Apparatus for dispensing cleaning fluids to an object
AssigneeThe Cyclotron Corporation
InventorsHeinz E. Adelt, Robert E. Weeks
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Abstract
Apparatus for cleaning an object and presenting several fluids to the object for the cleaning. The apparatus has controls for sequentially and separately presenting the fluids to the object and keeping at least some of the fluids separated from each other.
Claims17
An apparatus for dispensing cleaning fluids to an object, at least two cleaning fluid supplies for said apparatus, a fluid-flow inlet line in respective fluid-flow communication with each of said supplies and being connectable to said object for the inlet flow of said fluids into said object, a fluid-flow outlet line in respective fluid-flow communication with each of said supplies and being connectable to said object for the outlet flow of said fluids from said object, a fluid-flow control valve respectively disposed in at least two of said outlet lines for controlling the flow of said fluids from said object and to said supplies and with said control valves being arranged to operationally open and close relative to fluid flow, the improvement comprising electrically powered means operatively associated with said control valve and being in at least said two of said outlet lines for operationally opening and closing said control valves in operational directions opposite to each other for the respective flow and blockage of the flow of fluids relative to said supplies, a fluid-flow one-way check valve respectively disposed in each of said inlet lines for blocking the flow of fluid in said inlet lines in the direction opposite said inlet flow into said object and thereby block the flow of fluid from said inlet lines and to said supplies before the fluid flows past said object, and an electric circuit, a fluid-flow electric pump electrically connected in said circuit and being in fluid flow communication with each of said supplies for respectively sequentially moving the fluids from said supplies through said inlet lines and said object and said outlet lines, for circulating said supplies through said apparatus in the sequence mentioned.
An apparatus for applying cleaning fluids to an object, a tank for containing an acid and a tank for containing water, a manifold, two manifold inlet fluid-flow lines in separate fluid-flow communication with each of said tanks and said manifold, a manifold outlet fluid-flow line in fluid-flow communication with said manifold and for fluid-flow connecting to said object, two tank inlet fluid-flow lines in separate fluid-flow communication with each of said tanks and for connecting to said object, a fluid-flow control valve in each of said two tank inlet lines for controlling the flow of fluid therethrough, a fluid pump in fluid-flow communication with each of said tanks for pumping fluid therefrom, the improvement comprising an electric circuit including an electric control operatively associated with each said control valve for opening and closing said control valves simultaneously in operationally open and closed positions opposite to each other, and said circuit includes an electric connection electrically connected to each of said pumps for electrically powering said pumps, an electric switch included in each of said electric connections for selective control of electric energy to each of said pumps, and the said circuit includes an electric relay electrically connected in each said electric control and is operatively associated with each said control valve and each said switch for the electric energizing of each said pump in accordance with opened and closed positions of said control valves, and electric switching means electrically operatively associated with said electric controls for the opening and closing of said control valves, and being electrically connected in said circuit.
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