Abstract: A disk with an engagement system for a surface cleaning machine includes a disk having an upper surface, a lower surface, a perimetric edge, and a retaining cavity defined in the disk; an engaging member having a base and a perimetric wall, which is configured to be nested in the retaining cavity of the disk and to entrain an inner wall of the retaining cavity; a first metallic member housed within the disk; and a second metallic member housed within the engaging member. The first and the second metallic members are magnetically attracted to one another with a force that is larger than the gravity force of the disk and smaller than a predetermined detaching force of the disk from the engaging member.

Abstract: A cleaning assembly cleans and polishes a desired surface by using interchangeable cleaning attachments. The assembly includes a housing having a top wall and a perimeter wall attached to and extending downwardly from the top wall. A plurality of cleaning attachments is provided each having a first surface opposite a second surface. A selectable one of the cleaning attachments is removably coupled to the housing whereby the cleaning attachments are interchangeably couplable to the housing. A motor is electrically coupled to the selectable one of the cleaning attachments when the selectable one of the cleaning attachments is coupled to the housing for vibrating the selectable one of the cleaning attachments.

Abstract: A buffing pad is comprised of a hub with a central opening for attaching the same to a power buffer. The pad includes a layer of tufted wool or other fibrous buffing medium spaced from but surrounding the hub and a block of material such as a cylindrical block of foam positioned between the fibrous buffing medium and the hub. The block of material includes an aperture therethrough that is in alignment with the central opening in the hub. The dimensions of the block of material are such as to prevent tufts of the fibrous buffing medium from entering the central opening of the hub and interfering with the ability of the buffing pad to be attached to the power buffer.

Abstract: Provided is a makeup device having a gear module for reducing rotational speed. The makeup device includes: a case module including a first case and a second case detachably attached to the first case; a power supply provided in the case module; a rotary motor electrically connected to the power supply and provided in the case module; a gear module connected to a driving shaft of the rotary shaft to reduce rotational speed of the rotary motor; a brush plate exposed out of the first case and reduced to rotate by a gear ratio of the rear module and mounted with a brush; and a controller positioned in the case module and controlling rotational speed of the brush plate according to an operation of the switch.

Abstract: A tool grinder is disclosed which includes a variable speed DC motor having an output shaft, and a cutter wheel mounted on the output shaft and having a precision coating of prone superabrasive particles. The grinder preferably further includes a motor controller for governing a rotational speed of the motor between 400 rpm and 3500 rpm, preferably between 400 rpm and 2000 rpm. The motor preferably has two output shafts, respectively at opposite ends of the motor and a pair of cutter wheels, preferably having a first cutting surface parallel to an axis of rotation of the wheel and a second cutting surface perpendicular to the axis of rotation, or at an angle to the axis of rotation other than perpendicular.

Abstract: A buffing apparatus has a shaft assembly connectable to a drill or other stationary motorized buffer/polisher. A stator is fixedly mounted on the shaft and a rotor is rotatably mounted on the shaft, and each of the stator and rotor includes a respective hub and two or more arms extending radially from the respective hub, and each of the two or more arms defines a hole. A pad having first and second holes is mounted on the shaft with an arm of the stator extending through a first hole of the pad and an arm of the rotor extending through a second hole of the pad. The pads are secured in place with a connector extending through the hole of an arm of the stator and through a hole of an arm of the rotor so that the pads are sandwiched between the shaft assembly and the connectors.

Abstract: A floor care machine is provided that includes a replaceable floor care element that is quickly and easily attached and detached. To attach the floor care element, an operator positions the floor care element under a motor and lifts the element up to a motor interface. The motor interface aligns with a complementary interface of the floor care element.

Abstract: A quick release attachment for a power tool having a rotatable spindle includes a pad assembly and a quick release connector adapted to join the pad assembly to the spindle. The pad assembly includes a mounting plate and a pad affixed to at least one side of the mounting plate, wherein the pad includes a primary material that is either metal, stone, ceramic, fiber, sand, nylon or polypropylene, and the mounting plate includes a central aperture. The mounting plate aperture further comprises a circular ring disposed therein and has a t-shaped key extending diametrically across the aperture. The t-shaped key comprises a magnetically attractive material. The quick release connector has a main body adapted to fixedly engage the spindle. The connector further has a head end extending from the main body and having a circular cross-section sized to engage the circular ring. The head end further has a slot sized to engage the t-shaped key.

