WO2009095003A1

WO2009095003A1 - Device for washing or cleaning articles

Info

Publication number: WO2009095003A1
Application number: PCT/DE2009/000129
Authority: WO
Inventors: Lothar Ernst Wilhelm Weber
Original assignee: Lothar Ernst Wilhelm Weber
Priority date: 2008-02-01
Filing date: 2009-02-02
Publication date: 2009-08-06
Also published as: DE102008007429A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (80) for washing and/or cleaning articles, such as e.g. textiles, using a plurality of individually dosable substances, such as enzymes or/and tensides, the respective substance being accommodated separately in a container (15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h, 23a, 23b, 23c, 23d, 23e, 32a, 32b, 32c, 56a, 56b, 56c) and being removable therefrom, and the container being detachably fastened on a coupling point (72) of the device. The device according to the invention is characterized in that an element (70a, 70b, 70c, 70d, 70e, 70f, 70g, 70h) is arranged on the container and comprises direct or indirect data regarding the substance contained in the container, a unit (71) being arranged on the device which allows acquisition of said data.

Description

Device for washing or cleaning objects

The invention first relates to a device according to the preamble of claim 1.

Such a device is known for example from the international patent application PCT2007 / 000377 of the applicant and described in the post-published German patent application DE 10 2007 041 643 of the applicant.

In the known device, which may be, for example, a textile washing machine or a dishwasher, it is already provided that the washing or cleaning process takes place with the aid of a plurality of different, individually metered active ingredients. For example, different enzymes or surfactants or surfactant mixtures in different containers in or on the device or in the immediate vicinity of the device, to be attached to a so-called coupling point. If the containers are fixed to the respective coupling points, the desired dose amount of the corresponding active substance can be removed from the container by means of suitable metering and, for example, a receiving chamber for the objects to be cleaned, optionally also together with water, are supplied.

By an individual mixture of the active ingredients due to a correspondingly possible single dosage, an optimal combination of active ingredients, individually adapted, can be used to adapt to a certain contamination, to a type or to a certain degree of contamination of the objects. Thus, the washing or Cleaning efficiency can be increased and a reduction in environmental impact, in particular the wastewater can be achieved.

The invention has the object of developing the known device according to the preamble of claim 1 such that a safe and possibly simplified operation is possible.

The invention solves this problem with the features of claim 1, in particular with those of the characterizing part, and is accordingly characterized in that an element is arranged on the container, which comprises direct or indirect information about the active substance contained in the container, and that on the device, a device is arranged, with which this information can be detected.

The principle of the invention consists essentially in arranging on the container an information carrier, a so-called element. The element may in the simplest case be an electronic memory or a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Tag) device or a chip or other electronic device. The element contains information about the drug disposed in the container. This information may, for example, be written into the element in an electronic, electrical or electromagnetic manner. The writing process takes place, for example, at the factory, that is to say in the production of the container, or, for example, during or after the filling of the active ingredient into the container, that is to say, for example, during filling operation. It is essential that the element can be taken from the information that a particular active substance or which type of active substance is arranged in the container. In one application, it is conceivable that z. B. in a trained as a commercial washing machine device according to the invention a variety, eg. B. eight different containers, are provided. The containers may have an identical or very similar external design. They are therefore externally distinguishable by an operator or a user is difficult or impossible with respect to the active ingredients contained therein. The identically formed containers can be used or mounted on the coupling points provided by the device. This could lead to confusion, such that a container with a first active ingredient is mistakenly attached to the coupling point at which actually another container is to be coupled with another active ingredient.

In the production of the containers or in the filling of the active ingredients in the containers according to the invention individual RFID

Chips are described with the appropriate information and on the

Container attached. In doing so, a recourse to conventional RFID

Chips possible, for example, as planar elements, for. B. in one

Extension of about 2 x 2 cm, can be glued to the outer wall of the container by means of an adhesive film or an adhesive film. Even smaller designs are possible.

In the following it is assumed that in a first container there is a first enzyme and in a second container there is a second, different enzyme. The corresponding information is in each case inscribed in an RFID chip assigned to the container.

The containers can now at or in coupling points at the

Device attached or mounted. In the course of this attachment or shortly after such attachment, the information of the RFID

Chips from a detector arranged on the device be read out. In the case of a design of the element as an RFID chip, the reading can be particularly contactless, z. B. electromagnetically, or electronically. The information about the arranged in the containers active ingredients can thus directly to the device, eg. As a control unit to be transmitted. After the acquisition of the information by the detection device, this can forward the information to the control unit. Control unit and detection device can, for. B. be provided by a common component.

However, the control unit and the detection device can also be formed by separate electronic components, which are interconnected in a conventional manner known per se, for example via electrical data lines. In this way, the information that the detection device has detected can be passed on to the control unit.

The control unit may, for example, represent the electronic heart of the control unit and control all washing operations. The control unit may also address, for example, metering devices in order to remove the desired amount of active substance from the respective containers at a certain time during a washing program.

The control device can in an advantageous embodiment of

Invention, for example, also determine or check what type of drugs in the device at a given time is available and whether a special washing or cleaning program at a given time at all feasible, or can not be performed for lack of existing required agents. This information can be an operator z. B. also show. to Übeφrüfung whether a particular washing or cleaning program is feasible, the controller can also use the information whether a container with a specific drug is connected to the corresponding coupling point or to the device or not.

In the event that an operator has chosen, for example, a certain type of washing program, and the device determines that a corresponding container with a required active ingredient is not or no longer present on the device, or a container with a specific active ingredient on a wrong one, not provided point is connected to the coupling point, it can transmit a corresponding warning signal to the user before the execution of the cleaning or washing program or prevent the execution of a corresponding cleaning or washing program. This information can be transmitted, for example, on a display unit or a display or in an optical or acoustic manner as a signal to the operator.

The device according to the invention allows a simplified

Operation in so far as that the container form can be standardized and for different active ingredients, for example for different enzymes and / or for different surfactants or different enzyme mixtures or different surfactant mixtures, the same outer container shape can be selected. At the same time, an accidental exchange of containers with different active ingredients is excluded. As a result of a z. B. electronic coding of the containers, so a writing of information in an element on the container, but a distinctness is guaranteed. The inventive device can, for. B. prevent incorrect assembly of the coupling points with containers. Thus, for example, a first container could comprise a first enzyme lipase and a second, structurally identical container a second enzyme cellulose. The attachment of RFID chips or other suitable information-carrying elements to the containers can now ensure automatic detection, and detect or prevent accidentally two different containers are docked with the same enzymes to the corresponding coupling points. In this case as well, the device can send a signal to the operator to ensure that the correct containers, ie two containers with different active ingredients, are connected.

Finally, the invention allows the control device in

Knowledge of different washing or cleaning programs and in knowledge of the available active ingredients, that is based on the information collected by the device, in particular automatically selects a suitable washing powder or composes a suitable detergent. For example, if the control unit, with the aid of the detection device, determines that a particular active substance is not present, it may, in the alternative, resort to a similar well-functioning washing or cleaning program or put together a detergent containing the missing product Active ingredient not required.

The device according to the invention is used for washing or

Cleaning objects. It can be used as a washing machine, for example as a conventional household washing machine or as

Commercial washing machine to be trained. Similarly, the Device according to the invention also be designed as a dishwasher for cleaning cutlery and crockery. Finally, an embodiment of the invention also includes an embodiment of the device as a cleaning device for vehicles, for. B. in the manner of a car wash. Finally, an application provides that the device is designed as a cleaning device for commercial or industrial applications. For example, metallic objects, such as profiles, tubes, spring elements or the like, of Befettungsmittelresten or other, adhering to the industrially manufactured articles processing residues, eg. B. paint residues, to be cleaned.

The device according to the invention performs the washing or cleaning process with the aid of a plurality of individually metered active ingredients. In particular, enzymes, enzyme mixtures, surfactants, surfactant mixtures, complexing agents, solvents, disinfectants, corrosion inhibitors, softeners and bleaches, optical brighteners, solvents, corrosion inhibitors, catalysts, stabilizers, buffer solutions (such as acids or alkalis) and any washing auxiliaries and detergent ingredients and detergent ingredients are considered as the active ingredient , The individual active ingredients can be provided in particular as a concentrate, for example in liquid form, optionally also as a powder. The active compounds can be accommodated in carriers such as alcohol, oil or other solvents or emulsifiers in the container.

