Abstract: An apparatus for an improved manner for cleaning a hat by steam including a compartment for steam cleaning a baseball style hat and other style hats. The hat is placed on a hat mold and placed inside the compartment. Water is added to a water reservoir and heated by a heating element to convert the water to steam. Steam flows into the compartment and performs a cleaning operation on the hat.

Abstract: A hands-free cleaning apparatus enabling a user to clean various roller pads and/or paintbrushes using a single apparatus. The apparatus includes a main housing and a lid. The housing has a bottom drain hole and legs. An attachment mechanism is provided to receive and retain a roller pad or paintbrush in a desired position within the apparatus. A spraying mechanism is provided within the housing having one or more spray nozzles arranged to spray water (or other cleaning solution) on the pad or brush in a desired spray pattern for spinning and cleaning the pad or brush. In one configuration, each spray nozzle has a spray direction that is slightly offset from other nozzles in relation to the surface of the roller pad or brush being cleaned, helping to force rotation. The spraying mechanism receives water from a hose through a hose attachment.

Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus includes a substrate holding member configured to rotate along with a substrate held thereon in a horizontal state; an annular rotary cup configured to surround the substrate held on the substrate holding member and to rotate along with the substrate; a rotation mechanism configured to integrally rotate the rotary cup and the substrate holding member; and a liquid supply mechanism configured to supply a process liquid onto the substrate. The apparatus further includes an annular drain cup configured to receive the process liquid discharged from the rotary cup, and provided with a drain port; and a circular flow generation element configured to generate a circular flow within the drain cup when the rotary cup and the substrate holding member are rotated, such that the circular flow serves to lead the process liquid within the drain cup to the drain port.

Abstract: Inside a single apparatus main body (100), a surface treatment apparatus includes: a treatment cell (11); a vertical rotation shaft (12); an attachment/detachment device; a receiving tank (15); a cover body (16); a plurality of tanks (21); a plurality of surface treatment liquid supply devices (22); a cleaning water supply device; a drain device (3); and a first cleaning device. Upon operation of the surface treatment liquid supply device while the treatment cell (11) containing small objects is rotated by the vertical rotation shaft (12), a surface treatment is carried out on the small objects, upon operation of the cleaning water supply device, the small objects inside the treatment cell (11) are cleaned, and upon operation of the first cleaning device, the inner face of the cover body and the outer face of the treatment cell are cleaned, thus providing circulation use of surface treatment liquids in the tanks.

Abstract: Tubular labels and contaminants can be removed from containers and/or bottles of plastic material to be recycled, by subjecting the containers and/or bottles to a first weak mechanical washing and slow centrifugating action, followed by a separation step for separating the removed labels and contaminants from the containers. The containers are subsequently subjected to a second strong mechanical washing and fast centrifugating action for the removal from the containers and/or bottles of any residual labels and contaminants.

Abstract: A nozzle arrangement is described which may in particular be used as a flow nozzle in galvanization systems with horizontal throughput of printed-circuit boards. The nozzle arrangement comprises a longitudinal housing (2) with at least one fluid feed opening to feed a treatment fluid for treating a work piece, for example a printed-circuit board, and preferably a plurality of slotted fluid delivery openings (8) for releasing the treatment fluid. In the housing (2) a fluid channel (5) is formed for feeding the treatment fluid from the fluid feed opening to the fluid delivery openings (8). In order to achieve the most even possible flow speed of the treatment fluid at the fluid delivery openings (8), (a) the throughput of the fluid channel (5) for the treatment fluid reduces continuously from the fluid feed opening in the longitudinal direction of the housing (2) and/or (b) before the delivery of the fluid from the fluid delivery openings (8) a storage chamber is provided.

Abstract: A drive roller for use in a semiconductor substrate cleaning system is provided. In one embodiment, a drive roller includes an outer ring having a disk-shaped body, wherein the disk-shaped body has an inner cylindrical, an upper wall, and an outer cylindrical wall defining a cavity within the disk-shaped body. An inner ring is disposed within the cavity. A groove is formed along an outer side of the inner ring. The groove faces an inner surface of the outer cylindrical wall of the outer ring.

Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus for treating substrates includes a treating tank for receiving and treating the substrates, a holding device movable, while holding the substrates in a cantilever mode, between a treating position in the treating tank and a transfer position above the treating tank, a transport device for supporting the substrates and transferring the substrates to and from the holding device in the transfer position, a detecting device for detecting a posture variation of the holding device, and a correcting device for correcting a position of the holding device or the transport device. The correcting device performs a correction according to the posture variation of the holding device detected by the detecting device in time of transfer of the substrates between the holding device and the transport device.

