Abstract: A bolt cleaning system for removing debris from the threaded portions of anchor bolts. The bolt cleaning system includes a shaft member, an inner member attached to the shaft member having an annular member, a first cleaning unit removably positionable within the inner member, a connector member connectable to the inner member, an outer member connectable to the connector member, and a second cleaning unit removably positioned between the connector member and the outer member.

Abstract: A small transmission that has wired brushes attached to the gears (2) and (3). One of the gear/wire brush (2) has an extended shaft to receive a drill motor. Housing (1) is coupled with two closures (4) & (5) to incase the gears, and to harness the shafts. The bushings (6) combined with the bushing bolts (7) so that the top end of the transmission is secured. The right closure bolt/arresting rod (8), and a left closure (9) bolt are combined to secure the bottom of the transmission. A crank (11) is attached to a cranking gear shaft (10).

Abstract: A motor driven and or mounted cleaning attachment manufactured of a rigid material, having no need for adjustment, for the purpose of clearing multiple bolt pitch diameters. Consist of plates sandwiched and fastened together. Mounting plate (1) manufactured to mount directly to motor housing, or to a base being driven a motor, jack-shaft and pulley or gear driven system. The mounting plate (1) is bored with mounting holes (5) and assembly holes (6). Said mounting plate (1) has an index of multiple diameter holes (8). Said mounting plate armature hole (14) is center bored according to mounting needs. Center working plate (2) being of same diameter of mounting plat (1). The center plate (2) has been indexed (8) as said mounting plate (1) except said index has been partially exposed or cut away by the cleaning wheel bore (17). The center plate (2) has tapped holes (9) and tapped to half thickness of the center plate (2) from each side, for assembly to said mounting plate (1), and cover plate.

Abstract: A photobioreactor is disclosed for cultivating a photosynthetic organism. This photobioreactor provides innovative features that allow an easy cleaning of the light source. The photobioreactor has a container for containing a liquid culture medium for cultivating photosynthetic organisms, light-emitting tubes mounted within the container. The photobioreactor also has cleaning devices mounted within the container for cleaning the outer surface of the light-emitting tubes and actuators for actuating the cleaning devices.

Abstract: Tools for brushing an inner surface of a hole are provided including a rotatable shaft, an inlet in fluid communication with a source of pressurized fluid, at least one outlet positioned so as to wet an inner surface of a hole, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet. The tool further includes at least one brush being radially moveable relative to the shaft to an extended position and a retracted position.

Abstract: A copper pipe cleaning assembly has an interior cleaning member and an exterior cleaning member, which are easily joined or separated as required, depending on the area of the pipe to be cleaned.

Abstract: Device for mechanically cleaning wire rod for profiled metal wires, comprising at least one press (3) with gripping jaws (4a, 4b) rotating about the wire rod (2) and supporting an abrasive material (5) , such as steel wool for example, arranged in one or more layers around the wire rod (2), pressed against it by the jaws (4a, 4b) and retained by the latter so as to prevent it being drawn along; operating members (6a, 6b) consisting of floating plates (8) joined together in an ordered manner in pairs so that each pair interacts autonomously with the abrasive material (5); means (7) for actuating the operating members (6a, 6b), able to modify the opening of the jaws (4a, 4b); means (10) for synchronizing the relative sliding movement of the plates (8) of each pair in the transverse direction with respect to the rod (2) and able to cause identical displacements of the said plates (8) in opposite directions.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning culverts and the like, and the apparatus has a longitudinal beam having a first end and a second end, adjustable support legs secured to said first and second ends of the beam, a carriage movably mounted on the beam between the support legs, apparatus for moving the carriage along the beam, a motor having a rotatable shaft secured to the carriage beneath the beam, and the rotatable shaft is configured to receive a removable coupling, at least one drive link having a first end and a second end and the first and second ends are configured to receive removable couplings and the drive link is joined to the rotatable shaft by a removable coupling and a culvert cleaning tool having a shaft configured to receive a removable coupling and the shaft is secured to the drive link by a removable coupling. The apparatus is provided with couplings for attaching and detaching the apparatus to and from a carrier vehicle. The carrier vehicle serves to transport and position the apparatus.

Abstract: A method and product for computer disk drives. Glass substrates are provided having low content of residual polishing particles on the surfaces thereof. An exemplary method includes reduction of residual polishing particle content by immersion of the glass substrate in an acid bath containing nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide and an organic acid having a carboxylic acid group.