Abstract: In general, a Buffing Pad Centering System (“BPCS”) for centering a back plate having an edge and a front surface is described. In an example of an implementation of the BPCS, the BPCS may include a centering ring having a top boundary and a bottom boundary and a buffing pad attached to the bottom boundary of the centering ring, where the centering ring is centered on the buffing pad. The centering ring may include a cylindrical vertical member extending between the top boundary and bottom boundary, where the cylindrical vertical member has an inner cylindrical surface and an outer cylindrical surface, and where the inner cylindrical surface is capable of snuggly receiving the back plate.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for picking up stickers in grassy or other ground areas. A roller is rotatably mounted on a frame and a stretchable fabric is removably mounted and stretched on an outer surface of the roller. The fabric is of a construction and thickness to pick up stickers as the roller is moved by the frame and rotated in engagement with a grassy or other ground surface. When the fabric is full of stickers, it is removed from the roller and replaced with a new unused stretchable fabric that is removably mounted on the roller.

Abstract: A helical rotary brush for motor vehicle washing systems comprising a plurality of strips coupled to a central support element, through restrained joint coupling means, comprising slots designed for receiving suitably contoured bar elements, said slots being arranged with an helical arrangement on the central support element.

Abstract: A rotary buffing and finishing system includes a polymeric foam cushioning layer that has a graded compression load deflection which is interposed between a backing plate and a relatively thin performance layer that is removably attached to the foam cushioning layer. The backing plate is flexible but has a compression load deflection greater than the cushioning layer, and the cushioning layer includes two foam layers of graded compression load deflection that decreases from a rear face to a front face. The system provides improved performance over thicker and more expensive performance layers while reducing operator fatigue.

Abstract: A novel paint roller “cage” having improved tracking and ease of use is adapted for receiving different length axle shafts of various sizes of paint roller frames. An outer tubular support, upon which a paint roller cover or other paint absorbing material may be mounted, contains a pair of support bearings secured at either end of an inner tubular chassis, with one support bearing at a first end of the outer tubular support, and the other support bearing at approximately its mid point. The two support bearings are connected by an inner tubular chassis, which both maintains the two bearings at a desired axial spacing and also holds the walls and radial bearing surfaces of a bushing chamber that is integrally molded with each support bearing in proper position about a tubular bushing that is adapted to be frictionally secured to the axle shaft. In one embodiment, the outer tubular support has a diameter of about 1? and a length of about 9?, and can be used with both 6.5? and 9? roller frames.

Abstract: A brush module (6) for a rotating grinding brush, said brush module comprising: an elongate body part (7); at least one abrasive cloth (9) protruding from the body part (7); a plurality of bristles (8) extending from the body part (7) essentially in the same direction as the abrasive cloth (9). The body part (7) is provided with an undercut, longitudinally extending guide (13), and at an edge the abrasive cloth (9) is provided with a protruding head (15) that is complementary with the undercut groove (13) to the effect that the undercut guide (13) and the protruding bead (15) constitute complementary mechanical interconnecting means for releasable mounting of the abrasive cloth (9) on the body part (7). The protruding bead (15) is provided on a holder (14) comprising two flaps (16, 17), between which an edge of the abrasive cloth (9) is securely clamped. Besides, use of such abrasive cloth (9) in a rotating grinding brush with or without brush module.

Abstract: A rotary eraser assembly includes a rotary eraser, two discs, a threaded bolt and a nut. The rotary eraser includes, in each of two opposite sides, a cavity in communication with the aperture and at least one recess in the wall of the cavity. Each of the discs includes an annular lip disposed in the cavity in a related one of the sides of the rotary eraser and at least one block disposed in the recess in the related side of the rotary eraser. The threaded bolt is inserted through the rotary eraser and the discs. The nut is engaged with threaded bolt.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a washing brush for automatic motor vehicle washing systems, comprising a cylindric body on the side outer surface thereof are provided a plurality of bands defining the cleaning elements of the brush. The main feature of the invention is that the band or strip elements extend on the side surface of the cylindric body along direction which are inclined with respect to the axial direction.

Abstract: A buffing ball is formed by compressing a stack of generally circular buffing pads along a central axis. The individual pads have a generally wave-like outer peripheral surface having valleys and mounds. When compressed together, the mounds form small knobs that are ideal for buffing or cleaning intricate surfaces.

