Patent ID: 7901518

Claim:
Commercial dishwasher which has a spray chamber for holding items to be washed and has a door for closing a loading and unloading opening, and which is designed for loading and unloading batches of items to be washed into and from a region for items to be washed in the spray chamber, characterized by an air inlet into the spray chamber, which inlet is arranged below the door at a point which is lower than the region for items to be washed, the air inlet configured to produce an air stream that covers the width of the region for items to be washed; an air outlet, which is formed at a point higher than the air inlet, out of the spray chamber at a point which is higher than the region for items to be washed; a fan for producing an air stream along an air path which extends from the air inlet, through the spray chamber, to the air outlet, with the air stream in the spray chamber being passed through the region for items to be washed in order to dry the items which have been washed; and a deflector arrangement which is arranged and designed to act on the air stream entering the spray chamber through the air inlet and thus to cause the air stream to enter the region for items to be washed in a uniformly distributed manner from below, the deflector arrangement including multiple deflectors located within a front portion of the spray chamber and spaced inwardly from the door, the deflectors spaced from each other in a direction transverse to the air stream such that part of the air stream is deflected by the deflectors upward into the region for items to be washed at a front part of the region and part of the air stream passes by the deflectors so as to enter the region for items to be washed at a rear part of the region.