Brushing – scrubbing – and general cleaning – Machines – Brushing
Patent
1995-03-11
1997-12-16
Spisich, Mark
Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning
Machines
Brushing
15302, 15308, 15409, 406153, A63B 4704, B08B 102
Patent
active
056971168
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a device for cleaning and accelerating globular objects. In particular, the invention relates to a device for cleaning golf balls with a high throughput of balls.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In the prior art, several arrangements for cleaning and transporting globular objects have been devised. For example: kind are mainly used on golf courses for practice operations as for that purpose, on the one hand, a great number of golf balls is used and, on the other hand, the balls get dirty when they touch the soil or have contact with very short grass residues, which result from the cutting of the greens. Especially the dirt sticking between the dimples of the golf balls, which might dry and become hard, leads to an extremely negative influence on the flight properties of the golf balls.
In order to guarantee smooth and economic practice operations, a device of this kind must ensure a high degree of cleaning power as well as a high throughput of balls.
A device for cleaning golf balls is described, for example, in the U.S. Pat. No. 4,181,996. The known device has a round brush attached to a roller. Around the brush there is a metal band, the flat side of which is aligned parallel to the axis of the brush, and this metal band is arranged helically so that it is possible to lead the golf balls along the brush roller. The drive of the roller, e.g. a motor, drives the golf balls in the guiding device along the brush roller, thus cleaning the balls. The cleaning process can be supported by adding water, for example.
With such a conventional device the soiling, which has been caused by contact with the soil, is, as a rule, completely removed; however, in many cases, especially when the balls were used on wet golf courses, very short grass residues remain sticking to the balls.
Furthermore, the surface of the plastic-laminated golf balls is highly stressed on account of the helical metal guiding device which leads the balls around the brush roller, and this will lead to a shorter service life of the golf balls.
Moreover, with such a conventional device, a fast rotation of the brush roller is necessary in order to ensure the required throughput of balls. This results in a high degree of stress on the mechanical parts of the device and on the bearings of the roller in particular, and therefore high-quality parts must be used, which causes high production costs as well as high maintenance and/or repair costs.
In addition, with such a device a great deal of cleaning work--especially for cleaning the brush roller--is involved. This is even more so the case with the U.S. Pat. No. 3,918,116 and USSR 882 490 as their brush arrangements are not self-cleaning and therefore clog up if grass and leaves accumulate.
The object of the invention therefore is to provide a device of the kind mentioned at the beginning which ensures that the balls are cleaned completely, in which the bristles are automatically cleaned by the high pressure of the jet, which reduces the stress upon the plastic-laminated surface of the golf balls when they are being cleaned, and which is comparatively simple in construction so that production and maintenance with reduced costs are possible.
This problem is solved by the features stated in the characterizing part of claim 1.
DRAWINGS
In the following, the invention is described in detail with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings, wherein
FIG. 1 shows a sectional view of a preferred embodiment of the invention
FIG. 2 shows a cross-sectional view of the brush tube of the preferred embodiment from FIG. 1.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
As shown in FIG. 1, a preferred embodiment of the present invention has a unit 1 for precleaning and accelerating the objects to be cleaned 2 (dirty golf balls, for example) as well as a brush tube 8.
The unit 1 includes a pump connection 12 and a tube 4 with two sections which are separated from each other; one section 4a is designed to accelerate the objects, and the other sectio
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