Information
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Patent Grant
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6725491
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Patent Number
6,725,491
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Date Filed
Tuesday, September 18, 200123 years ago
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Date Issued
Tuesday, April 27, 200421 years ago
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Inventors
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Original Assignees
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Examiners
Agents
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CPC
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US Classifications
Field of Search
US
- 015 211
- 015 28
- 015 971
- 015 975
- 016 1101
- 451 357
- 451 359
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International Classifications
- B60S306
- A47L1114
- A47L11282
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Abstract
A car waxing machine with a driving handle comprises a car waxing machine and two pivotal handles. Each pivotal handle is a rod shape arm. The arm has a bent structure. Thereby, a rear section of the pivotal handle has a pivotal end and a front end thereof has an arm. By the arms of the two pivotal handles to be pivotally connected to two sides at the rear end of the car waxing machine, a structure with two arms at two sides which is rotatable for adjust the orientations of the arm is formed. Thereby, the arms are adjustable to horizontally extend to the two sides of the car waxing machine. Therefore, the user may adjust the arms to match the habits of using a car waxing machine and further forces can be uniformly applied to the machine.
Description
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a waxing machine, and particularly to a car waxing machine which is a portable electromotive machine, wherein by pivotal handles at two sides of the car waxing machine, the user may adjust the arms to match the habits for using the car waxing machine and further forces can be uniformly applied to the machine.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
FIGS. 1 and 2
and U.S. Pat. No. 5,830,047 discloses a prior art car waxing machine. In general, a front side of the wax machine is installed with a semicircle annular arm
101
. The user may hold and press the arm for waxing. Since the arm
101
is installed in the front side of the waxing machine
10
, it is hard for the user to apply uniform force thereto. As a result, in application, it is often that it is necessary that the font end of the sponge disk is in contact with the surface of the car instead of the whole sponge disk being in contact with the surface. As a result, the waxing work cannot be executed successfully. Especially wax will be remained on the surface of the car. Thus, the user must wipe the point repeatedly. Therefore, this prior semicircle arm
101
at the front side of the car waxing machine
10
has the defect of non-uniformly applying force. Similarly. U.S. Pat. No. 3,849,943 illustrates a T shape arm
201
, but the same defects occur.
Referring to
FIG. 4
, to avoid that a non-uniform force to be applied to the waxing machine, fixing arms
301
at two sides of a waxing machine are developed. Although this design may cause that the user may apply force uniformly to the waxing machine, in general the wax is coated on the surface of a car instead of only applying on the horizontal surface. The waxing surface includes the head, lateral side, etc. Therefore, the operator must change pose for waxing. However, above arms at two sides of the arm
301
provide no structure for adjusting orientation. Thus, user can not adjust the angle as desired. Therefore, this waxing machine
30
having arms
301
can not be used comfortably.
Moreover, in general, the upper or rear ends of the waxing machines are extended with power wires for providing power to a motor. The winding of the power wires will affect the waxing work of the operator. Therefore, in general, it is desired that the wires are wound around the shoulders of the operator so as not to affect the holding of the waxing machine. Therefore, as the user adjusts the angle of the arm freely, the waxing work will not be interfered by the power wire.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the primary object of the present invention is to provide a car waxing machine with a driving handle comprising a car waxing machine and two pivotal handles. Each pivotal handle is a rod shape arm. The arm has a bent structure. Thereby, a rear section of the pivotal handle has a pivotal end and a front end thereof has an arm. By the arms of the two pivotal handles to be pivotally connected to two sides at the rear end of the car waxing machine, a structure with two arms at two sides which is rotable to adjust the orientations is formed. Thereby, the arms are adjustable to horizontally extend to the two sides of the car waxing machine. Therefore, the user may adjust the arms to match the habits for using the car waxing machine and further forces can be uniformly applied to the machine.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a car waxing machine with a driving handle, wherein the pivotal handle has an arm, a fixing seat, a shaft, an eccentric shaft, and a movable piece. Thereby, the movable piece can be removed easily so that the arm can be adjusted. Furthermore, the movable piece can be closed rapidly.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a car waxing machine with a driving handle, wherein the arm of the pivotal handle at two sides of the car waxing machine may be bent like a round arc and have a holding end which is slightly bent forwards, so that the user may apply force uniformly to the car waxing machine.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a car waxing machine with a driving handle, wherein the arm of the pivotal handle at two sides of the car waxing machine may be bent vertically and have a holding end which is slightly bent upwards or forwards, so that the user may apply force uniformly to the car waxing machine. Furthermore, the waxing work to the car along different direction can be performed easily.
