Patent ID: 9610603
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: B05B,B08B

Claim:
1. A high pressure fluid nozzle manipulator apparatus comprising: a chassis, a pair of parallel manipulator elevator rails supported by an elevator rail rotator fastened to the chassis, a horizontal extensible arm rail disposed between and carried by the manipulator elevator rails, a rotary wrist actuator fastened to a distal end of the horizontal extensible arm rail, and a linear actuator fastened between the rotary actuator and a hinged nozzle support bracket; wherein a portion of the bracket is configured to hold a high pressure cleaning nozzle therein, the linear actuator is configured to rotate the nozzle and the bracket through an arc, the elevator rail rotator is configured to rotate the elevator rails through an arc of at least about 180 degrees around an elevator rail rotator axis, and the rotary actuator is configured to rotate the hinged nozzle support bracket in at least about a 270 degree arc in a plane orthogonal to a horizontal axis through the extensible arm rail.