UNDERDRAIN FOR MEDIA VESSEL AND METHOD OF CLEANING

    公开(公告)号:US20240416396A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-19

    申请号:US18695704

    申请日:2022-10-04

    Inventor: Michael DOUPE

    Abstract: An underdrain system for a media pressure vessel has a set of removable pipe sections located between an external header and the bottom of a vessel. Septa extend upwards from the removable pipe sections into the vessel. The header is attached to the bottoms of the removable pipe sections. Each pipe section, and its associated septum, may be removed individually. To clean the vessel, after media is removed from the vessel the pipe sections are removed sequentially while the header remains otherwise attached to the vessel. While a pipe section is removed, its associated septum is removed so that solids can be removed from the annulus between the septum and the vessel. In this way, media can be cleaned from the annuli without moving the external header or entering the vessel.

    Automated Pre-Weld Tube Cleaning Using Laser Ablation

    公开(公告)号:US20240367204A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-07

    申请号:US18311390

    申请日:2023-05-03

    Abstract: A system includes a laser drive assembly and a computer system. The laser drive assembly includes a laser that emits a laser beam to clean an end of a tube, a first motor that changes an angle of the laser beam with respect to the end of the tube, a second motor that moves the laser laterally, and a third motor that rotates the laser drive assembly around the end of the tube. The computer system is configured to clean the end of the tube by operating the laser to emit the laser beam, adjusting the angle of the laser beam with respect to the end of the tube by operating the first motor, adjusting the distance between the laser and the end of the tube by operating the second motor, and rotating the laser drive assembly around the end of the tube by operating the third motor.

    Module for applying a medium to items to be washed

    公开(公告)号:US12082786B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US18562344

    申请日:2022-05-10

    Inventor: Alexander Werner

    CPC classification number: A61B1/125 B08B9/02 B08B9/027 B08B9/032 A61B1/12

    Abstract: A module for applying a medium to narrow-bore ducts, conduits, pipes, and/or the like, of items to be washed, in particular endoscopes, which are disposed in a wash tub of a cleaning device, the module including: a medium distribution device having a plurality of inlet-side ports and outlet-side ports, the inlet-side ports being in fluid connection with the outlet-side ports; and a carrier flange having a push-pull cylinder, the push-pull cylinder being in fluid connection with an inlet-side port, and the push-pull cylinder providing a piston rod which is provided at an end thereof with an anchor that cooperates with a connecting device of a carrier for items to be washed.

    Expandable Device for Defouling Tubular Members

    公开(公告)号:US20240066567A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US18489471

    申请日:2023-10-18

    Applicant: Vrad Levering

    Inventor: Vrad Levering

    CPC classification number: B08B9/027 B08B3/08 B08B17/06 F16L55/24

    Abstract: A defouling device for mechanically disrupting fouling material for removal from a pipe or other a tubular member. The defouling device has inflatable portions capable of expanding to mechanically disrupt fouling material within a pipe. The defouling device may be attached to an inner luminal surface of the pipe or formed with the pipe. The defouling device expands circumferentially and radially to mechanically disrupt fouling material. The defouling device may also controllably expand longitudinally to mechanically disrupt fouling material and peristaltically pump fouling material through and out of the pipe.

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