Cleaning device and method for cleaning a workpiece
AssigneeDurr Ecoclean GmbH
InventorEgon Käske
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Abstract
In order to produce a cleaning device which cleans in a particularly effective manner wherein the cleaning device comprises a cleaning chamber for accommodating a workpiece requiring cleaning and a fluid transfer device for transferring at least one fluid into the cleaning chamber and/or out of the cleaning chamber and wherein the fluid transfer device comprises at least one nozzle in the form of a slotted nozzle extending along a slot axis and said fluid is arranged to be fed into the cleaning chamber or fed out of the cleaning chamber by means of said fluid transfer device in a direction transverse to the slot axis, it is proposed that the cleaning device comprise a slotted nozzle moving device for moving at least a part of the slotted nozzle.
Claims14
A cleaning device comprising a cleaning chamber for accommodating a workpiece requiring cleaning and a fluid transfer device for transferring at least one fluid into the cleaning chamber and/or out of the cleaning chamber,
- wherein the fluid transfer device comprises at least one nozzle in the form of a slotted nozzle which extends along a slot axis and the at least one fluid is arranged to be fed into the cleaning chamber or fed out of the cleaning chamber by means of said slotted nozzle in a direction transverse to the slot axis,
- wherein the cleaning device comprises a slotted nozzle moving device for moving at least a part of the slotted nozzle,
- wherein the cleaning chamber can be filled with a liquid bath into which a slotted nozzle opening of the slotted nozzle is arranged to be dipped,
- said cleaning device further comprising a slot-width adjusting device for adjusting the slot-width of the slotted nozzle.
A method for the cleaning of a workpiece in which a workpiece is arranged in a cleaning chamber and at least one fluid is fed into the cleaning chamber or fed out from the cleaning chamber by a fluid transfer device which comprises a nozzle in the form of a slotted nozzle which extends along a slot axis and wherein the direction of feed is transverse to the slot axis, wherein at least a part of the slotted nozzle is moved relative to the cleaning chamber by a slotted nozzle moving device,
- wherein the cleaning chamber is filled with a liquid bath into which a slotted nozzle opening of the slotted nozzle is dipped,
- said fluid transfer device further comprising a slot-width adjusting device for adjusting the slot-width of the slotted nozzle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.