Patent ID: 7635002

Claim:
A method for assembling a portable station, the portable station for cleaning glassware in a hotel or motel, the method comprising: attaching a base station to a housekeeping cart, the base station comprising a plurality of sections; transporting the housekeeping cart and the attached base station to a guest room of the hotel or motel; matching a first sub-container to one section of the plurality of sections of the base station in order to avoid placing the first sub-container in any other of the plurality of sections; fitting the first sub-container into the matched section; filling the fitted first sub-container with liquid to form a wash composition with a first chemistry, which first chemistry has been pre-loaded into the first sub-container prior to the matching and the fitting thereof, the wash composition for washing a set of the glassware within the first sub-container; matching a second sub-container to another section of the plurality of sections of the base station; fitting the second sub-container into the other matched section; filling the fitted second sub-container with liquid to form a sanitizing composition with a second chemistry, which second chemistry has been pre-loaded into the second sub-container prior to the matching and fitting thereof the sanitizing composition for sanitizing the set of the glassware within the second sub-container; disposing of one or both of the first and second sub-containers, along with the composition formed therein; and replacing each of the one or both of the disposed of sub-containers with a new sub-container of the same type.