EP0448824A1 - Machine de récurage pour grandes surfaces, particulièrement pour surfaces industrielles - Google Patents

Machine de récurage pour grandes surfaces, particulièrement pour surfaces industrielles Download PDF

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EP0448824A1
EP0448824A1 EP90124953A EP90124953A EP0448824A1 EP 0448824 A1 EP0448824 A1 EP 0448824A1 EP 90124953 A EP90124953 A EP 90124953A EP 90124953 A EP90124953 A EP 90124953A EP 0448824 A1 EP0448824 A1 EP 0448824A1
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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
    • A47L11/4036—Parts or details of the surface treating tools
    • A47L11/4041—Roll shaped 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
    • A47L11/29—Floor-scrubbing machines characterised by means for taking-up dirty liquid
    • A47L11/30—Floor-scrubbing machines characterised by means for taking-up dirty liquid by suction
    • A47L11/302—Floor-scrubbing machines characterised by means for taking-up dirty liquid by suction having rotary tools
    • A47L11/305—Floor-scrubbing machines characterised by means for taking-up dirty liquid by suction having rotary tools the tools being disc brushes
    • 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
    • A47L11/4036—Parts or details of the surface treating tools
    • A47L11/4038—Disk shaped 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
    • A47L11/4061—Steering means; Means for avoiding obstacles; Details related to the place where the driver is accommodated

