The present invention relates to a machine for wall processing, which realizes multiple purposes including putty scraping, grinding and polishing, painting, cleaning and wall paper removing on the wall to replace human labour.
The current situation related to the processes of wall putty scraping, grinding and polishing, painting, cleaning and wall paper removing is illustrated as follows. (1) The processes of putty scraping, grinding and polishing on the wall are carried out manually by human world widely. (2) The painting process is carried out by a roller, an air sprayer or an airless sprayer, which may incur the difficulty in cleaning the paint accidentally dropped on the floor and environmental pollution to some extent. For example, the air sprayer or the airless sprayer needs the atomization of the paint at first, and the atomized paint may float in the air and cause damages to the health of an operator. (3) The cleaning of the wall (such as a glass wall), especially for the large hall like an airport or a stadium and the glass curtain wall is carried out manually by human, which causes the strong working strength and high risk. (4) The removal of the wall paper is carried out by an evaporation generator and human operations, which has the problem of low efficiency.
Prior to this application, PRC Patent No. 200310111959.4 and U.S. Pat. No. 6,966,825 of the inventor of the present invention publish “wall/roof polisher,” which has the deficiencies of a single purpose, a complicated structure and unsmooth attachment to the working surface.
The present invention is mainly directed to a multi-purpose machine for wall processing, which may perform operations including putty scraping, grinding and polishing, painting, cleaning and wall paper removing on the wall to replace human labour, thus realizing multiple purposes, reducing the labour strength, and improving the working efficiency.
To achieve the above objectives, the present invention adopts the following technical scheme.
The multi-purpose machine for wall processing of the present invention includes a base, a working member and a sliding device that drives the working member slide up and down relative to the base. The base includes a bottom board with moving wheels therebelow and a top board, and several parallel upright posts between the bottom board and the top board. The working member includes a cover and a roller set inside the cover. A built-in motor is set inside the roller. Wall processing tools are releasably fixed on the outside of the roller. A feeding hole is provided on the upper part of the cover and connected with a supply system or an absorbing system.
The sliding device includes a motor fixed on the base, and the motor is connected with two sliding blocks by a transmission system. Two sides of the working member are respectively connected with the two sliding blocks, and the two sliding blocks are respectively confined to slide along two sliding rails. In accordance with different wall heights or other requirements, the two sliding rails may be vertically fixed between the bottom board and the top board. Or, the two sliding rails are vertically fixed between the upper support plate and the lower support plate, and the support posts parallel to the sliding rail are further disposed between the two support plates. The top board has a hole for the support posts to penetrate and slide, and the lower support plate has a hole for the upright posts to penetrate and slide, so that the support posts are confined to slide in a direction parallel to the upright posts.
The transmission system may be a steel cord and plural pulleys mounted on the top board, the bottom board, the upper support plate and the lower support plate.
In the use of the multi-purpose machine for wall processing of the present invention, according to different purposes, different wall processing tools may be selected to be fixed on the outside of the roller. For grinding and polishing, the tool fixed on the outside of the roller is sandpaper. For putty scraping, painting or wall cleaning, the tool fixed on the outside of the roller is drum. For removing the wall paper, the tool fixed on the outside of the roller is plural ring blades spaced by a certain interval.
When the multi-purpose machine for wall processing of the present invention is used for putty scraping, painting, wall cleaning or removing the wall paper, a supply system is connected with the feeding hole. The supply system includes a reservoir for containing paint, putty, cleaning agent or solvent, an inlet of the reservoir is connected with an air pump or an extrusion device, and an outlet of the reservoir is detachably connected with the feeding hole on the upper part of the cover by a soft hose. The reservoir, the air pump or the extrusion device are fixed on the top board or the upper support plate.
When the multi-purpose machine for wall processing of the present invention is used for grinding and polishing the wall, an absorbing system is connected with the feeding hole, and the absorbing system includes a vacuum cleaner, the vacuum cleaner is detachably connected with the feeding hole on the upper part of the cover by a soft hose. The vacuum cleaner is fixed on the top board or the upper support plate. The vacuum cleaner is used for absorbing dusts generated in grinding.
For uniformly distributing the paint, putty, cleaning agent or solvent on the upper part of the working member, the feeding hole on the upper part of the cover is in a flat shape. The feeding hole is connected with the soft hose by a trumpet-shaped or triangular connector. A narrow end of the connector is connected with the soft hose, and a wide end of the connector is connected with the feeding hole. The connector and the cover may be fabricated separately, and the connector and the cover may be integrated. The connection position of the soft hose should be deviated from the center so as to reduce the chance of contacting the steel cord.
For processing the corners of the wall, the uneven or irregular wall and the edges of the ceiling where the working member of the wall processing cannot reach, an electrical or manual sprinkler connected with the reservoir is fixed on one side of the cover.
For processing the concave wall, in the multi-purpose machine for wall processing of the present invention, any one of the sliding blocks that slides along the sliding rail slide includes a defining portion disposed at the back and a protruding portion disposed in the front. The defining portion has at least one set of pulleys, the sliding rail corresponding to the sliding block are placed between the pulleys, and the sliding block is confined to slide up and down relative to the sliding rail. The protruding portion includes a frame and a fixed block fixed with the working member, the fixed block is confined to move front and back along the frame, and an offsetting spring is disposed between the fixed block and the back side of the frame.
The structure for confining the fixed block to move front and back along the frame is illustrated as follows.
One beam and two bars are fixed in the frame of the protruding portion of the sliding block, the beam and the bars penetrate the fixed block, the pulleys are mounted between the fixed block and the beam, the offsetting spring is sleeved on the bars and is disposed between the fixed block and the back side of the frame, the beam and the bars are perpendicular to the sliding rail, and an upper part and lower part of the fixed block respectively have a set of pulleys that slide on the surface of the frame.
