Safety-kleen Systems, Inc.

William L Jacoby, Jr

Thomas J Danowski

Brian E Porter

Nick Iliadis

Harold Donald Anderson

An apparatus for skimming a layer of oil from an aqueous surface which includes a body portion having a horizontal opening. There is a collection tube secured to the opening and a suction tube having a lower end located in said collection tube. The body portion has a float secured thereto and has a guide element extending through the float.

Oil skimmer

An apparatus for removing floating and subsurface contaminants from a machine tool coolant bath is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a floating skimmer for collecting floating contaminants from the surface of the bath connected to an oil trap having an imperforate shell with a fluid tight column extending below the interface. A return conduit and a positive displacement pump are in series with the skimmer and oil trap. A submersible pump is disposed in the bath near the bottom for collection of water and water density contaminants and is connected to a remote filter assembly having a housing and a removable filter element. The filter assembly and the oil trap are both accessible without affecting the operation of the machine.

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South Elgin, IL, United States of America

William L Jacoby, Jr