The various objects and advantages of the present invention will be more readily understood from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the appended drawing.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1
is a lateral view of the prior art, wherein the waxing machine is installed in the front end of an arm.
FIG. 2
is an elevatioal view of the prior art, wherein the waxing machine is installed in the front end of an arm.
FIG. 3
is a perspective view of the prior art, wherein the waxing machine is installed in the front end of an arm.
FIG. 4
is an elevational view of the prior art, wherein the waxing machine is installed at two sides of an arm.
FIG. 5
is a perspective view showing the assembly of the car waxing machine of the present invention.
FIG. 6
is a partial exploded perspective view of the pivotal handle of the present invention.
FIG. 7
is an exploded perspective view of the pivotal handle according to the present invention.
FIG. 8
is an assembled cross sectional view of the pivotal handle according to the present invention.
FIG. 9
is an operational schematic view of the pivotal handle of the present invention.
FIG. 10
is a schematic view showing the umbrella shape gear of the pivotal handle according to the present invention.
FIG. 11
is a schematic view showing the adjustment of angle of the pivotal handle of the present invention.
FIG. 12
is a schematic view showing the application of the pivotal handle of the present invention.
FIG. 13
is a cross sectional view of another embodiment of the present invention wherein the shaft of the pivotal handle is illustrated.
FIG. 14
is an exploded perspective view of another embodiment of the protruding seat of the car waxing machine according to the present invention.
FIG. 15
is a cross sectional view of another embodiment of the pivotal handle according to the present invention.
FIG. 16
is a cross sectional view of another embodiment of the pivotal handle according to the present invention illustrated one application thereof.
FIG. 17
is an assembly view of another embodiment of the arm in the present invention.
FIG. 18
is an assembly view of a further embodiment of the arm in the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
Referring to
FIGS. 5 and 6
, the car waxing machine with a driving handle of the present invention is illustrated. The car waxing machine with a driving handle includes a car waxing machine
1
and pivotal handles
2
.
The car waxing machine
1
is a portable electromotive waxing machine which can be used on a car. The outer side thereof is installed with a hollow cylindrical casing
11
made of plastic or metal material. The upper end of the casing
11
is installed with a power switch
111
. The lower end thereof is a U shape round disk
112
. The rear side of the casing
11
is installed with a projecting seat
113
. Two sides of the projecting seat
113
are installed with respective posts
114
. The post
114
has a rectangular hole
115
at the center portion thereof. One lateral wall thereof has a penetrating hole
116
. Therefore, by above components, the casing
11
of the car waxing machine
1
is formed. A driving motor
100
, as shown in
FIG. 11
, can be installed therein so as to drive a polished body
117
at the lower side of the round disk
112
for waxing the surface of a car. The polished body
117
is a sponge block. The shape of the casing
11
can be machined to a desired shape without being confined by above embodiment.
The pivotal handle
2
(referring to
FIGS. 6 and 7
) is formed by an arm
21
, a fixing seat
22
, a shaft
23
, an eccentric shaft
24
, and a movable piece
25
.
The arm
21
is a round pivotal end
211
. The front section thereof is bent as cambered holding end
212
. The pivotal end
211
is installed with a protruded triangular teeth shape umbrella shape gear
213
. The center of the umbrella shape gear
213
is formed with an axial penetrating hole
214
. The lateral surface of the pivotal end
211
is installed with a radial penetrating pivotal hole
215
. The pivotal hole
215
is vertical to the axial penetrating hole
214
.
