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公开(公告)号:USD622810S1
公开(公告)日:2010-08-31
申请号:US29356236
申请日:2010-02-22
Applicant: Douglas E. Wright
Designer: Douglas E. Wright
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公开(公告)号:USD617870S1
公开(公告)日:2010-06-15
申请号:US29355240
申请日:2010-02-04
Applicant: Douglas E. Wright
Designer: Douglas E. Wright
Abstract: A high pressure rotary nozzle having a rotating shaft operating within a fixed housing wherein the axial force which acts upon the shaft due to the liquid pressure at the shaft inlet is balanced by allowing passage of a small amount of the pressurized liquid to be bled to an area or chamber between the outside of the opposite end of the shaft and the inside of the housing where the liquid pressure can act axially in an opposing direction upon the shaft to balance the axial inlet force. The balance of axial forces is self-regulating by controlling escape of the liquid through a tapered or frusto-conical region between the shaft and housing. This further provides a liquid bearing between the two surfaces and allows use of interchangeable rotating jet heads having jet orifices which can be oriented in virtually any desirable configuration including axially forward of the nozzle.
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公开(公告)号:USD1065436S1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-04
申请号:US29883330
申请日:2023-01-26
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Designer: Shawn Lange
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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:US20250018444A1
公开(公告)日:2025-01-16
申请号:US18642551
申请日:2024-04-22
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Terry D. GROMES, SR. , Gary L. MANACK, JR. , Kristin E. GRIFFIN
Abstract: A nozzle for water jet equipment and a method of use thereof. The nozzle has a body including a base with a shaft extending outwardly therefrom. The shaft is inserted through a bore of a sleeve that rotatable about the shaft. The base and shaft define a bore therein. At least one opening is defined in the shaft and one or more grooves are milled into the shaft's exterior surface. Each opening places the body's bore in fluid communication with one of the grooves and the sleeve's bore. Water flowing through the body's bore will flow through each opening, into the associated groove and into a space between the shaft and sleeve. The shaft terminates in a conical section usable as a battering ram to break up blockages in pipes during cleaning operations.
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公开(公告)号:US11934215B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-19
申请号:US16776770
申请日:2020-01-30
Applicant: StoneAge, Inc.
Inventor: Terry D. Gromes, Sr. , Terry D. Gromes, Jr. , Kristen E. Griffin , Jon M. Shockey, Jr. , Gordon W. East , William C. Jackson
IPC: G05B19/4099 , B24C3/32 , B24C7/00 , F28G1/16 , F28G15/00 , F28G15/02 , F28G15/08 , G05B15/02 , G05D7/06 , G06F3/04886 , F28D7/16
CPC classification number: G05D7/0617 , B24C3/327 , B24C7/0015 , F28G1/163 , F28G15/003 , F28G15/02 , F28G15/08 , G05B15/02 , G06F3/04886 , F28D7/16
Abstract: A system and method for cleaning of heat exchanger tubes including an assembly, an indexer, and a communication device provided with specialized software and programming. The indexer includes orthogonally arranged first and second arms. A trolley and sensors are provided on the indexer arms. One or more lances are provided on the trolley to deliver water jets into the openings. Sensors measure displacement as the trolley is moved relative to the heat exchanger's face plate. An operator controls the system from a distance away using the communication device. During setup, the pattern of the face plate is learned and mapped utilizing information from the sensors as one of the inputs. This information is utilized to help navigate the face plate during a subsequent cleaning operation. A kit for retrofitting existing X-Y indexers is also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US20230405646A1
公开(公告)日:2023-12-21
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
CPC classification number: B08B9/0433 , F28G15/04 , F28G1/163 , B08B9/047 , F28G15/08
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:USRE49573E1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-11
申请号:US17336102
申请日:2021-06-01
Applicant: STONEAGE, INC.
Inventor: Joseph A. Schneider
Abstract: A speed retarding device for a rotary nozzle includes a hollow cylindrical housing and a rotatable tubular shaft rotatably carried by the housing. The shaft has a central axial bore and an enlarged drag sleeve portion carried in the housing. A pair of support bearings support the drag sleeve portion of the shaft in the housing. An annular inner seal between each of the support bearings and the drag sleeve portion defines a cavity within the housing receiving a viscous fluid confined within the cavity. The drag sleeve portion includes a peripheral helical groove and a plurality of axial bores extending therethrough parallel to the central bore, one or more blind axial bores each having a closed end an open end, and a piston disposed in each of the one or more blind axial bores each defining an air space between the closed end and the piston.
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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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