Windsor Industries, Inc.

Sit-n-sip, Inc.

Eugene L Bothun

Frederick M Bores

Edward T Biegel

Thomas G Plaven

Peter W Von Vett

Alexander S Johnson

Tim L Mercer

Bryon L Kajfosz

Jerry D Schemm

Brent S Hine

Dan R Canaday

Michael C McGuire

A cleaning machine is provided with a recovery tank for containing recovered liquid from a floor or other surface that is being cleaned. The recovery tank has a chamber that houses the recovered liquid and within the chamber are a recovery inlet and a vacuum conduit. The recovery inlet carries the recovered fluid for discharge into the chamber and the vacuum conduit is used in creating a desired vacuum to cause the recovered liquid to be drawn into the chamber. The recovery tank is disposed on a cleaning tank for containing a liquid cleaning solution that is applied to the surface for cleaning purposes. The recovery tank covers an access opening in the cleaning tank for receipt of the liquid cleaning solution. A vacuum motor produces the vacuum and is located next to the cleaning tank below the recovery tank. Sealing members insure a proper seal at the junctions for the recovered liquid and the vacuum when the removable tank is joined to the cleaning tank.

Cleaning machine including removable recovery tank

Cleaning machine housing

Floor cleaning machine

Carpet cleaner

Floor polisher

Floor scrubber

Floor polishing machine

Combined seat and container

A combination seat cushion and liquid container has a self-bleeding bung dispensing valve positioned in a single bung hole of the container for dispensing liquid from the container while bleeding air into the container. The valve structure includes an air bleed valve and a liquid drain valve, both of which open simultaneously upon the depression of a button in the bung hole and which automatically close simultaneously upon release of the pressure on the button.

Self-bleeding bung dispenser valve

This invention relates to a cyclone-type aspirated dirt separator for use in washing dirt from dirt-laden dry airstreams and, more particularly, to a device of the class described which is especially suited for use with a dry pick-up vacuum cleaner as a means for collecting the dirt it picks up in a water bath. The separator is characterized by a riser tube with an open top and an opening in its lower end immersed in a water bath into which dirt-laden dry air is introduced tangentially for ascending spiral movement therethrough while simultaneously aspirating water. Internal baffles create turbulent flow in the water/dirt-laden air mixture and they thus prevent vortexing which otherwise results in a relatively unwashed dirt-laden air column centered inside a hollow water column. A venturi adjacent the outlet of the riser tube accelerates the turbulent mixture against a dome in the underside of the cannister lid where the clean air separates and the dirt-laden water cascades down the outside of the riser tube back into the bucket containing the water bath. The invention also contemplates a removable cannister lid and aspirator subassembly that provides ready access to the bucket containing the dirty water that sits inside the cannister well.

Cyclone-type aspirated separator for washing dirt-laden dry airstreams

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Loveland, CO, United States of America

Eugene L Bothun