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Aloha Corporation

Scientific Growth, Inc.

Dallas Smith Corporation

Smith; Judson L.

Judson L Smith

Earl D Smith

Richard C Kudlicki

William E Crisp

Zachary B Smith

Melvyn Engel

Darren K Back

Karla Flores

Stephen A Asztalos

Bernard S Siefer

Garrett J Smith

A brush useful for washing external surfaces, such as of a vehicle. The brush comprises a plurality of bristles connected to a hub. Each bristle has an elongated shaft having a number of cleaning structures extending outwardly from the shaft, providing multiple faces and edges arranged in a circumferential manner around the shaft, and producing multiple washing actions by the bristles as they are moved adjacent the surface. The hub and bristles may be integrally molded in a first condition having a planar form, and then folded relative to the hub to position the bristles extending from the hub in a cleaning direction from the hub. The hubs are secured to mounting structures by reception of the hubs in apertures in the mounting structures. In an embodiment, the mounting surfaces comprise flexible stanchions which are moved relative to an external surface to provide high resolution washing of a vehicle surface.

Cleaning bristle brushes and cleaning systems using same

A vehicle visibility system. Implementations include a first front facing light element coupled to a vehicle on a first side of a center line of a vehicle and a second front facing light element coupled on a second side of the center line. The system includes a switch electrically coupled with the first and second front facing light elements and with an electrical power system. The first and second front facing light elements each include a controller and each are configured to alternately flash using the controller in response to receiving an electrical signal from the switch when the switch is in an activated position. When the first and second front facing light elements are alternately flashing, the visibility of the vehicle to oncoming traffic may be increased. The first and second front facing light elements are not coupled to a handlebar or caliper region of the vehicle.

Vehicle visibility system

An apparatus for providing wheelchair access to a vehicle, including a deployable wheelchair access assembly coupled to the vehicle and deployable to a position in which one end of the assembly is in contact with the ground. The wheelchair access assembly can include multiple panels. Some embodiments include a control system for adjusting the angular relationship of one panel relative to another panel. Yet other embodiments include a sensor for measuring the inclination of the deployed assembly relative to earth's gravity. In yet other embodiments the vehicle includes a sensor for measuring the inclination of the vehicle relative to earth's gravity, and a plurality of suspension actuators for changing the inclination of the vehicle.

Leveling ramp for a wheelchair

A low profile chassis and suspension system for a road vehicle. The chassis supports a payload section or cargo compartment, such as for a delivery truck, ambulance, or shuttle bus. The chassis includes a largely planar frame having a top surface which is located beneath the rotational axes of the rear wheels. The wheel suspension system is particularly compact and close to the road surface. In some embodiments each wheel is suspended from the vehicle by a pair of pivotal support arms. Preferably, one arm is located above the other arm, and both arms pivot along pivot axes that are generally perpendicular to the rotational axis of the supported wheel. A spring urges one of the arms apart from the frame. In other embodiments, the spring is placed beneath the rotational axis of the wheel. In some embodiments both of the pivoting support arms are located beneath the rotational axis of the wheel.

Suspensions for low floor vehicle

A portable dispenser for a hand treatment agent includes a flexible bag containing the treatment agent. A valve assembly is sealed to the bag, and functions to receive a portion of the agent from the bag, and is manually operable to discharge the received portion from an outlet port, and automatically refill with another portion of the agent from the bag. A flexible hanger on the bag facilitates adhesive external attachment to wearing apparel of the dispenser user for easy access, and is foldable onto the bag for adhesive attachment to the bag and concealment of adhesive when the dispenser is temporarily out of use.

Apparatus and method to monitor the usage of a network system of personal hand sanitizing dispensers

Suspensions for low floor vehicles

Disclosed are a type of institutional or hospital network system of personal, portable hand cleaning agent dispensers and a method to record and report their specific usage by healthcare workers and patients of the institution or hospital through a dispenser control apparatus having a computer processor memory. In one form, each dispenser has an identifier unique to it and shared with no other dispenser. Each dispenser contains hand cleaning fluid agent in an amount sufficient to provide multiple shots of predetermined amount (or unit dose size) upon pressing a pad on the dispenser to dispense one shot per press. Each worker has an identifier unique to that worker. In one form, dispensers are refillable and are issued from and returned to a control station that refills the dispensers and for each of them, records into a computer, the dispenser by that dispenser's unique identifier, the worker by that worker's unique identifier, and the quantity of hand cleaning fluid used by said dispenser, and reports from the data collected by said computer, who used what dispenser, during what time frame, and how much hand cleaning fluid was used by said worker using said dispenser during said time frame. In other forms, the dispensers have replaceable throw-away, agent-containing cartridges of single or multiple storage compartments, the dispensers being refillable with new cartridges from control and release stations.

