WO1989010444A1 - Reservoir doseur - Google Patents

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WO1989010444A1
WO1989010444A1 PCT/EP1989/000142 EP8900142W WO8910444A1 WO 1989010444 A1 WO1989010444 A1 WO 1989010444A1 EP 8900142 W EP8900142 W EP 8900142W WO 8910444 A1 WO8910444 A1 WO 8910444A1
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dosing
dosing reservoir
reservoir according
closure body
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Theo Janschuk
Jörn Jobs
Michael Bergmann
Rudolf Weber
Siegfried Konkel
Werner Künzel
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Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft Auf Aktien
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F39/00—Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00 
    • D06F39/02—Devices for adding soap or other washing agents
    • D06F39/024—Devices for adding soap or other washing agents mounted on the agitator or the rotating drum; Free body dispensers

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  • the invention relates to a metering memory for receiving delivery of a laundry treatment liquid in a washing machine according to the features of the preamble of claim 1.
  • Dosing storage for receiving and dispensing a laundry treatment liquid have become known in various configurations. From US-T 993 001 is, for example
  • Dosing memory known which is filled with a laundry treatment liquid is put into a washing machine.
  • the dosing memory is initially closed.
  • the spin cycle it opens due to a weight attached to the closure part.
  • the centrifugal force overcomes the locking force of the lid.
  • a metering memory which works on the same principle, is also known from US Pat. No. 3,888,391.
  • a Dosiersp is rather known, which besi zt closable openings.
  • the laundry treatment liquid can escape immediately at the start of a washing machine cycle or the like.
  • D is fundamentally regarded as advantageous, this known metering storage device has disadvantages in handling, in particular with regard to filling.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a metering reservoir which is advantageously designed for use and is of simple construction.
  • the dispenser in question is about water, which is added to the laundry in a dryer for moistening in order to set a suitable ironing moisture.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a metering reservoir which is designed to be advantageous in use and is as simple as possible.
  • the dosing store according to the invention is initially closed, but opens immediately at the beginning of a laundry in a washing machine. It has an apparent closure, which is formed by a liquid-carrying body which, when the metering reservoir is full, rests with the outlet opening provided with an adapted seal.
  • the closure body is also a cage in the interior of the metering. The cage tapers towards the outlet opening.
  • the lock body is located, for example, a floating ball, on the bottom of the dosing tank.
  • the ball rises with the liquid level of the laundry treatment liquid in the cage. Due to the dome-like taper, the floating closure body is led to the exit opening.
  • the cage is funnel-shaped, in a quasi-reverse orientation.
  • the neck area In the filling position of the Dpsier reservoir, i.e. in a normal, vertical position, the neck area is at the top and the door opens downwards.
  • the neck area is assigned in accordance with the outlet opening.
  • the neck area has a diameter slightly exceeding the diameter of the closure body, or at most this diameter which is the same.
  • the sealing ring is slidably arranged in the neck area
  • Laundry handling liquid in the dosing memory is varied, for example, between a 120 ml dosage and a ml dosage. It is also preferred that the sealing ring is manufactured in the position which is assigned to the larger metering volume, ie approximately the 180 ml volume. The dosing ring n can then be moved by the user into the position corresponding to the smaller dosing volume, it being expedient that the user does not make any further movement is possible.
  • the alternative to a sealing ring arranged displaceably in the area of the cage is provided, that the cage is arranged in the interior of the metering accumulator as a whole, and that the neck area with a sealing ring formed therein - fixed relative to the neck area - telescopically with a butt against the outlet opening Interacting guide socket.
  • the mobility of the cage as a whole to change the metered quantity enables a greater change in the metered quantity with a smaller displacement path.
  • the cage as is also regarded as a special configuration, is designed to be closed, while, in the case of the displaceability of only the sealing ring, as described above, the cage can also be perforated in its funnel-shaped area.
  • the metering reservoir With regard to the external design of the metering reservoir, it can be provided that it forms an approximately pear-like contour. In combination with the tric-shaped, downwardly open cage, this results in a relatively small volume between the cage wall and the water of the dosing tank.
