Device and method for cleaning drinking glasses
AssigneeAquafox Holding B.V.
InventorsMartijn Schaaper, Bauke Jan Bokma de Boer
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Abstract
A device for cleaning drinking glasses (1), comprising inner (2) and outer (3) cleaning aids extending substantially upright adjacent each other to cleaningly engage an outside and an inside respectively of a wall of a drinking glass inserted between the cleaning aids (2, 3). The outer cleaning aid (3) comprises at least one foam body of which a body portion, over at least a part of the height of the device, extends into a free area of a smallest circle enclosing a non-circular cross section of the inner cleaning aid (2).
Claims14
A device for cleaning drinking glasses, comprising inner and outer cleaning aids extending substantially upright adjacent each other to cleaningly engage an outside and an inside respectively of a wall of a drinking glass inserted between the cleaning aids, wherein the outer cleaning aid comprises at least one foam body.
A method for cleaning a drinking glass, in which a wall of the glass is introduced between adjacent inner and outer cleaning aids to cleaningly engage an inside and an outside respectively of a wall of a drinking glass, and wherein a foam body portion of the outer cleaning aid is engaged by the rim of the glass to be compressed away from the inner cleaning aid towards the outer cleaning aid, and therewith compresses from a position in which it extends beyond the rim of the drinking glass towards the inner cleaning aid, to a position in which it extends up against the outside of the wall of the drinking glass.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.