Abstract: An air wiper for an automobile is disposed near a viewing surface on which adhering substances are to be removed, and is provided with an air jet section having at least one air jet port. Air is discharged toward the surface and the adhered substances on the viewing surface are removed. The air jet port can be moved in a pivoting or rotating manner so that the air can be jetted over substantially the whole surface of part.

Abstract: This invention concerns a process for removing liquid and/or solid impurities adhering to a workpiece (6), in particular oils, emulsions and/or chips, the workpiece (6) being secured in an apparatus and made to oscillate. The new process is characterized in that at least one nozzle (4) simultaneously applies suction to the workpiece (6) by means of a stream of directed air. Moreover, the invention also concerns devices for carrying out this process.

Abstract: A vehicle cleaning system that includes a vacuum system for removing large cluttering items as well as soil, pebbles and other dirt; that is mountable in a vehicle; that includes a storage mechanism for storing and compacting large items; and that includes a passenger compartment console assembly, a separator unit assembly including a compaction subassembly, a motor powered wet/dry vacuum system, a passenger vacuum line in connection between the passenger compartment console and the separator unit, and a wet/dry vacuum hose in connection between the separator unit assembly and the wet/dry vacuum system.

Abstract: A vacuum system (14) for a motor vehicle (16) comprising a litter box (18) mounted in any convenient location within an interior compartment (20) of the motor vehicle (16). A vacuum canister (22) is provided that holds trash in disposable vacuum bags to be disposed at a later date. A facility (24) is for electrically connecting the vacuum canister (22) to a battery (26) in the motor vehicle (16), to operate the vacuum canister (22). A component (28) is for fluidly coupling the vacuum canister (22) to the litter box (18), so that any litter deposited within the litter box (18) will be drawn through the fluidly coupling component (28) and deposited into the vacuum canister (22) to be disposed of at a later date.

Abstract: A method to remove substance from a surface includes the steps of: pressurizing a fluid to produce a pressurized fluid; mounting a manifold with at least one input port for receiving said pressurized fluid thereinto and said manifold further comprising at least one output port over said surface; and directing said pressurized fluid to flow over said surface so as to remove at least part of said substance on said surface.

Abstract: A cleaning device for avoiding dissipation of polluted air due to smoking, including a chair body, a gas-collecting funnel, a sucking device, a filtering box and a control circuit. A main power switch is disposed on the chair body. The gas-collecting funnel can be pulled downward and extensibly opened to restrain the polluted air due to smoking within the funnel. An ash tray is disposed on an arm rest of the chair body. A microswitch is installed at the bottom of the ash tray for controlling the operation of the sucking device. The polluted air is sucked from the funnel through a gas conduit into the filtering box to be filtered and purified by a filtering cotton and active carbon. Therefore, the air can be cleaned and recycled and the dissipation of polluted air is avoided.

Abstract: An object cleaning device for cleaning objects such as golf balls is disclosed. The device comprises a cleaning element including an inlet end for receiving objects and an outlet end for discharging objects, the cleaning element further comprising a rotatable body including at least a first interior object cleaning surface, and a stationary track interior of the rotatable body. The stationary track defines a path of travel for objects between the inlet and outlet ends of the cleaning element. A drive mechanism rotates the rotatable body relative to the stationary track such that rotation of the rotatable body relative to said stationary track causes the movement of objects from the inlet end to the outlet end of the cleaning element along the stationary track.

Abstract: A defroster assembly uses heat from an engine's exhaust to heat the exterior of a windshield and the wipers thereon. The assembly comprises an air intake mechanism shared with the engine's air filter. The air intake mechanism leads to air ducts spaced from the engine block. Nodes in the air ducts encircle exhaust outlet pipes leading from the engine so that heat of the engine exhaust is transferred to air in the ducts. The assembly includes a vent subassembly for directing a stream of air in a laminar flow along the windshield. A fan of the assembly draws air from the ducts and forces it through the vent subassembly.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device to remove moisture from a side view mirror and adjacent side window of a vehicle. The device increases mirror clarity and can be installed on a side view mirror housing at the factory or as an after factory installation. The device prevents moisture from interfering with the operator's visual use of the mirror by utilizing the cleansing effects of existing air flow about the mirror housing during vehicle movement when it redirects the air flow past the mirror surface. The device also uses the air flow to prevent the build up of moisture on the adjacent side window of the vehicle. The device can be adapted to accommodate any existing vehicle mirror design that is incorporated into the door frame or in close proximity. The device is a semi-rigid mirror attachment that mounts on the mirror housing without obstructing the operator's field of vision.

