Water purifier
AssigneeMitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaaki Okano, Atsushi Hatakeyama, Kunio Kido, Yoshiyuki Matsuoka
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Abstract
A water purifier 40 includes a flow meter 42 for measuring the cumulative flow of water through a water purification cartridge 6. The flow meter has an indicator portion 44 that rotates in response to increasing cumulative flow and a graduated portion 46 rotating about the same axis as that of the indicator portion. The graduated portion includes an insertion groove 29 for manually rotating the graduated portion in order to reset the flow meter. Because the flow meter has few part, the body of the water purifier can be made compact and its cost reduced.
Claims11
A water purifier provided with a flow meter which measures an integrated flow of purified water passing through a water purification cartridge, wherein a flow display of said flow meter comprises
- an indicator portion which rotates in response to increasing cumulative flow;
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- a graduated portion in the shape of a disk having graduations on an outer surface thereof and which can rotate around a rotation axis which is the same as that of the indicator portion, wherein
- an insertion groove is formed at the outer surface of the graduated portion so that an operation to rotate said graduated portion can be carried out with a coin resulting in resetting of the flow meter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.