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Class Number: 15 Class Title: BRUSHING, SCRUBBING, AND GENERAL CLEANING Subclass Subclass Number Title 1 MISCELLANEOUS 1.51 ELECTROSTATIC CLEANING 1.52 .Hand implement 1.7 SUBMERGED CLEANERS WITH AMBIENT FLOW GUIDES 3 MACHINES 3.1 .For fruit, vegetables, meat or eggs 3.11 ..With assorting or screening 3.12 ..Fluid application and/or work heating (e.g., drying) 3.13 ...Work moved through apparatus 3.14 ....Liquid application only 3.15 .....Work treating element and/or work immersed 3.16 ..Work moved through apparatus 3.17 ...Transverse axis work treating elements 3.18 ....Longitudinally movable elements 3.19 ...Fixed axis rotary work treating conveyor 3.2 ....Axial work feed 3.21 ...Work conveyor mounted work treating elements 3.5 .With means to pass a solid cleaning agent and a fluid carrier through tubular work 3.51 ..With conservation or recovery of the cleaning agent 3.52 ...By attached line 3.53 .Erasing 300.1 .With air blast or suction 301 ..Fixed position cleaners or installed cleaning systems 302 ...With liquid or other cleaning material application to work 303 ...With work handling or supporting 304 ....Hollow work internal cleaning, e.g., bag and/or bottle cleaners 305 ....Tumbling cylinders or cages 306.1 ....With means to guide or move the work to or through a cleaning station or treating means 307 .....With work-width compensating features 308 .....With work agitator, e.g., brushing, beating, shaking 309 ......Plural diverse types, e.g., beating and brushing 309.1 .....Indefinite length article 309.2 .....Plurality of discrete articles 310 ....Manual application of work to cleaning means 311 .....With moving work-agitating means 312.1 ...With fixed guide for ambulant air draft applying means 312.2 ....Flexible tube 313 ...Installed in automobile or other vehicle for the cleaning thereof 314 ...With flexible conduit connection between ambulant air draft applying means and relatively stationary air pump or supply 315 ....Extensible and retractable conduit 316.1 ...Air blast only (e.g., boiler soot-blower) 317 ....With blowing element housing or protecting feature, e.g., embedded, disappearing or cooling 318 ....Moving nozzle with air supply control interlocked with nozzle motion means 318.1 ....Sequence control 319 ..With automatic controll 320 ..With liquid or other cleaning material application to work 321 ...Manipulatable nozzle with flexible conduit connection to portable power and/or material supply unit, e.g., window washer 322 ...Nozzles 323 ..With storage facilities for tools or nozzles, conduits, etc., e.g., racks and cabinets 324 ..Illuminator for work area 325 ..With fender or bumper, i.e., furniture guard 326 ..With sound muffling feature 327.1 ..Tank type cleaner organization 327.2 ...Casing feature 327.3 ....Air float or support 327.4 ....Cleaner encircling roller 327.5 ....Off-the-floor support (e.g., operator supported) 327.6 ...Vertically aligned motor and filter 327.7 ...Horizontally aligned motor and filter 328 ..Convertible 329 ...To or from hand held and hand manipulated 330 ...Suction to or from blast 331 ...Plural selective air draft means, e.g., on-floor to off-floor 332 ....With agitator and/or fan interlock, e.g., floor or rug safety feature 333 .....Floor nozzle elevating 334 ....Floor nozzle air flow diverted to off-floor cleaning means 335 .....Tubular handle, e.g., "Air-Way" type 336 ......With supporting means, e.g., wall-mounted clamp 337 .....By insertion or attachment of additive converter 338 ...Converter attached to floor nozzle mouth 339 ..Combined, e.g., with signal or indicator 340.1 ..Power propelled vehicle or carrier 340.2 ...Maneuvered by walking attendant 340.3 ...Including brush 340.4 ....Plural brushes 341 ..Traction or manual operation of air pump or fan 342 ...Rotary air impeller 343 ....Hand cranked 344 ..Hand supported and manipulated, e.g., miniature or upholstery type 345 ..Air blast with suction 346 ...Closed circuit systems, i.e., air recirculating 347 ..With dust or dirt handling or storing or separating, e.g., filter bags 348 ...With conveying means additional to air stream 349 ...With receiver for dirt from rotary or moving agitator 350 ...Separator mounted on or attached to manipulating handle, e.g., push broom type 351 ....Handle movable relative to floor tool air exhaust conduit 352 ...Separator element cleaning in situ and/or storage or removal of retained dirt 353 ...With liquid and/or deflection type separator 354 ..With work-contacting carriage or mount, and relatively adjustable nozzle 355 ...With agitator adjustable relative to nozzle 356 ....Interlocked or simultaneous adjustment 357 ...Suction responsive 358 ...With work surface contact or penetration sensingg 359 ...Biased or floating nozzle 360 ....Urged away from contact with work 361 ...Handle operated or handle associated control 362 ..With nozzle carriage or mount having work-surface penetration control, e.g., differential area supporting wheels 363 ..With mechanical agitating means 364 ...Diverse agitating operations, e.g., brushing with beating or movable with stationary 365 ....Selective 366 ....Rotary only, e.g., "Hoover" type beating brush 367 ....Stationary or non-moving agitating means only 368 ...Adjustable with respect to nozzle 369 ....Responsive to translational movement of nozzles 370 ....Rotary agitator with radially adjustable elements, e.g., wear compensating 371 ....Floating or resiliently biased contact with work surface 372 .....Rotary work contactor 373 ....Retractable, i.e., selective use 374 ...Oblique or V-shaped arrangement of agitator 375 ...With auxiliary ambient air inlet to nozzle, e.g., through air tunnel and/or agitator 376 ....Agitator bearing or drive air bleed 377 ...Auxiliary or separate, i.e., non-fan, driving motor 378 ...With guard to inhibit work entry into nozzle mouth 379 ...Vibrating nozzle or nozzle lips 380 ...Rectilinearly moving parallel to work surface, e.g., scrubbing 381 ...Oscillating agitator, e.g., sweeping 382 ...Striking beater, i.e., perpendicular movement 383 ...Rotary agitator 384 ....Tandem agitator units 385 ....Axis non-parallel to work surface 386 ....With eccentrically mounted turnable work contacting elements 387 ....Air current operated 388 ....Traction operated 389 ....Drive details 390 .....With clutch or other drive disconnect 391 .....Belt or drive housings or other protective features 392 .....Agitator bearings or supporting details 393 ...Stationary agitator 394 ....Work piece surrounding or opposed agitators, e.g., bar or slat cleaners 395 ....For opposed surfaces or hollow work internal cleaning 396 ....Hollow head with perforate reticulate supporting surface for agitator 397 .....With tubular air nozzles interspersed throughout work contacting surface 398 ....Bristle brush type 399 .....With bristle bridle or air seal or shroud 400 .....Nozzle attachment type 401 ....Scraper or squeegee type 402 .....Serrated or toothed, e.g., comb or rake type 403 ....Dry mop type, e.g., textile strand or sheet pelt 404 ..With pulsating