Device for drying and polishing items such as glasses and cutlery
AssigneeMT Innovations Pty Ltd
InventorTommaso Porcelli
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Abstract
A device for drying and polishing items such as glasses and cutlery, the device including an enclosure having apertures through which an end of the items can be inserted; a plurality of movable cleaning elements within the enclosure for drying and/or polishing the items; and a selectively operable steam distribution system for applying steam within the enclosure to at least one of the cleaning elements and/or the items, whereby the cleaning elements dry or polish the items, wherein the steam distribution system is operable on insertion of an end of said items into the enclosure.
Claims19
A device for drying and polishing items such as glasses and cutlery, the device including:
- an enclosure having apertures through which an end of the items can be inserted;
- a plurality of movable cleaning elements within the enclosure for drying and/or polishing the items;
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- a selectively operable steam distribution system for applying steam within the enclosure to at least one of the cleaning elements and the items, wherein the cleaning elements dry and/or polish the items,
- wherein the steam distribution system is operable upon the end of at least one of the items being brought into contact with at least one cleaning element within the enclosure.
A device for drying and polishing items such as glasses and cutlery, the device including:
- an enclosure having apertures through which an end of the items can be inserted;
- a plurality of movable cleaning elements within the enclosure for drying and/or polishing the items;
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- a selectively operable steam distribution system for applying steam within the enclosure to at least one of the cleaning elements and the items, wherein the cleaning elements dry and/or polish the items,
- wherein at least one of the cleaning elements is mounted on a rotatable shaft, the shaft rotating around a steam pipe extending through the shaft and terminating at a steam nozzle formed by apertures in the shaft intermediate of a length of the shaft, and wherein a conical diffuser is disposed at an end of the steam pipe and within the cleaning element to direct steam radially outwardly from the steam pipe and into the cleaning element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.