Vehicle mountable area cleaner

Claim 1

A surface area cleaning assemblY for mounting on the front end of a pickup truck or the like having a forward mounted drive engine, the cleaning assembly comprising a. a laterally elongated hood having a lower narrow mouth inlet extending beyond the width of the truck and converging to an upper, smaller area outlet, b. mounting means for pivotally connecting the hood transversely to the front end of said truck so that the narrow mouth of the hood is held generally parallel to the surface area to be cleaned and is capable of being selectively raised or lowered with respect to said surface; c. blower means having an inlet and outlet, said blower means being mounted on said hood with the inlet of said blower means communicating with the outlet of the hood, d. rotary brush means mounted adjacent to the rear edge of said narrow mouth and arranged to rotate around an axis parallel to said surface, e. drive means connected to the front end of the crank shaft of said truck engine and arranged for rotating said blower means and said brush means whereby trash lying on said surface will be disturbed and picked up through said narrow mouth by the airflow created by said blower means, and f. trash container means mounted on said truck having a pneumatic tube means connected between said trash container means and the outlet of said blower means whereby the trash picked up by said blower means will be conveyed to said container means.