A squeegee or squilgee is a tool with a flat and smooth rubber blade, used to remove or control fluid flow on a flat surface. This is used for cleaning and printing.
The earliest written reference to date sweepers from the mid-nineteenth century and involves a deck cleanser, some with leather rather than a rubber knife. The name "squeegee" may be derived from the word "squeege", which means press or squeeze, first recorded in 1783. The closely related Squeedging was reported first used in 1782, at the Covent Garden Theater during the comedy show "Where that man?" by Hannah Cowley.
Video Squeegee
Window Cleanup
The best-known of these tools may be the window squeegee handkerchief , which is used to remove the cleaning fluid or water from the glass surface. The soap solution acts as a lubricant and breaks down the dirt, then a squeegee is used to pull the dirt that is now carried water from the glass leaving a clean surface. Some sweepers are supported with a sponge that can absorb soapy water from a bucket for application to a dirty window.
Squeegee was used for window cleaning in 1918 when an American book on naval jargon explained that a deck cleanser called a squeegee was "used in civilian life to clean windows." This is the earliest written reference to the window cleaning squeegee provided by the Oxford English Dictionary. (For prior use, see the "floor cleaning" section below.)
With the development of skyscrapers in the 20th century, more efficient tools for cleaning the exterior of the window are needed. Professional windowwashers started using Chicago squeegee , a large tool with two heavy pink rubber blades. Replacing a knife requires twelve separate screws. Squeegee a single modern window cleaner patented by Ettore Steccone in 1936; dubbed the "New Deal". It is made of light brass with a very flexible and sharp rubber knife. Steccone started the process of manufacturing and selling products in his garage. The Ettore Products Co. is still the current market leader of squeegee. Squeegee equipment can include telescope poles to expand the range of washing machines.
Simple sweepers are made in various forms for domestic use, including shower door cleaning, bathroom tiles, and garage flooring.
Technique
The "play method", or "fan method," as the professionals call it, uses a series of punches combined with turns that hold water from the front edge of a squeegee; when the bend is over in the opposite direction, there is no water and no dirt is left isolated. However, straight scratches, either horizontally or vertically, are usually much more efficient than "fanning". If some points are missed, the chamois leather fabric works better to touch than a cloth or paper towel.
This is caused by a tilted squeegee incorrectly forcing the water beneath the rubber blade out into a dry area of ​​glass or from a solution pushed upward to the top edge of the window. The squeegee should instead be tilted in the direction that the blade moves across the glass to force water into the wet area of ​​the glass.
Another method used by window cleaners is to knock on a wet area of ​​glass to remove the excess water on the rubber knife. Or a rubber knife can be dried with a towel, although this method is slower and impractical when using an extension pole.
According to Guinness World Records, the world's fastest window cleanser is Terry Burrows of South Ockendon, Essex, England, which cleans three 45-inch 45-inch standard 45-inch office windows in a frame within 9.24 seconds at the National Exhibition Center in Birmingham on March 2005. He used a 11.8-inch squeegee and 2.4 gallons of water.
Maps Squeegee
Floor cleaning
The floor squeegee is similar to a squeegee window but has a long handle like a sweepstroke, used to clean the floor after they are sprayed with water or soap, to push water into the drains.
These are often used in places that need floor cleaning regularly, such as an army barracks or a meat department in a supermarket. Hospitals sometimes use the squeegee floor to clean up any spills that occur in the operating room or the usual patient rooms because the design of the rubber cleaner itself leads to a cleaner cleaning.
Boat deck
The earliest quotation says the sweeper at the Oxford English Dictionary refers to its use in clearing the deck on board: in 1844 a "squee gee" in an American book, in 1851 a "jin-leather" in Moby-Dick , and in 1867 in the English book by Admiral William Henry Smyth. In addition, Richard Henry Dana's 1840 book Two Year Before Pillar mentions "squilgeeing" in Chapter XIV.
The following are considered correct English terminology, according to [Canada] Naval Terminology Standardization Committee:
- squeegee;
- deck squeegee;
- squint; and
- squillagee.
