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US 8,528,576 B2Granted
Cleaning system and cleaning process
AssigneeJürgen Löhrke GmbH
InventorMartin Löhrke
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Abstract
A cleaning system for an installation processing foodstuffs, with a guide path and with a robot arm which is displaceable along the guide path and on which at least one nozzle for discharging a cleaning agent onto the installation, is attached in a manner such that the at least one nozzle may be moved in a targeted manner to individual points of the installation for its cleaning, by way of displacing and moving the robot arm.
Claims17
A foodstuff processing apparatus comprising:
- a device configured to handle or treat foodstuff;
- and
- a cleaning system having:
- (i) a guide path (4) being at least partially arcuate and extending around at least an outer contour of the foodstuff processing apparatus, the guide path (4) being positioned above and surrounding the device, and
- (ii) a robot arm (16) displaceable in at least a partially arcuate manner along the guide path (4), the entire robot arm (16) extending downwardly from the guide path (4), the robot arm (16) including a first limb (26) extending downwardly from the guide path (4), a second limb (28) pivotably articulated to an end of the first limb below the guide path, and at least one nozzle (36) at an end of the second limb opposite the first limb for discharging a cleaning agent onto the device,
- wherein, in addition to the robot arm (16) being displaceable along the guide path (4) in the arcuate manner around at least a portion of the foodstuff processing apparatus, the robot arm (16) has at least two degrees of freedom for movement of the nozzle (36), and wherein the nozzle (36) is attached on the robot arm such that the at least one nozzle (36) may be moved in a targeted manner to individual points of the apparatus for cleaning the device by displacing and moving the robot arm (16).
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A foodstuff processing apparatus comprising:
- a cleaning system having:
- a guide path (4) being at least partially arcuate and running at least along an outer contour of the foodstuff processing apparatus;
- a base (18) including guide rollers (20) that engage an exterior surface of the guide path (4);
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- a robot arm (16) displaceable along the guide path (4) and including a first limb (26) extending downwardly from the guide path (4), a second limb (28) pivotably articulated to an end of the first limb below the guide path, and at least one nozzle (36) at an end of the second limb opposite the first limb for discharging a cleaning agent,
- wherein the robot arm (16) has at least two degrees of freedom with respect to the base (18) for movement of the nozzle (36), and wherein the nozzle (36) is attached on the robot arm such that the at least one nozzle (36) may be moved in a targeted manner to individual points of the apparatus for cleaning thereof by displacing and moving the robot arm (16).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.