Bend It - Like Beckham!

I love to visit Mallorca (Majorca to the unitiated) and try to learn about their proud culture and excellent cuisine. I was talking with a good friend of mine, Juan Mensol who runs a busy bar & restaurant in Pto Alcudia and he was telling me about the special Mallorcan bread knife called Oreinas. This knife has a specially curved blade which makes it ideal for cutting of slices from a bread roll. This specially designed knife originates from the town of Llucmajor which is situated about 15 km from Palma Airport. It has a delightful town square and its main industry was shoemaking. In addition it is also where the Oreinas knives are manufactured.

(Left: Photograph A)
It reminded me that several models of our Acoustic Cleaner range also are available in a specially designed curved version. Both the PAS-75 and PAS-60 models are available in both straight and curved options. Why the curved option? Well both the PAS-75 & PAS-60 are extremely powerful acoustic cleaners and their sonic material de-bonding effect covers a great area and at a 360 degree angle. Therefore, because they have these long wave frequencies the horns themselves have overall lengths of between 2.4m and 3.2m it is just not possible to mount these units where either space is not available or where they would restrict access.

(Right: Photograph B)

Two typical examples are:

Firstly, where they are installed on the side walls of say a large boiler economizer section which has a walkway along the side (see photograph A).

Or ...

Secondly, where they are installed on top of a spray dryer with restricted space between the top of the dryer and the building roof (see photograph B) – curvy ideas or what!