Cable handling devices, methods and systems are provided for securing and deploying, or retracting, one or more cables or hoses into or out of a pipe or cavity allowing inspection of the pipe or cavity. The cables and/or hoses may be coupled and moved together, or decoupled enabling them to be moved independently. A hand-held device with a housing for at least partially enclosing one or more cables or hoses, at least one coupling mechanism integrally attached to the housing, and a coupling control for coupling and decoupling the one or more cables or hoses may be provided. One or more of the cables may be connected to a camera disposed at the distal end of a cable thereby facilitating inspection of the pipe or cavity. Tools such as cutting devices or a jetter may be provided at the end of the one or more cables and/or hoses.

An apparatus for removing a clog from a drain consists of an elongated, flexible shaft member with a corkscrew or coil member with an integrated handle at one end and a scraper element at the other end. Inserting the scraper element end into a clogged drain and manually turning the handle allows the scraper element to scrape the materials causing the clog to be scraped from the inside of the drain while the corkscrew portion of the apparatus worms through the matter that is clogging the drain, and when the apparatus is pulled from the drain the clogging matter is held within the corkscrew member to capture the clogging matter or debris for easy removal.

A drain pipe unclogging apparatus for clinging to and removing debris from a drain. The drain pipe unclogging apparatus is attached to a drill and can fit most electric and cordless battery powered drills. The drain pipe apparatus features a wire that is safe to the touch when the drain pipe apparatus is in use, yet still effective for clinging to and breaking apart debris.

Various decoupler tools are described for disengaging drain cleaning equipment couplings. Such couplings typically include a component secured at an end of a drain cleaning cable and a cutter or other accessory used in a drain cleaning operation. The decoupler tools include one or more pins which are used to retract a spring-actuated plunger in one of the coupling components.

The present invention discloses a single-drive bidirectional-crawling pipe-cleaning robot, including a front body assembly, a transmission assembly, and a rear body assembly. The transmission assembly is driven by a single power source, and a transmission effect of a connecting rod mechanism, a gear mechanism, and an equal-dwell cam mechanism is used to implement alternate retraction and support of the front body assembly and the rear body assembly in a radial direction and a telescopic motion in an axial direction between the front body assembly and the rear body assembly and at the same time implement synchronous rotation of a dredging cutter head, so as to implement bidirectional crawling and pipe cleaning work of the robot along a pipe. The present invention is stable, reliable, compact, and practical, and implements single-drive bidirectional crawling and pipe cleaning in a pipe having a greatly changing pipe diameter, so that the obstacle negotiation performance and adaptability to pipe diameter changes of an in-pipe robot are effectively improved, the endurance of the in-pipe robot is improved, and practical engineering significance in cleaning of a horizontal pipe having a greatly changing pipe diameter is provided.

Motor dampening provisions are described. Incorporation and use of the motor dampener(s) in a rotary type drain cleaning machine enables elimination of a clutch in the machine. Also described are clutch-free drive systems using the motor dampener(s). Also described are torque countering members that are used in conjunction with the motor dampener(s).

A tool for cleaning a drain includes a handle, a shaft, an auger head, and a sleeve. The handle includes a core, a crank, and a grip. The core defines a tool axis along the length of the tool. The crank is made integral with the core and extends radially from the core and the tool axis. The grip extends orthogonally from the crank and parallel to the core. The grip turns the crank to rotate the auger head relative to the sleeve, when the sleeve is held in place. The auger head at the end of the shaft is made integral with the shaft and has an elongated and undulated shape. The auger head includes a plurality of segments, and each segment has a curved surface, and there are barbs on a respective curved surface.

A drain cleaner assembly including a base unit including a housing, a drive arrangement positioned within the housing, and a motor coupled to the drive arrangement and supported by the housing, the motor operable to selectively drive the drive arrangement, and a drum unit removably coupled to the base unit. The drum unit includes a drum that engages the drive arrangement when the drum unit is coupled to the base unit to rotate the drum, a cable stored within the drum and selectively extendable out of the drum and into a drain, and an outer casing at least partially surrounding the drum, wherein the drum is rotatable within the outer casing, wherein the drive arrangement includes a coupling arrangement between the motor and the drum, the drive arrangement extending through the outer casing.

A toilet clean device has a long pipe, a joint pipe, and an adjustable elbow pipe. The long pipe is hollow and has a longitudinal cutting slot. The joint pipe is fluidly communicated with a bottom end of the long pipe. The adjustable elbow pipe is fluidly communicated with the joint pipe and the direction, the curvature, and the angle thereof may be adjusted freely. Therefore, the toilet clean device may adapt for any size of the pipeline of the toilet. The structure of the toilet clean device is not only simplified and easy to be assembled and disassembled, but also the toilet clean device is easy to be operated.

A drum-type pipe cleaning device comprises a drum rotatable about a rotational axis and a cleaning cable allocated to the drum. A longitudinal section of the cleaning cable extends from the drum. The longitudinal section is rotatable about its longitudinal axis through a rotation of the drum. The drum-type pipe cleaning device further comprises a handle, which is configured to support the drum in a rotatable manner. Furthermore, the drum-type pipe cleaning device comprises a drive shaft for driving the drum and an attachment point allocated to the drive shaft for connecting the drive shaft to a drive unit for drive purposes. A freewheel clutch is provided, through which the drive shaft is or can be connected to the drum in an operative manner such that the freewheel clutch is engaged when the drive shaft is being driven and the freewheel clutch runs freely when the drum is being driven.