ES1058524U - Water conditioner for coffee and the like. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Water conditioner for coffee makers and the like, of the type incorporating permanent magnets capable of generating a magnetic field for decalcification of the water passing through it, characterized in that it is constituted by a housing in which a pvc bushing participates and a pair of end plugs endowed in their bases with circular and centered holes, wherein a semiflexible plastic tube acting as a conduit for the passage of the water to be treated and a physical support for a block of permanent magnets is established inside said casing. Annular configuration, provided with an axial hole dimensionally adequate to allow passage through said flexible plastic tube, which emerges to the outside of the housing, at its ends, through the holes of the plugs of the latter, and receives two plastic couplings, press fittings to the ends of the tube and trained to receive, i also by coupling coupling, to the two sections of the water pipe in which the device is interleaved. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Water conditioner for coffee makers and Similar.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a device  water conditioner, which has been specially designed for coffee makers, but which is equally applicable to other types of appliances, such as washing machines, dishwashers and in general any type of device that consumes sanitary water from the network.

The object of the invention is to achieve the decalcification of water, in order to avoid the deposition of calcium in the mechanisms of the coffee maker or item in question that come into contact with water, and more specifically get a device that, with a high level of performance, presents a extremely simple structuring, with the consequent cheaper of costs derived from it.

Background of the invention

The effect that a magnetic field generates on the water, producing the "softening" of it, is known from time immemorial, since said magnetic field acts on the molecular structure of water, drastically reducing the lime deposition effect on those surfaces that are find in contact with it.

There are different mechanisms capable of creating a magnetic field over a stream of water, but all of them present as a common denominator a high complexity structural, with the participation of a considerable number of specific pieces, which must be made for this purpose, as well as also a remarkable operational complexity when assembling such devices in the water pipeline.

So much so that in the field of coffee makers, to that the invention is primarily intended, they are not used until the date water conditioning devices, so that this penetrates the coffee maker directly from the network, without any treatment, causing lime depositions in the different machine conduits, the higher the degree of water hardness, stools that gradually clog said pipes, altering the correct functioning of the machine and ending up rendering it useless.

Description of the invention

The water conditioner that the invention proposes to solve the problem fully satisfactorily previously exposed, constituting an element of great structural simplicity, which can be manufactured with pieces of market, which determines a remarkable cost reduction for the same, without compromising perfect functionality like previously said.

To do this and more specifically the conditioner is constituted from a housing materialized in a standardized PVC cap, which is closed by its ends by means of two also standardized caps, of which it is only necessary to practice a circular hole centered on its base.

The aforementioned housing houses inside a block of permanent magnets, which are mounted coaxial and conveniently positioned on a short plastic tube flexible, also of market, of diameter according to the holes of the magnets for a certain stabilization of the themselves on said tube, which receives two ends at its ends fittings, also of plastic and of market, that are coupled tongue and groove tightly to the aforementioned ends of the tube and that, together with the latter, they cross the holes of the plugs, so that between both fittings continuity is established hydraulic, while these fittings allow the same quick and easy coupling of the two driving sections between which the conditioner is inserted.

It only remains to note that, given that magnets must have a certain polarity to meet the classic function for what they have been planned, so that the South pole of the block is oriented towards the water inlet and the North pole towards the exit, on the bushing that participates in the housing will be set an arrow indicating the correct mounting of the device in the corresponding conduction.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as an integral part of said description, a set of drawings where with character Illustrative and not limiting, the following has been represented:

Figure 1.- Shows, according to a view in perspective, a water conditioner for coffee makers and the like, performed in accordance with the object of the present invention.

Figure 2.- Shows an exploded perspective. of the same conditioner.

Figure 3.- Shows, finally, a view in side elevation and in diametral section of the conditioner of the Figure 1.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined you can be seen as the water conditioner for coffee makers that the proposed invention is constituted from a housing in the that participates a cap (1), of PVC, of adequate size to the operating capacity of the conditioner, cap that closes by its ends by means of two plugs (2-2 ') snap-on to the mouth openings (1), and optionally attachable by an appropriate adhesive, counting each of these plugs with a hole (3) centered on its base, for passage of an inner tube (4), of semi-flexible plastic, which on the one hand acts as a conduit for the passage of water and on the other as physical support for a block of permanent magnets (5), of annular configuration, provided with a hole (6) of size suitable to allow coupling to said tube (4).

This tube (4) emerges from its ends to the outside of the housing (1-2), through the aforementioned holes (3), and outside it receives two fittings (7-7 '), which on the one hand are trained to tightly fit to the corresponding ends of the tube (4), and that on the other are in turn trained to receive the ends of the two sections of the water pipe between which if the conditioner is inserted, not shown in the drawings.

This way you get a conditioner in the one that all the integral pieces of the same are pieces of market, used to date for other purposes, resulting easy assembly by means of a simple tongue and groove coupling between them, according to the configuration described, and that once it is easily implantable in the conduction of water to try, without further guidance to the south pole of the magnet block is placed at the entrance of the device and the block north at the exit, which is not a problem at all exist on the bushing (1) an arrow (8) indicating the correct position.

Claims (2)

1. Water conditioner for coffee makers and similar, of the type that incorporate permanent magnets capable of generating a magnetic field for descaling the water that passes through it, characterized in that it is constituted by a housing in which a PVC bushing participates and a pair of end plugs provided in their bases with two circular and centered holes, a semi-flexible plastic tube being established inside said housing as a conduit for the passage of the water to be treated and physical support for a block of permanent magnets of annular configuration, provided with a dimensionally suitable axial hole to allow passage through said flexible plastic tube, which emerges outside the housing, at its ends, through the holes of the latter plugs, and receives two plastic fittings, snap-in to the ends of the tube and trained to receive, also med By pressure coupling, to the two sections of the water line in which the device is inserted. 2. Water conditioner for coffee makers and the like, according to claim 1, characterized in that the casing participating in the housing incorporates an arrowhead or other similar signaling determining the position of the conditioner according to the direction of water circulation in the conduction in which it must be established.