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US 4,574,414 AGranted
Kitchen appliance
OwnerSam Zhadanovinventor
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Abstract
A kitchen appliance has a housing with an inlet opening for admitting water, a rotor rotatable in the housing, a brush member connected with the rotor for joint rotation therewith, a first smaller opening for supplying a smaller portion of water to the brush member for mixing with a soap, and a second greater outlet opening for exiting a greater portion of water for rinsing a dish or the like washed by the brush member.
Claims14
A kitchen appliance for dish washing and the like, comprising a housing having a generally cylindrical portion;
- means forming a water inlet opening for said housing;
- a rotor having an axis and mounted within said cylindrical portion of said housing eccentrically with respect to the same, said rotor including a base having a plurality of blades mounted thereon, said blades being so positioned that they are rotated by the force of water exiting said inlet opening, said blades extending substantially radially of said rotor having a gap between the inner end of each blade and said axis of said rotor providing means for dissipation of water under pressure thereinto;
- a brush member connected with said rotor for rotation therewith;
- means forming a first outlet opening which is smaller and through which a smaller portion of water exits to said brush member to be mixed with a soap;
- means forming a second outlet opening which is greater and through which a greater portion of water exits for rinsing a dish or the like after washing with said brush member;
- and soap supplying means including a soap container and a soap supplying element extending through said brush member.
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A kitchen appliance for dish washing and the like, comprising a housing having a generally cylindrical portion;
- means forming a water inlet opening for said housing;
- a rotor having an axis and mounted within said cylindrical portion of said housing eccentrically with respect to the same, said rotor including a base having a plurality of blades mounted thereon, said blades being so positioned that they are rotated by the force of water exiting said inlet opening, said blades extending substantially radially of said rotor having a gap between the inner end of each blade and said axis of said rotor providing means for dissipation of water under pressure thereinto;
- a brush member connected with said rotor for rotation therewith;
- means forming a first outlet opening which is smaller and through which a smaller portion of water exits to said brush member to be mixed with a soap;
- means forming a second outlet opening which is greater and through which a greater portion of water exits for rinsing a dish or the like after washing with said brush member;
- and a knife-sharpening disc connected with said rotor and rotatable therewith.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.