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US 2003/0201004 A1Published application
Eyeglass cleaning station
OwnerJames Cooleyinventor
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Abstract
An eyeglass cleaning station with a wash chamber and tissue dispenser. The wash chamber has removable nozzles for adjusting spray and a primer bulb pump that operates by hand.
Claims11
An eyeglass cleaning apparatus comprising a box-like housing provided with:
- a chamber for holding tissue and a slot for dispensing said tissue from said chamber;
- a reservoir for holding cleaning solution;
- two pairs of replaceable nozzles, with the pairs sufficiently far apart and the members of each pair facing one another and sufficiently far apart for spraying all four lens surfaces of eyeglasses placed in the spray path of said nozzles;
- a trough above said reservoir for holding a pair of eyeglasses in said trough so that each lens surface of said eyeglasses faces a different one of said nozzles;
- a plurality of drain/breathing holes in the bottom of said trough and the top of said reservoir;
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- a primer bulb pump in fluid communication with:
- said reservoir via input tubing and an input check valve such that said input check valve permits cleaning solution to be drawn from said reservoir through said input tubing and into said bulb pump when said bulb pump is permitted to fill, and
- said nozzles via an output check valve and output tubing such that said out put check valve permits cleaning solution to be pumped from said bulb pump through said output tubing to said nozzles and sprayed onto each of said lens surfaces of said eyeglasses when said bulb pump is squeezed to empty it.
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