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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Volker Till, Hoffheim am Taunus, DE;
Assignee:
GEA Till GmbH & Co., Kriftel, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B08B / ; B08B / ; C23G / ; C23G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
134 221 ; 134-3 ; 134 10 ; 134 2218 ; 134 26 ; 134 27 ; 134 28 ; 134 41 ;
Abstract
Beverage containers such as kegs are cleaned by pre-rinsing the containers and then cleaning the containers with a cleaning solution. Post-rinse of the containers is carried out in order to remove the cleaning solution. The post-rinse includes an earlier rinsing phase in which a containers is rinsed with a first rinsing fluid, and a later rinsing phase rinses out one of the containers that has gone through the earlier rinsing phase with a second rinsing fluid. The second rinsing fluid that has been used in the later rinsing phase is used as the first rinsing fluid in the earlier rinsing phase of the post-rinse.