Patent ID: 6308719
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: B08B,C02F,C23G

Abstract:
A method for cleaning a vehicle white body, said white body being transported by a movable assembly toward and away from a cleaning solution tank, said cleaning solution tank including a main tank and a weir tank, said weir tank being located upstream said main tank, each of said main tank and said weir tank holding a volume of cleaning solution and including an outlet from which cleaning solution flows into a filtration system, said filtration system providing filtered cleaning solution, via at least one deluge cannon, for injected into an interior of said white body, said method comprising the steps of:providing said at least one deluge cannon at a location such that, after said cleaning solution is injected into said white body interior via said at least one deluge cannon, said cleaning solution and particles derived from said white body interior flow into said weir tank;moving said white body via said movable assembly over said weir tank and toward said main tank;draining cleaning solution and particles from said cleaning solution tank;filtering particles from said cleaning solution to provide filtered cleaning solution;pumping said filtered cleaning solution to said at least one deluge cannon and injecting said filtered cleaning solution into the interior of said white body;lowering and immersing said white body in said main tank; and,raising and withdrawing said white body from said main tank.