Classifications

• • 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 
  • D06F39/08—Liquid supply or discharge arrangements
  • D06F39/083—Liquid discharge or recirculation arrangements

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• the present invention relates to a household appliance, in particular a washing machine or a washer-dryer for laundry or dishes.
• a washing machine to improve the washing effect, it must be ensured that the detergent can be completely dissolved in the wash liquor and used for cleaning.
• the detergent when draining the laundry (spinning), make sure that the lye can be removed unhindered from the washing machine's tub.
• a closure is usually provided. This closure is usually carried out by a flap or by a ball. The flap or the ball is pressed by the static buoyancy of the tub or the labbalg and thus prevents leakage of the detergent.
• a washing machine or a tumble dryer with an automatic detergent-adding device and a drain pump which drops the wash liquor via a drain hose and with a device for avoiding detergent losses is known.
• a buoyancy body is provided in the sequence of the machine, which is pressed after switching off the drain pump from the water flowing back from a water reservoir in a sealing arrangement on Laugen hereerablauf, and thus closes the flow of the tub.
• Dehumidify the laundry are a hindrance, which in turn can lead to problems during removal or when pumping out the liquor. It is the object of the present invention to ensure an improvement in the washing effect, so that on the one hand detergent completely dissolved in the wash liquor and can be used for cleaning and on the other hand in the drainage of the To ensure that the lye can be removed from the tub without hindrance.
• the object is achieved by means of a household appliance with a
• Lye container and a tub outlet with a flow channel
• Laugen perpenger has a closure which is movable between a closed position to close the tub container outlet to the tub, and an opening position to allow a discharge of a liquor from the tub, is formed, the tub outlet a
• Transfer bypass device in the open position, and at least partially release the flow channel of the tub outlet. This ensures, on the one hand, that the detergent can be completely dissolved in the wash liquor and used for cleaning by placing the closure in the closed position in order to close the tub outlet from the tub. On the other hand, by the transfer of the closure in the
• Opening position not only a simple opening of the closure can be realized, but by the flow through the bypass, the closure is additionally removed from the flow channel of the tub outlet. Thus, an unobstructed flow of the discharged liquor from the tub of the
• Household appliance allows.
• the particular advantage lies in the fact that the two technical effects in no way hinder each other.
• the domestic appliance has a control which is designed to effect the flow through the bypass device. This allows, for example, that both the discharge of a liquor from the tub and the flow through the bypass device can be realized with one and the same pump. This reduces the effort in the production of the household appliance and the repair vulnerability.
• the control can be realized for example by an electric directional control valve or a liquid-operated pressure actuation, and it would also be conceivable to use an outgoing electric field from the drive for switching the directional control valve.
• the household appliance has a pump in order to remove a liquor liquid from the tub. The discharge of a
• Lye liquid from the tub does not necessarily have to be done by means of a pump. Likewise, it would be conceivable to dissipate the liquor with the aid of gravity or other means.
• the bypass device for lye liquid from the tub is formed permeable.
• liquor from the tub can be used directly to flow through the bypass, thus to transfer the closure in the open position, or in the parking position, and thus release the flow channel of the tub outlet.
• the tub outlet has a first guide means to guide the closure during transfer to the open position and at least partially release the flow channel of the tub outlet.
• first guide means to guide the closure during transfer to the open position and at least partially release the flow channel of the tub outlet.
• Guide means guide ribs, which in the flow channel of
• the closure is designed as a buoyant body.
• the buoyant body may for example consist of a foamed material.
• the foamed material may only have a lower specific weight.
• its absorbency must also be very low.
• the buoyant body may also consist of two half-shells exist, which can be made for example of a thermoplastic.
• Buoyancy it is also important that the reservoir is located as high as possible within the household appliance and after stopping the pump, the forming water column remains as high as possible, so that the buoyant body through standing in the reservoir liquor with the highest possible force in the closing position to close the tub outlet from the tub, is arranged.
• the tub outlet has a sealant.
• the sealing means is preferably adapted in its shape and design to the shape of the closure.
• the tub outlet has a second one
• Guide means to guide the closure to the sealant.
• the second guide means is cylindrical or conical.
• the tub outlet with the sealing means and / or the second guide means is formed as a one-piece rubber element. This additionally reduces both the manufacturing costs and the assembly costs in the manufacture of the household appliance.
