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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2011
Peter Chapman, Atlanta, GA (US);
Peter Chapman, Atlanta, GA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A beverage can cleaning apparatus for cleaning beverage cans before they are dispensed from vending machines. The apparatus has a can holder, a hinged platform, tubes, a first nozzle, a second nozzle and a sensing block that matches the profile of the can top periphery. The sensing block is depressed a compressed distance, the distance being dependent on the orientation of the can, and cleaning fluid or compressed air is selectively directed through the first or second nozzle. Subsequent to air or cleaning fluid being dispensed against the top of the beverage can, the can holder releases the hinged platform sending the beverage can into the vending machine's dispenser.
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