Screen plate cleaning station
AssigneeToho Electronics, Inc.
InventorsHiromitsu Nanjyo, Isamu Gomikawa
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Abstract
The present invention provides a screen plate cleaning station having nozzles for discharging a cleaning liquid to clean a screen plate which has been set in place, the station comprising a hood-like cleaning zone setting means which are provided on both sides of the screen plate in such a manner that their extremities are in contact with the both surfaces of the screen plate, thereby defining substantially equal cleaning zones on the both sides to prevent the cleaning liquid discharged from the nozzles from scattering.
Claims11
A screen plate cleaning station for cleaning a screen plate with jetted cleaning liquid, said station comprising:
- a holder for vertically retaining a screen plate;
- cleaning chambers provided on both sides of a screen plate retained by said holder, each of said cleaning chambers having an opening end opposite a screen plate and an outflow port of cleaning liquid at its bottom portion;
- cleaning nozzles provided in said cleaning chambers to clean a screen plate by jetting cleaning liquid to both sides of a screen plate;
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- replaceable hollow adapters each detachably attached to said opening end of each cleaning element chamber, each of said adapters having an open contact end made of a packing material to define a cleaning zone by bringing said open contact end into contact with a screen plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.