Vertical workpiece cleanser and dryer

Details Vertical workpiece cleanser and dryer Vertical workpiece cleanser and dryer

B - Operations, Transporting

08

B

141/33

B08B 3/02 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1198966

Abstract of the Disclosure A vertical workpiece cleanser and dryer which includes a pair of chain-driven pocket elevators disposed in adjacent wash and rinse towers on bases which enclose associated wash and rinse solution reservoirs. Each elevator includes a plurality of spools cantilevered from a drive chain and extending in a vertical upwardly directed reach through a solution (wash or rinse) spray zone and then through an air spray zone for removing solution from the workpiece and elevator spools. The elevator within the solution spray zone is closely encompassed by a surrounding shroud for limiting volume available for expansion of sprayed solution, and thus reducing the tendency of the sprayed solution to vaporize. Vertical orientation of the elevator and alignment of the solution and air spray zones promote downward flow of excess solution through the solution spray zone for enhanced flush-washing of the workpieces, and return of excess solution to the associated reservoir disposed therebeneath. This downward solution flow is enhanced and promoted by closed circulation of drying air, which is directed onto the workpieces at a pressure of less than two atmospheres so as to reduce tendency of the solution removed from the workpieces to vaporize. As a result, vaporization of the wash and/or rinse solutions is substantially eliminated, and the vertical cleansing apparatus of the invention does not require ventilation to outside atmosphere.

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