US3911944A - Apparatus for housing hose of suction cleaner - Google Patents

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US3911944A
US3911944A US45646174A US3911944A US 3911944 A US3911944 A US 3911944A US 45646174 A US45646174 A US 45646174A US 3911944 A US3911944 A US 3911944A
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Hiroshi Hukuba
Iwao Ikegami
Teruaki Yasuda
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65HHANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/34Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
    • B65H75/36Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables without essentially involving the use of a core or former internal to a stored package of material, e.g. with stored material housed within casing or container, or intermittently engaging a plurality of supports as in sinuous or serpentine fashion
    • B65H75/362Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables without essentially involving the use of a core or former internal to a stored package of material, e.g. with stored material housed within casing or container, or intermittently engaging a plurality of supports as in sinuous or serpentine fashion with stored material housed within a casing or container
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47LDOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L9/00Details or accessories of suction cleaners, e.g. mechanical means for controlling the suction or for effecting pulsating action; Storing devices specially adapted to suction cleaners or parts thereof; Carrying-vehicles specially adapted for suction cleaners
    • A47L9/0009Storing devices ; Supports, stands or holders
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T137/00Fluid handling
    • Y10T137/6851With casing, support, protector or static constructional installations
    • Y10T137/6918With hose storage or retrieval means
    • Y10T137/6932With retrieval means

