Floor cleaning apparatus and method of cleaning a floor

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11071431
APP PUB NO 20190082921A1
SERIAL NO

16194493

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An apparatus for cleaning a floor includes a housing, chassis, wheels, motor, steering mechanism, cleaning assembly, optionally a squeegee assembly, and at least one of a side sweeping system, front sweeping system, and pick-up system. The side sweeping system includes a turntable with central axis, a drive wheel disposed in coaxial relationship with the turntable, a sweeper motive device in communication with the drive wheel, a plurality of brushes distributed radially around the drive wheel and adapted to be driven by rotation of the drive wheel, and a pivoting connector configured to enable the side sweeping system to pivot laterally in response to contact with a wall while at least one of the brushes maintains contact with the floor adjacent the wall while the apparatus is in operation, and the brushes move debris disposed on the floor adjacent the wall toward the front of the apparatus.

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  • DIVERSEY, INC.

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bahr, Thomas Wängi, CH 10 66
Forster, Martin Riedt bei Erlen, CH 28 374
Müller, Markus Hettlingen, CH 105 291
Ryssen, Laurent Vieux Genappe, BE 2 2
Stofer, Markus Kreuzlingen, CH 2 2
Tement, Thomas Widnau, CH 3 6
Windmeisser, Dieter Fruthwilen, CH 15 86

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