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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2000
Hans Werner Schildmann, Heiligenhaus, DE;
Taprogge GmbH, a German limited liability company, Ketter, DE;
Abstract
The invention concerns an apparatus for cleaning liquid fluids, in particular for the cooling water running to a heat exchanger, having a portion of pipe of circular cross section as a housing, a screening body and a suction device, which can be moved about an axis, on the inflow side for regional suction removal and consequently for cleaning the screening body. To provide broad freedom of design for shaping the apparatus in a simple way, while the advantages of the known apparatuses are to be essentially retained, it is provided according to the invention that the apparatus is provided with a portion of pipe of circular cross section as a housing and with a screening body which extends transversely in the portion of pipe and the cross section of which is designed as a U shape which is open toward the inflow side and has a bending radius that is constant in the bent region, or as part of this U shape, as well as with a suction device, which is arranged on the inflow side of the screening body and is arranged such that it can be moved about an axis lying transversely in the portion of pipe and serves for regional suction removal and cleaning of the screening body.