The fixing seat
22
is a round seat. The center of the front surface thereof is installed with a umbrella shape gear
221
which has triangular teeth and are concave. The center of the umbrella shape gear
221
is installed with a stepped hole
222
which penetrates the umbrella shape gear. The rear side thereof is installed with a rectangular post
223
. One side of the rectangular post
223
is installed with a radially penetrated pin hole
224
. The pin hole
224
is communicated with the stepped hole
222
. A pin
225
passes through the hole.
The shaft
23
is a round cylindrical rod. One end thereof has a threaded section
231
. One lateral surface of the threaded section
231
has a pin hole
232
. The lateral surface of the round cylindrical rod is radially installed with a through hole
233
. The diameter of the through hole
233
is identical to that of the pivotal hole
215
of the arm
21
.
The eccentric shaft
24
is a cylindrical shaft
241
. The middle section thereof is installed with an eccentric section
242
having a smaller diameter. The outer diameter of the eccentric section
242
is tangent to the cylindrical shaft
241
so as to be formed with a shifted round shaft.
The movable piece
25
is installed as a cambered piece and has a U shape cross section. The two lateral walls at the distal end thereof are installed with respective pivotal holes
251
.
By above components, referring to
FIGS. 7 and 9
, the threaded section
231
of the shaft
23
can be inserted into the stepped hole
222
of the fixing seat
22
. A nut
234
is screwed to the threaded section
231
from the back surface of the fixing seat
22
50
that the shaft
23
is firmly secured to the center of the fixing seat
22
. The front end of the shaft
23
passes through the axial penetrating hole
214
of the arm
21
. Therefore, the umbrella shape gear
213
of the arm
21
is engaged to the umbrella shape teeth
221
of the fixing seat
22
. However, the through hole
233
of the shaft
23
is aligned with the pivotal hole
215
of the arm
21
. Thus, the eccentric shaft
24
penetrates through the through hole
233
of the pivotal hole
215
. By two ends of the cylindrical shaft
241
of the eccentric shaft
24
, the pivotal hole
251
of the movable piece
25
is pivotally connected to one side of the arm
21
. The eccentric section
242
of the eccentric shaft
24
is exactly positioned in the through hole
233
of the shaft
23
and resists against the inner wall of the through hole
233
. Two umbrella shape gears
213
and
221
are engaged with one another tightly. Therefore, a pivotal handle
2
is formed.
With reference to
FIGS. 6 and 8
. in the present invention, two pivotal handles
2
are selected to pass through the rectangular holes
115
at the two sides of the rear side of the casing
11
. Thereby, the pin hole
224
of the fixing seat
22
is aligned to the penetrating hole
116
of the protruded seat
113
of the casing
11
. A pin
225
passes through the penetrating hole
116
of the protruded seat
113
, the pin hole
224
of the fixing seat
22
, and the pin hole
224
of the shaft
23
. Therefore, two pivotal handles
2
are firmly secured to the two sides of the casing
11
. Furthermore, the cambered arm
21
is extended forwards so that the angles of the handles
21
may be adjusted at two sides of the casing. Therefore, the car waxing machine
1
can be held. Thereby, the car waxing machine with a driving handle of the present invention is formed.
About the adjustment of the pivotal handle
2
, when the movable piece
25
is separated from the arm
21
(referring to
FIG. 9
) so as to drive the eccentric shaft
24
to rotate through an angle and thus the eccentric section
242
does not resist against the hole wall at front side of the through hole
233
. Therefore, the arm
21
can be moved by the user directly. By the umbrella shape gears
213
, and
221
, as shown in
FIGS. 10 and 11
, an intermittent buckling is generated so as to adjust the rotating angle of the arm
21
. In detail, the two umbrella shape gears
213
,
221
are engaged slightly. When the arm
21
rotates due to the elasticity of plastics, the umbrella shape gear
213
may rotate and engaged intermittently. When the movable piece
25
moves to a predetermined position, see
FIG. 8
, the eccentric section
242
of the eccentric shaft
24
resists against the front hole wall of the through hole
233
of the shaft
23
, so that the arm
21
is tightly engaged with the umbrella shape gears
213
,
221
of the fixing seat
22
and thus is fixed with a predetermined angle. Therefore, the user may adjust the angle of the pivotal handle
2
formed by above components freely.
