Patent ID: 8651336

Claim:
A long-life substance dispensing device for a domestic electrical appliance, comprising: a main body, arranged for being fixed in a stationary position relative to a structure of the appliance and having a positioning region for a support means of a plurality of doses of a substance, sufficient for carrying out a plurality of deliveries or operating cycles of the appliance, an actuation system which is electrically controllable for causing a relative movement between the support means and at least one part of the main body, for the purpose of selectively delivering in a treatment chamber of the domestic electrical appliance at least one dose of the substance contained in the support means, wherein the main body comprises a first body portion prearranged to extend, or to be exposed, inside said treatment chamber and a second body portion prearranged to extend outside said treatment chamber, said positioning region being defined at said first body portion, wherein the actuation system comprises at least one drive element and one driven element, the driven element being capable of cooperating with the drive element to allow said delivery, wherein the actuation system is prearranged to take on an operative condition, in which the drive element is operatively coupled to the driven element, and an inoperative condition, in which the drive element is decoupled from the driven element.