Soap metering and dispensing device for washing machines

• US 2,793,940 A
• Filed: 07/06/1956
• Issued: 05/28/1957
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1956
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Neil A. Bennett
• Original Assignee: Neil A. Bennett
• Inventors: Bennett, Neil A.
• Application Number:
  US03/596,200
• Time in Patent Office: 326 Days
• US Class Current: 422/261
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 39/026 the powder or tablets being added directly, e.g. without the need of a flushing liquid
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/4891 With holder for solid, flaky or pulverized material to be dissolved or entrained

Claims

7. A METERING AND DISPERING DEVICE FOR GRANULAR MATERIAL COMPRISING A HOPPER, A DRUM HOUSING COMMUNICATING THREWITH;

A ROTARY DRUM IN THE HOUSING HAVING A PLURALITY OF SEGMENTALLY SHAPED COMPARTMENTS COMMUNICATING WITH THE HOPPER ON ROTATION OF THE DRUM;

A CONDUIT COMMUNICATING WITH AND EXTENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM THE HOUSING INTO POSITION SUCH THAT SAID COMPARTMENTS ARE SUCCESSIVELY COMMUNICATED WITH THE CONDUIT ON ROTATION OF THE DRUM THROUGH SELECTED ANGULAR DISTANCES;

VALVE MEANS CONNECTED WITH THE DRUM AND NORMALLY CLOSING THE LOWER END OF THE CONDUIT, SAID VALVE MEANS BEING UNSEATED RESPONSIVE TO ROTATION OF THE DRUM IN ONE DIRECTION;

AND A MIXING CHAMBER CONNECTED WITH THE LOWER END OF THE CONDUIT TO RECEIVE THE MATERIALS DISPERSED THROUGH THE CONDUIT, SAID MIXING CHAMBER INCLUDING A PAIR OF TUBULAR FITTINGS AT ONE END AND A SINGLE TUBULAR FITTING AT THE OTHER END, ONE OF THE FIRST TUBULAR FITTINGS COMPRISING A WATER INLET, THE OTHER OF SAID FIRST NAMED FITTINGS COMPRISING MEANS FOR CONNECTING THE MIXING CHAMBER WITH A PUMP OF A WASHING MACHINE, SAID FITTING AT THE OTHER END OF THE MIXING CHAMBER PROVIDING A CONNECTIN FOR A LINE EXTENDING FROM THE MIXING CHAMBER TO A WASHING MACHINE.