Abstract: A counter-rotating sewer cleaning nozzle to provide improved efficient cleaning of interior surfaces of sewer lines. The counter-rotating sewer cleaning nozzle is comprised of a hose connector on one end and nose cone on the opposite end and retaining between them counter-rotating sleeves fitting over a cylindrical conduit. Each of the sleeves has spray jets in communication with a passageway connecting the cylindrical conduit to the hose connector for receiving water at high pressure from a high-pressure hose or pipe. The jets in the counter-rotating sleeves are at an oblique angle to the radius of the sleeves and the cylindrical conduit. The spray jets are angled in opposite directions in the forward and rear rotatable sleeves to provide counter rotation.

Abstract: A lance tube formed of a tubular conduit having an inner end to be joined to a source of pressurized fluid, a closed distal end, a continuous wall between the inner and distal ends, and a plurality of tube discharge openings in the continuous wall; and a plurality of axially positioned fluid direction tubes within the conduit, each tube having a straight intake section generally axially aligned with the conduit and having an intake opening toward the conduit inner end, a straight discharge section having a discharge opening at one of the discharge openings in the conduit wall, and an intermediate curved section joining the intake and discharge sections, whereby fluid entering the conduit will be directed through the fluid direction conduits, and will be discharged in laminar flow from the discharge openings.

Abstract: A decoking tool includes a valve body equipped with a pressurized fluid inlet and having a plurality of fluid passages, including drilling fluid passages extending substantially the full length of the valve body to conduct fluid to drilling nozzle sockets, and cutting fluid passages extending approximately half as far as the drilling fluid passages to conduct fluid to cutting nozzle sockets, the drilling and cutting fluid passages being disposed alternatingly on a circular locus about an axial centerline of the valve body. There are nozzles installed in the nozzle sockets. A diverter plate is interposed between the valve body and the pressurized fluid inlet and has axial fluid passages disposed on a circular path congruent with the circular locus, the disposition of the axial fluid passages being such that the passages align either with the drilling fluid passages or with the cutting fluid passages of the valve body.

Abstract: An aerosol delivery wand has an elongated hollow tube with proximal and distal ends. A compressed air valve is provided for selectively delivering a stream of compressed air from a compressed air source to the proximal end of the tube. A tubular injector extends through the wall of the hollow tube and into the interior thereof adjacent the distal end of the hollow tube. The interior portion of the injector has sides that are contoured in the shape of an airfoil to define spaced air passageways with the interior walls of the hollow tube. The end of the injector within the hollow tube is cut to be substantially parallel to and spaced from the distal end of the hollow tube so as to define a mixing chamber between the end of the injector and the distal end of the hollow tube. Compressed air flowing through said hollow tube causes liquid to be drawn through the injector and into the mixing chamber where it is entrained in the air flow and projected from the wand as an uniformly distributed aerosol.

Abstract: A high pressure spinning nozzle for cleaning material from a surface such as the inner walls of a heat exchanger tube, for example, includes a tubular body having an open front end and a plug in its rear end, a rotor in the body bore having an internal flow passage and inclined and skewed orifices in its front wall that cause the rotor to spin during operation, axial and radial passages in the body to feed high pressure water to the rotor flow passage, a water bearing between the rear of the rotor and the plug, and ports in the body to automatically regulate the pressure of the water bearing.

Abstract: The device serves for eliminating deposits (52) in ventilation ducts (14) in the stationary or non-stationary operating mode. The cleaning medium is a fluid sprayed out under high pressure from a spray head (3). The spray head (3) is carried by a supply pipe (2), through which lead the drive shaft coming from a motor (1) and a fluid channel. In the non-stationary operating mode, the device is integrated into a slide (15) which is pulled through the ventilation duct (14). The slide (15) is introduced into the ventilation duct (14) through an inspection port sealable by means of an inspection cover. Ventilation ducts (14) extending horizontally, vertically and obliquely can be treated. In the stationary operating mode for cleaning an inlet or outlet, a bend or a branch and, for example, also a vapour extractor, the device is held without a slide (15) in a supporting cover which is inserted into the inspection port.

