Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Apparatus – With means for collecting escaping material
Patent
1993-08-16
1997-04-01
Coe, Philip R.
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Apparatus
With means for collecting escaping material
134172, 239227, 239264, B08B 302
Patent
active
056156960
ABSTRACT:
The disclosed apparatus and method relate to a cleaning nozzle which, in multiple embodiments, is rotated in a circle or in an ellipse, being one nozzle in one embodiment and multiple nozzles in alternate embodiments so that the surface of a pipeline can be clean with high pressure water or other fluids. Furthermore, the rotating nozzle is supported in a carriage in one embodiment which encircles and travels along a pipeline. The carriage is supported by drive wheels which cooperate with separate drive motors and a control circuit to assure that the carriage remains upright. Multiple rotating nozzles are supported in the carriage to clean adjacent portions of the pipeline. Alternate embodiments are shown for cleaning a horizontal surface with a hand pushed or motorized version, and another version is disclosed supported on a moveable boom, thereby enabling cleaning of an upstanding vertical surface such as the hull of a ship.
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