The active ingredients are the containers individually dosed removed. For this metering devices are provided which have individual access to the individual containers. It can be provided that each container is assigned its own metering device. Alternatively, multiple containers is a common Assigned metering device, but can address the individual containers for delivering the active ingredients individually.

The metering device or the metering devices are coupled to the control unit, so that the control unit can address the metering devices for delivering the active substances. The control unit can also cooperate with a program selector switch so that the operator can set the desired washing or cleaning program and the control unit, knowing the selected program, can perform the necessary steps. Of course, the control unit can also rely on the required valves, pumps and motors to supply or drain water, set or stop an optional washing drum for the items, turn on or off heaters, etc.

Each active ingredient is housed separately in a container. For example, it can be provided that each container is individually releasably attachable to a coupling point and interchangeable if necessary. It may also be provided that a plurality of containers are combined like a cartridge to form a unit, so that it can be attached to the coupling point.

As far as individual containers are detachably fastened to the coupling point, it is necessary to each individual container

Assign information-carrying element. In the case of the use of a multi-compartment unit, the unit being used only as a

Whole unit is interchangeable, it is recommended that the unit

Assign element on which several information on all, located in the individual containers of the unit substances are arranged. The respective active substance is accommodated in the container and can be removed therefrom. For this purpose, for example, a closable opening is provided on the container, which can be addressed by the metering device.

The container is releasably attachable to a coupling point of the device.

In some applications of the device according to the invention, such as in a household washing machine, the coupling point is located directly on the device, for example within an envelope contour of the device. Also attached to the coupling point container or more, attached to the respectively designated coupling points containers, then do not necessarily protrude from the envelope contour of the device. Alternatively, it can be provided that the coupling point of the device is only assigned, but arranged at a distance to this. In particular, in commercial washing machines, which are known to be much bulkier than household washing machines, can be provided that the coupling points spaced, but are arranged in direct spatial allocation to the commercial washing machine, for example, within a radius of a few meters, and via corresponding supply lines with the Commercial washing machine are connected.

The coupling point is in the simplest case a mechanical

Receptacle for the container z. B. with an obvious and closable

Connection, z. B. a valve that is responsive to a metering device. The coupling point serves the mechanical coupling of the container to the device. In particular, the coupling point is used directly to the attachment of the container to a metering device that can remove the drug from the container.

The information-carrying element is advantageously arranged directly on the container and attached thereto. Preferably, the element is fixed to the outer wall of the container.

The element may contain immediate information about the active substance contained in the container, so that, for example, the name of the active substance or an abbreviation is written as electronic information in a memory of the element. Alternatively, this information may also be contained only indirectly in the element, and be inscribed, for example, as an article number or as an encoded drug name in the memory of the element. The detection device on the device can then, knowing the article numbers or the code, associate this information, for example after comparison with a table, and in this way indirectly recognize which active substance is in the container.

The detection device is arranged on the device and serves to read and to capture the information from the element. The detection device can advantageously be arranged directly in or on the device. However, it is also possible to mount the detection device in close spatial proximity to the device but at a distance from it. For example, the detection device may also be mounted in the vicinity of the coupling point and / or in the vicinity of the metering device.

The device according to the invention provides that several active ingredients are dosed individually for carrying out the washing or cleaning process. The addition of several active ingredients in one Recording chamber for the items can be made simultaneously or with a time delay.

Insofar as described in the present patent descriptions for a particular application of the device according to the invention, for example, using a washing machine, should be assumed for the purpose of avoiding repetition and apply that the same Vorfeile and features in an inventive manner in other applications, for example in Car washes, cleaning devices for metallic elements, and dishwashers are used. It should be noted that, of course, different active ingredients are used depending on the application.

It should also be noted that the content of the subsequently published German patent application DE 10 2007 041 643 of the applicant is hereby included in the content of the present patent application to avoid repetition and also for the purpose of reference, even to individual features. It becomes clear that the device according to the invention described herein can also be advantageously equipped with a separate mixing container as described in the post-published patent application.

It should also be noted that in addition to a, as previously indicated formation of the element as an information carrier in the sense of an electronic component (such as RFID chip or other electronic memory) also an alternative embodiment comes into question. For example, a bar code may be glued or affixed to the container when the registration unit is a bar code scanner is trained. Although this embodiment will be more complicated than the RFID chip described above, it is still covered by the invention.

Another alternative is covered by the invention, when the element has a mechanical coding. This can with a

Counter coding at the coupling point cooperate. A mechanical one

Coding can be done, for example, by a specific arrangement of

Be given projections on a contact side of the container. A particular number or arrangement or formation of such projections may indirectly contain the information about the one in the container

Provide active ingredient.

On the coupling point side mating contact surface corresponding receptacles for the projections may be arranged. If the projections of the contact surface dip into corresponding receptacles starting from the mating contact surfaces, switching contacts, for example, can be actuated in the coupling point. The coupling point can recognize in this way, which type of protrusions are present on the stretched container. Also in this way, the information about the active ingredient in the container can be detected by the detection unit, and optionally transmitted to a control unit.

According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, a control unit is arranged on the device, which is in communication with the detection device, and which can receive and / or take into account the detected information. The control unit can be, for example, a conventional computer, for example a computer chip (CPU), which controls the sequence of the washing or cleaning program and, for example, is also connected to a program selector switch of the device. The control device can read in the data read by the detection device Take information into account. This may mean according to the invention, for example, that it notes that a certain active substance is available because a corresponding container is connected.

On the other hand, this invention may also mean that the

Control unit can determine that a specific drug is not available because a corresponding container is not connected.

Finally, the knowledge of the information of a lack of an active ingredient, the control device can also give an appropriate signal to the user if necessary or delay or block a washing process.

The detection of the information is preferably automatic or automated. This means that z. B. each docking of the corresponding container to the coupling point a read-in process can be initiated and the detection device can capture information. Alternatively, the detection can also take place in each case when a washing or cleaning program is to be started. For example, the control unit can send a pulse to the detection device in order to check which containers with soft active substances are connected to the coupling points.

Alternatively, a detection of the information under

With the aid of the dosing devices are automatically initiated or carried out. For this purpose, the detection unit can also be arranged, for example, on the metering device or assigned to it.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the invention, the information in the form of a mechanical coding on the element arranged. For this purpose, the element has a mechanical coding which cooperates with a counter-coding or a recording for the coding at the coupling point. The mechanical coding can be realized, for example, by a specific choice or arrangement or length or shape of projections on a contact surface on the contact side, which can cooperate with a mating contact surface at the coupling point. For this purpose, a corresponding counter-coding can be attached to the coupling point. Gegenkodierung means that the coupling point side mating contact surface either only a certain type of container - associated with a certain type of drug - allows for mounting or read or attached to the container mechanical coding, possibly also with the aid of switches or the like devices.

In an alternative embodiment of the invention, the information is preferably transferable from the element to or to the device (in optical and / or electromagnetic and / or electronic manner). Preferably, this information is contactlessly transferable, which is possible, for example, in the case of a design of the element as an RFID element via electromagnetic waves. However, it is also conceivable that the container contact elements of electrical type and the coupling point side mating contact surface mating contact elements are assigned, which allow a readout of information in the form of a data signal from a memory element side memory due to a current flow or a voltage sequence.

For this purpose, the element may preferably also have an electronic or an electromagnetic memory for receiving the information. According to a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention, the element is an RFID element. This can be used on known electronic components for storage of information.

In this context, the detection device of the device according to the invention is designed as readout device for RFID elements. This also makes it possible to resort to conventional elements.

The device according to the invention is designed according to an advantageous embodiment as a washing machine, in particular as a washing machine for use in the commercial sector. Such commercial washing machines have been manufactured for some time and are used in particular for the cleaning of work clothes, such as work coats and trousers, which are exposed to heavy soiling, such as workwear in the slaughterhouse or butcher, bakery, fire department etc.

There are a number of detergents known that contain particular active ingredients in adaptation to special requirements when washing the soiled textiles. In particular, it is known, depending on the application, to provide special enzymes, special surfactants, special bleaching agents, special odorants, special solvents, etc.

Even with conventional commercial washing machines, however, it is in

Not foreseeable what type of pollution to clean up

Textiles have. Adjustments are therefore both in terms of the degree of pollution, as well as the nature of the pollution and the nature of the textiles to be cleaned.

With the washing machine according to the invention, the environmental impact can be reduced with high efficiency.

For this purpose, it is provided that the receiving chamber is in a switchable, communicative connection with a plurality of containers, wherein in the containers different active ingredients for mixing a detergent are arranged, and wherein by selecting a program on the program selector dosing devices are addressed, the different containers and / or the different active ingredients are assigned to assemble a matched to the nature or nature of the objects and / or on the type of pollution detergent from the active ingredients and forward the receiving chamber.

