Abstract: A washing apparatus includes a nozzle having a liquid inlet to which a liquid pump is connected for supplying a wash liquid under pressure thereto. The nozzle has an outlet for discharging the wash liquid. A hollow sweeper member is connected at one end to the outlet of the nozzle for discharging the wash liquid in a jet from the other end. The sweeper member has at the other end a sweeper portion comprising a plurality of flexible strips peripherally mounted around the other end whereby the flexible strips are caused to flutter when the jet of wash liquid is discharged from the other end.

Abstract: Tooth cleaning apparatus comprises a drive and grip part and a brush part removably attached to the drive and grip part. The drive and grip part comprises a cylindrical casing housing an electric motor. The brush part comprises an elongate shank portion which is coaxial with the drive and grip part and is removably attached at its inner end to the cylindrical casing. At its outer end the shank portion has a bearing for a removable brush rotatable about an axis perpendicular to the shank portion. A drive shaft rotatable in the shank portion is connectable at one end with the motor and at the other end has gear teeth meshing with gear teeth on the brush. One or more tubes extending through the shank portion supply fluid to the vicinity of the brush.

Abstract: A washing apparatus includes a centrifugal brake mechanism that limits a rotating speed of a rotary head supporting a ring of bristles, and also includes a mechanism which brings vanes of the rotary head into alignment with a high pressure water jet when the bristles of the washing apparatus are pressed against a surface to be washed. The device prevents excessive amounts of water from being thrown outward by the rotating bristles, yet is small enough to allow scrubbing of hard-to-reach portions of, for example, a car surface.

Abstract: A washing apparatus includes a nozzle having a liquid inlet to which a liquid pump is connected for supplying a wash liquid under pressure thereto. The nozzle has an outlet for discharging the wash liquid. A hollow sweeper member is connected at one end to the outlet of the nozzle for discharging the wash liquid in a jet from the other end. The sweeper member has at the other end a sweeper portion comprising a plurality of flexible strips peripherally mounted around the other end whereby the flexible strips are caused to flutter when the jet of wash liquid is discharged from the other end.

Abstract: A detergent dispenser for a brush having a rotatable impeller driven by a jet of water. The dispenser has a tank connected to a valve having a blade positioned to intercept the flow of water around the impeller, part of the water passing into the tank to be mixed with the detergent to be dispensed into the flow of water around the impeller prior to the jet of water driving the impeller.

Abstract: The water turbine provided by the present invention comprises a rotor which forms a rotor blade on one end and is bored with an exhaust liquid channel on the center of the axis to open to the center of the rotor blade, an inner casing which is bored with a nozzle on the circumference thereof and which supports said rotor in a manner to surround the rotor blade of the rotor and an outer casing having a liquid inlet port which defines a pressure chamber with the inner casing, and can be made so compact as to be held in a hand. The brush head for the pipe cleaning device which utilizes the water turbine as a driving source is so constructed that a brush is formed on an end of the rotor of the water turbine wherein the dirt or scale adhered to the inner surface of a pipe are peeled off with a rapidly revolving brush and then washed away with the pressurized liquid which has been used for revolving the water turbine.

Abstract: A plastic housing shell has two spaced apart bosses in it and first and second shafts extend in parallelism from the bosses. A turbine rotor has a bore that fits loosely over the first shaft and has a concentric first pinion with the same oversized bore. A gear and an integral pinion are journaled on the second shaft. The gear meshes with the pinion on the turbine rotor and the pinion on the gear meshes with a gear on a base ring of a rotary brush. The gear on the brush ring has a bored cylindrical shaft extending axially from it which slips over the first shaft for the brush to rotate on it while the periphery of the cylindrical shaft fits into the bore of the pinion and rotor so the rotor is journaled on said cylindrical shaft. Springy latch prongs engage a cover through which the brush extends so said cover retains all of the brush assembly parts in assembled condition. No other fasteners are required. A conduit that supplies the water jet for driving the turbine serves as a handle for the brush.

Abstract: A scrubber assembly including a housing having first and second remote sides is provided and the housing includes rotary scrubber structure journalled therefrom facing and disposed outwardly of the first side of the housing. The second side of the housing includes liquid inlet structure and the housing contains a liquid driven motor including a rotary output shaft upon which the scrubber structure is mounted. The housing includes a liquid outlet structure and the motor is operative to receive liquid under pressure from the inlet structure, to discharge liquid from the liquid outlet structure and to develop rotary torque input to the shaft as a result of liquid flow therethrough from the inlet structure to the outlet structure.

