Flexible cleaning lance postioner guide apparatus
AssigneeStoneage, Inc.
InventorGerald P. Zink
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Abstract
A flexible high pressure fluid cleaning lance drive apparatus includes a guide rail having a longitudinal axis adapted to be positioned within a boiler water box and aligned in a fixed position with respect to a central axis of the water box. A tractor drive module is mounted on the guide rail, a helix clad high pressure fluid hose drive module is mounted on the guide rail operable to propel a flexible lance helix clad hose through the drive module along an axis parallel to the guide rail longitudinal axis, and a right angle guide rotator module is mounted on the guide rail and connected to the tractor module for positioning a rotatable high pressure nozzle carried by the helix clad hose within a guide tube attached to the rotator module.
Claims20
A flexible high pressure fluid cleaning lance positioning and drive apparatus comprising:
- a guide rail having a longitudinal axis;
- a tractor drive module mounted on the guide rail for movement along the guide rail;
- a high pressure fluid hose drive module connected to the tractor drive module on the guide rail operable to propel a flexible high pressure lance hose along an axis parallel to the guide rail longitudinal axis;
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- an angle guide rotator module mounted on the guide rail and connected to the tractor module for adjustably positioning an angle guide tube in registry with an object to be cleaned and guiding the flexible lance hose through the angle guide tube to the object to be cleaned.
A flexible high pressure fluid cleaning lance positioning and drive apparatus comprising:
- an elongated guide rail having a longitudinal axis and a top wall defined by two parallel ribs extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the guide rail;
- a tractor drive module mounted on the ribs of the guide rail;
- a helix clad high pressure fluid hose drive module connected to the tractor drive module on the guide rail operable to propel a flexible lance hose along an axis parallel to the guide rail longitudinal axis;
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- an angle guide rotator module mounted on the ribs of the guide rail and connected to the tractor module for positioning an angle guide tube carrying a rotatable high pressure nozzle carried by the helix clad hose in registry with an object to be cleaned.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.