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公开(公告)号:US20190218058A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-18
申请号:US16366879
申请日:2019-03-27
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Jeffery R. Barnes
CPC classification number: B65H75/4478 , B65H57/12 , B65H57/16 , B65H75/08 , B65H75/364 , B65H2701/33 , F28G1/163 , F28G15/02 , F28G15/04
Abstract: A multiple flexible lance hose take-up drum apparatus or device in accordance with the present disclosure includes a base having three or more support legs and a hollow take-up drum assembly rotatably supported from the base. The drum assembly includes a hollow cylindrical shell, a bottom plate fastened to the shell, a high pressure fluid supply connection and a manifold positioned radially along a bottom plate of the shell for connection to one end of each of a plurality of flexible lance hoses. The base includes an L shaped support arm extending from the bases alongside the shell. A plurality of guide tubes are supported by the support arm and aligned over a rim of the shell for guiding flexible lance hoses into and out of the take-up drum assembly.
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公开(公告)号:US20170321976A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-09
申请号:US15495516
申请日:2017-04-24
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Jeffery R. Barnes
CPC classification number: B65H51/105 , B65H51/14 , B65H2701/33 , B65H2701/39 , F28G1/163 , F28G15/02 , F28G15/04
Abstract: A flexible lance drive device has at least one drive motor in a first portion of a housing and a drive axle projecting across a second portion of the housing carrying a cylindrical spline drive roller. A plurality of cylindrical guide rollers on fixed axles span across the second portion of the housing aligned parallel to the spline drive roller. An endless belt wrapped around the at least one spline drive roller and guide rollers has a generally smooth outer surface and a transverse splined inner surface having splines shaped complementary to splines on the spline drive roller. A bias member supports a plurality of follower rollers each aligned vertically above one of the at least one spline drive roller and guide rollers operable to press each follower roller toward one of rollers to frictionally grip a flexible lance hose when sandwiched between the follower rollers and the endless belt.
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公开(公告)号:US10809023B2
公开(公告)日:2020-10-20
申请号:US15925552
申请日:2018-03-19
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: John L. Krauser , Jeffery R. Barnes , Cody R. Montoya
IPC: F28G15/08 , F28G15/02 , F16L3/10 , F16L3/223 , F28G15/04 , B08B3/02 , B08B9/032 , F28G3/16 , B08B9/043
Abstract: A system and an apparatus for positioning a plurality of flexible cleaning lances includes a frame removably fastened parallel to a row of tubes in a tube sheet within a domed end of a heat exchanger. A chassis support member is mounted on the frame for movement in an X direction. A chassis having spaced apart parallel box rail members is movably mounted on the chassis support member for movement of the chassis in a Y direction. A rotary arm extends from the chassis, and a flexible lance guide hand fastened to a distal end of the rotary arm is configured to maintain a plurality of flexible lance guide tubes in parallel alignment with the row of tubes irrespective of an angle between the rotary arm and the frame. The system may include a lance drive and a snout connected between the lance drive and the positioning apparatus.
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公开(公告)号:US10392218B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-27
申请号:US15869837
申请日:2018-01-12
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Jeffery R. Barnes
Abstract: A flexible lance drive device has at least one drive motor in a first portion of a housing and a drive axle projecting across a second portion of the housing carrying a cylindrical spline drive roller. A plurality of cylindrical guide rollers on fixed axles span across the second portion of the housing aligned parallel to the spline drive roller. An endless belt wrapped around the at least one spline drive roller and guide rollers has a generally smooth outer surface and a transverse splined inner surface having splines shaped complementary to splines on the spline drive roller. A bias member supports a plurality of follower rollers each aligned vertically above one of the at least one spline drive roller and guide rollers operable to press each follower roller toward one of rollers to frictionally grip a flexible lance hose when sandwiched between the follower rollers and the endless belt.
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公开(公告)号:US11874077B2
公开(公告)日:2024-01-16
申请号:US17959237
申请日:2022-10-03
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Travis Watkins , Jeffery R. Barnes , Daniel Szabo , Cody R. Montoya
CPC classification number: F28G1/04 , B08B9/043 , B08B9/0433 , B65G43/04 , F28G3/163 , F28G15/003 , F28G15/04
Abstract: An apparatus for sensing an obstruction within a tube being cleaned and repetitively advancing and retracting a flexible high pressure fluid cleaning lance within the tube is disclosed. The apparatus monitors drive roller/belt position and actual hose position, compares the belt (expected travel) to hose position (travel) and generates a position difference, or mismatch. If the mismatch is above a predetermined level, the drive motor direction is reversed for a predetermined time interval, and forward operation restored after the predetermined time interval; and the sequence of repeating the reversing and restoring operations is continued until the position difference or mismatch no longer exceeds the predetermined difference threshold.
