Air vent dust scrubber
View Patent ↗An assembly used to scrape clean a vent pattern with a blade and catch or the scrapings.
1. An air vent cleaning mechanism comprising:
a blade positioned parallel to and lying substantially on a first side of a wall having a vent opening, the blade moveable parallel to the first side of the wall over the vent opening for cleaning dust or debris from an edge of the vent opening;
a debris catching mechanism positioned parallel to and lying substantially on a second side of the wall opposite the blade, the debris catching mechanism movable parallel to the second side of the wall over the vent opening, and independently of the blade, wherein the debris catching mechanism includes an aperture being positionable in line with the vent opening to allow free flowing air to move through the vent opening; and
a sensor for determining when air flow through the vent opening has reached a predetermined rate, the sensor configured to provide a signal to cause the debris catching mechanism to move from a home position away from the vent opening to a deployed position over the vent opening and to cause the blade to move from a home position in which the aperture is aligned with the vent opening to a deployed position over the vent opening, the movement of the blade causing the dust or the debris on the edge of the vent opening to be scraped off and captured by the debris catching mechanism.