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Solvent cleaning system

US6004403A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 13, 1996
Grant dateDec 21, 1999
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Expiry dateMay 13, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD06F43/086
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A improved solvent cleaning method and system which is truly a closed system in which the object to be cleaned is placed in a chamber and subjected to a negative gauge pressure to remove air and other non-condensible gases after which a solvent is introduced to the evacuated chamber and the object is cleaned and then the solvent is recovered from the object and chamber within the closed system before the clean object is removed.

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