Joseph Collins Dobson

US Patent:

53721535, Dec 13, 1994

Filed:

Mar 15, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/031667

Inventors:

Joseph R. Dobson - Sterling Heights MI

Assignee:

Precision Dispense, Inc. - Sterling Heights MI

International Classification:

B08B 302

US Classification:

134107

Abstract:

A pallet cleaner especially suitable for use in cleaning plastic pallets. The cleaner includes a vertically oriented horizontally extending chamber having a vertically oriented entry opening at one end of the chamber and a vertically oriented exit opening at the other end of the chamber. The pallets are loaded on edge into the chamber through the vertically oriented entry opening, moved through the chamber on edge while a heated pressurized fluid is directed against the upper and lower sides of the pallet, and thereafter are moved on edge out of the chamber through the exit opening. The cleaner further includes wheels so that the cleaner is portable and may be rolled to the site of pallets to be cleaned rather than requiring the pallets to be cleaned to be brought to the site of the cleaner.