Venetian Blind Cleaner Patents (Class 15/220.3)
  • Patent number: 11192148
    Abstract: A conductor cleaning apparatus is disclosed. The conductor cleaning apparatus includes a handle; a first arm pivotally connected to a second arm, the second arm being connected to the handle; and a first wire pad connected to the first arm and a second wire pad connected to the second arm, the first and second wire pads being configured to engage and clean a conductor positioned between the first and second wire pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: UTILITY SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Nolte, Eugene H. Wood, Daniel Shirilla, Peter Shirilla, Aaron Wood
  • Patent number: 10682028
    Abstract: A soft wall curtain cleaner having an elongated handle over which a slidable handle sleeve is slidably mounted. The handle is connected to a proximate cleaning pad mount. The sleeve includes a support arm which extends past the proximate cleaning pad mount and supports a distal cleaning pad mount oriented generally parallel to the proximate cleaning pad mount. Cleaning pads are mounted on the mounts. In use, the spaced mounts and their associated cleaning pads can be slipped over a curtain strip. The user can then hold the handle in one hand and the slidable handle sleeve in the other, and pull the slidable sleeve towards the user, such that the two cleaning pads firmly engage both sides of the curtain strip. The user then forces the assembly downwardly such that the cleaning pads slide downwardly over the curtain strip and clean it on both sides, throughout its length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Geerpres, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph J. Fodrocy, Scott E. Ribbe, William C. Vanderlinde
  • Patent number: 10185233
    Abstract: A cover member that covers a first surface on an opposite side with respect to a holding surface of a holding portion that holds a substrate, the cover member including a first removing member that removes a foreign substance attached to the first surface, in which the cover member is capable of being fixed to the holding portion while the first surface and the first removing member are in contact with each other covering the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunori Nakajima, Shigeo Koya
  • Patent number: 9737976
    Abstract: A clamping device includes: a clamp assembly and an adjustment assembly, the clamp assembly comprises two symmetrical clamp arms which are oppositely hinged to each other. Each of the clamp arms includes two identical and parallel clamp pieces, and a jaw, the jaw is detachably connected between the two clamp pieces, a lower edge of the jaw includes, in order from left to right, a first arc-shaped section, a second arc-shaped section and a horizontal section, the bottoms of the first arc-shaped section, the second arc-shaped section and the horizontal section are at a same plane, the first and second arc-shaped sections are symmetrical to each other, an angle is defined between the first and second arc-shaped sections, a V-shaped groove is defined between the second arc-shaped section and the horizontal section, and the first and second arc-shaped sections are each longer than the horizontal section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventor: Bo Christensen
  • Patent number: 9604603
    Abstract: A vehicle interior detailing tool is provided. The device comprises a handheld assembly that is used to clean the slats of a vehicle climate control vent, whereby the tool is inserted into the vent and in between the slats thereover to clean the same. The tool comprises a handle end and a plurality of tines extending therefrom. The tines extend parallel therefrom and each supports an elongated cleaning sleeve thereon. The cleaning sleeves are used to contact the surfaces of the vent and physical remove dirt, dust, and foreign debris thereon. The sleeves are elastic members that conform to the separate of the slats and fit therebetween, bearing on the surfaces to physical clean the same. The sleeves can further support a cleaning solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Inventor: Raymond Noe
  • Patent number: 9201252
    Abstract: A cleaning tool is configured to remove debris from a glass surface. The cleaning tool includes an upper arm mechanically coupled to an upper pad. A lower arm is rotationally coupled to the upper arm and mechanically coupled to a lower pad. The upper pad and the lower pad are configured to clean both sides of the glass surface at once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Inventor: Wayne Lee Anderson
  • Patent number: 8734585
    Abstract: A cleaning device for blades of a fan including a first arm with distal end and proximal end, a first cleaning element attached to the proximal end and a second arm with a distal end and proximal end, a second cleaning element attached to the proximal end as well as a pivoting joint connected to the distal end of the first arm and the distal end of the second arm the pivoting joint also having a handle connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Inventor: Derrick E. Muncy
  • Patent number: 8266757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning apparatus, in particular to a portable hand cleaner, having a plurality of cleaning members which are in particular of brush type and which are arranged at a common carrier and can be set into rotation by means of a fluid, in particular water, supplied to the cleaning apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Inventor: Anton Jaeger
  • Patent number: 8261401
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cleaning tool for hanging blinds. The cleaning device of the present invention provides an easier and more convenient way of cleaning vertical blinds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Inventor: Maria Ciesielski
  • Patent number: 7735181
