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Article: German Inventor Develops Fluids Treatment Ultraviolet-Irradiation Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 29, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 29 -- Gerd Menke of Lohne, Germany, has developed an ultraviolet (UV)-irradiation device for treating fluids, comprising an improved cleaning device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UV irradiation device for the treatment of fluids has an improved device for the cleaning of the surfaces of the jacket tube with a number of lamp units that each have a radiation source and a jacket tube that surrounds the radiation source, whereby the lamp units are essentially cylindrical. A cleaning device has cleaning elements that annularly extend around the jacket tubes."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "Each jacket tube has ...