CA2189115A1 - Portioning arrangement for a detergent dispenser - Google Patents

Portioning arrangement for a detergent dispenser

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CA2189115A1
CA2189115A1 CA002189115A CA2189115A CA2189115A1 CA 2189115 A1 CA2189115 A1 CA 2189115A1 CA 002189115 A CA002189115 A CA 002189115A CA 2189115 A CA2189115 A CA 2189115A CA 2189115 A1 CA2189115 A1 CA 2189115A1
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storage unit
accordance
fact
portioning
portioning arrangement
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Stefan Nurmberger
Winfried Steiner
Peter Hesse
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AEG Hausgeraete GmbH
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47LDOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L15/00Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware
    • A47L15/42Details
    • A47L15/44Devices for adding cleaning agents; Devices for dispensing cleaning agents, rinsing aids or deodorants
    • A47L15/4409Devices for adding cleaning agents; Devices for dispensing cleaning agents, rinsing aids or deodorants by tipping containers or opening their lids, e.g. with the help of a programmer
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47LDOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L15/00Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware
    • A47L15/42Details
    • A47L15/44Devices for adding cleaning agents; Devices for dispensing cleaning agents, rinsing aids or deodorants
    • A47L15/4463Multi-dose dispensing arrangements
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06FLAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F39/00Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00 
    • D06F39/02Devices for adding soap or other washing agents
    • D06F39/026Devices for adding soap or other washing agents the powder or tablets being added directly, e.g. without the need of a flushing liquid

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  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Washing And Drying Of Tableware (AREA)
  • Detergent Compositions (AREA)

Abstract

A dishwasher includes a portioning arrangement for the program-controlled delivery of cleaning agents in tablet form (3, 3'). The portioning arrangement includes a storage unit (1) for storing the cleaning agent tablets (3, 3'), a separating device (15) for removing at least one cleaning tablet (3, 3') from the storage unit (1), and a lock chamber (17). The lock chamber (17) separates the cleaning agent tablets (3, 3') stored in the storage unit (1) from the damp ambient conditions of a washing chamber.
A specific number of the cleaning agent tablets (3, 3') can be removed and delivered to the lock chamber (17) and then to the washing chamber. Preferably the cleaning agent tablets (3, 3') are stored in the storage unit (1) in several stacks in order to obtain a space-saving storage unit of cleaning agents (3, 3') for the largest possible number of washing cycles.

Description

. . 21 891 1 5 -3 The invention concerns a portioning arrangement for 4 controlled delivery of cleaning agents in tablet form in a dishwasher.
6 ~erman Patent Application P 44 13 870.9 proposes a 7 portioning arrangement for adding a cleaning agent to 8 dishwasher. Such an arrangement has a storage unit for 9 storing the cleaning agent tablets and a portioning arrangement for separating the cleaning agent tablets and 11 for the program-controlled gradual release thereof. This 12 above-mentioned arrangement slows the connection of the 13 portioning arrangement with a control unit as well as the 14 power supply.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

