GRAVITY FLOW PORTABLE LAUNDRY LIQUID DISPENSER

• US 3,826,408 A
• Filed: 06/29/1973
• Issued: 07/30/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alex Freyberger, Alvin W. Berndt
• Original Assignee: Alex Freyberger, Alvin W. Berndt
• Inventors: Berndt, Alvin W., Freyberger, Alex
• Primary Examiner(s): Tollberg, Stanley H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kocovsky, Thomas E.
• Application Number:
  US05/374,916
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 222/70,132,181 68/17R 134/57D,58D,93,100,101
• US Class Current: 222/651
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 39/022 in a liquid state D06F39/024 takes precedence

Abstract

A portable apparatus comprising a laundry liquid dispenser used in connection with a washing machine delivering by gravity laundry liquids in controlled amounts to a washing machine comprising means for automatically dispensing said laundry liquids in a predetermined order and controlling the quantity of each of said laundry liquids delivered to said washing machine and controlling the interval of time between the passage of each of said laundry liquids to said washing machine and means substituting a manual operation.

Claims

1. A laundry liquid dispenser having in combination a portable housing, a plurality of holders carried by said housing, a container of laundry liquid removably disposed in each of said holders, said containers passing said liquid therefrom by gravity, a line passing said liquid from each of said containers, a firsT means comprising solenoid valves carried in said housing controlling the passage of said liquid through said lines, micro-switches respectively in circuit with said solenoid valves, a second means regulating said first means controlling the quantity of liquid passing through said lines from each of said containers, a third means regulating said first means as to the sequential intervals of time of said passage of said liquids through said lines from each of said containers, a timer motor driving a shaft, said shaft being divided into two portions connected by a gear train, one of said portions of said shaft rotating faster than the other of said portions, said shaft carrying switch operating members, said second means comprising the switch operating members carried by said slower rotating portion of said shaft, and said third means comprising said switch operating members carried by said faster rotating portion of said shaft.

2. The structure set forth in claim 1, wherein said holder comprises a wire frame member, means carried by said housing pivotally securing said holder thereto, and means carried by said holder releasably securing said container therein.

3. The structure set forth in claim 1, including means manually overriding said second means.

4. The structure set forth in claim 1, including means manually operable to de-energize microswitches with respect to any selected one of said solenoid valves.