With Relatively Movable Finder And Orienter Of Apertures Or Passages In Work Patents (Class 134/43)
  • Patent number: 11309194
    Abstract: A substrate liquid treatment apparatus includes an inner tank configured to store a treatment liquid and having an upper opening, an outer tank disposed outside the inner tank, and a lid movable between a close position for closing the upper opening of the inner tank and an open position for opening the upper opening of the inner tank. The lid includes a main portion that covers the upper opening of the inner tank when the lid is positioned at the close position, and a splash shielding portion connected to the main portion. When the lid is positioned at the close position, the splash shielding portion extends from a position higher than an upper end of a side wall of the inner tank adjacent to the splash shielding portion to a position which is lower than the upper end of the side wall and which is on the outer tank side of the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Koji Tanaka, Toshiyuki Shiokawa, Koji Yamashita, Hiroyuki Masutomi, Hitoshi Kosugi, Takao Inada, Takashi Ikeda, Tsukasa Hirayama
  • Patent number: 9834009
    Abstract: A rotating handling carousel includes a transfer device arranged on the outer circumference of the handling carousel. The transfer device includes a carry-along element which receives and transports an article and a guide element. The guide element is arranged in such a way that the article transported by the carry-along element is guided into or out of a handling station, for which the guide element extends into an area of the handling station in such a way that the guide element does not collide with the handling device at the transfer position. A sensor detects whether a handling device or the article are not in the transfer position, and/or whether the article is located in the handling station at all, and, after such a determination, issues a collision signal based on a kind of the transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: TILL GMBH
    Inventor: Volker Till
  • Patent number: 9321229
    Abstract: The invention relates to a processing machine having a processing wheel, which is in particular continuously driven, comprising at least one processing station for processing containers; comprising only one star for feeding and removing containers into and out of the processing device, which has at least two gripper elements for feeding containers to be processed to the processing station and for removing the processed containers from the processing station; wherein the processing station has a processing position within the processing station; characterized in that the processing station has at least one processing element processing a container, which is designed so that it can move the fed containers to be processed and/or the processed containers to be removed at least partially out of the processing position and/or into the processing position, in particular in a vertical or horizontal manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Frank Winzinger
  • Patent number: 9061326
    Abstract: A tool and method for cleaning the interior of a freight container of ISO type. The tool having a framework, a robot movably connected to the framework and provided with a nozzle for supplying dry ice. The robot and the nozzle are adapted to clean the interior of the container by means of dry ice blasting. An actuating unit is arranged to move the robot between the framework and the interior of the container. The tool is a portable unit and has a size and a design that allows a truck adapted for gripping and carrying freight containers of ISO type to grip and carry the tool in order to move the tool to and from the container to be cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: IBC ROBOTICS AB
    Inventors: Kerstin Eriksson, Erik Jansson, Anders Thunell, Ingemar Reyier
  • Patent number: 8961707
    Abstract: An unblocking roller for removing excess material from the openings of cells of a honeycomb core is disclosed. The unblocking roller includes a cylindrical core having a center axis and a plurality of clusters each comprising a plurality of bristles. Each of the plurality of bristles of each cluster is coupled to the core at a first end and projecting outward from the core. Each bristle projects a minimum of a first distance from the core. Each cluster is separated from adjacent clusters by at least a second distance that is at least 20% of the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Giannone, Christopher R. Wirz, Craig Scott
  • Patent number: 8950414
    Abstract: The liquid processing apparatus includes: a liquid supply mechanism; a supply line connected to the liquid supply mechanism, the supply line having a discharge opening for discharging a temperature-regulated liquid; a processing unit supporting the discharge opening of the supply line; a return line configured to return the liquid supplied to the supply line to the liquid supply mechanism; and a liquid-supply switching valve configured to switch between supply of the liquid, which is used in a processing of an object to be processed in the processing unit, and stoppage of the liquid supply. The liquid-supply switching valve is disposed on the supply line on a route of the liquid returning from the supply line to the liquid supply mechanism through the return line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Norihiro Ito
  • Patent number: 8864912
    Abstract: Internal cleaning of inverted cans includes engaging a can's cylindrical wall with a wall-conforming vacuum or adhesive gripper, causing a spraying unit to travel axially in and out of the can's opening while the can is inverted on a circular conveyor, and using a supporting arm or bottom stop to subject the can to a counterforce against a flushing force from sprayed cleaning medium. This prevents the can from being pressed out of a receptacle in which it sits during cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Jakob, Steffen Kappel, Thomas Stolte
  • Patent number: 8597436
