Ultrasonic Blind Cleaning

Ultrasonic cleaning is a process that uses sound waves to agitate and loosen soils.  The ultrasonic equipment consists of a stainless steel, two-compartment tank, about 6 feet long, a couple of feet deep, and each compartment is about a foot wide.  One side is for cleaning, the other side is for rinsing.

Beneath the cleaning tank are transducers, connected to a generator emitting sound waves at 40,000 cycles per second through the water.  The sound waves split the water molecules, creating microscopic bubbles that are actually vacuums (this is called cavitation).  The bubbles form and then collapse, and coupled with the cleaning solution, this loosens the soil in every part of the item being cleaned, including the head rails, cords, string ladders or tapes, etc.

The item to be cleaned is immersed in a water-based cleaning solution in the cleaning tank, then into the rinse tank.

Ultrasonic Cavitation Bubble - approximately 1 mm diameter