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US 5,329,951 AGranted
Cylinder head cleaning machine
OwnerColin H. Jonesinventor
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A machine for cleaning an internal combustion engine cylinder head uses a high-pressure water jet supplied by a pump driven by an electric motor or an internal combustion engine powered by a power pack and via a spinning spray nozzle head mounted on a vertically reciprocating traveller travelling the length of a cylinder head clamped by headstock and tailstock clamping assemblies each with six conical-headed, spring-loaded clamping members clamped together by a pneumatic ram and rotatable horizontally at varying speeds by a variable-speed electric motor and drive assembly in synchronization with another electric motor driving the traveller; a spinning spray jet swivel head assembly is rotated via an hydraulic motor from the power pack; clamping and spray head assemblies are mounted within in a framed cabinet and a removable wheeled waste water collection tank underneath has fixed, vertically-opposed, horizontally spaced baffles for separation and settling sludge and floating scum from water which is then recycled.
A machine for cleaning an internal combustion engine cylinder head by using a high-pressure water jet or jets and which comprises a housing, a pair of horizontally-rotatable, vertically opposed clamping assemblies for removably supporting a cylinder head to be cleaned within the housing, the assemblies comprising a tailstock upper clamping assembly and a headstock lower clamping assembly, each assembly having identical, spring-loaded clamping members comprising a central member surrounded by a plurality of circumferentially-spaced, clamping members arranged in a circular path upon a horizontally-rotatable disc, at least one high-pressure water jet nozzle mounted within the housing and adapted to direct a high-pressure water spray jet over the cylinder head, and high-pressure water pump means for applying high-pressure water to the at least one high-pressure water jet nozzle.
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