In spatial allocation to the washing machine several containers are arranged. In the containers different active ingredients are arranged, which can be combined to form a detergent.

As possible, suitable active ingredients, for example, different enzymes and / or different surfactants are provided. Also, different enzyme mixtures or different surfactant mixtures in question.

Likewise suitable as active ingredients complexing agents, bleaching agents, preservatives, solvents, odors, corrosive agents, etc. in question. Almost all components of conventional detergents can be arranged in separate containers and metered individually by appropriate metering devices. Information about each of these agents may be placed on a corresponding information carrying member on the container.

By selecting a washing program on a program selector switch on the washing machine, the user can take into account which textiles or textiles to be cleaned are concerned and what type or degree of soiling they are. The program selector switch or a controller operatively connected thereto can then address the corresponding metering devices which are connected, for example, via signal control lines to the washing machine, in particular to a control unit. The metering devices can dose the individual active substances according to a stored table in accordance with the selected washing program and z. B. via a common supply line or via separate supply lines of the washing machine, in particular a receiving chamber for the objects to be cleaned, perform. The

Containers are more communicative with the recording chamber

Connection, that is to say that it concerns a pipe, a hose, a screw conveyor or the like, which collectively collects the containers

, or separately connects to the receiving chamber and allows a supply of the active ingredients towards the receiving chamber. The connection is switchable, that is via the metering device or additional separate valves or switching arrangements, the supply of the active ingredient can be initiated or prevented.

Characterized in that the individual active ingredients as it were as a concentrate, separated and arranged separately in containers and individually dosed If desired, a detergent optimized for the desired application can be put together. While conventional detergents try to provide a particularly wide range of applications, and for a particularly comprehensive mixture of different active ingredients covering virtually every purpose, that is, every possible degree of contamination, each type of contamination and any condition of the objects to be cleaned, according to the invention a variable Composition of the detergent on site, done in or on the washing machine.

On the other hand, the fact that concentrates are used in active ingredients, the transport and packaging costs are significantly reduced. For example, conventional liquid detergents use water contents of more than 80%. In the washing machine according to the invention, a mixing of the active ingredients of the detergent with water can only take place during or after the supply of the active ingredients in the receiving chamber. The water is available on site, since the washing machine is already connected to a water pipe.

The fact that the high water content, which is common in liquid detergents omitted, the transport or packaging costs can be reduced by up to 70 to 80%.

A mixture of the active ingredients together to provide a detergent can be done either in the feed line or in the receiving chamber or in a mixing chamber upstream of the receiving chamber on the washing machine or on the supply line. As a receiving chamber in the sense of the present patent application is in the case of a washing machine, in particular a commercial Washing machine or a household washing machine, a rotating drum understood. In the case of a cleaning device is understood as a receptacle each tub, which receives the detergent or detergent for performing the washing process of the objects to be cleaned.

The fact that, depending on the choice of the wash program, a special composition of the detergent, the wastewater pollution can be kept low. Since in each case only the active ingredients are used, which considers the washing program after selection by the user to be essential, the waters are not burdened with expendable detergent ingredients.

The mixture of the individual active ingredients for the production of a detergent on site, ie in the washing machine or at least near the washing machine, is also advantageous, bearing in mind that it is not possible to mix any active ingredients with conventional detergents. Thus, it has been recognized by the Applicant that certain active ingredients can settle, for example in liquid detergents, so that they are not homogeneously distributed in the finished, conventionally produced detergent. It has also been observed by the Applicant that certain drugs can chemically react with each other when mixed together in a conventional detergent.

Due to the separate and separate storage of the individual active ingredients in individual containers according to the present invention and by the single-dose mixing together of the active ingredients only in or at least close to the washing machine, during washing or just before washing, such settling problems and unwanted chemical reactions between the individual active ingredients be avoided. The active ingredients are used directly there, namely in the receiving chamber, without the occurrence of a chemical reaction which is detrimental to their effectiveness.

The applicant is aware of a washing machine of the prior art, in which the washing machine with different containers is in communicable communication, wherein in the containers different detergents are arranged. The washing machine according to the invention differs therefrom in that detergent active ingredients, that is to say components of a detergent, can be mixed together to form a detergent. As detergent active ingredients in particular enzymes, surfactants, complexing agents, etc. are considered.

It is particularly advantageous that several active ingredients of the

Recording chamber are simultaneously zuleitbar, since in this way a particularly homogeneous mixing of the active ingredients is possible.

Alternatively, it is advantageous that the active substances of the receiving chamber can be fed in succession. This can be a time delay and for that

Wash program optimized addition of the individual active ingredients allow.

Different washing steps during a washing program can also be carried out, for example, at different temperatures. According to the invention, certain active ingredients, e.g. certain enzymes or enzyme mixtures, are supplied at certain temperatures and thus optimized. Due to the individual metering of the individual active ingredients, a further optimization of the washing efficiency can take place.

Advantageously, the active ingredients are arranged as concentrates in the containers. As a concentrate is in particular a Drug composition or the nature of a drug combination referred to, in which the water or the filler contents are kept low or are almost completely avoided. Conventional liquid detergents have water contents of up to 80% in some cases. Conventional powder detergents have very high percentages of fillers, which are not active ingredients of a detergent, but only affect the consistency of the detergent. On these additives, which are present only as carriers to provide a conventional detergent, can be dispensed almost completely according to the invention.

According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention, a first enzyme is arranged as active ingredient in a first container and a second, different enzyme as active ingredient in a second container. Splitting the detergent ingredients into different enzymes and providing the ability to dose these enzymes one at a time allows for optimized washing efficiency. For example, lipases can be used to break down fats and, for example, to optimally clean professional clothing such as that obtained in a slaughterhouse. Amylases should not be needed when cleaning greasy clothing, at least in some applications. By choosing an appropriate washing program, e.g. with the title "cleaning of fats soiled professional gowns", can be carried out according to a control that the enzyme amylase is omitted or only slightly dosed and the enzyme lipase is added in high doses to the detergent.

Alternatively, for example, in the cleaning of bakers clothes, where it is expected that very strong contamination of the textiles with flour, that is, with starch, can be found, amylase as Enzyme can be added in high doses, while lipases are practically not needed.

While currently in conventional detergents e.g. four different enzymes, namely proteases, amylases, lipases and

Cellulases are used, it is expected that in the future even more separate enzymes can be used for further optimization. According to the number of enzymes or enzyme mixtures to be accommodated separately, according to the invention, there is a corresponding number of containers for the different ones

Enzyme provided, the containers carrying information

Elements are provided.

Under certain circumstances, a first container for a first enzyme mixture and at least one separate separate container for another, second enzyme mixture comes into consideration.

Likewise, advantageously, a first container for a first type of surfactant and a further container for a second type of surfactant may be provided. By providing different, individually metered surfactants, an adaptation to different contaminants can also be optimized. It is also possible, for example, for allergy sufferers without enzymes or without certain enzymes or without certain surfactants to carry out the washing programs.

In one embodiment of the invention, the active ingredients or optionally the mixtures of active ingredients within a

Washing program or be supplied to the receiving chamber successively within a washing process. Different active ingredients may themselves have different pH values, especially if they are already in liquid form. Alternatively, it is provided that the active ingredients in the washing liquid in the receiving chamber unfold different pH values. You can ensure that the washing liquid in the receiving chamber at a certain time and for a certain period of a certain pH value, which changes during the wash program. Taking into account a particularly suitable pH, the active ingredients or optionally additives can have a particularly advantageous effect and the articles to be washed can be cleaned or treated in a particularly efficient manner.

For example, during a wash program, first a first pH value a, subsequently a different pH value b and finally, if appropriate, a third pH value c can be achieved during the program. Thus, the mode of action of the active ingredients can be significantly improved. It is also possible in accordance with the invention to use active ingredients which conventionally could not be used since the prior art only washed alkaline. For example, according to the invention, a washing program may begin first in an acidic environment, then in an alkaline d. H. basic environment can be continued with the same or with other active ingredients and finally terminated at the end in an acidic environment again.