    Abstract: An aqua comb used with a hose for thoroughly and quickly cleaning, rinsing and combing the hair of both humans and animals. The aqua comb comprises four design elements: 1) a rotating hose nut with internal seal that is employed to attach the aqua comb to various hose endings, 2) an on/off valve for controlling fluid flow through the aqua comb, 3) an elongated and rigid fluid spray body with fluid discharge openings, and 4) a semi-rigid comb member positioned above the discharge openings to lift hair and allow fluid spray to reach scalp and skin thereunder. The core design element of the aqua comb is the presentation angle and comb member structure which work in concert with the fluid spray discharged from the fluid spray openings in its elongated spray body to multiply and leverage mechanical cleaning and combing action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Inventor: Mark Allen Schreiber
  • Patent number: 8597435
    Abstract: An aqua comb typically used with a garden hose for thoroughly and quickly cleaning reusable pleated pool water filters and like filter cartridges having a pleated configuration. The aqua comb comprises four design elements: 1) a rotating hose nut with internal seal that is employed for leak-resistant attachment of the aqua comb to various hose endings, 2) an on/off valve for fluid flow control, 3) an elongated and rigid fluid spray body with fluid discharge openings, and 4) a semi-rigid comb member with long fingers. The core design element of the aqua comb is the combined presentation angle and physical design shape of its comb member which works in concert with the fluid spray discharged from the fluid spray openings in its elongated spray body to multiply and leverage mechanical cleaning action even in the valleys between filter pleats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Inventor: Mark Allen Schreiber
  • Patent number: 8531303
    Abstract: Method for inspecting, in real time, the quality of water of a drinking water delivery network comprising, on the one hand, on connections for consumers, consumption meters (9a) fitted with remote-reading devices, and, on the other hand, on-line analysers (10a) distributed at supervision points on the network in order to measure at least one parameter of water quality. The meters (9a) are fitted with remote-reading devices and the consumption data of the various meters (9a), and the measurements of the analysers (10a) are transmitted to a programmed computing unit (A) with a kinetic model of decrease of the quality parameter in question; the computing unit (A) permanently updates the hydraulic model according to the consumption data received from the meters (9a, 9b etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Suez Environnement
    Inventors: Hao-Nhiên Pham, Jean-Michel Laine, Roland Kora
  • Patent number: 8387636
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning substrates on a carrier, which has in the interior thereof a plurality of longitudinal passages, which run parallel to one another and are connected to the outside at the underside of the carrier via openings. There is provided a plurality of elongated pipes, which are arranged on a pipe holder and are connected in a fluid-conducting manner to a fluid supply. A centering template is provided, which encompasses the pipes and is displaceable in the longitudinal direction thereof between an attachment position in the end region of the pipes away from the pipe holder and a working position, which lies between the attachment position and the pipe holder. The centering template bears against the carrier, such that the pipes are then aligned exactly with the longitudinal passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Gebr. Schmid GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Hartmann, Sven Worm
  • Publication number: 20120260955
    Abstract: A container treatment machine with at least one gripper, which can be compulsorily transported along a predetermined transport section for handling a preform or container during transport and/or acceptance and/or delivery, and including, at a holder retaining at least two gripper claws, at least one controllable electric or magnetic drive for the gripper claws, where the gripper claws can be moved relative to each other in opening and closing directions and at least between defined gripping and release positions, and where each gripper claw can be individually separately actuated by the drive in the opening and/or closing direction relative to another gripper claw of the gripper. Alternately, both gripper claws can be actuated together in the same direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Frank Winzinger
  • Patent number: 8262806
    Abstract: Provided area cleaning apparatus and an associated method of using the disclosed apparatus wherein the apparatus utilizes one or more nozzles configured to provide a coherent stream of one or more cleaning fluids for removing accumulated fine particulate matter, sludge, from surfaces. The nozzles may be sized, arranged and configured to provide coherent streams that maintain the initial stream diameter for a substantial portion of the maximum dimension of the space being cleaned. The apparatus and method are expected to be particularly useful in the cleaning of heat exchangers incorporating a plurality of substantially vertical and narrowly spaced tubes by directing cleansing streams along a plurality of intertube spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Dominion Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Collin, Ryan Jones, Joshua Luszcz, Marc Kreider, Aaron Pellman, Robert D. Varrin, Jr., David Arguelles
  • Patent number: 8122898
    Abstract: A rotating and telescoping cleaning system improves high pressure water cleaning of the inner surfaces of vessels or tanks. Vessels can be vertically divided with dividing plates with centered through-holes. Synchronized and controlled transverse and rotary movements of water jets result in a controlled spiral or helical cleaning track along the vessel walls. The water jets are directed at a pre-adjusted distance from the vessel wall and the travel speed of the water nozzle jets is exactly controlled allowing the removal of very hard deposits. One pass with the tool carrier with operating water jets along the length axis of the vessel results in a thoroughly cleaned vessel wall. The tool unfolds and folds inside of the vessel powered by the flow of the high pressure cleaning water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Aquajet Ltd.
