FR2542771A1 - SIPHON DEVICE TO BE ADAPTED TO THE SOAP RECEPTACLE OF WASHING MACHINES - Google Patents

Abstract

THE DEVICE ACCORDING TO THE INVENTION INCLUDES A RECEPTACLE 7 OPEN AT ITS ENDS, INCLUDING AT ITS UPPER END A HANGING MEANS 8 TO FACILITATE ITS POSITIONING AND PLACED WITH PRECISION IN THE OUTLET OPENING 4 OF THE WASHING WATER BECAUSE ITS LOWER OPEN END SHALL BE SUITABLE FOR EXIT OPENING 4. HEIGHT OF RECEPTACLE 7 CORRESPONDS TO THE LEVEL AT WHICH SOAP CONTAINER 1 IS MANUALLY FILLED WITH LIQUID DETERGENT. FURTHERMORE, THE DEVICE INCLUDES AN ELEMENTARY SIPHON HAVING A LEVEL APPROXIMATELY CORRESPONDING TO THAT DETERMINED BY THE UPPER EDGES OF RECEPTACLE 7 AND WHICH COMMUNICATES WITH THE LOWER OPEN END OF THIS, THE VERTICAL SIPHON 11 CONTAINING A TUBORABLE SIPHON AND A TUBING CONTAINER 12 ADJUSTS OVER THE DUCT, EXTENDING COAXIALLY WITH IT AND HELD IN COAXIAL POSITION BY A SERIES OF UPPER RADIAL RIBS 14 AND LONGITUDINAL RIBS 13 ON ITS INNER WALL. TO USE DETERGENTS IN LIQUID OR POWDER FORM.

Description

The present invention relates to a device intended to be adapted to the

  soap dish of a clothes washing machine, to facilitate the use of a detergent product in its liquid form as a replacement

  of its use in powder form.

  It is known that the use of liquid detergents in washing machines is becoming more and more widespread as a result of a number of operative and practical reasons, and this therefore requires the adaptation of the machine to this type of washing product. In existing models of clothes washing machines, soap receptacles or devices

  intended to contain and distribute the detergents do not allow the use

  irrespective of powdered or liquid detergents, and it is therefore

  It has been desirable to install, for the use of a washing detergent of the latter type, to the greatest extent possible, a siphon device.

  such as that which constitutes the object of the present invention.

  This siphon device in a clothes washing machine does not require any modification of the structure of the machine, as it only needs to be adapted to the soap container, simply by using the opening of the machine.

  outlet pipe that carries the mixed water with the detergent.

  The use of the described device ensures that the addition of the liquid detergent to the wash water takes place at a uniform speed and also ensures

  perfect dissolution of the detergent in the water.

  Other objects, features and advantages of the invention disclosed

  of the detailed description given below as an example

  limitingly with reference to the appended drawings in which

  FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a soap container of a

  washing machine which has been adapted a device according to the invention; Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the device itself, and Figure 3 is a perspective view of the new siphon device ready to be fitted to the soap dish of the washing machine.

clothes.

  Reference 1 denotes the body of the soap receptacle or the doser of the detergent product; the bottom 2 of the body 1 has an opening 3 to which

  the outlet end 4 of a flexible tube 5 is adapted, the body 1 presents

  both in its upper part 6 an inlet for the water so controlled

classic by a solenoid valve.

  The device forming the subject of the present invention comprises a receptacle 7, preferably of cylindrical shape, extending vertically up to an elevated section 8 and having the shape of a handle which facilitates its setting in position and its removal from its seat, the base 9 of the container cooperating closely with the end 4 of the water outlet tube 5.

  The device comprises a re-entrant section 10 as well as an extension

  11, which communicates with the open lower end 9 of the device. There is also provided a component 12 having the shape of a closed-end cylindrical cover covering the high extension.

  11 and based on it through a number of

  radial vests 14, and centered relative to the extension by a number of ribs 13 arranged vertically and symmetrically on the wall

internal lid.

  Figure 1 shows how the device whose function is

  It can be summarized as follows: when the washing water and liquid detergent are admitted through the upper opening 6, they reach a certain level in the soap receptacle which is determined by the height of the reentrant section 10, to enter The water then remains at a level slightly lower than the reentrant section 10 which, together with the tube 11 and the cover 12, forms a siphon in the receptacle 7 by the sides 8 and out of the outlet opening. elementary who, in accordance with

  principles known in physics, causes a suction effect on the

  a mixture of water and detergent in the soap dish 1 and the outlet of this mixture to the outlet, as indicated by the arrows on

  Figure 1, to leave the soap container virtually empty.

  It goes without saying that various modifications can be made to the embodiment which has been described and which is shown in the drawings without

  to get out of the scope of the invention.

Claims (2)

  1 siphon device adapted to be fitted on the receptacle   washing machines, essentially characterized by the fact that it   takes a receptacle (7), preferably cylindrical and open at its ends, having at its upper end a gripping means (8) to facilitate its positioning, placed precisely in the outlet opening (4) of the washing water because its open bottom end is of a shape adapted to that of the outlet opening (4), the height of the receptacle (7) corresponding to the level at which the soap receptacle (1) is filled by a manual operation of pouring a detergent product to the liquid state.   2 Device according to claim 1, characterized in that it   carries an elementary siphon with a level that corresponds approximately   to that determined by the upper edges of the receptacle (7) and which   with the open bottom end of the latter, the siphon com-   both a vertical tubular duct (11) and a component in the form of a cylindrical cover 12 fitted on the duct extending coaxially with   the latter and maintained in a coaxial position by a series of radial ribs   the upper ones (14) and longitudinal ribs (13) on its inner wall. pool.