Abstract: A sweeping blade assembly for attachment to a vehicle for sweeping a ground surface. The sweeping blade assembly comprises: a blade support for receiving a plurality of blades, a first row of blades and a second row of blades. Each row of blade comprising a plurality of blades which are separated from each other by a gap. The first row of blades and the second row of blades are provided beside (and parallel to) each other and positioned so that a given gap in a given row corresponds to a blade in the other row. In an embodiment, the gap is dimensioned to be smaller in width than the blades whereby a given blade in one row can have a partial overlap of two different blades in the other row. Whereby, the blades can freely move vertically and/or angularly when hitting uneven surfaces, and can be rectangular in shape, and thus reversible when the carbide on one of the edges is worn out.

Abstract: A polishing device for a metal conveyor belt suitable for an automatic conveyor line includes a holding pillar with one end fixedly provided with a bearing head, a supporting carriage fixedly connected to the bearing head, assembly supporting frames, an assembly sliding column, a polishing supporting shaft and locking mechanism. A bottom end of the holding pillar is provided with a barrier protection assembly. Both ends of the supporting carriage are respectively provided with a reciprocating assembly and two assembly supporting frames. Opposite side surfaces of the two assembly supporting frames are respectively rotatably connected with a rotating seats. Both ends of the assembly sliding column are respectively fixedly installed and in transmission connection with two rotating seats. Both ends of the assembly sliding column are respectively in transmission connection with the reciprocating assembly. The polishing supporting shaft is in transmission connection with the assembly sliding column.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a scraper (14) for scraping a surface of a machine tool having a wear-indicating device (18, 20, 24, 30) for the scraper lip (16) of the scraper. At least one signal line (18) is embedded in the scraper lip (16) in such a manner that, upon reaching the wear limit (G), at least one section of the signal line (18) is exposed.

Abstract: A rotation device includes: a rotary body having a recess in an outer peripheral surface thereof; and a brush configured to come into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotary body to remove a foreign matter adhering to the outer peripheral surface, in which the brush is separated from the outer peripheral surface of the rotary body in a state where rotation of the rotary body is stopped.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a developing roller connected to a supply channel to supply a developing agent and to transfer toner in the developing agent to a photosensitive drum at a supply position, a regulation member located adjacent to the developing roller at an upstream side of the supply position to restrict a thickness of the developing agent; and a casing that forms a release chamber in the periphery of the developing roller between an upstream side of the regulation member and a downstream side of the supply position. The release chamber includes an outlet to discharge scattered toner to an inlet of the supply channel.

Abstract: A liquid absorbing apparatus for absorbing a liquid component from an ink image formed on a transfer member before transferring the ink image to a print medium includes a liquid absorbing member configured to absorb the liquid component, a support unit configured to support the liquid absorbing member to be movable cyclically, and at least one recovery unit arranged in a moving path of the liquid absorbing member and configured to recover liquid absorption performance of the liquid absorbing member.

Abstract: A cleaning solution is used to at least substantially remove colorant from the photoconductive drum as the photoconductive drum rotates. A wiper wipes the cleaning solution from the photoconductive drum while purposefully maintaining a layer of the cleaning solution on the drum. The wiper has an edge that is purposefully rounded.

Abstract: Provided herein are 3D printing systems including, but not limited to, 3D printing systems that can, in some aspects, be configured to print multi-materials and/or 3D structures having micro-scale features. In some aspects, the 3D printing system can include a jethead, wherein the jethead can include a body portion, one or more printing material dispensers that are each coupled to one or more feedstock material reservoirs and the body portion, and at least one cleaning unit configured to clean a printed object, a printing platform, a component of an x axis cartridge, or any combination thereof. Also provided herein are scanning projection optical micro-sterolithography systems that can be configured to allow for printing micro-scale features in large scale 3D objects.

