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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
May. 13, 2016
Sloan Water Technology Limited, London, GB;
Peter Robert Birkin, Southampton, GB;
Timothy Grant Leighton, Southampton, GB;
Douglas G. Offin, Southampton, GB;
SLOAN WATER TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, London, GB;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for cleaning a surface, the apparatus comprising: a body defining a cavity, the body terminating in a distal end that is adapted, in use, to be in the vicinity of a surface to be cleaned such that the surface to be cleaned forms an end wall of a chamber including the cavity; at least one cleaning liquid inlet for flow of a cleaning liquid into the chamber; a divider located in or at the end of the cavity that divides the chamber into a first portion and a second portion, the second portion, in use, being in fluid communication with the surface to be cleaned; and an acoustic transducer associated with the first portion of the chamber to introduce acoustic energy into the chamber; wherein the divider is adapted to permit the passage of acoustic energy therethrough from the first portion of the chamber to the second portion of the chamber to thereby allow pressure fluctuations to be generated at the surface to be cleaned.