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US 4,226,548 AGranted
Parts cleaning apparatus
AssigneeSteam Stores, Inc.
InventorKuno W. Reith
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Abstract
A parts cleaning apparatus including a fluid container at least partially filled with a solvent, a tray disposed on top of and draining into the container, at least one hollow brush for brushing a dirty part held over the tray and a pump for pumping solvent from the container through the hollow brush.
Claims8
A parts cleaning apparatus for use in cooperation with a fluid container at least partially filled with a solvent, comprising:
- a tray means disposed on top of said container and including a base portion provided with a drain hole, and four upwardly extending wall portions including a rear wall portion, a front wall portion and two side wall portions;
- screen means disposed over said base portion;
- a rear splash shield attached to said rear wall portion and extending upwardly from said base portion;
- pumping means including
- a substantially vertical sedimentation tube means having a first intake port and a first output port;
- a magnetic pump means having a second intake port coupled to said first output port, and having a second output port, whereby said pump draws solvent through said sedimentation tube and into said second intake port and ejects the solvent from said second output port;
- an output manifold disposed below said first intake port and above said second intake port and having a third intake port coupled to said second output port, and a third output port;
- drain pipe means having a first end disposed through the drain hole of said base portion and having a second end disposed proximate the bottom of said container;
- a U-shaped ridge means formed around said drain hole of said base portion for restricting fluid flow about said drain hole;
- a cover means having a rectangularly-shaped top portion and three downwardly depending side portions, said cover means being adapted to cover said U-shaped ridge means and said drain hole, whereby sediment is restricted from flowing out of said drain hole by the cooperation between said ridge means and said cover means;
- intake pipe means having a first end connected to said first intake port and having a second end disposed within the solvent of said fluid container, the second end of said intake pipe means being further from the bottom of said container than said second end of said drain pipe means;
- first flexible hose means connected at a first end to said third output port;
- and
- hollow brush means connected to a second end of said first flexible hose means,
- whereby solvent may be drawn from said container through said intake pipe, pumped through said flexible hose means and out of said hollow brush means by said pumping means to clean a part, after which the solvent drains through said screen means and down said drain pipe back into said container.
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A parts cleaning apparatus for use in cooperation with a fluid container at least partially filled with a solvent, comprising:
- a tray means disposed on top of said container and including a base portion provided with a drain hole, and four upwardly extending wall portions including a rear wall portion, a front wall portion and two side wall portions;
- screen means disposed over said base portion;
- a rear splash shield attached to said rear wall portion and extending upwardly from said base portion;
- pumping means including
- a substantially vertical sedimentation tube means having a first intake port and a first output port, said sedimentation tube means including an outer tube having a bottom and a top with said output port being disposed in a wall thereof above said bottom so as to form a sedimentation chamber therebetween, and an inner tube means coupled to said intake pipe means and having an upper end extending into said outer tube and forming said first intake port proximate said top;
- magnetic plug means disposed to extend into said sedimentation tube means and be received within said upper end such that fluid flowing out of said upper end and into said sedimentation chamber is caused to flow proximate said magnetic plug means, said plug means being operative to attract and capture metalic particles carried by the fluid;
- a magnetic pump means having a second intake port coupled to said first output port, and having a second output port, whereby said pump draws solvent through said sedimentation tube and into said second intake port and ejects the solvent from said second output port;
- an output manifold disposed below said first intake port and above said second intake port and having a third intake port coupled to said second output port, and a third output port;
- drain pipe means having a first end disposed through the drain hole of said base portion and having a second end disposed proximate the bottom of said container;
- intake pipe means having a first end connected to said first intake port and having a second end disposed within the solvent of said fluid container, the second end of said intake pipe means being further from the bottom of said container than said second end of said drain pipe means;
- first flexible hose means connected at a first end to said third output port;
- and
- hollow brush means connected to a second end of said first flexible hose means,
- whereby solvent may be drawn from said container through said intake pipe, pumped through said flexible hose means and out of said hollow brush means by said pumping means to clean a part, after which the solvent drains through said screen means and down said drain pipe back into said container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.