Brushing – scrubbing – and general cleaning – Machines – With means to pass a solid cleaning agent and a fluid...
Patent
1982-12-23
1984-08-28
Roberts, Edward L.
Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning
Machines
With means to pass a solid cleaning agent and a fluid...
1510406A, B08B 904
Patent
active
044674880
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for inserting cleaning plugs into the ends of tubes to be cleaned including a tool, a handle on the tool capable of being held by an operator, a chamber having an open end capable of being aligned with the open end of the tube to be cleaned, a first ram opposite the open end, a first piston-cylinder capable of moving the ram through the chamber and retracting it therefrom thereby forcing a cleaning plug into the tube, a magazine opening laterally from the first ram and open end into the chamber, a second ram positioned so as to move cleaning plugs from the magazine into the chamber, a second piston-cylinder capable of moving the second ram through and retracting it from the magazine, a housing for a chain of cleaning plugs, the housing opening into the magazine, a gas source maintaining a constant pressure on the chain of cleaning plugs so as to force a cleaning plug into the chamber when nothing else occupies it, and a trigger on the handle which in a first position pressurizes the second piston-cylinder, and in a second position pressurizes the first piston-cylinder.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2915422 (1959-12-01), Stone
patent: 3631555 (1972-01-01), Hurst et al.
patent: 4252255 (1981-02-01), Henderson
Combustion Engineering Inc.
Olson Robert L.
Roberts Edward L.
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