Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
015078000 | Street sweepers | 23 |
20090172901 | TIRE BROOM - A brush for a mechanized sweeper of a paved surface includes a first portion of a tire. The first portion of the tire has a sidewall and tread generally perpendicular to the sidewall. An edge between the sidewall and the tread. The edge forms a circle around the outermost portion of the sidewall. The tread further has a plurality of first slits extending from the edge across the tread such that flaps are formed in the tread. When the portion of the tire is rotated, the portion of the tire is configured to brush the paved surface. | 07-09-2009 |
20090265870 | MECHANICAL SWEEPER - The present invention generally pertains to a self-propelled mechanical sweeper. The mechanical sweeper comprises a pickup broom for lifting debris toward a first belt conveyor. The sweeper further comprises a second deployable conveyor assembly mounted on a turntable and adapted for conveying the debris from the first conveyor to an auxiliary vehicle such as a dump truck. | 10-29-2009 |
20100011523 | SIDE BROOM HAVING MEMORY RECALL AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING THE SAME - The present disclosure relates generally to debris collection devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a debris collection vehicle utilizing a side broom having memory recall functionality. | 01-21-2010 |
20110113575 | DEVICE FOR COLLECTION OF DEBRIS | 05-19-2011 |
20120279003 | Foam Configured to Suppress Dust on a Surface to be Worked - In one aspect of the invention, a system for removing aggregate from a natural or man-made surface includes a vehicle with a frame and a conveyor. The conveyor has an intake end and an output end. An excavation drum is connected to an underside of the frame and is enclosed within an excavation chamber, which is defined by a front plate, side plates, and a moldboard. The intake end of the conveyor that protrudes into the excavation chamber is configured to remove the aggregate from the excavation chamber, and a dust suppressant nozzle is configured to apply a foamed dust suppressant to the natural or man-made surface prior to being degraded by the excavation drum. | 11-08-2012 |
20130067667 | Vehicle mounted highway refuse collector - The vehicle mounted highway refuse collector gathers discarded refuse from roadway surfaces at normal highway speeds without slowing down. The refuse collector can gather discarded tire treads, or pieces of furniture, and even dead animals at normal speeds safely. At normal highway speeds, the impact with refuse provides centrifugal force sufficient to gather and rotate debris up and onto a storage shelf allowing the continued operation of the refuse collector until it is full. | 03-21-2013 |
20130212817 | LAWN SWEEPER ASSEMBLY WITH ADJUSTABLE BRUSH ASSEMBLY AND HOPPER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with an adjustable brush assembly and characteristics associated with improved storage of such a device. A user may adjust the brush assembly with respect to the housing without needing to move the wheels. The hopper assembly may include a panel movable to be placed in at least two orientations, thereby allowing a user to change the volume within which the hopper assembly may collect debris. Methods are also disclosed for adjusting the brush assembly and for storing a lawn sweeper unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20130232704 | SWEEPIING CAR WITH ONE-BRUSH - A sweeping car with one-brush includes a car body provided with wheels arranged on the bottom, a drive mechanism arranged on the car body and used for supplying power to the whole sweeping car, a brush arranged at an end of the car body and provided with a bracket and multiple bristles facing the ground and arranged on the bracket, a first transmission mechanism arranged between the drive mechanism and the brush and used for transmitting the power to the brush, a control mechanism provided with a control arm extending out from the other end of the car body. The control arm is provided with a control terminal connected to the drive mechanism. | 09-12-2013 |
20130276249 | SWEEPER DRIVE ASSEMBLY - A lawn sweeper including a swing arm rotatably connected to a wheel axle including a first end connected to a biasing element and a second end including a rotatably connected idler gear that meshingly engages a wheel gear in a first position and is disengaged from the wheel gear in a second position. | 10-24-2013 |
20140215733 | GUTTER BROOM AND GUTTER BROOM SYSTEM - A gutter broom system comprises a gutter broom that comprises a main structural body, a plurality of sweeping bristles depending from the main structural body, at least one opening in the main structural body for permitting a blast of air to pass through the main structural body as the gutter broom rotates. A gutter broom shroud is in surrounding relation to the gutter broom and defines a substantially hollow interior that receives the gutter broom. An air blast nozzle has an air outlet and is operatively mounted on one of the gutter broom shroud, the mounting means and the surface cleaning vehicle such that the air outlet is generally downwardly facing, for emitting a blast of air through the at least one opening in the main structural body towards the surface being cleaned, to thereby clean dirt from the surface being cleaned. | 08-07-2014 |
20160177524 | Vehicle With Internal and/or External Monitoring | 06-23-2016 |
015082000 | Rotary-brush cylinder | 10 |
20140259476 | SNOW REMOVAL TRUCK BROOM SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A broom assembly for a vehicle includes a frame, a broom core axle rotatably coupled to the frame and defining an axis around which a broom rotates when in use, an actuator coupled to the frame and positioned to raise and lower the broom core axle relative to the frame, and a controller. The controller has an output for adjusting the actuator and an input for receiving position information from a sensor. The controller is configured to use the received position information to automatically lower the broom core axle over a period of operation to account for an estimated wear of the broom. | 09-18-2014 |