Abstract: Device for mechanically cleaning wire rod for profiled metal wires, comprising at least one press (3) with gripping jaws (4a, 4b) rotating about the wire rod (2) and supporting an abrasive material (5), such as steel wool for example, arranged in one or more layers around the wire rod (2), pressed against it by the jaws (4a, 4b) and retained by the latter so as to prevent it being drawn along; operating members (6a, 6b) consisting of floating plates (8) joined together in an ordered manner in pairs so that each pair interacts autonomously with the abrasive material (5); means (7) for actuating the operating members (6a, 6b), able to modify the opening of the jaws (4a, 4b); means (10) for synchronizing the relative sliding movement of the plates (8) of each pair in the transverse direction with respect to the rod (2) and able to cause identical displacements of the said plates (8) in opposite directions.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning culverts and the like, and the apparatus has a longitudinal beam having a first end and a second end, adjustable support legs secured to said first and second ends of the beam, a carriage movably mounted on the beam between the support legs, a means for moving the carriage along the beam, a motor having a rotatable shaft secured to the carriage beneath the beam, and the rotatable shaft is configured to receive a removable coupling, at least one drive link having a first end and a second end and the first and second ends are configured to receive removable couplings and the drive link is joined to the rotatable shaft by means of a removable coupling and a culvert cleaning tool having a shaft configured to receive a removable coupling and the shaft is secured to the drive link by means of a removable coupling.

Abstract: A method and product for computer disk drives. Glass substrates are provided having low content of residual polishing particles on the surfaces thereof. An exemplary method includes reduction of residual polishing particle content by immersion of the glass substrate in an acid bath containing nitric acid, hydrogen peroxide and an organic acid having a carboxylic acid group.

Abstract: The apparatus of claim 30, further comprising a container having said brush and said cleaning element dispersed and an apparatus brush cleans the inside surface of a cylindrical photoreceptor substrate such as used in xerography. The substrate can be in a cleaning solution and brushes can also be located both inside and outside the substrate. There is relative motion, e.g., rotation, translation, a combination of both, etc., between the brushes and the substrate. A photoreceptor coating is directly applied after the cleaning without intervening processing steps.

Abstract: The invention outlined in the disclosure is an adjustable wire brush tool for cleaning either the inside or the outside end of a copper pipe or fitting in preparation for soldering the parts together. The tool includes a hollow cylindrical section with a first wire brush on the interior surface of the section. Attached at one end of the cylindrical section is a slightly smaller cylindrical section sized to hold a second cylindrical twisted steel brush having a hexagonal shaft that extends from the smaller section, opposite the larger cylindrical section. The twisted steel brush and attached shaft can be moved to extend the twisted brush beyond the open end of the larger cylindrical section, for insertion into a fitting to clean the fitting interior surface by attaching a power drill to the shaft and rotating the twisted steel brush attached thereto. To clean the outside of a pipe, the twist brush is retracted into the smaller section and secured to that section with an engaging means.

Abstract: This soldering iron cleaning apparatus comprises a main body having an introduction hole, a motor, a sensor mechanism which detects the insertion of the soldering head to the introduction hole and drives the motor, a cleaning member which removes solder remaining on the soldering head, a power transmission mechanism which drives the cleaning member by the driving force from the motor. The power transmission mechanism rotates the cleaning member, by the driving force of the motor, in such a way that the cleaning member scrapes the external surface of the soldering head from the base side to the tip side of the soldering head while turning the cleaning member around the soldering head.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning the interior and exterior of a corroded pipe including a pipe shuttle for rotatable holding a pipe being cleaned, a stationary lance assembly for insertion into the interior of the pipe to scrape and clean the interior of the pipe, an external scraper for scraping the outer surface of the pipe, a wire brush assembly for cleaning the outer surface of the pipe, and a drive car for rotating the pipe and driving the rotating pipe onto the lance assembly and into contact with the external scraper and the wire brush assembly.

Abstract: A pipe cleaner for manually cleaning the threads of pipes of differing sizes includes a body into which is slidably engaged at least one arm with an abrasive member. The abrasive member at the end of the arm extends into an orifice in the body. A single arm opposing a "V" shaped block may be used as well as a plurality of arms with abrasive members. A cover is rotatably mounted on the body and includes a number of angled slots, which are angled relative to radii of the cover and may be an arc segment of a spiral. Pegs that are coupled to each arm are engaged with the angled slot in the cover. Thus by rotating the cover relative to the body of the pipe cleaner, the arms with their abrasive members are driven inwards and outwards of the orifice by the peg and angled slot assembly. The cover includes an orifice that is approximately the same size as the orifice in the body, such that the cover does not inhibit a pipe from extending through the pipe cleaner.

