EP0243323A2 - Machine pour le nettoyage des fenêtres, des sols et des murs à laver - Google Patents

Machine pour le nettoyage des fenêtres, des sols et des murs à laver Download PDF

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EP0243323A2
EP0243323A2 EP87830127A EP87830127A EP0243323A2 EP 0243323 A2 EP0243323 A2 EP 0243323A2 EP 87830127 A EP87830127 A EP 87830127A EP 87830127 A EP87830127 A EP 87830127A EP 0243323 A2 EP0243323 A2 EP 0243323A2
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Vito Di Gregorio
Mario Fata
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Ciciani Giancarlo
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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
    • 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
    • A47L1/00—Cleaning windows
    • A47L1/06—Hand implements
    • A47L1/08—Hand implements with provision for supplying liquids, e.g. cleaning agents
    • 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
    • A47L11/38—Machines, specially adapted for cleaning walls, ceilings, roofs, 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
    • A47L11/4016—Contaminants collecting devices, i.e. hoppers, tanks or the like specially adapted for collecting fluids
    • 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
    • A47L11/4036—Parts or details of the surface treating tools
    • 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
    • A47L11/4036—Parts or details of the surface treating tools
    • A47L11/4044—Vacuuming or pick-up tools; Squeegees
    • 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
    • A47L11/408—Means for supplying cleaning or surface treating agents
    • A47L11/4086—Arrangements for steam generation
    • 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
    • A47L11/408—Means for supplying cleaning or surface treating agents
    • A47L11/4088—Supply pumps; Spraying devices; Supply conduits

