Abstract: A rotary or linear beverage bottle cleaning machine configured to clean beverage bottles disposed upside-down which machine includes apparatus for cleaning rotary or linear beverage bottle cleaning machine in a filling plant and rotary or linear container cleaning machine configured to clean containers with apparatus for cleaning the container cleaning machine. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims.

Abstract: The invention resides in a method and apparatus for conditioning an inner surface of a tube. A pressurized mixture of air and grit and is supplied to a nozzle having an opening with a given diameter through which diameter the pressurized grit and air pass. An elongated nozzle adapter is connected to said nozzle. The nozzle adapter has a passage having a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of said nozzle and said nozzle adapter is connected to said nozzle such that the opening in said nozzle and said passage are aligned with one another. The nozzle adapter is inserted into a tube and is axially moved and rotated in order to condition the inner surface thereof with a pressurized mixture of air and grit.

Abstract: Blasting bodies, for use in dishwashing machines in admixture with dishwashing water, comprise about 60% by weight mineral filler selected from the group consisting of silicate, sulphate and carbonate. A plastic selected from the group consisting of polyamide and polyethylene is present as a binder for the mineral filler, which is in the form of particles. The bodies have a specific gravity of at least 2.0 and a Moh's hardness value of at least 3.0, each body having a weight of about 0.04 g, a length of about 3 mm and a width of about 2.5 mm and being circular or polygonal in transverse section. Preferably, the bodies contain at least one percent by weight chalk, and the mineral filler is barium sulphate.

Abstract: A gas operated tube emptying apparatus for firing missiles into a tube. The apparatus includes a gas source, a gas control and delivery unit connected to the source for delivering the pressure and amount of gas needed. The apparatus further includes a missile delivery unit having a bin for holding a plurality of missiles and a missile loading tube extending between the delivery unit and a firing chamber. The firing chamber has a barrel extending upwardly therefrom and is connected to the gas source so that as the gas control unit supplies a burst of gas a missile is drawn into the barrel from the chamber and fired through the barrel into a tube.

Abstract: To provide for fully or partly automatic cleaning and to avoid pollution of the air in the surrounding room, a cleaning device for cleaning the inner surface of containers (7, 8) is arranged so that an upwardly open jacket (1, 2) may be moved upwards to enclose a container. A nozzle (21, 22) is fitted in the jacket for ejecting a granulate and a scavenging medium, respectively. At the upper part of the jacket (1, 2) there is mounted a ring-shaped brush (29, 30) to prevent dust from escaping. The containers (7, 8) are so journalled in this suspension that they can be rotated during the cleaning process.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating cleaning elements from a fluid, especially a fluid traversing a heat exchanger into which the elements are introduced to clean the tubes thereof, comprises a vertical duct provided with an array of bars forming a grate inclined to the axis of the duct for separating the cleaning elenents, e.g. foam-rubber balls, from the heat exchanger stream traversing the duct. According to the invention, at the bottom of the grate there is provided a diagonal tube which extends along a chord or diameter of the tube and is provided with a longitudinally extending inlet slit into which the cleaning elements pass. The tube and slit are so oriented that the main stream of fluid passes tangentially across the tube and across the slit to create a turbulence thereat to prevent buildup of the cleaning elements at the base of the grate.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are herein described for cleaning and waxing automobiles in commercial "car wash" operations without any need for mechanical buffing or polishing as, for example, with brushes. The surface of the car is first covered with a water soluble, agitated liquid cleaner which has been at least partially foamed. Then, the surface of the car is blasted with water soluble beads under sufficient pressure to apply a frictional cleaning motion to the liquid cleaner, but with insufficient pressure to damage the car surface by excessive abrasion. After the blasting step, the liquid cleaner and water soluble beads are rinsed by the application of a high pressure water spray thereto. If it is desired to wax the car surfaces, microcrystalline beads of dry, water soluble, carnauba wax are blasted against the car surfaces with sufficient pressure to cause frictional buffing and polishing of the surfaces, but insufficient pressure to damage the surfaces with abrasion.