Clothes treating apparatus and method
AssigneeCleanlogic LLC
InventorsDavid N. Berglund, Eskil Eriksson, Robert Smerling
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Abstract
A clothes treating system includes a treating chamber for receiving clothes and a treating fluid therein, and a piston having a piston head. The piston can be adapted for reciprocating linear motion. Reciprocating motion of the piston head within the chamber agitates the clothes. An inner false wall can be contained within the chamber, and can have a corrugated surface providing frictional agitation of the clothes as the clothes are moved against the corrugated surface by the reciprocal motion of the piston head.
Claims20
A cleaning apparatus comprising:
- (a) a cleaning chamber adapted for receiving and containing clothes and a cleaning fluid therein;
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- (b) a piston having a piston head positioned within the cleaning chamber adapted for reciprocating motion within the cleaning chamber, wherein reciprocal motion of the piston head agitates the clothes contained within the cleaning chamber whereby facilitating cleaning of the clothes.
A clothes treating system comprising:
- (a) a treating chamber for receiving a treating fluid therein, and having a first wall defining a clothes receiving area for receiving and containing clothes therein, the first wall having a corrugated surface facing the clothes receiving area;
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- (b) a piston having a piston head positioned within the clothes receiving area adapted for reciprocating motion within the clothes receiving area, whereby reciprocal motion of the piston agitates the clothes contained within the clothes receiving area, and the corrugated surface of the first wall provides frictional agitation of the clothes as the clothes are moved against the corrugated surface by the reciprocal motion of the piston head.
A method of treating clothes with a cleaning fluid comprising:
- (a) providing an apparatus comprising:
- (i) a cleaning chamber adapted for receiving and containing clothes and a cleaning fluid therein, and having an opening for receiving clothes therethrough,
- (ii) a moveable door covering the chamber opening for selectively opening and closing the opening,
- (iii) a piston having a piston head positioned within the cleaning chamber adapted for reciprocating linear motion within the cleaning chamber,
- (iv) a storage tank storing the cleaning fluid in communication with the cleaning chamber, and
- (v) a still positioned above the storage tank in communication with the cleaning chamber for receiving used cleaning solvent;
- (b) opening the door and introducing clothes through the chamber opening;
- (c) closing the door;
- (d) introducing the cleaning fluid from the storage tank into the cleaning chamber;
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- (e) moving the piston head in reciprocal linear motion to agitate the clothes within the cleaning chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.