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公开(公告)号:US20160023264A1
公开(公告)日:2016-01-28
申请号:US14693259
申请日:2015-04-22
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Jeffery R. Barnes
IPC: B21D43/09
CPC classification number: B65H51/10 , B08B9/0433 , B65H2402/60 , B65H2402/61 , B65H2402/63 , B65H2404/1521 , B65H2404/1544 , B65H2701/33 , F28G1/163 , F28G3/163 , F28G15/02 , F28G15/04
Abstract: A flexible lance drive device is disclosed that has, in a compact housing, a drive motor between an inner and an outer wall, a linear array of pairs of driven upper and lower drive rollers outside the outer wall coupled to the drive motor via shafts extending through both of the inner and outer walls. Each driven roller is fastened to its shaft via a quick release device. A drive sprocket is fastened to each shaft outside the inner wall. The drive motor is coupled to each of the drive sprockets via a serpentine belt carried outside the inner wall. The lower driven rollers are rotatably carried by the inner and outer walls. The upper driven rollers are rotatably carried by a block positioned between the inner and outer walls and coupled to the lower driven rollers by a pair of parallel links releasably biased by a piston driven linkage.
Abstract translation: 公开了一种灵活的喷枪驱动装置,其在紧凑的壳体中具有在内壁和外壁之间的驱动马达,在外壁外部的驱动上下驱动辊对的线性阵列,其通过轴延伸连接到驱动马达 通过内壁和外壁两者。 每个从动辊通过快速释放装置固定在其轴上。 驱动链轮固定在内壁外侧的每个轴上。 驱动马达通过承载在内壁外部的蛇形带连接到每个驱动链轮。 下驱动辊由内壁和外壁可转动地支承。 上部从动辊由位于内壁和外壁之间的块可旋转地支承,并通过可释放地被活塞驱动连杆偏压的一对平行链节联接到下从动辊。
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公开(公告)号:US12214389B2
公开(公告)日:2025-02-04
申请号:US18238935
申请日:2023-08-28
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Joseph A. Schneider , Adam Christopher Markham , Scott Howell , Daniel Szabo , Cody Montoya , Jeffery R. Barnes , Cooper Hanley
Abstract: A system and an apparatus for positioning a plurality of flexible cleaning lances through tubes penetrating a tube sheet of a heat exchanger tube sheet, includes a smart lance tractor drive, a controller, and a tumble box connected to the controller operable to generate and/or distribute electrical power to the AC induction sensor from an air pressure source, supply electrical power to the controller and distribute pneumatic power to pneumatic motors for positioning the tractor drive on the positioner frame. The smart tractor drive includes sensors for detection of mismatch between expected and actual lance positions, sense lance insertion distance and lance removal and provide automated drive reversal operation to remove blockages within tubes being cleaned.
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公开(公告)号:US11517947B2
公开(公告)日:2022-12-06
申请号:US17004934
申请日:2020-08-27
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Joseph A. Schneider , Adam Christopher Markham , Scott Howell , Daniel Szabo , Cody Montoya , Jeffery R. Barnes , Cooper Hanley
Abstract: A system and an apparatus for positioning a plurality of flexible cleaning lances through tubes penetrating a tube sheet of a heat exchanger tube sheet, includes a smart lance tractor drive, a controller, and a tumble box connected to the controller operable to generate and/or distribute electrical power to the AC induction sensor from an air pressure source, supply electrical power to the controller and distribute pneumatic power to pneumatic motors for positioning the tractor drive on the positioner frame. The smart tractor drive includes sensors for detection of mismatch between expected and actual lance positions, sense lance insertion distance and lance removal and provide automated drive reversal operation to remove blockages within tubes being cleaned.
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公开(公告)号:US11460257B2
公开(公告)日:2022-10-04
申请号:US16663149
申请日:2019-10-24
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Travis Watkins , Jeffery R. Barnes , Daniel Szabo , Cody R. Montoya
Abstract: An apparatus for sensing an obstruction within a tube being cleaned and repetitively advancing and retracting a flexible high pressure fluid cleaning lance within the tube is disclosed. The apparatus monitors drive roller/belt position and actual hose position, compares the belt (expected travel) to hose position (travel) and generates a position difference, or mismatch. If the mismatch is above a predetermined level, the drive motor direction is reversed for a predetermined time interval, and forward operation restored after the predetermined time interval; and the sequence of repeating the reversing and restoring operations is continued until the position difference or mismatch no longer exceeds the predetermined difference threshold.
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公开(公告)号:US20220290932A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-15
申请号:US17689608
申请日:2022-03-08
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Jeffery R. Barnes , John L. Krauser
Abstract: A multiple flexible high pressure fluid cleaning lance drive apparatus includes at least a first drive motor having a first drive shaft, a spline drive roller mounted on the first drive shaft, a plurality of cylindrical guide rollers extending parallel to the spline drive roller, an endless belt wrapped around the spline drive roller and the plurality of guide rollers, and one or more follower roller modules each supporting a plurality of follower rollers for pressing against a single flexible lance. Each follower roller module independently presses its follower rollers toward the endless belt to grip the flexible lance sandwiched therebetween. Each module has an elongated block shaped housing having a central axis, a plurality of pneumatic cylinders and a piston rod carried in each pneumatic cylinder supporting a pair of spaced follower rollers that ride on the flexible lance captured between the endless belt and the follower rollers.
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