Self-contained cleaning and retrieval apparatus
AssigneeContainer Products Corp.
InventorJoel Hughes
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Abstract
A mobile, self-contained, environmentally safe, cleaning apparatus, including a supply of recycleable cleaning fluids and devices for heating, filtering and pressurizing such fluids for removing, capturing and packaging for safe disposal oils, dyes, fibers, lead paint and contaminated hazardous wastes, with the apparatus equipped with a water tank, a liquid ring pump adapted to create a wet vacuum recovery system, a water heater, a waste particle/liquid separator, a demister filter, and a retractable combined fluid supply and vacuum recovery umbilical cord for attachment to external remote cleaning devices.
Claims17
A self-contained cleaning apparatus including cleaning tools that dispense and vacuum spent cleaning liquid and unwanted debris, waste and contaminants from remote surfaces being cleaned, wherein the improvement comprises:
- a) a platform-like body,
- b) means dividing said body into separate compartments,
- c) a cleaning liquid supply tank in one of said compartments,
- d) means in another of said compartments for heating and pumping cleaning liquid from said tank to a remote cleaning tool,
- e) means in a different compartment for creating a vacuum for the recovery of spent cleaning liquid and debris, waste and contaminants from the surface being cleaned,
- f) means in yet another compartment separating and filtering the vacuumed spent cleaning liquid from recovered solid wastes,
- g) a remote cleaning liquid dispenser and wet/vacuum recovery tool in communication with said cleaning liquid heating and pumping means and said separating and filtering means, and
- h) means providing cooperative inter-connections between said compartments consisting of a conduit circuit between said tank in said one compartment and said separating and filtering means in said yet another compartment, and other conduits between said tank in said one compartment and said liquid heating and pumping means in said another compartment, and different conduits between said vacuum creating means in said different compartment and said separating and filtering means in said yet another compartment, with said remote cleaning liquid dispenser and vacuum recovery tool having a cord-like connection with said heating and pumping means in said another compartment and said separating and filtering means in said yet another compartment.
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