Abstract: A cylindrical brush is mounted in a housing of a carpet-sweeping device or the like for rotation about an axis extending transversely of the direction of movement of the device over the surface to be cleaned. Two dirt-collecting receptacles are located respectively at the front region of the housing and at the rear region of the housing as considered in the direction of movement of the receptacle over the surface being swept. The dirt-collecting receptacles are removably mounted on the housing, and arrested in their respective fully inserted positions. The dirt-collecting receptacle can be introduced into the housing from the side through one of the lateral portions, from the front, from the rear, from below and from above, depending on the particular construction of the housing. Various arrangements for arresting the dirt-collecting receptacle in its fully inserted position are disclosed.

Abstract: A cylindrical brush is mounted in a housing of a carpet-sweeping device or the like for rotation about an axis extending transversely of the direction of movement of the device over the surface to be cleaned. Two dirt-collecting receptacles are located respectively at the front region of the housing and at the rear region of the housing as considered in the direction of movement of the receptacle over the surface being swept. The dirt-collecting receptacles are removably mounted on the housing, and arrested in their respective fully inserted positions. The dirt-collecting receptacle can be introduced into the housing from the side through one of the lateral portions, from the front, from the rear, from below and from above, depending on the particular construction of the housing. Various arrangements for arresting the dirt-collecting receptacle in its fully inserted position are disclosed.

Abstract: A kitchen appliance, such as a meat grinder, a vegetable slicer, or the like, includes a housing which has a protrusion on its front side, such protrusion constituting an outlet through which a processed food emerges from the interior of the housing to its exterior. A cover is mounted on the housing in a protective position in which it covers the front surface of the housing in its entirety, including the protrusion. The housing has a base which rests on a support surface and has an extension projecting forwardly beyond the front surface of the housing proper and the cover has a circumferential wall formed with a cutout in which the extension of the base is accommodated in the protective position of the cover. The cover is usable as a receiving container for the processed food emerging from the protrusion of the housing. In the latter instance, it assumes an extended position in which it is supported on the support surface and a depression thereof receives the extension of the base.

Abstract: A kitchen appliance, such as a meat grinder, is equipped with a suction plate arranged underneath the bottom of the housing of the appliance. The suction plate is attached to the housing by means of a shaft which is mounted on the lateral walls of the housing of the appliance and can be withdrawn to thereby detach the suction plate from the housing of the appliance. The suction plate has an aperture in a connecting element thereof, and the shaft has an eccentric crank portion which is received in the aperture and lifts it upwardly, together with the central region of the suction plate, when the shaft is pivoted from a rest position to an extended position. When the shaft is pivoted further beyond the extended position, it reaches a releasing position in which the shaft can be withdrawn to dissociate the suction plate from the housing. A bulge on the connecting element, located beyond a dead-center position of the shaft, holds the shaft in its extended position.

Abstract: A corkscrew includes a support consisting of a supporting ring adapted to engage a neck of a bottle, and a support bracket connected to the supporting ring. An elongated spindle having a cork-engaging helix at its leading end and a threaded portion at its trailing end is mounted on the support for turning relative thereto and also for longitudinal displacement. A nut engages the threaded portion of the spindle and has handgrip portions, and a locking element embraces the nut and is pivotable relative thereto between a locking position in which it connects the nut to the spindle for joint turning and longitudinal displacement, and an unlocking position in which it releases the spindle for longitudinal displacement during the further turning of the nut.

