CA1141509A - Cleaning machine - Google Patents

Cleaning machine

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CA1141509A
CA1141509A CA000364646A CA364646A CA1141509A CA 1141509 A CA1141509 A CA 1141509A CA 000364646 A CA000364646 A CA 000364646A CA 364646 A CA364646 A CA 364646A CA 1141509 A CA1141509 A CA 1141509A
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cleaning machine
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Alex Meyerhans
Lennart Oeberg
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AG ROLBA
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47LDOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L11/00Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L11/40Parts 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
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47LDOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L11/00Machines for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L11/24Floor-sweeping machines, motor-driven
    • 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
    • A47L9/02Nozzles
    • A47L9/08Nozzles with means adapted for blowing
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01HSTREET CLEANING; CLEANING OF PERMANENT WAYS; CLEANING BEACHES; DISPERSING OR PREVENTING FOG IN GENERAL CLEANING STREET OR RAILWAY FURNITURE OR TUNNEL WALLS
    • E01H1/00Removing undesirable matter from roads or like surfaces, with or without moistening of the surface
    • E01H1/08Pneumatically dislodging or taking-up undesirable matter or small objects; Drying by heat only or by streams of gas; Cleaning by projecting abrasive particles
    • E01H1/0827Dislodging by suction; Mechanical dislodging-cleaning apparatus with independent or dependent exhaust, e.g. dislodging-sweeping machines with independent suction nozzles ; Mechanical loosening devices working under vacuum
    • E01H1/0836Apparatus dislodging all of the dirt by suction ; Suction nozzles
    • E01H1/0845Apparatus dislodging all of the dirt by suction ; Suction nozzles with mechanical loosening or feeding instruments for the dirt to be sucked- up, e.g. brushes, scrapers

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  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
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  • Civil Engineering (AREA)
  • Structural Engineering (AREA)
  • Cyclones (AREA)
  • Prevention Of Fouling (AREA)
  • Cleaning Implements For Floors, Carpets, Furniture, Walls, And The Like (AREA)
  • Filtering Of Dispersed Particles In Gases (AREA)

Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure With very fine dusts, such as aluminum dust, cement and the like, it is difficult to pick up and collect the dust so as to discharge the conveying air into the atmos-phere free of dust. A suction cleaning machine which achieves this has, in combination, a main mouthpiece having at least one blower nozzle directed from the exterior towards the centre of the mouthpiece and a suction pipe located inwardly of the mouthpiece; an auxiliary nozzle arranged movably relative to the main mouthpiece and having a suction duct; a common duct, into which the suction pipe and the suction duct open;
a coarse separator arranged before a multi-cyclone separator; a duct connected to the inlet of a blower for guiding the cyclone discharge air; a separating device at the blower outlet for directing a first portion of the conveyed air to the blower nozzle in the main mouthpiece and into a second portion thereof to a further separator; and an exhaust air blower arranged at the outlet of the further separator.

Description

The present invention relates to a cleaning machine, in particular for picking up material in the form of dust, and the use thereof for picking up aluminum dust in mine workings or cement.
With conventional cleaning machines, it has been found to be practically impossible to collect aluminum dust, for example in aluminum mine workings. This task can, however, be carried out with the suction cleaning machine according to the invention.
According to the invention, there is provided a cleaning machine comprising, in combination, a main mouthpiece having at least one blower nozzle directed from the exterior towards the centre of the mouthpiece and a suction pipe located inwardly of said main mouthpiece; an auxiliary nozzle movable relative to said main mouthpiece and provided with a sucton duct; a common duct into which the suction pipe and the suction duct open; multi-cyclone separator means for receiving an air and dust mixture from said common duct and separating the air from the dust;
coarse separating means arranged befo~e said multi-cyclone separator means for removing objects from the mixture;
means for guiding outlet air discharged from the multi-cyclone separator means to the inlet of a blower; air flow separating means at an outlet of said blower for separating the air into a first portion for flow to said blower nozzle in said main mouthpiece and into a second portion for flow to a further separator; and an exhaust air blower arranged at the outlet of said further separator.
The invention will be more readily understood from the following description of a preferred embodiment -- 1 -- ,:

