Automatically operating cleaning installation for workpieces

US6119365A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Durr Ecoclean GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Karl-Heinz Wuller · Simmerath, DE
• Otfried Meyer · Nideggen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 11, 1997
• Grant date: Sep 19, 2000
• Expiry date: Sep 11, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B08B2230/01
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In an automatically operating cleaning installation for removing treating and/or 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 the 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 stream of blow air, an air feeder, in particular, in the form of a ventilator, for supplying air to the blow nozzle at a pressure of at most approximately 0.5 bar being connected to the blow nozzle upstream thereof, and the channel including an outlet for withdrawing the used blow air, in order to optimize the cleaning effect, a steam supplying device for introducing steam into the stream of blow air and a separating device for separating from the used blow air contaminated condensate originating from the steam are provided.