• the formation of the tub outlet of the sealant and the second guide means as a one-piece rubber element, in the case of repairs or signs of wear as an entire component with little effort
• the object is achieved by means of a method for operating a household appliance with the steps of generating a flow through the bypass device, transferring the closure of the
• liquor from the tub can be used directly to flow through the bypass, thus to transfer the closure in the open position, or in the parking position, and thus release the flow channel of the tub outlet.
• a flow through the bypass device is generated and the removal of a liquor liquid from the tub with a pump. This reduces the effort in the production of the household appliance and the repair vulnerability in addition. In other words, both that
• Conveying a liquor from the tub and the flow through the bypass device can be realized with a single pump.
• Fig. 1 is a schematic representation of a household appliance with a
• Fig. 3 is a schematic representation of a tub outlet in a
• Fig. 6 is a schematic representation of guide means in one
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a household appliance 100 with a tub 101 and a tub outlet 103. Below the
• Lye container 101 and the Laugen inventories 103 is a pump 107 to request lye liquid from the tub 101 via the tub outlet 103 from the household appliance 100. Additionally located in the home appliance 100, a reservoir 1 15, which is designed as a storage for discharged liquor liquid, and an outlet 1 17 to discard liquor from the household appliance 100 in a sewer network.
• FIG. 2 shows a schematic representation of a liquor container outlet 103, wherein an opening bordered by a sealant 17 is located at an upper end of the liquor container outlet 103.
• the tub outlet 103 is presently designed as a bellows. When the tub outlet 103 with a closure (not shown) is in a closed position, the opening bounded by the sealant 17 is at the upper end of the tub outlet 103 opposite the tub 101 (not shown) located at an upper end of the tub
• Laugen requirederablaufs 103 connects closed. However, if the closure (not shown) is in an open position, the opening bounded by the sealing means 17 is opened and lye liquid can be removed from the tub 101.
• FIG. 3 shows a schematic representation of a liquor container outlet 103 in a cross-sectional view. At an upper end is the sealant 1 17 and adjacent thereto is the second guide means 1 12 to the closure
• FIG. 4 shows a further schematic illustration of a liquor container outlet 103.
• the flow channel 1 13 which extends through the liquor container outlet 103, begins
• a bypass device 109 is located parallel to a middle section of the tub drain 103. Both the flow through the tub drain 103 and the flow through the bypass device 109 are effected by a pump (not shown).
• FIG. 5 shows a still further schematic representation of a
• FIG. 6 shows a schematic representation of a first guide means 1 1 1 in a tub outlet 103.
• a second guide means 1 17 At the upper portion of the Laugenbehalterablaufs 103 is the sealing means 1 17, which limits the flow channel 1 13 in the radial direction.
• a second guide means 1 17 Below the sealant 1 17 is a second
• Guide means 1 1 which are designed as guide ribs, which in the
• the number of guide ribs arranged in FIG. 6 is three.
• the first guide means may also consist of one, two or a plurality of guide ribs, as long as the first guide means serves the purpose, the closure or the buoyancy body (not shown) in forming a suction, by flowing through the bypass device 109, in a precise opening position or Park position to bring and the flow channel 1 13 thereby at least partially release.
• FIG. 7 shows a schematic representation of the operation of the first guide means 1 1 1 in a tub outlet 103 (not shown).
• FS bypass device 109 suction
• the closure or the buoyancy body 105 is exposed to a resultant force.
• the resulting movement of the closure or the buoyant body 105 is indicated in Figure 7 by the directional arrow (V).
• FIG. 8 shows a further schematic representation of the operation of the first guide means 1 1 1 in a tub outlet 103 (not shown).
• FIGS. 9 and 10 each show a schematic representation of a first and a second circuit state of the domestic appliance 100.
• FIG. 9 shows the circuit state which is first taken from the tub 101 during a flow (A).
• the shutter 105 (buoyancy body, e.g., eco-ball) is in the closed position (B1).
• the main flow or the flow (E) of the flow channel 1 13 is initially blocked.
• the secondary flow (D) or the flow through the bypass device 109 is ensured.
• Circuit state is primarily a suction in the tub outlet 103 caused by the flow (D) of the bypass device 109.
• the shutter 105 buoyancy body, e.g., Eco-Ball
• the flow (D) of the bypass device 109 is in this case effected by a suction effect (C) of the driven by a drive 121, pump 107.
• Circuit states can be realized with a control element 19 which comprises, for example, an electrically actuated valve. It is essential, however, that the control element 1 19 in the first circuit state, which is shown in FIG. 9, blocks the main flow (E) or the flow through the flow channel 1 13 and allows the secondary flow (D) or the flow through the bypass device 109.
• the shutter 105 buoyancy body, for example, Eco-Ball

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