For example, wool materials easily acidified after completion of washing process can be removed from the receiving chamber, so that an impregnation or a flame retardant coating or the like can be applied in a particularly simple manner, for example, because the adhesion has been improved. Other advantageously designed washes with a single or multiple change in pH are possible. Analogous to the above-mentioned appreciation of the invention on

Example of a washing machine also come when the device according to the invention as a cleaning device according to claim

25 or according to claim 52, the same benefits. By individual mixture of a cleaning agent of different

Active ingredients can make optimal adjustments to the

Objects are hit. Thus, it is possible to use only those active ingredients that are actually for the respective

Registration case will be needed. Unnecessary active substances are simply omitted, which reduces the pollution of the wastewater.

The device according to the invention can also be designed as a household washing machine, that is to say as a washing machine of substantially known dimensions, as can be found in virtually every household.

Also in a household washing machine, a plurality of containers is provided with different active ingredients according to the invention. Substances that can be used in a household washing machine are essentially the same active substances already explained above. It should be noted that the design effort in a household washing machine due to the price requirements must be kept lower than for a provided for commercial purposes washing machine. In question, therefore, for example, only three or only five containers, one container for receiving bleach, another container for receiving enzymes or an enzyme mixture and a third container for receiving a surfactant or a surfactant used. The surfactant mixture can also contain other active ingredients as components of a detergent, such as corrosive agents, complexing agents and softeners. For example, if you want to wash the clothes of an allergic person, a wash program can ensure that enzymes that could cause allergies are not added to the detergent.

In the event that cooking linen is washed, bleaching agent may be added accordingly. In the event that washed coloreds, it can be ensured that no bleach is added. Therefore, the user of the washing machine does not have to use different detergents for color and cooking laundry, but overpowers the selection of detergent ingredients of the washing machine.

According to one embodiment of the invention, a plurality of containers for receiving different active ingredients for mixing a

Detergent mounted directly on the washing machine. While for conventional detergents e.g. Receiving drawers are provided, in which, for example, a liquid detergent can be given, in the washing machine according to the invention, a plurality of containers arranged directly on the washing machine, wherein the

Containers in particular the separate accommodation and reception of

a) bleaching agents,

b) Enzyme mixtures and

c) surfactant mixtures,

optionally with other active ingredients serve. The containers are preferably releasably fastened in the washing machine. They may in particular be designed in the manner of a cartridge, and also individually, or together as a structural unit, be detachably fastened in the washing machine. The containers can be filled individually. So z. For example, at regular intervals, the user can add bleach, top up the enzyme mixture or top up the surfactant mixture. Each container has a volume that allows the inclusion of an amount of the corresponding active ingredient, which is sufficient for a variety of washes. It is particularly advantageous if the individual containers are designed in the manner of cartridges, as known from color ink-jet printer cartridges.

An element containing information about which agents are in the container or in the cartridge may be disposed either on each individual container or together for all the active ingredients on the cartridge.

According to the invention, the element can also contain information about the amount of active substances contained in the containers when they are filled or in a delivery state.

Does the controller know the amount required for a single washing program of the respective active ingredient and stores it over several carried out washing or cleaning process the individual consumption of the respective active ingredient, and calculates it z. B. by adding up the individual Dosiermengen the total consumption, the control unit of the device can continuously make a statement by checking the delivered amount of active ingredient with the consumed up to a certain time amount of active ingredient that a certain drug supply is about to run out or shortly has already run out. In this case too, the control unit can transmit to the user a corresponding signal that the active ingredient supply is to be renewed or supplemented.

The invention further relates to a method for washing

Objects, such as textiles, industrial products od. Like.

This invention has for its object to improve a method for washing articles, as practiced with a conventional washing machine to improve.

The invention solves this problem with the features of claim 46.

With respect to the method, the advantages mentioned above for a device according to the invention designed as a washing machine apply analogously, so that reference can be made to this.

According to the invention, the device can also be designed as a dishwasher.

Such a dishwasher is the kind of a usual

Household appliance as known provided. In the known dishwasher, a first container for a cleaning tab, another

Container for rinse aid and a third container for salt provided.

Each rinse requires a new detergent tab.

In the dishwasher according to the invention z. B. a first container for a liquid detergent provided, which a

Volume for taking a detergent dose for a variety Having rinses, and a metering device, which performs a dosage of the detergent according to a selected wash program.

The liquid detergent container can hold a large amount of detergent. A dosing device allows for individual dosing, according to the selected program and at the desired time. For example, even during a wash program several times, e.g. at an optimum temperature, detergent can be added. The container can be detachably attached to the dishwasher and in particular be designed as a cartridge. Thus, if necessary, the corresponding container can be refilled or replaced and replaced with a new container.

The container, for example, a cartridge, may have the element with the required information. Preferably, several different containers are arranged on the dishwasher.

By arranging a liquid cleaning agent, a particularly fine dosing can be carried out, for example if only slightly soiled dishes are to be cleaned. This also reduces the wastewater load and increases the efficiency of the dishwasher. In each case only so much detergent or active ingredient is added as required.

In the apparatus according to the invention, which is designed as a dishwasher, a plurality of containers for different active ingredients of a cleaning agent, such as enzymes, surfactants, od. Like. Provided, wherein metering devices are provided with which the active ingredients are individually metered according to a selected washing program. Analogous to the arrangement described above for a washing machine, a plurality of containers with different active ingredients of a cleaning agent are provided in the dishwasher according to the invention. In the containers are active ingredients as constituents of a rinsing agent, such as enzymes, surfactants, od. Like., Arranged, which can be dosed and mixed together as needed on the spot, controlled by a corresponding wash program, in order to provide the optimal adjusted rinsing or detergent. In the event that, for example, allergy sufferers can not tolerate certain active ingredients of a cleaning agent, such components can be omitted by an intelligent control.

Cleaning devices on the type of car washes are well known. Car washes for passenger cars or for

Commercial vehicles are for example in the form of stationary or mobile

Installations are known in which the vehicle either actively passes through an appropriate cleaning device or is pulled through it. In mobile vehicle washes, portals or similar devices may also be moved relative to the stationary vehicle.

A conventional washing line has as means for applying a liquid containing detergent to the vehicle outer surface numerous nozzles or the like spray heads, with which the cleaning liquid or washing liquid is applied to the vehicle outer surface. For this purpose, conventional cleaning agents are used in the prior art.

In the device according to the invention, designed as a vehicle cleaning device, for example, there is the possibility of a Make detergent composition variable depending on the type of pollution of the vehicle and so individually dosed and efficiently use the active ingredients. Thus, the environmental impact can be reduced. Also, the active ingredients in their composition can be mixed as desired or individually metered successively applied at different times via the nozzles on the vehicle surface.

Preferably, the active ingredients are housed as a concentrate individually in different containers. In this case, the active ingredients are diluted with water before they are sprayed onto the vehicle surface via the nozzles or similar devices.

The invention further relates to a special housing of the enzyme protease.

According to claim 53, a device according to the invention comprises a first container, in which protease, and another container, in which a different enzyme or an enzyme mixture are housed. This allows for the first time a separate housing of the enzyme protease and prevents interactions of the protease with other enzymes. This allows completely new washing processes and cleaning processes.

The protease can be dissolved, for example, in oil or alcohol, or at least be housed together with oil or alcohol in a container. Other emulsifiers or solvents or carriers for the protease are also suitable.

The invention further relates to a container after

The preamble of claim 55. This container is for housing and for the transport of active ingredients of a detergent or a cleaning agent. The active ingredients are used to clean objects in a dedicated device, eg. As a washing machine or dishwasher, in a vehicle cleaning device or in an industrial cleaning device for products.

The container has a contact surface, which can be contacted with a coupling point side mating contact surface on the device. In this way, the container can be mounted directly on the coupling point of the device.

According to the invention, an element is arranged on the container that comprises direct or indirect information about the active substance arranged in the container. Regarding the description of the

Advantages of this invention will be made to the above statements, which apply analogously.

The invention further relates to a container according to claim 58 with the special feature that the enzyme protease is housed in the container. With the exception of protease, no further enzymes or enzyme mixtures are accommodated in the container.

Further advantages of the invention will become apparent from the non-cited subclaims and with reference to the following description of several illustrated in the drawings embodiments. In it show, all in a schematic, simplified representation:

Fig. 1 shows a first embodiment of an inventive, designed as a washing machine for commercial use

Contraption, 2 shows a second embodiment in which a sub-container is subdivided into a plurality of containers or chambers, or a plurality of containers are combined to form a structural unit,

3 shows a first embodiment of a device according to the invention, designed as a household washing machine,

4 shows a second embodiment of a device according to the invention, designed as a household washing machine with a cartridge-type insert,

5 shows the cartridge-like insert according to FIG. 4, FIG.

