Cleaning apparatus and method
OwnerRobert V. Franklininventor
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Abstract
An apparatus useful for providing a plurality of chemical compositions useful to clean an item, e. g., a tank comprises a plurality of reservoirs each containing a concentrated form of a different chemical composition and each having an outlet through which the concentrate exits the reservoir; a subsystem for providing diluent to the concentrates which exit the reservoir to form the chemical compositions; and a control subsystem to automatically control the time during which each concentrate exits from each reservoir. A method for providing chemical compositions useful to clean an item is also disclosed.
Claims16
An apparatus useful for providing a chemical composition useful to treat a piece of equipment comprising:
- a reservoir for containing a concentrated form of said chemical composition, said reservoir having an outlet through which said concentrated form of said chemical composition exits said reservoir;
- a concentrate pump adapted to pump, at a time rate and at a controlled time, the concentrated form of said chemical composition from said reservoir;
- a flow assembly coupled to said concentrate pump and a source of diluent and being adapted (1) for providing, at a time rate and at a controlled time, diluent from said source of diluent directly to a piece of equipment to be treated, and (2) for providing, at a time rate and at a controlled time, a chemical composition comprising diluent directly from said source of diluent and said concentrated form of said chemical composition directly from said reservoir directly to the piece of equipment to be treated;
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- a control assembly associated with said concentrate pump and said flow assembly and structured to be preset to, automatically and independently of the diluent flow, control the time during which said concentrated form of said chemical composition exits said reservoir and to automatically and independently control the time during which said diluent flows in said flow assembly.
An apparatus useful for providing a plurality of different chemical compositions useful to treat a piece of equipment comprising:
- a plurality of reservoirs each of which is for containing a concentrated form of a different one of said chemical compositions, each of said reservoirs having an outlet acting to provide an exit from the associated reservoir for the concentrated form of the chemical composition contained in said associated reservoir;
- a plurality of concentrate pumps each of which is operatively coupled to a different one of said plurality of said reservoirs and is adapted to pump, at a time rate and at a controlled time, the concentrated form of the chemical composition contained in the operatively coupled reservoir;
- a flow assembly coupled to said concentrate pumps and a source of diluent and being adapted (1) for providing, at a time rate and at a controlled time, diluent directly from said source of diluent to a piece of equipment to be treated, and (2) for providing, at a time rate and at a controlled time, each of a plurality of chemical compositions, each of which comprises diluent directly from said source of diluent and a concentrated form of said chemical composition directly from said reservoir containing said concentrated form of said chemical composition, directly to the piece of equipment to be treated;
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- a control assembly associated with said reservoirs and said flow assembly and structured to the preset to, automatically and independently of the diluent flow, control the time during which said concentrated form of chemical composition exits from each of said reservoirs and to automatically and independently control the time during which said diluent flows in said flow assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.