The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for applying an adhesive layer to an adhesive roll in a contact cleaning device, in particular, but not exclusively, to an apparatus including an applicator or an apparatus including a cartridge with an applicator. The present invention also relates to apparatus for contact cleaning a substrate surface including a contact cleaning roller, an adhesive roll and an applicator. The apparatus is suitable for applying an adhesive layer to an adhesive roll in a contact cleaning device, said apparatus comprising an applicator arranged and configured to apply at least one adhesive layer to an outer surface of the adhesive roll.

Even if the end surface of the optical connector is inclined with respect to the optical axis of the optical fiber, the optical connector end surface cleaner has sufficient cleaning ability and has high tape conveyance property when the cleaning tape is conveyed and displaced. Further, in the case where there are guide pins protruding from the end surface of the optical connector, an optical connector end surface cleaner is provided which has a cleaning capability for the optical connector end surface and the guide pins.

An optical connector end surface cleaner according to the present invention is an optical connector end surface cleaner for cleaning an end surface of an optical connector, the optical connector end surface cleaner comprising: a cleaning tape for cleaning the end surface of the optical connector in contact therewith; a cleaning head for supporting a rear surface of the cleaning tape in contact with an end surface of the optical connector when the cleaning tape is in contact with the end surface of the optical connector; and a tape supply mechanism for supplying the cleaning tape to the cleaning head, wherein the cleaning head includes at least a cleaning head distal end member, a cleaning head buffering member, and a cleaning head supporting member, and a storage elastic modulus E1 of the cleaning head buffering member at 40° C. measured in accordance with JIS K7244-4 with a frequency of 1 Hz is lower than a storage elastic modulus E2 of the cleaning head distal end member at 40° C. and a storage elastic modulus E3 of the cleaning head supporting member at 40° C. similarly measured.

A method removes coatings from a surface. The method includes: applying a stripping agent to the coating to be detached in order to produce a cohesive bond, such that the bond between the stripping agent and the coating to be detached is stronger than the bond between the coating to be detached and the surface; and stripping off the stripping agent together with the coating to be detached adhering thereto.

A probe pin cleaning sheet with cleaning power and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed, comprising a release layer, a cleaning layer, and a substrate. Thus, in the process that the probe pin pierces the cleaning layer, through the material of cleaning layer, and the cleaning grains of abrasive material contained in the cleaning material in the cleaning layer, the cleaning power is increased to scrape off dirt from the surface of probe pin. In addition, by the negative charges and lipophilic property of the silicone itself, the dirt on the probe pin can be transferred onto the cleaning layer.

A cleaning tool includes: an adhesive portion that adsorbs an object to be adsorbed and a film portion that includes the adhesive portion. The film portion includes a hole portion which expands in accordance with an external force applied to the film portion. The adhesive portion is exposed to the outside of the film portion via the hole portion in a case where the external force equal to or greater than a predetermined magnitude is applied to the film portion.

A cleaning device having a frame and an elongated strip of cleaning material wound into a roll rotatably mounted on a roller support. A slave roller having a core and a cylindrical tube disposed over the core is mounted to the frame so that the slave roller is spaced and parallel to the roll. A torsion spring is secured to and between the core and the tube so that, as the tube rotates relative to the core, the spring is wound. The strip of cleaning material is wound in between the roll and slave roller so that, upon rotation of the first roller in a first rotational direction, the cleaning material is unwound from the slave roller onto the roll while simultaneously winding the torsion spring. Upon disengagement of the first roller from the cleaning surface, the torsion spring rotatably drives the slave roller and rewinds the portion of the strip around the tube.

The invention relates to a coating line (1) cleaning apparatus (20) and a method for cleaning at least a selected part of a coating line. The coating line cleaning apparatus comprising a conveyed entity having first and second mutually opposed major faces and at least one flexible cleaning element (12) having first and second mutually opposed major faces, said cleaning element being characterised in that each one of said first (15) and second (11) major faces is tacky, the first of said tacky faces of said cleaning element being releasably adhered to one of the major faces (8) of the conveyed entity (4), and the second tacky major face of said cleaning element being temporarily contactable with the selected part (14) of the coating line to bring said second tacky major face (11) of the cleaning element into temporary contact with said selected part of a coating line to cause any contaminants present on said selected part (14) of a coating line (1) to adhere to said second tacky major face (11) of said cleaning element thereby causing any contaminants to be removed from said selected part of a coating line (1).

Provided is an optical connector cleaning tool that is unlikely to cause a static charge and can accurately remove dust located on an end surface of an optical connector. Disclosed is an optical connector cleaning tool including: a main body housing a supply holder configured to hold a cleaner that has a contaminant-retainable layer and can be supplied so as to clean an end surface of an optical connector; a cleaning head configured to position the cleaner having been supplied from the main body and be held at a certain holding position with respect to the main body; a controller that can be engaged with the optical connector and can be displaced from a first position to a second position, which is different from the first position, with respect to the cleaning head while kept engaged with the optical connector; and a supply mechanism configured to transmit, to the cleaner, movement of displacing the controller from the first position to the second position to displace and then supply the cleaner to the cleaning head, in which when the controller is positioned at the first position, the cleaning head is apart from the end surface of the optical connector, while the controller is displaced from the first position to the second position, the supply mechanism causes the cleaner to be displaced, and when the controller is positioned at the second position, the cleaning head comes into contact with the end surface of the optical connector.

Paper is disclosed for use in making repositionable or removable adhesive labels. The adhesive can be applied in patches or discrete areas to the paper or to a layer of material that cleans rollers in the manufacturing line and/or in printers. The adhesive can be applied in single or multiple layers. The paper is light weight paper and preferably thermal paper for use in POS printers.

Particulate cleaning assemblies and methods for cleaning are disclosed. In one example, a device for removing particles from a backside surface of a substrate is described. The device includes a chamber body with a substrate chucking device, a particulate cleaning article positioned over the substrate supporting surface, an optical sensing device positioned under the particulate cleaning article and a substrate positioning device separates the particulate cleaning article and a substrate. In another example, a method for removing particles from a substrate is disclosed. The method includes positioning a substrate with a processing surface and a supporting surface in a process chamber. At least a portion of the substrate can be chucked to a substrate chucking device, the substrate chucking device having a substrate supporting surface with a particulate cleaning article positioned thereon. The substrate is then separated from the particulate cleaning article leaving particles behind.