Swing hammer rapping system for electrostatic precipitator

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The jarring of the electrodes either the collector plates, or the high voltage discharge wires or both, of an electrostatic dust, precipitator is provided through the use of swing hammers that are rotated from power-operated shafts that are located above the spaced rows of electrodes such that both the shafts and the hammers are above the roof of the gas chamber and out of the path of the particle laden gas stream. In a typical improved system, where a plurality of collector plates are suspended from grounded, spring supported cross beams there, will be vertical rods extending upwardly from these supporting beams and through the precipitator roof to the area of the rotating swing hammers, …