Process Equipment Update
Fig. 3. Ultra Clean offers a hand-held heat shrink unit.
The Clean Seal System utilises heat-shrink technology to seal the ends of cleaned hoses and tube assemblies, much like the shrink-wrapped seals around corks on wine bottles. This technology transfer to the hose and tube cleaning industry eliminates the pervasive contamination and inventory problems associated with today’s standard method of capping.
In general, because hose and tube sizes vary greatly, often hundreds of different size and caps and plugs are kept on hand. Besides the mixed-up mess, operators who are usually in a hurry, pick and force the wrong size cap or plug onto an assembly, inadvertently shearing off small particles of plastic into the hose. Caps can easily pop-off during shipping. With just 11 Clean Seal System capsule sizes to fit all
size hoses, inventory and error is greatly reduced and the entire process is much easier. The operator simply places a capsule over the end of the hose or tube and positions it for 1-2 seconds inside the heating element. Ultra Clean offers a hand-held heat shrink unit (with optional stands and diffusers), or a larger table-top unit that can seal several hoses at once. Removal of the capsule is easy, just ‘Grip, Rip, & Slip’ the black tab off in a single motion. The second new product in Ultra Clean’s line-up is the
Clean Seal Flange, developed to keep oil in and dirt out of hydraulic hoses when components such as pumps, cylinders or valves have to be removed, or components need to be switched out, such as breakers, grapples or shears. Sadly, until now, it was common to find in field situations a disconnected assembly plugged-up with an old, dirty rag. Clean Seal Flange changes all that. With eight colour-coded sizes, the flange easily attaches to any assembly sized -8 through -32. The flange is made of durable anodised aluminium and requires no tools for an easy fit! Contamination control is evolving and becoming
better, with technologies such as those from Ultra Clean Technologies. Make sure you keep up with the changes. ■
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Eric van Alphen is with Ultra Clean Technologies Corp, Bridgeton, NJ, USA.
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