Safety Kleen Corporation

John C Justice

John P Kusz

Douglas A Larson

A recirculating type cleaner for paint spray guns. The apparatus includes a cabinet supporting a sink and a pair of solvent receptacles each containing a pump and motor for circulating solvent from the receptacles through outlet nozzles and into the sink. In use, the gun is given one or more initial rinses with solvent, from one receptacle, after which a final cleaning rinse is made with new solvent from another receptacle. The sink drain is arranged so that all of the solvent is returned to a single container. Clean solvent passes in use from the clean solvent receptacle to the used or dirty solvent receptacle, leaving fresh solvent uncontaminated, while the contaminated solvent is used repeatedly. The sink includes a fire safety cover secured over the sink opening by a fusible link, and the solvent receptacles are positioned for ready removal to facilitate periodic servicing.

Solvent recirculating type spray gun cleaner

A spray gun cleaning apparatus having a cleaning basin with an open top portion, a cleaning solvent reservoir, means for circulating solvent from the reservoir to the interior of the basin, and a vapor collection system associated with the basin. The vapor collection system includes a vapor collection manifold positionable adjacent to the periphery of the basin, manifold inlet means extending about the periphery of the basin, an exhaust opening in a portion of said manifold, a vacuum source having its inlet end in communication with the manifold exhaust opening and its outlet end in communication with a vapor discharge line. Upon actuation, the vacuum source evacuates vapors from the manifold interior by inducing air and vapor flow from the interior of the basin through the manifold and into the vapor discharge line.

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Elburn, IL, United States of America

John C Justice