Abstract: A brush for cleaning and washing surfaces with a scrubbing action, the brush having bristles mounted on a body. The body houses a freely rotatable turbine wheel driven by a jet of water. The turbine wheel is eccentrically weighted so that as it rotates it imparts to the body of the brush and the bristles in a vibrating motion.

Abstract: A hand operated combination handle and control valve assembly applicable to each of three related cleaning devices. The valve, when attached to a standard pressurized water hose, controls the pressure flow as desired; such as off, pressure to a first outlet port, pressure to both the first and second outlet ports, and finally, pressure to only the second outlet port. A first scrubbing device consists of the handle/valve attached to a pair of water passage tubes assembled to receive pressurized water to impart rotational motion to a turbine operated, planetary gear reduction driven scrubbing brush and also to rinse the soap residue of the scrubbing operation. A second scrubbing device consists of the handle/valve attached directly to a housing which directs pressurized water to a nozzle to wet or rinse an object and also through an inclined orifice to impart rotational motion to a water turbine attached to a central shaft designed to receive a scrubbing brush, such as a bottle brush.

Abstract: A brush is disclosed having an elongated hollow handle and an integrally-secured casing. The casing has a shaft to which is rotatably secured a paddle wheel. The latter has a bottom surface to which are secured a plurality of bristles. The handle contains a water feed pipe which terminates in a nozzle inside the casing adapted to direct the water stream onto the paddle wheel. A liquid soap-dispensing means is provided in the shaft.

Abstract: A hand-held buffing-polishing machine wherein a driven shaft which rotates a pliable buffing or polishing working medium is hollow, and a liquid agent facilitating buffing or polishing is coupled to the hollow shaft through a collar around the shaft and thence to the working medium and work piece.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device, intended primarily for home use, for both vacuuming and scrubbing facial skin surfaces to remove oils and debris from the skin. The device is adapted for attachment to a conventional water outlet and comprises a Venturi tube to which is attached a housing overlying the throat suction aperture of the tube. The housing accommodates a turbine rotor which is rotated by the flow of water through the Venturi throat and the rotor drives a remote facial brush. Coaxial with the rotor is a vacuum controlling rotor which may deliver continuous or pulsating vacuum. When producing pulsating vacuum, the rotor periodically interrupts or pulses the vacuum produced in the housing which, via a flexible tube, is utilized by a remote vacuum head applied by the user to his facial surfaces.

Abstract: A water vortex brush has a rotor connected with a brush member and rotatable by a water supplied to the rotor and exiting from the brush member. The water forms a vortex in the interior of the rotor, and the latter is provided with an opening communicating with outside air so that the outside air is aspirated by a negative pressure existing in the central area of the rotor and thereby nullifies the same. The brush has water discharge openings radially offset relative to the air aspirating opening. A rotatable and angularly bent handle, forming simultaneously a water supply conduit, is provided. The bristles of the brush member are selected so as to form a very thin layer at their periphery under the action of a centrifugal force during the operation of the brush.

Abstract: The invention provides a water-driven brush in the form of a hand-held unit having a water inlet that can be connected to a sink faucet to provide a power source for a rotary brush that can be used for scrubbing plates or pots in the sink. A portion of the water is deflected onto the brush to facilitate the operation and the major water discharge through a main outlet can be used for rinsing the plates or pots.

Abstract: A battery operated, rotary powered washing and polishing wand is disclosed which has an elongated rigid tubular shaft and a coaxial flexible drive shaft which permits the incorporation of a bend in the shaft and the swiveling of a disc mounted at the bent end of said shaft. Fluid can be supplied through the interior of said shaft to the disc for discharge therefrom along with aspirated additives such as soap.

Abstract: A water-powered brush having a rotatable wheel powered by a water jet connected to an external source of water under pressure. The wheel rotates the outer end of a shaft positively connected to a ring gear about a brush that is rotatably mounted to the enclosure of the apparatus about an axis parallel to the wheel axis. Exhausted water from the enclosure is delivered through the center of the rotating brush.

