Patent ID: 7909045
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
1. An adding device for adding into a dishwasher an agent that assists an operation of the dishwasher, the adding device comprising: a supply chamber for receiving an agent that assists an operation of a dishwasher, the supply chamber permitting an agent received therein to exit from the supply chamber and thereafter enter a wash area in which items to be handled by the dishwasher are disposed, and the adding device being disposable between a filling disposition in which a fill quantity of an agent can be filled into the supply chamber, with the fill quantity of the agent being that quantity of the agent that comprises a complete number of doses of the agent to be administered during a respective dishwasher operation, and an operating disposition in which no structure prevents substantially the fill quantity of the agent from exiting the supply chamber in a full release manner with none of the agent being subjected to any intervening stoppages as the agent exits the supply chamber, the agent that has been released from the supply chamber having a direction of movement once it is beyond the supply chamber in the direction of gravity.