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US 5,496,412 AGranted
Apparatus and method for cleaning rotary applicator devices
OwnerShamoon Ahmadinventor
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Abstract
A rotary applicator cleaning device in which a roller is placed within a housing and rotated within that housing as it is subjected to a cleaning solution and a resilient scrubbing.
Claims6
A method for cleaning debris from a rotary applicator, the method including:
- inserting the rotary applicator in a housing;
- rotating the rotary applicator within the housing;
- introducing a cleaning solution to the housing and directing that solution onto the rotary applicator as it rotates to clean debris from the rotary applicator;
- providing a support structure having resilient means providing a resilient force for engaging a rotary applicator;
- moving said support structure within the housing in order that a resilient force may be moved toward and away from the rotary applicator surface to provide for positioning the rotary applicator in a cleaning position;
- continuing to move the support structure in order that the resilient force is moved into and out of contact with the rotary applicator as it rotates during the cleaning process;
- and
- removing the cleaning solution from the housing along with the debris removed from the rotary applicator.
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An apparatus for removing debris from a rotary applicator, the apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- rotating retaining means for holding and rotating the rotary applicator within the housing;
- means for introducing a cleaning solution into the housing and onto the rotating rotary applicator;
- means for expelling the cleaning solution and debris from the housing;
- resilient means for scrubbing the rotating rotary applicator within the housing;
- means for retaining the resilient means in scrubbing contact with the rotating rotary applicator;
- and
- a support structure for the resilient means, wherein the support structure includes means for mounting the support structure within the housing for movement toward and away from the rotary applicator surface to provide for positioning the rotary applicator in a cleaning position and resilient means mounted thereon into and out of contact with the rotary applicator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.