Global Patent Index - EP 1161916 A3

EP 1161916 A3 20020925 - Household apparatus using water and method adjusting the hardness of a fresh water quantity

Title (en)

Household apparatus using water and method adjusting the hardness of a fresh water quantity

Title (de)

Wasserführendes Haushaltsgerät und Verfahren zum Einstellen des Härtegrades einer Frischwassermenge

Title (fr)

Appareil domestique utilsant de l'eau et procédé pour ajuster la dureté d'une quantité d'eau fraiche

Publication

EP 1161916 A3 20020925 (DE)

Application

EP 01106288 A 20010315

Priority

DE 10028770 A 20000610

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP1161916A2] The device has a working container (2) and a device (14) for softening fresh water arranged in a water feed device for delivering fresh water. An adjustable divider (39) arranged in the water feed device divides the input water into at least two sub-water quantities, especially flows, whereby a first part is fed to the water softener and then to the working container and the second part is fed directly to the working container. Independent claims are also included for the following: a method off setting the degree of hardness of the freshwater to be fed to the working container of a water-suing machine.

IPC 1-7

A47L 15/42; D06F 39/00

IPC 8 full level

A47L 15/42 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

A47L 15/4229 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 1161916 A2 20011212; EP 1161916 A3 20020925; DE 10028770 A1 20011213

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 01106288 A 20010315; DE 10028770 A 20000610