EP1068832B1 - Mécanisme de levage - Google Patents

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EP1068832B1
EP1068832B1 EP00111990A EP00111990A EP1068832B1 EP 1068832 B1 EP1068832 B1 EP 1068832B1 EP 00111990 A EP00111990 A EP 00111990A EP 00111990 A EP00111990 A EP 00111990A EP 1068832 B1 EP1068832 B1 EP 1068832B1
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Michael Baumann
Hans Peter Hager
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Winterhalter Gastronom GmbH
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L15/00—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware
    • A47L15/0076—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware of non-domestic use type, e.g. commercial dishwashers for bars, hotels, restaurants, canteens or hospitals
    • A47L15/0081—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware of non-domestic use type, e.g. commercial dishwashers for bars, hotels, restaurants, canteens or hospitals with vertical sliding closing doors, e.g. hood-type dishwashers

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  • the invention relates to a spring-assisted lifting mechanism according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • the spring-assisted lifting mechanism is used in dishwashers for the catering industry to easily lift a covering means covering the washing compartment.
  • the spring-assisted lifting mechanism is intended to smoothly move the cover means between a lower and an upper position, wherein the cover means is held in the lower position by its own weight and in the upper position by a spring force.
  • a known spring-assisted lifting mechanism for a cover means of a catering dishwasher consists of two levers mounted on a shaft, wherein the cover means is rotatably and slidably mounted on the first lever and wherein a tension spring acts on the end of the second lever.
  • the shaft on which the levers are mounted is firmly attached to the frame of the dishwasher. A moment is applied to the shaft by means of the spring via the second lever. By this moment, a rotation of the shaft or the first lever causes or supports, so that an opening movement of the cover is facilitated.
  • the covering means is guided on the back in a mounted on the frame of the dishwasher guide.
  • this lifting mechanism has significant disadvantages.
  • a high force is required to open the cover means, since in this position of the lifting mechanism, the spring engages only with a small effective lever length on the shaft.
  • the effective lever length increases, so that the force acting on the cover lifting force is always greater.
  • the operator initially feels a high resistance because the opening movement is supported only minimally. Since the operator, the force he applies dosed according to the required opening force, the cover is often moved at high speed up against a stop. This is because the force to be applied by the operator decreases with increasing opening due to the improving lever arm between the spring and the shaft. Even when closing the cover, the properties of the mechanism lead to an undesirable, unfavorable force curve.
  • the invention has for its object to develop a spring-assisted lifting mechanism, in all positions of the cover means a relief torque for Provides that is tailored to the needs of the operator, and thus allows the exact and sensitive operation of the cover with a small hand force.
  • the spring assisted cover mechanism lifting mechanism of the present invention is comprised of a control means disposed between the second lever and the tension spring which effects an approximately constant effective lever between an articulation point of the spring and the shaft through a rotation angle of the shaft of up to 100 degrees. This ensures that the opening movement of the cover is supported by a nearly constant force, so that neither arises when lifting nor when lowering the cover means a surprising force for the operator force.
  • control means is designed as an intermediate lever which is connected to the second lever and the tension spring.
  • this is temporarily held freely between the articulation points and is at times rotatably and slidably on an abutment.
  • An advantageous embodiment of the subject invention provides to make the control means as a triangular balance lever or toggle.
  • Such a design of the control means makes it possible to use the shaft as an abutment and thus to make the construction particularly simple.
  • control means as mounted in two scenes bolt to which the spring is attached.
  • the scenes are formed by a slot in the second lever and a fixed guide. In this way it is also possible to provide a constant torque on the shaft, as the effective lever remains constant.
  • a further variant of the subject invention provides that the second lever has a cam-shaped head, over whose front side a rope or band extends, at the free end of the spring is fixed. If the end face of the cam is formed so that it lies on a circle around the shaft, then here by means of the spring, a uniform torque can be applied to the shaft.
  • a dishwasher 1 is shown in a schematic side view.
  • the dishwasher 1 consists of a base 2 with feet 3 and a base part 2 attached to the side part 4.
  • a cover 4a which is designed as a hood 5, which has a handle 6.
  • two levers 9, 10 are attached.