    Inventors: Christian Geppert, Stefan Schroth
  • Publication number: 20120037190
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for internally cleaning cans (1) having openings (2). According to the invention, an axially displaceable spray element (7) is provided for discharging a cleaning medium into the opening (2) in the course of (overhead) internally cleaning the can (1). To this end, said spray element (7) travels into the associated can (1) and back out again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Timo Jakob, Steffen Kappel, Thomas Stolte
  • Patent number: 7967918
    Abstract: Provided area cleaning apparatus and an associated method of using the disclosed apparatus wherein the apparatus utilizes one or more nozzles configured to provide a coherent stream of one or more cleaning fluids for removing accumulated fine particulate matter, sludge, from surfaces. The nozzles may be sized, arranged and configured to provide coherent streams that maintain the initial stream diameter for a substantial portion of the maximum dimension of the space being cleaned. The apparatus and method are expected to be particularly useful in the cleaning of heat exchangers incorporating a plurality of substantially vertical and narrowly spaced tubes by directing cleansing streams along a plurality of intertube spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Dominion Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Collin, Ryan Jones, Joshua Luszcz, Marc Kreider, Aaron Pellman, Robert Varrin, Jr., David Arguelles
  • Patent number: 7918234
    Abstract: An endoscope washer disinfector washes and disinfects an endoscope with a mouth ring communicating with an endoscope duct. The washer disinfector comprises a washing disinfecting bath; a nozzle arranged with the bath, loaded into the mouth ring, and formed to supply fluid to the duct via the mouth ring; a tray on which the endoscope is mounted. In this washer disinfector, a bilateral positioning member positions the endoscope and the tray so that the mouth ring of the endoscope mounted on the tray is located at a given position on the tray; and a trilateral positioning member positions the washing disinfecting bath, the tray, and the endoscope so that, when the tray is loaded into the washing disinfecting bath, the mouth ring of the endoscope positioned at the given position on the tray by the bilateral positioning member is positioned at a position that is across is from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Medical Systems Corp.
    Inventors: Hideto Onishi, Eiri Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7568489
    Abstract: Impurities can be eluted simultaneously from a plurality of local areas of a surface layer of a semiconductor substrate. A supporting unit supports the substrate, and a sample plate is disposed on the surface of the substrate. The sample plate has a plurality of holes that expose the local areas of the surface of the substrate. Eluant is provided onto the local areas of the surface layer of the substrate through the holes in the sample plate. The impurities are thus dissolved by the eluant to produce a sample. A nozzle transfers the sample from the local areas of the surface of the substrate to a plurality of sample cups. Therefore, samples from the surface layer of the substrate may be produced in a short amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Jae Lee, Bok-Soon Ko
  • Patent number: 7521083
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for treatment of a surface of a rotor blade of a windmill, the apparatus being placed in such a manner to be moveable in relation to the surface of a rotor blade, and the apparatus being caused to move depending on a form of treatment determined by means for treatment mounted on, in or next to the apparatus. In this manner, various forms of treatment of a rotor blade may be carried out such as for instance washing, finishing, sealing, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: PP Energy APS
    Inventor: Paul Teichert
  • Publication number: 20090071506
    Abstract: A method of debris removal is provided. The method includes positioning a nanometer-scaled tip adjacent to a piece of debris on a substrate. The method also includes adhering the piece of debris to the tip. In addition, the method also includes removing the piece of debris from the substrate by moving the tip away from the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Tod Evan Robinson, Bernabe J. Arruza, Kenneth Gilbert Roessler
  • Publication number: 20090020136
    Abstract: A method for cleaning a diesel particulate filter includes a step of coupling an acoustic generator directly to the diesel particulate filter via a support fixture. Ash deposited within the diesel particulate filter is dislodged with acoustic energy deposited by the acoustic generator. The ash may fall clear of the diesel particulate filter under the action of gravity and/or via pressurized air flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Jade Katinas, Dong Fei, Jamie Frisch, Jeremy Trethewey, Douglas Rebinsky, Nan Yang
  • Publication number: 20080236615
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing two substrates is provided. The apparatus comprises a chamber having an upper opening, a lower process volume adapted to retain a process solution, and an upper process volume, wherein the chamber is proportioned to vertically process two substrates. The apparatus further comprises a substrate transfer assembly adapted to transfer two substrates in and out of the chamber through the upper opening and one or more megasonic transducers disposed in the chamber, wherein the one or more megasonic transducers are configured to direct megasonic energy towards the process solution retained in the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: VICTOR B. MIMKEN, Robert D. Tolles