Abstract: A nozzle suitable for use with a device for removal of deposits from contaminated surfaces, such as a sootblower in a heat recovery boiler, is designed to avoid normal shock wave formation, and hence energy dissipation, by achieving a condition whereby, the emergent steam pressure (p.sub.e) is related to the ambient pressure (p.sub.oo) by the relationship p.sub.e /p.sub.oo <about 2, preferably about 1. A compact design achieving this result and able to function over a wide range of flow rates comprises a cylindrical body with a downstream convergent outlet and a rounded-head conical insert located axially in the body with its maximum dimension generally coinciding with the commencement of convergence of the outlet and extending through the outlet.

Abstract: The Applicant's present invention is drawn to an improved nozzle for a miniaturized sludge lance intended to be used with an articulated sludge lancing systems to clean narrow tube lanes. The improved nozzle has an internal flow straightener which minimizes turbulence within the nozzle and allows a pair of oppositely located nozzles to be fitted within the miniature lance while producing the output cleaning power of nozzles requiring dimensioning that would not fit within the confines of the miniature lance assembly.

Abstract: A lance tube for a sootblower device for cleaning internal surfaces of large scale combustion devices. The lance tube includes two sets of nozzles for ejecting fluid cleaning media. A readily accessible fluid flow restriction device is positioned between the two sets of nozzles and accommodates interchangeable plug elements providing different fluid flow restrictions. One set of nozzles is optimized for steam as the cleaning media whereas the other is designed for ejecting water. This lance tube configuration is especially adapted for selectively ejecting steam or water blowing medium as cleaning requirements dictate.

Abstract: An extension tube system for a dust particulate dispenser and a method of using the extension tube system are disclosed. The system includes a flexible duster extension tube having a central body portion with a first diameter, a first coupling end with a larger diameter, and a second dispensing end with a smaller diameter. Additionally, the second dispensing end includes a dust particulate collection region which serves to prevent dust particulates from spilling out of the duster extension tube when such action is not desired. The first coupling end is inserted over an outlet region of a dust particulate dispenser. Additional extension tubes can be connected to the second dispensing end of an extension tube to extend the reach to an area where dust particulates must be applied. A flexible duster extension tube cleaner having a cleaning element is used to clean remaining dust particulates from within the extension tubes.

Abstract: An assembly for cleaning a tube bundle includes a plurality of elongate tubular lances movable within an outer shell. A flexible fluid hose within the shell extends from an input port in the upper portion of the assembly to the manifold in the lower portion of the assembly, which in turn transmits pressurized fluid to the plurality of lances. The hydraulic motor powers a rack and pinion assembly to reciprocate the lances, while a plurality of spring biased plates each cover a slot in the lance housing. The assembly of the present invention utilizes a receiving manifold and a lance manifold connected by a plurality of nipples for a desirable low pressure drop. A pair of series connected valves allows the hydraulic fluid flow and the pressure to the drive motor to be separated controlled.

Abstract: A self-propelled cleaning device for a tube where it does not revolve along the inner circumferential wall of the tube used as a piping when desired, and further permitting such a device to revolve along the inner circumferential wall of tube as an occasion demands. The cleaning device for a tube comprises a nozzle supporting body including a main flow path in an axial direction, and for self propelling having ejection holes in an oblique direction communicating with the main flow path formed on the upstream side to which a hose is connected. The main flow path communicates with a liquid supply path formed on the secondary side of a bearing portion for supporting a tubular revolving body having ejection holes for an unbalanced force. A slide valve is internally provided on the secondary side of the nozzle supporting body and is constantly forced in a valve seat direction by a spring member.

Abstract: An extension tube system for a dust particulate dispenser and a method of using the extension tube system are disclosed. The system includes a flexible duster extension tube having a central body portion with a first diameter, a first coupling end with a larger diameter, and a second dispensing end with a smaller diameter. The first coupling end is inserted over an outlet region of a dust particulate dispenser. Additional extension tubes can be connected to the second dispensing end of an extension tube to extend the reach to an area where dust particulates must be applied. A flexible duster extension tube cleaner having a cleaning element is used to clean remaining dust particulates from within the extension tubes. After the dust particulates are dispensed through the extension tube system, each extension tube is disconnected, and the tube cleaner is gripped at one end so that the cleaning element at the other end can be inserted into each flexible duster extension tube.

