Classifications

• • 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
  • A47L15/14—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware with stationary crockery baskets and spraying devices within the cleaning chamber
  • A47L15/16—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware with stationary crockery baskets and spraying devices within the cleaning chamber with rigidly-mounted spraying devices
• • 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
  • A47L15/24—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware with movement of the crockery baskets by conveyors
  • A47L15/241—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware with movement of the crockery baskets by conveyors the dishes moving in a horizontal plane
  • A47L15/245—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware with movement of the crockery baskets by conveyors the dishes moving in a horizontal plane the dishes being placed directly on the conveyors, i.e. not in dish racks
• • 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
  • A47L15/24—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware with movement of the crockery baskets by conveyors
  • A47L15/247—Details specific to conveyor-type machines, e.g. curtains
• • 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
  • A47L15/24—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware with movement of the crockery baskets by conveyors
  • A47L15/241—Washing or rinsing machines for crockery or tableware with movement of the crockery baskets by conveyors the dishes moving in a horizontal plane

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method and a device for introducing a fluid into a cleaning machine, in particular a continuous dishwashing machine for cleaning items such as dishes, cutlery or the like.
• a continuous-flow dishwasher comprises at least one washing zone, a final-rinse zone, wherein the items to be cleaned are cleaned in the washing zone and stored in the washing zone
• Rinse zone is rinsed clear.
• Transport devices are provided with which the items to be cleaned are transported in the conveying direction with the process steps of optimum transport speed taking place in the respective zones.
• the continuous-flow dishwasher known from DE 102004049 392 A1 comprises an inlet region, at least one washing zone, at least one final-rinse zone and a drying zone. Furthermore, the continuous dishwasher comprises a discharge area, wherein seen in the conveying direction of the item to be cleaned, a plurality of transport devices are arranged.
• the transport devices each individual drives are assigned, which are operated by a controller with transport speeds, which are adapted to the running in process zones processes to achieve optimal exposure times.
• the continuous-flow dishwasher known from this document comprises a transport device for items to be washed by a plurality of treatment zones, through which the items to be washed are transported in the transport direction.
• at least one of provided in the treatment zones spray systems relative to the transport direction of the Washware movable.
• these are rinse-aid systems for applying fresh water to the cleaned items to be washed.
• a fluid in particular a final rinse liquid
• a spray device to the cleaned items to be washed.
• a reduction in the amount of fresh water rinsing required per item of items to be washed can in principle be achieved by applying the final rinse liquid to the rinse aid liquid for a shorter period of time than the time interval predetermined by the speed of the transport direction, and a rinsing volume flow is only realized if items to be washed are actually in the area in which rinse aid is applied to the cleaned items to be washed.
• the present invention has the object, in cleaning machines, especially dishwashers, to reduce the amount of final rinse fluid required and / or to improve the effect of a fresh water rinse.
• this object is achieved in that results in increased compared to conventional rinse fluid with unchanged effective transport speed of the material to be cleaned by the cleaning machine, in particular a continuous dishwasher, an increase in the sprayed on the dishes volume flow of rinse aid and a device for spraying the rinse aid having multiple spray body.
• the spray body of the device for applying a fluid to the cleaned material preferably comprises a predetermined spaced apart along the transport direction mounted tubular spray body.
• the spray bodies can either be in an im Essentially horizontally extending plane can be arranged one behind the other.
• the plane which is bounded by the two outer, preferably tubular spray body is inclined or tilted with respect to the transfer direction of the items to be cleaned by the cleaning machine.
• a plurality of tubular spray bodies can be arranged offset from one another in their spacing in the vertical direction within the apparatus, so that a substantially zigzag-shaped arrangement of tubular spray bodies results from the side.
• a quantity of rinse aid fluid necessary for rinsing a certain amount of clearing material can, according to the solution proposed according to the invention, be introduced simultaneously either via all individual tubular spray bodies.
• Treatment zones of a continuous dishwasher running entry of clear rinse fluid results, so that the application direction of the fluid from the preferably tubular spray bodies of the inventively proposed device runs in opposite directions to the transport direction of the cleaned material through the continuous dishwasher.
