Cleaning machine and basket for timepiece or jewellery components
AssigneeMontres Breguet S.A.
InventorsAmandine RUCHAT, Andreas STEINER, Benoit SAUTY
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Abstract
Cleaning machine for timepiece or jewellery components, including cleaning baskets with a receptacle including a bottom and a peripheral partition separating the internal volume of the receptacle, and an environment outside the basket, which includes in the bottom or in the peripheral partition, flared holes whose cross-section is smaller towards the receptacle than towards the external environment, the machine including cleaning means and drying means arranged to circulate cleaning or drying fluids through flow orifices and flared holes, and effluent collecting means arranged to collect effluents from the cleaning and drying operations.
Claims15
A cleaning basket for timepiece or jewellery components comprising a receptacle arranged for receiving components, said receptacle including at least a bottom, which is arranged to serve as support surface for said components, and at least one peripheral partition, arranged to retain said components inside said receptacle and defining a separation between the internal volume of said receptacle, and an environment outside said cleaning basket, said basket including a plurality of flow orifices arranged to allow the flow of cleaning and/or drying fluids through said bottom and/or said at least one peripheral partition, wherein said cleaning basket includes, in said bottom and/or in said at least one peripheral partition, a plurality of said flow orifices, which are flared holes, whose cross-section is smaller towards said receptacle than towards said external environment.
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