US Patent: 983,405
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| Street Sweeping Machine
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Patentees:
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| Henry R. Scheidler (exact or similar names) - Newark, Licking County, OH |
| Oscar A. Scheidler (exact or similar names) - Newark, Licking County, OH |
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| 15/84 |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Feb. 07, 1911 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Abstract:
Our invention relates to the improvement of street sweeping machines and the objects of our invention are to provide a machine of this class of improved construction and arrangement, of parts wherein is combined means for not only sweeping the loose dirt front a street, but for conveying the dirt arm; rotary broom to a receptacle at the rear of the machine; to provide in connection with our machine, improved means for throwing the various moving parts thereof into and out of operation and for increasing anti decreasing the speed of the vehicle, fan and broom and to produce other improvements the details of construction and arrangement of which will be more fully pointed out herein after. These objects we accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Claim:
In a machine of the character described, the combination with a truck body comprising a framework and ground wheels, a sweeper body journaled in the frame and a motor carried by said frame, of a dirt elevator supported in front of said sweeping body, a fan casing and fan therein, a rotary conveyer leading from said elevator to said fan casing, a dirt receptacle carried by the machine frame, pipe connections between said dirt receptacle and fan casing, means for imparting motion from the motor shaft to the sweeping body, the elevator, the conveyor, the fan and the ground wheels of the machine and independent means for changing the speed of the ground wheels and the speed of the fan. |
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