Abstract: Provided is a cleaning blade. The cleaning blade is used for removing remaining toner which remains on a surface of the target member in an electrophotographic apparatus. The cleaning blade is provided with the blade portion having the edge portion which comes into sliding contact with the target member. The edge portion includes: a substrate of the blade portion; an inner layer extending from a surface of the substrate to the inside of the substrate; and an outer layer extending from a surface of the substrate to an outer outside of the substrate. The inner layer contains at least an acrylic resin or a methacrylate resin, and has a thickness of less than 1 ?m. The outer layer contains at least an acrylic resin or a methacrylate resin, and has a thickness of 0.02 ?m or less.

Abstract: A dental prophy angle reduces the ejection of blood, dental polish, and saliva from a patient's mouth during a dental procedure. The dental prophy angle includes a drive head with an airflow generator is positioned within the drive head. The airflow generator produces an airflow pattern that exits from the drive head. A prophy cup is attached to the drive head. The airflow pattern travels over the outer surface of the prophy cup. The air flow pattern reduces the amount of material that builds up on the outer surface of the prophy cup, thereby reducing the ejection of material from the patient's mouth. In certain embodiments, the prophy cup is transparent to enable a dental practitioner to visualize the prophy paste within the prophy cup.

Abstract: A conveyor belt scraper blade includes a scraper layer supported by a support unit. The support unit has a base and at least two support fingers projecting side-by-side from the base. The fingers are arranged to flex to and from contact with a conveyor belt so as to optimise the lifetime of the scraper and minimise damage to the belt.

Abstract: Disclosed is a securing device for providing a movable unit of a linear guiding mechanism with additional safety in that the securing device prevents the movable unit from coming off a guiding rail in case of a bearing malfunction. The securing device comprises at least one securing portion and a coupling portion for coupling the at least one securing portion to the movable unit. The securing portion is engageable with the guiding rail in case of a failure of the movable unit.

Abstract: Apparatus for handling material in connection with a pneumatic material conveying system, which apparatus comprises a waste container/separating device (50), into which material is adapted to be conducted from a conveying pipe (100) of the pneumatic material conveying system via an input aperture (55) and which is adapted to be connected to means for achieving a partial vacuum.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which transfers, onto paper, a toner image formed on a belt-shaped image carrier including an elastic layer on a surface thereof, and forms an image includes a rigid blade which cleans the surface of the image carrier in contact with the image carrier which has transferred the toner image onto the paper; a roller which is upstream of the rigid blade in a rotation direction of the image carrier, and cleans the surface of the image carrier upstream of the rigid blade by coming in contact with the image carrier which has transferred the toner image onto the paper; a rigid blade holder which holds the rigid blade; and a roller holder which holds the roller. The rigid blade holder and the roller holder are installed with a gap therebetween.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a method for regulating the operation of a stripping device on a conveyor belt (1) of a conveyor belt system for transported material (6), wherein, in order to strip transported material (6) adhering to the conveyor belt (1), a stripping segment (9) of the stripping device (8) is advanced onto the conveyor belt (1) with its stripping edge (10) by an advancing drive (13) and at least the advancing force with which the advancing drive (13) advances the at least one stripping segment (9) onto the conveyor belt (1) is regulated as a regulating variable by an electronic controller (14) on the basis of the value, determined by at least one sensor (15), of at least one guide variable.

Abstract: Scraper assemblies for removing carryover material from a conveyor belt or roller are disclosed. In some embodiments, the scraper assembly includes a rotatable cam that causes a scraper blade to remove between a lowered position and a raised position in which the blade contacts a belt or roller. Movement of the blade in the raised position may be bound by a crown of the cam and a cam finger that extends from a main body of the cam.