By aforesaid car waxing machine with a driving handle, as shown in
FIGS. 11 and 12
, the orientation of the arm
21
is adjustable and are horizontally arranged at two sides of the car waxing machine
1
. Thereby, the user may hold the arm
21
by two hands and uniformly press the car waxing machine
1
. Thus, the wax can be applied by the polished body
117
at the bottom thereof. Since the forces are applied uniformly, the bottom of the polished body
117
wholly contacts the surface of the car. As a result, the defect of the prior art that the handle is installed at a front side is improved and the waxing work is performed effectively. Moreover, by the design of the pivotal handle
2
of the present invention, when the user waxes for various part of a car, the user may adjust the angle of the pivotal handle
2
to match different parts of the car or match the habit of the user so as to wax easily.
The way for securing the shaft
23
of the pivotal handle
2
firmly to the fixing seat
22
is not confined to the threaded section
231
(referring to FIG.
13
). The distal end of the shaft
23
may be installed with a threaded hole
235
. Thereby, the shaft
23
is fixed at the front center of the fixing seat
22
. Then a stud
236
may be used to screw into the threaded hole
235
from the backside of the fixing seat
22
, so that the shaft
23
is steadily combined with the fixing seat
22
.
Furthermore, referring to
FIG. 14
, for the structure of the protruding seat
113
of the casing
11
of the car waxing machine
1
, the vertical handle
118
at the rear side may be used. The two sides of the through hole of the vertical handle
118
are firmly secured with respective protruding seats
113
for being pivotally installed with pivotal handle
2
. Moreover, as shown in
FIGS. 14
,
15
, and
16
, in the pivotal handle
2
of the post
114
of the protruding seat
113
, the structure of the rectangular hole
115
and the fixing seat
22
can be cancelled. A concave umbrella shape gear
119
can be installed at the center of the post
114
. Further, the distal end of the shaft
23
is formed with a threaded hole
235
, and the shaft
23
is placed at the center of the umbrella shape gear
119
of the post
114
. A spring
237
and a stud
236
may be screwed into the threaded hole
235
of the shaft
23
from the inner surface of the post
114
so that the shaft
23
is directly combined with the post
114
of the protruding seat
113
. Then the front end of the shaft
23
passes through the penetrating hole
214
of the arm
21
. Therefore, the umbrella shape gear
213
of the arm
21
is engaged with the umbrella shape gear
119
of the post
114
.
Moreover, in the present invention, the arm
21
of the pivotal handle
2
is confined to the cambered holding end
212
(referring to FIG.
17
). The arm
21
′ can be bent as a vertical holding end
212
′. The fixing seat
22
, eccentric shaft
24
, movable piece
25
, etc. are assembled as above structure. Thereby, the angle of the holding end
212
′ of the are
21
′ is adjustable to horizontally extend to two sides of the car waxing machine
1
so that users may uniformly apply force thereto. Furthermore, as shown in
FIG. 18
, the arm
21
′ may be bent and have a holding end
212
″ which is slightly bent upwards. The fixing seat
22
, eccentric shaft
24
, movable piece
25
, etc. are assembled as above structure. Thereby, the user may execute the action of holding, pressing downwards, and pushing forwards. Consequently, the car waxing machine
1
of the present invention can be held conveniently and easily.
The present invention are thus described, it will be obvious that the same may be varied in many ways, for example, the car waxing machine
1
and the pivotal handle
2
can be modified, but still have the same effect. Such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the present invention, and all such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims.
Claims
- 1. A car waxing machine with a driving handle comprising a car waxing machine and two pivotal handles, a casing enclosing the car waxing machine; an outer side of the casing being installed with a power switch; and an interior thereof being installed with a driving motor; a bottom thereof having a polished body; and the driving motor driving the polished body to rotate, characterized in that:the pivotal handle is a rod shape arm; the arm has a bent structure; thereby, a rear section of the pivotal handle has a pivotal end and a front end thereof has an arm; by the arms of the two pivotal handles to be pivotally connected to two sides at a rear end of the car waxing machine so as to form a structure with two arms at two sides which is rotatable to adjust the orientations of the arm; thereby, the arms are adjustable to horizontally extend to the two sides of the car waxing machine.