• the tubular spray bodies of the device proposed according to the invention for introducing a rinse aid fluid are preferably applied alternately.
• the timing of a spray cycle is limited and regulated in addition to other parameters depending on the transport speed, so that at a corresponding
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of the spray device proposed according to the invention with a plurality of tube-shaped spray bodies arranged in one plane
• FIG. 1.1 shows the spray device proposed according to the invention with a zigzag-shaped arrangement of tubular spray bodies
• FIG. 2 is an exemplary diagram for loading the spray device shown in FIGS. 1 and 1.1 and FIG. 2
• inventively proposed spray device comprising arranged in a substantially horizontally extending plane spray body which are spaced apart, z. B. entered a rinse aid in a rinse zone of a cleaning machine. Instead of a rinse fluid such. B. Rinse-aid liquid can also be applied to the cleaning product cleaned in preceding cleaning zones of the continuous-flow dishwasher within a clear rinse zone of the pump. Furthermore, the inventively proposed device for applying a fluid to cleaning material such. B. items to be used in cleaning zones of a cleaning machine, in particular a continuous dishwasher.
• a final rinse liquid comprises at least two spaced-apart, preferably rohrfömig formed spray body. These can be arranged both in two substantially horizontally extending planes and lie only in one plane, as will be described in more detail below.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of the arrangement of the device proposed according to the invention for applying a final-rinse fluid within a cleaning machine, in particular a continuous-flow dishwasher.
• FIG. 1 shows a conveying device 10, which is indicated only schematically, which is preferably designed as a circulating conveyor belt and which is arranged in the conveying direction 12 by a cleaning machine, not shown in FIG. 1
• Passage dishwasher extends.
• the conveyor 10 runs around a first deflection 18 and a second deflection 20, of which one is driven.
• the conveyor 10 is preferably formed endless.
• the conveyor 10, which moves in the conveying direction 12, comprises a number of compartments 14 for receiving items to be washed 16, which is indicated only schematically in the illustration according to FIG.
• a fan 14 having endless trained conveyor 10 it is also possible to place the items to be washed 16 or to be cleaned in baskets that are simply placed on the top of a preferably endlessly designed conveyor and transported in this way by the cleaning machine.
• the solution proposed according to the invention is also applicable to such cleaning machines, in particular continuous dishwashers, in which dishes 16 or baskets to be cleaned by means of a Pawl transporter or the like are transported continuously or discontinuously in the conveying direction 12 through the various treatment zones of the cleaning machine.
• the items to be washed 16 is tilted by a tilt angle 44 added.
• the beginning of trays 14 loaded with items to be washed 16, which are transported in the conveying direction 12 on the preferably endless conveyor 10, is characterized by a start of batch 50 (see FIG. A), the end of the area of trays 14 occupied by items 16 on the shelf preferably endless conveyor 10 is denoted by reference numeral 52, ie a Batch B indicated.
• the preferably endlessly designed conveyor 10 moves in the conveying direction 12 through the cleaning machine, in which in a first spray level 22 and in a second spray level 24, each spray body 26.1, 26.2 to 26 n are added.
• the spray bodies 26.1, 26.2... 26 n received in each of the two spray levels 22, 24 are preferably tubular and extend perpendicular to the drawing plane in the automatic cleaning machine, which is preferably a continuous-flow dishwasher.
• a fluid such. B. rinse fluid 32 from spray openings 30 and 48, respectively.
• the spray openings 30 and 48 are formed on the circumference of the preferably tubular spray body 26.1, 26.2 ... 26. n as for example as bores, such. executed as laser bores.
• a curtain of rinse fluid 32 on the z. B. cleared dishwashing items 16 are applied, which is transported in the conveying direction 12 by the cleaning machine.
• the rinse aid 32 from the spray openings 30 and 48 of the preferably tubular spray body 26.1, 26.2 ... 26.4 exits, is limited by sprays of rinse fluid 32, which extend at an exit angle 34.
