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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7331846 | Blasting apparatus for outer surface of pipe The present invention provides a blasting apparatus for an outer surface of a pipe which ejects a blast material to an outer side of a pipe and grinds the outer surface, comprising: a blast head containing a nozzle which ejects the blast material and a suction port ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7261617 | Semiconductor wafer regenerating system and method A semiconductor wafer regenerating system is capable of easily and efficiently removing fabricating patterns formed on a semiconductor wafer to enable reuse of the semiconductor wafer. The system, which removes patterns of the semiconductor wafer in a dry manner by ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7240681 | Trailer mounted mobile apparatus for dewatering and recovering formation sand An apparatus for removing formation sand from an oil storage tank. The apparatus is mounted to a truck towable trailer so that it may be transported to remote sites. Mounted to the truck towable trailer is a container adapted to accept and dewater a sand-water slurr... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7189143 | Machine for superfinishing by honing A honing machine for super finishing workpieces, e.g. by honing using a tool spindle (7), can be rotatably driven and can receive a tool. A motor rotates the tool spindle, the tool spindle (12) being arranged on a carriage (12), which can be dis... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7182675 | Apparatus for abrading the region of intersection between a branch outlet and a passageway in a body A method and apparatus are disclosed for abrading the inner surface at the intersection region of a branch outlet with the wall of a body having a passageway. Using abrasive flow machining, it is possible to abrade the intersection region to provide a smooth transit... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7163449 | Hand held abrasive blaster A hand held abrasive blaster includes a tubular wand housing and an abrasives conduit which extends into the wand housing. The abrasives conduit includes a fixed portion at the rearward end and a rotatable portion at the forward end. A motor rotates the rotatable po... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162981 | System for annulus tooling alignment with suction pickup in the stay dome on the secondary side of a steam generator A system is provided for delivering tooling, suction pickup, and alignment platforms to a stay dome region of a stem generator or the tube-free lane regions adjacent to the stay dome region and includes a suction device positioned in the stay dome region of a steam ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7160574 | Barrier coating corrosion control methods and systems for interior piping systems Methods and systems for cleaning and providing barrier coatings to interior walls of piping systems. An entire piping system can be cleaned in one single pass by dry particulates forced by air and the piping system coated in one single pass. Pipes can be protected f... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7128074 | Scarifier for the interior surface of a pipeline An apparatus for scarifying an interior surface of a sewer pipe, which includes a vehicle moveable along an interior of the sewer pipe and a scarifying assembly connected to the vehicle having a fluid nozzle assembly. The fluid nozzle assembly has at least one branc... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7090568 | Blasting device A blasting device, especially for cleaning the surfaces of hollow areas, uses a conveying medium, preferably air, with an added solid blasting agent. The blasting device includes a twisting chamber that impresses the jet with a controlled twist. The twisting chamber... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7066188 | Interior sewer pipeline scarifying apparatus This application discloses an apparatus for scarifying the interior surface of a sewer pipe, which can remain in the sewer under active flow conditions. The apparatus includes at least one scarifying head, which may transverse back and forth along a rail assembly, w... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063593 | Apparatus and process for surface treating interior of workpiece A process and apparatus for surface treating boundary walls of an interior chamber formed in a workpiece. Nozzle members are inserted through access openings which communicate with opposite sides of the interior chamber and are positioned so that discharge openings ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044842 | Method and apparatus for abrading the region of intersection between a branch outlet and a passageway in a body A method and apparatus are disclosed for abrading the inner surface at the intersection region of a branch outlet with the wall of a body having a passageway. Using abrasive flow machining, it is possible to abrade the intersection region to provide a smooth transit... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7041176 | Pipe renovating system and method A pipe renovating method and system in which a pipe is first cleaned and then coated with a suitable coating material. In the cleaning step, pressurized air and particles of abrasive material are pumped into a first end of a pipe while suction is applied to the seco... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6988935 | Foreign matter removing device and method The present invention is one for providing an apparatus and a method which make it possible to remove a foreign object or matter such as scale attached on an inner surface of a pipe easily for a short period of time by means of simple equipment and manner, and const... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6960118 | Surface roughening treatment method of object being treated, and apparatus therefor Disclosed are a method of causing abrasive grains to collide against and contact with an object being treated to form surfaces of the object being treated into a matte, specifically, a rotational magnetic field is applied on magnetic abrasive grains to cause the sam... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6932681 | Cleaning method and cleaning device for fluid dynamic bearings component The present invention provides a method and device for cleaning the oxide layer created on the bearing surface of a fluid dynamic bearing by the electrochemical machining of pressure generating grooves onto the bearing surface, wherein the method involves spraying a... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6739950 | Pipe renovating system and method A pipe renovating method and system is described, in which a pipe is first cleaned and then coated with a suitable coating material. In the cleaning step, pressurized air and particles of abrasive material are pumped into a first end of a pipe while suction is appli... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6739956 | Apparatus for cleaning engine block passages An apparatus for cleaning a passage in an engine block, such as the oil galley and oil galley legs, in which the passage includes an inlet and an outlet end. The apparatus includes a fixture having an interior passageway with an opening. The fixture is dimensioned t... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6609531 | Condenser tube cleaning nozzle A condenser tube cleaning nozzle which is cushioned with resilient washers. The present invention provides a stiffened nozzle adapted to handling high pressure, while at the same time providing cushioning at all contact points on a tube sheet and within a... