No-entry bulk oil storage tank cleaning system
OwnerJohn K. Rollinsinventor
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Abstract
A tank cleaning system used for cleaning oil storage tanks. The system includes a rail vacuum pipe, an air line and a steam line connected to an air/steam mixing box. The mixing box includes an air nozzle, a steam nozzle and a mixing box vacuum tube connected to a vacuum pipe. The vacuum pipe includes a steering, guide rail for receiving a swivel wheel. The swivel wheel is attached to a door opening bracket. The bracket is attached to sides of a tank door opening. The steering, guide rail pivots on the swivel wheel and allows an operator, standing outside the tank, to move the mixing box back and forth for engaging and vacuuming up sediment in the tank.
Claims16
A no-entry bulk oil storage tank cleaning system adapted for receipt through a door opening in a side of a storage tank and removing sediment in a bottom of the tank, for safety, the operator of the cleaning system remains outside the storage tank and next to the door opening, the cleaning system comprising:
- an air line adapted for delivering high pressure air inside the tank;
- a steam line adapted for delivering high pressure and high temperature steam inside the tank;
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- a rail vacuum pipe adapted for delivering a large vacuum inside the tank;
- a mixing box adapted for receipt through the door opening and engaging the sediment, the mixing box including an air nozzle attached to the air line, a steam nozzle attached to the steam line and a mixing box vacuum tube connected to the rail vacuum pipe;
- whereby when the high pressure air and the high pressure steam are received in the mixing box, the air and steam mixture exits out the front of the mixing box for engaging and loosening the sediment, the mixing box vacuum tube vacuuming the loosened sediment into the rail vacuum pipe;
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- means for guiding the mixing box with attached air and steam lines and mixing box vacuum tube back and forth and side to side inside the tank.
A no-entry bulk oil storage tank cleaning system adapted for receipt through a door opening in a side of a storage tank and removing sediment in a bottom of the tank, for safety, the operator of the cleaning system remains outside the storage tank and next to the door opening, the cleaning system comprising:
- an air line adapted for delivering high pressure air inside the tank;
- a steam line adapted for delivering high pressure and high temperature steam inside the tank;
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- a rail vacuum pipe adapted for delivering a large vacuum inside the tank, a portion of the air line and a portion of the steam line attached to the rail vacuum pipe;
- a mixing box adapted for receipt through the door opening and engaging the sediment, the mixing box including an air nozzle attached to the air line, a steam nozzle attached to the steam line and a mixing box vacuum tube connected to the rail vacuum pipe;
- whereby when the high pressure air and the high pressure steam are received in the mixing box, the air and steam mixture exits out the front of the mixing box for engaging and loosening the sediment, the mixing box vacuum tube vacuuming the loosened sediment into the rail vacuum pipe;
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- an inverted “U” shaped, steering guide rail mounted along a length and on a bottom of the rail vacuum pipe and a swivel wheel mounted on a door opening bracket, the door opening bracket adapted for attachment to opposite sides of the door opening, the steering guide rail received on the swivel wheel and moved back and forth thereon during the operation of the tank cleaning system.
A no-entry bulk oil storage tank cleaning system adapted for receipt through a door opening in a side of a storage tank and removing sediment on a floor of the tank, for safety, the operator of the cleaning system remains outside the storage tank and next to the door opening, the cleaning system comprising:
- an air line adapted for delivering high pressure air inside the tank;
- a steam line adapted for delivering high pressure and high temperature steam inside the tank;
- a rail vacuum pipe adapted for delivering a large vacuum inside the tank, a portion of the air line and a portion of the steam line attached to the rail vacuum pipe;
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- a floor finishing head adapted for receipt through the door opening and engaging the remaining sediment on the floor of the tank, the finishing head including at least one air nozzle attached to the air line, at least one steam nozzle attached to the steam line and a vacuum hose connected to the rail vacuum pipe;
- whereby when the high pressure air and the high pressure steam are received through the air and steam nozzles and directed downwardly, the air and steam nozzles engage and loosen the remaining sediment, the vacuum hose vacuuming the loosened sediment into the rail vacuum pipe;
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- means for guiding the floor finishing head with attached air and steam lines and rail vacuum pipe back and forth and side to side inside the tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.