6 shows an embodiment of an inventive device designed as a cleaning device,

7 shows an embodiment of a device according to the invention, designed as a dishwasher, in a schematic side view,

Fig. 8 in a schematic interior view according to arrow VIII in Fig. 7, the dishwasher of FIG. 7, and

FIG. 9 is a schematic view analogous to FIG. 6 of a further embodiment of a cleaning device according to the invention designed as a washing line

The same or comparable parts or elements are in the following description of the figures, even as far as different

Embodiments are affected, partially with attachment smaller Letters, for the sake of clarity with the same reference numerals.

As shown in FIG. 1, a device 80 according to the invention embodied as a substantially conventional commercial washing machine 10 has a receiving chamber 11, which is typically formed by a rotating drum and can be closed in a door-like manner by a closure glass (not shown). A program selector switch 12 is indicated and serves for the manual adjustment of a specific program by the operator. Other program selection devices, for example, the nature of the textiles to be cleaned, the nature and the degree of contamination may be provided on the washing machine 10, but are not shown in Fig. 1.

The schematic diagram of FIG. 1 shows that the washing machine 10 is connected via a feed line 13 to different containers 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h. From the central supply line 13, therefore, corresponding branches 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d, 17e, 17f, 17g, 17h go to the corresponding containers.

Similarly, an electronic control line 14 is provided, which can also be designated as a signal line and which is also connected to the individual containers 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h. Again, go from the signal line 14 corresponding branches

18a, 18b, 18c, 18d, 18e, 18f, 18g, 18h.

First, it should be noted that the architecture of both the

Feed line 13 and the signal line 14 purely schematically and only by way of example is to be understood. For example, it may alternatively be a

Be provided star connection, according to which, starting from the Washing machine 10 to each container 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h own control line 14 and a separate supply line 13 extends. It can also be provided that the supply line 13 is connected to the end shown broken off in Fig. 1 with a water line. This water pipe can also feed the washing machine to carry out a washing process. Alternatively, from each container 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h, a separate water feed can be made. The water flowing in the water pipes can also bring about a transport of the active ingredients, and entrain these agents, for example, in the water stream or, z. B. also dissolved in it, take along.

Finally, the control line 14, as shown, be equipped with branches. Alternatively, separate control lines can run from the washing machine, or from an indicated central electronic controller or control unit 73 of the washing machine, to each container 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h or to a respective metering device provided for this purpose.

The container 15 a is shown schematically in Fig. 1, a

Dosing device 16, for example, a conventional metering pump assigned. The control line 14 connects the washing machine 10, in particular the control unit 73, via the branch 18a with the metering device 16. In the container 15a, a first enzyme, for example lipase egg, is arranged. By selecting a corresponding washing program with the program selector switch 12 can be set, for example, that greasy soiling should be solved. The metering device 16 receives from the control unit 73 of the washing machine 10 therefore at an optimized time during the wash program the instruction, a certain amount of the lipase E ₁ from the container 15a in the corresponding feed branch 17a of the supply line 13 introduce.

Corresponding metering devices 16 are also assigned to the other containers 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h, but not shown in FIG. 1 for reasons of clarity.

In the container 15b is an enzyme E ₂ , for example, cellulase. Another enzyme E ₃ is in the container 15c, for example amylase. Finally, there is an enzyme E ₄ , eg protease, in the container 15 d.

Proteases primarily cleave proteins and act against soiling, such as spinach and the like. Amylases break starch and act against mashed potatoes, chocolate, pudding and the like. Lipases split fats and act against salad oil, dripping, sunscreen, make-up and the like. Cellulase removes cotton fluff and refreshes colored fabrics. By individual dosing of the different four enzymes E ₁ , E ₂ , E ₃ , E ₄ can thus be optimally adapted to the pollution production of a detergent, without bringing unnecessary agents into the detergent and pollute the waste water unduly, but at the same time the required Active ingredients can be used in sufficient quantities.

The containers 15e, 15f contain different surfactants Ti and

T ₂ , or different surfactant mixtures. This is intended merely to illustrate, by way of example, that it is advantageously possible to also provide different containers for different surfactants. The number of containers or the number of different surfactants or surfactant mixtures depends on the extent to which individual dosability of the detergent active ingredients is desired. The container 15g serves to receive a complexing agent K. Also, the complexing agent can be dosed by the control of the washing machine 10 depending on the choice of the washing program.

The container 15h exemplified serves for receiving, for example, a solvent or a complexing agent or an anti-corrosive agent or a bleaching agent, or the like. Other containers, not shown in FIG. 1, can also be provided. There is also the possibility of individual active ingredients, for example

Surfactants, with complexing agents, etc. to mix. It is important that the

Active ingredients in concentrate form are present without emulsifiers,

Preservatives and carriers, such as fillers or water,

Stabilizers etc. mixed or mixed in excessive amount.

At each container 15, an RFID chip 70 is arranged, in which information about the active substance contained in the container is inscribed. An RFID chip 70a is arranged on the container 15a and, for example, glued to its left outer side 15a with respect to FIG. In the RFID chip 70a, the information is written that is in the container 15a lipase egg. In the RFID chip 70b, which is attached to the second container 15b, the information is written that in this container 15b cellulase is located.

Also in the other, indicated in Fig. 1 RFID elements 70c, 7Od, 7Oe, 7Of ₁ 70g, 70h each information is written, which active ingredient, ie the enzymes E _3, E ₄ , the surfactants Ti, T ₂ , the Complexing agent K etc. is in the respective container. At the washing machine 10, a detection means 71 indicated only by dashed lines is arranged. The detection device 71 is capable of reading out the RFID chips 70a, 70b, 70c, 70d, 70e, 70f, 70g, 70h and detecting the information stored therein. The readout is wireless and contactless. The detection unit 71 may be of conventional design and emit an electromagnetic signal, which leads to an excitation of the electrical circuit in the RFID chip 7Oa ₁ 7Ob ₁ 7Oc ₁ 7Od, 7Oe, 7Of, 70g, 70h. The detection device 71 can then detect and detect or allocate or process the signal generated as a result of the excitation of the corresponding circuit in the RFID chip 70a, 70b, 70c, 7Od ₁ 7Oe, 7Of, 70g, 70h. This information can then be transmitted to the control unit 73, which is connected to the detection device 71 in a manner not shown. The control unit can calculate or assemble a suitable detergent on the basis of the information provided about the available active ingredients and with knowledge of the selected washing program.

In the event that the container 15a with the enzyme lipase E _{1 is brought} to the coupling point 72, for example, as a result of the mechanical coupling, a corresponding query by the detection device 71 can be initiated automatically.

Alternatively, a detection can also take place regularly, at specific time intervals. Finally, one can

Information collection should be made regularly at the beginning of a wash program.

If the container 15a with the RFID chip 70a is located in or at the coupling point 72 provided therefor, then the RFID element 70a is arranged in a sufficient proximity to the detection device 71. A readout of the information can be done with this small spatial proximity of the elements 70a and 71 to each other. Of course, this also applies equally to the RFID elements 70h and 7Od farthest from the detection device 71. These are also detectable by the detection unit 71.

The coupling point 72 may, for example, be a conventional receptacle for a receptacle having a plug-like end. Other plug-in connections, snap-in connections, contact connections or the like, including bayonet-type or helical connections between the container 15a and the coupling point 72 come into question. It is crucial that, after completion of the Ankoppelvorganges the respective metering device 16 from the interior of the container 15a individually metered can remove a certain amount of active ingredient if necessary.

If the container 15 is empty, this can be easily solved by the coupling point 72 and replaced by a new container filled with active ingredient. This new container in turn carries an RFID element 70a, so that it can be detected by the detection device 71 as soon as the corresponding new container is docked to the coupling point 72.

The information acquired by the detection device 71 is forwarded to the control unit 73, which processes this information. For example, the control unit 73 may detect if improperly replaced in place of the desired agent, e.g.

B. the enzyme E ₂ due to an exchange of the container 15 b accidentally a container with another active ingredient, eg. B. with the enzyme E ₁ (lipase) is coupled. Such a confusion can occur when the two containers 15a and 15b have a same external shape.

According to the invention, such an exchange can be ruled out by the coding of the two containers 15a, 15b with an RFID chip and with information about the active substances contained.

The information about the respective active ingredient contained in the container 15 a, z. B. E ₁ , can be encoded, for example, with the aid of an article number or the like, or directly, be inscribed as an enzyme name in the RF I D element. When using codes, such as. B. article numbers, the control unit 73 or possibly even the detection device 71 can put these codes to the actual enzyme name or at least to the required in carrying out the washing process codes or enzyme names or drug names in combination.

