Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Apparatus – Sequential work treating receptacles or stations with means...
Patent
1989-09-28
1990-10-30
Pal, Asok
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Apparatus
Sequential work treating receptacles or stations with means...
134 1, 134 18, 134 221, 134 2214, 134 23, 134 66, 134 73, 134 83, 134171, 134184, 15 88, 1984635, B08B 902
Patent
active
049661779
ABSTRACT:
A system for ultrasonically cleaning tubes includes an elongated cleaning tank adapted to hold a quantity of detergent-containing water and a series of transducers mounted on the bottom wall of the tank in a generally linear arrangement extending between opposite end walls of the tank. The transducers generate ultrasonic cavitational energy within the water in the tank. An inclined upper tube entry ramp supported above the tank guides delivery of tubes in single file fashion into the tank to a reversely inclined middle tube transfer ramp. The inclined middle ramp guides transfer of tubes in single file fashion into the water in the tank and to a lower tube soak ramp having a tube accumulating terminal end. The lower ramp feeds the tubes across the tank within the water and above the transducers therein to its tube accumulating end such that each tube will pass through and be cleaned by the cavitation energy in the water. A conveyor supported in a generally vertical position in the tank and having two sets of tube lifting cradles thereon is operable to pick up one tube at a time at the accumulating end of the lower ramp with one set of cradles and lift the one tube from the water to a discharge location above the tank to remove the tube from the tank before another tube is picked up by the other set of cradles on the conveyor.
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Cigich Joseph G.
Jarabak Beverly T.
John, Jr. Clarence D.
Pal Asok
Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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