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US 2018/0055298 A1Published application
Semi-automatic apparatus for washing a building
OwnerRobert John Blakeinventor
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Abstract
A building cleaning apparatus includes a platform adapted to be suspended along a side of a building. The platform includes a base and a barrier mounted on the base that encloses an operator work station. The building cleaning apparatus includes a building cleaning structure mounted beneath the base of the platform. The building cleaning structure includes a cleaning component that is driven by a motor. The cleaning component is mounted such that at least a portion of the cleaning component is directly beneath the base of the platform during cleaning of the building.
Claims7
1-11. (canceled)
A method of cleaning a surface of a building, comprising:
- mounting a cleaning brush to a platform having a base and a longitudinal axis, with the cleaning brush being rotatable about a rotation axis that is parallel to the longitudinal axis, the cleaning brush being mounted to the platform in a manner to define a walkway on the base to a rear of the rotation axis of the cleaning brush that permits a human operator to walk on the base of the platform along at least a portion of the length of the brush;
- and
- with the platform suspended from the building with the human operator on the platform, raising or lowering the platform along the surface while the cleaning brush rotates in contact with the surface to thereby clean the surface using the cleaning brush.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.