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US 4,096,601 AGranted
Cleaning apparatus for carpets, upholstery and the like
OwnerLeopold Knesteleinventor
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Abstract
A cleaning apparatus for carpets, upholstery and the like in which a housing is displaceable along the surface to be cleaned and is provided with a motor-driven suction device, a foam-applying device and a pulsating scrubbing (massaging) device, the latter two devices being selectively operational apart from or together with a rotatable brush by control elements. The foam-applying (shampooing) device and the scrubbing device can be selectively coupled to the same motor as is used to drive the brush and the suction device.
Claims8
An apparatus for the cleaning of carpets, upholstery and the like comprising:
- a housing formed with wall means defining a downwardly open suction compartment containing a rotatable brush at a leading end of said housing, means for sucking air out of said compartment, a flexible-surface vibrating body rearward of said compartment for engagement with the surface to be cleaned, said vibrating body being drivable to vibrate foam into said surface to be cleaned, a foam applicator in said housing rearward of said vibrating body, and means for feeding a foamable cleaning liquid to said applicator, said applicator comprising a belt provided with bristles and a pair of rollers spanned by the belt and rotatable to displace said bristles to apply said foamable cleaning liquid to said surface to be cleaned;
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- manually controlled drive means for selectively operating either said brush alone or both said body and said applicator in conjunction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.