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Abstract

Apparatus for cleaning/deburring manufactured parts, each part having an established axis of rotation, includes a conveyor operable to convey the parts in succession in intermittent step-by-step movement to a cleaning/deburring station and a drying station. At each of the cleaning/deburring and drying stations the part is driven in high speed rotation about its axis by a part rotating device. At the cleaning/deburring station the rotating part is sprayed with high pressure fluid and at the drying station high velocity air is discharged tangentially against the rotating part to strip residual fluid from the part. The spray nozzle assembly can be stationary, or can take the form of a transversing assembly for reciprocating movement along the longitudinal length of the part. Additionally, the transversing assembly can include rotation of the nozzle assembly about an axis as the nozzles are reciprocated longitudinally. Alternatively, the spray nozzle assembly can take the form of a pantograph assembly allowing the spray nozzles to trace the contours of the surface of the part as it rotates at high speed.

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