• Reference numeral 36 marks the extent of the respective spray levels 22 and 24 in the horizontal direction parallel to the conveying direction 12 of the conveyor 10th
• FIG. 1 schematic representation of the inventively proposed spray device shows that the individual, preferably tubular spray bodies 26.1, 26.2, ... 26.n are arranged in a division 46, i. have a distance to each other.
• the first and the second spray levels 22 and 24 according to the schematic illustration in FIG. 1 run parallel to the conveying direction 12 of the preferably endlessly designed conveying device 10.
• the spray bodies 26.1, 26.2, ... 26 n in the spray levels 22 and 24 in a tilt / tilt angle 38 to order, for example, to take into account specific space conditions within a cleaning machine.
• FIG. 1.1 an alternative embodiment of the device proposed according to the invention for applying a fluid to cleaning or washing items is shown.
• tubular spray bodies 26. 1, 26. 2,... 26 n are arranged offset in alternation with one another.
• preferably tubular spray bodies 26. 1, 26. 2. 26. N are arranged in the first spray level 22, which is located above the conveyor 10, and arranged in a second spray level 24, which extends below the conveyor 10, which is preferably designed as an endless conveyor belt recorded.
• the reference numeral 54 is a
• a rinse fluid 32 which is the surface of z. B. Klarschwülendem wash ware 16, which has a rinse zone of a cleaning machine such. passes through a continuous dishwasher.
• FIG. 2 shows an example of an application scheme with which the individual, preferably tubular, spray bodies are subjected to a rinse aid fluid, by way of example, which is e.g. for rinsing the items to be washed 16 is used.
• FIG. 2 shows that, for preferably tubular spray bodies 26. 1, 26. 2, 26. 3,..., 26 n arranged in a first spray level 22 and / or a second spray level 24, as shown in FIGS are over the time axis wetting phases and wetting pauses facing each other.
• FIG. 2 shows, in particular, that with respect to the first, preferably tubular spray body 26.1, a start of spraying 60 takes place when the start of batch 50 is shown in FIG. 1 at position X A , cf.
• Extension 36 horizontally extending arrangement of spray bodies 26.1, 26.2, ... 26. n is retracted.
• the rinsing fluid 32 required for example, for rinsing a certain amount of wash ware 16, starting from the farthest in the transport direction 12, is required
• Spray body ie the first spray body 26.1 applied against the conveying direction 12.
• a spray pause 68 takes place on the first preferably tubular spray body 26.1, which is indicated by reference numeral 68 in FIG.
• tubular spray body 26.1 joins a second wetting phase 66, also on the second Sprühkö ⁇ er 26.2 and so on.
• the z. B. corresponds to the duration of a first wetting phase 64
• a spray start 70 on the second, preferably tubular spray body 26.2 there is a spray start 70 on the second, preferably tubular spray body 26.2.
• the spray start 70 on the second, preferably tubular spray body 26.2 coincides with the spray end 62 of the first, likewise preferably tubular, spray body 26.1 in time.
• the duration of the first wetting phase 74 on the second, preferably tubular spray body 26.2 corresponds to the duration of the first wetting phase 64.
• a spray end 72 takes place, to which a spray break 78 connects before a second wetting phase 76 of the second, preferably tubular spray body 26.2 begins.
• a spray end 72 takes place, to which a spray break 78 connects before a second wetting phase 76 of the second, preferably tubular spray body 26.2 begins.
• fluid 32 such as rinse fluid
• fluid 32 such as rinse fluid
• the inventively proposed devices for applying a fluid 32 to items to be washed or another item to be cleaned 16, which is conveyed continuously or discontinuously by a cleaning machine can also be formed in the zigzag arrangement 56 shown in FIG. Be the individual, preferably tubular formed spray bodies 26.1, 26.2, 26.3,... 26. n with a vertical spacing 54 offset from one another in at least one scavenging stage 24, 25, this results in different spray heights or drop heights for the final rinse fluid 32 or another, to be cleaned or cleared dishwashing dishes 16 applied fluid.
• Spray break 70 Start of spray 2.
• Spray break 80 Start of spray 3.
• Spray break 90 Start of spray 4.

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