Patent ID: 8900373

Claim:
A method of cleaning containers in a container cleaning machine, said method comprising the steps of: inserting containers into container receptacles of a transport arrangement such that the containers are contained therein and are movable in said container receptacles along their longitudinal axes during cleaning; moving said container receptacles, and containers contained therein, through a bath of liquid cleaning medium, which containers are in a first orientation in which mouth portions of the containers are at a higher vertical position than closed portions of the containers; moving said container receptacles about a deflector in said bath of liquid cleaning medium to a second orientation in which the closed portions of the containers are at an equivalent vertical position or higher vertical position than the mouth portions of the containers; and operating a nozzle arrangement disposed a distance from the containers upon the containers being in said second orientation, and thereby impinging interiors of the containers with a cleaning medium with a force which is sufficiently high to maximize cleaning of the containers, and which is sufficiently low to essentially prevent movement of the containers along their longitudinal axes.