Wheel cleaning mat
OwnerSami Movsesianinventor
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Abstract
A mat for clearing wheels and tires of contaminants as the wheels and tires roll over the mat. The mat includes a tray having a floor, a perimetric wall, and groups or clumps of bristles arranged to incline at an acute angle to the surface of the wheel, perpendicularly to the direction of travel of the wheel. Rows of bristles incline in generally opposing directions. The bristles are anchored to bristle supporting tracks which lie on the floor. Low walls surround and separate the clumps of bristles. The mat may be used as modules in an array. The array may include ramps configured to elevate the wheels above the floor of the tray. The array may include supports for holding the bristles above the tray for cleaning of the tray.
Claims15
A wheel cleaning mat, comprising:
- a tray having an imperforate tray floor;
- a plurality of bristle supporting tracks removeably arranged on the tray floor;
- a plurality of groups of bristles anchored to and projecting from each bristle supporting track;
- a grate including internal barriers, the grate configured to be removeably placed on the tray, such that the internal barriers separate each group of bristles from other groups of bristles;
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- aperimetric wall surrounding the plurality of groups of bristles;
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- wherein the groups of bristles are inclined at an acute angle to the floor of the tray, and all of the bristles of each one of the groups of bristles are inclined in the same direction.
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A wheel cleaning mat system which automatically brushes contaminant from a wheel rolling over the wheel cleaning mat system, comprising a plurality of mat modules, wherein each mat module comprises:
- a tray having an imperforate tray floor;
- a plurality of bristle supporting tracks removeably arranged on the tray floor;
- a plurality of groups of bristles anchored to and projecting from each bristle supporting track;
- a grate including internal barriers, the grate configured to be removeably placed on the tray, such that the internal barriers separate each group of bristles from other groups of bristles;
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- aperimetric wall surrounding the plurality of groups of bristles;
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- wherein the bristles are arranged in separated groups of bristles, the are inclined at an acute angle to the floor of the tray, and all of the bristles of each one of the groups of bristles are inclined in the same direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.