Abstract: A windshield airstream deflector for vehicles which projects a blanket of fast moving air over the vehicle's windshield. The blanket of fast moving air is a barrier which prevents rain, snow, freezing rain or sleet from impacting the windshield. A turbine accelerates fresh air over the windshield via windshield ducts. A heating element is selectively operated to heat the air to aid defrosting of the windshield. Attached to the end of the windshield duct is a windshield exhaust duct which distributes the blanket of fast moving air equally over the windshield. An electrical heating element is disposed on the windshield exhaust duct to prevent or dispel any buildup of ice on the windshield exhaust duct. Power to drive the turbine comes from either the engine via a belt attached to the engine and turbine via a shaft, a direct current motor which has a battery as the power supply, or from the vehicle exhaust system via a dual turbine.

Abstract: A new Automobile Central Vacuum Cleaning System for providing the opportunity to vacuum an automobile anytime or anywhere. The inventive device includes a vacuum generating unit, a remote vacuum port, and a vacuum cleaner hose. A remote vacuum line is located within the panels of an automobile and provides connection between a vacuum intake port of the vacuum generating unit and a vacuum hose attachment end of the remote vacuum port. The remote vacuum port is located strategically and conveniently within the passenger compartment of the automobile. The vacuum generating unit includes a vacuum motor and a debris collection unit. Power to the vacuum generating unit may be generated by the battery or engine of the automobile and may be controlled by a remote power switch which is installed in a convenient location such as a dash hoard, a control/instrumentation panel, or console of the automobile.

Abstract: A hose for capturing and redirecting exhaust gasses of a motor vehicle for heating purposes. The hose is pliant and heat resistant. Apparatus for removably connecting to exhaust pipes of different diameters is provided at one end of the hose. This apparatus includes a manual, self-tightening clamp. A nozzle and handle are provided at the other end of the hose. Optionally, the hose has an extension removably insertable into the nozzle.

Abstract: A ball cleaning system utilizes negative and positive pressures to urge ball travel to and from the ball washing compartment. The system described herein is particularly useful for "dry" pool balls which must be frequently moved and cleaned for sanitation and appearance purposes. Convergers and diverters increase the functionality of the system by allowing balls from multiple pools to be cleaned in an easy, convenient manner.

Abstract: An improved egg washing, breaking and separating system is constructed of two side-by-side washers feeding a corresponding pair of candlers. From the candlers, a respective pair of conveyor transition ramps lead to corresponding ones of a pair of stacked upper and lower egg breaker/separator units. Each egg breaker/separator unit includes an endless chain of a plurality of individual egg cracker/separator cup assemblies with the upper chain independently driven about a four sided frame, preferably in opposition to the lower chain. Eggs are shuttled into the cup assemblies from each of the conveyor transition ramps. The chains of cracker/separator cup assemblies ride via slides operating within tracks extending about the frame. Each washer allows rows of eggs to advance along an egg conveyor which travels beneath a plurality of endless chains of brushes as well as a cleaning water distribution manifold.

Abstract: A ram air duct directed to a vehicle's windshield receives ram air from behind a vehicle's engine coolant radiator which air is rammed through the radiator to heat the air and into the ram air duct by motion of the vehicle causing a heated air curtain over the windshield. During use at slow speeds, a fan may assist air movement from the radiator into the ram air duct. Supplemental heat may be obtained from electric heaters or the engine exhaust manifolds or both. To reduce vehicle drag due to its trailing vacuum and to the turbulence it causes, an air-collecting scoop is provided at the top of the windshield to receive air of the curtain as it leaves the windshield. The collected air is then ducted to the rear of the vehicle and exhausted into the trailing vacuum to reduce vehicle drag.