Abstract: A new and improved water wand apparatus includes a handle assembly which includes a tubular member which is adapted for conducting water flow in a first direction from a source end to a nozzle end in the tubular member. A nozzle assembly is connected to the tubular member and includes a nozzle-containing wall which includes a connection aperture for connecting to the tubular member. The nozzle-containing wall also includes a plurality of nozzle channels. The nozzle assembly also includes a truncated conical wall assembly connected to the nozzle-containing wall. An apex wall assembly is connected to a narrow end of the truncated conical wall assembly and serves to block water flow in the first direction causing pressurized water to exit from the nozzle channels in a second direction. The tubular member is substantially straight, and the tubular member and the nozzle assembly 16 are symmetrically disposed around a longitudinal axis. The nozzle-containing wall is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A nozzle suitable for use with a device for removal of deposits from contaminated surfaces, such as a sootblower in a heat recovery boiler, is designed to avoid normal shock wave formation, and hence energy dissipation, by achieving a condition whereby, the emergent steam pressure (p.sub.e) is related to the ambient pressure (p.sub..infin.) by the relationship p.sub.e /p.sub.28 <about 2, preferably about 1. A compact design achieving this result and able to function over a wide range of flow rates comprises a cylindrical body with a downstream convergent outlet and a rounded-head conical insert located axially in the body with its maximum dimension generally coinciding with the commencement of convergence of the outlet and extending through the outlet.

Abstract: A sootblower frame and drive assembly has a pair of parallel spaced-apart longitudinal beams interconnected by plurality of rigid transverse frame members. Racks gears are mounted to the inside of the beams for carrying a drive carriage that drives a lance tube. The frame is rigid and resistant to torsional flex and has open opposite sides to increase air circulation around the sootblower.

Abstract: A device for cleaning heat exchanger pipe bundles. The device includes a guide column supported by a support construction for displacement parallel to itself, wherein the guide column defines a guide path for a slide piece guided slidably along the column, a number of lances connected to the slide piece parallel to the guide column, a hose connected to the slide piece for supplying liquid under high pressure to the lances, and an endless flexible member engaging on the slide piece for reciprocally moving the slide piece along the guide column. The column and the flexible member are assembled from a number of parts so that they can have a length adapted to the conditions.

Abstract: A tube bundle cleaner capable of cleaning vertical tube bundles by remote actuation by an operator is provided. To prevent binding of the flexible fluid supply conduit which supplies hydroblasting fluid to the manifold upon which the cleaning lances are mounted, a bight portion of the conduit extends toward the open end of the housing which slidably carries the manifold.

Abstract: A fluid jet cleaning system, particularly adapted for household use, comprises an elongated flexible hose coupled at one end through a quick-operating on-off valve to a source of pressurized water and whose other end contains a jet nozzle assembly including a head having an ejector opening for discharging a high velocity jet stream for dislodging collected debris and a rotatable spinner sleeve containing tangential openings for emitting additional jet streams that rotate and that flush the debris and provide a secondary cleansing of the drain wall surface.

Abstract: A nozzle assembly for discharging jets of cleaning fluid from the end of a sootblower lance tube. The nozzle assembly includes a conduit within the lance tube. The conduit includes an inlet end, a discharge end and has a bore extending generally centrally therethrough. The conduit exhibits a length which is greater than the diameter of the lance tube and produces a discharged jet of improved coherency.

Abstract: A tube jetting apparatus for cleaning the interior surfaces of tubes such as those in heat exchangers. The jetting apparatus includes a hydraulically actuated lance and piston assembly in a housing. High pressure fluid is directed through ports in the lance and also directed across the piston to actuate the lance and piston assembly while providing high pressure fluid to a jetting nozzle on the lance. The speed of the lance and piston assmbly is controlled and jetting action occurs on both the outward and return strokes. On the return stroke, a pressure relief system is provided to relieve the system pressure through a differential pressure relief valve. A stroke limiter is provided which utilizes a collet for grippingly engaging the lance at a predetermined location thereon while minimizing damage to the surface of the lance.