air flow 405 ..Air blast only 406 ...For hollow work, internal cleaning, e.g., tube soot-blowers 407 ....Work operated valvee 408 ....With induced flow of ambient air, e.g., jet pump 409 ..Jet pump suction-devices 410 ..Handle features, e.g., limit stops or storage locks 411 ...Angular or lateral adjustment of cleaner by axial rotation of handle 412 ..Motor features, e.g., housing or casing assemblies 413 ...Air cooling by other than main air stream 414 ..Detachable and/or extension nozzles 415.1 ..Nozzle 416 ...With plural mouths selectively usable, e.g., "duplex" nozzles 417 ....Top and bottom reversible type 418 ...With area adjusting, e.g., restrictors 419 ...With air flow control means, e.g., work-operated valve 420 ...With notched or grooved lips for localized intensification of air draft 421 ...With auxiliary inlet for ambient air, e.g., vacuum relief 422 ...With guard to inhibit work entry into nozzle mouth 422.1 ...Width changes along transverse dimension 422.2 ..Plural fans 4 .Combined 5 ..Beater and brush 21.1 .Brushing 21.2 ..Ball cleaner 22.1 ..Handle mount 22.2 ...Reciprocating tool 22.3 ...Belt brush 22.4 ...Swinging tool 23 ...Rotary cylinder 24 ....Fountain 25 ....Manual motor 26 .....Alternating 27 ....Traction operated 28 ...Rotary disk 29 ....Fountain 30 ..Boot cleaning, blacking, and polishing 31 ...Polish supplying 32 ...Rotary reciprocating brush 33 ...Reciprocating brush 34 ...Rotary brush 35 ....Planetary 36 ..Boot cleaners and polishers 37 ...Reciprocating brush 38 ..Brush cleaners 39 ..Comb cleaners 39.5 ..Table top or tablecloth cleaner 40 ..Flexible-fabric cleaners 41.1 ...Carpet sweeper 42 ....Auxiliary brush 43 ....Combined fan and brush 44 ....Dust laying 45 ....Fenders 46 ....Manual motor 47 ....Non-rotary 48 ....With brush cleaner 48.1 ....Unidirectional drive 48.2 ....Bellows type 49.1 ..Floor and wall cleanerr 50.1 ...Scrubber 50.2 ....Reciprocating brush 50.3 ....Cylindrical brush 51 ....Endless wiper 52 ....Rotary wiper 52.1 ...Cylindrical brush 52.2 ...Reciprocating brush 53.1 ..Vehicle cleaner 53.2 ...Cylindrical brush 53.3 ....Moving vehicle 53.4 ...Wheel washer 54 ..Rail sweepers 55 ...Rotary brush 56 ..Receptacle cleaners 57 ...Barrel 58 ....Single stage 59 ...Bottle 60 ....Endless carrier 61 .....Tank 62 ....Reciprocating bottle rack 63 ....Rotary carrier 64 .....Tank 65 ....Single bottle 66 .....Bottle guide 67 .....Neck cleaners 68 .....Reciprocating brush 69 .....Water motor 70 ...Can 71 ....Inside brush 72 .....Collapsible 73 ...Cuspidor 74 ...Dish 75 ...Tumbler 76 ....Immersion 77 ..Sheet, bar, and plate cleaners 78 ..Street sweepers 79.1 ...Hand directed 79.2 ....Motor powered sweeper 80 ...Belt brush 81 ...Reciprocating brush 82 ...Rotary-brush cylinder 83 ....Collector 84 .....Elevator belt 85 .....Elevator pan 86 .....Elevator wheel 87 ...Rotary-brush disk 88 ..Wire, rod, and tube cleaners 88.1 ..Work moves past nonrotatable brush 88.2 ..Work moves past rotatable brush 88.3 ...Cylindrical brush 88.4 ..Cylindrical brush moves past work 89 .Beating 90 ..Rotary drum 91 ..Stationary work 92 ...Portables 93.1 .Scraping 93.2 ..Coke oven cleaner 93.3 ..Ditcherr 93.4 ..Pallet, board, panel, etc. 94 .Shaking 95 .Shotting 96 ..Shakers 97.1 .Wiping 97.2 ..Shoe polisher 97.3 ..Vehicle cleaner 98 ..Floor and wall cleaner 99 ...Endless belt 100 ..Photographic-film cleaners 101 ..Receptacle cleaners 102 ..Sheet, bar, and plate cleaners 103 ..Window cleaners 103.5 ..Rolling contact type with material supply 104.001 IMPLEMENTS 104.002 .Adhesive lint