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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2000
Arlen Dale Besel, Elkton, MD (US);
Davis Emerson Lee, Kennesaw, GA (US);
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for cleaning a floor surface having weight support members thereon for carrying the weight of the apparatus into the floor surface includes a brush having a baseplate with an array of bristles. The brush has a plurality of supply passages, each of which communicates with a portion of the bristle array. The brush is loosely attached by a flexible torque transmitting coupling to the shaft for rotation about a centerline of rotation. The brush is attached to a motor shaft in such a way that, in use, the brush is responsive to irregularities in the floor surface as the apparatus is moved thereover by moving in a direction generally parallel to a centerline of rotation and/or in a plane generally perpendicular thereto. A baffle mounted to the top surface of the brush so as to surround the supply passages. In use, a foam cleaning agent is dispensed onto a location on the top surface of the brush inwardly of the supply passages. Rotation of the brush generates a force urging dispensed foam cleaning agent in a radially outwardly direction from the centerline of rotation toward the baffle. The baffled deflects the foam cleaning agent into the supply passages and into the bristles of the brush.