No contact spray apparatus cleaning device
OwnerPhilip Jessup, James Doyleinventors
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Abstract
The invention is an automatic no contact machine for cleaning and drying tips, air caps, retainers and cups on spray apparatus when changing liquid or when the apparatus will be idle, or to remove build up of paint on applicators that cause spits and drips on surfaces and electrostatic arcing to spray apparatus while containing and recovering cleaning effluents to an environmental standard.
Claims15
A device for cleaning and drying an object, comprising a top wall having portions defining at least one opening providing a means to achieve a low pressure area, a velocity ring, at least one spray head and at least one air sweep nozzle, with relational locations.
A cleaning device wherein the object to be cleaned is present into a formed opening wherein a low pressure area is created by the movement of air by means of a velocity ring, wherein solvent is sprayed on the object as it is retracted back through the opening, wherein the object is dried using compressed air shaped to be evacuated into the formed opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.