Patent ID: 8579039

Claim:
A beach maintenance and cleaning vehicle for cleaning the beach comprising: a vehicle frame and vehicle wheels; a receiving container for receiving contaminants; and a conveying and separating device for raising up the underlying surface and for separating contaminants out of the underlying surface and for conveying the contaminants into the receiving container; the conveying and separating device having a pick-up which is arranged and formed in such a way that the pick-up comes into contact with the underlying surface while the beach maintenance and cleaning vehicle is driving and raises up parts of said underlying surface, and a screen belt which is moved relative to the vehicle frame; wherein the conveying and separating device has a comminutor arranged between the pick-up and the screen belt and configured for breaking up sand lumps of the received underlying surface and/or for separating sand from contaminants, the comminutor having, for this purpose, at least two profiled shafts which are driven rotationally in the same direction and have a parallel rotational axis, the profiled shafts being arranged and driven in such a way that contaminants are conveyed along an upper side of said profiled shafts to the screen belt.