  • the lever 9 connects the shaft 8 with a mounted on the hood 5 rotatable bearing pin 11.
  • the lever 9 is slidably mounted in a guide 13 of the shaft 12.
  • the lever 9 slides with a region 14 in the guide 13 of the bearing pin 11 back and forth (see in comparison Fig. 3 and Fig. 5).
  • the vertical movement of the hood 5 is ensured by a vertical guide, not shown, which is arranged between the hood and the side part.
  • the lever 10 rotatably connected at a pivot point 15 with a control means 16 is.
  • the control means 16 is configured as a compensation lever 16a or a triangular lever 17, which has a base side 18, an Ankathete 19 and a counter-catheter 20.
  • a spring 22 is mounted, which has a longitudinal axis 22a.
  • the spring 22 is designed as a tension spring 23 and is counter-mounted in the side part 4 of the dishwasher 1 (see Fig. 1).
  • the shaft 8 has a surface 24 on which the triangular lever 17 rests with the Ankathete 19.
  • the spring 22, the triangular lever 17, the lever 10, the bearing 7 and the lever 9 form a lifting mechanism 25.
  • the lifting mechanism 25 provides assistance to an operator in opening and closing the hood 5 and holding the hood 5 in the open position. To open, the operator must cancel the weight 26 (see Fig. 1) of the hood 5 by the hand force 27 applied thereto (see Fig. 1), being assisted by the spring force 28 (see Fig. 1) of the spring 22 ,
  • FIGS. 1, 3, 5 or 2, 4, 6, the hood 5 of the dishwasher 1 or the lifting mechanism 1 is shown in a closed position 29, in a half-open position 30 and in an open position 31.
  • the weight 26 of the hood 5 acts with a lever H1 on the bearing 7.
  • the counterforce to the weight 26 is applied by the manual force 27 and the spring force 28.
  • the triangular lever 17 bears against the point P on the surface 24 of the shaft 8, which forms an abutment 24a for the triangular lever 17.
  • the triangle lever 17 rotates on the way to the half-open position 30 together with the shaft 8. That is, the moment at which the spring 22 acts on the bearing 7, between the closed position 29 and the half-open position 30 is approximately equal remains, since the pivot point 21 of the spring 22 moves only a small angle on a circular path around the bearing 7.
  • the effective lever E2 shown in FIG. 4 is only slightly smaller than the effective lever E1 shown in FIG.
  • the triangular lever 17 bears against the surface 24 of the shaft 8 with an articulation bay designed as a recess on the triangular lever 17. In this way, the triangular lever 17 has surface contact with the shaft eighth
  • Fig. 6 the position of the lever mechanism 25 is shown, which occupies this in the open position 31 of the hood 5.
  • the effective lever A3 is determined by the lever 10. This means that the effective lever A3 has become slightly larger than the effective lever A2 (see Fig. 4), as the lever 10 moves between the half-open position 30 and the open position 31 of the hood 5 in a circular path around the bearing 7 Has.
  • the spring 22 in the closed position 29 of the hood 5 is stretched by a distance LZ1 + LZ3 relative to the open position 31, so that in this way a slightly stronger moment on the hood. 5 in the closed position 29 results.
  • the lever mechanism 25 between the closed position 29 and the half-open position 30 causes a sinusoidal decrease in the effective lever arm length, with which the spring 22 acts on the shaft 8.
  • the lifting mechanism 25 causes a sinusoidal increase in the effective lever arm length, with which the spring 22 acts on the shaft 8.
  • the spring 22 acts with a removable force on the lever mechanism 25.
  • Fig. 7 shows a variant of the lifting mechanism 25 in a schematic representation.
  • the lifting mechanism 40 shown in FIG. 7 also has a first lever 9, a second lever 10, a bearing 7 and a shaft 8 on.
  • the illustration of the dishwasher 1 has been omitted, since the lifting mechanism 40 shown in Fig. 7 is also provided for the dishwasher 1 shown in Figures 1, 3 and 6.
  • the second lever 10 has a designed as a guide 41 slot 42 in which a bolt 43 is slidably mounted.
  • a tension spring 44 is attached in a pivot point 43a, which pulls the bolt 43 in the direction of the arrow 45 and in the side part 4 (not shown here) is counter-mounted.
