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US 6,786,356 B2Granted
Drinks machine
AssigneeWMF Wuerttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG
InventorsRudi Geiger, Ewald Bauer, Peter Pulvermüller, Günther Nagel
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Abstract
A drinks machine, in particular a coffee machine, with an entry device for solid cleaning agent, in particular in pressed form, being user-friendly and safe during cleaning, and having an automatically dosing, enclosed dosage device for the cleaning agent which includes a spout, a storage container protected from the spout, and at least one dosage unit.
Claims15
A drink machine with an entry device for a solid cleaning agent, said entry device comprising:
- an enclosed dosage device for the cleaning agent, said dosage device being connected to said drink machine and adapted to automatically release a predetermined amount of said cleaning agent, and including a storage container for containing a supply of said solid cleaning agent, a dosage unit in communication with the storage container for controlling the rate of release of the solid cleaning agent, and a spout disposed to receive the cleaning agent passing through the dosage unit and to introduce the cleaning agent into a cleaning flow path within the drink machine, and wherein the storage container is protected from the spout.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.