  • Publication number: 20080142049
    Abstract: An endoscope washer disinfector washes and disinfects an endoscope with a mouth ring communicating with an endoscope duct. The washer disinfector comprises a washing disinfecting bath; a nozzle arranged with the bath, loaded into the mouth ring, and formed to supply fluid to the duct via the mouth ring; a tray on which the endoscope is mounted. In this washer disinfector, a bilateral positioning member positions the endoscope and the tray so that the mouth ring of the endoscope mounted on the tray is located at a given position on the tray; and a trilateral positioning member positions the washing disinfecting bath, the tray, and the endoscope so that, when the tray is loaded into the washing disinfecting bath, the mouth ring of the endoscope positioned at the given position on the tray by the bilateral positioning member is positioned at a position that is across is from the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideto ONISHI, Eiri SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20080047580
    Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus for stripping photoresist on a substrate includes a support part for supporting the substrate, a dry-type treating part for stripping the photoresist on the substrate, and a wet-type treating part for stripping the photoresist on the substrate. While the substrate is supported by the support part, the photoresist on the substrate is primarily stripped by means of the dry-type treating part and secondarily stripped by means of the wet-type treating part. The dry-type treating part includes a plasma supply unit configured to supply plasma onto the substrate and a moving unit configured to vary a relative position of the plasma supply unit and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Yi Jung Kim, Kyung Jin Seo, Chang Ro Yoon, Jung Keun Cho
  • Publication number: 20080035179
    Abstract: A surface treatment device (10) is provided for applying a surface treatment medium to an article (60). The device comprises an application member (12, 14) for holding and applying the surface treatment medium to the article. The device has a securing arrangement (40) for securing the application member to the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Daniel Clark, Stephen Tuppen, Christopher Wynn
  • Patent number: 7097715
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to cleaning systems, and more specifically to substrate cleaning systems, such as textile cleaning systems, utilizing an organic cleaning solvent and a pressurized fluid solvent. However, unlike conventional cleaning systems, a conventional drying cycle is not necessary. Particularly, the present invention provides a process for cleaning substrates by cleaning the substrates with an organic solvent in absence of liquid carbon dioxide, and removing the organic solvent from the substrates using a pressurized fluid solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: R. R. Street Co. Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy L. Racette, Gene R. Damaso, James E. Schulte
  • Patent number: 6613156
    Abstract: A photoresist stripping apparatus and a corresponding method for removing photoresist layers after a patterned polyimide layer is developed. The photoresist-stripping apparatus includes a transporting unit, a stripping unit, a washing unit, a drying unit and a control unit. The transporting unit connects the stripping unit, the washing unit and the drying unit. The control unit is responsible for controlling the transport sequence and timing of the transporting unit. The method of stripping the photoresist layer off the OLED panel includes providing a stripping solution to the stripping unit to remove photoresist layers. The OLED panel is jet-cleaned with a washing solution in the washing unit so that any residual stripping agent is removed. Finally, the surface of the OLED panel is blown dry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Ritek Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yih Chang, Tien-Rong Lu
  • Patent number: 6561198
    Abstract: In this method for the surface treatment of a metal part (12) for the purpose of deoxidizing it and/or cleaning it, a sealed chamber (16), in which the part to be treated is placed, is filled with a low-pressure reducing gas mixture, a static magnetic field is created in a region of the chamber (16) separate from the region in which the part (12) to be treated is placed and the gas mixture is excited by means of an electromagnetic wave injected into the chamber (16) so as to generate a treatment plasma in the gas, the intensity of the static magnetic field corresponding to electron cyclotron resonance established in the chamber in a distributed manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme a Directoire et Conseil de Surveillance pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Bernard Drevillon, Nicolas Bertrand, Jean-Christophe Rostaing
  • Patent number: 6001216