Abstract: A van-mounted or mountable cleaning system as disclosed includes a water heater having a burner therein to heat the water and a flue outlet to release combustion gases therefrom. A motor driven vacuum blower has an air input port and an output port for blower exhaust, both the water heater and the vacuum blower being mounted or mountable in an interior portion of the van body. A flue gas duct is connected to said flue outlet and extends downwardly toward lower extremities of the van body and then, in use, leads outwardly of the van body. An exhaust conduit enters into said flue gas duct in such manner as to create a Venturi effect therewith tending to draw combustion gases away from said burner along said downwardly extending flue gas duct and thence outwardly of a lower portion of the van body in which the system is installed.

Abstract: Processing machinery for cleaning, scrubbing, drying, and polishing produce, such as fruits and vegetables, utilizing centrifugal force produced by the relative rotation between a produce receiving rotating disc member and an opposed stationary disc member, both of which have surfaces in the form of brushes cooperating to treat produce that passes between the two brush surfaces to the disc members' periphery. Produce is introduced by a chute communicating with an inner diameter opening in the stationary disc member and falls onto the center of the rotating disc member where the rotating motion creates a centrifugal force urging it outwardly toward the disc members' periphery between the upper and lower brushes. When the produce reaches the disc periphery it drops off and is directed to a common discharge so that the brushes produce a 360 degree discharge of produce to a single discharge path out of the machine. The basic machine arrangement can also be used for drying and polishing produce.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for reducing or eliminating water, dirt and other debris from being thrown onto following vehicles during highway or road travel by introducing intercepted or compressed air across and onto the roadway surface in the forward path of vehicle tires to move water, dirt and other debris toward the roadway under the vehicle centerline and away from the tires and by capturing the moved water, dirt and other debris with a vacuum or suction thereby eliminating the source of foreign material which might be cast by tires onto following vehicles.

Abstract: A playball cleansing machine comprises a cleansing member, a transporting member and a guide plate member. The cleansing member has a shaft provided peripherally with bristles. The transporting member is located under and parallel to the cleansing member and is provided with a rod having peripherally a spiral located along the longitudinal axis thereof for forming a spiral recessed rail. The guide plate member is provided with a lower plate having at the top thereof a shoulder plate extending upwards to form an upper plate for forming a transporting rail.

Abstract: A wiping system for cleaning snow accumulating on the rear signalling lights of a vehicle, using intermittent blasts of air. The blast wiping system comprises timers and a solenoid valve for regulating a flow of air from the air reservoir of the vehicle into intermittent gushes of air. The wiping system comprises also supply tubing for connecting the solenoid valve to the air reservoir of the vehicle, nozzles for directing the intermittent gushes of air toward a surface of the vehicle's lights, and delivery tubing for connecting the solenoid valve to the nozzles. Each nozzle of the blast wiping system is placed near a lower quadrant of the light surface. Each nozzle is further oriented to deflect a gush of air in a tangential upward direction relative to the surface of the light, whereby a layer of snow on that surface is lifted off and blown away in a patch-like formation.

Abstract: The water is removed from food product pouches which have passed through a water bath by advancing the pouches in a continuous stream on a first tray which is vibrated with respect to a frame. The pouches are advanced beneath an air manifold which discharges air onto the pouch to blow moisture downwardly. An air outlet is formed in the tray beneath the air manifold, and air is drawn therethrough. The reduced pressure produced by the partial vacuum restrains the pouch from upstream motion, and serves to draw away the water which has been detached from the pouch. A second vibrating tray is positioned to receive pouches discharged from the first tray. An inclined ramp flips the pouches as they travel between the trays to present the underside of the pouch for drying. Once flipped the pouches progress along the second tray beneath a second air manifold and vacuum air outlet to complete the water removal prior to discharging the pouch from the apparatus.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, an exterior windshield surface blower system to direct a flow of air at the windshield of a vehicle to remove rain and snow therefrom, the system including: an air deflector disposed along a lower edge of the exterior windshield surface and having a generally vertical face in proximity thereto, an air directing jets disposed in the face so as to direct forced air against the windshield, and an air supply arrangement to supply air to the air directing jets.