    Abstract: An improved duster for venetian blinds and plantation shutters is disclosed including a handle and cross member with a number of rigid repositionable pins about which a dusting finger freely rotates when drawn lengthwise between the slats of blinds. The process of rotating prevents the bunching of dust unevenly on the dusting finger and provides for a greater removal of dust from the blinds, the dust being evenly distributed about the dusting finger. The dusting fingers may be treated with an anti-static compound to ease intermittent clearing of the dusting finger of dust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Inventor: Brett Lowell Thomas
  • Patent number: 7553219
    Abstract: A representative louver sander includes: a housing containing a vibrator motor; and a sanding attachment having a staff and a sanding paddle, the staff being sized and shaped to be removably attached to the housing, the sanding paddle being located at a distal end of the staff such that when the staff is attached to the housing and the vibrator motor is operating, the sanding paddle is vibrated; the sanding paddle having first and second opposing sanding surfaces and a curved surface interconnecting the first and second surfaces; the first sanding surface extending outwardly from the curved surface to a length that is greater than a length that the second sanding surface extends from the curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Inventor: Robert James Rommer
  • Patent number: 7430781
    Abstract: A window blind cleaning system for cleaning the slats of vertical or horizontal blinds of varying heights, with a user selected cleaning material placed over the cleaning heads, which the user remotely actuates to close the cleaning surfaces onto the slats to be cleaned. The system includes a handle, an extension handle, handle mounted trigger, actuating link, backing plates with attached cleaning pads forming the cleaning heads. Resilient supporting arms urge the cleaning heads apart and the trigger operated actuating link urges the cleaning heads together about the slat. A resilient U-shaped restraining bar may be used to further urge the cleaning heads apart. The cleaning pads and covers over them are removably attached. The backing plates and cleaning pads are shaped to conform to the blind slats. The primary handle is formed from multiple sections. Assembled together, these sections form a single handle allowing the user greater cleaning reach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Inventor: Linda M. Collins
  • Publication number: 20080172810
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning apparatus, in particular to a portable hand cleaner, having a plurality of cleaning members which are in particular of brush type and which are arranged at a common carrier and can be set into rotation by means of a fluid, in particular water, supplied to the cleaning apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventor: Anton Jaeger
  • Patent number: 6883988
    Abstract: A vertical blind cleaning tool includes an elongate handle having a first end and a second end. A cavity is positioned in the handle. An outlet extends through the first end and into the cavity. A prong attachment is removably attached to the first end and includes a tubular member with a prong portion and a coupling portion. The coupling portion has a free end removably insertable into the first end of the handle. A receiving conduit extends through the prong attachment and may be fluidly coupled to the outlet of the handle. A plurality of openings extends through an inside surface and into the receiving conduit. An adsorptive membrane has a shape and size generally equal to the inside surface. The membrane is frictionally coupled to the prong portion. Fluid may flow from the cavity to the membrane and the membrane moved along either side of a vertical blind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Inventors: Beatrice Brown, Valeria D. Boyd
  • Publication number: 20030226226
    Abstract: A cleaning tool for removing debris from a cellular window treatment having one or more cells, each cell having a width. The tool comprises a handle for gripping the tool and a wand portion attached to the handle. The wand portion has a first telescoping section of a first diameter, a second telescoping section of a second diameter, and a third telescoping section of a third diameter. The first diameter is less than the cell width, the second diameter is less than the first diameter, and the third diameter is less than the second diameter. The first, second and third telescoping sections are movable between a closed collapsed position and an open, extended position. Each of the first, second and third telescoping section has an external surface. The tool further comprises a coating mounted to at least one of the external surfaces of the first, second or third telescoping section, the coating being formed from a tacky material. Preferably the handle includes at least one finger grip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventor: Lynn B. Severson
  • Patent number: 6339860
    Abstract: Glasses wiper structure including a clamp body, two wiping units and two fixing members. The clamp body has two clamping arms on two sides. A free end of each of the clamping arms is formed with a recess having a perforation at a certain position. The recess has a shape identical to that of the fixing member. A projecting post of the fixing member is passed from outer side to inner side of the clamping arm through the perforation thereof. A free end of the projecting post is formed with oblique engaging ribs. Each wiping unit from outer side to inner side includes a fabric material, a soft pad, a case seat and a fixing seat which are stacked together. The case seat is placed on bottom side of the soft pad and the fabric material wraps the soft pad and the case seat. The excessive peripheral fabric material is collected between the case seat and the fixing seat. The fixing seat and the case seat are respectively formed with a through hole and a blind hole corresponding to the perforation of the clamping arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Inventor: Chung-Yang M. Chen