Patent ID: 9339852
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: B08B

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for cleaning chandelier crystals, jewelry, and the like, comprising: a clean water chamber adapted to hold clean water therewithin; a clean water pump having an inlet and an outlet submerged within said clean water; a container having a bottom wall and sidewalls mounted about the bottom wall and projecting upwardly therefrom; an opening formed in said bottom wall and a screen mounted in said opening; a cleaning station having a funnel-like structure including an upper end and a lower end where a breadth of said upper end is greater than a breadth of said lower end and includes a smooth taper between the breadth of the upper end and the breadth of the lower end; said upper end of said cleaning station slideably receiving said container within a hollow interior of said upper end; a dirty water chamber adapted to hold dirty water; a vacuum chamber; a vacuum pump positioned within said vacuum chamber, said vacuum chamber being in open fluid communication with said dirty water chamber; a vacuum hose having a first end in open fluid communication with said dirty water chamber and a second end in fluid communication with said lower end of said cleaning station; a clean water hose having a first end in open fluid communication with said outlet of said clean water pump; at least one water-emitting jet nozzle secured to said upper end of said cleaning station in said hollow interior thereof; said clean water hose having a second end in open fluid communication with said at least one water-discharging jet nozzle; an aperture formed in said cleaning station to admit said at least one water-emitting jet nozzle into said hollow interior of said cleaning station; an aperture formed in said container to admit said at least one water-emitting jet nozzle into said hollow interior of said container; said item to be cleaned positioned in supported relation to said screen mounted in said opening formed in said bottom wall of said container; said at least one water-discharging jet nozzle discharging water that impinges against said item supported by said screen when said clean water pump is activated, said clean water pump being deactivated when said item is clean; said item supported by said screen being dried by ambient air drawn into said open top of said container and following a path of travel that envelopes and flows over said item when said source of vacuum is activated; said vacuum hose carrying said ambient air and dirty water from said cleaning station to said dirty water chamber when said source of vacuum is activated.