Abstract: An automated car wash system is provided comprising an anthropomorphic robot that serves to spray and clean cars prior to their entering into, or within, an automated car wash so as to remove surface dirt from the car, using a high-pressure spray gun. The robot is controlled by an interconnected network of pneumatic or hydraulic pumps and hoses, electronic relays and mechanical linkages so as to simulate the movements of a human. A sensor is used to detect the presence of an automobile in the field of operation of the robot, which sensor also serves to activate the robot and keep it operational as long as the automobile is in a given location. The robot is configured to resemble the shape and size of a human such that it may be dressed in a variety of costumes or outfits so as to maximize both its entertainment value and its utilitarian function.

Abstract: An improved tool for cleaning a jewelry article (e.g., ring) accurately grips and positions the article yet captures any device affixed thereto (e.g., gemstone, jewel) while exposing the tool to a jewelry cleaning liquid (e.g., pressurized steam, ultrasonic liquid, ammonia solution, etc.). For instance, a spring-handled basket tool generally used for jewelry cleaning is improved by introducing a grasping member, such as an alligator clip with resiliency treated contact edges. The clip is affixed, such as by riveting, to one of two interior rings that define the opening between the two hemispheric baskets. A jewelry article that is thus clipped may be positioned to a desired angle for inspection and cleaning without fear of an expensive gem being lost due to the cleaning process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to heat curing impregnation sealant compositions, which are readily separable from water upon mixing.

Abstract: Cold-reduced flat-rolled low carbon steel strip is surface cleansed of ferromagnetic contaminants including iron fines, iron oxide particulate and associated debris which result from gauge-reduction operations. Such ferromagnetic contaminants are permanently removed from the strip steel hot-dip galvanizing system by dynamically concentrating such contaminant which are flushed to a magnetically-assisted particle separation container, formed from paramagnetic sheet material, which retains such contaminants, while cleansing solution at a desired purity level, is returned to the surface cleansing system; with sedimentation tank means providing for diminishing waste disposal concerns by separating sludge and recycling liquid.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a wafer preferably includes a rotating chuck for rotating the wafer and a treating fluid supplying part for supplying the wafer with one or more treating fluids. The treating fluid(s) can be used to clean and/or dry the wafer. The treating fluid supplying part preferably includes a receiving portion for receiving a treating fluid, and a slit communicating with the receiving portion for applying the treating fluid to a surface of the wafer. An ultrasonic oscillating part can be installed in the receiving portion and can apply ultrasonic oscillation to the treating fluid. The treating fluid for applying the ultrasonic oscillation is preferably provided uniformly across the treated surface of the wafer. The effectiveness of the cleaning process can thereby be improved, and damage to patterns formed on the wafer can be reduced.

Abstract: There are provided a band-shaped tray 12 having grasping grooves 12a for grasping opposite side ends of wafers 1, and a cleaning tank 20 to which the wafers 1 inserted in the tray 12 are conveyed by a conveyor robot 2 to be cleaned. The cleaning tank 20 is provided with guides 22 for mounting the tray 12 in the tank, a bottom portion 26 formed substantially in V-shape conforming to the bottom-face shape of the wafer 1, and flow ports 24 via which cleaning fluid is supplied into the tank. An outer side face of the cleaning tank 20 is provided with an overflow tank 30 for containing the cleaning fluid overflowing from the cleaning tank 20, and the overflow tank 30 is provided with a circulation line 32 for circulating the cleaning fluid again into the cleaning tank 20.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for cleaning a thin disc. In accordance with a first aspect, an apparatus is provided that includes a tank adapted to contain a fluid, and at least one support mechanism adapted to support a thin disc such that the thin disc is at least partially submerged in the fluid. The apparatus further includes a plurality of transducers each adapted to produce energy waves in the fluid, and a controller adapted to adjust the energy waves produced by each transducer so as to scan an energy wave maximum along a surface of a thin disc supported by the at least one support mechanism.

Abstract: Provided is a suitable cleaning method of a porous semiconductor substrate without collapse of the porous structure due to cavitation or resonance. In a cleaning method of a porous surface of a semiconductor substrate having the porous structure at least in the surface, cleaning for removing dust particles adhering to the porous surface of the substrate takes place with pure water on which a high-frequency wave with a frequency in the range of from 600 kHz to 2 MHz is superimposed.

