To provide a cylinder cleaning device which includes two or more cleaning pads in order to clean two or more cylinders by one cylinder cleaning device, and makes the respective cleaning pads independently operate so as to reduce waste by effectively using cleaning cloth.
The cleaning cloth 5 is unreeled from a cleaning cloth supply means 6, and passes through the first cleaning pad 3 for cleaning the first cylinder 1, continuously passes through the second cleaning pad 4 for cleaning the second cylinder 2, and then is taken up to a cleaning cloth winding means 7. A control means 12 holds a use state of the cleaning cloth corresponding to the first cleaning pad, and controls a first pad driving means 9, a second pad driving means 10 and a cleaning cloth driving means 11 so that the cleaning cloth at an already used portion in the first cleaning pad may not be used for the second cleaning pad.
IMAMURA TOMOHIRO
KANAYAMA YASUO
IMAFUKU KAZUHIDE
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