Apparatus for employing fluid jets to remove material from articles

• US 3,270,754 A
• Filed: 09/22/1964
• Issued: 09/06/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Forrest C. Pittman, Love, Robert G., R E. Moeller
• Original Assignee: Forrest C. Pittman, Love, Robert G., R E. Moeller
• Inventors: Moeller, R E., Love, Robert G., Pittman, Forrest C.
• Application Number:
  US04/398,267
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• US Class Current: 134/110
• CPC Class Codes: F02K 9/24 Charging rocket engines with solid propellants; Methods or apparatus specially adapted for working solid propellant charges
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 33/062 by high-pressure water jet means

Claims

1. A PORTABLE APPARATUS FOR REMOVING MATERIAL FROM THE INTERIOR OF OPEN ENDED ARTICLES, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING:

SKID MEANS;

TOWER MEANS;

PIVOT MEANS CONNECTING SAID TOWER MEANS WITH SAID SKID MEANS WHEREBY SAID TOWER MEANS MAY BE PIVOTED TOWARD SAID SKID MEANS;

TOWER SECURING MEANS ADAPTED TO RELEASABLY SECURE SAID TOWER MEANS IN A GENERALLY UPRIGHT POSITION;

HOLDING MEANS FOR SUPPORTING AN ARTICLE WITH AN OPEN END THEREOF FACING DOWNWARDLY;

ELEVATING MEANS CARRIED BY SAID TOWER MEANS FOR RAISING AND LOWERING SAID HOLDING MEANS ALONG A GENERALLY VERTICAL AND STATIONARY AXIS;

DRIVE MEANS FOR ROTATING SAID HOLDING MEANS ABOUT A GENERALLY VERTICAL AXIS;

AND FLUID DISCHARGING MEANS ADAPTED TO REMAIN STATIONARY WHILE ENTERING THE OPEN END OF AN ARTCLE WHICH IS BEING LOWERED AND DIRECT FLUID JETS AGAINST MATERIAL TO BE REMOVED FROM SAID ARTICLE.