Brushing – scrubbing – and general cleaning – Implements – Pipe – tube – or conduit cleaner
Patent
1998-11-10
2000-05-23
Till, Terrence R.
Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning
Implements
Pipe, tube, or conduit cleaner
15104068, B08B 904
Patent
active
060651741
ABSTRACT:
A cleaning pig comprising a forward cup, a rear cup and a connecting central body extending between the two cups, the cups having an outside diameter corresponding generally to the inside diameter of a pipeline to be cleaned by the cleaning pig, a plurality of leaf springs extending rearwardly and radially outwardly from the central body between the two cups and being connected to the central body at their inner ends, a plurality of scraper blocks attached to the outer free ends of the leaf springs and adapted to engage the inner surface of the pipeline wall and being urged resiliently against the inner surface of the pipeline wall by the leaf springs, each scraper block having an outer surface which is curved to correspond with the diameter of the pipeline wall and adapted to engage the inner surface of the pipeline wall as the cleaning pig moves forward in the pipeline, each scraper block having an inner surface opposite from the outer surface and facing the central body, each scraper block having a forward surface generally transverse to the outer surface and facing the forward direction of movement of the pipeline pig, each scraper block having a rear surface opposite from the forward surface and generally transverse to the outer surface and the inner surface of the scraper block, the forward surface connecting with the outer surface along a parabolic cutting edge for removing paraffin from the inside of a pipeline wall when the pig moves in a forward direction through the pipeline.
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Dorman William S.
Till Terrence R.
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