Pole sander
AssigneeBlack & Decker Inc.
InventorsBenjamin Schramm, Robert Miebach, Marek Turisin, Joerg Roth
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Abstract
A pole sander is provided including an elongate body having a first end and a second end, an electric motor, and a sanding head attached via a pivot mechanism to the first end of the elongate body. The sanding head includes a hood including a plate and a peripheral wall formed on the underside of the plate around an edge of the plate; an output spindle that projects from the hood and is rotatably driven by the electric motor around a rotational axis; and a brush ring mounted on the underside of the plate adjacent the edge of the plate inside of the peripheral wall. The brush ring is attached to the plate via a spring comprising at least one of a leaf spring or a wave spring.
Claims12
A pole sander comprising:
- an elongate body having a first end and a second end;
- an electric motor;
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- a sanding head attached via a pivot mechanism to the first end of the elongate body, wherein the sanding head comprises:
- a hood including a plate and a peripheral wall formed on the underside of the plate around an edge of the plate;
- an output spindle that projects from the hood and is rotatably driven by the electric motor around a rotational axis;
- a brush ring mounted on the underside of the plate adjacent the edge of the plate inside of the peripheral wall, wherein the brush ring is attached to the plate via a leaf spring comprising a first end and a second end;
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- an aperture formed through the plate, wherein the leaf spring extends through the aperture in order for the second end of the leaf spring to attach to a top side of the plate.
A pole sander comprising:
- an elongate body having a first end and a second end;
- an electric motor;
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- a sanding head attached via a pivot mechanism to the first end of the elongate body, wherein the sanding head comprises:
- a hood including a plate and a peripheral wall formed on the underside of the plate around an edge of the plate;
- an output spindle that projects from the hood and is rotatably driven by the electric motor around a rotational axis;
- a brush ring mounted on the underside of the plate adjacent the edge of the plate inside of the peripheral wall, wherein the brush ring is attached to the plate via a spring comprising at least one of a leaf spring or a wave spring;
- a circular inner wall formed on the underside of the plate in proximity to the edge of the plate inside of the peripheral wall and brush ring, wherein the peripheral wall and inner wall form a trough in the brush ring;
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- an aperture that informed through the base of the trough and through the plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.