Patents Assigned to Leifeld & Lemke Machinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
  • Barrel cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 4457324
    Abstract: The cleaning of barrel type containers, particularly beer kegs which have a fitting including a riser pipe which extends into the keg, is accomplished by incrementally increasing the level of a cleaning liquid which has been introduced into the barrel and, between each step of injection of cleaning fluid, causing turbulent motion of the liquid in the barrel by means of the injection of preselected volumes of a gaseous medium at a point below the surface level of the liquid cleaning fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Leifeld & Lemke Machinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Manfred Schepper