Automatic machine for the internal fettling of sanitary appliances
AssigneeIdeal-Standard GmbH
InventorsMario Biadigo, Gianfranco Zucchi
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Abstract
An automatic machine for the internal fettling of sanitary appliances in general, which comprises a tappet device elastically loaded towards a cam having a profile conforming to the mouth of the bowls of the articles to be fettled, said device controlling the horizontal excursions of a double slide which supports in an overhanging manner, to lie above a surface on which the articles are arranged, a verticle slider provided with a stepwise-rotatable coaxial shaft on which there is lowerly mounted, in an orientation-adjustable manner, a rotating brush arranged for insertion into the bowls in order to make contact with their entire inner surface extension by virtue of the combination of the aforesaid movements.
Claims11
An apparatus for fettling the internal surface of a vessel which comprises:
- a profile member configured to the shape of the internal surface of the vessel;
- a tappet device arranged to trace said profile member;
- a slide means operatively connected to said tappet device, the motion of said tappet device being transferred to said slide means;
- a slider means mounted for vertical motion on said slide means;
- an orientatable rotary head member connected to said slider means, said head member comprising a central shaft having a plurality of radial clamps, each of said radial clamps being fitted with a thin flexible strip of a soft weave or mat of slightly abrasive filiform plastic material;
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- means for causing said head member to traverse the internal surface of the vessel in a stepwise rotary motion in conformity with the traversal of the profile member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.