Special applications
RCM scrubber-dryers remove any kind of dirt by means of brushes and detergent, leaving the floor perfectly clean.
RCM sweepers collect any type of waste and thanks to their DUST BUSTER exclusive system they retain the finest particles leaving the area perfectly clean.
RCM combined machines can simultaneously collect the debris and wash using a detergent solution, leaving the floor completely dry.
RCM vacuum cleaners are designed to remove the dust and small debris from corners, interstices and surfaces that cannot be reached by other machines.
RCM single brushes are suitable for washing or perform specific actions (spray cleaning, burnishing, etc.) on surfaces.
SANITIZING scrubbers grant daily a fast, economical and easy cleaning and disinfection operation keeping every working environment safe.
ECO3 Sanitizing scrubber-dryers are perfect for professional sanitization of different types of floors. They use the ozone oxidation process and do not require chemical sanitizing products.
RCM stainless steel scrubber-dryers can be used in environments with highly corrosive substances.
The machines featuring special drive are designed to easily overcome steep gradients even during operation.
An innovative solution for maintenance cleaning of carpets (felt) using a sweeper and a scrubber.
The RCM sweeper is suitable for the daily maintenance of synthetic turfs.
The RCM sweeper that collects the dirt and retains the dust generated by daily life.
The new marketing department of RCM S.p.a. has decided to insert a new series of short stories called Cover story on its website, to briefly document, without interruption, the history of some RCM machines that have decreed a substantial technical innovation in the cleaning sector.
Let’s start with the history of the RX918.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the municipal companies in charge of urban cleaning began to demand mechanical means that could reduce the labor costs of cleaning sidewalks, an operation done, as always, manually with broom and shovel.
Two are the main difficulties: “physical” access and “legal” access to the sidewalks that the machines had to clean.
The physical problem was the height from the surface of the street: between 10 and 25 cm, in addition to several “pylons” (stakes, chains…) to the climb in its most accessible sections.
Legal access was the “prohibition of access to platforms by any mechanical means of motor” sanctioned by the traffic code.
The first attempt to solve, at least the first difficulty was made by the company Nova who proposed an agricultural motocultor that dragged a sweeping group.
In fact, it cleaned but, in addition to not sucking up the dust, it had a length of more than 3 meters and was not very manageable, so it soon proved inadequate to the multiplicity of situations in which the problem arose.
Manual industrial monosweepers (although modified in height from the ground) were also proposed but were unsuccessful.
Year 1985
Sidewalk sweeper Nova
In 1985, considering that the Italian and European market for an efficient means for the mechanized cleaning of the sidewalk and could represent a market of several thousand units, RCM decided to accept the challenge and three years later, at the Interclean Amsterdam, He officially introduced the RX 918 Swinger. Her “spatial” form, which concealed many innovative technical solutions under her silver “skin”, left everyone so surprised that the organizers of the fair wanted to dedicate to this novelty a ceremony in which she was recognized as “queen” of Interclean.
R stands for RCM
X for the “solved unknown”
9 by the maximum width of 90 cm
18 for variable cleaning width up to 180 cm
Swinger for its elegant start, not only in the plane to make sure the ride in the curves but also, and above all, when climbing comfortably on sidewalks up to 25 cm in height.
This was his most important novelty: the total traction on the three wheels facilitated the rise of the front while a system regulated by a “pendulum” automatic levelling of the means by raising/lowering separately and automatically also the two rear wheels when they come into contact with the step.
But the news didn’t stop here. Varioclean, is an automatic system to extend and reduce the cleaning width based on the presence of obstacles, power steering for precise light driving, cabin (in safety glass) with sliding opening without side gauges, pressurised, 180°air-conditioning and visibility, washable synthetic fabric panel filter to retain dust up to 10 microns, fuel tank in the frame support structure to ensure a range of more than 8 hours, waste collection in a closed (standard) polyethylene bag raised and unloaded, at the level of the road container, remotely manoeuvred (forward/rearward) by the ground operator to bring the container accurately and never come into contact with dirt, charging system with two counter-rotating brushes and suction for dust, to fill the trash container (bag) from the other.
The four-cylinder, supersilenced water-cooled engine is positioned so that a very low centre of gravity is obtained.
Year 1985
Sweeper RX918 at night work
If all this allowed climbing “physically” the steps, there was the problem of being able to climb “legally”.
The solution arose from a compromise between the Ministry of Transport and RCM that only allowed access to self-propelled mechanical vehicles on the sidewalks if they operated within a “work” area delimited by a fence.
The idea worked and confirmed that technological progress works as a driver of jurisdiction adaptation.
So far all well and, in addition, there was another reason to think of a great success of the RX918: its ability to “appear”.
This small silver ship that moved quickly and efficiently through the urban center (historic in particular) It aroused the attention and benevolence of citizens by bringing water both to the mill of the idea of progress of environmental consciousness and to that of the Enlightened citizen administrators who had adopted it.
Not so much, because a series of negative circumstances helped to de-interest a solution as genius as extreme for technical solutions.
First of all, just in the months following the presentation of RX918, the (sacrosanct) law was passed that broke down the architectural barriers starting with the obstacles to access to the sidewalks, that is, the steps. To climb the sidewalks it would no longer be necessary to “climb” as towards the RX918, but simply use the ramps that, in a few years, were built throughout the national territory.
Changing national economic conditions pushed public administrators to consider the cleaning of sidewalks and pedestrian areas in general as an overly expensive or secondary service that could be done using large road sweepers coupled with manual interventions, Including the famous “blowers”, so harmful to the health of citizens.
He means, there was no need for “ships” and anyway the cities could no longer afford them.
But in the meantime RCM had opened a new path in the segment of urban sweepers: small machines to work in the narrow environments of historic centres and, at the same time, with a high capacity of collection and aspiration of thin particles (pm10).
1992 saw the birth of RONDA, the four-wheel sweeper that maintains the dimensions of its parent but designed to be more practical, easier to use and above all designed to vacuum the maximum amount of fine powders that still afflict the citizens in the historic centers of all cities. The excellent operation of RONDA is certified by the Alfa Studio, by the test carried out on the perimeter of the old walls of Modena in March 2002.
Kilometres covered: 10.2 km.
Time taken: 4.3 hours
Dust/debris collected: 130 kg. (Corresponding to 230 litres)
Dust dispersed in the atmosphere: 13.16 grams.
RONDA by RCM
Current production of urban sweepers built by the Macroclean company of the RCM group:
Model M3 (ex RONDA)
Model M7 (ex PATROL)
Model Macro M60
This episode tells one of the many experiences made in the cleaning world by RCM S.p.a. which always provides technically avant-garde products, the result of a long experience and passion for their work.
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