Self propelled pipe blast cleaner capable of travel along a pipe

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1984-04-02

1986-08-05

Schmidt, Frederick R.

Abrasive tool making process, material, or composition

With carbohydrate or reaction product thereof

51429, 51411, B24C 306

Patent

active

046035168

ABSTRACT:
A self propelled airless grit blast machine that travels on and along a pipeline pipe as it continuously blast cleans the outside of the pipe in advance of pipe coating and/or wrapping. The airless grit blast machine is mounted on a carriage having rollers some of which are driven for controlled driven advance along the pipe being shot grit blast cleaned. A shot grit blast cabinet with a plurality of motor driven airless blast wheels surrounds the pipe being grit blast cleaned in substantially a self contained unit also including a grit elevator system, air wash separator system, shot grit storage hopper, abrasive shot grit retaining seals, abrasive flow controls, and an operator platform with a control panel. An umbilical cord extends to the machine from auxillary equipment including a power generator and dust collector located on a tracked vehicle or on an equipment sled pulled behind a side boom equipped tractor used to walk pipe and hold the pipe in an elevated state as the pipe is being worked along the pipeline right of way.

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