16 The task of the present invention is to specify a 17 particularly simple design of the portioning arrangement 18 for cleaning agent tablets and create an almost complete 19 separation of the stored cleaner tablets from the wash chamber and the moist atmosphere prevailing in the wash 21 chamber during operation.
22 The portioning arrangement includes a storage unit, a 23 separating unit, and a lock chamber. A specific number of 24 cleaning agent tablets can be removed from the storage unit and supplied to the lock chamber and then to a washing Z6 chamber. Cleaning agent tablets for several washing cycles 27 can be stored with nearly complete separation from the 28 moist atmosphere of the washing chamber and supplied to the 29 washing liquid under control of a wash program.
The portioning arrangement for cleaning agents in ,31 tablet form essentially includes a storage unit for storing 32 cleaning agent tablets for several wash cycles and a -1 separating device. According to the washing process, the 2 separating device removes at least one cleaning tablet from 3 the storage unit, and feeds it to a lock chamber also 4 included in the portioning arrangement. Preferably the portioning device also has a presenting unit into which the 6 cleaning tablets are brought after passing through the lock 7 chamber.
8 The storage unit includes a receiving device. After a 9 supply container including this receiving device is opened, which preferably takes place from above by removing a 11 cover, the cleaning agent tablets are manually filled into 12 the receiving device.
13 Preferably the complete portioning arrangement of the 14 dishwasher is removable, which facilitates filling, cleaning, and maintenance. The storage unit of the 16 portioning device may be removed for especially simple 17 filling.
18 An arrangement of at least two stacks, preferably 19 three or four, is favorable for the storage of tablets for several wash cycles, advantageously at least ten wash 21 cycles. The stacks may be in any position: standing, 22 lying, or slanting.
23 A preferred design of the storage unit provides for a 24 rotation-symmetrical a~rangement of the stacks in a drum storage, which is designed so as to rotate around an axis 26 parallel to the stack axis. A storage unit of this kind is 27 thus designed as a kind of revolving drum.
28 In the case of a vertically oriented arrangement of 29 the storage unit, the stacks in each case are fastened in position by a fixed element and a movably mounted element 31 for fixing the tablets against movement in the transverse 32 direction. In each case the tablets are removed from any 33 stack by means of the separating device according to a 34 program control.
A preferred design of the separating device consists 36 of a pusher, which in the case of each separating process 37 advances a tablet from the stack approximately in the . 21891 15 1 radial direction. As an alternative to this, the 2 separating device also may be a gripper or tongs.
3 The tablet removed then is delivered to a lock 4 chamber, which serves for the nearly complete separation of the storage unit from the moist atmosphere in the washing 6 tank. After passing through this lock chamber the tablet 7 is fed to a perforated platform or a perforated basket.
8 This platform or basket is placed in the washing tank in 9 such a way that the tablets contained therein are dissolved by the washing liquid, preferably by a spray ~et striking 11 the tablets.
12 For the case where more than one tablet is to be 13 portioned per wash cycle, either the tablets are portioned 14 one after the other in the way described above, or pass through the lock chamber together, after sequential 16 separations, and are presented together.
17 The invention is explained in greater detail below by 18 means of the drawings of a specific embodiment.

Fig. 1 shows a schematic side elevation of a 21 portioning device according to the invention;
22 Fig. 2 shows a side view of a storage unit for 23 multiple stacks of cleaning tablets with a separating 24 device;
Fig. 3 shows a top view of a storage unit for four 26 tablet stacks; and 27 Fig. 4 shows a longitudinal section of a lock 28 chamber.

R,eferring to Figs. 1 through 3, portioning arrangement 31 for disposing large cleaning agent tablets 3 or small 32 cleaning agent tablets 3' in a dishwasher includes a drum-33 like storage unit 1 for storing the cleaning agent tablets _, 1 3, 3' in four standing stacks. This storage unit 1, can be 2 filled manually from above by removing a cover 5, which 3 creates a gas-tight sealing of the storage unit 1 by means 4 of a sealing element 7. The individual stacks are fixed in the transverse direction by means of a fixed V-shaped 6 element 9 and a movably mounted element 11. The fixed 7 element 9 shown has two orthogonal parts. The movably 8 mounted element 11 is biased toward the tablets 3, 3'.
9 This holding mechanism is designed in such a way that it is operable irrespective of the size of the tablets 3, 3'.
11 The entire storage unit 1 is capable of rotating 12 around its middle axis 13. The process of separating a 13 cleaning tablet 3, 3' is initiated by a rotation motion of 14 the storage unit 1 around the middle axis 13, so that the stack, from which the tablet 3, 3' is to be removed, is 16 positioned so that the tablet 3, 3' to be portioned is 17 accessible to a separating device 15.
18 The tablet 3, 3' then is separated by moving it from 19 the appropriate stack in an approximately radial direction by means of the separating device 15 designed as a pusher.
21 The movement can be either on a linear track or a bent 22 track.
23 The tablet 3, 3' provided is brought into a lock 24 chamber 17 having closable lower and upper lock walls 19, 21. With the lower lock wall 19 in a closed position, the 26 upper lock wall 21 opens to admit the tablet and is 27 resealed gas-tight after the introduction of the cleaning 28 agent tablet 3, 3'. As shown in Fig. 4, preferably at 29 least the upper lock wall 21 passes along a bent track 23 in a closing motion to a countersurface 25. This prevents 31 faulty gripping of a gasket 27 mounted on the 32 countersurface 25, which can occur and lead to leakages of 33 the gasket 17 when using an alternatively possible sliding 34 motion,between the gasket 27 and sealing surfaces.
only after the sure sealing of the upper lock wall 21 36 is the lower lock wall 19 opened and the cleaning agent 37 tablet 3, 3' advanced. The tablet 3, 3' in this way -1 finally enters a perforated basket 29 in the wash chamber 2 and at this point is struck periodically by a spray jet 3 cleaning the material to be washed. In this way the tablet 4 3, 3' is dissolved gradually, by means of which the cleaning substance is mixed with the washing liquid.
6 The embodiment of the invention shown and described 7 are exemplary. Modifications are considered to be within 8 the scope of the claims.

