Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve one of the above technical problems, the present disclosure provides an agitator, a surface cleaning apparatus, and a method of manufacturing an endless belt for an agitator.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an agitator for application to a surface cleaning apparatus for effecting cleaning of a surface to be cleaned by the agitator, comprising:
a rotating portion having a longitudinal axis; and
an endless belt disposed on the rotating portion, extending along a longitudinal axis of the rotating portion, capable of being carried and driven by the rotating portion;
wherein the endless belt comprises a plurality of rows of aligned reinforcing cords extending in a longitudinal direction of the endless belt and a plurality of rows of aligned cleaning belts extending in the longitudinal direction of the endless belt; wherein the cleaning belt extends in a direction along a longitudinal axis of the rotating portion at a defined acute angle to the longitudinal axis; the reinforcing cords have a consistent lay direction; when the rotating part drives the annular belt to rotate and is in contact with the surface to be cleaned, the surface to be cleaned generates at least a first offset force to the annular belt in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis; the reinforcement cord generates at least a second biasing force to the annular band in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, the first and second biasing forces at least partially canceling each other.
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the circumferential band includes a main body portion in which the reinforcing cord is embedded, and the cleaning belt is fixed to an outer surface of the main body portion.
According to the agitator of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, in the endless belt, the direction of inclination of the twisted direction is opposite to the direction of inclination of the cleaning belt.
According to the agitator of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the reinforcing cord extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the rotating portion.
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the reinforcing cord includes a plurality of fiber cords twisted in the twist direction to form the reinforcing cord.
According to the agitator of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the cleaning belt is attached to an outer surface of the main body portion.
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the body portion includes a base, the reinforcing cord being located within the base.
According to a stirrer in accordance with at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the base comprises a rubber material, in particular neoprene.
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the reinforcing cord is a glass reinforcing cord.
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the annular band includes a lining portion located on an inner surface of the main body portion.
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the inner liner portion includes an elastic nylon cloth.
According to the agitator of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the number of the rotating portions is two, and the endless belt realizes power transmission between the two rotating portions.
According to the agitator of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the two rotating portions have different diameters, wherein the rotating portion having the smaller diameter is located at the front side of the rotating portion having the larger diameter.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a cleaning part including the above-described agitator.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a surface cleaning apparatus comprising the agitator described above, or comprising the cleaning section described above.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of manufacturing an endless belt for a blender, including:
arranging a cylindrical mold;
winding a reinforcing cord having a lay direction around the cylindrical mold in a plurality of aligned rows at the same tension;
uniformly applying a base-forming material to the outer surface of the cylindrical mold such that the base-forming material impregnates and covers the reinforcing cords;
curing the base-forming material to form a base and to cause the reinforcing cords to be secured within the base;
winding a cleaning tape on the outer surface of the base in a plurality of aligned rows with the same tension, wherein the cleaning tape is inclined at a defined acute angle to the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical mold, ensuring that the direction of inclination of the cleaning tape is opposite to the direction of twist;
drawing out the cylindrical mold to form a whole belt drum; and
cutting the tape cartridge at a specified width to form the endless tape.
Detailed Description
The present disclosure will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and embodiments. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not to be construed as limitations of the present disclosure. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only the portions relevant to the present disclosure are shown in the drawings.
It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present disclosure may be combined with each other without conflict. Technical solutions of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.
Unless otherwise indicated, the illustrated exemplary embodiments/examples are to be understood as providing exemplary features of various details of some ways in which the technical concepts of the present disclosure may be practiced. Accordingly, unless otherwise indicated, features of the various embodiments may be additionally combined, separated, interchanged, and/or rearranged without departing from the technical concept of the present disclosure.
The use of cross-hatching and/or shading in the drawings is generally used to clarify the boundaries between adjacent components. As such, unless otherwise noted, the presence or absence of cross-hatching or shading does not convey or indicate any preference or requirement for a particular material, material property, size, proportion, commonality between the illustrated components and/or any other characteristic, attribute, property, etc., of a component. Further, in the drawings, the size and relative sizes of components may be exaggerated for clarity and/or descriptive purposes. While example embodiments may be practiced differently, the specific process sequence may be performed in a different order than that described. For example, two processes described consecutively may be performed substantially simultaneously or in reverse order to that described. In addition, like reference numerals denote like parts.
