CUTLERY BASKET FOR A DISHWASHER AND DISHWASHER

• US 20100078048A1
• Filed: 11/05/2007
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Schessl, Bernd, Schütz, Rainer
• Granted Patent: US 8,196,593 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 134/115.R
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 15/502 Cutlery baskets
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 15/503 with foldable parts
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 15/504 Arrangements for changing the height of racks

Abstract

A dishwasher including at least one cutlery basket for accommodating cutlery items in a horizontal position, wherein the at least one cutlery basket is adjustable at least in sections, and wherein the at least one cutlery basket includes a first subsection having an adjustable clearance height, and a second subsection having an adjustable clearance height.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A dishwasher comprising:

at least one cutlery basket for accommodating cutlery items in a horizontal position,

wherein the at least one cutlery basket is adjustable at least in sections, and

wherein the at least one cutlery basket includes;

a first subsection having an adjustable clearance height, and

a second subsection having an adjustable clearance height.

18. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 17, wherein the adjustable clearance height of the first subsection is adjustable independently of the adjustable clearance height of the second subsection.

19. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 17, wherein the adjustable clearance height of each of the first subsection and the second subsection is adjustable by swiveling the first subsection and the second subsection.

20. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 17, wherein an overall clearance height of the at least one cutlery basket is adjustable.

21. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 17, comprising:

a swivel joint that swivelably connects the first subsection to the second subsection.

22. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 21, wherein the swivel joint is arranged in a base section of the cutlery basket.

23. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 21, wherein one of:

the first subsection and the second subsection are independently swivelable about the swivel joint with respect to each other; and

the first subsection and the second subsection are jointly swivelable about the swivel joint.

24. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 17, wherein each of the first subsection and the second subsection lies in an essentially horizontal plane in a first operating position, and

wherein each of the first subsection and the second subsection lies in a plane tilted at an acute angle to the horizontal plane in a second operating position.

25. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 17, wherein the first subsection is mirror-symmetrical with respect to the second subsection.

26. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 23, comprising:

at least a second swivel joint arranged in one of a first side edge and a second side edge of the at least one cutlery basket,

wherein the first subsection and the second subsection are jointly swivelable about the second swivel joint.

27. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 26, wherein the first subsection and the second subsection are swivelable about the second swivel joint independently relative to the swiveling of the first subsection and the second subsection about the swivel joint.

28. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 17, wherein the at least one cutlery basket includes a flat insert,

wherein the flat insert includes:

a frame; and

at least two inserts that are swivelable relative to each other and removable from the frame,

wherein the two inserts form the first subsection and the second subsection of a base section of the at least one cutlery basket.

29. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 28, wherein one of the at least two inserts is a wide-meshed strainer insert.

30. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 28, wherein each of the at least two inserts has a wedge-shaped cross-section.

31. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 28, wherein each of the first subsection and the second subsection includes means for fixing each of the first subsection and the second subsection in a predefined operating position.

32. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 28, comprising:

means for fixing each of the first subsection and the second subsection in a predefined operating position.

33. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 28, comprising:

a fixing device that secures each of the first subsection and the second subsection in a predefined operating position.

34. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 33, wherein the fixing device prevents one of the first subsection and the second subsection from being lowered beyond a certain angle.

35. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 33, wherein the fixing device includes a latching hook configured to engage the frame.

36. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 33, wherein the fixing device includes:

a profile wire that is tiltable relative to the at least two inserts; and

guiding means on the at least two inserts,

wherein the frame supports the profile wire in the predefined operating position of the cutlery basket.

37. The dishwasher as claimed in claim 33, wherein the fixing device secures each of the first subsection and the second subsection in one of a plurality of predefined operating positions,

wherein the fixing device includes:

a profile wire that is tiltable relative to the at least two inserts; and

a guide on the at least two inserts that guides the profile wire,

wherein the frame supports the profile wire in one of the plurality of predefined operating positions of the cutlery basket.

38. The cutlery basket for a dishwasher as claimed in claim 17.