Abstract: This invention is a burnishing brush structure operable to supply material such as paint pigments to a paper surface at the center of a rotating brush member which forces the pigments into the paper to achieve an artistic result. The burnishing brush structure includes (1) a main housing assembly to be held in a person's hand; (2) a power drive assembly to drive the rotating brush member; (3) a pigment brush and container assembly to supply the rotating brush member with material to be burnished; and (4) a power supply and actuator control assembly to (a) control rotating speed of the brush member; and (b) control supply of the material to the rotating brush member.

Abstract: This apparatus for applying a pasty or similar product by means of a rotary coating pad carried by a cartridge comprises a motor for driving this cartridge through gears. The cartridge encloses a piston adapted to slide freely in the cartridge bore and pneumatic or other means, preferably a pump, are incorporated in the apparatus case for exerting a pressure against the inner end of the piston and thus force the product out through the coating pad. This pad has a two-portion structure so that the cartridge can easily be filled or refilled through this pad, the apparatus being particularly but not exclusively suited for applying boot-polish or like products.

Abstract: A rotor assembly, including a circular spatter shield carrying a cylindrical brush element, is rotatably carried proximate one end of a hollow handle, the other end of which is connectable to a source of pressurized fluid. Delivery tubes extending from the handle direct the liquid against a row of inwardly directed impeller blades carried by the shield to force rotation of the rotor assembly. A fluid impervious flexible skirt coaxially encircles the brush element. A second brush element is stationarily secured to the handle coaxially within the rotor actuated brush element.

Abstract: A scrubber head has a handle with connections for parallel hoses to an adaptor which is interposed between a shower supply line and a shower head. A first valve in the scrubber head prevents water flow to the scrubber head or to the shower head. A second valve selectively flows water to a channel to turn a power disc. A parallel connected scrubber disc has a surface cover with microhook or loop-type fasteners to hold complementary fasteners on an annular scrubber pad. An annular sponge is mounted on a ring on the head outward of the scrubber pad for preventing splashes. The second valve may direct water through the channel and a spray head mounted centrally in the discs or back to the shower head.

Abstract: A water powered cleaning device is disclosed with particular utility for car washing. The hand held device has a motor powered by water supplied under pressure, which motor operates a rotary brush lubricated by water flowing through the motor. A water switching arrangement permits selection of direct water spray from the device or brush rotation, which is adapted to remove dirt and film left after completion of the spraying operation. In one primary form of use of the device, the user carries the device to a conventional self-service car wash facility, attaches the device to the metal pipe outlet, wherein water under pressure is furnished.

Abstract: A car washing aid incorporates an extended drive shaft within a tubular housing attached at one end to a handle assembly, and at the other end to a wash head cover. A motor supported by the handle assembly drives one end of the drive shaft, and a rotatable brush support is driven by the other end of the shaft, rotating relative to the wash head cover. A hose supplies water into a chamber defined between the wash head cover and the brush support, and perforations in the brush support allow the water to be ejected into the brush.

Abstract: A shower massage head having rotating brushes and an outlet for a shower including intake and outlet conduits connected to a rotor. The rotor blades are so arranged that they do not extend to the center of the rotor thereby providing relief against back pressure on the rotor blades that would slow the rotor. The rotor is also eccentrically mounted adjacent to an inlet port so that as the rotor is rotated by the water input the eccentric mounting causes a rapidly increasing cross-sectional path for the exit of water at the periphery of the rotor. A gate valve is provided in the exit section so that all of the water which is operated at the brush or rotor may be exhausted or all of the water may be directed to a shower head or a division may be made between exhaust and shower head to control the shower head flow. Various other attachments may be used including an eccentrically mounted massaging device operated by the rotor from a platform connected to the rotor having an eccentric drive stub shaft.

Abstract: In abstract a preferred embodiment of this invention is a multipurpose cleaning device which can be used as a bath and tile scrubbing device, can be used for cleaning the interior of toilet bowls and other hard to reach locations as well as being adapted for use in conjunction with floors, walls, ceilings and the like. The device is in the form of an encapsulated motor or engine which is preferably at least water resistant in construction and has a removable longitudinally extending handle as well as laterally disposed gripping means. Dispensing means are also included in the present invention as are a plurality of different shaped scrubbing means.

Abstract: An improved apparatus, particularly applicable for shampooing corners of wall-to-wall carpeting comprises an elongated, hand gripped shaft in two segments structured to allow the apparatus to be pointed into the corners of such carpeting, a container secured to the shaft to store shampoo for use in the apparatus; a rotatable brush secured to the shaft acting to contact and clean the carpeting; and a conduit providing shampoo from the container to the brush. A system which allows the operator to control when and how much shampoo is released from the container is also disclosed.

