Conveyor dishwasher
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorWerner NEUMAIER
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Abstract
A conveyor dishwasher includes at least one wash zone and at least one final rinse zone, wherein the at least one wash zone is designed to spray wash liquid, wherein the wash liquid is, at least proportionally, liquid which has already been used for final rinsing in the at least one final rinse zone and to which a wash chemical is added in a metered manner or is fresh water to which a wash chemical is added in a metered manner, wherein the conveyor dishwasher has a metering pump for adding the wash chemical in a metered manner to the liquid to be sprayed in the at least one wash zone, and wherein a controller is associated with the conveyor dishwasher in order to actuate the metering pump and a wash pump or final rinse pump of the dishwasher.
Claims15
A conveyor dishwasher comprising:
- at least one wash zone and at least one final rinse zone,
- wherein the at least one wash zone is designed to spray wash liquid, wherein the wash liquid is, at least proportionally, liquid which has already been used for final rinsing in the at least one final rinse zone and to which a wash chemical is added in a metered manner or is fresh water to which a wash chemical is added in a metered manner,
- wherein the conveyor dishwasher has a metering pump for adding the wash chemical in a metered manner to the liquid to be sprayed in the at least one wash zone, and
- wherein a controller is associated with the conveyor dishwasher in order to actuate both (i) the metering pump and (ii) a wash pump which is associated with the at least one wash zone and/or a final rinse pump which is associated with the at least one final rinse zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.