Flow cabinet system for cleaning at least one object
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1. A flow cabinet system for non-destructive cleaning of at least one object, the system comprising:
- a cabinet having a bottom wall for supporting the at least one object to be cleaned, a top wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, a front wall and a back wall, the walls enclosing a volume;
a valve terminal within the volume for supplying, via tubing, compressed gas without blasting material to a plurality of handheld cleaning tools and tubing within the volume for removing, by means of the supplied compressed gas, powder from the at least one object; and
an extraction unit comprising tubing for extracting powder-laden gas from the volume through a gas outlet located near the back wall and one of the left and right side walls;
the cabinet further comprising a gas inlet to the volume in the back wall near the other of the left and right side walls to provide a horizontal gas flow from the gas inlet to the gas outlet, a viewing window, a left glove port near the left side wall and the front wall and a right glove port near the right side wall and the front wall, the two glove ports being constructed and arranged for an operator to manually operate at least one of the plurality of cleaning tools inside the cabinet, the gas inlet extending through the back wall;
the extraction unit being constructed and arranged to extract a minimum volume of powder-laden gas per unit of time larger than the maximum volume of the supplied compressed gas per the unit of time.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a flow cabinet system for cleaning at least one object, the system comprising:
- a cabinet having walls enclosing a volume;
- tubing for the supply of compressed gas as well as a plurality of handheld cleaning tools within the volume for removing, by means of the supplied compressed gas, powder from the at least one object; and
- an extraction unit comprising tubing for extracting powder-laden gas from the volume through a gas outlet located near one of the left and right side walls and the back wall.
The cabinet further comprises a gas inlet in the back wall near the other of the left and right side walls and the back wall so as to define an overall flow that is substantially horizontal and transverse to the operator.
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1. A flow cabinet system for non-destructive cleaning of at least one object, the system comprising:
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a cabinet having a bottom wall for supporting the at least one object to be cleaned, a top wall, a left side wall, a right side wall, a front wall and a back wall, the walls enclosing a volume; a valve terminal within the volume for supplying, via tubing, compressed gas without blasting material to a plurality of handheld cleaning tools and tubing within the volume for removing, by means of the supplied compressed gas, powder from the at least one object; and an extraction unit comprising tubing for extracting powder-laden gas from the volume through a gas outlet located near the back wall and one of the left and right side walls; the cabinet further comprising a gas inlet to the volume in the back wall near the other of the left and right side walls to provide a horizontal gas flow from the gas inlet to the gas outlet, a viewing window, a left glove port near the left side wall and the front wall and a right glove port near the right side wall and the front wall, the two glove ports being constructed and arranged for an operator to manually operate at least one of the plurality of cleaning tools inside the cabinet, the gas inlet extending through the back wall; the extraction unit being constructed and arranged to extract a minimum volume of powder-laden gas per unit of time larger than the maximum volume of the supplied compressed gas per the unit of time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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