Abstract: A tube and fitting preparation tool is provided including a base and at least one shaft rotatably coupled to the base. A motor is in communication with the shaft for rotating the same. Mounted on a first end of the shaft is a male brush while a female brush is mounted on a second end of the shaft.

Abstract: A cleaning device (10) for copper tubing (12) and copper fittings (14) comprising an outside diameter brush assembly (16) to clean an outer surface of an end of a piece of copper tubing (12) and an inside diameter brush assembly (18) to clean an inner surface of a copper fitting (14). A structure (20) is for automatically rotating the outside diameter brush assembly (16) when the end of the piece of copper tubing (12) is inserted into the outside diameter brush assembly (16). A structure (22) is for automatically rotating the inside diameter brush assembly (18) when the copper fitting (14) is inserted over the inside diameter brush assembly (18). An assemblage (24) is for mounting the cleaning device (10) to a stationary object (26).

Abstract: A cleaning device with adjustable brush bars that are mounted in a cylindrical inner tube and that may be adjusted inwards or outwards in the radial direction by means of an outer tubular piece. A driving unit for such a cleaning device has an open bore in both axial directions and may be flanged on the cleaning accessory. As the cleaning device is axially open in both directions and the cleaning accessory is also axially open in both directions, elongated threads or bolts may be cleaned easily and without effort. The non-cleaned bolt section lies in front of the cleaning accessory and enters therein, the cleaned bolt section projects out of the axially open end of the driving unit. This not only makes it possible to clean elongated bolts and threads in a reliable manner, it also allows forces to be transmitted in a highly effective manner to the brush cleaning accessory, independently from the length of the thread to be cleaned. The force may be increased by stepping down the rotary driving member.

Abstract: A gun bore cleaning system, comprising a cleaning rod with a chamber in handle to accept a capsule of cleaning fluid with a manually operable, resiliant pressure/suction pump with a capability to control and dispense fluid through a hollow rod. An attached swivel end/check-valve allows free end tip rotation and prevents leakage from rod member. Also included with the system is a "capture boot" that temporarily mounts to a guns' barrel for collecting all spent fluid.

Abstract: A 360.degree. screw thread cleaner which is a hand operated tool for cleaning the spiral grooves of threads on the exterior of a pipe. It has sliding jaws, which have cleaning bristles, and the jaws adjust simultaneously when a scroll section is rotated either clockwise or counterclockwise for smaller or larger diameter pipes.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing residual contaminates from a section of pipe used in gas lines. The apparatus includes a frame and a cradle mounted on the frame for holding a section of pipe. The apparatus also includes a rigid rod moveably mounted on the frame for rotation about a centerline of the pipe when held by the cradle and for translation toward and away from the pipe. In addition, the apparatus includes a brush mounted on the rod for rotation and translation through the section of pipe when held by the cradle to dislodge residual contaminates inside the pipe.

Abstract: A metal fitting cleaner includes a support; an electrical power supply; a first bearing assembly mounted by the support; a first brush detachably mounted by the first bearing assembly for pivotal movement; a first electric motor which is mounted by the support and which is mechanically coupled to the first bearing assembly for pivotably driving the first brush; a second bearing assembly mounted by the support; a second brush detachably mounted by the second bearing assembly for pivotal movement; and a second electric motor which is mounted by the support and which is mechanically coupled to the second bearing assembly for pivotably driving the second brush. Preferably, the first and second brushes are of different size or configuration.

Abstract: An apparatus for brushing an elongated workpiece as the workpiece moves through the apparatus is particularly useful in removing scale from a rod. The apparatus includes a plurality of brushes which are engageable with the rod. Motors are provided to rotate the brushes. A detector detects the occurrence of brush wear during brushing of the rod. In order to automatically compensate for brush wear, a brush adjustment assembly changes the positions of the brushes relative to the rod in response to the detector detecting the occurrence of brush wear. When a predetermined maximum permissible amount of brush wear is detected, the brushes are automatically retracted away from the workpiece by the brush adjustment assembly. The brush adjustment assembly moves the brushes relative to the workpiece in directions perpendicular to the axes about which the brushes rotate and perpendicular to a longitudinal central axis of the workpiece.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cleaning cylindrical objects such as bolts and pipes is provided. The apparatus includes a support frame to which at least three shafts are rotatably mounted. Each shaft is provided with a circular brush secured to a portion thereof such that the brushes are arranged in a coplanar relationship and spaced apart to define an object receiving passage wherein each of the brushes engages the object when the object is disposed in the object receiving passage. The brushes are caused to be rotated in the same direction but with one of the brushes rotating at a different rate than the other brushes so that the object is caused to rotate in response to the rotation of the brushes.