remover 104.011 .Cylinder, piston or plug cleaner 104.012 ..Piston groove 104.02 .Reamers 104.03 .Pipe and tube cleaners 104.04 ..Outside 104.05 ..Inside 104.061 ...Fluid current operated 104.062 ....Cleaner plug insertion or removal device 104.063 ....Scraper with signalling device 104.07 ...Hammer 104.08 ...Tube deformer 104.09 ...Rotary tool 104.095 ....Power source outside tube end 104.096 .....Container cleaner 104.11 .....Inside boiler drum 104.12 ....Contiguous fluid motor 104.13 ....Plural rotary cutter 104.14 ....Centrifugally pivoted ...Reciprocating tool 104.15 ....Plural rotary cutter 104.16 ....Scraper, cutter, wiper or brush 104.165 .....Non-piercing fabric holder 104.17 .....Expanding at both ends 104.18 .....Expanding at one end 104.19 .....Expanding between ends 104.2 .....Radial bristle 104.31 ...Sewer 104.32 ....Grapple 104.33 ....Snake 104.5 .Comb cleaners 104.51 ..Multiple strand type 104.52 ...With rigid supporting frame 104.53 ....With attached brush 104.54 ....Non-planar groups of strands 104.8 .With coacting material receiver 104.9 .Machine-attachable bottle washing implement 104.92 .Stationary implement with material supply 104.93 .Tool coated or impregnated with material supply 104.94 ..Including means for manual manipulation of implement 105 .Combined 105.5 ..Mortar-joint finisher 105.51 ..Eraserr 105.52 ...And brush 105.53 ...And cutter 106 ..Brush 107 ...Dauber and polisher 110 ..Brush and massage-tool 111 ..Brush and scraper 112 ...Boot cleaners 113 ....Hand 114 ..Brush and wiper 115 ...Mop 116.1 ...Mop and wringer 116.2 ....Sponge mop 117 ..Brush and squeegee 118 ..Wiper 119.1 ...Mop and wringer 119.2 ....Sponge mop 120.1 ....Twister 120.2 .....Assisted by modified handle 121 ...Squeegee 423 .Pen cleaner 424 .Eraser 425 ..Including handling means 426 ...And means for non-use attachment to a support 427 ...Which is pencil sheath or casing 428 ....Eraser attachable to fore-end of sheath or casing 429 ....Including advancing means for erasive body 430 .....Axially adjustable sleeve 431 ....Including enclosure for base of erasive body 432 .....Multi-partite handling means 433 ...Including advancing means for erasive body 434 ...Directly adjustable erasive body 435 .Penpoint or penholder 436 ..Including projectable and retractable penpoint 437 ..With means supporting or stabilizing implement in use 438 ..Including manually adjustable gripping or releasing means for penpoint 439 ...Pivoted or arcuately movable 440 ....About axis of penholder 441 ...Including opposed, relatively axially movable gripping members 442 ...And ejector 443 ..Penholder shaped to receive or engage hand or finger 444 ..Penholder includes specific penpoint retaining means 445 ..Specific penpoint 446 ...Specific material 447 ...Bifurcate 141.1 .Beater 141.2 ..Rotary 142 .Grids and combs 143.1 .Particular Handle 144.1 ..Adjustable 144.2 ...Universally 144.3 ...Variable length 144.4 ....Telescopic 145 ..Detachable 146 .Holders, brush and broom 147.1 .Holder, mop 147.2 ..Nonclampedd 148 ..Convertible 149 ..Expansible 150 ..Pivoted jaw 151 ..Sliding jaw 152 ...Lever operated 153 ...Screw operated 154 ..Spring wire and runner 154.2 ..With shaker 159.1 .Brush or broom 160 ..Special work 161 ...Boot cleaners 162 ...Flue cleaners 163 ....Suspension 164 ...Hollow-ware cleaners 165 ....Collapsible 166 ...Stripping 167.1 ...Tooth or nail brush 167.2 ....Concurrently brushes plural tooth surfaces 167.3 ....Nail brush 168 ..Bridles 169 ...Adjustable 170 ...Straw supported 171 ..Heads and casings 172 ...Adjustable head 173 ...Axial clamp 174 ...Bands 175 ...Braces, caps, and shields 176.1 ...Detachable head 176.2 ....With handle-head cooperating threads 176.3 ....With screw-type fastener 176.4 ....Perpendicularly insertable 176.5 .....With securing means 176.6 ....With securing means 177 ...Lateral clamp 178 ....Pivoted jaw 179 ...Rotary 180 ....Disk 181 ....Laminated 182 ....Spiral bristle mount 183 ....Tuft-holding bar 184 ..Housings 185 ...Pivoted 186 ..Individual-bristle mount 187 ...Integral 188 ....Rubber 189 ..Stitched and wire bound 190 ..Tuft fasteners 191.1 ..Tuft socket 192 ...Cemented 193 ....Plastic mass 194 ...Detachable tuft 195 ...Folded tuft 196 ....Drawn work 197 ....Metal bristle 198 .....Rotary 199 ....Retaining wire 200 ...Metal bristle 201 ...Movable tuft sectionn 202 ....Detachable 203 ....Folding 204 ...With core 205 ....Folded tuft 205.2 ...Fountain 206 ..Twisted bristle holder 207 ..Wire wound 207.2 ..Bristle configuration or composition 208 .Fabric 209.1 ..Wiper, dauber, or polisher 210.1 ...Special work 210.5 ....Graining implements 211 ....Hollow-ware cleaners 212 .....Expansible 213 ......Rotary 214 ....Lens cleaners 215 ....Mats 216 .....Combined 217 .....Tuft carrying 218 ....Razor cleaners 218.1 ....Cutlery cleaners 219 ....Wall-paper cleaners 220.1 ....Window cleaner 220.2 .....Magnetic 220.3 ....Venetian blind cleaner 220.4 ....Rod or wire cleaner (e.g., dipstick cleaner) 221 ...Collection chamber 222 ...End grip 223 ...Work face with exposed laminae 224 ....Channeled 225 ....Coil ...Laminated 226 ....Strands 227 ...Mitts, cots, and shoes 228 ...Mops and heads 229.1 ....Having strands 229.2 .....With fixed handle 229.3 ......And cloth sheath type head 229.4 ......And pocket type head 229.5 ......And twisted wire frame 229.6 .....With pivoted handle 229.7 ......And cloth sheath type head 229.8 ......And pocket type head 229.9 ......And twisted wire frame 229.11 ...Scourer (hand manipulated) 229.12 ....Fibrous mass (e.g., steel wool) 229.13 .....With handle or holder 229.14 ...Powder puff 230 ...Rotary 230.1 ....With cooling means 230.11 ....Roller with handle 230.12 ....Adhesively bound parts 230.13 ....Coil wound 230.14 ....Sectored disc or cylinder 230.15 ....Stitched laminates 230.16 ....Interrupted work engaging surface 230.17 ....Fabric-piercing securing element 230.18 ....Working surface dished inwardly or outwardlyy 230.19 ....With discrete mechanical fabric securing means 231 ...Sheet holders 232 ....Window cleaners 233 ...Tension frame 234 .Feather 235 .Pelts 235.3 .Mortar-joint finisher or simulator 235.4 .Mason's trowel or float 235.5 ..Darby type 235.6 ..Undulated 235.7 ..Corner type 235.8 ..Adjustable 236.01 .Scrapers 236.02 ..Windshield 236.03 ..Paint roller 236.04 ..Gutter 237 ..Boot cleaners 238 ...Mats 239 ....Pivoted link 240 .....Filler block 241 ....Wire 242 ..Flue cleaners 243 ...Suspension 236.05 ..Plural bladed 236.06 ...Simultaneously useable 236.07 ..Arcuate scraping edge 236.08 ..Toothed or serrated 236.09 ..For plural surfaces 236.1 ..Rotary 244.1 .Sponge or sponge with holder 244.2 ..Having pivoted handle 244.3 ..Having fabric cover or back 244.4 ..Sponge 245 .Squeegee 245.1 .Bladed spreader 246 ATTACHMENTS 246.2 .For a vacuum cleaner 246.3 ..With treating means (e.g., deodorizing, sterilizing, etc.) 246.4 ..Moveable carriage 246.5 .Tank cleaners 247 .Covers and cover holders 248.1 .Drip cup or splash guard for a brush or broom 248.2 ..For roller 249 .Flue cleaners 250.001 .Optical-member-attachable cleaner (e.g., windshield