  • the dosing spoke can also be egg-shaped in its contour, which in combination with the described cage results in a larger volume between the outer cage wall and the inner wall of the dosing store.
  • the metering reservoir has flattened areas in all of the lower areas that serve as standing surfaces. Inside the dosing reservoir, the cage preferably runs into the dosing reservoir wall in its lower extension area above the dosing reservoir bottom. This is preferred in the area of the largest diameter of the metering reservoir, so that the cage is (also) held in a form-fitting manner in this area.
  • the hollow body-shaped metering reservoir has a neat therein, with outlet openings on its outer circumference and a closure body that reduces the filler opening cross-sectional area when the metering reservoir is full.
  • the lock body is preferably a buoyancy body.
  • the outlet openings in the closure body are at least partially connected to one another and to the interior of the container.
  • the dosing reservoir can easily be filled with detergent.
  • the filler opening cross-sectional area is sufficiently reduced when the dosing reservoir is filled by floating on the liquid detergent at the opening to the sealing body for use of the dosing reservoir in a washing machine, and after introduction into the washing machine, the liquid detergent can emerge evenly and in a metered manner through the outlet openings during the washing process .
  • the container space wall surface which defines the fill opening and / or the fill opening for receiving the closure body or friction body is adapted to its spatial shape, in particular adapted to its surface geometry. This configuration ensures that the closure body is tight can put on the opening.
  • the buoyancy body when the dosing reservoir is filled, preferably projects in some areas into the filling and this essentially closes the inner surface of the container space.
  • the invention further provides in a preferred embodiment that the container interior wall surface, starting from the inside E of the opening, runs in the form of a spherical layer, ie spherically, onto a cylindrical container wall area the buoyancy body is designed as a ball with a surface corresponding to this area of the inner wall of the container.
  • the buoyancy body as a hollow body with a central hollow space and outlet openings connected to it gene is formed. Furthermore, in order to ensure a connection between the interior of the container and the filling opening at all times, the outlet openings are evenly distributed on the surface of the buoyancy body. For a uniform floating of the buoyancy body, it is advantageous that the cross-sectional area of the buoyancy body is slightly smaller than the free cross-sectional area available within the container for buoyancy of the float body. In far
  • the invention provides that the Auftrie body made of material of lower density than the liquid detergent, in particular polystyrene or cork.
  • the fill volume of the container is variable ses, for which according to a further embodiment before • j c geous enough, the two fill volume limiting Be Strukturn parts are latchable formed displaceably to each other. It is useful here that a container part is essentially cylindrical and a container part is cup-shaped. For setting a desired filling volume
  • the invention further provides that the container has markings on the outside to indicate the filling volume.
  • the container has markings on the outside to indicate the filling volume.
  • the container made of flexible, deformable material, especially plastic, which springs back to its original shape when external forces are removed.
  • the container 30 has a thread or locking means in the head region.
  • a thread or locking means the container can be connected to a bottle containing the liquid detergent and thus simultaneously act as a closure cap and metering device.
  • the device according to the invention is easy to handle and easy to use
  • the dosing container is designed in two parts, and the closure body, designed as a buoyancy body, projects above the upper edge of the dosing reservoir when filled, whereby it is guided in a cage projecting vertically into the interior of the dosing reservoir.
  • the buoyancy body After filling the dosing reservoir and fitting the upper housing part with the buoyancy body, the buoyancy body lifts upwards by immersing the cage in the laundry treatment liquid. After unscrewing the upper housing part, the buoyancy body is raised upwards by further immersing the cage in the laundry treatment liquid driven, it closes the opening of the dosing reservoir. In this closed state, the dosing reservoir can be inserted into the machine.
  • the buoyancy body is preferably cylindrical in its lower region and essentially egg-shaped in its upper region. In the filling state, the egg-shaped region protrudes beyond the upper edge of the metering reservoir. The laundry can then exert pressure on this area at the beginning of the washing process in order to press the buoyant body inwards i the metering reservoir and thus (partially) clear the outlet opening.
  • the closure body preferably has an extension which is approximately half the height Dosing memory corresponds. The diameter of the closure pers corresponds to at least half the diameter of the dosing reservoir.
  • Figure 1 shows a metering reservoir with a closed cage, i empty state, in cross section.