Abstract: An automated grill cleaning system for automatically cleaning a grill in a cooker includes a cooking unit that may be used to cook. The cooking unit has a housing and a grill is positioned in the housing. The housing has an outer wall. A cleaning unit is coupled to the cooking unit and the cleaning unit is positioned on the outer wall. The cleaning unit selectively engages the grill. The cleaning unit urges itself to travel along the grill to abrade debris from the grill.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing apparatus comprising a polymer blade for scraping soap adhered to a roll mill used to make bar soaps. The manufacturing apparatus can be used to manufacture bar soaps, particularly Zinc Pyrithione (ZPT) containing bar soaps, that is characterized by enhanced discoloration resistance and/or improve anti-microbial effect.

Abstract: A connection system that is used for connecting a wiper blade to a wiper arm. The system includes a bracket, an adapter pivotally attached to the bracket and the free end of the wiper arm. The system also includes a first locking part and a second locking part, such that the first locking part fixes the arm on to the bracket and the second locking part fixes the arm on to the adapter.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a cleaning device including a cleaning member that abuts a surface of an image carrier and cleans a surface of the image carrier; a detector that detects a stain generated on the surface of the image carrier in a moving direction of the surface of the image carrier; an adjusting mechanism that adjusts a relative position between the image carrier and the cleaning member in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction; and a hardware processor that controls the relative position between the image carrier and the cleaning member by driving the adjusting mechanism based on information regarding the stain detected by the detector.

Abstract: There are provided a ball screw that more efficiently prevents accumulation and scattering of extra grease in a nut and a seal used in the ball screw. In order to do that, a grease reservoir portion is provided on an inner peripheral surface of a seal provided at an end of a nut on rear side of a moving direction of a ball screw so as to form a space with respect to a screw shaft. The grease reservoir portion is open to an outer peripheral surface of the seal and communicates with slits formed on the outer peripheral surface of the seal.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for a self-cleaning ion generator that includes a self-cleaning ion generator device that includes a bottom portion, a top portion, at least one electrode extending from the top portion, and a cleaning apparatus for cleaning the at least one electrode.

Abstract: A mechanism for mounting and adjusting a conveyor belt scraper comprises a conveyor belt assembly capable of receiving and disposing of material on a surface thereof and a structural element wherein the structural element comprises a securing member. The mechanism further comprises a belt scraper comprising a slide plate capable of slidably receiving the securing member. A release mating bracket is provided which is capable of being reversibly drawn towards a fixed mating bracket wherein at least one of the fixed mating bracket or release mating bracket comprises a recess. An orientable mandrel is received between the fixed mating bracket and the release mating bracket. A scraper assembly is attached to the orientable mandrel.

Abstract: A large-cylinder drying roller is provided with a divided hollow shaft for reasons of production. The divided hollow shaft has hollow-shaft parts which are capable of being inserted at both sides into a construction composed of a cylinder shell and caps connected thereto by a weld seam, and are capable of being thereafter connected to one another and to the caps.

Abstract: A cleaning blade includes an elastic member including a contact portion to contact the surface of a member to be cleaned and remove an extraneous matter adhering to the surface of the member. The contact portion includes a modified portion including at least one of an impregnated portion including a first cured material formed of a first curing composition in a thickness direction from the surface of the contact portion; and a surface layer formed of a second curing composition on the surface of the contact portion. The surface of the modified portion has a tack maximum value not greater than 3.0 [gf/mm2].

Abstract: A cleaning blade that contacts a cleaning target member having a cleaning target surface which moves, and cleans the cleaning target surface, includes a blade body; and a blade protrusion that is present at an end portion of a lower surface of the blade body near a distal end surface of the blade body, has a shape protruding outward in a thickness direction with respect to the lower surface, and has an inclined surface being a surface continued from the distal end surface and inclined outward in the thickness direction with respect to the lower surface and inward in a height direction with respect to the distal end surface from an end of the distal end surface near the lower surface. At least a portion of the incline surface is a contact surface that contacts the cleaning target member.

