Laundry additive dispenser

• US 3,915,349 A
• Filed: 06/14/1974
• Issued: 10/28/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gerhard K. Losert, Laddie A. Depas
• Original Assignee: Gerhard K. Losert, Laddie A. Depas
• Inventors: DePas, Laddie A., Losert, Gerhard K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tollberg, Stanley H.
• Application Number:
  US05/479,288
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 68/17R 222/166 68/210 214/314,318 221/90
• US Class Current: 222/166
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 39/026 the powder or tablets being added directly, e.g. without the need of a flushing liquid

Abstract

A dispenser for laundry additive materials. The dispenser has a recessed member secured to a non-rotating internal member of a laundry machine of the horizontal axis drum type and a container pivotally movable from a first position to an elevated second position and dimensioned to be receivable in the recessed member. The container is movable in both directions along its pivotal axis and when the container is moved from the first position to the second elevated position the container is moved laterally and support means operate to maintain the container in an elevated position. When clothes are tumbled within the drum they strike the container causing it to move along its pivotal axis, disengage its support means and pivot downwardly to the first position to dump the additive material into the interior of the rotatable drum.

Claims

1. A dispenser for an automatic laundry machine having a horizontal axis rotatable drum for tumbling clothes comprising:

a. a container pivotally secured to a stationary member of the laundry machine and movable about an axis from a first position to an elevated second position and movable along its pivotal axis, b. means for moving the container along its pivotal axis when moved from the first position to the elevated second position, c. means operative to support the container when it is in the elevated second position, and d. means including the tumbling clothes adapted to move the container along its pivotal axis to disengage said support means and allow the container to pivot to said first position.

2. The dispenser of claim 1 wherein the container has a curved bottom wall extending from the rear wall to the front of the container.

3. The dispenser of claim 1 wherein the means for moving the container along its pivotal axis is a cam element that forces the container to move when the container is raised from the first position to the elevated second position.

4. The dispenser of claim 1 wherein the stationary member is an access door bulkhead.

5. The dispenser of claim 2 wherein the container in the first position is received in a recessed member which is of the same shape and slightly larger than the container.

6. The dispenser of claim 2 wherein the curved bottom wall joins an outwardly extending lifting flange at the front of the container.

7. The dispenser of claim 6 wherein the outwardly extending lifting flange has secured thereto an added weight.

8. The dispenser of claim 5 wherein the means to support the container is a stop member on the recessed member that supports the container only when in the elevated second position.

9. A dispenser for an automatic laundry machine having a horizontal axis rotatable drum for tumbling clothes comprising:

a. a container pivotally secured to a stationary member of the laundry machine and movable about an axis from a first position to an elevated second position and movable along its pivotal axis, b. means for moving the container along its pivotal axis including a cam element that forces the container to move when the container is raised from the first position to the elevated second position, c. means operative to support the container when it is in the elevated second position, and d. means to move the container along its pivotal axis to disengage said support means and allow the container to pivot to said first position.

10. The dispenser of claim 9 wherein the cam element is on the container.

11. The dispenser of claim 9 wherein the means to move the container along its pivotal axis to disengage said support means and allow the container to pivot to said first position includes the tumbling clothes.