  • Fig. 3 arranged a metering with slidably
  • FIG. 4 the dosing memory according to FIG. 3 in a second dosing setting
  • FIG. 5 shows a metering reservoir with a perforated cage in a cross section and in an emptied state
  • FIG. 6 the metering reservoir according to FIG. 5 in the filled state
  • FIG. 7 shows the dosing reservoir according to FIG. 5 or FIG. 6 in the “ tilted position
  • Fig. 9 shows a dosing reservoir with an egg-shaped contour.
  • Figure 10 shows a metering reservoir with perforated floating gel, in cross section.
  • Fig. 11 shows a metering memory according to FIG. 10, with a special cage for the floating ball and
  • a metering reservoir 1 which has an inner cage or dome-like insert 2 and a closure body 3, which is preferably designed as a floating ball.
  • the cage 2 has a funnel-shaped area 4 and a neck area 5.
  • the funnel-like cage 2 is arranged with the opening of the expansion ches pointing downward in the metering accumulator 1.
  • the cage 2 tapers to the outlet opening 6 formed in the upper region of the metering accumulator 1.
  • the closure body 3 is thus carried by the liquid upwards towards the outlet opening 6 when the metering reservoir 1 is filled.
  • a sealing ring 7 is arranged, which can also be provided, for example, as a sealing bead formed in one piece with the neck region.
  • the sealing ring 7 is designed as a separate part and is displaceable in the neck region 5 of the cage. This is shown for example in Fig. 5 Darge. Due to the displaceability and a corresponding length of the neck area 5, the metered amount can be reduced to 2/3, for example.
  • the neck area 5 of the cage 2 is otherwise formed with a diameter slightly exceeding the diameter of the closure body 3, so that the closure body 3 can move freely in the neck area 5 when the metering reservoir 1 is filled, until it rests on the sealing ring 7.
  • the dosing reservoir shown in FIG. 1 is shown in the filling state. Since the cage is closed-walled and abuts at 8 close to the outer wall 9 of the metering accumulator 1, the filling lumen is limited by the cage volume 2 and the volume formed beneath the cage by the wall area 10 of the metering accumulator 1.
  • a cage 2 arranged displaceably overall in the metering reservoir 1 is shown.
  • the neck area 5 with a trained - stuck - sealing ring 7 is telescopically guided in egg guide socket 11, which is sen to the outlet opening 6.
  • the cage 2 can be locked by corresponding Ra projections on the inner wall of the metering memory 1 in the position according to FIG. 3 or FIG. 4 (exaggerated in the drawing for clarity)
  • the cheese 2 is perforated.
  • the embodiment according to FIG. 5 shows the metering accumulator with perforated cage 2 in the empty state. 6 the same in the filled state.
  • the representation according to FIG represents the dosage storage 1 filled with laundry treatment liquid during a wash treatment, in a position tilted by the barrel movement.
  • FIGS. 8 and 9 show different configurations with regard to the outer contour of the metering accumulator 1. While the outer contour of the metering accumulator 1 is approximately circular in the exemplary embodiments discussed above, the contour of the metering accumulator 1 according to FIG.
  • c chertem cage 2 for the detergent liquid is in any case to a large extent available.
  • the wall of the cage 2 runs in its lower extension area 0 above the metering storage base 12 into the metering storage wall.
  • the inlet point is located approximately in the area of the largest inner diameter of the metering reservoir 1, so that the cage 2 is positively held in the metering device 1.
  • the 5 metering stores 1 shown have a flattening 13 serving as a stand in their lower region.
  • FIG. 10 also shows a total of 1 hollow body-shaped metering reservoir designated 1.
  • the dosing reservoir 1 consists of a cylindrical container part 18 and a cup-shaped container part 19.
  • the cylindrical container part 18 has a single opening 6, which is bordered outside by spherical layer-shaped from the cylindrical side wall regions 15 to the container main surface 5 24 the spherical-layered container wall area an internal thread 21 is formed in a cylindrical extension 25 of the cylindrical wall regions 15.
