Device for cleaning mechanical parts
AssigneeSietam S.A.
InventorJean Charpentier
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Abstract
A cleaning unit for cleaning mechanical parts and the like with a volatile solvent. The unit comprises a vertically moveable holder for the parts and a lower unit portion including apparatus for washing the parts. An upper unit portion is provided which includes apparatus for drying the parts by cooling. A unit portion is provided which includes apparatus for rinsing the parts. A cover is also provided which is connected to the holder such that when the holder is temporarily immobilized in either the lower unit portion or the unit portion including the rinsing apparatus the cover locks a passage extending between the portion and the portion directly thereabove in a non-sealing relationship.
Claims11
A cleaning unit for cleaning mechanical parts, assemblies and sub-assemblies thereof with a volatile solvent, said unit comprising:
- (a) a vertically moveable holder for said parts;
- (b) a lower unit portion including means for washing said parts;
- (c) an upper unit portion including means for drying said parts by cooling;
- (d) a unit portion including means for rinsing said parts by supplying superheated vapor into a base of said unit portion including means for rinsing;
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- (e) a cover on top of said vertically moveable holder such that when said holder is temporarily immobilized in either said lower unit portion or said unit portion including means for rinsing, said cover partly closes a passage extending between said portion in which said holder is temporarily immobilized and the portion directly thereabove in a non-sealing relationship.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.