Patent ID: 8435358

Claim:
A conveyor dishwasher comprising a conveyor apparatus for conveying washware through at least one wash zone and at least one final rinse zone, with final rinse liquid, which comprises fresh water and rinse aid which is added in a metered fashion, being sprayed onto the washware in the at least one final rinse zone by means of spray nozzles, characterized in that a control apparatus is provided for automatically setting a quantity of final rinse liquid sprayed in the at least one final rinse zone per unit time as a function of a conveying speed at which the washware is conveyed through the at least one final rinse zone and/or as a function of a type of washware conveyed through the at least one final rinse zone; and in that a rinse aid metering apparatus is connected to a feed line to feed rinse aid into a final rinse path that feeds the final rinse liquid to the nozzles, wherein the rinse aid metering apparatus is designed to automatically add in a metered fashion a constant quantity of rinse aid per unit time to the fresh water provided for final rinsing purposes independently of the quantity of final rinse liquid sprayed in the at least one final rinse zone per unit time.