Abstract: A hand held insitu reactor vessel stud cleaner includes a right angle drill having a frame with an annular ring portion mounted thereon. An annular rotating plate assembly with a cylindrical brush holder or thread chase is concentrically mounted thereon and driven by a spur gear and ring gear combination or a belt and pulley combination. Vacuum structure is provided to remove corroded material loosened by the brushes or chase.

Abstract: A cleaning device is provided for cleaning a barrel of a gun. To this end, a portable, hand-held motor encased within a housing is connected to a shaft. The motor may be either AC or DC powered. The shaft is connectable to a coupling member and preferably secured to the shaft by a set screw. A second shaft is connected at an opposite end of the coupler. The second coupler is threaded to receive a threaded end of a brush. The brush, therefore, may be removably secured to the threaded end of the second shaft. When the brush is inserted into the barrel of the gun and power is provided to the motor, the shafts rotate allowing the brush to clean the barrel.

Abstract: A cleaning device for removing sludge build-up from elevator ropes includes a brush assembly secured within a housing and shielded by a guard. The sludge is continuously removed from the elevator ropes as the elevator ropes pass through the bristles of the brush. The housing includes a removable receptacle where the removed sludge is collected. The receptacle is periodically removed and cleaned. The cleaning device also includes a cleaning bar which removes the sludge from the brush to provide more effecting cleaning of the elevator ropes.

Abstract: A gun barrel bore cleaner having a hollow rod inserted a one end into a fluid receptacle and the other end of the hollow rod bearing an attached brush. Gun barrel cleaning fluid can travel from the fluid receptacle and through the hollow rod to exit from the hollow rod near the brush attachment.

Abstract: A coin-operated golf club cleaner cabinet is provided. Behind an access port in the front of the cabinet is mounted a structural housing comprising a rectangular box frame for supporting two pairs of cup-type brushes, positioned facing and in-line with a gap between them for receiving a golf club head. The first pair of brushes has aggressive bristles and forms a narrow gap between the facing brushes for cleaning irons, the second pair having softer bristles and a wider gap for cleaning woods. The housing has two small front curtained ports for permitting club access to the appropriate brush gap. Three in-line shafts provide two pairs of facing shaft ends upon which are mounted the two pairs of brushes. A line shaft and electric drive provide speed reduction to the three in-line shafts. For convenient access of the brushes for adjustment and maintenance purposes, the housing can be pivoted within the cabinet to present its substantially open base to the cabinet's access port.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning of a reactor pressure vessel head closure stud. The surface of the stud is cleaned by power vacuum brushing. The stud is hung vertically in a cabinet which supports a vertically elevatable spinner housing. The stud is cleaned in a single process using a rotating wire brush system which is rotatably mounted in the spinner housing and has a central opening for passage of the stud. A plurality of wire bushes are arranged in a circular array surrounding the stud. While the wire brushes are rotating in contact with the stud external surface, the spinner housing and wire brush assembly are displaced vertically by an elevator so that the rotating brushes travel along the full length of the stud. The rotating brushes remove accumulated material on the stud surface. The resulting contaminated debris is contained in a volume enclosed by a brush canister and a bellows. The bellows expands or contracts as the elevator travels.

Abstract: A weld cleaning machine includes a frame which is secured by a roller chain immediately adjacent to a pipe having a weld to be cleaned. A rotary weld cleaning element is mounted to the frame on an oscillating arm such that the weld cleaning element oscillates along an oscillation axis oriented axially with respect to the pipe. A first motorized drive system is mounted on the frame to rotate the frame circumferentially around the pipe. A second motorized drive system is mounted on the frame to oscillate the weld cleaning element along the oscillation axis. A third motorized drive system is included in the oscillating arm to rotate the weld cleaning element. The weld cleaning machine is controlled remotely via a control cable and a control panel such that the operator can stand some distance from the pipe being cleaned. Preferably the machine automatically performs a programmed sequence of motions to clean a strip of substantial width along the axis of the pipe.