&ldquo;Portable, individualized, hand washing agents dispensers are filled and checked out from a control station to healthcare workers and worn by the workers outside their clothing. Unique worker identification signature ID numbers in magnetic counterpart to bar code, and unique dispenser identification signature ID numbers in magnetic counterpart bar code are stored in computer memory. At patient treatment sites, infrared signal transmitters constantly producing a signal, differs at each site for a unique ID number identifying each site. An infrared signal receiver in a dispenser stores in on-board memory the site where the worker dispenses the hand wash agents. Upon return of a dispenser to the control station the amount of agents dispensed by the worker and time, date, and location are recorded. An alternative GPS site identifier is also described.&rdquo;

Hand washing compliance measurement and recording system

Method and apparatus for periodically cleaning washing apparatus in which washing liquid is intermittently circulated through a washing chamber adapted to contain the hand of a user. Cleaning is accomplished by intermittently circulating a cleaning liquid through the chamber while displaying a warning to potential users to not use the apparatus during the cleaning cycle. Cleaning is initiated (a) when the apparatus has been used for hand washing a predetermined number of times, (b) a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the last cleaning cycle, (c) the apparatus has been serviced, or (d) following interruption of the electrical power supply to the apparatus.

Washing apparatus and method

Cleansing apparatus comprising a pair of rotating cylinders with spray nozzles in the walls thereof. The cylinders provide cylindrical cleansing chambers which have their axes displaced from each other at an angle of approximately 30 degrees to comfortably receive the hands and forearms of a user. Certain of the nozzles in each cylinder are disposed in a helical array to sweep the forearm of the user with cleansing fluid as the cylinder is rotated. Each cylinder preferably has an inner liner and an outer liner with space there between providing a passageway for cleansing fluid to the nozzles which are preferably formed in the inner liner. An elastomeric support for each cylinder is provided. A blower may be associated with the cylinders for drawing air into the cylinders to reduce external splashing of cleansing fluid.

Hand and forearm cleansing apparatus

Motor vehicle cleaning and restoration building

An overhead frame supports a gear housing which supports a strip support frame from which flexible cleaning strips are hung. A motor driving a main shaft to which the housing is connected moves the strip support frame in a circular path about a first axis over the top of a vehicle while the strips contact the body of the vehicle for the scrubbing action. As the strip support frame is moved in the circular path, it is positively moved about a second axis parallel to the first and in a direction opposite the direction of movement in the path. The strip frame is rotatably mounted on an inclined portion of a second shaft whose main portion is on the second axis, so the strip support frame is rotatable on a third axis which is inclined with respect to the first and second axes. Rotation of the shaft having the inclined portion is provided by a gear coupling to a stationary gear in the rotating housing. Therefore, as the main shaft is rotated to provide the movement of the support frame in a circular path, the second shaft is rotated in an opposite direction and, with the support frame on an inclined portion of that shaft, a resulting positive vertical action of the scrubbing strips is achieved.

Vehicle scrubbing apparatus

A set of round nozzles, all supplied from a plenum with air under comparatively high pressure and low volume is employed for drying the sides and top of a motor vehicle during its departure from washing apparatus. The nozzles are employed at an angle, and are oscillated for thorough coverage although with a concentrated blast of air from each nozzle. Preferably the nozzles are slender cone shaped to provide holding power of the air blast to remain concentrated at high velocity at a significant distance away from the nozzle outlet, for effectiveness on outer surfaces of not only standard sized cars, but also surfaces of smaller cars which, because of smaller car size, may be farther away from one or more such nozzles.

Vehicle drying machine and method

Vehicle washing apparatus includes a turntable for reception of a vehicle on it at an entrance point. Two arm and brush assemblies are provided at opposite sides of the path of the vehicle onto the turntable to scrub upstanding exterior body surfaces of the vehicle. The turntable is rotated with the vehicle on it, as the brushes are moved by the vehicle body surfaces and scrub the entire perimeter of the vehicle at least once with both brushes, using a 360 degree rotation of the turntable. Articulated brushes, in one embodiment, are employed with brush reversal for additional brushing of the rear end as the vehicle is moved off the turntable. Oscillating friction strips are provided at the entrance for cleaning top surfaces of the vehicle, and a dryer unit is provided at the exit point for drying the vehicle. Conveyors are employed at the entrance and exit points as well as on the turntable itself, for conveyor movement of the vehicle, if desired.

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Tempe, AZ, United States of America

Judson L Smith