Abstract: An apparatus for applying dry herbicides to sewer lines which includes a container for storing a herbicide, a length of tubing, and nozzle means connected to the tubing. Also included are means for propelling herbicide stored in the container through the tubing such that herbicide may be dispersed from the nozzle. Locomotion means are also provided for transporting the nozzle within the interior of a sewer line such that the interior surfaces of a sewer line may be sprayed with a herbicide. In this fashion herbicide may be directed at any flora growing within the sewer line.

Abstract: A chamber cleaning apparatus and method includes a conduit for conducting fluid into the chamber; a nozzle assembly, connected to the conduit, for creating one of an axial fluid spray to clean the interior surfaces of the first and second end walls of the chamber and a transverse fluid spray to clean the interior surfaces of the side walls of the chamber; a rotational drive assembly for rotating the nozzle means about a rotational axis generally parallel or coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the chamber; an axial drive assembly for moving the nozzle means a preselected distance toward or away from the first end wall of the chamber for each rotation of the nozzle assembly; a transverse drive assembly for moving the nozzle assembly a preselected transverse distance toward or away from the rotational axis for each rotation of the nozzle assembly. A swivel is provided having an outer sleeve body and an inner sleeve body with the inner sleeve body coaxially and rotatably positionable in the outer sleeve body.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cleaning the interior of ductwork or similar conduit from within, the apparatus comprising a small, pneumatically powered and controlled carriage of a size maneuverable inside the duct, with nozzle means provided for directing cleaning and disinfecting fluids, under pressure, at the walls of the duct, to execute a method of cleaning and disinfecting.

Abstract: An air-blasting cartridge comrises a housing (1) subdivided into an inlet chamber (3) and a discharge chamber (4) by a piston (2) arranged along its longitudinal axis. The inlet chamber (3) communicates with a source of compressed air through an air admission tube (6) which runs through an axial port of the piston (2). The discharge chamber (4) communicates with the inlet chamber (3) through an annular gap (7) between the air admission tube (6) and the piston (2). The discharge chamber (4) is adapted to communicate with the surrounding atmosphere at the instant of its discharge. The area of the piston end surface (10) facing the discharge chamber (4) is greater than the area of the piston end surface (11) facing the inlet chamber (3) but is smaller than the area of the end surface (12) of the collar (8) on the piston (2) that faces the discharge chamber (4), said collar forming, together with the housing (1), an additional chamber (9) on the side facing the inlet chamber (3).

Abstract: An automated pipeline rehabilitation apparatus (10) is disclosed. The apparatus employs a centering assembly (24) with pivoting arms (26, 28) which can pivot between an operating position and a installation/removal position to allow the unit to be removed from a pipeline. Arcuate rings (38, 40) are mounted on the arms. Spray nozzles (44) are mounted on the arcuate rings for reciprocating arcuate motion along the rings to treat the pipeline. The nozzles (44) can be used to clean the pipeline and prepare the outer surface of the pipeline with high pressure water jets in training abrasives. The nozzles (44) can also be used to apply a coating, preferably a polyurethane coating to the pipeline.

Abstract: A combination bit for both drilling a pilot hole and cutting coke from a coking drum. A manually operable flow divider/diverter valve permits a single workman to quickly and easily change from pilot hold drilling mode to cutting mode without having to change bits.

Abstract: Self propelling jet nozzles especially suited for cleaning sewer pipes and the like are formed from a tubular body member and a nose cap by machining parallel inner and outer ledges or shoulders inboard from the leading end of the tubular member at a rearwardly inclined angle, drilling a ring of circumferentially spaced bores diverging outwardly from the inner to the outer ledges and tapered toward the outer ledge, securing wear resisting nozzle tubes in the bores in mated relation with the tapered portions thereof and welding the nose cap on the leading end of the tubular body. The trailing end of the body is threaded to receive a water conduit, the nozzle tubes in the bores discharge rearwardly and outwardly around the trailing end of the body to propel the nozzle forwardly. The nose can be provided with one or more passageways discharging forwardly and these passageways can also be provided with rear resisting tubular nozzle inserts.

