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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2015
Itw Limited, Windsor, GB;
Sheila Hamilton, Strathclyde, GB;
ITW LIMITED, Windsor, GB;
Abstract
The invention relates to a coating line () cleaning apparatus () and a method for cleaning at least a selected part of a coating line. The coating line cleaning apparatus comprising a conveyed entity having first and second mutually opposed major faces and at least one flexible cleaning element () having first and second mutually opposed major faces, said cleaning element being characterised in that each one of said first () and second () major faces is tacky, the first of said tacky faces of said cleaning element being releasably adhered to one of the major faces () of the conveyed entity (), and the second tacky major face of said cleaning element being temporarily contactable with the selected part () of the coating line to bring said second tacky major face () of the cleaning element into temporary contact with said selected part of a coating line to cause any contaminants present on said selected part () of a coating line () to adhere to said second tacky major face () of said cleaning element thereby causing any contaminants to be removed from said selected part of a coating line ().