When an element is referred to as being "on" or "on," "connected to" or "coupled to" another element, it can be directly on, connected or coupled to the other element or intervening elements may be present. However, when an element is referred to as being "directly on," "directly connected to" or "directly coupled to" another element, there are no intervening elements present. For purposes of this disclosure, the term "connected" may refer to physically, electrically, etc., and may or may not have intermediate components.
For descriptive purposes, the present disclosure may use spatially relative terms such as "below … …," below … …, "" below … …, "" below, "" above … …, "" above, "" … …, "" higher, "and" side (e.g., as in "side wall") to describe one component's relationship to another (other) component as illustrated in the figures. Spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use, operation, and/or manufacture in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" or "beneath" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" the other elements or features. Thus, the exemplary term "below … …" can encompass both an orientation of "above" and "below". Further, the devices may be otherwise positioned (e.g., rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.
The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Furthermore, when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" and variations thereof are used in this specification, the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components and/or groups thereof are stated but does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components and/or groups thereof. It is also noted that, as used herein, the terms "substantially," "about," and other similar terms are used as approximate terms and not as degree terms, and as such, are used to interpret inherent deviations in measured values, calculated values, and/or provided values that would be recognized by one of ordinary skill in the art.
Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of an agitator 100 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of an agitator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Fig. 3 is an enlarged schematic view of a portion a of fig. 2.
As shown in fig. 1 to 3, the present disclosure provides an agitator 100 that can be applied to a surface cleaning apparatus so that when a user operates the surface cleaning apparatus, the agitator 100 can be brought into contact with a surface to be cleaned and cleaning of the surface to be cleaned is achieved by friction between the surface of the agitator 100 and the surface to be cleaned.
The agitator 100 may include: a rotating portion 110 and an endless belt 120.
The rotating part 110 has a longitudinal axis and can be driven to rotate, for example when the beater 100 is applied to a cleaning part or a surface cleaning apparatus, the cleaning part or the surface cleaning apparatus can comprise a drive means which can drive the rotating part 110 to rotate.
In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the number of the rotating parts 110 is two, and the endless belt 120 performs power transmission between the two rotating parts 110.
That is, one of the two rotating portions 110 is driven by the driving device, formed as a driving roller, and the other of the two rotating portions 110 is formed as a driven roller, and when the rotating portion 110 formed as a driving roller rotates, the rotating portion 110 formed as a driven roller is driven to rotate by the endless belt 120.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the agitator 100 shown in FIG. 1 is a track type agitator, in which case the number of rotating portions 110 is two. In another embodiment, the agitator 100 may include only one rotating part 110 and be formed in a roll brush structure.
In the present disclosure, as shown in fig. 1, the two rotating portions 110 are different in diameter, wherein the rotating portion 110 having a smaller diameter is located at the front side of the rotating portion 110 having a larger diameter, that is, the front side coincides with the moving direction of the surface cleaning apparatus when cleaning the surface to be cleaned.
The endless belt 120 is provided to the rotating portion 110, is carried and driven by the rotating portion 110, and extends along a longitudinal axis of the rotating portion 110; thus, when the rotating portion 110 is driven to rotate, the endless belt 120 is driven to move by the rotating portion 110, and at least a part of the outer surface of the endless belt 120 is brought into contact with the surface to be cleaned, so that the cleaning of the surface to be cleaned is achieved by the endless belt 120.
Specifically, the endless belt 120 includes a plurality of rows of aligned reinforcing cords 124 extending in a longitudinal direction of the endless belt 120 and a plurality of rows of aligned cleaning belts 122 extending in the longitudinal direction of the endless belt 120.
For example, the endless belt 120 includes a main body portion 121 and a cleaning belt 122, the cleaning belt 122 is wound around the main body portion 121, and the cleaning belt 122 extends in a direction defining an acute angle with the longitudinal axis of the rotating portion 110 in the direction of the longitudinal axis; the body portion 121 includes a reinforcing cord 124, the reinforcing cord 124 having a twisted direction, and the twisted direction is inclined in the annular belt 120 in a direction opposite to the inclination direction of the cleaning belt 122.