    Abstract: Semiconductor wafer processing methods and apparatus recirculates etching solution from a lowermost point of a container hosting wafers through a filtration device and back to a point above the location of the wafers within the container. The container includes an inclined bottom wall and an outlet located below an uppermost portion of the inclined bottom wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung-kun Lee
  • Patent number: 5887602
    Abstract: A cleaning machine comprises a loader section for transferring a to-be-processed object, an unloader section for transferring a processed object, a chemical liquid bath for cleaning the to-be-processed object with chemical liquid, a plurality of cleaning units, sequentially arrayed at a lower stream of the chemical liquid bath in a direction from the loader section to the unloader section, having a water cleaning bath for cleaning the to-be-processed object with pure water, a plurality of transfer machines for transferring the to-be-processed object between the loader section and the cleaning unit adjacent to the loader section, between the adjacent cleaning units, and between the unloader section and the cleaning unit adjacent to the unloader section, sequentially, a plurality of sensors, provided in the chemical liquid bath and the cleaning units, for detecting a chemical liquid state and a cleaning operation state, and control means for executing a process for measurement against abnormality in response to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Tatsuyuki Iwama
  • Patent number: 5021095
    Abstract: A process and device for removing a sprayed asbestos layer are provided, in which the asbestos is simultaneously cut and suctioned by a scraper and a suction air duct, and then transported into a carrier container for collection through primary, secondary and tertiary collection steps, in order to maintain a safe and sanitary operational environment for those who are engaged in removing the asbestos layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Hokkaido Pipeline Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaru Tamaki
  • Patent number: 5005597
    Abstract: Leaves and other debris arranged in piles along a roadway are lifted by a flail-type rotary cutting device towed centrally behind a tractor. The device includes a containment hood having a forwardly opening throat which is adjustable to conform generally to the size of the piles for receiving the piles and restricting the material from being thrown forwardly from under the hood particularly at the end of a pile. The lifted material is delivered into a receptacle towed behind the cutting device. The rotary cutting device can handle leaves and other debris in states ranging from dry and fluffy to frozen and snow-covered. The tractor and/or additional brushes may be used for preliminary piles sizing and positioning. Brushes may also be added to the machine for additional cleaning action and to help part wide piles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Maurice A. Popelier, Myron L. McCunn, David C. Winter, Dennis L. Marchael, James W. Hall, Ronald E. Rohren
  • Patent number: 4628972
    Abstract: Apparatus for reconditioning drums has a conveyor extending through a series of equally spaced stations. The conveyor has a series of members, each in the form of a forwardly opening V and with the members so spaced that when any one is at a station, other members will be at the other stations. Drums are placed, one at a time, and inverted, on the infeed end of the conveyor with the bung of each in a position to be caught and held centered by one of the members and pulled thereby along the center line of the conveyor. The conveyor is moved by steps with each step advancing a conveyed drum to a station at which the bung is in vertical alignment with a vertically disposed, subjacent spray nozzle. Dwells between the steps are provided of a predetermined duration during which the nozzles are elevated to an extent entering them within a drum and the drums at stations are tilted fowardly. At each station, a reconditioning fluid is discharged through the associated nozzle if a drum is in fact present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1986
    Assignee: H. Daniel Doane
    Inventor: Fernand LaRochelle
  • Patent number: 4091495
    Abstract: Cylinders are mounted on an invertible frame. A reciprocably mounted header is provided on the movable frame for engaging the necks of the cylinders to hold the cylinders on the movable frame when inverted and to inject a drying fluid into the cylinders. The movable frame and movable header on the movable frame are adapted for holding various sizes of cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1978
    Inventor: Ake Lars. G. Aspenlind
  • Patent number: 3938532
    Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning containers such as bottles for reuse in which the bottles are placed in carriers for movement along a horizontally directed path comprising means operably supporting the carriers for concurrent movement in a vertical path, and jets of cleaning fluid which follow a generally horizontal path and move from a starting position aligned with the bottles while the carriers with the bottles are in a vertically lowered position and return to the starting position while the carriers move the bottles upwardly in the vertical path. The apparatus includes means to coordinate the motions set out above and means to assure proper alignment of jets and bottles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1976
    Assignee: Barry-Wehmiller Company
    Inventor: Momir Babunovic