Abstract: An improved egg washing, breaking and separating system is constructed of two side-by-side washers feeding a corresponding pair of candlers. From the candlers, a respective pair of conveyor transition ramps lead to corresponding ones of a pair of stacked upper and lower egg breaker/separator units. Each egg breaker/separator unit includes an endless chain of a plurality of individual egg cracker/separator cup assemblies with the upper chain independently driven about a four sided frame in a direction opposite to the lower chain. Eggs are shuttled into the cup assemblies from each of the conveyor transition ramps. The chains of cracker/separator cup assemblies ride via slides operating within tracks extending about the frame. Each washer allows rows of eggs to advance along an egg conveyor which travels beneath a plurality of endless chains of brushes as well as a cleaning water distribution manifold.

Abstract: A portable vacuum generation device uses a conventional gas stream source such as is commonly available on vehicles. A specially constructed annular venturi-type nozzle pipe is capable of generating substantial vacuum from the gas stream. A removable connector for connecting the vacuum generator to the gas stream source is provided. A vacuum pipe, formed as a portion of the vacuum generator, connects to a flexible hose and conventional vacuum cleaning tools. The vacuum generator requires no moving parts and will operate in the presence of any moving gas stream. In one embodiment, the gas stream is provided by an on-board pneumatic blower. In another embodiment, the gas stream is provided by the exhaust gas stream from a vehicle internal combustion engine.

Abstract: An air wiper for a vehicle can provide more effective rain water blowing-off function and prevent a windscreen glass from being blurred due to moisture condensation. The air wiper includes a first air ejection unit (nozzle 14) and a second air ejection unit (nozzle 16). The first ejection unit spouts compressed air upward near windscreen glass 12 and along the outer surface of the windscreen glass to form a first air curtain. The second air ejection unit is arranged so as to oscillate and forms a second air curtain through the oscillating movement, the second air curtain being spaced away from the windscreen glass more than the first air curtain. The second air ejection unit is formed of plural nozzles (16), and divided into two or more nozzle parts to form the second air curtain from two or more small air curtains (102, 104) arranged at different distance from the windshield glass.

Abstract: Several embodiments of aerodynamic devices for improving the drag coefficient and reducing the wind resistance of a body moving through the air such as a motorcycle and/or a helmet worn by a rider of the motorcycle. The aerodynamic devices comprise a plenum chamber to which air is delivered through a relatively small ram air inlet opening. Air is discharged from the plenum chamber through a plurality of small apertures for generating a thin turbulent boundary layer between the body surface and the air flowing across the surface to promote laminar flow across the body surface.

Abstract: A device for reducing peelable products such as potatoes in size to a predetermined shape, consisting of at least one pair of mutually adjacent rotatably driven reducing elements, the outer surface of which has at least one constriction such that two oppositely situated constrictions form a passage opening between the elements for the reduced product, wherein the surface of at least one element is provided with a reducing surface, wherein the constriction is formed such that, as seen in top view, the passage opening acquires a predetermined shape in order to obtain a product with an associated revolutional shape, for instance spherical, elliptical or any other composite form.

Abstract: The invention herein provides an apparatus and method for washing spherical objects such as toy balls and the like. The balls are delivered into a bin above a hopper where they are manipulated to prevent jamming as they are passed from the hopper to a channel below consisting of rotating and stationary brushes. The balls are brushed and a detergent solution is applied. The balls are then rinsed and air is forced over them to dry any moisture thereon. The balls then exit through a discharge where they can then be collected and reused.

