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US 4,307,741 AGranted
Probe cleaner
AssigneeBethlehem Steel Corporation
InventorGregory R. Rossi
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Abstract
Apparatus for an automatic system for cleaning a process monitoring probe inserted into a process stream for monitoring said stream. The apparatus comprises a flushing water supply, a high pressure water jet mixed with a cleansing agent and sequential timing apparatus for selectively applying the water jet to the process monitoring probe.
Claims3
Apparatus for cleaning a process monitoring probe inserted into a sample process stream for monitoring thereof, comprising:
- (a) a sample container having an inlet side and a discharge side and mounted for collection of a sample of said process,
- (b) a cannister for a cleansing agent having discharge means and mounted adjacent said sample container,
- (c) flushing water supply means connected to said inlet side of said sample container and to said cannister,
- (d) sump means connected to said discharge side of said sample container,
- (e) pump means having a suction side connected to said sump means and a discharge side,
- (f) a nozzle having an inlet end connected to said discharge side of said pump and a jet spray end inserted into said sample container adjacent said monitoring probe,
- (g) a first valve mounted in said flushing water supply means,
- (h) a second valve connected to said cleansing agent cannister and said suction side of said pump, and
- (i) a third valve mounted on said discharge side of said sample container.
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