Patent ID: 7827647

Claim:
A light-weight, portable, cleaning system for providing efficient cleaning of elongated tubes or conduits, said system comprising: A. a single housing for retaining components forming the system said housing incorporating an interior support wall mounted therein; B. an elongated, continuous shaft/cable; C. a brush mounted to a first end of the elongated shaft/cable; D. a single motor mounted in the housing to a first surface of the support wall and constructed for rotationally driving a drive shaft associated therewith at a first rotational speed, said drive shaft extending through said support wall and being directly drivingly engaged with a coupling, said coupling connected to the elongated shaft/cable for continuously rotating said shaft/cable at said first rotational speed; E. a pinion gear mounted to a second surface of the support wall and drivingly engaged directly with the drive shaft of the motor and interconnected with a plurality of gear members for imparting rotational movement to the gear members in order to achieve the desired axial movement of the shaft/cable; and F. said plurality of gear members mounted in the housing to the second surface of the support wall adjacent the pinion gear; a. rotationally mounted in juxtaposed, side to side relationship and cooperating to define a travel path for receiving a length of the shaft/cable and longitudinally driving the shaft/cable in either a forward direction or a rearward direction; and b. said gear members being constructed for receiving the rotation of the pinion gear at the first rotational speed and effectively producing a substantially reduced rotation at a second rotation speed, whereby controlled axial movement and rotational movement of the shaft/cable is attained in an efficient and controlled manner, with the rotational speed of the shaft/cable and the brush mounted thereto, being substantially greater than the axial/longitudinal movement speed of the shaft/cable.