wiper) 250.002 ..Headlight cleaner 250.003 ..Mirror cleaner 250.01 ..With material applying means 250.02 ...Coordinated operation of cleaner and applying means 250.03 ...Supply source carried by cleaning element 250.04 ...Applying means moves with cleaning element 250.05 ..With heating means 250.06 ...Embedded in wiper blade 250.07 ...Movable with cleaning element 250.08 ....Laterally offset to engage pane 250.09 ....Heating element between plural bladess 250.1 ..Window moved on cleaner 250.11 ..Readily attached and detached cleaner for building windows 250.12 ..Constant speed or automatic motor control 250.13 ..Sweep varying or regulating means 250.14 ..Plural out-of-phase cleaning elements 250.15 ..Cleaning element spring returned 250.16 ..With parking means 250.17 ...Electrical 250.18 ..Convertible to manual operation 250.19 ..Cleaning element moved from surface 250.2 ..Pressure adjusting means for cleaning element 250.21 ..Compound motion of oscillating arm 250.22 ..Rotating cleaning element 250.23 ..Cleaning element moved relative to arm when arm moves 250.24 ..Chain, belt or cable carried cleaning element 250.25 ..Chain, belt or cable driven operating shaft 250.26 ..Screw type drive for reciprocating cleaning element 250.27 ..Operating connection for plural oscillating cleaning elements 250.28 ..Opposed cleaning elements 250.29 ..With means to reciprocate cleaning element 250.3 ..With means to oscillate arm 250.31 ..Coupling or mounting detail 250.32 ...Arm-to-cleaning element connection 250.33 ....Hinged longitudinally of cleaning element 250.34 ...Arm-to-actuating shaft detail 250.35 ..Arm structure 250.36 ..Cleaning element structure 250.37 ...With attached roller 250.38 ...Longitudinal tensioning means for blade 250.39 ...Adjustable length 250.4 ...Supplemental cleaning means brought into surface contact 250.41 ...Plural spaced surface engaging edges 250.42 ...Wiper with superstructure 256.5 .Moving surface scraper, wiper, or brush 256.51 ..Roll cleaners 256.52 ...Rotary 256.53 ...Reciprocating or traveling 256.6 ..Strand 257.01 ACCESSORIES 257.05 .Coating applicator loading means 257.06 ..For loading roller type applicators 257.07 ..Inkwell 257.072 ...Including implement-actuated diaphragm to produce material moving force 257.073 ...Including means limiting immersion of penpoint 257.074 ...Anti-spill type 257.075 ...Including implement-opened access means 257.076 ...Including means defining applicator-loading zone 257.1 .Debris receptacle (e.g., dustpan) 257.2 ..With means to attach to brush or broom 257.3 ..Separate inlet and outlet 257.4 ..Receptacle gravitatable to material retaining position 257.5 ..Foothold or pedal operator 257.6 ..With movable closure 257.7 ..Adjustable, relatively movable or detachable handlee 257.8 ..Foot or prop on rear of receptacle 257.9 ..Auxiliary, flexible or reinforced edge 258 .Blacking-box and brush cases 259 .Blacking-box holders 260 .Mop wringers 261 ..Presser boards 262 ..Roller 263 ..Twisters 264 .Scrubbing pails 265 .Shoe-blacking stands 266 ..Polisher guides 267 ..Shoe clamps 268 WORK SUPPORTS * ****************************** * DIGESTS * ****************************** DIG 1 Rechargeable batter DIG 2 Car cleaning plants DIG 3 Matrix DIG 4 Ferrules DIG 5 Varied length bristle DIG 6 Varied composition bristle DIG 7 Driers DIG 8 Dust bags and separators DIG 9 Dust mop cleaners DIG 10 Handles, reels and switches DIG 11 Indicators DIG 12 Tape head cleaner DIG 13 Magnetic tape cleaner DIG 14 Phonograph record cleaner DIG 15 Moisture responsive