B66B 7/1276
Cleaning means
Official title: {Cleaning means}
B66B7/1276 (Cleaning means) appears on 24 US grants and 25 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66B- Granted patents
- 24
- Published applications
- 25
- Assignees
- 14
- Inventors
- 58
- Latest grant
- 23 Dec 2025
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| 2019 | 1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Cleaning device for traction belt of elevator and elevator system23 Dec 2025US 12,503,339 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Rope cleaner1 Jul 2025US 12,343,766 B2
- Elevator rail cleaning device1 Jul 2025US 12,344,509 B2Otis Elevator Company
- Method for retrieving a mobile platform from a tank having energetic substances19 Nov 2024US 12,145,177 B2Tankbots, Inc.
- Rotating movable body for wire rope13 Feb 2024US 11,898,693 B2Riken Kogyo Inc.
- Reading device for a shaft information system of an elevator system, shaft information system, and elevator system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257888 A1Inventio AG
- Elevator rail cleaning device5 Sep 2024US 2024/0294359 A1Otis Elevator Company
- Rope Cleaner25 Jul 2024US 2024/0246120 A1Brewer Open Range Agricultural Business LLC
- Elevator Door Roller and Track Replacement4 May 2023US 2023/0136099 A1G.A.L. Manufacturing Company, LLC
- Cleaning device for traction belt of elevator and elevator system27 Apr 2023US 2023/0129178 A1Otis Elevator Company
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for the lubrication and cleaning of elongated articles, especially rails and chains23US 5,360,084 ASatzinger GmbH & Co. · 1994
- Wire rope cleaning brush apparatus16US 5,386,882 A1995
- Elevator rail cleaning system12US 4,216,846 AThe Texacone Company · 1980
- Rotational elevator rope cleaning device7US 5,036,563 AOtis Elevator Company · 1991
- Rope cleaning device6US 5,784,752 AOtis Elevator Company · 1998