Movable vehicle roof sweeper
AssigneeQuintin Machinery LLC
InventorWilliam E. Yeaglin
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Abstract
The invention is a vehicle roof sweeper for the roofs of trucks and trailers that is rollable along the ground. The vehicle roof top sweeper that has retractable wheels and can be rolled using a pickup truck, car, tractor, forklift, or two or three people on foot. An embodiment of the invention is a vehicle roof sweeper having a pair of vertical supports, an upper crossbar connecting the pair of vertical supports, a plow assembly movable along the pair of vertical supports and positionable below the upper crossbar by a first lifting device, a base structure disposed on each of the pair of vertical supports, and retractable wheels positioned on opposite ends of the base structure.
Claims16
A vehicle roof sweeper comprising:
- a pair of vertical supports;
- an upper crossbar connecting the pair of vertical supports;
- a plow assembly movable along the pair of vertical supports and positioned below the upper crossbar by a first lifting device;
- a base structure disposed on each of the pair of vertical supports;
- and
- a brush assembly having
- a base plate rigidly fixed to the plow assembly, and
- at least one row of brushes fixed to the base plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.