Patent ID: 7914607

Claim:
A domestic appliance including an adsorption unit, having an adsorption container containing a solid adsorbing agent; a heater for heating the adsorbing agent; at least one phase transition container in operational communication with the adsorption container by way of a connecting line; and a volatile adsorptive configured to be reversibly adsorbed by the adsorbing agent; the domestic appliance further including a process air conduit, wherein the adsorption container is operatively engaged as a heat exchanger for heating a stream of air flowing in the process air conduit and being applied to the adsorption container, with the adsorption unit being configured for alternate and reversible operation in a first operating state in which a stream of air flowing in the process air conduit is applied to the adsorption container wherein the adsorbing agent adsorbs adsorptive evaporating in the at least one phase transition container, and in a second operating state in which the adsorbing agent is heated by the heater and the adsorptive is desorbed, with desorbed adsorptive condensing in the phase transition container, the domestic appliance comprising: means operatively associated with the adsorption unit for applying a stream of air flowing in the process air conduit to the adsorption container in the second operating state, wherein the adsorption unit reversibly assumes the first and the second operating state a plurality of times during one handling cycle of the domestic appliance in which articles handled by the domestic appliance are handled.