Sinks incorporating dishwasher functionalities
AssigneeSquall E.M.T. Ltd
InventorsEtai Alali, Tamir Rubin
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a sink incorporating dishwasher functionalities. The sink is mounted, or otherwise installed, on a kitchen countertop and includes a basin and a cover allowing to fluidly seal the basin from above. According to some embodiments of the sink, at least one portion of the walls of the basin, extending along two peripheral directions, is double walled, having an outer wall and an inner wall, such as to define an inner chamber there between. The inner chamber is controllably fluidly coupled to a pressurized fluid source and has apertures on the inner wall for ejecting fluid jets into the basin. In some embodiments of the sink, the cover is a shutter.
Claims18
A sink incorporating dishwasher functionalities, the sink comprising:
- a basin having a base, walls and a cover allowing to fluidly seal said basin from a top thereof, wherein said cover is a shutter;
- two elongated shutter tracks mounted on opposite sides of a rim of said basin, wherein said shutter tracks are configured to have slid thereon said shutter;
- wherein each of said shutter tracks comprises one or more holes along a respective length thereof, said shutter and said shutter tracks being configured such that fluid reaching said shutter tracks from a shutter top surface of said shutter is drained via said holes on said shutter tracks;
- wherein at least one portion of the walls of said basin, extending along two peripheral directions, is double walled, having an outer wall and an inner wall, such as to define an inner chamber there between, said inner chamber being controllably fluidly coupled to a pressurized fluid source and having chamber apertures on said inner wall;
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- wherein during a washing cycle, said cover seals said basin and fluid jets are ejected via said chamber apertures into said basin.
A sink incorporating dishwasher functionalities, the sink comprising a basin, a shutter and two elongated shutter tracks mounted on opposite sides of a rim of said basin;
- wherein said basin comprises wall apertures on walls thereof, said wall apertures being controllably fluidly coupled to a pressurized fluid source;
- wherein said shutter is controllably switchable between two configurations:
- a first configuration, wherein said basin is uncovered;
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- a second configuration, wherein said shutter fluidly seals said basin from the top thereof;
- wherein said shutter tracks are configured to have slid thereon said shutter, thereby switching between the two configurations;
- wherein each of said shutter tracks comprises one or more holes along a respective length thereof, said shutter and said shutter tracks being configured such that fluid reaching said shutter tracks from a shutter top surface of said shutter is drained via said holes on said shutter tracks;
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- wherein during a washing cycle, said shutter is in the second configuration and fluid jets are ejected via said wall apertures into said basin.
A sink incorporating dishwasher functionalities, the sink comprising
- a basin;
- a cover allowing to fluidly seal said basin from the top thereof, wherein said cover is a shutter;
- a waste disposal unit;
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- two elongated shutter tracks mounted on opposite sides of a rim of said basin, wherein said shutter tracks are configured to have slid thereon said shutter;
- wherein each of said shutter tracks comprises one or more holes along a respective length thereof, said shutter and said shutter tracks being configured such that fluid reaching said shutter tracks from a shutter top surface of said shutter is drained via said holes on said shutter tracks;
- wherein said basin comprises wall apertures on walls thereof and a drain at a base thereof, said drain is not sieved, said wall apertures being controllably fluidly coupled to a pressurized fluid source and said drain being fluidly coupled to said waste disposal unit;
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- wherein during a washing cycle, said cover seals said basin and fluid jets are ejected via said wall apertures into said basin, at least two of the fluid jets being directed such as to guide waste on said base of said basin, or waste stuck onto said base, onto said drain.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.