Cleaning apparatus

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9834881
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14505978

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An apparatus for cleaning a soiled substrate using solid particulate material having a cleaning volume; a collecting volume; a pumping device having a pump inlet; and a circulation pathway by which solid particulate material and a transporting fluid can be transferred from the collecting volume to the cleaning volume via said pumping device. The apparatus further includes a flow regulating device disposed in the collecting volume and comprising a flow through enclosure defined by at least one wall, an enclosure outlet in communication with the pump inlet, at least one particle inlet orifice disposed at an underside of the flow through enclosure and configured to admit both solid particulate material and transporting fluid to the enclosure. The apparatus can further include at least one relatively smaller fluid inlet orifice configured only to admit transporting fluid to the flow through enclosure.

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XEROS LIMITEDROTHERHAM SOUTH YORKSHIRE S60 5BL

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Jones, Gareth Evan Lyn Bath, GB 14 205
Sawford, Michael David Rotherham, GB 18 317
Szymczyk, Wayne Robert Rotherham, GB 2 79

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