Strip-like instrument washing device

Abstract

In order to provide a band-like apparatus cleaning device for removing foreign materials and cleaning a band-like apparatus before the foreign materials become huge on the surface of the band-like apparatus without scattering the foreign materials around by improving a cleaning structure such as the shape of an aperture for shower and the like for the band-like apparatus, there is provided a cleaning device of a band-like apparatus, comprising a hollow rotating roll being supported so as to be capable of turning along the traveling direction of the band-like apparatus and having a plurality of apertures for shower formed in it, and cleaning fluid jetting nozzles arranged at the inner side of the plurality of apertures for shower within an embracing angle of the band-like apparatus wound partially round the rotating roll, the cleaning device cleaning the band-like apparatus by jetting a cleaning fluid to the band-like apparatus from the cleaning fluid jetting nozzles, wherein the cleaning device comprises a plurality of blade plates being adjacent in parallel with the roll axis of the rotating roll in the traveling direction of the band-like apparatus and provides the plurality of blade plates and the rotating roll so as to be capable of freely reciprocating in the roll axis direction.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.