Abstract: In general, a Buffing Pad Centering System (“BPCS”) for centering a back plate having an edge and a front surface is described. In an example of an implementation of the BPCS, the BPCS may include a centering ring having a top boundary and a bottom boundary and a buffing pad attached to the bottom boundary of the centering ring, where the centering ring is centered on the buffing pad. The centering ring may include a cylindrical vertical member extending between the top boundary and bottom boundary, where the cylindrical vertical member has an inner cylindrical surface and an outer cylindrical surface, and where the inner cylindrical surface is capable of snuggly receiving the back plate.

Abstract: A quick release attachment for a power buffer having a rotatable spindle includes a buffing pad assembly and a quick release connector adapted to join the buffing pad assembly to the spindle. The buffing pad assembly includes a mounting plate and a buffing pad affixed to either side of the mounting plate. The mounting plate and the buffing pads each have respective aligned central apertures. The mounting plate aperture further comprises a circular ring disposed therein and has a pin extending diametrically across the aperture. The pin comprises a magnetically attractive material. The quick release connector has a main body adapted to fixedly engage the spindle. The connector further has a head end extending from the main body and having a circular cross-section sized to engage the circular ring. The head end further has a slot sized to engage the pin.

Abstract: A cloth-type vehicle laundering implement includes a support mechanism consisting of a rotatable drive shaft and a plurality of generally parallel, adjacently arranged spacers mounted on the support mechanism. Each of the plurality of spacers includes a first face and a second face. The implement includes a plurality of individual circular fabric disk elements disposed between the first face of one of the plurality of spacers and the second face of another of the plurality of spacers. Each of the plurality of individual circular fabric disk elements extends outwardly beyond the spacers. Each of the individual circular fabric disk elements consists of a single piece of non-woven material having an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The inner diameter is retained in a single plane by a securing mechanism such that more material is located adjacent the inner diameter than the outer diameter to provide a more rigid element.

Abstract: A cleaner is disclosed, by which a floorcloth is attached to a correct position on a bottom of the cleaner, and by which a floorcloth can be attached to a correct position without turning a cleaner body upside down, thereby preventing a hazardous condition. The present invention includes a body configured as a cleaner head, an electric magnet provided adjacent to one side of a bottom of the body to generate a magnetic field during application of an electrical signal, and a floorcloth having a conductive body provided at a position opposing the electric magnet.

Abstract: A buffing-polishing tool that attaches to a hand held drill, pneumatic tool or similar machine and may be pre-impregnated with a polishing or buffing compound for cleaning, buffing or polishing wheels, decorative trim and exhaust pipes of cars, trucks, motorcycles and other vehicles, wherein the buffing-polishing tool comprises a pad formed by a foam core and covered with soft cloth or a compressed pad of fiber, a shaft for supporting the pad and mounting it do a drill or similar buffing-polishing machine.

Abstract: A quick release attachment for a power tool having a rotatable spindle includes a pad assembly and a quick release connector adapted to join the pad assembly to the spindle. The pad assembly includes a mounting plate and a pad affixed to at least one side of the mounting plate, wherein the pad includes a primary material that is either metal, stone, ceramic, fiber, sand, nylon or polypropylene, and the mounting plate includes a central aperture. The mounting plate aperture further comprises a circular ring disposed therein and has a t-shaped key extending diametrically across the aperture. The t-shaped key comprises a magnetically attractive material. The quick release connector has a main body adapted to fixedly engage the spindle. The connector further has a head end extending from the main body and having a circular cross-section sized to engage the circular ring. The head end further has a slot sized to engage the t-shaped key.

Abstract: A motorized scrubbing implement for cleaning a surface with contours is disclosed. The scrubbing implement includes a resilient base that includes a plurality of resilient fingers, each of which extend radially away from center of the base. A rigid cap comprises an inside upper end and a wider open lower end. The cap preferably includes a handle receiving means pivotally fixed to the cap for receiving a threaded end of an elongated handle. A flexible pad is included that comprises a cleaning surface on a lower side thereof. The pad has a peripheral lip forming an aperture in the pad for receiving the distal ends of each finger of the base. A rotational scrubbing surface driven by a motor projects through a central aperture in the pad.

