Heat exchange – With cleaning means for heat exchanger
Patent
1982-02-16
1983-12-06
Cline, William R.
Heat exchange
With cleaning means for heat exchanger
166153, 166170, 1510406A, 134 8, 134 2211, F28F 500
Patent
active
044187475
ABSTRACT:
A shuttle assembly is provided which includes a spring cleaning element secured at each end to mounting members which are freely slideable on a longitudinal axial rod. The rod is longer than the cleaning element in its normal extended position so that the cleaning element can shuttle back and forth on the rod. Stop members are secured to the end portions of the rod. When either rod end engages a capturing device at the end of a heat exchanger tube, inertia causes the cleaning element to slide forwardly until the adjacent mounting member tappingly engages the adjacent stop member of the assembly, causng undesirable material on the cleaning element to drop off. The mounting members are of a lesser O.D. (Outside Diameter) than the I.D. (Inside Diameter) of the pipe and are also of a lesser O.D. than the O.D. of the normally extended cleaning element. The O.D. of the cleaning element is such as to allow for transverse rattling engagement with the inner tube wall during shuttling.
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Baron Walter J.
Cleaver Laird C.
Cline William R.
Streule Theophil W.
Water Services of America, Inc.
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