20150359182 | SWEEPING MACHINE FOR WORKING GROUND SURFACES, IN PARTICULAR LAWNS - A sweeping machine for working ground surfaces, in particular lawns comprises a machine frame adapted to be moved in the traveling direction, at least one wheel axle with at least one wheel, said wheel axle being supported in the machine frame transversely to the traveling direction, said wheel axle supporting the machine frame parallel to the ground surface, a least one sweeping element adapted to be driven for rotation about a sweeping element axis, said sweeping element axis extending substantially parallel to the ground surface, and said sweeping element is in contact with the ground surface when in an operating position. The sweeping machine of the invention provides that the sweeping element axis of the at least one sweeping element is adapted to be moved from a first operating position, assumed when travelling straight, to a second operating position, assumed when driving a curve, in which second position the sweeping element axis is in a position pivoted towards the inner side of the curve. | 12-17-2015 |
20160046225 | Towable electric sweeper, dumpster, and power source - Disclosed is a versatile trailer that may be towed from job site to job site by a vehicle and within a job site be towed by a maintenance cart. The trailer may function as a mobile sweeper to clean smaller parking lots found at schools and parks as well as sweep pathways, lawns, and sidewalks to remove litter, debris, and plant waste. The trailer contains a hopper to collect material both swept by the broom from the area below the trailer as it is towed as well as allowing material to be deposited into the hopper from above the trailer. The hopper is designed so as to allow any material contained within the hopper to be deposited onto the ground or into a dumpster. Finally the trailer is designed so that the electrical power source used to operate the broom and the hopper lift mechanism may be concurrently used by maintenance workers to supply electrical energy needed to operate any electrically based power tools and equipment. | 02-18-2016 |
20160090704 | FLOATING BRUSH SWEEPER - This invention relates to an industrial street sweeper and especially to a street sweeper having a floating sweeper brush which varies the downward force on the rotating brush on the surface being swept to float the brush over the surface. | 03-31-2016 |
20160108592 | BOX BROOM SWEEPER WITH AN ADJUSTABLE BOTTOM SURFACE ATTACHMENT - The box broom sweeper with adjustable bottom surface attachment can include a box broom having a broom and a housing. The housing can include a top portion, a bottom portion having a guard, opposing front and rear ends, two opposing side walls connecting the top portion and the bottom portion, and an adjustable bottom surface attachment. The adjustable bottom surface attachment includes a plate and two opposing sides extending from the plate. The two opposing sides of the adjustable bottom surface attachment extend along corresponding side walls of the housing. The adjustable bottom surface attachment can be detachably coupled to the side walls of the housing to allow the adjustable bottom surface attachment to be detached when a front portion of the plate becomes damaged. The adjustable bottom surface attachment can be coupled to the box broom housing by welding. | 04-21-2016 |
015083000 | Collector | 5 |
20090235472 | Lawn Sweeper Assembly with Adjustable Brush Assembly and Hopper Assembly and Method of Use Thereof - The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with an adjustable brush assembly and characteristics associated with improved storage of such a device. A user may adjust the brush assembly with respect to the housing without needing to move the wheels. The hopper assembly may include a panel movable to be placed in at least two orientations, thereby allowing a user to change the volume within which the hopper assembly may collect debris. Methods are also disclosed for adjusting the brush assembly and for storing a lawn sweeper unit. | 09-24-2009 |
20190145071 | Lawn Sweeper | 05-16-2019 |
015084000 | Elevator belt | 2 |
20120204366 | MECHANICAL SWEEPER - The present invention generally pertains to a mechanical sweeper. The mechanical sweeper comprises a pickup broom for lifting debris toward a first belt conveyor. The sweeper further comprises a second deployable conveyor assembly mounted on a turntable and adapted for conveying the debris from the first conveyor to an auxiliary vehicle such as a dump truck. | 08-16-2012 |
20150330042 | CONVEYANCE SYSTEM - This disclosure relates to street sweepers and interchangeable conveyor modules for use with street sweepers that are interchangeable. A first conveyor module is provided that is mountable to the conveyor support structure of the vehicle wherein the conveyor is configured to transport debris from the broom assembly to the hopper on a continuous belt having paddles. A second conveyor module is also provided that is mountable to the vehicle structure wherein the second conveyor is a squeegee type conveyor. The first conveyor module and the second conveyor module are interchangeable on the street sweeping vehicle. Because the size envelope and attachment points and mechanisms are common, the two modules can be interchanged at will. | 11-19-2015 |
015085000 | Elevator pan | 1 |
20080250586 | Road sweeping machine including an improved filter device - A disclosed road sweeping machine ( | 10-16-2008 |
015087000 | Rotary-brush disk | 2 |
20100325824 | MATERIAL HANDLING - An apparatus for material handling that is connected to a prime mover and preferably located forward of the mover, includes a plurality of rotary brushes with each of the rotary brushes being independently suspended and having their axes substantially normal to a surface and rotating in the same direction. The rotary brushes, when moving along the surface, tend to cause any material on the surface to be moved from one brush to another brush until the material on the surface is delivered to one side of the apparatus. | 12-30-2010 |
20140101874 | SWEEPING VEHICLE - A sweeping vehicle is provided including a disc brush and a holding device for the disc brush, the holding device having a holding part and a holding arm pivotably connected to the holding part, the holding device held on the vehicle by the holding part, and the disc brush held on the holding arm. The vehicle includes an adjusting device having an adjustment member of variable length engaging the holding arm, the holding arm being pivotable relative to the holding part upon change in length of the adjustment member. The holding device includes a brush carrier pivotably mounted on the holding arm and a coupling device coupling the brush carrier to the adjusting device, the brush carrier being pivotable relative to the holding arm upon change in length of the adjustment member for pivoting the disc brush about a pivot axis aligned at a slant to the axis of rotation. | 04-17-2014 |