Abstract: Self propelling jet nozzles especially suited for cleaning sewer pipes and the like are formed from a tubular body member and a nose cap by machining parallel inner and outer ledges or shoulders inboard from the leading end of the tubular member at a rearwardly inclined angle, drilling a ring of circumferentially spaced bores diverging outwardly from the inner to the outer ledges and tapered toward the outer ledge, securing wear resisting nozzle tubes in the bores in mated relation with the tapered portions thereof and welding the nose cap on the leading end of the tubular body. The trailing end of the body is threaded to receive a water conduit, the nozzle tubes in the bores discharge rearwardly and outwardly around the trailing end of the body to propel the nozzle forwardly. The nose can be provided with one or more passageways discharging forwardly and these passagways can also be provided with wear resisting tubular nozzle inserts.

Abstract: A movable hydrodynamic nozzle which removes deposits of sand, soil, sludges etc. in a pipe system. The nozzle is connected to a pressurized water pipe and pulls the pressurized water pipe into the pipe system. When known movable hydrodynamic nozzles are used, the cleaning efficiency is lower due to strong turbulence and frothing and to the fact that the resistance of the nozzle to the water flow is large. In accordance with the present invention this problem is solved by shaping the channels which guide the pressurized water from the main inlet portion of the nozzle to the outer back portion of the nozzle, in such a way that the pressurized water is entering the channels in the same direction as it has when it enters the main inlet portion. Additionally, the inlet openings and outlet openings of every channel are preferably diametrically opposed in order to give the channel an optimally large curve radius.

Abstract: A fire extinguisher has an elongated manifold for discharging water on a chimney fire and is protectively secured within an opened face cage. The top has a threaded opening for a connection to a water hose and pointed bottom end for a ram head. An elongated bore extending from the hose connection feeds water to a plurality of lateral channels with openings on the outside of the manifold. A plurality of spray nozzles mounted in the openings are arranged to discharge a spray mist from the nozzles peripherally about the chimney wall. When lowered or dropped within a chimney the manifold pointed end penetrates the ignited mass of creosote while spraying a water mist to quench the fire.

Abstract: A swirl jet nozzle as a hydraulic work tool is to be capable of operating reliably as a structurally simple tool, with smooth outer surfaces as far as possible, requiring neither bearings nor seals, so that it is also suitable for cleaning clogged, narrow tubular parts, in particular pipes, with a high-pressure medium and for drilling holes in soft materials. This is achieved by a sleeve-shaped rotor (1), arranged directly above a tapered neck (5) of a stator (2), being provided, which is supported on the stator side on a face (7) of an extended region (8) of the stator (2), preferably via a washer (6) of plastic or the like pushed over the neck (5) of the stator (2), and is axially secured by means of at least one pin (11) engaging tangentially into a circular groove (9) in the neck (5) and borne in a cross bore (10) in the rotor (1).

Abstract: A head is disclosed for use in cleaning pipes using a technique in which the head projects water backwardly so as to be driven along the pipe pulling a water supply hose with the head following which the supply hose is pulled from the pipe to withdraw the head thus forcing collected debris from the pipe. The head comprises a cylindrical body having a nose and a rear wall in which the jets are positioned. The body is wrapped around by longitudinal skid bars spaced angularly of the cylindrical body and welded to the nose and welded to a coaxial pipe supplying water to the cylindrical body. The jets are inclined outwardly at a shallow angle of the order of 1.degree. to 6.degree..

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning radioactive tube banks which have open ends contained in a plane, preferably for cleaning the tube banks of tube bank condensers, includes a high-pressure hose, which is pushed through each of the tubes and which at its free end carries a spray nozzle for discharging a cleaning liquid. The hose is disposed between and positively or non-positively coupled to two feed wheels and is advanced and retracted by the feed wheels in a direction which is parallel to the tubes. The feed wheels are provided with a hose drive and mounted in a cleaning carriage, which is movable by a carriage drive in a plane which is defined by a frame. The cleaning carriage is fixed in cleaning positions, and the frame is provided with a device for fixing the frame to the tube bank.