Abstract: A device having walls encloses a space. The walls provide an inlet aperture in opposition to an outlet aperture for admitting and withdrawing items, such as garden apparatus and tools, which are to be cleaned in the device. The interior space provides brushes set in opposition so that the exterior surface of an item drawn through the device is brushed clean. A structure for admitting water or other cleaning solution, and a structure for draining the solution are positioned in opposition on the walls of the enclosed space. Arms or rods are arranged so that the device may be mounted onto a wall or placed above the ground for easy access.

Abstract: An environmentally compatible pipe cleaning station having an elongated incoming pipe feeder for receiving a length of pipe thereon to be cleaned, a cleaning station through which the pipe is axially and rotationally advanced onto an elongated pipe receiving system that is in axial alignment with the incoming pipe feeder and which then axially passes the length of pipe back through the cleaning station, an elongated secondary pipe feeder system adjacent the incoming pipe feeder lateral transfer apparatus for moving the cleaned pipe onto an adjacent paralleled secondary pipe feeder, a coating booth in axial alignment with the secondary pipe feeder through which a length of pipe is fed and is spray coated, and an outgoing pipe receiver system in alignment with a secondary pipe feeder for receiving the cleaned and coated pipe which is ready to be removed for storage.

Abstract: A wire cleaning apparatus in which three motor driven rotary wire brushes are mounted on a frame for rotation about axes generally radially of a wire pass line with the axes of the brushes being angularly and axially spaced apart relative to the pass line, and with the rotary brushes each having a bristle end face transverse to the axis of rotation and disposed adjacent the pass line so that the bristles of each brush move crosswise of the wire and in relatively opposite directions during each revolution of the brush. A wire guide shoe is associated with each of the wire brushes for guidably engaging and supporting the wire at a side of the pass line opposite the end face of the associated wire brush to control the position of the wire and the depth of penetrating the wire as it passes the end face of the associated brush.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for eviscerating a beheaded fish without belly slitting the fish. A brush having a generally cylindrical shape is used to remove the entrails of a beheaded fish. In preferred form, the brush has multiple rows of bristle extending radially outwardly from a central shaft with the rows also being wrapped spirally around the shaft. The preferred brush is also cone shaped having a smaller diameter at the end of the brush first placed into the fish. The brush is driven by a hydraulic motor with a safety hood provided. A guide trough is used to help guide the fish onto the brush. A water nozzle helps rinse the brush between uses.

Abstract: A device for cleaning either the outer or the inner surface of a pipe end includes a spindle having a tubular wire brush attached to one end thereof, and, an annular wire brush that is adjustable axially of said spindle between a retracted and an advanced position.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for cleaning the inside surfaces of HVAC ducts or the like is provided by the present invention. The apparatus broadly includes a rotatable cleaning head, a fluid driven drive means, and a variable length lightweight handle. The cleaning head carries a plurality of brush members, each including a tubular stiffener and a group of bristles received in said stiffener. The drive means is a pneumatic motor adapted to rotate the cleaning head which is mounted on the output head of the motor. The input end of the motor is connected to the handle, and the end of the handle is connected to a source of pressurized fluid.

Abstract: A multi-purpose rotary pipe or tubing cleaner especially adapted for cleaning copper pipe and fittings for sweat soldering joints having rotary internal and external brushes and an internal reamer.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a work preparation device for sequentially conditioning a tubular workpiece. The device has a battery operated motor that operates gear means that rotates a horizontal shaft. At the ends of the shaft is a male abrasive tool and a female abrasive tool. The distance between the ends of the abrasive tools is preferably less than about six inches so that the device could function in small spaces.

Abstract: The apparatus has an operating structure which is suspendable, by means of cables, from the barycentric hook of a helicopter and is provided with an orientatable arm having a cleaning head rigidly associated therewith. The cleaning head is provided with supports for suspending rotating cleaning brushes actuated by motors. Part of the suspension support is fixed and is constituted by a frame connected to the orientatable arm, and a movable support is supported by the frame so as to be oscillatable and is controlled by motors which allow to move the related brush or brushes from an open approach position to a closed operative position in which the set of brushes of the head embraces the set of insulators.

Abstract: A plate making device for a plate roll that is to be made into a printing plate in which a pretreatment assembly, a photosensitive film coating assembly, and a protective film coating assembly are respectively installed on three separate tables that can be raised and lowered relative to the plate roll. The three separate tables are provided on a common table that is slidable along the axis of the plate roll. The three separate tables and the common table are moved so that a pretreatment assembly, a photosensitive film coating assembly and a protective film coating assembly are successively come into contact with the plate roll, and a pretreatment, a photosensitive film coating and a protective film coating are successively performed on the plate roll by the pretreatment assembly, the photosensitive film coating assembly and the protective film coating assembly. Thus, the entire plate making processes is performed by a single device, occupying lesser spaces.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning rolls comprising a plurality of cylindrical brushes that are rotated by a combination of sheaves and belts or their equivalent, which are powered by some form of a motor and uses a solvent to remove debris, such as residual fiber affixed to the rolls.