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thereof given, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:-Figure 1 shows a schematic diagram of a cleaning~ machine for picking up aluminum dust;
Figure 2 shows a schematic illustration of a cleaning machine in side elevation;
Figure 3 shows the cleaning machine of Figure 2 in plan view;
Figure 4 shows a front elevational view of the clean-ing machine of Figure 2; and Figure 5 shows a perspective illustration of a modelof a cleaning machine, analogous to Figures 2 to 4, with an auxiliary nozzle illustrated in three different positions by full, broken and dash-dot lines.
Figure 1 shows a diagram of a machine 1 for picking up aluminum dust, with a pneumatic system and a separating system. In the pneumatic system, there is a main blower 3 with an outlet pipe 4, which is divided into a main duct 6 and an auxiliary duct 7. The division of the conveying air is effected by means of a flap 8, which is pivotable about an axis 5 by hand through a linkage or by means of an adjustment motor.
The main passage 6 opens into a main mouthpiece 9 and feeds a lateral annular nozzle 10, which can alter-nately be a plurality of nozzles extending over at least a part of the periphery, with compressed air, which blows the dust towards the centre of the main mouthpiece 9. The air, charged with aluminum dust, is there sucked up through a suction nozzle 13 (arranged centrally or eccentrically) into a main pipe 12.
Adjacent the main mouthpiece 9, there is provided an
- 2 -auxiliary nozzle 15 having a funnel 16 and a suction duct 17, which is constructed so as to be movable, e.g. in the form of a hose pipe. The suction duct 17 and the main suction pipe 12 converge into a common passage 19, an adjustment flap 20 being arranged at the conjunction in order to enable the air flows through the suction duct 17 and the main suction pipe 12 to be adjustable.
The common passage 19 extends into a cyclone inlet 22, in which there is located a movable, e.g. motor-driven, separating vane wheel 23. This wheel 23 slows down coarse pieces such as paper, parts of protective masks etc., while the conveying air, hardly hindered by the perforated sheet metal vanes 21 and carrying the aluminum dust, is distri-buted to three cyclones 24, 25 and 26. The coarse parts pass through the passage 27 for emptying, while the fine parts, which are separated in the multi-cyclone, are col-lected in a collecting hopper 26 and can be discharged therefrom. The three cyclones extend into a collecting hopper 28. The central suction pipes 30, 31 and 32 of the cyclones 24, 25 and 26 open into a cyclone outlet 34, which extends into a blower inlet duct 35, which leads to the inlet of the blower 3. No details of the manner of operation of this multi-cyclone are herein described, such as the division of the air, the spiral supply into the cyclones, the depth of the immersion tubes, referred to as discharge pipes, and the like, since these are well known to those skilled in the art.
The auxiliary duct 7 leads to a bag filter 38 having a chamber 39 and an outlet 40. In the chamber 39, filter bags 41 are suspended, in knpwn manner, adjacent one an-other, and, if required, one beyond the other. The fine powder is removable through the outlet 40, while the -exhaust air is guided through an exhaust air duct 43 into an exhaust air blower 45, which discharges the air, substantially purified of aluminum dust, into the atmosphere. Also, no further details are given herein with respect to the bag filter 38, such as for example the automatic cleaning by agitation of the filter bags, the replacement thereof, the use of corresponding fabrics etc., since these are also known to those skilled in the art.
In Figures 2 to 5, in which parts the same as those already described are indicated by the same reference numerals, can be seen a four-wheeled vehicle 50 having a driver's cab 52 and a chassis 53, on which the blower 3, the main mouthpiece 9 and the auxiliary nozzle 15 can be seen. Also, the collecting hopper 28 with the cyclones are schematically illustrated, as are also the bag filter 38 with the interior filter bags. Also, a drive assembly 55, which can also be seen in Figures 2 to 4, is shown with auxiliary assemblies 57.
The auxiliary nozzle 55 is arrangèd to be displaceable, by means of the movable suction duct 17, which e.g. is in the form of a hose pipe, the normal operating posi-tion being shown in full lines in Figure 5, that for the suction cleaning of recesses being shown in broken lines and that for the cleaning of raised ledges, e.g. oven surroundings, being shown in dot-dash lines.
A suction cleaning machine constructed as described above is capable of picking up fine aluminum dust, sep-arating it and thereby trapping it without discharging it again into the atmosphere at a different position.

However, it can also pick up other fine dusts, such as cement.

Claims (9)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A cleaning machine for use in particular for picking up material in the form of dust, comprising, in combination:-a main mouthpiece having at least one blower nozzle directed from the exterior towards the centre of the mouthpiece and a suction pipe located inwardly of said main mouthpiece;
an auxiliary nozzle movable relative to said main mouthpiece and provided with a sucton duct;
a common duct into which the suction pipe and the suction duct open;
multi-cyclone separator means for receiving an air and dust mixture from said common duct and separating the air from the dust;
coarse separating means arranged before said multi-cyclone separator means for removing objects from the mixture;
means for guiding outlet air discharged from the multi-cyclone separator means to the inlet of a blower;
air flow separating means at an outlet of said blower for separating the air into a first portion for flow to said blower nozzle in said main mouthpiece and into a second portion for flow to a further separator; and an exhaust air blower arranged at the outlet of said further separator.
2. A cleaning machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said further separator comprises a bag filter.
3. A cleaning machine as claimed in claim 1 , in-cluding means for regulating the air flow to said blower nozzle.
4. A cleaning machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein said coarse separator comprises a rotatable vane wheel.
5. A cleaning machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein said vane wheel has perforated vanes.
6. A cleaning machine as claimed in claim 4, further comprising a receiving duct beyond said vane wheel and forming part of a cyclone collecting hopper in said multi-cyclone separating means.
7. A cleaning machine as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said suction pipe is arranged centrally of said mouthpiece and the or each of said nozzles extends over at least part of the periphery of said main mouthpiece.
8. A cleaning machine as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein said auxiliary nozzle is movable, relative to said main mouthpiece.
9. A cleaning machine as claimed in claim 1 having arranged in sequence, on a chassis of a vehicle, in its direction of travel:-at the front, said main blower adjacent a driver's cab;
beneath said driver's cab, said main mouthpiece;
behind said driver's cab, a drive assembly;
said multi-cyclone separating means above said exhaust air blower; and said further separator being located behind the latter.
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