Apparatus with removable container for cleaning machine

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EP 0 404 279 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	25.03.1992 Bulletin 1992/13

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	27.12.1990 Bulletin 1990/52

(21)	Application number: 90202187.2

(22)	Date of filing: 02.11.1984

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁵: A47L 11/30

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE CH DE FR GB LI LU NL SE

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Priority:

02.03.1984 US 585873
02.03.1984 US 585609
02.03.1984 US 585547

(62)	Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
	84904255.1 / 0174312

(71)	Applicant: TRC ACQUISITION CORPORATION
	Marieta, Georgia 30067 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	Fitzwater, Edwin Rahway New Jersey (US)

(74)	Representative: Smith, Philip Antony et al
	REDDIE & GROSE 16 Theobalds Road London WC1X 8PL London WC1X 8PL (GB)

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(54)	Apparatus with removable container for cleaning machine

(57) The container has indentures 210 and 212 in its front surface and on its rear surface there are corresponding indentures which engage with abutments 268 of a docking port 68. An insert in the top of the bottle neck has a pair of nozzles 236 and 238 therein. Nozzle 236 is an inlet for compressed air supplied through tube 154 while nozzle 238 is connected to a tube 246 extending to the bottom of the container and forms an outlet for cleaning fluid to conduit 150.
A collar rotatable on the bottle neck by movement of an integral handle 218 between indentures 210 and 212 has a pair of cam grooves 226 into which lugs 262 are engaged so that the container is moved axially to engage nozzles 236 and 238 through sealing disc 264 with nipples 256 and 258 of a V-shaped clip 254 which fits within the docking housing 250, is located by projections 260 and carries the lugs 262.

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