Patent ID: 7225915

Claim:
A cleaning apparatus for a conveyor belt on a conveyor table comprised of: a housing that extends under and across a portion of said conveyor belt normal to said conveyor belt direction of motion to provide a cleaning chamber; at least one spraying tube with an array of orifices extending through an opening in a first side of said housing and extending over to a second side and in proximity to said conveyor belt to direct a cleaning solution onto said conveyor belt; a wiping device in said housing having at least one disposable towel and extending across and normal to said conveyor belt direction for removal of said cleaning solution and any included contaminants by said disposable towel and said wiping device is a cylinder having an outer flexible sleeve and said disposable towel positioned between said flexible sleeve and said conveyor belt, whereby a static frictional force between said flexible sleeve and said disposable towel is greater than the sliding frictional force between said conveyor belt and said disposable towel when said conveyor belt is in motion.