Abstract: A rotary-brush device comprising a downwardly open flat housing closed at its bottom by a cover threaded into this housing and defining a chamber in which a disk having edge-fixed vanes is received. The disk is propelled by a water jet trained on the vanes from a nipple formed on the housing and directed to the flat chamber receiving the disk. The disk is connected to a hollow shaft which rides in a recess formed in the top of this housing and in a bore of the cover, a threaded lower end of the hollow shaft carrying a rotary brush. A hollow shaft has an opening communicating with the chamber. The upper wall of the housing is provided with a passage communicating with a compartment above this wall closed by a threaded cap and receiving a liquid detergent which is to be mixed with the water.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for projecting a fluid product comprising a casing containing the fluid product, a working head rotatably mounted thereon, a hollow shaft jointly rotatable with the working head, an oscillating plate mounted in the casing and jointly rotatable with the hollow shaft, the end portions of the plate extending in confronting relationship to an electro-magnet secured to the casing and imparting to the working head an alternating rotary motion.

Abstract: A battery-driven cleaning device has a pair of rotary attachments for brushing, scrubbing or buffing and is made primarily of inexpensive molded plastic parts. The device can work with or without a detachable reservoir unit which dispenses a cleaning agent.

Abstract: A water powered operable appliance method and apparatus in a water main line flow by an off-chute water line from the main line remote from the main line discharge end, and operated by the entire water flow through the off-chute line and then return of said entire water flow by the off-chute line to the main line remote from the main line discharge end, and an optional manually operable shut-off valve associated with the off-chute line adapted for preventing such water flow through the off-chute line on use of the entire water flow through the main line.

Abstract: A hand-manipulated rotary brush mechanism employs flywheel gear means and associated gear assembly means to provide rotary motion for brush applicator means, said flywheel gear means providing suitable blade means thereon which are projected into the flow path of a continuous fluid flow stream as channeled through the rotary brush mechanism, and said flywheel gear means being larger and heavier than and combined with the associated gear assembly means which directly supply the rotary motion of the brush applicator for the purpose of providing opposition against and moderation through inertia of movement of any fluctuation of rotational speed of the brush applicator.

Abstract: A hydraulic motor has a sliding-vane circular rotor disposed in a substantially elliptically cylindrical rotor chamber formed in a body to which the rotor is rotatably mounted so as to define a pair of diametrically opposed arcuate work cavities. Working fluid is introduced under pressure to each of the cavities via an inlet port, and spent working liquid is withdrawn from each cavity via an exit port. Each exit port is displaced angularly from the inlet port in the direction of rotation of the rotor. The rotor carries a sufficient number of radially movable, spring biased vanes, which are slidably engageable with the walls of the chamber, that at least one vane is always disposed in cavity-dividing position in each cavity for application thereto of pressure of liquid in the cavity between the vane and the inlet port. Working liquid pressure is applied to the vane to urge the vane toward the outlet port and to turn the rotor about an axis of rotation thereof.

Abstract: A housing has an inlet opening and a plurality of mutually spaced outlet openings spaced from the inlet opening. The housing has watertight ducts extending from the inlet opening to the outlet openings whereby water under pressure supplied to the inlet opening is provided at the outlet openings. A brush is rotatably mounted on the housing at the outlet openings in a manner whereby water from the outlet openings is provided around the brush. A hydro motor in the housing is coupled to the brush whereby a flow of water through the ducts rotates the hydro motor and thereby rotates the brush.

Abstract: A turbine wheel in the cavity of a turbine housing is driven by liquid, ordinarily water, introduced into the housing through a conduit which can draw the liquid from a reservoir. The turbine wheel is rotatable on a shaft which is attached to the housing and extends downward through the housing to a position below the housing where a brush is rotatable on the shaft. The brush is driven by the turbine through an arrangement of gears. Openings through the turbine housing are positioned to permit the water passing through the housing to flow downward in a 360.degree. circle around the exterior of the brush. The turbine functions as an air pump drawing air into the housing which aids in forcing the water out the exit openings so that less water volume and pressure is required to force the water out in the 360.degree. circle than would otherwise be necessary.

