Dispensing arrangement for a household appliance for the care of laundry items and household appliance for the care of laundry items

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9951460-B2
Application number	US-201214367769-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 18, 2012
Priority date	Dec 21, 2011
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

A dispensing arrangement for a household appliance for the care of laundry items includes a dispensing tray having an upper part connectable to a lower part. A water inlet flow device with a water-receiving depression is formed in the lower part and an outlet flow connection opening into the water receiving depression is formed on the lower part. The lower part has a partial channel of an extract ventilation channel, the partial channel opening into the outlet flow connection.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A dispensing arrangement for a household appliance for the care of laundry items, having a dispensing tray which has a lower part, wherein a water inlet flow device having a water-receiving depression is formed in the lower part, and an outflow connection opening into the water-receiving depression is formed on the lower part, the outflow connection including an end configured for direct connection to a line segment extending away from the dispensing tray, wherein the lower part has a partial channel, forming part of an extract ventilation channel by which process air received from the line segment is vented exterior to the dispensing tray, wherein the partial channel extends from the end of the outflow connection and is delimited by a wall which is also a delimiting wall of a water-receiving compartment of the dispensing tray.

2. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the dispensing tray has an upper part which can be connected or is connected with the lower part.

3. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the partial channel is closed by a second partial channel in the upper part when the lower part is connected with the upper part.

4. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the extract ventilation channel is routed exterior to the water receiving compartment, from a front end of the lower part, at which the outflow connection is arranged, to a rear end of the lower part and upwards into the upper part and is routed from there again to an opening of the front end into a discharge opening.

5. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the upper part has a guide wall, by means of which, when the upper part is in the assembled state with the lower part, the interior space of the dispensing tray is divided into two dispensing channels.

6. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a first dispensing channel is formed with the water inlet flow device as a vapor trap.

7. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a second dispensing channel is formed with the water inlet flow device as a connection to a tub of the household appliance.

8. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the partial channel is essentially formed over the entire length of the water-receiving compartment of the dispensing tray in the lower part.

9. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a separating wall separate from the lower part is formed, which can be fitted to the lower part, and in the disposed state of the separating wall a siphon is formed between the outflow connection and a water-receiving compartment in the lower part.

10. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the partial channel extends along a portion of a perimeter of the dispensing tray, exterior and isolated from the water receiving compartment.

11. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the partial channel, in its entirety, is isolated from the water receiving compartment.

12. The dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the delimiting wall isolates the partial channel from the water receiving compartment, so as to allow process air to be channeled exterior to the water receiving compartment.

13. A household washing machine for the care of laundry items having a drum and the dispensing arrangement as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the line segment is configured to convey process air from the drum to the partial channel of the lower part, for venting exterior to the dispensing tray.

Assignees

• Bsh Bosch & Siemens Hausgeraete Gmbh
• Bsh Hausgeraete Gmbh

Inventors

• Boulduan Edwin
• Sabalat Andre
• Werner Marcel

Classifications

• D06F39/02 Primary

  Devices for adding soap or other washing agents · CPC title

• D06F39/022 Primary

  in a liquid state (D06F39/024 takes precedence) · CPC title

• D06F39/088

  Liquid supply arrangements · CPC title