Riding attachment to floor buffer machine

Details Riding attachment to floor buffer machine Riding attachment to floor buffer machine

1975-07-14

1977-03-08

Roberts, Edward L.

Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning

Machines

Brushing

15246, 280 327, A47L 11162

Patent

active

040105075

ABSTRACT:
A wheeled attachment frame assembly that fits onto a floor buffer machine which permits the rider to ride, in a seated position, and to steer the buffer in any direction by the application of pressure on a handle of the buffer or on a foot pedal of the yoke assembly. The attachment frame assembly is formed of a pair of wheels mounted to a vertical seat support and to the rear of a horizontal pull bar, with the front of the pull bar joined to a U-shaped yoke member that is pivotably fastened to a bracket on each side of the top of the housing of the buffer. A transverse bar is mounted on the pull bar and formed on each side of the pull bar as a foot pedal rest. The floor buffer machine to which the unit is attached embodies a buffing wheel mounted in a horizontal plane above the floor surface to be buffed, enclosed by the housing to which a handle is fixed, and driven by an attached electric motor in the housing. The rider, seated on the attached frame controls the direction of the buffer by applying force in either an upward or downward direction on the handle of the buffer so as to rotate the plane of the revolving buffing wheel. With a buffing wheel revolving in a counter-clockwise direction, as seen from above, an upward force on the handle tilts the buffer so that it veers to the right and a downward force acts to steer the buffer to the left. Similarly shifting of the weight of the rider to the left pedal and left side of the handle causes the buffer to go forward, with similar shifts of the rider's weight to the right causing the buffer to go backwards.

REFERENCES:
patent: 765846 (1904-07-01), Kiner
patent: 2218064 (1940-10-01), Amsbury
patent: 3190672 (1965-06-01), Swanson et al.

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