Internal cleaning apparatus

• US 7,300,000 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2006
• Issued: 11/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shibuya Machinery Co. Ltd. (Shibuya Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Shibuya Machinery Co. Ltd. (Shibuya Corporation)
• Inventors: Fujii, Taketoshi, Kitamura, Takahito, Tsukamoto, Takahisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Dinh Q.
• Application Number:
  US11/481,852
• Publication Number:
  US 20070007365A1
• Time in Patent Office: 508 Days
• Field of Search: 239/380, 239/225.1, 239/240, 239/237, 239/263.2, 239/291, 239/419.5, 239/424, 239/425.5, 239/428.5, 239/160, 239/263.1, 239/227, 134/166.R, 134/167.R
• US Class Current: 239/263.1
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 3/02 with rotating elements electric spraying discharge apparatus characterised by having rotary outlet or deflecting elements B05B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0441 with one inner conduit of liquid surrounded by an external conduit of gas upstream the mixing chamber
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0458 the gas and liquid flows being perpendicular just upstream the mixing chamber
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0491 the liquid and the gas being mixed at least twice along the flow path of the liquid
• CPC Class Codes: B08B 9/0936 using rotating jets

Abstract

An internal cleaning apparatus includes a rotary shaft which, having a liquid flow passage, is provided so as to be axially rotatable, a revolving rotary shaft which, having a liquid flow passage connected to the liquid flow passage and being provided in a direction substantially perpendicular to the rotary shaft, is installed so as to be revolvable about the rotary shaft and axially rotatable, and a nozzle provided at a leading end of the revolving rotary shaft, wherein a gas flow passage is provided along the liquid flow passage of each of the rotary shaft and the revolving rotary shaft from a gas inflow opening provided in the rotary shaft, wherein a configuration is such as to eject a gas-liquid mixture flow having a gas supplied from outside the object to be cleaned mixed with the liquid ejected from the nozzle.

Claims

1. An internal cleaning apparatus comprising:

a rotary shaft having a liquid flow passage and being axially rotatable;

a revolving rotary shaft having a liquid flow passage connected to the liquid flow passage of the rotary shaft, being provided in a direction substantially perpendicular to the rotary shaft, and being revolvable about the rotary shaft and axially rotatable;

a nozzle being provided at a leading end of the revolving rotary shaft for ejecting a liquid, which is supplied from the liquid flow passage of the revolving rotary shaft, while revolving around the revolving rotary shaft; and

a gas flow passage being provided along the liquid flow passage of each of the rotary shaft and the revolving rotary shaft from a gas inflow opening provided in the rotary shaft,

wherein the nozzle comprises a smooth nozzle which is flattened in a direction parallel to the revolving rotary shaft, and nozzle comprising;

an ejection tip being provided at a tip of the liquid flow passage for ejecting the liquid; and

a communication path communicating with the gas flow passage, and

wherein a gas-liquid mixture flow, having a gas supplied from outside an object to be cleaned mixed with the liquid ejected from the ejection tip in the nozzle, is ejected from the nozzle.

2. The internal cleaning apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the nozzle is provided so as to be able to enter and retract from an interior of an internal space of the object to be cleaned, and

wherein the internal cleaning apparatus further comprises a lid which closes an opening of the object to be cleaned when the nozzle has entered the interior of the internal space.

3. The internal cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the nozzle is oriented in a direction of the opening of the object to be cleaned when the nozzle is not revolving.

4. The internal cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the nozzle is insertable into an internal space of the object to be cleaned so as to clean an interior of the object to be cleaned.

5. The internal cleaning apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a gas supply path being provided on an inner wall surface of the nozzle for communicating with the gas flow passage.

6. The internal cleaning apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the gas supply path is provided downstream of an ejection flow ejected from the ejection tip.