It should be noted that instead of an RFI D element, the elements 70a, 70b, 70c, 70d, 70e, 70f, 70g, 70h fastened to the containers 15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15h are of course also connected by a another electronic storage element or the other transponder or other suitable element that can carry information can be provided. For example, the container 15a could be equipped with electronic memory, e.g. B. be equipped with an EEPROM memory, a Flashstick or the like, and have electronic or electrical plug contacts that can be brought into electrical contact with mating plug contacts in the coupling point 72. Via a signal line which connects the coupling point 72 with the detection device 71, the respective information could then be interrogated as signal data via this control line. As shown in FIG. 2, an alternatively constructed container 15a has four chambers 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d. Here, the enzymes Ei, E ₂ , E ₃ , E ₄ are arranged in the individual chambers, which should be illustrated by different levels of filling. The dosing device 16 also shown is capable of acting separately on the individual chambers 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d and to dose the individual enzymes E ₁ , E ₂ , E ₃ , E ₄ individually. The container 15a here thus has four separate containers in the sense of the patent application.

The container 15 with its four chambers 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d can be regarded as an assembly of four partial containers 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d. Each subcontainer is here associated with its own RFID chip 70a, 70b, 7Oc ₁ 7Od, as has already been explained in the exemplary embodiment of FIG.

Alternatively, it is also possible to assign the receptacle 15a to a common RFID chip which contains information about all the active substances which are accommodated in the four chambers 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d.

In the embodiment of FIG. 2, it is indicated that the detection device 71 may also be associated with the metering device 16. Thus, the detection device 71 can detect the information and optionally use it directly for controlling the metering device 16. Alternatively, the information from the detection device 71 but also via the lines 18a and 14 to the control unit 73 or via separate lines, not shown, or wirelessly, optically or electromagnetically be transmitted to the control unit 73. The location of the detection device 71 is not relevant in this respect. The example of FIG. 2 illustrates, however, that an arrangement of the detection device 71 in the immediate vicinity of Elements 70a, 70b, 70c, 7Od for reading the information may be advantageous.

For the purposes of the present patent application, the term "active ingredient" includes enzymes and surfactants, but also mixtures thereof. The term active ingredient mixture also includes any

Mixtures of active ingredients with additives such as

Solvents, complexing agents, bleaching agents, anti-corrosives,

Fillers, stabilizers and water. It should be noted that certain active ingredients or drug mixtures achieve their optimum cleaning soil-dissolving or functional effect advantageously in a particular alkaline or acidic environment.

The washing machine and cleaning device according to the invention can ensure that individual active substances or mixtures of active substances are fed successively into the receiving chamber during a washing program. The active ingredients can be used within one

Wash program at different times and at different pH values of the present in the receiving chamber wash water or the washing solution act.

In other words, the pH of the washing or cleaning fluid may change during a wash program. The change in the pH can be caused directly by the active substances or by mixtures of active ingredients or alternatively by separate additives which are added to the active ingredients or active substance mixtures, or which are supplied separately.

For example, it can be ensured that at the beginning of a washing program, a first active ingredient is passed into the receiving chamber and because of its chemical properties there for a alkaline environment or containing additives that provide an alkaline environment. If appropriate, the additives can also be supplied from a separate container.

Subsequently, advantageously only after a period of time during which the active substance has exhibited its optimum effect, another active substance can be introduced into the receiving chamber, wherein at the same time the pH value changes in a predetermined manner into the acidic environment.

Subsequently, z. B. a third active ingredient or the aforementioned first active ingredient are added and in turn provide for a change of the wash water milieu into the alkaline.

In this way, the textiles to be cleaned or

Subjects or the active ingredients during a wash program be exposed to different pH levels, whereby an optimal effect of the individual active ingredients can be achieved.

Fig. 3 shows an inventive, as a household washing machine

20 trained device 80 which is connected in an analogous manner to the embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 2 via a supply line 21 and a signal line or control line 22 with individual containers 23a, 23b, 23c, 23d, 23e.

According to the invention, the household washing machine has at least three different containers 23a, 23b and 23c. In the first container 23a is a concentrate of a bleaching agent B, in the second container 23b is an enzyme mixture E and in the third container 23c is a surfactant mixture T, which also contains complexing agents, anti-corrosive agents and water softeners. Optionally, further containers 23d and 23e as well as further containers (not shown) may also be provided, which allow an even finer individual variable composition of a detergent for operating the household washing machine 20.

Each container 23a, 23b, 13c, 23d, 23e has an information-carrying element 70a, 70b, 70c, 7Od, 7Oe _1, in particular an RFID chip. The washing machine 20 is in turn equipped with a detection device 71, which can detect the information. Each element contains information about the drug in the container.

As shown in FIG. 4, a washing machine 30 according to the invention has an insert 31 or a structural unit 31 which, as shown in FIG. 5, consists of three different containers 32a, 32b and 32c. The use

31 can as a unit in total as a cartridge solvable at the

Washing machine 30 be fastened. Alternatively, there is also the

Possibility to separate the individual containers 32a, 32b, 32c individually and separately from the washing machine 30. It is important that the individual containers for receiving bleaching agents, enzyme mixture and surfactant mixtures are separately fillable or refillable or individually interchangeable. In this way, in the washing machine 30 a

Amount of bleach, enzyme mixture and surfactant are held, which is sufficient for many washes, as on the otherwise, in conventional

Liquid detergents very voluminous proportions of water can be completely dispensed with.

FIGS. 4 and 5 make it clear that a detection unit 71 is arranged on the washing machine 30, which can detect information contained in RFID chip 70a, 70b, 70c or other suitable information bearing elements. FIG. 5 shows that a separate RFID element 70a, 70b, 70c can be provided in the assembly 31 for each chamber or for each sub-container 23a, 23b, 23c. Alternatively, as already explained with reference to FIG. 2, a common RFID element may also be provided which contains information about all the active substances contained in the individual containers 23a, 23b, 23c.

Fig. 6 shows an embodiment of the device 80 according to the invention, which serves as a cleaning device 39 for industrial and commercial purposes.

Schematically illustrated is a receiving basin 40 with a cleaning liquid 41, a kind of cleaning bath. Objects 42, for example metal profiles, are moved by a conveyor 43, sketched in FIG. 6 in the manner of a circulating conveyor belt, in the direction of the arrow x and fall, approximately at 49, onto a conveyor belt in the basin 40. They become inside the basin 40 transported by a further conveyor belt 44 in the direction of the arrow x and finally removed from a conveyor 45 from the cleaning bath. They can then be transported away by another transport device 46 and e.g. be supplied to a further, not shown processing point.

The metal parts 42 may, for example, be provided with lubricants, which is required as part of their manufacturing process or a machining process. The stay in the cleaning liquid 41, z. B. like a dip bath, should serve to clean the surface of the metal parts of the Befettungsmittel or other pollution. The basin 40 is, as shown schematically in Fig. 6, connected via a supply line 46 with a structural unit 47 having a plurality of different containers 48a, 48b, 48c, 48d. In the individual containers, as indicated by different filling levels in Fig. 6, different active ingredients of a cleaning agent are arranged. Dosiereinrichtungen 16, analogous to the metering device 16 shown in FIG. 1, the individual active ingredients can be metered individually and perform the pool 40 via the common supply line 46.

Partly not shown in Fig. 6, but necessarily present, are appropriate control devices, indicated by the reference numeral 73, control lines and, for example, a program selector switch or at least a device for determining the required dosage of the individual active ingredients. Instead of a common supply line 46, individual, separate supply lines can also be provided for the different active substances.

The different containers 48a, 48b, 48c, 48d are each assigned their own information-containing element 70a, 70b, 70c, 70d, preferably an RFID chip. Each RFID chip contains information about the substance in the container. These

Information can be read out by an indicated detection device 71 and used by the metering device 16 or with the interposition of the indicated control unit 73 in the dosage for the cleaning program.

As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, a conventional domestic dishwasher has a door 51 pivotable about a housing-fixed axis, which is shown in FIG. 7 in a half-open state. Evidently, the interior 52 of the dishwasher has a conventional construction, wherein dishwashing trolleys 53a and 53b can be provided and water distributing devices 45, for example, can be arranged rotating approximately in the middle of the interior 52.