Claims (20)

1. A portioning arrangement for dispensing cleaning agents in tablet form for a washer having a wash chamber characterized by the fact that the portioning arrangement includes a storage unit (1), a separating device (15), and a lock chamber (17), arranged so that a specific number of the cleaning agent tablets (3, 3') can be removed from the storage unit (1) by the separating device (15) and delivered to the lock chamber (17) and then to the washing chamber.
2. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 1, characterized by the fact that the tablets (3, 3') are stored in the storage unit (1) in at least two stacks.
3. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 2, characterized by the fact that the tablets (3, 3') are stored in the storage unit (1) in approximately vertically arranged stacks parallel to one another.
4. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 2, characterized by the fact that the storage unit (1) comprises a drum storage.
5. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 4, characterized by the fact that the storage unit (1) is adapted for rotating around an axis (13) parallel to an axis of one of the stacks.
6. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 2 further comprising fixed elements and movably mounted elements for fixing the respective tablet stacks against transverse movement in the storage unit.
7. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 2, further comprising a holding mechanism for fixing each stack against movement in the transverse direction, the holding mechanism including a V-shaped groove (9) and a moveable pressing element (11).
8. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 7, characterized by the fact that the holding mechanism is operative irrespective of the size of the tablets (3, 3').
9. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 2, characterized by the fact that at least one tablet (3, 3') per wash cycle can be removed from any stack of the storage unit (1) by means of the separating device (15) and delivered to the lock chamber (17).
10. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 9, characterized by the fact that the separating device (15) comprises a pusher that removes a tablet (3, 3') from a stack in an approximately radial direction.
11. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 9, characterized by the fact that the separating device (15) is designed as a gripper.
12. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 1, characterized by the fact that the lock chamber includes a lock wall (21) sealing the storage unit (1), wherein the lock wall (21) passes along a bent track (23) during opening and closing.
13. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 1, characterized by the fact that the tablets (3, 3') to be portioned are dispensed from the lock chamber to a perforated basket (29) exposed to washing liquid in the wash chamber.
14. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 1, characterized by the fact that the storage unit (1) can be removed from the portioning device.
15. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 2, characterized by the fact that the tablets (3, 3') are stored in the storage unit (1) in approximately horizontally arranged stacks parallel to one another.
16. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 3, characterized by the fact that the storage unit (1) comprises a drum storage.
17. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 15, characterized by the fact that the storage unit (1) comprises a drum storage.
18. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 16, characterized by the fact that the storage unit (1) is adapted for rotating around an axis (13) parallel to an axis of one of the stacks.
19. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 17, characterized by the fact that the storage unit (1) is adapted for rotating around an axis (13) parallel to an axis of one of the stacks.
20. A portioning arrangement in accordance with Claim 6, characterized by the fact that the holding mechanism is operative irrespective of the size of the tablets (3, 3').
CA002189115A 1995-11-03 1996-10-29 Portioning arrangement for a detergent dispenser Abandoned CA2189115A1 (en)

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DE19540958A DE19540958A1 (en) 1995-11-03 1995-11-03 Cleaning medium tablet dosing system for dishwasher or washer
DE19540958.2 1995-11-03

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