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Abstract

A projectile launcher is disclosed and claimed adapted for use in apparatus for cleaning tubes arranged in apparatus being of the type whereby a projectile is placed in a tube to be cleaned and then subjected to a sudden cleaning medium pressure impact to force the projectile through the tube at high speed, the launcher with the tube to be cleaned, a magazine for feeding serially projectiles into the tube to be cleaned, and means for supplying a pulse of cleaning medium along the aforesaid duct once a projectile is positioned in the tube to be cleaned, the barrel and the cleaning medium duct being selectably removable from the launcher to be replaced with similar barrels and cleaning medium ducts to accommodate projectiles of differing diameters without loss of any operating fluids from the launcher.

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First Claim