Patent ID: 7047988

Claim:
An apparatus for simultaneously cleaning the exterior surface, individual components, and surfaces of internal channels of an object having a body portion with an internal channel and a plurality of component parts attached to the body portion, comprising; a basin having sufficient size to hold a disassembled object for cleaning, the basin having a plurality of cleaning nozzles for simultaneously spraying cleaning fluids at the disassembled object; a plurality of holding devices for holding the disassembled object to be cleaned, at least a first holding device used to hold the body portion of the disassembled object and at least a second holding device to hold one or more component parts of the object which have been detached from the body portion of the object; and a first extension tube providing a path for cleaning fluid, the first extension tube further having a plurality of cleaning nozzles, which are supported by the first extension tube and supplied with cleaning fluid by the first extension tube, and at least a first cleaning nozzle aligned with the holding device that holds the body portion of the object such that cleaning fluids sprayed from the first cleaning nozzle are directed to an aperture in the body portion of the object such that an internal channel in the object is flushed with cleaning fluids; a second extension tube providing a path for cleaning fluid, the second extension tube further having a plurality of second cleaning nozzles, which are supported by the second extension tube and supplied with cleaning fluid by the second extension tube, and aligned with the second holding devices which hold the component parts of the object which have been detached from the body portion of the object such that cleaning fluids sprayed from the second cleaning nozzles will simultaneously clean the detached component parts of the object while the body portion of the object is being cleaned by the first cleaning nozzle; whereby individual objects are disassembled and secured in a plurality of holding devices and aligned with cleaning nozzles such that the body portion of the object and detached component parts of the object can be simultaneously and independently cleaned.