Patent · US Expired

Automatically operating cleaning installation for workpieces

US5730163A · kind A · utility

9Cited by

5References

19Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Durr Ecoclean GmbH · DE

Inventors

Otfried Meyer · Nideggen, DE
Karl-Heinz Wueller · Simmerath, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 19, 1996
Grant date	Mar 24, 1998
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 19, 2016

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB08B2230/01
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

In a cleaning installation for removing machining residues from workpieces comprising a cleaning station having associated therewith a channel for receiving at least one workpiece to be cleaned, a workpiece transportation device for introducing workpieces to be cleaned into the channel and for removing the cleaned workpieces from the channel, and at least one blow nozzle directed into the interior of the channel and thus onto the workpieces to be cleaned for acting upon the workpieces with a jet of blow air, in order to achieve a better cleaning effect, a cleaning liquid supplying device is provided for atomizing small amounts of a cleaning liquid into the jet of blow air.

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