Abstract: A sewer pipe cleaning apparatus including a sled-like skid means carrying a pipe shaft, which has one end constructed for connection to a source of high pressure fluid and the other end connected to a sewer cleaning nozzle which has a non-rotating base member, a rotatable turbine member rotatably mounted on the base member with a plurality of jet orifices, a bearing means mounted on the base member in abutting engagement with the turbine member, a non-rotating nose cone mounted on the base member for retaining the bearing means and rotatable turbine member in place on the base member, and a plurality of fluid passages are formed through the base member and turbine member for the transmission of high pressure fluid from the pipe shaft and through said passages and out said jet orifices, and also through the bearing means for cleaning the same.

Abstract: A conduit flushing device comprising an elastomeric tubular body having one end thereof to be connected to a suitable source of water under pressure with the opposite end of the tubular body being connected to a valve. The valve is normally closed by an integral portion of the tubular body being in watertight contact with an elongated sealing member of the valve. Supplying of water within the tubular body causes the body to expand spacing the seat assembly from the sealing member permitting flow of water from the internal chamber of the tubular body and through the valve.

Abstract: A specially constructed decoking apparatus is provided to effectively and efficiently bore a pilot hole and ream the remainder of a bed of coke with a high pressure stream of water or other cutting fluid without first changing nozzle heads or using different cutting instruments. The novel decoking apparatus has a vertical pilot nozzle and pilot pipe and a separate reamer and reaming pipe which are secured adjacent to each other and work in tandem.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning tubular elements with pressurized fluid including an improved fluid driver, reciprocating lance means having interchangeable piston portions and nozzles to enable the speed of the lance to be controlled is provided.

Abstract: An improved sootblower nozzle assembly adapted for cleaning heat exchange surfaces or the like comprising a lance tube having at least one nozzle affixed thereon. The nozzle comprises a tubular body formed with a centrally extending discharge throat and a plurality of second apertures arranged around the central discharge throat. A pressurized fluid blowing medium introduced into the lance tube during a cleaning cycle is discharged from the nozzle in the form of a composite stream including a central directionally oriented stream surrounded by a plurality of secondary streams forming an encircling protected shroud to maintain the integrity of the central stream and to increase its impact pressure on the surfaces to be cleaned.

Abstract: A method and system for cleaning well liners employing a non-rotating tubing string attached to a hydraulic jet carrier assembly is disclosed. The assembly has a plurality of jet nozzles spaced along its length, each of said nozzles expelling a stream of fluid under pressure against the liner with a force which has an equal and opposite reactive force. At least some of the nozzles are oriented along the carrier such that the reactive force for each jet is directionally offset with respect to the central axis of the carrier, thereby creating a twisting moment tending to rotate the carrier about its central axis. During the cleaning operation, the bottom hole differential pressure of the fluid supplied to the jet carrier is varied to rotationally displace the carrier as it is moved vertically within the well bore. Moreover, in a preferred embodiment, the angle of rotational displacement can be calculated which will produce at least double coverage of the jet streams against the liner.

Abstract: A method and system for cleaning well liners employing a non-rotating tubing string attached to a hydraulic jet carrier assembly is disclosed. The assembly has a plurality of jet nozzles spaced along its length, each of said nozzles expelling a stream of fluid under pressure against the liner with a force which has an equal and opposite reactive force. The nozzles are oriented along the carrier such that the reactive force for each jet is directionally offset with respect to the central axis of the carrier, thereby creating a twisting moment tending to rotate the carrier about its central axis. During the cleaning operation, the bottom hole differential pressure of the fluid supplied to the jet carrier is varied to rotationally oscillate the carrier as it is moved vertically within the well bore to increase the coverage of the fluid streams on the liner.

Abstract: A pulsating fluid nozzle is disclosed which comprises a body having an inner chamber and an outer chamber separated by a cylindrical wall. The inner chamber is supplied with fluid through a fluid outlet, and the outer chamber supplies fluid to the fluid outlets. The cylindrical wall has a port through which fluid can flow from the inner chamber to the outer chamber. A rotor is mounted for rotation in the outer chamber. The rotor has a blade extending from an annular hub which is adapted to fit around the cylindrical wall and block the flow of fluid through the port. The hub has an opening adapted to intermittently coincide with the port as the rotor turns to permit the flow of fluid through the port to produce a pulsating flow. The blade is adjacent to the opening and positioned to be contacted by a stream of fluid flowing through the port when the opening coincides with the port. The contact by the stream of fluid propels the blade to turn the rotor.