  • a spherical buoyant body 3 Arranged in the hollow-shaped metering accumulator 1 is a spherical buoyant body 3, which has outlet openings 17 on its outer circumference which are distributed substantially uniformly over its outer surface.
  • the Austrittsöff openings 17 are with the central interior 16 of the hollow body designed as a hollow body 3 and thus ig with each other in connection.
  • the radii of the inner surface of the spherical layer-like container wall 14 and the surface geometry of the spherical buoyant body 3 are coordinated with one another in such a way that the buoyant body 3, when the metering reservoir 1 is full, preferably protrudes partially into the individual opening 6 and essentially closes it, fits closely to the inner surface of the container wall regions 14.
  • the radius D of the spherical buoyancy body is slightly smaller than the major knife d of the cylindrical container part 18, so that the
  • corresponding cross-sectional area of the buoyant body 3 is slightly smaller than the corresponding free cross-sectional area available within the metering reservoir 1 for the buoyancy of the buoyant body 3.
  • 25 drive body 3 made of polystyrene. However, it can also consist of cork or another material of lower density than the liquid detergent used.
  • container part 19 are designed such that they can be pushed into one another, which means that the filling volume of the doser store 1 can be changed. In the overlap area 26 between the container len 18 and 19, these can be locked in different relative positions by locking means.
  • the locking means
  • markings 20 are stamped on the outside of the cup-shaped container part to indicate the respectively set filling volume.
  • the metering memory 1 consists of a flexible, deformi ble, but in the event of external forces wi the spring back into its original shape plastic.
  • the metering reservoir 1 is filled with a liquid detergent through the fill opening 6 until the drive body 3 becomes visible in the fill opening 6 and thus indicates to the user that the filling process should be ended. In this position, the buoyancy body then lies closely against the filling opening and closes it in the main. Then the metering memory 1 is placed in the drum of a washing machine and the washing process is started. During the washing process, the liquid detergent then emerges from the metering memory 1 through the outlet openings 17, the washing machine. After completion of the washing process, the empty dosing reservoir 1 can then be screwed onto the bottle of liquid detergent with the screw thread 21 and thus take over the function of a closure cap.
  • the D described embodiment can be modified to the extent that the metering memory 1 does not necessarily consist of two mutually displaceable container parts 18 and 19, but consists of one or two container parts that only limit a defined filling volume.
  • the embarktrie body can be cylindrical, cuboid or the like.
  • the Auftriebskö is held by 3 in a cage 27 which has a lower inlet opening 28.
  • the cage 27 is molded onto the spherical shell-shaped wall regions 14, leaving a distance from the container part 18.
  • the container parts 18 and 19 are connected to one another by means of a thread 28.
  • E are different volumes, indicated with "A” and "B” adjustable.
  • the closure body 3 consists of a buoyancy body which is cylindrical in its lower region 29 and essentially egg-shaped in its upper region 30. In the filling position, which is shown in FIG. 12, the egg-shaped region 30 protrudes beyond the upper edge 31 of the metering reservoir 1.
  • the container part 18 is connected at 32 to the lower container part 19 by means of a thread.
  • the cage 27 i is molded onto the upper container part 18, near the outlet opening 6.
  • the closure body 3 has an extent which corresponds to approximately half the height of the metering reservoir 1, 5 .
  • the diameter of the closure body 3 corresponds to at least half of the diameter of the metering reservoir 1.
  • the volume 35 formed between the container wall 33 and the outer wall section 34, even in the filling state, detergent-free volume 35 results in a certain floating

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Le réservoir doseur est destiné à la rétention et à la distribution de liquide de traitement du linge ou analogue. Le réservoir (1) est muni d'un obturateur apte à s'ouvrir pendant le traitement du linge. Un orifice de sortie (6) du réservoir (1) peut être fermé par un élément d'obturation (3) porté par le liquide. Pour une utilisation avantageuse et une construction simple, l'invention propose que l'obturateur (3) soit enserré dans un élément (2) formé à l'intérieur du réservoir (1) vers l'orifice de sortie (6), qui prend la forme d'un dôme sur environ le diamètre de l'obturateur (3).
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US3285042A (en) * 1964-08-03 1966-11-15 Holleman Leendert Liquid bleach distributor for a washing machine
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