Arrangement and a method for dispensing powder directly from a retail container

US5505223A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien · DE

Inventors

• Friedel Rings · Monheim, DE
• Peter Holz · Linnich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 28, 1994
• Grant date: Apr 9, 1996
• Expiry date: Mar 28, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/4891
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention provides an apparatus for enabling stock washing liquor to be prepared from washing-agent powder taken directly from the powder container containing it, without producing any dust, and to store the liquor thus prepared for supply to at least one industrial wet vacuum cleaner. The apparatus includes a tub-shaped bottom section and a top section which is hermetically mounted on the bottom section. A suction line leads into the container, the end remote from the container being inserted into the powder in the powder container. A fresh-water line also terminates in the container. The water is directed onto the stream of powder passing through the suction line. A stock-liquor feed line is operatively linked to a pump to permit liquor to be pumped from an inlet near the floor of the container and out of the container.