Abstract: A rotary buffing and finishing system includes a polymeric foam cushioning layer that has a graded compression load deflection which is interposed between a backing plate and a relatively thin performance layer that is removably attached to the foam cushioning layer. The backing plate is flexible but has a compression load deflection greater than the cushioning layer, and the cushioning layer includes two foam layers of graded compression load deflection that decreases from a rear face to a front face. The system provides improved performance over thicker and more expensive performance layers while reducing operator fatigue.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes a handle, a support coupled to the handle and a cleaning element mountable on the support. The support is fixed to the handle or is rotatably coupled to the handle for rotation by a drive motor mounted in the handle. The cleaning element may include bristles extending from a flexible mat fixed about the support or about a core mountable on the support. A cleaning sheet is windable about the support, the core or the cleaning element, including over and through the bristles, for dual cleaning action.

Abstract: Apparatus for the quick and easy releasable attachment of any applicator to the operative head of any massage machine including a generally annular first plate threaded for permanent attachment to the massage machine head, the first plate including a series of openings formed therein and spaced at equal distances around the first plate, and a second plate for positioning on the top surface of the first plate and releasably attached to the base plate by hook and loop fastener, the second plate having the applicators attached at the top surface and including a series of studs spaced at equal distances around, and extending downward from, the bottom surface of the second plate so that the studs engage the openings in the first plate to appropriately align the first plate and the second plate and to resist dislodgement of the second plate, and the attached applicator, by eccentric forces incurred during use.

Abstract: A cleaning device has a cleaning element having an axis, an axial inner region and an axial outer region and being formed so that at least the axially outer region is bendable to follow a shape of a surface to be cleaned when pressed against the surface, a holding element which is substantially more rigid than the cleaning element so as to hold the cleaning element, and a connecting element which releasably connects the cleaning element to the holding element so that after use of the cleaning element the cleaning element can be disconnected from the holding element and removed, to install in the cleaning device a new cleaning element or to clean a used cleaning element and to install it in the cleaning device again.

Abstract: A rotary tool used with a pneumatic or an electric drill, for polishing truck wheels, adjacent the in-situ nuts, has a chuck mounted on a driving shaft, the chuck including an outer cylindrical housing, a centre housing with a replaceable guide bushing, and an annular interior passage containing a projecting flexible, fabric polishing sleeve. The guide bushing slides in centering relation over a wheel nut. The annular fabric sleeve protrudes beyond the front of the tool, and radially outwardly, to engage and polish the skirt of the nut and a surrounding portion of the wheel, with pre-applied polishing compound.

Abstract: A quick release attachment for a power buffer having a rotatable spindle includes a buffing pad assembly and a quick release connector adapted to join the buffing pad assembly to the spindle. The buffing pad assembly includes a mounting plate and a buffing pad affixed to either side of the mounting plate. The mounting plate and the buffing pads each have respective aligned central apertures. The mounting plate aperture further comprises a circular ring disposed therein and has a pin extending diametrically across the aperture. The pin comprises a magnetically attractive material. The quick release connector has a main body adapted to fixedly engage the spindle. The connector further has a head end extending from the main body and having a circular cross-section sized to engage the circular ring. The head end further has a slot sized to engage the pin.

Abstract: A polishing, buffing, compounding, and cleaning device incorporating rotary motion. The outer body of the invention includes two components. At least one of the components has a base and a plurality of projection members extending in a uniform direction away from the base. Projection members are spatially separated from one another, creating space in between each pair of adjacent projection members. At least one of the components is able to receive the projection members, thereby coupling the two components and forming the outer body. A plurality of extending material, such as disposable cloth or shop towels, is inserted in the empty space in between the projection members, such that both ends of each extending material extends radially from the central body. In one variation, the outer body is connected to rotary machinery, such as a drill, via a rotation rod extending from the outer body, to the rotary machinery, so as to provide rotary motion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fabric-strip curtain for car wash installations, comprising a support bar (2) that is displace back and forth, on which cleaning strips (3) consisting of a cleaning textile are hung next to one another, each of the strips being provided with loops (5), which encompass the support bar (2) and are formed by fixing strips (6) that lengthen the top of the cleaning strips (4). The aim of the invention is to be able to replace each individual cleaning stip independently of the other neighbouring strips arranged on the support bar in a fabric-strip curtain of this type. To achieve this, one end of the fixing strip (6) is permanently fixed to the cleaning strip (4) and the opposite end is provided with a fixing element (8) for detachably attaching to the fixing strip (6) above the area (7) that is fixed to the cleaning strip (4).

