Tube Brooms: Everything You Need to Know About Street Sweeping

At Keystone Plastics, the leading manufacturer of street-sweeping brooms, we offer various brooms and brushes, including Tube Brooms. We manufacture three tube brooms: road contractor brushes, mechanical tube brooms (with two different varieties), and assist brooms for air sweepers.

How are Tube Brooms Constructed?
A tube broom’s construction is a robust steel tube encased in a durable poly spiral. This design ensures a completely even distribution of bristles, maximizing sweeping efficiency and longevity. The poly spiral’s uniform density ensures consistent contact with the surface, optimizing cleaning performance. There are two types of fills primarily for these brooms that include:

• All Poly: Providing excellent durability and a strong flick action for high-production sweeping.
• Poly Wire Version: This version is meant for very aggressive sweeping, as the wire adds a cutting action to help remove debris. Adding wire also extended the product’s life.

Different Ways to Drive a Tube Broom

• For the Mechanical Broom, the open-ended Tube Broom waits to analyze the expansion shaft to go down the middle to expand inside.
• The Contractor Broom includes keys welded into the broom. The sweeper locks the key into the Tube Broom and spins it, using that key to drive the brush.
• The Assist Broom is a little different, utilizing its different types of hardware. Our customers provide us with the name of their sweeper, and we’ll provide them with the broom and the correct hardware.

What are M Plates?
M plates are welded into the tube at various depths, with the holes already tapped and threaded to bolt to the sweeper.

What are Date Codes?
Date codes are numerical or alphanumeric identifiers that indicate a product’s date of manufacture, packaging, or expiration. We use them for product tracking, tracking movements and identifying problems.