Portable pneumatic railroad switch cleaning device

A pneumatic cleaning device connectable to a pressurized source of air and adapted for cleaning particulate material from crevices and the like, comprising:

• a hollow body member having an elongated mid-section, a first end section and a second end section opposite said first end section, each of said end sections oriented at an obtuse angle to said mid-section whereby the axes of said first and second end sections are substantially parallel;
• valve means connected to said first end section and connectable to said source of air for controlling the flow of air though said body portion;
• a nozzle connected to said second end section, said nozzle having a central jet port and a pair of side jet ports forwardly directed and having axes oriented generally in a common plane for discharging streams of air therefrom, said side jet ports being outwardly divergent from one another at an angle of less than 45.degree. whereby air is discharged in a fan-shaped pattern, said side ports operative to lift particulate material from the surface to be cleaned;
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• spacer means secured to said body member for maintaining said nozzle in spaced-apart relation from a surface to be cleaned, said spacer means and said jet ports positioned whereby the fan shaped pattern of air is discharged along the surface to be cleaned when said spacer means rests thereon.