Abstract: A cooking apparatus is described including: at least one grill element including a cooking surface for supporting foodstuffs which in use are heated on the cooking surface; and a cleaning device for cleaning at least a portion of the cooking surface, the cleaning device including a surface cleaning element and a movement mechanism, the movement mechanism being arranged to move the cleaning element across the cooking surface; and at least one motor for driving the movement mechanism.

Abstract: A mounting assembly 10 for mounting a roller brush 12 onto a cleaning apparatus includes a mounting housing 14 configured to be mountable on the cleaning apparatus. The mounting housing has a through hole for receiving an idle shaft 16 that is sized to be engageable within a blind hole 42 formed in the adjacent end hub 32 of the brush 12. The idle shaft 16 is resiliently loaded in the direction toward the brush hub 12 by a loader assembly 18 which includes a compression spring 16 acting against retaining ring 48 engaged with the idle shaft 16.

Abstract: A subfloor component comprises an insulating foam panel having first and second opposing faces and a plurality of intersecting grooves in the first face to define, in cross-section, a plurality of pedestals having at least one wall extending toward the second face, a moisture-resistant layer formed on the first face of the panel that conforms to the pedestals, and a hardboard layer on the second face of the panel.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a cleaning member configured to clean a fixing member and a re-adhering member to which toner that adheres to the cleaning member is caused to re-adhere. The re-adhering member is disposed so as to face the fixing member. A surface of the cleaning member, which makes contact with the fixing member, may be constituted by a nonmetal member, and a surface of the re-adhering member, which makes contact with the cleaning member, may be constituted by a metal member.

Abstract: A scraper blade adapted to scrape off material from a conveyor belt surface, including a mounting portion at one end, and a scraper tip at the other end. The scraper blade includes by a scraper portion extending from the scraper tip and to a point adjacent to or in the mounting portion. The scraper blade includes at least one side wall which is tapered from the scraper tip towards the mounting portion. One or more scraper blades form a scraper for a conveyor belt.

Abstract: Nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus for measuring properties of a fluid stream flowing within a pipeline has one or more magnet systems for applying magnetic field to the fluid stream and also has means for inducing and observing magnetic resonance within the fluid stream as it passes through a said magnetic field. The apparatus may also include a polarizing magnetic field upstream of the magnetic field in which resonance is observed. The fluid stream may be hydrocarbon from an underground reservoir. In order to guard against accumulation of magnetisable iron debris particles entrained in the fluid flow, the apparatus comprises one or more upstream traps having a magnetic field to attract and hold solid magnetizable material and an exit path for the removal of the solid magnetizable material so that it does not continue towards any polarizing field and the field where resonance is observed.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaner, a casing, and an exit seal. The cleaner is configured to remove toner from a cleaning target. The casing accommodates the cleaner. The exit seal is attached to the casing and has a free end contacting the cleaning target at a position downward from the cleaner in a direction of movement of the cleaning target and an attached end attached to the casing. A space is disposed between a surface of the cleaning target and an opposite face of the exit seal opposite the cleaning target. The space includes an opening at a lateral end of the exit seal. The exit seal contacts the cleaning target from a trailing direction of the exit seal and seals the opening at at least an attached end side of the exit seal.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer bearing member that bears a developer, a developer regulating member having a regulation portion comprised of an elastic member contacting the developer bearing member, and a supporting portion supporting the regulation portion, a longitudinal direction of the regulation portion being along that of the developer bearing member, the regulation portion having a base portion and tip portion, the base portion being an end portion on a side of a portion connected with the supporting portion in a transverse direction, the base portion being opposite to the tip portion, the tip portion being disposed on an upstream side in a moving direction of the developer bearing member, the developer regulating member regulating a developer on the developer bearing member, and a sealing member contacting a regulation portion's surface, the surface being on an opposite side of the regulation portion to the developer bearing member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus configured to form an image with developer includes an image bearing member configured to bear an image of the developer, a developer carrying member configured to carry the developer to supply the developer to the image bearing member, and a developer supplying member configured to supply the developer to the developer carrying member. At least a part of a surface of the developer carrying member is coated with lubricant charged to the same polarity as the developer, and an absolute value of a charge amount per unit mass of the lubricant is larger than that of the developer. The image forming apparatus executes a first sequence of applying a potential difference between the developer supplying member and the developer carrying member before image formation to form an electric field to suppress movement of the charged lubricant from the developer carrying member to the developer supply member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotary fixing member cleaner that includes a freely rotatable rotary unwinding member, around which a cleaning web winds, a rotary winding member to wind the cleaning web thereon from one end thereof, and a load applicator to apply a load to the cleaning web unwound from the rotary unwinding member. The rotary fixing member cleaner removes any unnecessary substance adhering to an outer circumferential surface of the rotary fixing member therefrom by unwinding and moving the cleaning web from the rotary unwinding member in an opposite direction to a direction of movement of the outer circumferential surface of the rotary fixing member at a contacting point at which the cleaning web contacts the outer circumferential surface of the rotary fixing member. The load applicator presses against the cleaning web winding around the rotary unwinding member at a prescribed angular contact position.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cleaning blade of which a contact portion brought into contact with at least a member to be cleaned is formed of a polyurethane member that includes a polyurethane material containing a hard segment and a soft segment and has a ratio of an area occupied by a hard segment aggregate having a diameter of 0.3 ?m to 0.7 ?m in a cross section being in a range of 2% to 10%.