- 2. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the power switch is at an upper end of the car waxing machine.
- 3. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein a round seat is installed at the casing of the car waxing machine and a lower side of the round seat has a round polished body.
- 4. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein a rear side of the casing is installed with a projecting seat; two sides of the projecting seat are installed with respective posts; the post has a rectangular hole at a center portion thereof; by the rectangular hole, the arms of the pivotal handle can be installed at two sides of the rear end of the casing.
- 5. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein a concave umbrella shape gear is installed at a center of each post of the protruding seat.
- 6. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pivotal handle is formed by an arm, a fixing seat, a shaft, an eccentric shaft, and a movable piece;the arm is a round pivotal end; the pivotal end is installed with an umbrella shape gear; a center of the umbrella shape gear is formed with an axial penetrating hole; a lateral surface of the pivotal end is installed with a radial penetrating pivotal hole; the fixing seat is a round seat; a center of a front surface thereof is installed with an umbrella shape gear which has triangular teeth and are concave; a center of the umbrella shape gear is installed with a stepped hole which penetrates the umbrella shape gear; a rear side thereof is installed with a rectangular post; the shaft is a round cylindrical rod; one end thereof has a threaded section; one lateral surface of the threaded section has a pin hole; one lateral surface of the round cylindrical rod is radially installed with a through hole; a diameter of the through hole is identical to that of the pivotal hole of the arm; the eccentric shaft is a cylindrical shaft; a middle section thereof is installed with an eccentric section so as to form a shifted round shaft; the movable piece is installed as a cambered piece and has a U shape cross section; two lateral walls at the distal end thereof are formed with respective pivotal holes; wherein the threaded section of the shaft is inserted into the stepped hole of the fixing seat; a nut is screwed to the threaded section from a back surface of the fixing seat so that the shaft is firmly secured to the center of the fixing seat; a front end of the shaft passes through the axial penetrating hole of the arm; the eccentric shaft penetrates through the through hole of the pivotal hole; by movable pieces at two ends of the cylindrical shaft of the eccentric shaft, the pivotal hole of the movable piece is pivotally inserted by one side of the arm; the eccentric section of the eccentric section is exactly positioned in and resists against the through hole of the shaft; two umbrella shape gears are engaged with one another tightly; as the movable pieces are moved so that the two umbrella shape gears are released, the orientation of the handles are adjustable; therefore, a pivotal handle of the car waxing machine is formed.
- 7. The car waxing machine with a driving handle as claimed in claim 6, wherein in the pivotal handle, by the rectangular posts are engaged to the rectangular holes at two sides of the casing of the car waxing machine, the orientations of the arms are adjustable.
- 8. The car waxing machine with a driving handle as claimed in claim 6, wherein an end portion of the shaft of the pivotal handle has a threaded hole, by a stud, the shaft is screwed to a center of the fixing seat, thereby, a front end of the shaft passes through the through hole of the arm.
- 9. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 6, wherein the shaft is directly combined with the post of the car waxing machine having an umbrella shape gear at a center; then a front end of the shaft passes through the penetrating hole of the arm; therefore, the umbrella shape gear of the arm is engaged with the umbrella shape gear of the post.
- 10. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 9, wherein a distal end of the shaft is formed with a threaded hole, and the shaft is placed at a center of the umbrella shape gear of the post; a spring and a stud are screwed into the threaded hole of the shaft from the inner surface of the post so that the shaft is directly combined with the post of the protruding seat; then the front end of the shaft passes through the penetrating hole of the arm; therefore, the umbrella shape gear of the arm is engaged with the umbrella shape gear of the post.
- 11. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arm of the pivotal handle is bent to have a cambered holding structure.
- 12. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arm of the pivotal handle is bent to have a vertical holding end.
- 13. The car waxing machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein the arm is bent and have a holding end which is slightly bent upwards; thereby, the user executes the action of holding, pressing downwards, and pushing forwards.
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