Patent ID: 8627845

Claim:
A delivery system for discharging an atomized treatment agent into an interior of a closed mechanical system having a fluidizing gas inlet collar joined to an overlaid gas supply hose via an ID/OD coupling, joint for receiving passage of a gas through the gas supply hose into the closed mechanical system in a longitudinal direction, such system comprising: (a) a pressurized container holding the atomized treatment agent for treating an interior surface or working part contained inside the closed mechanical system; (b) a flexible conduit for delivering the atomized treatment agent from the container to the closed mechanical system; (c) a guide support for the flexible conduit having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the guide support comprising: (i) a first body portion with a configuration curved outwardly from the longitudinal axis; (ii) a second body portion having a distal end, the second body portion integrally connected to the outwardly curved first body portion with a configuration that curves back towards the longitudinal axis so that the second body portion forms a hook; (iii) an open channel formed into an entire length of an inner side surface of the guide support partially extending into the first and second body portions along the transverse axis, said channel having dimensions configured to partially surround an exterior surface of the flexible conduit; (iv) with the flexible conduit disposed inside the open channel, the second body portion of the guide support being positioned between the closed mechanical system fluidizing gas inlet collar and the air supply hose with the second body portion with the hook causing the flexible conduit to extend inside the closed mechanical system with the distal end pointed in a same direction as a fluidizing gas flow; (d) wherein the atomized treatment agent is delivered by the flexible conduit from the pressurized container to an interior location of the closed mechanical system; and (e) wherein the flexible conduit is disposed inside the channel of the rigid guide support, so that the guide support protects the flexible conduit from crimping.