Abstract: A bulk material conveyor belt scraper comprises a base portion having a three-sided channel. The belt scraper also comprises a polymeric portion that protrudes outwardly from a corner of the three-sided channel. The three-sided channel of the belt scraper is adapted to engage with and partially encircles a support member having a portion with a square cross-section in a manner such that the support member is able to bias the belt scraper against a conveyor belt.

Abstract: A fixing device thermally fixes an unfixed toner image onto a recording sheet and includes: a rotatable heating element that is endless and includes a resistive heating layer that generates heat upon application of voltage; a power source for placing voltage across the resistive heating layer; an ammeter for measuring the electric current flowing through the resistive heating layer, and a controller for determining whether the resistive heating layer has a scratch by monitoring an amount of change between a value of electric current that flows through the resistive heating in absence of a scratch and a value of electric current actually measured by the ammeter. The resistive heating layer exhibits resistivity anisotropy satisfying R1<R2, where R1 and R2 denote a volume resistivity of the resistive heating layer in a direction of voltage application and that in a direction perpendicular to the direction of voltage application, respectively.

Abstract: A bulk material conveyor belt scraper comprises a base portion having a C-channel. The belt scraper also comprises a polymeric portion that protrudes outwardly from a corner of the C-channel. The C-channel of the belt scraper is adapted to engage with and partially encircle a support member having a square portion in a manner such that the support member is able to bias the belt scraper against a conveyor belt.

Abstract: A cleaning arrangement for a coater that has a plate cylinder, the cleaning arrangement having a cleaning web, a tangential moving mechanism configured to controllably move the cleaning web in at least one direction in a plane defined by the cleaning web, a radial moving mechanism configured to controllably move the cleaning web in at least one direction out of the plane, and a controller coupled to the tangential and radial moving mechanisms which is configured to control the moving of the cleaning web into and out of contact with the plate cylinder in conformity with input signals received by the controller.

Abstract: A screen cleaning system cleans debris from a material catching screen surrounded by a frame. A hollow vacuum arm which moves over the screen. The arm has a slot in a side which is adjacent to the screen. The arm includes an inner arm pivotally coupled to a duct and an outer arm which movable with respect to the inner arm. The arm is moved by an actuator mechanism which includes a first pulley coupled to a drive shaft, a second pulley coupled to an end of the arm, a belt drivingly coupling the first pulley to the second pulley. The outer arm is slidably coupled to the inner arm and a spring is biased to urge the outer arm radially inwardly. A track is formed by the frame and a roller rides along the track and is rotatably coupled to an end of the outer arm.