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  • a hose-housing apparatus for the purpose of facilitating the paying-out and hauling-in of the hose accommodated at liberty in a container annexed to a suction cleaner by virtue of the reversible rotation of a pair of rotating rollers holding said hose therebetween, said rollers being installed by the side of one opening of said container and so devised as to be driven in both the normal and reverse directions, respectively, by a reversible motor, which apparatus comprises switches for the purpose of automatically stopping the normal rotation and reverse rotation of said motor as disposed in front and in the rear of said rollers, 21 pusher disposed both in front and in the rear of the hose for the purpose of actuating said switches, and an auxiliary switch for the purpose of manual control of said motor.
  • the present invention relates to an apparatus for housing the hose of a suction cleaner.
  • a housing apparatus which is so devised that the hose is wound around a rotating drum accommodated in a container belonging to the suction cleaner, which hose is held between a pair of rotating rollers which are installed by the side of an opening of said container and are to be driven by a motor, and which hose is paid out from or hauled in the container by virtue of the rotation of said rollers.
  • an apparatus of this type has been undesirable in that not only it is intricate in construction but also the job of winding the hose around the rotating drum is very difficult to perform.
  • One object of the present invention is to overcome the foregoing defects of the conventional apparatuses, and it is to provide an apparatus for housing the hose of a suction cleaner, which permits the hose to' fill a container therefor at liberty without resorting to the provision of a rotating drum for winding it.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for housing the hose of a suction cleaner, wherein the switches for the motor to drive the rotating rollers for the purpose of paying-out and hauling-in of the hose are provided separately from a hand operating switch by being disposing in front and in the rear of said rollers, so that the controlling circuit of the motor can be opened by either actuating said switches by means of a pusher installed both in front and in the rear of the hose to be paid out or hauled in or operating said hand operating switch to thereby stop the rotation of the motor to being on the automatic stop of the movement of the hose, and thereafter the hose can be moved in the direction opposite to the direction of its movement before its stop by operating the hand operating switch equipped on the controlling circuit of the motor to thereby close the opened controlling circuit and also make the motor rotate in the direction opposite to that before its stop.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for housing the hose of a suction cleaner, wherein the pusher installed in the rear of the hose is devised to be movable along the hose and, by virtue of the movement of the pusher in, this way, the time for stopping of the motor on the occasion of paying out the hose, that is to say, the length of the hose to be paid out, can be regulated.
  • a still further object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for housing the hose of a suction cleaner, wherein the respectiveswitches. which serve for the automatic stopping of the motor are.
  • two-piece sets of switches, and the two switches of each set are disposed opposite to each other across the hose and connected with the same circuit in parallel to usually form a closed circuit respectively, so that, even. when a switch disposed on one sideisforced to actuate during the movement of the hose due to the weight of the hose per se or the twist thereof, unless the hose touches the other switch disposed on the opposite side simultaneously, the controlling circuit for the motor is not opened, and accordingly, the controlling circuit for the motor is opened to stop the motor only when the two switches of each set are actuated simultaneously.
  • FIG. 1 is a front view of the vertical section of an apparatus embodying the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view, on an enlarged scale, of a portion of the same apparatus as shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic representation of the controlling circuit within the apparatus shown in FIG. 1.
  • 1 denotes the container to accomodate the hose '2.
  • the openings 3, 4 are provided on the container 1, and the hose 2 accommodated in the container 2 is paid out or hauled in through the opening 3.
  • This hose 2 is made of a spiral reinforced material covered with a flexible film.
  • the inside of the opening 4 is connected with the rear end of the hose 2'and the outside of same is connected with the inlet port of the suction cleaner provided with a suction fan, a filter, etc. which is not shown herein.
  • the inside of the opening 3 is equipped with the supporting frame 7, and on this supporting frame 7 are pivoted a pair of rotating rollers 5 and 5' which are disposed above and below the hose 2 so as to hold it therebetween and are devised to rotate in opposite directions.
  • These rollers 5 and 5 are interlocked and one roller 5' is so devised as to be selectively rotated both clockwise and anticlockwise by means of the reversible motor 6 installed inside the container 1.
  • Each of these rollers 5 and 5' is tapered toward the center thereof and its circumference is provided with a plurality of vertical grooves.
  • a pair of guide rings 10 and 10' disposed in front and 7 diameter of the hose 2. Each of these guide rings .10
  • the fore end of the hose 2 is equipped with the coupling 14 provided with the push ring 13 whose rear part is tapered into a truncated cone, and said coupling 14. is connected with the suction tube 19.
  • the rear end of the hose 2 is screwed in'the push ring 15 having its fore portion tapered into a truncated cone provided with a spiral hole.
  • FIG. 3 is illustrative of the controlling circuit for the motor 6, wherein the pair of 8, 8' and the pair of microswitches 9, 9 are connected in series with the motor 6, and said individual microswitches 8, 8' and individual microswitches 9, 9 are respectively connected in parallel l6 denotes a two pole-two position toggle switch, which is composed of the change-over switch 17 for the motor and the auxiliary switch 18 for closing the circuit as integrated.
  • the change-over switch 17 consists of the movable contact b and the two positions a and c, and is connect in series with the motor 6.
  • the auxiliary switch 18 is composed of the movable contact b and the two positions a and c.
  • the circuits h and c are scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims are fully contemplated.
  • An apparatus adapted for attachment to a suction connected in parallel with the microswitches 9 and 9', 5 cleaner to facilitate the paying out and hauling in of a and the circuits a and b are connected in parallel with microswitches 8 and 8. And, the connection is so arranged that, when the circuits a and b connected with the change-over switch 17 are closed, the circuits a and b connected with the switch 18 are simultaneously closed to run the motor 6 in the normal direction; on the contrary, when the change-over switch 17 is switched over to close the circuits b and c, the circuits b and connected with the switch 18 are simultaneously closed to run the motor in the reverse direction.
  • the movable contact 1) comes to be connected with the position c so that the electric current is applied to the motor 6 by virtue of the switch 18 even when the microswitches 9 and 9' are turned off, and in addition, the movable contact b has been switched over to the connection with the position 0, so that the motor 6 starts running in the reverse direction to haul the hose 2 into the container 1.
  • the push ring 13 provided on the fore part of the hose 2 being hauled in reaches the guide ring 10, it pushes outward the pins 11 and 11' equipped on this guide ring 10, whereby the microswitches 8 and 8 are opened to stop the motor and discontinue the hauling-in of the hose 2.
  • the present apparatus renders it possible to perform the work of paying-out and hauling-in of the hose 2 accommodated in the container 1 by automatically repeating the above described operation through just the operation of the switch 16, and during said work, the dust can be sucked up through the hose 2 into the cleaner which is not shown herein connected with the opening 4.
  • a housing defining therein a storage compartment, said housing having an opening formed in one side thereof;
  • said drive means for causing said hose to be paid out or hauled in through said opening, said drive means including a reversible motor;
  • said drive means including a pair of rotatable rollers rotatably supported adjacent said opening and positioned for engagement with said hose so that said hose is held between said rollers, said motor being drivingly interconnected to at least one of said rollers so that said rollers rotate in reverse directions depending upon the direction of rotation of said motor;
  • first means for stopping said motor after the desired length of hose has been paid out of said opening said first means including first switch means mounted adjacent one side of said pair of rollers and a first switch actuating member mounted on said hose adjacent the rear end thereof and adapted for engagement with said first switch means when said hose has been paid out of said opening; and
  • second means for stopping said motor after the hose has been hauled into the compartment said second means including second switch means mounted adjacent the other side of said pair of rollers and a second switch actuating member mounted on said hose adjacent the forward end thereof and adapted for engagement with said second switch means when the hose has been hauled through said openinginto said compartment.
  • An apparatus further including auxiliary switch means for permitting manual control of said motor.
  • each of said first and second switch means comprises a pair of switches which are disposed on diametrically opposite sides of the hose and are connected electrically in parallel.
  • An apparatus adapted for attachment to a suction cleaner to facilitate the paying out and hauling in of a cleaning hose comprising:
  • a housing defining therein a storage compartment, said housing having an opening formed in one side thereof;
  • drive means for causing said hose to be paid out or hauled in through said opening, said drive means including a drive motor and a reversible rotatable 7.
  • said drive means includes a second roller disposed opposite the first-mentioned roller so that the hose is held between said rollers.

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IT1011692B (it) 1977-02-10

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