The structure may also be realized as follows.
Two bars are fixed in the frame of the protruding portion of the sliding block, two linear bearings are mounted in the fixed block, and the two bars respectively penetrate two linear bearings; and the offsetting spring is sleeved on the bars and is placed between the fixed block and the back side of the frame, and the bars are perpendicular to the sliding rail.
In the sliding block of this structure, on one hand, the working member is the protruding portion fixed on the front part of the sliding block, so the working member protrudes out of the front part of the wall processing machine and may get into the concave wall for working. On the other hand, on the basis that the working member is guaranteed to move smoothly up and down along the sliding rail, as the fixed block fixed with the working member can move front and back relative to the sliding block and may be resiliently return to its normal position, which enables the working member working on the working surface tightly all the time.
The top board or the upper support plate fixed with the sliding rail adopts the following structure. The front end of the top board or the upper support plate fixed with the sliding rail protrudes farther than the front end of the bottom board or the lower support plate fixed with the sliding rail. The lower part of the top board or the upper support plate fixed with the sliding rail has two protruding posts, and when the sliding block moves upwardly to the top end of the sliding rail, the two sliding blocks respectively reach the two protruding posts. With this structure, when the working member is at the top end of the sliding rail, the working member will not collide with the top board or the upper support plate, which may guarantee that the working member moves smoothly front and back and is kept working tightly on the working wall.
To ensure the working member of the multi-purpose machine for wall processing of the present invention suffer the force within a certain range and will not collide with the wall to cause damage, the front ends of the bottom board, the top board, the upper support plate and the lower support plate are respectively provided with plural mounting holes, and in each mounting hole, the positioning rod is fixed. To reduce the weight of the overall machine, the bottom board, the top board, the upper support plate and the lower support plate are made to be hollow inside to the maximum extent, and are provided with the mounting holes for the pulleys of the transmission device.
To adjust the working depth of the working member, such as the grinding and polishing depth and the thickness of the paint, the front side of the cover is provided with two positioning wheels with the regulating device.
The top board or the upper support plate fixed with the sliding rail is provided with plural mounting holes for fixing the working member. The working member is fixed on the upper part of the top board or the upper support plate. The wall processing machine of the present invention may perform all kinds of wall processing operations on the roof. To ensure the working member working tightly on the roof, a spring is disposed between the working member and every mounting hole.
The cover is a semi-enclosed structure on the outside of the roller. The roller partially protrudes out of the cover, which may reduce the pollution to the working environment to the maximum extent. The front side of the cover is provided with a top positioning wheel and a bottom positioning wheel with the regulating device, which can adjust the working depth according to the requirement. The upper part of the cover has a flat feeding hole.
The roller has one groove, one motor is fixed in the roller, and a sealing washer is disposed on an outer edge of the two side shafts of the roller.
To realize the automatic operation, the motor of the sliding device and the built-in motor of the roller may be connected with an electronic control circuit.
The multi-purpose machine for wall processing of the present invention is operated as follows. Firstly, different tools and different supply or absorbing systems are selected to be mounted according to different wall processing requirements. For grinding and polishing, a sandpaper is mounted on the roller, and the vacuum cleaner is connected to the feeding hole. For the putty scraping, painting or wall cleaning, a drum is mounted on the roller, and the reservoir that contains the paint, the putty or the cleaning agent is connected to the feeding hole. For removing the wall paper, a ring blade is mounted on the roller, and the reservoir containing the solvent is connected to the feeding hole. The operator handholds the base without efforts and lean the working member to the wall, and then working member is driven by the sliding device to slide up and down and process the wall.
The multi-purpose machine for wall processing of the present invention can realize different functions and multiple purposes and is simple and efficient just by replacing the tools of the working member. The structures of the sliding block, the bottom board, the top board, the upper support plate and the lower support plate are subtly designed, so that the wall processing machine may process the concave walls and may work on the wall tightly all the time. The multi-purpose machine of the present invention may perform operations including putty scraping, grinding and polishing, painting, cleaning and wall paper removing on the wall to replace human labour, thus realizing multiple purposes, reducing the labour strength, improving the working efficiency and ensuring the working safety.
Hereinafter, the present invention is described in details with reference to the embodiments in accompanying with the drawings.
According to wall height or user's requirements, the multi-purpose machine for wall processing of the present invention may be fabricated into a single column type (as shown in
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The structure of the working member 1 is illustrated in
The working member 1 includes a cover 11 and a roller 12. The cover 11 is a semi-enclosed structure on the outside of the roller 12, and a front part of the roller 12 protrudes out of the cover 11. The roller has one groove, one motor (not shown) is fixed in the roller, and a sealing washer is disposed on an outer edge of the two side shafts of the roller.
The left and right sides of the working member 1 are connected with the sliding block 22, and the front ends on the top and bottom sides of the working member 1 has positioning wheels 14. The positioning wheels 14 are provided with the regulating device 15, and the structure of the regulating device 15 is shown in
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If the two bars penetrate the fixed block 2222 through the linear bearing, the beam 248 and the pulleys 245 may be omitted.
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For performing the operations such as putty scraping, grinding and polishing, painting or cleaning, the working member 1 may be fixed above the upper support plate 36, and the opening of the cover 11 faces upwards, as shown in
To reduce the weight of the overall machine and the length of the positioning rod, the bottom board 31, the top board 32, the upper support plate 36 and the lower support plate 37 are provided with the mounting holes for mounting the pulleys, the positioning rod 5 and the working member 1 and a hole 75 for the upright posts and support posts to penetrate and slide.
For the single post multi-purpose machine for wall processing, the structure of the top board is illustrated in
The above descriptions are merely taken as the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but not intended to restrict the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are included in the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.
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