Abstract: A housing has a pistol type grip with a trigger-operated valve located inside it. The housing is attached to one end of a flexible hollow hose that is detachably secured to a water fawcet. A shaft, rotatably secured in the housing, is caused to rotate by water pressure when the valve is opened. Various kinds of scrubbing devices can be detachably secured to the shaft, for use in scrubbing dishes.

Abstract: Rotary toothbrushes herein disclosed comprise an elongate horizontal tubular barrel with a depending rearward handle. At the barrel forward part is a pair of upright rotary brushes with the bristles extending transversely inwardly toward the barrel and revolvably secured thereto with a common axle means so that the twin-brushes rotate in co-angular unison. There are bi-directional powering means, and preferably manual, to cause the twin-brushes to move in alternating angular directions whereby bucal and lingual sides of upper and lower teeth are simultaneously swept. Specially arrayed bristles promote efficacious sweeping and cleaning to the teeth and gingival surfaces. Aptly positioned stationary brushes might be on the barrel between the rotary brushes. Dental hygiene liquids can be stored within the hollow handle and controllably deliverable therefrom along tubular plumbing having a lead-end extending toward one or both twin-brushes.

Abstract: An electrically driven hand-held apparatus, for applying a treating material, such as wax, to a surface and for subsequently buffing up the surface or working the treating material thereinto, has a central applicator element surrounded by an annular buffing or brushing element, these elements being relatively displaceable axially so as to present one or the other in a projecting working position. The elements are rotatable by a bi-directional motor, and are coupled by an arrangement which ensures that reversing the direction of rotation automatically causes the relative axial displacement of the two elements. The applicator element may have a reservoir for the treating product, and a spring-loaded feed piston therein. The reservoir may have a valved inlet, and a stem may be inserted for filling the reservoir from an aerosol can. The applicator element and the buffing or brushing element may be removable and replaceable as an assembly.

Abstract: A surface washing tool including a tubing element affixed to a garden hose or the like, a housing affixed to the tubing element and a brush member rotatably affixed within the housing. A valve means directs the flow of water from the tubing element out the bottom of the housing and against the brush member imparting rotation thereto.

Abstract: The main disclosure herein relates to a manually-operated washing device, particularly but not necessarily for automative vehicles, which includes an attachable portion that can be quickly clamped to the wand of a coin-operated car-wash unit for enabling a car-owner to wash his car manually in a unique procedure in less than ten minutes with all dirt removed and the least scratching of any wash. The car-wash device includes novel clamping mechanism and other means to enable quick attachment of the attachable portion to the wand while accommodating almost all shapes thereof now in service. A separate garden-hose wand can be included in the device, so the attachable portion can be clamped thereto for performing the fast but excellent car-wash at home (at no cost) exactly as at the coin-wash.

Abstract: A massaging apparatus comprises a casing provided with a handle, inside which casing there is housed a small electric motor capable of imparting to its shaft a movement consisting of rotary oscillations. Onto one end of the shaft of the motor there is removably mounted a circular brush. Onto the casing of the apparatus, preferably in proximity of the handle, there is arranged a small container for lotions or other suitable liquid to be spread onto the zone of the skin undergoing the massage treatment. The liquid is conveyed from the container to a dispensing bore provided in the massaging brush through a suitable canalization, consisting of a flexible pipe. The container is bellows-shaped and made of flexible material, so that, by exerting pressure onto it, a controlled amount of liquid is conveyed to the dispensing bore in the brush.

Abstract: Liquid-projecting apparatus for cleaning various articles, the apparatus including a body forming a container and a brush member mounted thereon. Provision is made in the body for injecting the liquid in the brush member while this latter is rotating.

Abstract: A self-powered scrub brush intended for use by individuals in the cleansing of portions of their bodies, the scrub brush including a housing having a brush rotatively supported therein and projecting thereoutof, a hollow handle including a soap dispenser associated with the housing for dispensing soap thereinto, a valve for controlling the dispensing of the soap from the handle into the housing, a helical spring disposed between the brush and the housing in a manner to be wound and tightened upon rotation of the brush in a first direction with the spring then powering the rotation of the brush in the opposite direction, and a cord wrapped about the brush and extending outwardly of the housing for manual rotation of the brush in a direction to wind the spring. Holes are provided in the base of the brush for discharging the soap dispensed from the handle directly into the bristles of the brush for application to the skin of an individual for cleansing the same.