Method of, and apparatus for, cleaning the exterior of tubing
AssigneeRandy Kahrig
InventorRandy Kahrig
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Abstract
An apparatus for cleaning a bank of tubing includes a small, portable, mobile, remote controlled cart that travels over the surface of the banking of tubing and directs at least one high pressure fluid jet onto the surfaces of the tubes comprising the banks of tubing over which the cart is traveling. A method of cleaning the exterior of a bank of tubing includes traversing a small, portable, mobile, remote controlled cart over the surface of the bank of tubing, and directing a high pressure water generally downwardly toward the tubing as the cart traverses the surface of the bank of tubing.
Claims8
A method of cleaning the exterior of a bank of tubing inside a boiler, the method comprising assembling a remotely controllable cart inside the boiler, adjacent the tube bank, the cart having at least one nozzle for directing a high pressure fluid jet generally downwardly;
- remotely controlling the cart to traverse the surface of the bank of tubing;
- directing a high pressure fluid jet from the at least one nozzle downwardly as the cart traverses over the bank of tubing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.