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Add headers/manifolds to reduce maintenance time and ensure long nozzle life.

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Enclosing nozzles in a header or manifold is a simple, cost-effective way to minimize maintenance downtime and extend nozzle life.

If you’ve ever struggled with connecting air and liquid lines or been faced with a tangled mess of tubes, you will immediately understand the value manifolds can bring to your operation. Set-up and maintenance time can go from hours to minutes and result in increases in production time. Downtime due to performance problems caused by bends or kinks in the tubing is eliminated and the added protection of the man¬ifold keeps nozzles operating at peak efficiency longer.

There are many types of manifolds readily available:

  • Channel manifold: Basic spray nozzle manifold incorpo¬rated in a C-channel for easy mounting and maintenance
  • Pipe-in-pipe manifold: Conventional spray manifold mounted inside a slotted pipe to protect nozzles from the external environment. Nozzles and tubing are enclosed in the manifold
  • Modular manifold: Lightweight and easy-to-assemble, this manifold keeps tubing organized
  • Compact manifold: Service nozzles while keeping tubing in place with lightweight, compact manifolds

Manifolds are available for both hydraulic atomizing and air atomizing nozzles. The cost for standard manifolds is typically low and easily recouped.

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Spray Manifolds, Headers and Showers

Friday, August 7th, 2009
We have a wide range of standard stainless steel spray headers and showers. Options include: Shower Headers
  • Manual brush header/shower that utilize a hand wheel to rotate the brush assembly for quick and easy nozzle clean-out
  • Automatic brush header/shower that use a motor assembly to automatically rotate the internal brushes
  • Brushless header/shower that use ShowerJet® disc-type nozzles instead of a brush assembly to provide cleaning

During the cleaning cycle:

  • Spraying operation continues – brush activation does not impact system performance
  • The brushes scrub the interior of the header and each nozzle orifice
  • Debris is quickly removed and discharged through the flush-out valve. Full liquid flow is restored to the system without contaminating the sprayed surface
  • The header continues to spray during the flush-out operation

Special air atomizing headers are also available for critical moisturizing and applications with challenging physical space limitations or specific spray coverage requirements.

There are two basic options available:

  • Open channel, in stainless steel or aluminum, for use in applications where damage to the spray header/nozzles is unlikely
  • Enclosed box-style design, in 316 or 304 stainless steel, to protect the nozzles and feed lines

Descaling headers are also part of our offering. Often equipped with heat shields and protective plates, these headers can be fabricated in a wide variety of configurations and accommodate all of our DescaleJet® nozzles. We also offer custom solutions for a wide range of applications.

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