Mobile floor cleaning machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9545183-B2
Application number	US-201314038279-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 26, 2013
Priority date	Mar 29, 2011
Publication date	Jan 17, 2017
Grant date	Jan 17, 2017

Abstract

A mobile floor cleaning machine is provided having an integrated floor cleaning tool. In order to provide a floor cleaning machine of this kind with improved handling capability, the floor cleaning machine can include an accessory retainer for cleaning accessories, which has at least one accommodating part, which is fastened to the floor cleaning machine, and at least one retaining part, which can be connected to the accommodating part, for retaining the cleaning accessories.

First claim

That which is claimed:

1. A mobile floor cleaning machine having an integrated floor cleaning tool, the mobile floor cleaning machine comprising an accessory retainer for cleaning accessories, which has at least one accommodating part, which is fastened to the floor cleaning machine, and at least one retaining part, which is adapted to be connected to the accommodating part, for retaining the cleaning accessories,
wherein the at least one accommodating part is of elongate construction
wherein, in the condition in which the at least one retaining part is connected to the at least one accommodating part, the at least one retaining part is movable in relation to the at least one accommodating part, and
wherein a plurality of retaining parts are connectable to the same accommodating part.

2. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one retaining part is adapted to be connected to the at least one accommodating part in at least one of force- and positively-locking manner.

3. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one retaining part is adapted to be clamped to the at least one accommodating part.

4. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one retaining part is adapted to be latched to the at least one accommodating part.

5. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one retaining part is adapted to be suspended in the at least one accommodating part.

6. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one retaining part is adapted to be connected releasably to the at least one accommodating part.

7. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one accommodating part is arranged laterally on the floor cleaning machine.

8. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 7 , wherein the at least one accommodating part is arranged on a longitudinal side of the floor cleaning machine.

9. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 7 , wherein the at least one accommodating part is arranged at the top of the floor cleaning machine.

10. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 7 , wherein the accessory retainer has two accommodating parts which are arranged on mutually opposite sides of the floor cleaning machine.

11. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 7 , wherein the at least one accommodating part is arranged on the floor cleaning machine such that it is offset in relation to an external contour of the floor cleaning machine in the direction of the center thereof.

12. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one accommodating part is arranged on a housing that is comprised by the floor cleaning machine.

13. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 12 , wherein the at least one accommodating part is formed on the housing.

14. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 13 , wherein the housing includes two wall portions which are oriented at an angle to one another, and in that the at least one accommodating part is formed on the housing at a region at which the two wall portions merge into one another.

15. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 14 , wherein the at least one accommodating part is formed on the housing in the region at which a side wall portion of the housing and a top wall portion of the housing merge into one another.

16. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one accommodating part is of elongate construction in the horizontal direction or substantially in the horizontal direction.

17. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one accommodating part takes the form of a rail.

18. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one accommodating part comprises or forms at least one projecting connecting element for cooperating with at least one connecting element, constructed in a manner corresponding thereto, of the at least one retaining part.

19. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one retaining part is mounted displaceably on the at least one accommodating part.

20. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the dimension of the at least one accommodating part is approximately 5 times to approximately 15 times as long in the longitudinal direction thereof as the dimension of the at least one retaining part, preferably approximately 10 times as long.

21. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one accommodating part is of rigid construction.

22. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one retaining part is constructed to be at least partly elastically deformable.

23. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the at least one retaining part has a carrier element and at least one connecting element fastened thereto, for cooperating with at least one connecting element, constructed in a manner corresponding thereto, of the at least one accommodating part.

24. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 23 , wherein the at least one connecting element is adapted to be brought into engagement with the at least one connecting element of the at least one accommodating part in at least one of force- and positively-locking manner.

25. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 23 , wherein the at least one connecting element is constructed to be hook-like.

26. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 23 , wherein the at least one connecting element is constructed to be elastically deformable.

27. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 23 , wherein the at least one connecting element is fastened on a side of the carrier element remote from the at least one accommodating part.

28. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 23 , wherein the at least one retaining part includes two connecting elements which are arranged at a spacing from one another, for respectively cooperating with a connecting element of the at least one accommodating part.

29. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 28 , wherein there is formed between the connecting elements of the at least one retaining part a receptacle into which the at least one accommodating part is at least partly insertable.

30. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 28 , wherein only one of the connecting elements of the at least one retaining part engages around or behind the connecting element, which cooperates therewith, of the at least one accommodating part when the latter is in the condition of being connected to the at least one retaining part.

31. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 28 , wherein the connecting elements of the at least one retaining part are fastened on different sides of the carrier element.

32. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 23 , wherein the at least one connecting element is formed in one piece with the carrier element.

33. The floor cleaning machine in accordance with claim 23 , wherein the carrier element comprises or forms at

Assignees

• Kaercher Gmbh & Co Kg Alfred
• Alfre Kärcher Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Maurer Bernhard
• Schaefer Rainer
• Class Eugen

Classifications

• A47L11/40 Primary

  Parts or details of machines not {provided for in} groups A47L11/02 - A47L11/38, {or not restricted to one of these groups}, e.g. handles, arrangements of switches, skirts, buffers, levers · CPC title

• A47L11/4091 Primary

  Storing or parking devices, arrangements therefor; Means allowing transport of the machine when it is not being used · CPC title

• A47L11/282

  having rotary tools · CPC title