The special feature according to the invention consists here of a structural unit 55 which may be of a cartridge-like design and may comprise different containers 56a, 56b and 56c. In the container 56a may rinse aid, in the container 56b may be detergent salt and in the container 56c, the actual detergent or detergent may be arranged. The detergent R is a liquid rinse and the container 56c is sized sufficiently large to receive a quantity of rinse sufficient for a variety of rinses. A metering device 16 can be controlled by a control unit 73 according to the choice of a wash program to deliver the desired amount of detergent at the desired time, during the course of the program in the interior 52.

In an alternative embodiment of a dishwasher according to the invention, different containers may be provided for different active ingredients of the cleaning agent, so that an even finer dosage is possible.

In the case of the use of individual, different containers for different active ingredients, each container 56a, 56b, 56c may have its own element 70a, 70b, 70c, 7Oe, in particular an RFID chip, which is assigned information about the respective one in the

Contains container containing active ingredient. A detection device 71, which is merely indicated in FIG. 8, can record this information and, upon activation of a metering device, preferably under

Interposition of a control unit 73, take into account. if the Cartridge of the dishwasher 50 according to FIGS. 7 and 8 is a structural unit, here a common element may contain information about several active ingredients contained in the individual containers.

FIG. 9 shows, in a very schematic view, comparable to FIG

Representation of Fig. 6 shows an embodiment of a cleaning device 60 according to the invention designed device 80 in the manner of a car wash. The cleaning device is indicated generally at 60 and may, as indicated, vertical support 61 a and 61 b and a roof structure 62 included. A vehicle 63 to be cleaned can travel through the cleaning device 60 in the direction of travel F or can be pulled through it. Alternatively, the cleaning device 60 may also be a mobile portal that moves relative to a stationary vehicle 63.

In the ceiling area 62 or additionally or alternatively, which is not shown, and in the area of the carrier 61 a and 61 b, there may be devices 64, with which a washing liquid, in particular a detergent containing a detergent or a liquid dispensed, for. B. is sprayed. 9 shows by way of example three nozzles 65a, 65b and 65c. These are connected via a common supply line 66 with a structural unit 67, which is shown in an analogous manner to the assembly 47 of the embodiment of FIG. The assembly 67 comprises four containers 68 a, 68 b, 68 c and 68 d, in which different active ingredients or active substance mixtures are contained. A metering device 16 analogous to the metering devices described above, the active ingredients individually metered and supply via the common supply line 66 of the device 64. At any point, the supply line 66 may, for example, also be in communicative communication with a water line, so that the active substances accommodated in the containers 68a, 68b, 68c and 68d are known as Concentrate can be stored and diluted with water to a washing liquid.

With regard to the nature of the usable active ingredients for the containers of the structural unit 67, the considerations made above with regard to the other exemplary embodiments of washing machines and cleaning devices apply analogously.

Each container 68a, 68b, 68c, 68d is assigned its own RFID element 70a, 70b, 70c, 70d, which contains information about the active substance contained in the respective container. If necessary, that can

RFID element also by another, suitable, the corresponding

Information bearing element to be replaced. The detection device

71, which merely indicates Fig. 9, may capture the information. About a connection, not shown, the information from the

Detection device 71, as in the previously described

Embodiments, are transmitted to the control unit 73. This can control the metering devices 16 in the desired manner.

All disclosed features are each essential to the invention in each case essential to the invention. As far as features are described only with reference to a particular embodiment, it will be clear to those skilled in the art that this is done only for the purpose of avoiding repetition and the features are present in the same or analogous manner in the other embodiments.

Claims

1. Device (80) for washing and / or cleaning of objects, such. As textiles, with the aid of several einzeldosierbaren active ingredients such as enzymes or / and surfactants, wherein the respective active ingredient separately in a container (15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h, 23a, 23b, 23c, 23d , 23e, 32a, 32b, 32c, 56a, 56b, 56c) and can be removed therefrom, and wherein the container is releasably securable to a coupling point (72) of the device, characterized in that an element (70a, 70b, 70c, 7Od, 7Oe, 7Of, 70g, 70h), which comprises direct or indirect information about the active substance contained in the container, and in that a device (71) is arranged on the device with which this information can be detected is.

2. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that on the device with the means (71) in connection standing control unit (73) is arranged, which can take into account the detected information.

3. Apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that a detection of the information is automatic or automated.

4. Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the element (70) has a mechanical coding, which cooperates with a Gegenkodierung at the coupling point (72).

5. Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the information from the element (70) to optical and / or electromagnetic and / or electronic manner to the device (71) is transferable.

6. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the element has an electronic and / or electromagnetic memory for receiving the information.

7. The device according to claim 6, characterized in that the memory electronically or optically or electromagnetically by the detection device (71) is read out.

8. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the element (70) is an RFI D element or another transponder.

9. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the device (80) as a washing machine (10, 20, 30), in particular for use in the industrial sector, is formed.

10. The device according to claim 9, characterized in that the washing machine (10, 20, 30) comprises a receiving chamber (11) for objects to be cleaned and a program selector switch (12) with which in adaptation to the type of contamination of the objects and / or a suitable washing program can be selected or automatically selected to suit the type or nature of the items.

11. The device according to claim 10, characterized in that the receiving chamber in switchable, communicative connection with a plurality of containers (15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h) stands, wherein in the containers different active ingredients (E ₁ , E ₂ , E ₃ , E ₄ , Ti, T ₂ , K) are arranged for mixing a detergent, and wherein by selecting a program on the program selector dosing devices (16) can be addressed, which are associated with the different containers and / or the different active ingredients to assemble a matched to the nature or nature of the objects and / or on the type of pollution detergent from the active ingredients and forward the receiving chamber.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 and 2, characterized in that the control device (73) is assigned to the program selector switch.

13. Device according to one of claims 10 to 12, characterized in that a plurality of active substances of the receiving chamber (11) are successively or simultaneously zuleitbar.

14. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the active ingredients (E ₁ , E ₂ , E ₃ , E ₄ , T ₁ , T ₂ , K) are arranged as concentrates in the containers.

15. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in a first container (15a) as the active ingredient, a first enzyme (E ₁ ) and in a second container (15b) as the active ingredient, a second enzyme (E ₂ ) is arranged.

16. The device according to claim 15, characterized in that the first enzyme (E ₁ ) and / or the second enzyme (E ₂ ) is taken from the following group of enzymes "proteases, amylases, lipases, cellulases".

17. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least three containers (15a, 15b, 15c) with different enzymes (egg, E ₂ , E ₃ ) are provided.

18. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least four or more containers (15a, 15b, 15c, 15d) with different enzymes (egg, E ₂ , E ₃ , E ₄ ) are provided.

19. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in a first container (15e) as the active ingredient a first type of surfactant (Ti) and in a second container (15f) as active ingredient, a second Tensidart (T ₂ ) is arranged.

20. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least three containers with different

Tensidarten are provided.

21. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that in each case a separate container (15g) is provided for a complexing agent (K) and / or for a solvent and / or for a disinfectant.

22. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a plurality of containers are provided and each container is assigned its own element with information about the respective material.

23. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a plurality of containers are combined to form a structural unit, and that the unit is associated with an element (70) with information about several active ingredients.

24. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the device (80) in the manner of a conventional commercial textile washing machine (10) is formed.

25. Device according to one of the preceding claims, as far as this is not dependent on claim 9 or claim 24, characterized in that the device (80) as a cleaning device (39) for commercial and / or industrial applications, in particular for cleaning metallic objects ( 42), such as profiles, tubes, spring elements or the like formed by Befettungsmittelresten, comprising a receiving basin (40) for the objects to be cleaned, in a switchable, communicative connection with a plurality of containers (48 a, 48 b, 48 c, 48 d) stands, wherein in the containers different active ingredients are arranged individually, which are individually dosed to mix a detergent composed of the active ingredients (41).

26. The device according to claim 25, characterized in that the active ingredients are arranged as concentrates in the containers.

27. Device according to one of claims 25 or 26, characterized in that at least one separate container is provided, in which a concentrate of an enzyme or an enzyme mixture is arranged.

28. Device according to one of claims 25 to 27, characterized in that at least one separate container is provided, in which a concentrate of a surfactant or a surfactant mixture is arranged.

29. Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the device (80) is designed as a washing machine (20), like a household washing machine, comprising a receiving chamber (11) for objects to be cleaned and a program selector switch (12), with which a suitable washing program can be selected in accordance with the type of soiling of the objects and / or in adaptation to the nature or properties of the objects, the receiving chamber being in switchable, communicative connection with a plurality of containers (23a, 23b, 23c, 23d, 23e), wherein in the containers different active ingredients (B, E, T) are arranged for mixing a detergent, and wherein by selecting a program on the program selector dosing devices (16) are responsive to the different containers and / or the different active ingredients are assigned to a to the nature or condition of the objects and / or d The type of pollution adapted detergent composed of the active ingredients and forward the receiving chamber.

