US 11,958,086 B2
Cleaning device with a reinforced guide profile
Romain Pennel, Bailleul (FR); and Jason Dehem, Bailleul (FR)
Assigned to A X SYSTEM, Bailleul (FR)
Filed by A X SYSTEM, Bailleul (FR)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/841,857.
Claims priority of application No. FR2106362 (FR), filed on Jun. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0401998 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. B08B 3/02 (2006.01); B63B 59/06 (2006.01); F28G 1/16 (2006.01); B60S 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC B08B 3/024 (2013.01) [B63B 59/06 (2013.01); F28G 1/16 (2013.01); F28G 1/166 (2013.01); B60S 3/00 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile device for cleaning surfaces, comprising:
a truck for a nozzle-carrier rack disposed in a movable manner for facing a surface to be cleaned and carrying a nozzle-carrier rack with one or more nozzles for spraying the surface to be cleaned,
a guide system including at least one guide profile acting as a path on which said truck for a nozzle-carrier rack moves, and said truck having bearing members for moving on said at least one guide profile,
a flexible pipe for supplying a cleaning fluid to said nozzle-carrier rack,
a motorization element and a transmission element for actuating said truck for a nozzle-carrier rack to impart movement of the truck for a nozzle-carrier rack along said at least one guide profile,
wherein said at least one guide profile includes a rigidification device including at least one rigidification beam that extends along said at least one guide profile and above said at least one guide profile when the one or more nozzles are directed downward for spraying,
wherein said at least one rigidification beam is fastened to said at least one guide profile in several discrete positions along said at least one guide profile by fastening plates, said fastening plates connecting said at least one rigidification beam to said at least one guide profile, and
wherein said at least one rigidification beam is a metal beam having an elastic zone, which is maintained curved under elastic tension by said fastening plates, configured so as to rigidify said at least one guide profile.