Abstract: An electrically powered pumping system for extracting liquid from a deep container includes an electric motor having a rotor with a drive shaft connected thereto. A centrifugal pump has a driven shaft, and a shaft extension is coupled at one end to the drive shaft of the electric motor and at an opposite end to the driven shaft of the pump. An elongate support member has a first end for receiving the electric motor and a second end for connection to the centrifugal pump. The support member has a central passageway extending from the first and second ends for passage therethrough of the shaft extensions, and a plurality of spaced bearing members are provided in the support member for rotatably supporting the shaft extension therein.

Abstract: A pallet cleaner especially suitable for use in cleaning plastic pallets. The cleaner includes a vertically oriented horizontally extending chamber having a vertically oriented entry opening at one end of the chamber and a vertically oriented exit opening at the other end of the chamber. The pallets are loaded on edge into the chamber through the vertically oriented entry opening, moved through the chamber on edge while a heated pressurized fluid is directed against the upper and lower sides of the pallet, and thereafter are moved on edge out of the chamber through the exit opening. The cleaner further includes wheels so that the cleaner is portable and may be rolled to the site of pallets to be cleaned rather than requiring the pallets to be cleaned to be brought to the site of the cleaner.