30. The device according to claim 29, characterized in that a plurality of active substances of the receiving chamber can be fed simultaneously.

31. The device according to claim 29, characterized in that a plurality of active substances of the receiving chamber are successively zuleitbar.

32. Device according to one of claims 29 to 31, characterized in that at least one separate container (23b) is provided, in which a concentrate (E) of an enzyme or an enzyme mixture is arranged.

33. Device according to one of claims 29 to 32, characterized in that at least one separate container (23c) is provided, in which a concentrate (T) of a surfactant or a surfactant mixture is arranged.

34. Device according to one of claims 29 to 33, characterized in that at least one separate container (23c) is provided, in which a concentrate (T) of a mixture of a surfactant or a surfactant mixture is arranged together with a complexing agent.

35. Device according to one of claims 29 to 34, characterized in that at least one separate container (23c) is provided, in which a concentrate of a surfactant or a surfactant mixture together with a complexing agent and / or with a corrosion inhibitor and / or with a softener is arranged.

36. Device according to one of claims 29 to 35, characterized in that at least one separate container (23a) is provided, in which a bleaching agent (B) is arranged.

37. Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the device (80) in the manner of a household washing machine (20, 30) is formed, comprising a receiving chamber (11) for objects to be cleaned and a program selector switch (12) in which a suitable washing program can be selected in adaptation to the type of soiling of the objects and / or in adaptation to the nature or properties of the objects, the receiving chamber being in switchable, communicative connection with a plurality of containers (23a, 23b, 23c, 23d , 23e), wherein in the containers different active ingredients (B, E, T) are arranged, and wherein by selecting a program via the program selector switch dosing (16) are responsive, which are assigned to the different containers and / or the different active ingredients in order to adapt the active ingredients in succession to the receiving chamber in adaptation to the nature or condition of the objects and / or on the type of contamination, wherein different active ingredients have different pH values and / or provide for a sequence of different pH levels and / or different pH levels within the receiving chamber during a wash program.

38. Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the device as a washing machine (30), in the manner of a household washing machine (20, 30) is formed, comprising a receiving chamber (11) for the objects to be cleaned and a program selector ( 12), with which a suitable washing program is selectable in adaptation to the type of contamination of the objects and / or in adaptation to the nature or condition of the objects, wherein a plurality of containers (32a, 32b, 32c) is provided, in which different active ingredients (B, E, T) can be arranged for mixing a detergent, wherein by selecting a program on the program selector switch metering devices (16) are responsive, which are assigned to the different containers and / or the different active ingredients, a to the kind or Texture of the objects and / or matched to the type of pollution detergent composed of the active ingredients and supply the receiving chamber, wherein the containers are mounted directly on the washing machine.

39. Apparatus according to claim 38, characterized in that the containers (32a, 32b, 32c) are releasably attachable to the washing machine.

40. Apparatus according to claim 38 or 39, characterized in that the containers (32a, 32b, 32c) are individually releasably attachable to the washing machine.

41. Device according to one of claims 38 to 40, characterized in that the containers are individually refillable.

42. Device according to one of claims 38 to 31, characterized in that a plurality of containers are combined to form a structural unit (31).

43. Apparatus according to claim 42, characterized in that the element (70) on the assembly (31) is arranged.

44. Apparatus according to claim 43, characterized in that the structural unit (31) is releasably attachable to the washing machine.

45. Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the device is designed as a washing machine (20, 30), comprising a receiving chamber (11) for objects to be cleaned and a program selector switch (12) with which in adaptation to the The type of contamination of the objects and / or in adaptation to the nature or nature of the objects a suitable washing program is selectable, wherein the receiving chamber is in a switchable, communicative connection with a plurality of containers (23a, 23b, 23c, 23d, 23e), wherein in the containers different active ingredients (B, E, T) are arranged, and wherein by selecting a program on the program selector switch metering devices (16) are responsive, which are assigned to the different containers and / or the different active ingredients to adapt to the Type or nature of the objects and / or to the type of contamination to sequentially deliver the active ingredients to the receiving chamber, wherein different active ingredients have different pH values and / or provide a sequence of different pH values and / or different pH levels within the receiving chamber during a wash program.

46. A method for washing and / or cleaning of articles such as textiles, industrial products, od. Like., Characterized in that to adapt to the type of contamination of the objects to be cleaned and / or in adaptation to the nature or nature of the objects a suitable washing program is selected, and that in or on the washing machine (10, 20, 30) according to the selected washing program, a detergent from individual, in different containers (15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h, 23a , 23b, 23c, 23d, 23e, 32a, 32b, 32c) concentrates of active ingredients is mixed together by individual dosage of the active ingredients, wherein the containers each carry an element (70a, 70b, 70c, 7Od, 7Oe), which information about contains the substance accommodated in the container, and wherein this information is detected by a device (71) of the washing machine and by a control unit (73) at the latest when driving is taken into account by dosing devices (16) for the individual active substances.

47. Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the device is designed as a dishwasher (50) for cleaning crockery and cutlery, wherein a container (56c) for a liquid detergent (R) is provided, which has a volume for receiving a detergent dose for a plurality of rinses, and that a metering device (16) is provided, which performs a dosage of the cleaning agent according to a selected washing program.

48. Apparatus according to claim 47, characterized in that the container (56c) is detachably attachable to the dishwasher.

49. Apparatus according to claim 47 or 48, characterized in that the container (56c) is designed as a cartridge.

50. Device according to one of claims 47 to 49, characterized in that a separate container (56a) for rinse aid (K) and another separate container (56b) are provided for dishwasher salt (S), and that these containers also like a cartridge trained and detachably fastened to the dishwasher.

51. Apparatus (50) for cleaning crockery and cutlery according to one of claims 45 to 50, characterized in that a plurality of containers (56a, 56b, 56c) are provided for different active ingredients of a cleaning agent, such as enzymes, surfactants, or the like , wherein metering devices are provided, with which the active ingredients are individually metered according to a selected washing program.

52. Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that the device is designed as a cleaning device (60) for vehicles, in particular in the manner of a car wash, comprising means, such as nozzles od. Like., For applying a detergent containing Liquid or a cleaning liquid on the vehicle outer surface, wherein the devices are in a switchable, communicative connection with a plurality of containers, wherein in the containers different active ingredients are arranged individually, the mixture one composed of the active ingredients washing or cleaning agent (41) individually metered and / or successively fed by the means of the vehicle outer surface.

53. Device according to the preamble of claim 1, characterized in that the enzyme protease is housed in a first container and another enzyme or an enzyme mixture in another container.

54. Apparatus according to claim 53, characterized in that the protease is dissolved in oil or in alcohol or housed together with oil or alcohol in the container.

55. Container (15a, 15b, 15c, 15d, 15e, 15f, 15g, 15h, 23a, 23b, 23c, 23d, 23e, 32a, 32b, 32c, 56a, 56b, 56c) for housing and for

Transport of drugs for the purpose of cleaning objects in a dedicated device, characterized in that a member (70a, 70b, 7oC ₁ 7Od, 7Oe, 7Of, 70h 70g) is disposed on the container, the direct or indirect information comprises the drug disposed in the container.

56. Container according to claim 55, characterized in that the container can be fastened to a coupling point (72) of the device.

57. Container according to claim 55 or 56, characterized in that the element is an RFID chip.

58. Container for accommodating and transporting active substances for the purpose of cleaning objects in a device provided therefor, the container being detachable from the device is fastened, characterized in that the enzyme protease is housed in the container.

59. Container according to claim 58, characterized in that no further enzymes are arranged in the container.

60. Container according to claim 58 or 59, characterized in that the protease is dissolved in oil or in alcohol or housed together with oil or alcohol in the container.

61. Apparatus for washing and / or cleaning articles, e.g. Textiles, with the aid of several einzeldosierbaren concentrates of active ingredients, such as enzymes and / or surfactants, the respective active ingredient concentrates are housed separately in different containers and these are removable, characterized in that the containers each carry an element which information about the in the Contains container accommodated active ingredient, and that this information from a device arranged in the device can be detected and taken into account by a control unit, wherein the control unit in knowledge of different washing or cleaning programs and based on the information collected by the device composes a suitable detergent.