Abstract: A golf ball washing apparatus and method includes a bin and a conveyor which takes rows of golf balls from the bin and conveys them up an inclined ramp. A plurality of reciprocating brush heads clean the balls and a fluid spray head sprays cleaning fluid onto the balls as they advance up the ramp. Golf balls which exit the top of the ramp reach a gate where they are alternatively recirculated through the washing apparatus or directed out to a storage bin. The entire wash operation is clearly visible to an operator so that he can readily determine when the balls have been cleaned sufficiently to warrant opening the gate.

Abstract: This specification discloses a central vacuum cleaning system for use in a motor vehicle, which is self-contained and portable and is installed in a convenient part of the car such as the trunk. The unit is powered by the battery of the vehicle and does not require access to public power facilities. The cleaning unit is installed for easy placement and removable in the vehicle, with snap-in hose connections for convenience. The vacuum cleaner central unit is formed in two parts which are easily opened by a snap means for emptying the waste collection chamber. The waste collection chamber is designed such that debris and liquid waste remain in the bottom of the chamber during operation and during the emptying procedures, so that such wastes do not reach the filter and the electric motor area of the unit.

Abstract: The vehicle window cleaning device replaces the windshield wipers. The device employs two electrically powered high-speed blowers, with high-impact exhaust air ducted to air nozzles to clear rainwater, water, moisture, debris and loose powder snow from the exterior surfaces of the windshield, right-side and left-side front and rear window, and the rear window, and from the mirrored surfaces of the right and left side view mirrors. One blower services the windshield, the right and left side-view mirrors, and the right-side and left-side front windows. The second blower services the rear window, and the right-side and left side rear windows.

Abstract: The vehicle window cleaning device totally replaces the windshield wiper system. A combined housing houses an electrically powered blower and heater. The housing is ducted to air nozzles disposed below the windshield's bottom. Blower-forced air from the housing through the air nozzles impacts the entire windshield exterior with tremendous force to clean such surface by instantly blowing away dirt, water and moisture. High-temperature air heated by the heater and blower-forced through the air nozzles likewise impacts, melts and blows away ice, ice-encrusted snow and snow from the windshield's exterior surface and cleans such surface by blowing away dirt, water and moisture.

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning objects such as eggs and fruit. The apparatus comprises a housing, a roller conveyor having an upper run extending through the housing, one or more rotary brushes disposed over the upper run, one or more sprayers directed towards the conveyor, and a liquid rceptacle underneath the upper run. To prevent, or at least substantially mitigate the production of vapor in the place where the apparatus is disposed, means are provided for exhausting vapor at the positions where the conveyors enters and leaves the housing. Preferably the housing is double-walled at least where the conveyor enters and leaves the housing, and the cavities between the walls are kept continuously under a subatmospheric pressure.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for washing objects such as golf balls, the apparatus essentially comprising two disks (33,36) which are disposed in register and in spaced-apart relationship, the disks being provided, on their sides facing one another, with brush devices (34,37), the spacing between the bruch devices (34, 37) being less than the diameter of the objects, at least the one disk (36) being rotary and the objects being fed in between the disks (33,36) via a central aperture (35) in the one disk (33).

Abstract: The present invention relates to the treatment of potato tubers so as to reduce bacterial and other diseases therein and improve the keeping properties thereof.The invention relates to a method comprising the steps of size-grading G potato tubers (55) and then bringing substantially soil-free size-graded tubers (55) to a thermal treatment zone T in which they are immersed in a fluid (10) at a temperature of from 45.degree. to 85.degree. C., for a period of time sufficient to kill at least some microorganisms without significantly damaging the tubers. According to the invention the tubers (55) are then passed substantially directly, through a drying zone D, in which they are surrounded by a hot air flow (68) having a temperature of from 40 to 75 degrees C., to dry their outer surfaces following which they are brought to a cooling zone P.

