Battery power saves the day
December 1st 2010 The new addition to the Truvox range of
battery powered scrubber driers is said to
be making a big impression on cleaning
companies with daytime contracts
because it easily enables them to carry
out their work without creating hazards
Ascrubber drier for small or medium sized areas, the Orbis
Battery Scrubber has a 17 litre solution tank with adjustable
solution flow and a 22-litre recovery tank so is therefore
capable of longer continuous spells of work than
other competitive compact machines.
It will be particularly useful for the
growing daytime cleaning market,
for obvious health and safety reasons,
and to contract cleaners because the
battery power frees them from the need to
gain access to power points to be able to do
their work.
Asked why Truvox had created this machine for the
market, Gordon McVean, Sales and marketing director
of Truvox International, explained that the company had
identified the expanding daytime cleaning market as one it
should serve more fully.
"We already had the successful Orbis UHS Cordless
Burnisher to provide daytime cleaners with a battery-powered
ultra high speed rotary burnisher that finishes highly polished
floors brilliantly" he explained. "What was needed was a
complementary battery-powered compact scrubber drier,
so that the whole job could be done without trailing
leads."
He emphasised that the Orbis Battery Scrubber
Drier has a 6.25% larger tank capacity than its
principal competitor and also shares the tried and tested
Truvox single-disc handle, so that the new machine
shares common parts with other machines in the Orbis
range.
Easier to empty
The drain hose situated at the rear of the machine
makes emptying the recovery tank a simple, efficient
and clean operation. Supplied with two 28 A/h
batteries as standard, typical battery run time is about 1
hour 20 minutes, and additional batteries can be
supplied on request. The batteries can be quickly and
easily changed, so contract cleaners who purchase
additional gel batteries can work more or less continuously
with a brief break of about five minutes for a change of
battery every hour.
Easy to transport, load into lifts and store, the Orbis Battery
Scrubber is great for cleaning where there are tricky corners and
narrow passages to negotiate. It has a compact folding handle, a
38cm working width, and a 45cm suction width with 658 m/bar
suction, so does a powerful job. Quieter than larger scrubber driers,
with a 250W brush motor driving the brush at 130 rpm, it is ideal for
shops, restaurants, car showrooms, healthcare premises, schools,
workshops and gymnasiums.The Orbis Battery Scrubber is designed
to clean at a rate of up to 1,100 square metres per hour.
The aluminium brush assembly and robust plastic suction beam
are corrosion-free, and are quickly and easily removed to change the
brush ? there are only two easily accessed fixing pegs. The brush
itself is wider than the body of the Orbis Scrubber Drier, so
effectively cleans along the skirtings and around obstacles.When
the machine turns, the swinging suction beam continues to provide
excellent drying, so that there is no need to take two runs over areas
where the scrubber drier was turned.
High-speed productivity
In schools, colleges and other educational establishments
nationwide, the Truvox Multiwash washes,mops, scrubs and dries on
both hard and soft floor coverings in a single pass and leaves
floors ready to walk on in minutes ? an essential capability for
health and safety compliance. Staffordshire County Council
alone has bought hundreds of Multiwash scrubber driers, and
has found the design extremely effective on 'difficult' floors like nonslip
safety floors, low pile carpets, entrance matting and escalators.
Easy to use and manoeuvre, the Multiwash has quickly
interchangeable brushes,with a range of different brushes
available, and easily accessible and removable tanks to make
filling, emptying and cleaning straightforward.
Proven over more than a decade for cleaning food service
areas, hospitals, schools, nursing homes and retail stores,
the Multiwash is available in three different cleaning
widths ? 24cm, 34cm and 44cm. The larger models are
available with a pump and spray if required, making them
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