Silverware washing machine

Abstract

A flatware washer comprising a cogged endless belt mechanism mounted lengthwise in a vertical orientation within a water containment housing; the top end of the cogged belt mechanism being hung around a drive wheel mechanism having complementary cogs mating with the cogs of the belt mechanism; the drive wheel mechanism being mounted at the top of the housing and supporting the belt mechanism in a vertical lengthwise orientation such that a curved bottom end section of the belt mechanism is spaced above the bottom edge of the housing and such that a pair of relatively elongated lengthwise sections of the belt extend downwardly from around the drive wheel mechanism in substantially parallel opposing relationship; the curved bottom end section of the hung belt mechanism being open for receiving a plurality of pieces of flatware between the pair of lengthwise sections; the drive wheel mechanism being connected to a drive mechanism programmed to drivably oscillate the wheel mechanism between predetermined degrees of clockwise and counterclockwise rotation; the housing having front and rear walls closely spaced from the front and rear of the curved bottom end section of the hung belt mechanism in substantially perpendicular relationship thereto for containing the plurality of pieces of flatware within the curved bottom end section; a mechanism for directing a spray of fluid at and across the width of the curved bottom end section of the hung belt mechanism; and a mechanism for directing a flow of air across the width of the curved bottom end section of the hung belt mechanism.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.