Patent ID: 6086278
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: A46B,A47L

Abstract:
A selectably orientable liquid receivable device for use as a cleaner of dirty food preparation and serving wear that is capable of controllably dispensing liquid and foam cleaning agents selectably upon liquid receipt, comprising:a hand-held dirty food preparation and serving wear cleaning instrument having a cleaning and scrubbing head adapted to clean dirty food preparation and serving wear;said dirty food preparation and serving wear cleaning instrument having a first, foam feed and cleaning orientation and having a second liquid feed orientation generally and different from the first, generally horizontal, foam feed and cleaning orientation;said dirty food preparation and serving wear cleaning instrument including means for providing a plenum having a predetermined volume that would partition itself into a first region where foam would be present and into a second region where liquid would be present should a dilute liquid cleaning agent of a lesser volume be disposed and agitated therein such that said region where foam would be present would always be superjacent said region where liquid would be present and said region where liquid would be present would always be subjacent said region where foam would be present in said plenum of said dirty food preparation and serving wear cleaning instrument at any selected orientation thereof; andsaid dirty food preparation and serving wear cleaning instrument including means coupled to said cleaning and scrubbing head adapted to clean dirty food preparation and serving wear and responsive to the orientation of the dirty food preparation and serving wear cleaning instrument for allowing foam to be dispensed to the cleaning and scrubbing head adapted to clean dirty food preparation and serving wear from the superjacent first region of said plenum of said instrument where foam would be present when the instrument is in its first, foam feed and cleaning orientation while preventing liquid to be dispensed to the cleaning and scrubbing head adapted to clean dirty food preparation and serving wear from the subjacent second region of said plenum of said instrument where liquid would be present, and for allowing liquid to be dispensed to the cleaning and scrubbing head adapted to clean dirty food preparation and serving wear from the subjacent second region of said plenum of said instrument where liquid would be present when the instrument is in its second liquid feed orientation generally and different from the first, foam feed and cleaning orientation while preventing foam to be dispensed to the cleaning and scrubbing head adapted to clean dirty food preparation and serving wear from the superjacent first region of said plenum of said instrument where foam would be present.