Stain removal device and stain removal method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016175905-A1
Application number	US-201314911208-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 26, 2013
Priority date	Aug 26, 2013
Publication date	Jun 23, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A stain removal device and a stain removal method for removing stain, such as scale residue or smut from the surface of a wire material by a cord-shaped member, includes a wire material winding device for winding a wire material on the surface of which the stain is deposited, a cord-shaped member which is wound on the wire material and wipes off stain attached on the surface of a wire material by a sliding movement relative to the wire material, and a cord-shaped member feed device for feeding the cord-shaped member relative to the wire material. The stain removal method includes linear feeding of a wire material, winding a cord-shaped member on the wire material, wiping off the stain attached on the surface of the wire material by rolling up the cord shaped member, and blowing air onto the surface of the wire material to blow away stain remaining thereon.

First claim

1 - 8 . (canceled)

9 : A stain removal device for removing a stain such as a scale residue or a smut on a surface of a wire material, comprising:
a wire material winding device for feeding the wire material in a feeding direction and winding the wire material, on the surface of which the stain such as the scale residue or the smut is attached; a cord shaped member which is wound on the wire material and wipes off the stain attached on the surface of the wire material by a sliding movement relative to the wire material; and a cord shaped member feeding device for feeding the cord shaped member relative to the wire material by drawing the cord shaped member in a radial direction relative to the wire material and guiding the cord shaped member at an inlet side for the cord shaped member to be extended and fed in a feeding direction thereof along an extending direction of the wire material and wound around the wire material in a spiral manner and thereafter drawing out the cord shaped member by guiding the cord shaped member at an outlet side from the extending direction of the wire material toward a radially outward direction relative to the wire material.

10 : The stain removal device according to claim 9 , wherein the feeding direction of the wire material fed by the wire material winding device is set to be a same direction with the feeding direction of the cord shaped member fed by the cord shaped member feeding device.

11 : The stain removal device according to claim 9 , wherein,
the cord shaped member feeding device includes a guide roller for guiding at the inlet side the cord shaped member drawn in the radial direction relative to the wire material to be extended along an extending direction of the wire material, a guide roller for drawing out the cord shaped member by guiding the cord shaped member at the outlet side from the extending direction of the wire material toward the radially outward direction relative to the wire material, a feed out roller for feeding out one end of the cord shaped member at the outlet side, and a restricting device for restricting a movement of another end of the cord shaped member at the inlet side.

12 : The stain removal device according to claim 9 , further comprising:
a water supply device which is provided at an upper stream side in the feeding direction of the wire material with respect to the cord shaped member wound on the wire material to drop water on the surface of the wire material.

13 : The stain removal device according claim 9 , wherein
the cord shaped member is formed by a hemp cord which has a high water absorption property.

14 : The stain removal device, wherein a plurality of stain removal devices according to claim 9 is arranged in the feeding direction of the wire material.

15 : A stain removal method for removing a stain such as a scale residue or a smut on a surface of a wire material comprising:
linearly feeding the wire material on the surface of which the stain such as the scale residue or the smut is attached; drawing a cord shaped member in a radial direction relative to the wire material, guiding the cord shaped member at an inlet side for the cord shaped member to be extended and fed in a feeding direction thereof along an extending direction of the wire material and wound around the wire material in a spiral manner and thereafter drawing out the cord shaped member by guiding the cord shaped member at an outlet side from the extending direction of the wire material toward a radially outward direction relative to the wire material, thereby to wipe off the stain attached on the surface of the wire material by the cord shaped member; and blowing air to the surface of the wire material which has been wiped by the cord shaped member to blow off a remain of the stain attached on the surface of the wire material.

Assignees

• Fuji Shoji Co Ltd

Inventors

• Goto Katsuhiro
• Kanazawa Nobuhiro
• BANNO Tatsuya

Classifications

• B21C43/04 Primary

  Devices for de-scaling wire or like flexible work · CPC title

• B08B5/023

  Cleaning travelling work · CPC title

• B08B1/02

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B08B1/20 Primary

  Cleaning of moving articles, e.g. of moving webs or of objects on a conveyor · CPC title

• B08B3/022

  Cleaning travelling work (B08B3/042 takes precedence) · CPC title