Abstract: A golf ball washer has a cylindrical bristle brush rotatably supported in a rectangular tank to move the balls along a zig-zag dual track defined in the tank cover and in an insert provided in the tank. The balls move downwardly through a top opening in the cover and enter the dual track in end-to-end relationship. The track has segments oriented at oppositely inclined angles to abruptly shift the direction of motion of each ball and to accelerate each ball away from those following it.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning eggs comprising a housing, a roller conveyor, at least the upper run of which extends through said housing, rotary brushes disposed above said upper run of the roller conveyor, at least one driving crank shaft for moving the brushes in an axial direction, and fluid supply means disposed above the brushes. The improvement is that the brushes are coupled two by two by means of a yoke having a bearing arranged to rotate about a journal which is fixedly secured to a frame. Each yoke is further provided with a pin which is connected to a driving rod, and one end of the driving rod is driven by a driving crank-shaft mechanism.

Abstract: A golf ball washing machine has been invented where a detachable upper vibrating trough may receive numerous golf balls and dispense them individually into a spiral cage encircling a rotating brush in a lower water tank where the golf balls are entrapped between the brush and cage interior and are scrubbed as they are forced along the interior of the spiral cage to an exit leaving dirt and debris in the tank.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for washing of eggs in order to remove adhering dirt in which egg transport means and egg guiding means are present. The egg transport means and egg guiding means cooperate and form egg rotation means which cause an egg to rotate substantially around its shortest main axis; dirt removal is achieved with use of one or more brushes and a washing liquid. The egg's longest main axis thereby remains substantially in a plane parallel to the direction of transport of the eggs, said plane being perpendicular to the plane going through the centerlines of the egg guiding means.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning eggs having multiple cylindrical brushes rotatably mounted upon rods and extending laterally across a conveyor which carries eggs thereon. At least one flat brush is positioned between each adjacent cylindrical brush to achieve washing of the eggs in the dead space where no washing would normally occur between cylindrical brushes. In a preferred configuration, a plurality of such flat brushes are cyclically movable longitudinally with respect to the direction of movement of the conveyor, whereas the cylindrical brushes are free for rotational movement thereof and are driven laterally across the egg conveyor. With this combined brushing action, three complete directions of brushing movement are experienced by the outer surfaces of the eggs to be washed alternately through as many as seven or eight cycles of the various brushing actions. In a preferred configuration, eight cylindrical brushes are separated from one another by seven groupings of flat brushes.

Abstract: An egg washing conveyer apparatus particularly usable with eggs arranged in rows with the long axes thereof extending laterally with respect to the direction of movement of the conveyor including a brushing member which extends longitudinally between the individual rows of egg receiving recesses downwardly and obliquely inwardly toward each side of each row to provide complete brushing of the ends of the eggs which normally are not cleaned by a conventional overhead brushing apparatus. The present invention also includes the conventional overhead brushing apparatus for cleaning the major external portion of the egg which in combination with the end cleaning brushes provide complete cleaning of an egg surface by one washing station.

Abstract: An egg washing station is disclosed adapted to receive variously sized eggs for cleaning of the external surface thereof wherein the eggs are carried upon roller conveying means in longitudinally extending rows. A plurality of brushing means are included of alternating vertical heights in order to provide full and complete cleaning of various sized eggs when carried upon a horizontally extending conveyor. The brushes are mounted with respect to a brush frame such as to be movable longitudinally with respect to the direction of movement of the eggs carried upon the conveyor therebelow. A solution supply conduit extends across the station and dispenses cleaning solution through spray nozzles downwardly upon the brushes and eggs carried therebelow.

Abstract: In a military vehicle having small observation windows susceptible to being coated with airborne mud particles when the vehicle is operating off-the-road under adverse climate conditions, it is proposed to provide air pressure mechanisms on the vehicle near the window surfaces. Such air pressure mechanisms are oriented to generate an air curtain in the space between airborne particulates and the window surface, whereby the curtain acts to deflect such particulates away from the window surface.

