METHOD OF CLEANING WIRE AND APPARATUS FOR REALISING SAID METHOD Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC B08B3/12 B06B3/04 B21C43/02 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: method of cleaning wire in aqueous solutions of detergents in form of one or more flat-elastic waves which give rise to cavitation through oscillations at ultrasonic frequency, involves moving the cleaned wire and the detergent solution along a beam which is common for said waves, as well as moving the wire and the detergent solution in opposite directions. The device has one or more acoustic cells. The volumes of the cells are cylindrical cavities lying on the axis of symmetry of a solid waveguide with coaxially connected coherent sources of ultrasonic oscillations. The radiating surfaces are surfaces of their bases which belong to partitions which have openings for free passage of the cleaned wire and detergent solution between volumes of the cells, as well as caps on both ends of the waveguide. The waveguide has outlet and inlet nozzles of that solution.

EFFECT: invention increases efficiency of cleaning without increasing dimensions and power consumption of the cleaning device by exciting elastic oscillations using one acoustic waveguide and non-parametric amplification of cavitation and provides rectilinearity of the path of motion of the wire.

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