Scrap washing system

Details Scrap washing system Scrap washing system

1974-10-31

1976-08-10

Feldman, Peter

Cleaning and liquid contact with solids

Apparatus

Sequential work treating receptacles or stations with means...

134104, B08B 300

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039735737

ABSTRACT:
A scrap washing system wherein scrap metal, such as crushed engine blocks or other oil and grease contaminated metal scrap, is cleaned by a washing operation to remove the oil, grease or other foreign materials prior to the melting of the scrap for reuse, the system including a drum-type tumble and hot wash machine wherein the scrap parts are first subjected to a tumbling or impacting step to remove loose residue, the scrap then being soaked in a bath of hot cleaning solution and then subjected to a spray cleaning step prior to discharge from the drum, the system including conveyor mechanism for continuously recovering scrap fines discharged from the drum as an incident of the recovery and recycling of the washing solution, together with means for continuously collecting and removing both oil and sludge from the system as the washing solution is collected for reuse.

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patent: 3456798 (1969-07-01), Urdanoff
patent: 3506022 (1970-04-01), Nolte
patent: 3754559 (1973-08-01), Seiwert

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