Abstract: The feed tube of a long retracting sootblower has a lance tube slidably overfitted thereon which is of an inside diameter somewhat exceeding the outside diameter of the feed tube, to provide a relatively narrow gap therebetween. The open end of the feed tube has a turbulizer mounted therein contoured to impart a helical component to the blowing fluid which blows into the lance tube from the feed tube. At a position spaced upstream from the turbulizer the wall of the feed tube is pierced with a plurality of holes equally spaced throughout its periphery. The holes provide centering jets which oppose vibration of the feed tube and prevent impacting of the same against the interior of the lance tube.

Abstract: A forward motion arresting means is added to a fluid powered lance to reduce the harmful effect of the stopping of the lance forward motion. A plug member mounted on the lance mates with a body member within the housing to prevent fluid flow and reduce the lance forward motion. Rearward motion arresting is achieved by the addition of a reservoir portion which acts as a hydraulic stop in conjunction with the lance piston.

Abstract: A conduit-cleaning nozzle mounted via a swivel on the front end of a high-pressure hose has a nozzle body which is elongated along and generally centered on a longitudinal axis. This body has axially tapered front and rear ends and is formed at the rear end with an axial-symmetrical liquid-distribution compartment having at least one backwardly and normally downwardly opening liquid-ejection aperture. Water supplied at high pressure to this compartment is ejected downwardly and backwardly from the aperture. The angular orientation of the aperture is established by an off-center mass which is fixed in the nozzle body and which imparts to it a center of gravity which is offset below its central symmetry axis, so that the nozzle is self-righting.

Abstract: A lance tube for use in long retracting cleaning devices of the soot blower type which in operation discharge jets of liquid against the fouled surfaces of heat exchangers such as the slag-coated surfaces of boiler tubes and the like incorporates a light weight hollow filler tube mounted in the lance tube by a helical spacer rib.

Abstract: Pipes, coated with paraffin, scale or otherwise, are cleaned by internally spraying the pipe with a conic sheet of paraffin solvent or scale remover or other fluid. The reaction of the discharge of the sheet of fluid is the propelling force for advancing the nozzle through the opening. An axial jet of fluid clears the tube in front of the nozzle so that the nozzle can advance through the tube. The conic sheet is formed by a pair of sleeves around a mandrel, the sleeves meeting with correlative conic surfaces.

Abstract: A nozzle useful for cleaning deposits from the interior wall of a pipe, the nozzle including a body having a hose connection for accepting a stream of high pressure fluid and having at least three skids to hold the body away from the interior pipe surface, and a turbine connected to the body through a bearing, the body including jets to discharge high pressure fluid in a direction to propel the nozzle through the pipe being cleaned and the turbine having jets positioned to drive the turbine to rotate and to impinge against the interior wall of the pipe.

Abstract: A high-pressure rotary nozzle for cleaning the insides of pipes and vessels associated with the agricultural and petroleum industries, as well as in geothermal plants. The rotary nozzle provides a plurality of high-velocity, rotating, fluid streams to remove unwanted material from the interior surfaces of the pipes and vessels, wherein the nozzle comprises a central supporting shaft through which fluid flows into the rotatably mounted rotor body, the body being provided with jet-spray heads canted either forwardly or rearwardly of the line of longitudinal travel, and including thrust bearings located against each end of the body. The rotating speed of the rotor body is controlled by a plurality of free-floating bearing balls which bear against a stationary cup member as the body rotates on the central shaft. Guide members are secured to the cup member, allowing the nozzle to be continuously and centrally aligned during its longitudinal travel within a pipe.

Abstract: Method and means for steam cleaning subsurface liners in oil well bores and the like, comprising steam head means particularly designed and constructed for radially spreading a steam stream through a substantially constant area or volume from the stream to the proximity of the releasing jet area in order to maintain the steam at maximum heat upon the release thereof into the area being steam treated. The steam head may be initially introduced into the well bore by a tubing string, lowered to a position in the proximity of the liner by the tubing string, released from the tubing string and moved downwardly through the liner by a smaller tubing string, wire line or the like, and reciprocated within the liner by the smaller tubing string or wire line for cleaning of the liner.