Abstract: A system for cleaning, rinsing, coating and drying cans having a circular side wall and a closed end wall at a high rate of speed as the cans emerge from the apparatus by which they are formed. The system basically comprises a washing stage, at least one rinsing stage and a drying stage, with one or more coating stages provided if desired. Each stage is housed in its respective housing and having a can entrance location and a can exit location, with the exit location of one stage being connected to the entrance location of the next succeeding stage by conveyor means. The stages are of a generally similar construction and basically comprise a carrier assembly disposed within the housing for receipt of the formed cans. The carrier rotates about a main longitudinal axis for carrying the cans from the entrance location to the exit location through a circular orbit and in planetary motion, wherein the cans are rotated about their own longitudinal axis as they orbit about the main longitudinal axis of the housing.

Abstract: An industrial cleaning system comprising a method and apparatus for substantially inverting a container to be cleaned into a washing space, temporarily enclosing the space, discharging cleaning fluids into and onto the container in a predetermined cycle of steps, removing the enclosure, and restoring the container to its initial position in cleaned, dryed, sterile condition.

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning the heat exchanging surfaces of the heat transfer plates of rotary regenerative heat exchangers by using a row of high pressure directional jets of cleaning fluid directed into the interspaces between the plates and hitting deposits positioned in the interspaces essentially in the shape of a moving row of impact points.

Abstract: Apparatus which washes and cleans hospital and nursing home utensils of various configurations, such as bed pans, urinals, and buckets. The washing apparatus is provided with a chamber that has washing nozzles and a mounting fixture for the utensils that rotates during the various stages of the washing operation. The utensils of different types are readily and thoroughly cleaned in a sealed, closable chamber, and the switching of the various washing stages may be accomplished by the knee of the operator, leaving the hands free to manipulate the utensils as desired.

Abstract: A container washing system comprises a container washing zone, a rinsing zone and a deionized rinsing zone through which containers are conveyed. At each of the zones, spray nozzles direct washing and rinsing liquids at the containers. In order to prevent the etching of stationary containers when the conveyor is interrupted, the spray nozzles in the washing and deionized rinsing zones are deactivated. In order to prevent the oxidation or rusting of the stationary containers in the absence of the washing and deionized rinsing liquids, the containers are maintained in the moist condition by fogging nozzles located within the washing and deionized rinsing zones.

Abstract: A machine comprising a trough with pipe pieces provided one at each end thereof for the purpose of accommodating wheeled trolleys carrying the containers. A tubular frame with nozzles is positioned over the trough and is adapted to move axially therealong. The frame is arranged to communicate with the source of the washing medium for the purpose of delivering the washing medium to the nozzles. The trough consists of a stationary bottom member and side flaps mounted adjacent thereto. A drive is arranged to open said flaps during the washing process and close them after the washing to permit the container to be moved in the trough. The machine is simple in construction and can be readily fitted to a pneumatic conveyance pipeline handling domestic refuse and other loads contaminating the conveyance containers.

Abstract: Apparatus for treating cup-shaped workpieces in which the workpieces are positioned within a shape-conforming chamber formed with an outlet port in the base thereof and a conforming nozzle is positioned within the interior of the workpiece in close clearance-spaced relationship. The nozzle is provided with an axial port for discharging a high-pressure treating fluid against the central portion of the interior bottom surface of the workpiece, causing a high-speed radial outward flow therealong and thence axially outwardly along the interior wall surfaces of the workpiece. Upon reaching the open end of the workpiece, the direction of flow is reversed and is directed axially along the exterior wall surface of the workpiece, and upon passing the bottom edge thereof, the fluid is deflected in impinging relationship against the outer bottom surface, whereafter it is discharged through the outlet port and is recovered for reuse.

Abstract: In cleaning and sterilizing rotary backpressure filling machines which include filling elements and a pressure actuated conveyor operatively associated therewith, the conveyor is adapted to support rinsing vessels used in cleaning the filling elements. More particularly, the cleaning operation of is effected by inserting, fastening and detaching a rinsing vessel upon the filling machine with a rinsing operation occurring while the rinsing vessel is fastened to the machine. The rinsing vessel includes axially movable sleeve which cooperates with radially movable clamping members, preferably in the form of spherical balls, to attach the rinsing vessel to an air and/or gas fill pipe of the filling machine, with pressure being introduced into the rinsing vessel to actuate valve means enabling flow of cleansing fluid through the machine.

Abstract: To permit versatile application of a washing machine for bottles of different sizes and shapes, a rotatable frame is located within a vessel, the frame having secured thereto a plurality of bottle holding, or retaining boxes, each adapted to hold one, or more bottles, which boxes are made of mesh, or similar material, and have an open top, the frame being arranged with holding means for mesh, grid or other tops, at different heights above the bottoms of the boxes; the frame rotates in the vessel, to dip the bottles into cleaning, rinsing and other treatment solutions and, when the bottles are facing upside down, spray means are arranged to spray washing liquid into the bottles. The vessel may be strong enough to accept pressurized steam for sterilization of the wash bottles.

Abstract: A spraying device for a bottle cleaning machine in which bottles are conveyed in inverted position. The spraying device reciprocates in the machine beneath the bottles and includes upwardly directed nozzles that follow respective bottles in succession for a predetermined distance. A cam drive is provided for the device with a guide return. The frame for the spraying device is supported and guided in the machine on antifriction elements. The antifriction elements may include balls rollingly supported by channels in the machine and rollingly engaged by the frame of the spraying device.

Abstract: Labels are removed from the bottles as they stand generally upright in the conveyor pockets at the bottom of the curved guide where they pass under the high volume nozzles fed by a supply manifold approximately at the center of the curvature of the solid guides. At the time of label removal the bottles are under the liquid level of the caustic bath in the bottle washing machine. The open slot on the bottom of the solid curved guide leads to a suction channel which pulls the labels from the caustic solution as fast as they are flushed off the bottles. The suction channel is tapered to obtain substantially equal suction across the slot. Since the bottles are moving on a curved path as they pass under the jet, there is an effective dwell during the flushing and a single nozzle can accomplish more flushing action than in prior designs.

Abstract: A fully automatic washer for glassware that is activated on demand to continuously supply its delivery station with washed glasses. The apparatus is characterized by a turn table that receives glasses at a loading station and advances them through a spray curtain to be operated upon by circumferentially sequential pre-rinsing, wash, and final rinse stations; and after which the glasses eminate through a spray curtain to then successively engage a stop means which deactivates the apparatus until removal of said engaged glass or glasses, which reactivates the turn table to advance other glasses that have been placed in the loading station and advanced through the apparatus.

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.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cleaning the exterior surface of a pipe such as a pipe located in a sub-sea location having a coating of concrete or the like thereabout. The apparatus includes a generally longitudinal frame which supports a carriage for longitudinal traverse therealong. The carriage supports a high-pressure fluid nozzle which is arranged to direct the discharge thereof against the pipe coating which is to be removed. The carriage is arranged for longitudinal traverse along the frame, to thereby direct a high-pressure fluid stream into contact with the surface of the pipe. The frame is also arranged for rotation about the pipe, whereby a section of the pipe can be cleaned about its full circumference by a number of generally longitudinal runs along the pipe section being cleaned. The carriage may also support a wire cutter for cutting any re-enforcing wire after the concrete has been dislodged by the fluid nozzle.