# US 11,441,857 B2 · Cross-jet nozzle and lance device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,441,857 B2 - Document ID: US11441857B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/382,368 - Filed: 2019-04-12 - Published: 2019-10-17 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2018-04-13 - Assignees: Enz Technik AG - Applicants: Enz Technik AG - Inventors: Christoph Lendi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11441857B2 ## CPC - F28G 3/163: {from internal surfaces of heat exchange conduits} - B05B 3/00: Spraying or sprinkling apparatus with moving outlet elements or moving deflecting elements - B05B 3/0429: {the rotating outlet elements being directly attached to the rotor or being an integral part thereof} - B05B 3/06: by jet reaction - B05B 13/0636: {by means of rotatable spray heads or nozzles} - B08B 9/0321: {using pressurised, pulsating or purging fluid (E04F17/126 takes precedence)} - B08B 9/0323: {Arrangements specially designed for simultaneous and parallel cleaning of a plurality of conduits} - B08B 9/04: using cleaning devices introduced into and moved along the pipes - B08B 9/0433: {provided exclusively with fluid jets as cleaning tools} - F28G: CLEANING OF INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL SURFACES OF HEAT-EXCHANGE OR HEAT-TRANSFER CONDUITS, e.g. WATER TUBES OR BOILERS (cleaning pipes or tubes in general B08B9/02; devices or arrangements for removing water, minerals, or sludge from boilers while the boiler is in operation, or which remain in position while the boiler is in operation, or are specifically adapted to boilers without any other utility F22B37/48; removal or treatment of combustion products or combustion residues F23J; removing ice from heat-exchange apparatus F28F17/00) - B05B: SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES (spray-mixers with nozzles B01F25/72; processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces by spraying B05D) - B08B: CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL ## Abstract A cross-jet nozzle includes a rotor body, in which several channels are recessed or formed running from a nozzle tip in the direction of a stator body, in which at least two front jet nozzles are positioned in the rotor body through at least two front jet channels and oriented so that front jets of a pressurized medium emerging from the front jet channels intersect outside of the rotor body and the rotor body can be mounted to rotate around its longitudinal axis on the stator body, which can be connected to a high-pressure line connection, is introduced safely parallel into tubes by a drive unit of a lance device. The nozzle tip is provided with an outer surface so that the surface is configured convexly arched, dome-like and free of edges and the nozzle tip is formed mirror-symmetric with the longitudinal axis in profile. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A cross-jet nozzle comprising: a stator body connectable to a high-pressure line connection; a rotor body mounted on the stator body and configured to rotate on the stator body around a longitudinal axis of the rotor body, the rotor body having a nozzle tip and an outer surface free of edges along a length thereof from the nozzle tip to the stator body; a plurality of channels formed in the rotor body, each channel of the plurality of channels running from the nozzle tip in a direction of the stator body; wherein, at least two channels of the plurality of channels are front jet channels having front jet channel openings in the nozzle tip configured such that front jets of a pressurized medium emerging from the front jet channels intersect outside of the rotor body; and wherein, an outer surface of the nozzle tip is convexly arched and free of edges. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The cross-jet nozzle according to claim 1, wherein the outer surface of the rotor body is a cylindrical outer surface free of edges along an entire length thereof from the nozzle tip to the stator body. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The cross-jet nozzle according to claim 1, wherein the nozzle tip is rotationally symmetric. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The cross-jet nozzle according to claim 1, wherein a side profile of the nozzle tip has a semi-ellipsoid shape or a hemisphere shape. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The cross-jet nozzle according to claim 1, wherein the outer surface of the nozzle tip has a semi-ellipsoid shape or a hemispherical shape. ### Claim 6 A lance device for cleaning of tube bundles comprising: a plurality of lances, each lance of the plurality of lances operably fastenable to a cross-j et nozzle; and a plurality of cross-jet nozzles, each cross-jet nozzle of the plurality of cross-jet nozzles operably fastened to a lance of the plurality of lances; wherein at least one cross-jet nozzle of the plurality of cross-jet nozzles includes: a stator body connectable to a high-pressure line connection; a rotor body mounted on the stator body and configured to rotate on the stator body around a longitudinal axis of the rotor body, the rotor body having a nozzle tip and an outer surface free of edges along a length thereof from the nozzle tip to the stator body; a plurality of channels formed in the rotor body, each channel of the plurality of channels running from the nozzle tip in a direction of the stator body; wherein, at least two channels of the plurality of channels are front jet channels having front jet channel openings in the nozzle tip configured such that front jets of a pressurized medium emerging from the front jet channels intersect outside of the rotor body; and wherein, an outer surface of the nozzle tip is convexly arched and free of edges. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The lance device according to claim 6, wherein lances of the plurality of lances are parallelly arranged and configured for automatic parallel introduction into and retraction from tubes of the tube bundles by a drive unit of the lance device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) A lance device having the cross-jet nozzle according to claim 2. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The lance device according to claim 8, wherein a plurality of lances are arranged parallel to each other and configured for automatic parallel introduction into and retraction from tubes of tube bundles by a drive unit of the lance device.