GB329352A - Improvements in or relating to dish and like washing machines - Google Patents

Abstract

329,352. Coverley, O. R., and Rendle, V. Nov. 16, 1928. Plates, dishes, and the like, washing.-In apparatus for washing dishes and like articles, of the kind comprising a receptacle 1 adapted to contain a rotatable dish-holding bracket 2 which is rotated by jets of liquid forced by a pump through pipes 3, 4 and caused to impinge on the dishes, two tanks 8, 9 are provided which are capable of swinging or pivoting around the axis of a vertically-disposed plug cock, the plug 13 of which is held stationary while the body 12 rotates with the tanks, the plug and body being provided with co-operating passages so that by angular adjustment of the tanks liquid may be withdrawn from either tank as desired and circulated through the apparatus. The body 12 is provided with passages 14, 15 which at their outer ends communicate with the interior of the tanks, and at their inner ends open out into the seating for the plug 13. A partition 18 divides the plug into two parts, the upper part 19 being formed with ports 22, 23 and communicating with the pipe 7 supplying liquid to the receptacle 1. The lower part 20 is formed with a port 24 and communicates with an outlet 21. By angular movement of the tanks about the plug 13, either tank may be put into communication with the receptacle 1 or may be emptied of liquid. The pump comprises a rotary impeller 26 adapted to draw liquid from the portion 19 of the plug and force it through a lateral passage 30 leading to the pipe 7. The pump is driven by an electric motor 28. A rotatable sleeve may be interposed between the plug 13 and the body 12, the sleeve having ports corresponding to those of the body 12 and being adapted to cut off communication between the tanks and the pump, so that heated air may be supplied to the pipes 3, 4, by way of a suitable valve.