Abstract: The present invention provides a convenient and reliable means to evacuate smoke from an interior cabin (30) of a pressurized aircraft (20) by providing a normally closed smoke evacuation outlet (102) in the skin (108) of the aircraft in fluid communication with a relatively large area smoke disposal chute (114) extending upwardly from the cabin's ceiling (50), whereby upon the activation of the outlet, the smoke (106) (that otherwise would rise to and collect below the ceiling of the cabin until the whole cabin is full of smoke) will be discharged into the external airstream, with the differential pressure between the relatively high pressure in the cabin and the relatively low pressure in the external atmosphere (particularly at the high cruising altitudes associated with the operation of modern transport aircraft) providing the actual motive power.

Abstract: A flexible tube is suspended from a support arranged to be mounted adjacent a vehicle light surface to be cleaned. The support has an inlet for admitting compressed air to the tube whereby upon selected pressured flow of air through the tube, the tube whips back and forth in a flogging action to clean foreign material from the surface. The support also has an inlet for a cleaning solution used in combination with the whipping tube. The tube has a shape in cross section that tends to maintain it in the plane of the surface being cleaned. In modifications of the invention, a guide is provided to hold the tube in close to the surface being cleaned, and apertures are provided in the tube so that air pressure urges the tube toward the surface.

Abstract: An egg washing means including a plurality of cylindrical brushes being mounted with complete freedom of rotational movement and in being driven axially for lateral movement across a conveyor which carries eggs therebelow. The eggs are washed by cleaning fluid being sprayed upon the brushes which then contacts the egg surfaces for cleaning thereof. Spacing between the brushes is small enough that two adjacent brushes will contact the same egg at the same time causing a scrubbing-type action. Each cylindrical brush is mounted upon a rod which is driven for lateral movement across the path of egg movement by a cam attached with respect to the end of the rod. The end of the rod includes a cam follower having a generally U-shaped yoke member with a roller mounted therein. The roller contacts the cam face and follows the profile and lobe of the cam causing lateral movement of the cylindrical brushes.

Abstract: A trash collection system for use on vehicles includes a main receptacle having an interior in which a partial vacuum is induced by a vacuum pump. A vacuum line network is connected to the main receptacle and includes one or more main collection lines extending along the rows of seats and feeder lines extending up between the individual seats. The upper ends of the feeder line are open allowing passengers to dispose of trash into the feeder line after first opening the spring-loaded lid. A liquid dispenser dispenses water into the main collection line to extinguish any lit material which may be disposed of into the system.

Abstract: A pneumatic cleaning system for particulate bulk material such as raisins, seeds, nuts, and the like, the system having a reciprocating screen onto which the material is delivered in a layer for travel across the screen; a top hood and a bottom hood mounted in substantially air-tight relation on the screen; an air cleaner; a blower having an intake and an exhaust, and conduits connecting the exhaust, the bottom hood, the intake, and the cleaner in closed circuit, series relation to pass air upwardly through the layer at the screen.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for removing mold from the exterior of meat products, such as the casings of salami and pepperoni, is disclosed which includes a conveyor extending longitudinally through a plurality of stations for cleaning and drying the products. The meat product is placed upon the conveyor at an entry location and is then passed through a cleaning station which sprays refrigerated water at high pressure over the products. The nozzles for spraying the refrigerated water are placed above and below and to the sides of the conveyor carrying the salami or pepperoni. The conveyor then carries the meat roll to an air station which is adapted to blow ambient air across the conveyor carrying the meat to blow excessive water therefrom. The ambient air basically urges the water to be removed from the meat casing by the inertia of the air itself. The conveyor then carries the casings to a drying or heating station where heated air is blown over the salami or pepperoni to complete the drying operations.

Abstract: A hand-held scraping device for de-icing frozen car windows utilizing the exhaust fumes emitted through the car's tail pipe for softening or melting the layer of ice wherein a flexible hose is clamped over the free end of the tail pipe, the exhaust fumes conducted through the flexible hose to a scraper head attached to a handle section of the flexible hose, in which the exhaust fumes distributed through either a number of frontal circular outlets over a flat plastic scraping strip, or through a narrow continuous rectangular outlet behind an inclined front wall equipped with a plastic scraping strip, with optional vertical outlet strips or openings through the bottom wall of either version of the scraper head for additional distribution of the hot gases onto the windshield.