Patent ID: 6601521
Filing Date: 2003-08-05
Classification: D01H

Abstract:
A traveling cleaner for a textile manufacturing plant, comprisingfirst and second rails arranged adjacent each other and extending above textile machines of the manufacturing plant, with the first and second rails each having an upper running surface extending therealong, and a carriage of a traveling cleaner having a carrying structure supported for movement along the rails and comprising running wheels arranged to run on the running surfaces of the first and second rails, with the running wheels arranged at the corners of a triangle with a first running wheel running on the running surface of the first rail and second and third running wheels arranged one behind the other to run on the running surface of the second rail, and with at least the second and third running wheels being rotationally moveable about axes of rotation which extend approximately at right angles to a plane of movement defined by the running surfaces of the rails, and wherein the first running wheel is driven by a motor and the second and third running wheels are free running.