Abstract: A nozzle for spraying a cleaning solution, a body of the nozzle having its intake at one end, its sealed end portion at the other end, and a plurality of holes arranged linearly on its surface form inside of the body to outside of the body are disclosed. Also disclosed is a cleaning apparatus of a semiconductor device which includes a bath where wafers are cleaned and a cleaning solution spraying nozzle mounted at the bottom of the bath for spraying a cleaning solution through a plurality of holes formed on its surface, with the nozzle's one side being connected to a cleaning solution supply tube and the nozzle's other side being sealed. The hole's area through which the solution passes gradually decreases from one side of the nozzle through which the cleaning solution is induced, to the other side sealed so that the solution is sprayed with a uniform pressure.

Abstract: An aerosol cleaning apparatus and a method of treating a substrate within such an apparatus prevent contaminant recirculation by controlling the post-impingement exhaust flow through control of the aerodynamic behavior of the contaminant laden exhaust stream. By the present invention, the post-impingement exhaust flow is divided into two streams. A first stream is the main stream flowing initially over the contaminated side of the wafer and carrying most of the suspended contaminants into the exhaust. The second stream flows initially over the cleaned side of the wafer and eventually into the exhaust stream. A flow separator is provided for dividing the post-impingement aerosol spray into plural flow streams.

Abstract: It is known to wash dispersion noodles in a `batchwise` fashion in which the noodles are retained in a kettle or kettle and water is sprayed onto the surface of the noodles. Agitation is achieved by bubbling air into the kettle from the bottom. Described herein is a method and apparatus for continuously washing dispersion noodles. The apparatus includes continuous pipe work in which the noodles are washed, the pipe work including at least one separating device (10) for separating the noodles from the water in which they have been washed. The device (10) comprises a housing (12) having an inlet (14) and an outlet (16). A separating element (22) is located in the housing (12) between the inlet (14) and the outlet (16) and is surrounded by a collection chamber (24), the element (22) comprising a tube of mesh material through which water passes into the collection chamber (24) and which is then drained off through drain (32).

Abstract: A parts cleaning machine (10) is provided which includes a cabinet (50) with a rotating carousel (60) therein for supporting articles to be cleaned and a spray bar network (80) for directing cleaning fluid (F) against articles supported upon the carousel (60). The carousel (60) is enclosed within the cabinet (50). A sink (100) is also provided which receives fluid (F) from a line (126) which taps into the spray bar network (80) to utilize cleaning fluid (F) provided by a fluid delivery system (250). The cabinet (50) includes a reservoir (90) at a bottom thereof which collects cleaning fluid (F) utilized by the spray bar network (80) and utilized within the sink (100). A filter (150) processes water from the reservoir (90) to remove contaminants from the cleaning fluid (F). The parts cleaning machine (10) can simultaneously wash articles within the cabinet (50) and within the sink (100).

Abstract: A vertical panel (1) separates the shop into an average cleanness zone (2) and a maximum cleanness zone (3). An elongated tank (4) is located in the zone (2) and an enclosure (6) is inserted in an opening (5) in the panel (1). The tubes are cleaned and prerinsed in the tank (4), then rinsed and dried in the enclosure (6), which also serves as a lock for the transfer of the tubes between the zones (2) and (3).

Abstract: A cleansing apparatus for test-vessels such as cuvettes or the like comprising a support shaft and three spaced paralleled disks, two of said disks being secured to the shaft and the third disk being rotatably positioned on the shaft, a nozzle secured to the first disk, the second and third disks having apertures thereon for receiving cuvettes, so that a cuvette may be positioned over the nozzle through the apertures in one of the disks, and retained by the rotatable disk so that immersion of the apparatus into a cleansing solution forces a jet of solution through the nozzle for cleansing the cuvette.

Abstract: A portable cabinet which is fitted with means for washing and drying one or more footballs. The cabinet is fitted with a hinged top cover, with the several compartments of the cabinet open to the top. A central compartment is fitted with a battery power supply connected by switching and a timer to a motor mounted in the central compartment. The motor is joined by a first shaft to an air blower in one side compartment mounted below an electrical heating element and to a water circulating pump mounted in the second side compartment, connected to circulate water from a storage tank through a shower spray head mounted in the top of the second compartment onto a football detachably mounted to a second shaft joined by belt and pulleys to the motor shaft. A football may be detachably mounted to the second shaft in the first side compartment above the heating element.