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  • This invention concerns a machine for cleaning glasses, floors and washable walls. More particularly the invention concerns a machine in which are combined the two actions of steam delivery, for washing and rinsing the surfaces to be cleaned, and of suction of the resulting liquid, in order to take away the dirt and dry them.
  • the glasses, the floors, the ceramic or anyway washable walls, and in general the smooth surfaces being susceptible of cleaning through washing are treated through manual application of water containing, in general, a suitable detergent, often followed by dry in, with clothes or similar, in order to eliminate the residual water and the traces of dirt and detergent.
  • Said machines mostly have a configuration similar to that of common vacuum-cleaners, with a main body, inside which are provided the boiler and the electric components, plus one or more interchangeable cleaning fixtures, conn- nected to the main body through normal pipes and hoses.
  • a machine for cleaning glasses, floors and washable walls comprising a steam generator, an electric group sucking the air-liquid mixture, a container gathering the sucked liquid, inside which the depression of the sucking group is produced, first pipe means connected to the steam generator, second pipe means in communication with the liquid container and a cleaning fixture including, on its turn, a steam delivery device connected to said first pipe means, a suction mouth in communication with said second pipe means and flexible broom means for conveying the liquid formed on the surface towards said suction mouth.
  • the steam generator is housed within the container of liquid, while the suction group is placed outside the latter, in a housing built in its lower part, and communicates with the internal environment of same through a non sucking, vertical pipe.
  • the container of liquid can be built with two separable parts in order to allow, mostly, the exhaust of the liquid and the access to internal components.
  • the suction group includes a by-pass motor, suitable for sucking the gas-liquid mixtures, and the second pipe means are, in correspondence with their end communicating with the container, turned towards the upper part of the container itself, in such a way as to avoid that the squirts of the sucked liquid might be.directly brought into contact with the sucking group.
  • the first pipe means, through which the steam passes, are placed inside the second pipe means and the whole unit can be built either completely with hoses, in which case a suitable handle is provided for holding and operating the fixture, or in a part with hoses and in another with rigid pipes, so that the rigid pipe is able to replace the supporting handle of the fixture.
  • said first and second pipe means both in the solution where they are coaxially assembled, and in the case when they are mutually extended, can be made out by several lengths, which can be separated and coupled through seal joints, in such a way that their length can be changed and their size reduced when put away.
  • said steam dispensing device is assembled within the lower part of the fixture, and in correspondence with same there is provided a spongy element which is run across by the delivered steam, and the broom flexible means are assembled in the upper part of the fixture, above the suction mouth.
  • the steam delivering device includes a cross distributor pipe, provided with aligned holes, to which is jointly coupled the spongy element in correspondence with said holes, such distributor pipe being able to turn, by manual control, around its axis, both for eliminating the contact between the spongy element and the surface, and for allowing the inclination adjustment of the element itself.
  • the upper angle of the spongy element can be formed by one'part in abrasive material, especially useful for scraping the harder dirt.
  • a fixture implemented according the embodiment described appears to be advantageously employable for cleaning glasses or vertical walls, owing to the arrangement of the broom means and of the spongy element, as well as to the possibility of adjusting the inclination of the distributor pipe-spongy element unit.
  • the same includes, transversally placed, starting from its front part, a first broom flexible means, the suction mouth, a second broom flexible means, the steam delivering device and a scraping flexible means.
  • the steam delivering device can include a cross distributor pipe, provided with aligned holes.
  • the fixture so implemented can be employed, particularly, for cleaning floors.
  • a container for the sucked liquid is shown with reference 1 and it is formed by a lower part 2 and by an upper one 3, as its cover. Inside the lower part 2 a steam generator 4 is housed while, under the same, externally, the suction group 5 is housed, being in communication with the inside of container 1 . through a non suck- i n g pipe 6. Actually,the open end of pipe 6 is set at such an height as to never be reached by the level of liquid drained into container 1.
  • Steam generator 4 is connected to the cleaning fixture 7 through the small hose 8 which, for the greater part of its length, is placed within the hose 9 which pipes the sucked air-liquid mixture.
  • Said hose 9 communicates with the internal environment of container 1 through one of its ends 10, upturned, in such a way that the splashes coming from the latter may bounce against the upper part 3 of container 1 without falling inside the pipe 6, thus avoiding the direct contact between the suction group and the liquid.
  • the cleaning fixture 7 is provided with a rigid handle 11 allowing for its holding and operation.
  • a flexible broom 12 which pushes the condensate mixed with dirt towards the suction mouth 13, from which-the latter are conveyed along pipe 9.
  • a steam delivering device formed by a small hose 14 connected to a distributor pipe 15, equipped on its turn with aligned holes 16 from which the steam is exhausted.
  • a small sponge 17 is fixed to distributor pipe 15, the former being used for distributing evenly the steam on the surface and for performing a wiping action.
  • the distributor pipe 15 can be made to rotate around its axis by the knob 18, so as to locate the small spon- g e 17 as shown in figures 3, 4 and 5.
  • Knob 18 is made out in such a way as to be able to be extracted along arrow 19, so that the tube 15-small sponge 17 unit can be replaced.
  • small sponge 17 On the upper edge of small sponge 17 there is provided an abrasive part 20 which, when arranging the small sponge 17 as shown in figure 5, allows to perform a stronger scraping action.
  • the coupling between pipe 9 and fixture 7, shown by reference 21, is formed by a pressure conical coupling, while the one between the small hoses 14 and 8 is provided by a fitting 22, both ends of which are truncated cones.
  • Fixture 7 can be employed in the position of figure 3, in correspondence of which both actions of steam delivery and of suction of resulting liquid are performed at the same time, or in the position of figure 4 when the steam delivery action is excluded by withdrawing the small sponge 17 towards the inside of chamber 23.
  • the lower part 24, on which the suction mouth 25 is provided and to which the flexible brooms 26 and 27 are fixed, can be disjoined from fixture 7, both for replacement of part and for ensuring its interchangeability with other devices suitable for cleaning different surfaces, such as for instance moquettes and carpets.
  • the steam delivery device includes a distributor duct 32 provided with delivery holes 33. At the back of the steam distributor a small scraping brush 34 is provided.