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  • the present invention has for its subject matter a washing machine for wide surfaces, in particular for industrial floorings.
  • the washing and cleaning machines can be also supplied with normal brushes and rollers with long and soft bristles for getting a further sweeping and collection action of the debris or garbage having wider dimensions.
  • the indicated machines have an important technical problem, that is the selection of the position of brush-holder unit: the same unit can be located overhanging before the machine chassis, as generally occurs, or also under the same chassis.
  • the overhanging position before the chassis has the advantage to make very easy the control or replacement or cleaning of brushes and related motors and supports. Further the driver can observe easily the position of the washing brushes. Therefore it becomes possible to keep the brushes near to eventual obstacles or sides or walls or other matter present in conjuction with the surfaces to be cleaned.
  • the position of the brush-holder unit under the chassis reduces the dimensions of these machines and increases the maneuvrability thereof. Yet this technical solution actually reduces the possibility of good running of these machines.
  • the brush-holder unit located under the chassis is scarcely accessibile and therefore all operations of cleaning, maintenance and control are difficult.
  • the operator that drives the machine can be obliged to skim the obstacles and sides present in conjuction with the flooring surfaces to be washed with the body sides of the same machine, and further the same operator must move his eyes from the move direction, if he must observe the chassis body sides.
  • the technical aim of the present invention is to supply a machine suitable for obviating substantially to the above mentioned drawbacks.
  • the technical aim is substantially obtained by a washing machine for wide surfaces, in particular for industrial floorings, including a chassis substantially limited in plan view by lateral body sides and by end sides transversal to said lateral body sides and supporting near a pavement to be cleaned at least wheels for the movement of said machine, and a brush unit including washing brushes and located between said end sides,
  • the machine according to the invention is generally indicated by the reference number 1 . It includes a support chassis 2 that in plan view has overall dimensions substantially limited by body sides 3 and end edges 4 .
  • the lateral body sides 3 are substantially parallel with one another and to the main development direction of machine 1.
  • the end edges 4 are transversal to the lateral body sides 3 and establish the front and rear edges of chassis 2.
  • the chassis 2 holds, in direction of a pavement 44 to be cleaned, wheels for the movement of the machine 1 divided in two rear wheels 5 , located adjacent to the lateral body sides 3 and aligned with one another in conjuction with a rear axle 6 transversal to the same body sides, and a single front steering wheel 7 located onto a front axle 8 .
  • the same front axle 8 is joined to an electric motor 7a .
  • the front steering wheel is a drive wheel and the two rear wheels 5 are idle wheels.
  • a brush unit 9 located under the chassis 2 in a position included between the end edges 4, and also included between front axle 8 and rear axle 6. In pratice the brush unit 9 is located along the move direction immediately downstream the front steering wheel 7.
  • the brush unit 9 is supported by the chassis 2 by the insertion of a pin 10 , that forms an oscillation axle 10a for the same brush unit 9, substantially in vertical direction.
  • the oscillation axle 10a coincides with the rotation axle of the front steering wheel 7.
  • the brush unit 9 has a transversal dimension exceeding the maximum distance between the body sides 3 and therefore establishes a washing path 9a having washing edges 9b , reciprocally spaced of a measure greater than said distance between the same body sides 3.
  • the brush unt 9 develops according to a shape that surrounds partially the front steering wheel 7 and includes an articulated structure 11 , suitable for supporting a plurality of motors 12 , to which a plurality of washing brushes 13 are joined.
  • the articulated structure 11 On its turn the articulated structure 11 includes a first support body 14 , rotatably joined with the pin 10, a couple of arms 15 engaged, in conjuction with the first ends 16 thereof, to the first support body 14 along first pins 17 , located parallel with one another and transversal to the oscillation axle 10a.
  • a second support body 18 suitable for supporting the motors 12 and the washing brushes 13, is rotatably engaged to second ends 19 of the arms 15 in conjuction with second pins 20 parallel to the first pins.
  • a presser device 22 engaged to the first support body 14 and developing between this last body and the crosspiece body 21, presses the second support body 18 in the direction of surfaces to be cleaned by the insertion of elastic elements 23 .
  • the presser device 22 includes a drive unit 24 and a bar 25 sliding substantially in the axial direction included between the first support body 14 and the crosspiece body 21.
  • the control unit 24 is preferably made by a known electric actuator, including a geared motor 24a , suitable for rotating, e.g. by means of a worm screw, a toothed coupling 24b , winding the bar 25 and screwed thereto.
  • the bar 25 can be axially moved and rotatably fixed and therefore the rotation of the toothed coupling 24b causes the bar 25 to be moved axially.
  • the elastic elements 23 are made-up by tensile springs restrained at its ends with the rod 26 and with projections 29 of the same wings 28.
  • a roller 30 substantially cylindrical in form is foreseen between the rear wheels 5 for collecting debris or garbage and this roller is turning with respect to a rotation axle substantially coincident with the rear axle 6.
  • the roller 30 establishes a debris collection path 30a with collection edges 30b , having a width lower to the minimum distance between the body sides 3.
  • the debris or garbage are thrown by the roller 30 into a collector 31 , of the extractable type for getting a better cleaning, having the bottom supplied with holes for allowing the collected water to be discharged onto the ground.
  • the Figures 1 and 2 show the conveyor members 32 that are made up of scraping wings located onto the edges of the second support body 18.
  • the Figure 4 shows that the conveyor members 32 include also elastic members 34 that press the scraping wings 33 onto the flooring 44.
  • the elastic members 34 have a strut 34a supporting scraping wings 33 and sliding through the support body 18, under the control of a lever 34b driven by a spring element 34c .
  • the centering means 35 includes a rod 36 located transversal to the oscillation axle 10a and engaged at its end by a projection 10b of pin 10, turning around the oscillation axle 10a together with the brush unit 9.
  • the engagement of the rod 36 with the protrusion 10b is made by a manually detachable connection pin 36a .
  • the rod 36 is partially slidingly embodied into a tubular housing body 37 rotatably joined to the chassis 2. Further the rod 36 is slidingly surrounded by elastic means 38 formed by a compression spring hold between a couple of housing rings 39 sliding internally to the housing body 37 and locked in the inside of the housing body 37 by limit stop means 40 .
  • the residual water remaining onto the pavement 44 is sucked by suction elements 42 , located downstream the rear axle 6 and in contact with the pavement ground 44 and sent into a tank housed in the zone 43 .
  • the running of the machine occurs as follows.
  • the second support body 18 supporting the washing brushes 13 is pressed against the ground by means of a presser device 22 and the pressure, adjustable by the operator, controlling the drive unit 24, depends on the intensity of the required cleaning action and by the type of treated pavement 44.
  • the pressure is suitable for locating the rod 26 in an intermediate position within the slots 27: therefore the elastic elements 23 transmit elastically the force of the presser device 22 to the crosspiece body 21 and to the arms 15.
  • the slots 27 allow oscillations of the second support body 18 and arms 15 and these oscillations are balanced by the elastic elements 23. There are possible oscillations both in vertical direction, with equal tensile force of the two elastic elements 23, and tilts for the lifting of a lateral brush and following tensile force different in the elastic elements 23.
  • the first and second pins 17 and 20, or at least these last pins are assembled with play for allowing twists between the joined parts. Further the second pins 20, aligned with one another, establish a pitch axle suitable for allowing adjustment movements of the second support body 18 around the same axle.
  • the scraping wings 33 during the move of the machine, transport water and debris or garbage in conjuction with the roller 30 that projects them into the collector 31.
  • the remaining water laid onto the surfaces is removed by the suction elements 42 in contact with the ground.
  • the brush unit 9 can be lifted by means of the presser device 22, that, under the control of the drive unit 24, causes the lifting of the rod 25 and rod 26.
  • This last rod slides lifting along the slots 27, reducing the tensile force of the elastic elements 23 and finally adjusting itself in mechanical rest onto the superior ends of the slots 27. Therefore the lifting can be completed by the direct action onto the wings 28 and onto the crosspiece body 21.
  • the invention achieves important advantages.
  • the particular washing brushes are positioned backwards with respect to the front edge of the machine chassis, in such a manner to make the same machine compact and manoeuvrable, but this does not cause a reduced access possibility to the same brushes, or a difficult control of the washing action in presence of obstacles.
  • conveyor members 32 allows that, notwithstanding the amplitude of the brush unit 9, a collecting roller 30 of very reduced width can be used, located between the rear wheels 5 and therefore in a zone not used by members that act directly onto pavements.

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EP90124953A 1990-03-26 1990-12-20 Machine de récurage pour grandes surfaces, particulièrement pour surfaces industrielles Revoked EP0448824B1 (fr)

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IT1981890 1990-03-26
IT19818A IT1239825B (it) 1990-03-26 1990-03-26 Macchina di lavaggio e pulizia di superfici,particolarmente di pavimentazioni industriali

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EP3569128A3 (fr) * 2018-05-14 2019-12-11 i-mop GmbH Dispositif de nettoyage humide destiné au nettoyage humide d'une surface de plancher
EP3639718A1 (fr) * 2018-10-17 2020-04-22 Kärcher North America, Inc. Machine de nettoyage de sol orientable propulsée par roue
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EP3639718A1 (fr) * 2018-10-17 2020-04-22 Kärcher North America, Inc. Machine de nettoyage de sol orientable propulsée par roue
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ATE114435T1 (de) 1994-12-15
DE69014603D1 (de) 1995-01-12
IT9019818A1 (it) 1991-09-26

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