  • the bolt 43 is slidably mounted in a guided in the side part 4 guide 46 in the vertical direction.
  • Fig. 8 shows with the lifting mechanism 60, a further variant of the lifting mechanism 25.
  • This in turn has a first lever 9, a second lever 10, a bearing 7 and a shaft 8.
  • the second lever 10 has a cam-shaped head 61, which has an end face 62 with a rounded surface 63.
  • a connecting means 64 can be seen, which is designed as a band 65 with an end 66 and an end 67.
  • the band 65 is fastened in an articulation point 68a by means of a fastening means 68.
  • a spring 69 is articulated.
  • the spring 69 acts on the belt 65 in the direction of arrow 70 and is even in the side part 4 (not shown here) counter-mounted.
  • a force 71 which exerts the spring 69 in the direction of the arrow 70 on the belt 65, deflected on the rounded surface 63 of the cam-shaped head 61. Due to the deflection, the force 71 acts on the fastening means 68 in the direction of arrow 72 and thus acts with an effective lever A11 on the shaft 8.
  • the effective lever 11, with which the force 71 acts on the shaft 8, remains at a rotation of the second lever 10 constant over an angular range 73, since the force 71 always acts tangentially to the rounded surface 63 on the fastening means 68.
  • the cam-shaped head 61, the connecting means 64 and the band 65 form here a control means 16.
  • the connecting means is pressed by an antidote into the recesses of the end face 62.

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Claims (10)

  1. Mécanisme de levage pour un actionnement, assisté par un effet élastique, d'un moyen de recouvrement (4a) d'une machine de rinçage (1), tel qu'un capot ou un hotte, une portière et un volet, avec au moins un levier (9), monté sur un arbre (8) et relié à un ressort de traction (22), caractérisé en ce que, entre un deuxième levier (10) et le ressort (22), est disposé un moyen de commande (16, 16a, 17) mécanique, qui agit sur un bras de levier (E1, E2, A2, A3, A10, A11), à peu près constant, entre un point d'articulation (15, 21, 43a, 68a) du ressort (22, 44, 68) et de l'arbre (8), sur un angle de rotation de l'arbre (8) allant jusqu'à 100°.
  2. Mécanisme de levage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de commande (16) est réalisé sous la forme de levier intermédiaire (17), relié, à un premier point d'articulation (15), au levier (10) et, à un deuxième point d'articulation (21), au ressort de traction (23), le levier intermédiaire (17) étant maintenu, par moments, librement entre les points d'articulation (15, 21) et appuyant, par moments, avec une possibilité de rotation, sur un contre-palier (24a).
  3. Mécanisme de levage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de commande (16) est réalisé sous la forme de levier de compensation ou équilibrage (16a) à forme triangulaire.
  4. Mécanisme de levage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le soutien du moyen de commande (16) dans le contre-palier (24a) s'effectue, jusqu'à ce que l'axe longitudinal (22a) du ressort (22) soit aligné avec le point d'articulation (15).
  5. Mécanisme de levage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que, sur l'arbre (8), est monté à rotation un deuxième levier (9), présentant une zone (14), sur laquelle un moyen de recouvrement (4a) est monté de façon à pouvoir effectuer une rotation et une translation.
  6. Mécanisme de levage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'arbre (8) sert de contre-palier (24a) pour le moyen de commande (16).
  7. Mécanisme de levage selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le levier (10) et le ressort (22) sont chacun articulés dans les angles aigus du levier de compensation (16a) à forme triangulaire.
  8. Mécanisme de levage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le moyen de commande (16) est réalisé sous forme de boulon (43) monté dans deux guidages (41, 46) et guidé dans un trou oblong (42), réalisé en tant que premier guidage (41), ménagé dans le levier (10), et dans un deuxième guidage (46) stationnaire.
  9. Mécanisme de levage selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que le deuxième guidage (46) est à peu près parallèle à un axe longitudinal du ressort (44).
  10. Mécanisme de levage selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le deuxième levier (10) comprend une tête (61) en forme de came, sur la face frontale (62) de laquelle défile un moyen de liaison (64), à l'autre extrémité (67) duquel est fixé un ressort (69).
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