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes a handle, a support rotatably coupled to the handle for rotation by a drive motor mounted in the handle and a cleaning element mountable on the support. The cleaning element a flexible mat fixed about the support or about a core mountable on the support. An auxiliary cleaning element attachment may be mounted on the end wall of the support. A liquid container may be mounted in the support or used to form the support to dispense fluid to the cleaning element disposed about the support.

Abstract: A polishing, buffing, compounding, and cleaning device incorporating rotary motion. The outer body of the invention includes two components. At least one of the components has a base and a plurality of projection members extending in a uniform direction away from the base. Projection members are spatially separated from one another, creating space in between each pair of adjacent projection members. At least one of the components is able to receive the projection members, thereby coupling the two components and forming the outer body. A plurality of extending material, such as disposable cloth or shop towels, is inserted in the empty space in between the projection members, such that both ends of each extending material extends radially from the central body. In one variation, the outer body is connected to rotary machinery, such as a drill, via a rotation rod extending from the outer body, to the rotary machinery, so as to provide rotary motion.

Abstract: A cleaning device for use in a substrate cleaning apparatus is disclosed. The cleaning device includes a cleaning member brought into contact with a surface of a substrate to be cleaned, and a cleaning member holding mechanism for holding the cleaning member. The cleaning member holding mechanism includes a holding member (sleeve) having a lower portion split into a plurality of chuck jaws, and a ring member fitted onto the outer periphery of the holding member. An end portion of the cleaning member is inserted into an insertion hole formed by the chuck jaws, and the ring member is fitted onto the outer periphery of the holding member, thereby holding the cleaning member with the chuck jaws. That is, the cleaning member holding mechanism has a collet chuck structure.

Abstract: Polishing disk with short fiber pile layer with strong binding in a holding layer. A burr adhesion layer is installed on the back side of the polishing disk.

Abstract: A hub is disclosed for supporting and retaining at least one surface conditioning article relative to and spaced apart from a rotary shaft. The hub may be a hub of a brush assembly. The hub includes an arbor tube and a pair of plates. Shoulders are provided on the arbor tube and the plates are coupled to the arbor tube at a pre-determined distance set by shoulders. The surface conditioning article is provided between the plates. Since the distance between the plates is set by the shoulders, the density of the surface conditioning article between the face plates also is predetermined. The plates may include a key-shaped region with a circular portion and a keyseat. An adapter also may be provided. The adapter is configured and dimensioned to be engaged in the key-shaped region, permitting a shaft having a smaller diameter to be coupled to the hub.

Abstract: A buffing pad assembly is provided for buffing, polishing or otherwise finishing a painted surface. The buffing pad assembly includes a rigid backing mount, a back-up pad affixed to the backing mount, and a buffing pad removably attached to the back-up pad by way of fastening material provided on the back-up pad and the buffing pad. The buffing pad has a number of channels extending completely through the pad to facilitate dissipation of heat generated by friction during use of the buffing pad. The back-up pad and the fastening material are designed to accommodate the heat dissipation channels in the buffing pad so that the channels are substantially unobstructed. Additionally, a centering system is provided on the buffing pad assembly to facilitate alignment of the buffing pad during use.

Abstract: An assembly of buff or brush wheels with or without spacers is stacked, compressed, and held together as an integrated unit to form an assembly of such wheels having a specified face width which then may be mounted as a unit on a machine arbor or drive shaft. The assembly is held together in such a manner that the ganged stack is yieldable and may be further compressed when assembled on the machine arbor. The assembly may also be slightly expanded to obtain a better fit on the machine. The wheel assembly in one form is held at the desired face width by adjustable ties extending through paired holes in core plates in the wheels. In another embodiment carriage bolts extending through the core plates form adjustable screw clamps.

Abstract: A surface treatment apparatus comprising in combination a carrier hub having uniformly spaced parallel slots with narrow outwardly extending openings to receive the aligned heads of a unitary flange like retainer on which are removably mounted a plurality of folded cloth like surface contacting elements. The elements are preferably formed of pliable foam plastic sheeting. This particular arrangement obviates the need for stapling or stitching the cloth like elements.