Abstract: A cylindrical brush is mounted in a housing of a carpet-sweeping device for rotation about an axis extending transversely of the direction of movement of the device over the surface to be cleaned. Two dirt-collecting receptacles are located respectively at a front region of the housing and at a rear region of the housing as considered along this direction. Each dirt-collecting receptacle has an opening bounded on all sides by a plurality of walls and each receptacle is mounted for pivoting movement on the housing between a filling position in which the respective opening is located in a path in which dirt from the surface being swept travels into the receptacle, and a discharging position in which the opening is located out of the path so as to permit discharging of any deposited dirt from the receptacle.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cylindrical brush which is mounted in a housing for rotation about an axis transverse to the direction of movement of the cleaning device over the surface to be cleaned. The brush has at least two sections which are independently driven into rotation about their axis by wheels which are also mounted in the housing. Motion is transmitted between the wheels and the two sections of the brush so that, when wheels on one side of the housing rotate at a different speed than the wheels on the other side of the housing, the rotations of the two sections of the brush about the axis are also different. A connecting element connects the two end portions of the sections of the brush which are adjacent to one another. Such connecting element may be connected to one of the sections of the brush for shared rotation therewith, or may connect the respective end portions with freedom of rotation relative thereto.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes a housing having a frame including longitudinally spaced front and rear wall portions and transversely spaced lateral portions, and a plurality of support walls which extend in substantial parallelism with the lateral wall portions, on the one hand and with the front wall portion, on the other hand, and with spacing therefrom. The support walls are formed with bearing recesses which have open ends facing toward the surface to be cleaned when the cleaning device is in use, and at least one cover is provided which has respective closing portions which close the open ends of the bearing recesses and circumferentially complement the latter. The device further includes a plurality of wheels which engage the surface to be cleaned, and at least one cleaning body, such as a brush, which is mounted on the housing for rotation and driven into rotation in response to rotation of the wheels during the engagement of the latter with the surface to be cleaned.

Abstract: A hanger has an elongated hanger body which includes a pair of shell-shaped hanger halves which are separated from one another along a longitudinal plane of symmetry of the hanger body. Male and female connecting elements in form of pins and sleeves for receiving the pins extend across the plane of symmetry and engage one another when the two hanger halves are assembled. The marginal portions of the hanger halves are formed with grooves and bulges, the bulges being received with snap action into the grooves of the associated one of the hanger halves when the two hanger halves are assembled with one another. The hanger halves are formed with partial bearings which together form a full bearing for receiving a support portion of a shaft of a suspension element of hook-shaped configuration, which bearing is adjacent to and communicates with an opening which leads to the exterior of the assembled hanger body.

Abstract: A drive for rotating a corner-sweeping brush of a sweeping device includes a gear on the brush, and a translation member provided with teeth engaging the gear and rotating the same about its axis with attendant rotation of the brush when the housing of the sweeping device comes into contact with an obstruction during its forward movement. An actuating member is connected to the translation member under interposition of a time-delay unit, and moves the translation member into engagement with the gear and subsequently toward an extended position thereof with concomitant rotation of the brush so that dirt is removed from the corner region of the surface being swept, even after the housing of the sweeping device has come to a standstill. The actuating member may be connected to a handle of the sweeping device, or it may be a discrete element projecting forwardly or upwardly out of the housing.

Abstract: A housing has an open front side, and one or more arms are provided, each having two ends and a length sufficient to permit a plurality of adjacent ties to be hung from the respective arm. Pivot pins mount these arms at one end within the housing so that the arms can be pivoted outwardly of the housing to an access position and can be pivoted into the housing to a storage position in which the opposite ends of the respective arms are supported on a portion of the housing.

Abstract: A floor or carpet sweeper has a hollow housing provided on its lower side with a plurality of floor-engaging wheels. The bottom of the housing is closed by means of a cover plate which is pivoted on the housing about an axis perpendicular to the forward and backward direction of travel of the housing during sweeping. This cover plate is formed with a throughgoing hole and is provided with upwardly bent tabs on which a cylindrical brush is rotatably mounted, this brush extending through the hole in the plate. In addition the ends of the brush are engageable with the wheels when the cover plate is closed on the housing so that the brush is rotatably driven by these wheels. A magnet holds the cover plate in place on the bottom of the housing and engages against an inclined surface on this cover plate. This magnet can be moved along the inclined surfaces so as to vary the height setting of the brush.

Abstract: A brushing apparatus for carpets and the like has a housing one side of which faces a surface to be brushed and is provided with a plurality of wall portions connected with one another by weakened hinge-like zones so that these wall portions are produced in flat condition and can then be displaced relative to one another to a condition in which they define a trough. A brush extends along the trough and, when rotated in response to movement of the brushing apparatus over the surface, picks up dirt and deposits it in the trough.