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6575815 | Process for calibrating throttle bores, in particular in injection valves for internal combustion engines, and device for executing the process In a process and device for calibrating throttle bores, in particular in injection valves for internal combustion engines, by means of hydroerosive machining of the throttle bore with a suspension, the actual through flow is compared to a predetermined re... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6540589 | Method and device for rounding edges A method and an apparatus for rounding off edges are proposed in which an erosive fluid is pumped over the edge to round off edges even at poorly accessible places or where the geometry is complicated.... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6533640 | Ultra high pressure abrasive waterjet cutting apparatus An ultra high pressure abrasive waterjet cutting apparatus for cutting nuclear reactor structural components is described. The cutting apparatus includes an ultra high pressure abrasive waterjet (UHP) cutting nozzle, movably coupled to a single axis manip... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6503126 | Method and apparatus for abrading the region of intersection between a branch outlet and a passageway in a body A method and apparatus are disclosed for abrading the inner surface at the intersection region of a branch outlet with the wall of a body having a passageway. Using abrasive flow machining, it is possible to abrade the intersection region to provide a smo... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6402587 | Floor mounted ultra high pressure abrasive cutting apparatus An ultra high pressure abrasive waterjet cutting apparatus for underwater cutting of structural components of a nuclear reactor is described. The cutting apparatus includes a multi-axis manipulator, an ultra high pressure abrasive waterjet (UHP) cutting n... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6350185 | Grit blast nozzle for surface preparation of tube The invention resides in a method and apparatus for conditioning an inner surface of a tube. A pressurized mixture of air and grit and is supplied to a nozzle having an opening with a given diameter through which diameter the pressurized grit and air pass... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6315639 | Blasting method for cleaning pipes A method and apparatus for cleaning pipes with the aid of a blasting medium in which a deflecting member surrounding a nozzle is blown through a pipe by the blasting medium blowing through the nozzle. The movement of the deflecting member and nozzle can b... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6244934 | Method for blasting an inside surface of a cylinder The present invention provides a method for blasting an inside surface of a cylinder, in which a steady rough surface is always obtained efficiently in the whole region of inside surface of cylinder for an internal combustion engine. For this purpose, a b... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6113475 | Method of cleaning container and apparatus therefor A method of cleaning a container and an apparatus therefor for cleaning a surface layer of the container by blasting fine particles of sodium bicarbonate with pressurized air into the container. The apparatus provdes a ball joint construction and a nozzle... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6042458 | Turn base for entrained particle flow An entrained particle flow turning device capable of turning entrained particle fluid flow about an abrupt turn without significant particle size and mass degradation provides significant improvement as part of a complete particle blast system. The turnin... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5895313 | Method for manufacture of ink jet nozzle Abrasive blasting of fine particles is used to remove flash, burrs and dust from a nozzles in a nozzle array plate formed by injection molding. The abrasive blasting is applied from the entry side of the nozzles to remove the flash and roughen the interio... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5716257 | Method of holding an article during manufacture An article is held in a complementally-shaped receptacle of a resilient holder while a process operation is carried out on a surface of the article. After the process operation has been completed, the holder is bent in order to facilitate release of the a... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5690543 | Internal pipe blasting nozzle A blasting nozzle assembly is used for blast cleaning internal pipe surfaces. A cylindrical sleeve has a flow channel through which blasting abrasive and a carrier fluid flow in a flow direction. A web member is integrally formed with the sleeve and exten... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5664992 | Apparatus and method for cleaning tubular members An apparatus and method for cleaning a tubular member having an entrance end and an interior wall including a source of pressurized gas/solids mixture, a source of pressurized liquid medium, a conveying tube to introduce the pressurized liquid medium into... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5584939 | Method for cleaning rail cars Cleaning methods for rail cars that haul freight, such as covered hoppers, open hoppers, box cars, tank cars, autoracks, locomotives, flat cars, remove the residue from materials transported by the rail car itself. The rail cars have at least one surface.... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5582537 | Apparatus for and method of sand-blasting the inner walls of bores, tubes, pipes and the like The invention provides an apparatus for sand-blasting the inner walls of bores, tubes, pipes and the like, comprising a housing with a first tube member for feeding blasting material and a second tube member for feeding pressurized air. The second tube me... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5573450 | Abrasive blasting device The present invention relates to an abrasive blasting device characterized in that to the first longitudinal inlet end of the injection abrading diffuser 1 there is associated a socket 2 and to the second longitudinal inlet end of the diffuser there is as... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5509286 | Method and apparatus for surface treating and prestressing the inside wall of a cavity The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for surface treating and putting under compression prestress the inside wall of a cavity, in particular a cylindrical cavity of circular section. The apparatus comprises a bulb-shaped vibrator provid... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5388131 | Method and device for machining the internal surface of a tubular component and in particular an adaptor fixed to the vessel head of a pressurized water nuclear reactor A high-speed abrasive liquid jet is directed at the surface of the component (13) with an angle of incidence between 30° and 90°. The jet is moved so as to sweep over the internal surface of the component (13). At least two successive machining passes a... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5381631 | Method and apparatus for cutting metal casings with an ultrahigh-pressure abrasive fluid jet A method and apparatus for cutting metal casings with an ultrahigh-pressure abrasive fluid jet is shown and described. Examples of such casings include piles and conductors of offshore oil production platforms. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of... | 01/17/1995 |
