DISH BRUSH FOR SWEEPING MACHINES

Abstract

The invention concerns a dish brush (1, 11) for conventional sweeping machines for cleaning, brushing or sweeping paved surfaces, wherein special constructed sweeping elements (4) and steel cable plugs (5) both waste and weeds remove from different types of paved surfaces. The mentioned sweeping elements (4) are fastened with welds (8,9) from the top side of the raised contour edge (2) through slit openings (6,7) and the steel cable plugs (5) are fastened with a weld (10) from the bottom side of said contour edge (2). The advantage is a well applicable sweeping and weeds removing dish brush (1,11) and which can be manufactured in a very economical way.

Claims

1. Dish brush for mounting at a rotating vertical driving axle under a conventional sweeping machine for rotatable brushing, sweeping of cleaning paved surfaces, wherein the dish built-up consists of a circular plate with a raised contour edge, wherein at the bottom side of said contour edge sweeping elements are fixed at mutually equally tangential distances, wherein said contour edge is set under an angle alfa to form an outside raised dish brush with a dish diameter and a plate thickness, wherein against the raised bottom side of said contour edge in radial sense with the same angle at the center, beta, sweeping elements are fixed, where in the same way in radial sense with the same angle at the center beta, small slit openings are applied in the contour edge above said sweeping elements, wherein during mounting the sweeping elements are placed in a separate mold against the bottom side of the contour edge and that by means of welds through said slit openings from the upper side are fastened by welding and some steel cable plugs without slit openings with welds are fastened by welding against the bottom side of the raised edge.

2. Dish brush as in claim 1, wherein the angle alfa is between 20 and 40 degrees, preferably 30 degrees.

3. Dish brush as in claim 1, wherein said dish diameter is between 240 mm and 640 mm, preferably 495 mm and diameter D1 is between 175 and 225 mm, preferably 200 mm.

4. Dish brush as in claim 1, wherein said angle at the center, beta, is between 7 and 15 degrees, preferably 10 degrees.

5. Dish brush as in claim 1, wherein said plate thickness is between 2 and 6 mm, preferably 3 mm.

6. Dish brush as in claim 1, wherein said sweeping elements are executed as flat sweeping elements with a length between 240 mm and 280 mm, preferably 260 mm and with a U-form metal connecting bush with a length of around 60 mm with in there a layer or bundle of strips of preferably around 32 pieces with a strip thickness of around 35 mm.

7. Dish brush as in claim 6, wherein mentioned metal of the connecting bush is normal trade steel.

8. Dish brush as in claim 6, wherein the length of the flat sweeping elements is between 240 mm and 285 mm, preferably 265 mm.

9. Dish brush as in claim 1, wherein the steel cable plugs have a length, which is between 240 and 280 mm, preferably 260 mm.

Description

[0017] The invention is hereafter explained by the description of two preferred embodiments, reproduced in the drawing; in which

[0018] FIG. 1 shows a view in oblique projection and at a small scale of a preferred embodiment of the dish brush for sweeping activities;

[0019] FIG. 2 shows a top view at a larger scale of the dish brush of FIG. 1;

[0020] FIG. 3 shows a cross-section over line III-III of FIG. 2;

[0021] FIG. 4 shows a view in oblique projection at a small scale of a second embodiment of the dish brush owing to the invention, wherein between the sweeping elements steel cable plugs are applied;

[0022] FIG. 5 shows a top view at a bigger scale of the dish brush of FIG. 4;

[0023] FIG. 6 shows a cross-section across line VI-VI of FIG. 5;

[0024] FIG. 7 a cross-section of the dish brush according to the invention, wherein the sweeping elements are welded radially fixed from the topside through the slit openings in the raised contour edge; and

[0025] FIG. 8 idem to FIG. 7, but now shows the fixed welding of a steel cable plug from the bottom side against the contour edge of the circular steel plate.

[0026] In FIG. 1 is shown a view in oblique projection and at a small scale form a preferred embodiment of the dish brush 1 for sweeping activities. At this scale, the slit openings 6, 7 are indicated with stripes in the contour edge 2. The flat sweeping elements 4 are placed from the bottom side against the raised contour edge 2 of the circular plate 3 and are welded from the top side through the slit openings 6,7.

[0027] In FIG. 2, for reasons of explanation, is shown at a larger scale a top view of the dish brush 1. Herewith the radial angles beta (?) are indicated to place the elongated sweeping elements 4 with length L1. Above these elements 4 the slit openings 6, 7 are placed for fixing by welding from the top side (see also FIG. 3). The angle alfa (?) is usually about 30 degrees, but can be adapted according to specific applications.

[0028] Similar parts in FIG. 3 are indicated with the same numbers. The lengths L1 and L2 are indicated specifically in the claims and can be adapted accordingly.

[0029] In FIG. 4 is shown at a small scale an oblique projection of a second embodiment of the dish brush 11. In this embodiment equally distanced sweeping elements, such as steel cable plugs 5, placed between the flat sweeping elements 4, are welded against the contour edge 2 from the bottom side. With this embodiment of our invented dish brush 1, 11 both weeds as well as waste can be removed from a paved surface.

[0030] In FIG. 5 is shown a top view of a second embodiment of the dish brush 11 of FIG. 4. As shown in FIG. 5, fixing bolt holes 12 are indicated in the central circular plate 2. The angles in the middle are also indicated with beta (?).

[0031] FIG. 6 shows a cross-section over the line VI-V of FIG. 5. Similar parts are indicated with the same numbers.

[0032] In FIG. 7 is shown a cross section of the dish brush 1, wherein the flat sweeping elements 4 are fixedly welded from the top side at the contour edge through the slit holes 6,7.

[0033] In FIG. 8 is shown a cross section of the dish brush 11 on the spot of the steel cable plug 5, which is fixed with a weld 10 against the bottom side of the raised edge 2.

[0034] However, it is obvious that modifications and/or additions to the aforementioned dish brush can be made, but these shall remain within the field and scope of the invention.