Dispenser for a dishwasher

• US 6,401,733 B1
• Filed: 06/01/2000
• Issued: 06/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sanhua AWECO Appliance Systems GmbH (Sanhua Holding Group Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Aweco Appliance Systems GmbH & Company KG (Sanhua Holding Group Company Limited)
• Inventors: Biechele, Guenter, Schrott, Harald
• Primary Examiner(s): Markoff, Alexander
• Assistant Examiner(s): PERRIN, JOSEPH L
• Application Number:
  US09/583,528
• Time in Patent Office: 740 Days
• Field of Search: 134/93, 134/56.D, 134/57.D, 134/58.D, 134/137, 134/166.R, 134/201, 134/6, 134/7, 222/129, 222/160, 222/504
• US Class Current: 134/93
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 15/44 Devices for adding cleaning agents; Devices for dispensing cleaning agents, rinsing aids or deodorants

Abstract

A dispenser for a dishwasher is proposed containing a housing 1 partially projecting in the installed condition through a door recess into the interior of the door of the automatic dishwasher and located partially within the wash area. The housing consists of two housing sections which preclude housing leaks into the interior of the door. This is achieved by providing an inner section located only partially within the interior of the door and projecting into the wash area, and an outer section located completely on the side of the wash area.

Claims

1. A dispenser for a dishwasher, comprising:

a housing projecting partially into a wash area of the dishwasher and partially through a door recess into an interior of a door of the dishwasher;

wherein the housing comprises an inner section projecting in an installed condition of the dispenser from the interior of the door into the wash area and an outer section located completely on the side of the wash area wherein the inner section is joined with the outer section by a weld located completely on the side of the wash area.

2. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein a circumferential shoulder is provided on the inner section.

3. The dispenser according to claim 2, wherein the shoulder exhibits at least one groove for a sealing element.

4. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein a circumferential collar is provided for the outer section, which collar surrounds a shoulder of the inner section.

5. The dispenser according to claim 2, wherein a circumferential collar is provided for the outer section, which collar surrounds the shoulder of the inner section.

6. The dispenser according to claim 4, wherein a welding point is provided between the shoulder of the inner section and the collar of the outer section.

7. The dispenser according to claim 1, further comprising at least one functional element is located in the inner section.

8. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the following is located in the inner section:

solenoid to actuate the dispenser, an actuating member for a dispensing valve, and a dispensing valve.

9. The dispenser according to claim 1, wherein an actuating member to open a hinged door of a dishwasher detergent chamber is provided in the inner section, a coupling element being provided between the actuating member and the hinged door of the dishwasher detergent chamber.

10. A method for producing a dispenser for a dishwasher, the method comprising the acts of:

providing an inner section of a housing of the dispenser that, in an installed condition, projects from an interior of a dishwasher door into a wash area;

providing an outer section of the housing that, in the installed condition, is completely outside the interior of the door; and

welding said outer section to said inner section at a welding point that, in the installed condition, is located completely on the side of the wash area.