Thus, for example, in fig. 1, when the rotating part 110 drives the annular belt 120 to rotate and contact with the surface to be cleaned, the spiral winding of the cleaning belt 122 causes the cleaning belt 122 to generate a first biasing force parallel to the longitudinal axis direction to the annular belt 120 when contacting with the ground (surface to be cleaned); the reinforcing cords 124 at least impart a second biasing force to the annular band 120 in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, the first and second biasing forces at least partially counteracting each other to prevent the mixer 100 from wandering.
In the present disclosure, the reinforcing cords 124 extend in a plurality of aligned rows along the longitudinal direction of the body portion 121, that is, the reinforcing cords 124 can be arranged in a spiral wound manner along the width of the body portion 121 such that the reinforcing cords 124 are perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
Accordingly, the cleaning tape 122 also extends in the longitudinal direction of the surface of the main body portion 121, that is, the cleaning tape 122 can be arranged in a spirally wound manner in the width direction of the main body portion 121, with the cleaning tape 122 being inclined to the longitudinal axis, that is, with the value of the helix angle of the cleaning tape 122 being the defined acute angle.
In one embodiment, the reinforcing cord 124 includes a plurality of fiber cords twisted in the above-mentioned twist direction to form the reinforcing cord 124, such that the reinforcing cord 124 may have an S twist direction or a Z twist direction, but the twist directions of the reinforcing cord 124 in the same mixer 100 are the same, i.e., both S twist directions or both Z twist directions.
In the present disclosure, the cleaning tape 122 is attached to the outer surface of the main body 121, and in one embodiment, the cleaning tape 122 may be fixed to the outer surface of the main body 121 by gluing, but of course, the cleaning tape 122 may also be fixed to the main body 121 by sewing.
In a preferred embodiment, when the cleaning belt 122 is fixed to the main body 121 by gluing, two ends of the cleaning belt 122 may be fixed to the main body 121 by sewing, so that the two ends of the cleaning belt 122 do not come loose, thereby improving the user experience.
In the present disclosure, the body portion 121 includes a base, the reinforcing cord 124 being located within the base; in a preferred embodiment, the base is made of a rubber material, such as neoprene, although the rubber material may be other rubber materials.
The reinforcing cord 124 is a glass reinforcing cord 124, but the reinforcing cord 124 may be a nylon reinforcing cord or the like.
In one embodiment, the annular band 120 includes a liner portion 123, the liner portion 123 being located on an inner surface of the body portion 121. The inner part 123 may be made of elastic nylon cloth or the like.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a cleaning section comprising the agitator 100 described above.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a surface cleaning apparatus comprising the agitator 100 described above, or comprising the cleaning portion described above.
Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a method of making an endless belt for a blender according to one embodiment of the present disclosure.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, as shown in fig. 4, the present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing an endless belt 120 for a blender 100, comprising:
arranging a cylindrical mold;
winding reinforcing cords 124 around the cylindrical mold at the same tension in a plurality of aligned rows, wherein the reinforcing cords 124 have a lay direction;
uniformly applying a base-forming material to the outer surface of the cylindrical mold such that the base-forming material impregnates and covers the reinforcing cords 124;
curing the material forming the base to form the base and to secure the reinforcing cords 124 within the base;
winding cleaning belts 122 around the outer surface of the base with the same tension in multiple aligned rows, wherein the cleaning belts 122 are inclined at a defined acute angle to the longitudinal axis of the cylindrical mold, ensuring that the cleaning belts 122 are inclined in a direction opposite to the lay direction;
drawing out the cylindrical mold to form a whole belt drum; and
the tape cylinder is cut at a designated width to form the endless tape 120.
In the description herein, reference to the description of the terms "one embodiment/mode," "some embodiments/modes," "example," "specific example," or "some examples," etc., means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment/mode or example is included in at least one embodiment/mode or example of the application. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to be the same embodiment/mode or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments/modes or examples. Furthermore, the various embodiments/aspects or examples and features of the various embodiments/aspects or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without conflicting therewith.
Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present application, "plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing embodiments are merely for clarity of illustration of the disclosure and are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure. Other variations or modifications may occur to those skilled in the art, based on the foregoing disclosure, and are still within the scope of the present disclosure.