • the top side of the trough 2 is covered with a wiping grid 4 that exhibits grate bars 5 , which are parallel to each other and extend in perpendicular direction of the trough 2 .
  • the wiping grid 4 can be pivoted upward. To this end, it is hinged at one of its longitudinal sides to a wall 10 integrated in the housing 1 using hinge/bearings 6 .
  • a bar 9 that protrudes towards the top is arranged along the longitudinal center of the wiping grid 4 , said bar serving as a walking guide that separates the respective areas of the wiping grid that are to be walked on with the right and the left shoe, respectively.
  • the two brush rollers 3 are each arranged in the center underneath each of the two areas of the wiping grid 4 that are separated by the bar 9 above. With their top areas 3 . 1 , the two brush rollers 3 protrude upward beyond the top side of the wiping grid 4 . Accordingly, the bristles of the brush rollers 3 reach through the grate bars 5 of the wiping grid 4 , for which reason the grate bars are arranged at a sufficient distance from each other. Thus, the bristles run through the top area 3 .
  • Both roller brushes 3 are driven counter-rotationally such that their upper circumferential areas 3 . 1 that define the upper top areas of the brush rollers 3 move towards each other, that is, each in the direction toward the center bar 9 , as shown by the arrows B.
  • the brush rollers 3 are sprayed using a liquid sole cleaning agent and water, which is accomplished by a wetting apparatus 7 , 8 .
  • a wetting apparatus 7 , 8 Two lines in the form of tubes 7 and 8 that are separate from each other are provided for this purpose, with one pair of the tubes 7 , 8 being assigned to each roller brush.
  • the pairs of tubes 7 , 8 are located at the sides of the brush rollers 3 that face away from each other in the top area of the trough 2 .
  • the tubes 7 , 8 are each provided with nozzle openings, the blast direction of which points toward the respective roller brush 3 .
  • the tubes 7 , 8 are arranged above the horizontal diametric plane “E” that extends through the brush rollers 3 , which are at the same level, the two brush rollers 3 are sprayed across a circumferential area that moves upward, i.e., ascending.
  • the path of the bristle rollers from this spraying or wetting area to the working area, where the bristles of the brush rollers 3 brush the undersides of the shoes to be cleaned, is appropriately short.
  • the covered arc length from the spray area to the work area of the bristle rollers corresponds to an angle of rotation of the brush roller 3 of about 70°.
  • the liquid cleaning agent is applied via the first, upper tube 7 .
  • the respective lower, second tube 8 is intended for spraying the brush rollers 3 with water. Both tubes 7 , 8 are arranged vertically above each other with little distance between them.
  • a discharge device/collection area 15 is provided in the trough 2 in order to collect and discharge the liquids that entered the trough 2 .
  • a single tube with nozzle openings can be used for the wetting apparatus in place of the two tubes 7 , 8 if such a single tube is fed alternatingly with rinse water and with the cleaning agent/water mixture.
  • the special feature of the described sole cleaning machine is that it cleans itself in a fully-automatic cleaning process. This is the interim cleaning process mentioned above.
  • a cleaning device 12 that exhibits nozzle fittings 13 that are integrated in the side walls 10 of the housing 1 is used for this purpose. These nozzle fittings 13 are, therefore, at a greater distance from the roller brushes 3 than the tubes 7 , 8 that form the wetting apparatus. This is advantageous in this respect because the nozzle fittings 13 are populated with nozzles 14 that blast liquid at an angle towards the roller brushes such that the arms of said angle extend tangentially to the associated roller brush 3 such that each of the roller brushes 3 is sprayed in its entirety from the adjacent nozzle fitting 13 .
  • the roller brushes 3 are driven rotationally, which not only sprays and rinses the roller brushes 3 more intensively but also spreads the water and the cleaning agent better overall in the inside of the trough 2 .
  • the cleaning agent is a liquid, foam-generating agent which is fed to the nozzle fittings 13 via a foaming system connected to the nozzle fittings 13 (not shown in the drawing) as is well known in the art.
  • One or more containers 20 connected to the wetting apparatus 7 , 8 and/or the cleaning nozzles 13 may be provided which contain water, foaming agents, cleaning agents or the like.
  • the nozzle fittings 13 extend parallel to the roller brush 3 closest to them or the rotational axes A of the roller brushes 3 and are located at a level that approximately corresponds to the level of the wiping grid 4 . In this manner, the wiping grid 4 is also included in the cleaning process when in its lowered position.
  • the wetting apparatus 7 , 8 and the cleaning device 12 can be combined if the associated control device can ensure that the nozzles blasting in the direction of the roller brushes 3 are each supplied with water and the suitable cleaning agent and also with the respective, different amounts of liquid.
  • the wetting apparatus can also act as the cleaning device or the cleaning device as the wetting apparatus.
  • different nozzles can be provided in one common nozzle fitting such as the nozzle fitting 13 or at the tubes 7 , 8 , said nozzles being used on the one hand for the wetting process and on the other and for the cleaning process.
  • control device 22 is provided.
  • the control device 22 is preferably coupled between the source of water, cleaning fluid or foaming agent and the wetting apparatus 7 , 8 and/or the cleaning nozzles 13 as appropriate.
  • control device 22 is programmable to independently control the wetting and cleaning process.
  • the wetting process which is utilized when a user steps on to the grate 4 may be controlled by means of an actuation button 24 while the automated periodic cleaning of the entire device may be programmed automatically to run at periodic intervals such as, for example, every evening at midnight when no one may be using the system.
  • a user may initiate the cleaning cycle by depressing one or more actuation buttons on the control device 22 .
  • the present invention provides a novel shoes sole cleaning machine which not only cleans the soles of the user steps on the machine but also, which automatically cleans itself periodically or manually.

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CN102599872A (zh) * 2010-11-16 2012-07-25 吴春来 全自动鞋底瞬间保洁机
US9814368B2 (en) * 2013-11-22 2017-11-14 Dong Hyun Kang Doormat device for cleaning shoe sole
US20150143645A1 (en) * 2013-11-22 2015-05-28 Dong Hyun Kang Doormat device for cleaning shoe sole
CN104027057A (zh) * 2014-06-23 2014-09-10 深圳市思力铭科技有限公司 鞋底清洗机
US20160174807A1 (en) * 2014-12-18 2016-06-23 Oscar Cruz Footwear cleaning device
US9603504B2 (en) * 2014-12-18 2017-03-28 Oscar Cruz Footwear cleaning device
US11033172B2 (en) * 2015-12-11 2021-06-15 Steven A. GOLD Shoe sole cleaning device
CN107898423A (zh) * 2017-10-31 2018-04-13 韦玉国 一种鞋底清洁装置
CN108577784A (zh) * 2018-05-28 2018-09-28 重庆洁邦电器有限公司 一种通过拉绳固定的对接拼装式鞋底消毒清洗机
CN108852255A (zh) * 2018-09-06 2018-11-23 孙礼权 一种鞋底清洁机
WO2021150833A3 (en) * 2020-01-24 2021-09-10 Hamilton Storage Technologies, Inc. Portable labware frost remover
JP7469798B2 (ja) 2020-05-14 2024-04-17 コトヒラ工業株式会社 靴底洗浄装置
CN116098560A (zh) * 2023-04-12 2023-05-12 山东科锐医疗用品有限公司 一种口罩生产加工用除尘装置

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