Road cleaning
Squeegees on the broom handle were used to clear the road in the late nineteenth century. This was the case in London in 1873. At the beginning of the 20th century, several cities in Europe and North America used a horse machine with a rotating squeegee rubber blade on a roller behind a water tank connected to a sprinkler. In 1911 it was described as "a German invention that has for several years been operating successfully in prominent German cities". A US version of the rotating squeegee machine, known as the Squeegee Kindling Washing Machine or Kindling Street, is being used at the time of the description. It was manufactured in Milwaukee by Louis Kindling who had migrated from Germany to Wisconsin in 1873. In 1915 several streets in Paris, Washington DC, and Philadelphia were being cleared by such machines, while London still depended on men with handkerchiefs and sweepers.. In 1919 Kindling was awarded a US patent for the design with "New and useful improvements in Squeegee-Rollers", following another "repair" patent for a squeegee cleaning machine proposed in 1915 by inventor Samuel Whinery (resident of East Orange, New Jersey) and published in 1916.
In 1914, William H. Connell (Head, Bina Marga and Road Cleaning in Philadelphia) explained that road cleaning was done in "two and three squeegee machines preceded by sprinklers" reported about 200 yards (180 m) ahead. The American Highway Engineers' Handbook of 1919 reveals that this method is used for water:
[...] to loosen the dirt on the sidewalk without giving him time to yawn. [...] The idea of ​​a sprinkling is to soften the surface and allow a squeegee to clean the streets of all slime and harsh materials. The squeegees were followed by two men, who immediately swept the dirt rolls into the pile, and a sufficient number of carts followed to remove dirt from the streets.
The need to support labor and feet is seen as a disadvantage. Furthermore, the squeegee machine is pulled by a horse, which will defecate on the streets trying to clean. Therefore, they are gradually replaced by mechanical street cleaners, introduced as early as 1911.
Print and photography
In screen printing, a squeegee is used to spread the ink evenly over the back of a stencil or silkscreen, making a clean image on the printed surface. Screen-printing squeegees usually have thicker and less flexible blades from various window cleaning.
A squeegee is also used in printing photography on a cloth to dry photo paper after washing, preventing wrinkling or water spots.
The earliest reference for a squeegee used for drying in photography is the 1878 description by chemist and photographer William Abney extorting excess water. The brace has no handle, and "flat wooden slats, in it left a piece of Indian rubber about 1/2 centimeter thick and 2 cm wide." Users should note that "rubber-india from a squeegee should be brought to bear with great pressure on the surface of the paper, and a stroke made with it must start from the center and finish towards the tip."
Sports
Ice in the skating rink reappeared using a squeegee and other tools. Currently, they are all integrated in the resurfacer ice.
Tennis courts sometimes have sweepers to help keep them dry and control the flow of water.
Other uses
A rigid bladed sweeper is used in addition to shovels and floats grout to apply grout or adhesive when applying ceramic tiles to the surface.
Plastic wedges and small rubber with the tip formed as a knife are used as signatures for vinyl tarpaulin applications to reduce the possibility of air bags. The sweeper recipes come in different models, some of which have no hold, but roughly the size and shape of credit cards.
The trick to remove pet hair is to use ÃÆ' squeegee.
Car sweepers are used in some universities to clean the blackboard.
During the September 11 attacks in 2001, Jan Demczur window washers used a squeegee to free him and five others from the elevator shaft at the World Trade Center in New York City. The squeegee is now on display at the Smithsonian.
In popular media
- The squeegee idea has been used by Associate Professor Burkard Polster of Monash University, to illustrate the problem of Kakeya mathematical needles.
- Claimed that comedian Bill Hicks uses the phrase "Squeegee Your Third Eye" often in his actions.
- "Squeegee Weegee Gazette" is the official magazine of the Sausalito Yacht Club.
- "Weegee" is a pseudonym of photographer Arthur (Usher) Fellig. One of the origins of his pseudonym is that he refers to his skills as a darkroom assistant (such an assistant is sometimes called a "squeegee boy").
See also
- Clusters
- Male Squeegee
- Strigil
References
Further reading
- Lee, N.C. (2002). Reflow Solder Process . Science Elsevier. pp.Ã, 94-97. ISBN 978-0-08-049224-7 . Retrieved July 25 2016
- Ross, J. (2009). Complete Print Creator . Media freedom. p.Ã, 154. ISBNÃ, 978-1-4391-3509-9 . Retrieved July 25 2016
- Chopra, K.L.; Das, S.R. (2013). Thin Film Solar Cell . Springer US. p.Ã, 238. ISBNÃ, 978-1-4899-0418-8 . Retrieved July 25 2016
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