Drain cleaning apparatus
CA 2246077 C · Owner: Rutkowski, Michael J. · Inventors: Rutkowski, Michael J.
Overview
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The inner end of a snake or drain cleaning cable coiled in a rotatable cable storage drum of drain cleaning apparatus is provided with a torque arm which frictionally engages the outer wall of the drum to restrain sliding of the cable relative thereto during a drain cleaning operation. The drain cleaning apparatus is motor driven and a cable feed device for axially displacing the cable relative to the storage drum is provided on the outer end of a flexible guide tube detachably mounted on the apparatus to facilitate an operator guiding the outer end of the table into a drain to be cleaned and advancing or retracting the cable relative to the apparatus without having to physically contact …
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- Filed September 30, 1998 and granted June 18, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 30, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 30, 2020.
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