Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Processes – With work or work parts movable during treatment
Patent
1995-08-07
1997-07-29
Snay, Jeffrey
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Processes
With work or work parts movable during treatment
134 39, 134 40, 15 534, 15224, 152244, B60S 304
Patent
active
056518358
ABSTRACT:
The disclosed model railroad car wheel cleaning device has a structural base, and mats sandwiching the opposite broad faces of the base with each mat having many pairs of elongated substantially parallel grooves formed therein. The grooves are laterally spaced apart to receive the wheel flanges when the wheels are positioned against the mat. The mat material is durable, resilient, elastic and has minute open cells, capable of holding liquid solvent effective for removing particulate buildups on the car wheels. The car wheels are cleaned by wetting one of the mats with solvent, positioning the wheels against this mat with the wheel flanges in paired grooves, and rolling the railroad car along the mat in line with the grooves operable to wet end abrade the wheels for removing particulate buildups therefrom. The railroad car can further be positioned against and rolled along the second mat with the wheel flanges seated in paired grooves operable to dry and buff the wheels.
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Lind Charles F.
Snay Jeffrey
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