Abstract: A flexible scraper for a grader or other solid object processing system. The flexible scraper is adjustably mounted to a frame and contacts a rotating roller to clean the rotating roller or prevent components from wrapping around the roller, as well as maintain products within designated lanes. Connectors allow insertion and release of the scraper into and from the frame. The flexible scraper is inserted into slots in the frame and held against the rotating roller by gravity.

Abstract: A tape cleaning device includes a blade that, while touching a recording tape that is running, scrapes foreign bodies from the recording tape; a roller that touches the recording tape and rotates along with the running of the recording tape, the foreign bodies scraped off by the blade being transferred to the roller; and a removal mechanism that removes the foreign bodies that have been transferred to the roller from the roller.

Abstract: A head cleaning device includes: a wiper member formed in an elongate shape and having a wiper anchoring portion anchored so as not to move in a tape width direction; and a support member that includes a wiper entrainment portion about which the wiper member is entrained so as to double back, that causes the wiper entrainment portion to move in the tape width direction so that a surface of the wiper member at an opposite side of the wiper entrainment portion from the wiper anchoring portion wipes a head that performs at least one of writing information to, or reading information from, a recording tape.

Abstract: An apparatus for eliminating transfer streaks in a printing system is provided and comprises a hollow transfer backer bar including sealed ends. The transfer backer bar further includes a plurality of holes with the holes spaced along the photoreceptor supporting surface of the transfer backer bar. Air pressure can be applied within a hollow transfer backer bar thereby creating an air flow outward through the holes. The air flow contacts the underside of a photoreceptor and floats the photoreceptor on a thin cushion of air flow during transfer of an image to paper.

Abstract: A belt cleaning device includes a cleaning roller. The cleaning roller includes a roller having an outer peripheral surface. A sheet-like cleaning element is wound to the outer peripheral surface of the roller. One end part of the cleaning element is fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the roller. Both side edge parts in the other end part of the cleaning element are fixed to the outer peripheral surface of the roller. The both side edge parts in the other end part of the cleaning element are located on the outside of their region that is to face to possibly largest paper.

Abstract: A chain cleaner capable of cleaning dirt and debris from the roller chain of a chain driven vehicle is provided. The chain cleaner is a polymer sheet. The sheet has a leading and a trailing edge, upper and lower surfaces, and a bilateral axis defining a chain line. The chain line extends from the leading to the trailing edge. A clear slot is positioned in the sheet adjacent to the trailing edge. The slot has a predetermined height and width which is at least equal to a respective height and width of the chain to be cleaned. The chain is thereby capable of biased directional travel against the lower and upper surfaces and through the slot, along the chain line when operating the chain drive of the vehicle. The chain cleaner includes an assembly for attaching the sheet to the vehicle adjacent to the leading edge.

Abstract: An escalator step cleaner for cleaning escalator steps having a plurality of parallel tread ridges separated by tread grooves has a cleaning pad assembly configured to extend generally perpendicular to the direction of motion of the escalator steps and clean the escalator steps while the escalator is in motion. The cleaning pad assembly has a rigid upper plate and a flexible disposable bottom pad having a cleaning contact surface. The contact surface carries a plurality of spaced parallel pad ridges separated by pad grooves that matingly engage between the tread ridges of the escalator steps and cause dislodgement of the accumulated debris. The cleaning pad assembly can be secured on a hand-held cleaning tool or on a motorized cleaning tool with rotating brushes and a vacuum.

Abstract: Provided is a cleaning blade in which at least a portion which comes in contact with a member to be cleaned is configured of a member having dynamic ultra micro hardness of from 0.25 to 0.65 and an index K acquired in the following Equation (1) of equal to or more than 15: index K=[23° C. breaking elongation (%)]×[10° C. impact resilience (%)]×(?1)×[tan ? peak temperature (° C.)]/[Young's modulus (MPa)]/1000??Equation (1).