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EP87830127A 1986-04-08 1987-04-03 Machine pour le nettoyage des fenêtres, des sols et des murs à laver Withdrawn EP0243323A3 (fr)

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IT47865/86A IT1190521B (it) 1986-04-08 1986-04-08 Elettrodomestico per la pulizia di vetri,pavimenti e pareti lavabili

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FR2633176A1 (fr) * 1988-06-27 1989-12-29 Bavouzet Michel Machine a lessiver, rincer et secher les sols, les murs et les plafonds
WO1996032876A1 (fr) * 1995-04-21 1996-10-24 Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmbh Embout d'aspirateur pour le nettoyage humide de surfaces
EP0799596A1 (fr) * 1996-04-01 1997-10-08 Gilles Stuppy Dispositif autonome pour le mouillage des vitres
WO1997020490A3 (fr) * 1995-12-06 1997-10-23 Fidor Vermoegensverwaltung Gmb Nettoyeur a vapeur
EP0836826A3 (fr) * 1996-10-21 2000-09-27 VORWERK & CO. INTERHOLDING GmbH Embout pour appareil aspirant destiné au nettoyage par voie humide de surfaces
EP1095610A3 (fr) * 1996-10-21 2001-10-04 Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH Embout pour appareil aspirant destiné au nettoyage par voie humide de surfaces
EP0723760B2 (fr) † 1995-01-30 2003-01-22 Ariberto Tamborini Raccord d'assemblage pour machines de nettoyage par liquide et aspiration pour le traitement de sols, tapis, moquettes, etc.
GB2425344A (en) * 2005-04-18 2006-10-25 Yair Meshoulam A steamer head
WO2013010588A1 (fr) * 2011-07-20 2013-01-24 Alfred Kärcher Gmbh & Co. Kg Dispositif de nettoyage à buses
WO2014108694A1 (fr) * 2013-01-11 2014-07-17 Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited Dispositif de traitement de surface
CN104814699A (zh) * 2015-05-27 2015-08-05 遂宁市长丰机械科技有限公司 带罩扫尘器
WO2024084171A1 (fr) * 2022-10-20 2024-04-25 Seb S.A. Accessoire de nettoyage par diffusion de vapeur

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FR2633176A1 (fr) * 1988-06-27 1989-12-29 Bavouzet Michel Machine a lessiver, rincer et secher les sols, les murs et les plafonds
EP0723760B2 (fr) † 1995-01-30 2003-01-22 Ariberto Tamborini Raccord d'assemblage pour machines de nettoyage par liquide et aspiration pour le traitement de sols, tapis, moquettes, etc.
WO1996032876A1 (fr) * 1995-04-21 1996-10-24 Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmbh Embout d'aspirateur pour le nettoyage humide de surfaces
US6021545A (en) * 1995-04-21 2000-02-08 Vorwerk & Co. Interholding Gmbh Vacuum cleaner attachment for the wet cleaning of surfaces
WO1997020490A3 (fr) * 1995-12-06 1997-10-23 Fidor Vermoegensverwaltung Gmb Nettoyeur a vapeur
EP0799596A1 (fr) * 1996-04-01 1997-10-08 Gilles Stuppy Dispositif autonome pour le mouillage des vitres
EP0836826A3 (fr) * 1996-10-21 2000-09-27 VORWERK & CO. INTERHOLDING GmbH Embout pour appareil aspirant destiné au nettoyage par voie humide de surfaces
EP1095610A3 (fr) * 1996-10-21 2001-10-04 Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH Embout pour appareil aspirant destiné au nettoyage par voie humide de surfaces
GB2425344A (en) * 2005-04-18 2006-10-25 Yair Meshoulam A steamer head
GB2425344B (en) * 2005-04-18 2010-03-31 Yair Meshoulam Steamer head and apparatus
WO2013010588A1 (fr) * 2011-07-20 2013-01-24 Alfred Kärcher Gmbh & Co. Kg Dispositif de nettoyage à buses
WO2014108694A1 (fr) * 2013-01-11 2014-07-17 Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited Dispositif de traitement de surface
EP3165145A1 (fr) * 2013-01-11 2017-05-10 Techtronic Floor Care Technology Limited Dispositif de traitement de surface
CN104814699A (zh) * 2015-05-27 2015-08-05 遂宁市长丰机械科技有限公司 带罩扫尘器
WO2024084171A1 (fr) * 2022-10-20 2024-04-25 Seb S.A. Accessoire de nettoyage par diffusion de vapeur
FR3141050A1 (fr) * 2022-10-20 2024-04-26 Seb S.A. Accessoire de nettoyage par diffusion de vapeur

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