Leifheit Ag

Itt Industries, Inc.

Helmut Deimel

Rolf G Schulein

Christian Gross

Klaus-Jürgen Fischer

Rolf G Schuelein

Peter Tiwi

Corkscrew

A breadbox is usable as both a breadbox and a cutting board. The breadbox has a bottom portion (1), opposite side walls (2, 3), and a movable flap (5) which closes off a front opening of the breadbox. The flap has a cutting board surface and at least one shaft for pivotally coupling the flap (5) to the side walls so that the flap (5) is swivelable from a closed position where the flap closes the front opening of the breadbox (5) to an open position where the breadbox is open and the flap (5) is positioned substantially in a horizontal plane, such that the flap (5) has the cutting board surface exposed upwardly so as to be usable as the cutting board. The breadbox has a receptacle for crumbs which is disengageably attached to the front edge of the bottom of the breadbox. The receptacle for crumbs has a first edge which is mounted on the bottom portion, and a second edge that extends under at least a bottom of the flap so that when the flap is swiveled toward the first closed position, crumbs on the work surface of the flap fall into the receptacle for crumbs. There is a gap between the bottom of the flap and the second edge of the receptacle for crumbs. The gap facilitates removal of the receptacle for crumbs from the bottom portion of the breadbox. This structure makes it easy to remove the receptacle for crumbs without disassembling portions of the flap.

Breadbox

In a sweeper having a housing 1, in which a sweeping roller 6 driven by impeller wheels 4, 5 is rotatably supported, the sweeping roller comprising a shaft 15 with longitudinally extending sweeping strips 17, the sweeping strips 17 being comprised of a flexible leatherlike plastic material. The sweeping strips 17 are integral with a tube 16 that is slid over onto the shaft 15. Alternatively, the shaft and sweeping strips can be integrally molded as a single part by a two component extrusion process such that the sweeping strips are flexible and the shaft is rigid.

Sweeper with molded sweeping roller having flexible sweeping strips

Height adjustment means for a cylindrical brush in a carpet sweeper with a U-shaped adjusting yoke which loads the cylindrical brush and is mounted in the housing by angled parts molded on the free ends of its members and is loaded at the summit part by a spring connected to an adjusting slide and riding up on ramp surfaces.

Height adjustment means for a cylindrical brush in a carpet sweeper

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Nastatten, Germany

Helmut Deimel