Abstract: A pipe thread cleaner has cleaning heads with rotated thread brushes driven by motors on the heads. Separate heads for box and pin ends have splash shrouds with gaskets to bear on pipe surfaces. Cleaning fluids under pressure are supplied, selectively, to the heads. The heads have a scavenger system plumbed to a vacuum collector tank. The heads have pipe bore plugs on brush spindle extensions that seal the bore and squeegee the inner pipe surfaces when the heads are removed from the pipe. Optionally, compressed air replaces cleaning fluid to jets in the heads to finally blow dry the cleaned threads. Further options include jets that spin with the brushes and a centrifuge to recover reusable cleaning fluids from the effluent fluids from the cleaning heads.

Abstract: This invention is an apparatus and method of removing the unhardened portion of a coating. More specifically, the preferred embodiment is an apparatus that removes the unhardened portion of photopolymer plate after it has been exposed. The apparatus is made of basically four parts, a tank that contains the solvent and cylinder within the tank where the plate to be washed is placed along the inside wall, a carrousel which is made up of cylindrical brushes and flotation chamber, and a motor to drive the carrousel in a rotary fashion. The plate to be washed is placed on the inside wall of the cylinder. The brushes of the carrousel hold the place in place against the wall and when the motor is turned on, these brushes are driven against the plate by centrifugal force and brush off the unhardened portion of the plate.

Abstract: A machine and method are provided for reconditioning pipelines. The machine comprises parts and modules which are easily stowed, manually portable into and out of excavations, and easily installed together to form a machine for reconditioning the outer surface of pipelines. A frame construction capable of assembly around a pipeline is provided. A travel module is attachable to the frame to move the frame along the pipeline. A traction module is attachable to the frame to provide substantially constant traction during travel regardless of surface irregularities. A ring construciton is provided for placement around the pipeline and rotation about rollers attachable to the frame that engage the inside of the ring construction. Retaining arms and reconditioning devices can be mounted on the ring construction and a rotating module is attachable to the frame to engage and rotate or oscillate the ring construction around the pipeline.

Abstract: A combination dedimpler and deburring apparatus is provided in which tubes are serially introduced into a dedimpler machine which removes constrictions or dimples from the tube wall at the cut ends thereof to form cylindrically true ends, and then the tubes are automatically transferred to a deburring machine for the removal of burrs from such cut ends. In the dedimpler machine, the tubes are advanced to a dedimpler station where a pair of dedimpler plugs are moved by a cam arrangement into opposite ends of the tube in a precisely timed, synchronized motion to force the tube wall against cooperating press rollers and thus remove constrictions or dimples from the tube ends. The dedimpled tubes are then automatically conveyed to the deburring machine having laterally spaced brush heads which carry deburring brushes operative to remove burrs from the tube ends.

Abstract: A Combination Cleaner Reamer for Tubes and Fittings includes a base plate housing. The ends of sleeves protrude from inside through a surface of the housing and the sleeves are bored to receive the stems of cylindrical brushes. A shaft extending from an opposite side of the housing may be coupled to the chuck of an electric hand drill or other power source to rotate all of the brushes simultaneously. A clamp secures the housing to the electric hand drill or motor. The apparatus and drill are easily separated from one another for convenient storage or portability purposes. Two types of brushes are mounted on the housing. One type is intended to brush the interior of the tube and has bristles extending from a central axis. The second type is intended to brush the exterior surface of the tube and includes bristles extending inwardly from the inside surface of a cylindrical shell. Several sets of internal and external brushes having a range of diameters are mounted in order to accomodate various sizes of tubes.

Abstract: This invention relates to a hose cleaner. It is a bisected cylinder with parts hinged together and having means for retention of the parts in closed position. Brushes are applied to the interior parts of the cylinder and the free ends of the brushes form a cylindrical opening when the parts are closed. A pipe is used as means for introducing water near one end of the bisected cylinder. The water flows freely over the brush. A portion of the water is directed to flow in the same direction as the hose as it is pulled through the cylinder (co-current flow) and a second portion of the water flows in a direction opposite to the direction of the hose as it is pulled through the cylinder (countercurrent flow).