WO2010142723A1 - System having multi-chamber packaging, in particular blister packaging, for treating objects, method, and machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for treating, in particular for washing and/or cleaning, objects in private households, especially for washing laundry. The invention further relates to a machine for carrying out the treating, washing, or cleaning process and an associated method. The system comprises a blister packaging having various chambers and different substances located therein. The packaging comprises a memory having a program stored therein for performing the treatment. A treatment within the meaning of the invention can comprise washing laundry or washing dishes.

Description

 SYSTEM WITH MULTI-CHAMBER PACKAGING, IN PARTICULAR BLISTER PACKAGING, FOR TREATMENT OF OBJECTS NEBST PROCESS AND MACHINE

The invention relates to a system for the treatment, in particular for the washing and / or rinsing of objects in the private household and in particular for the washing of laundry in the batch process (not continuously). The invention further relates to a machine such as a drum and / or spin washing machine for carrying out the treatment, washing or rinsing process together with an associated method.

A detergent according to the invention is an agent which is to be used for the cleaning of an article. A particularly typical detergent according to the invention is used for the purification of

Laundry used, especially for the cleaning of clothing, bed linen, napkins, towels, tablecloths. To be cleaned items can also be plates, knives, forks, bowls, etc., so in general dishes that are cleaned in a dishwasher. Known washing or rinsing agents are in liquid, gelatinous or powdered form.

A modern household washing machine is typically operated with a detergent consisting of many different substances. Some of the substances used are incompatible with each other. This requires the use of additives that can compensate for the lack of compatibility. However, due to the complexity of today's modern household detergent, it is not possible to clean it with optimal cleaning substances under optimum conditions, as it must always be ensured that a total of washing or rinsing agent is provided which can be used relatively universally. Although there are detergents for different purposes such as fine or heavy duty detergents. It is only a very rough subdivision. In both mentioned Wäschmitteln one is for example always dependent on washing at a predetermined pH. As a compromise, an alkaline environment is generally set. For example, to remove tan spots it would be desirable to wash in an acidic environment. Even with regard to the temperatures, only a rough subdivision is possible. Cleaning under each optimized temperature is not possible. As a result, too high a temperature must be disadvantageously used in many cases.

In the commercial sector, however, the required washing substances are dosed individually, so as to be able to wash in an optimal way on the one hand and to be able to dispense with superfluous substances on the other side. For dosing complex dosing systems are used, which are not considered for private purposes in household washing machines or dishwashers for cost reasons.

In order to reduce the problem described in household washing machines, it has already been proposed to use a made of plastic, injection molded detergent container in the form of a round capsule in which are different from each other in different piece-shaped chambers different substances used for washing. This container should be used in a washing machine for private household, which is tailored to this container. The substances are supplied chamber by chamber of the corresponding washing machine according to a predetermined program successively the washing process.

A disadvantage of this prior art, however, that the container can be made only in certain dimensions in order to be able to be manufactured sufficiently inexpensively. This is related to international standards of injection molding equipment. Overall, therefore, specifications must be observed that have nothing to do with optimizing the actual cleaning process. Also, it is hardly possible in this known solution for washing machines with larger capacity (commercial and industrial washing machines) larger capsules economically to produce. With the relatively small capsule (eg diameter about 7 cm), space is available for only a limited number of chambers in order to be able to optimize wash programs in a simple manner, depending on the washing substances used.

This prior art, it is an object of the invention to be able to clean improved. In particular, should be dispensed with the use of complex detergents and / or individually dosed and / or an individual cleaning program may be possible.

To achieve the object, in one embodiment of the invention, a blister pack is used, which comprises several different, separate chambers. In the individual chambers are different substances for the treatment, in particular for the cleaning of objects.

A blister pack according to the invention is a product package consisting of a rear wall and a wall mounted on the back wall

Consists of plastic film molding. The rear wall can be made of cardboard, plastic or a metal foil, such as an aluminum foil. The packaging may or may not be such that the content is visible. Blister packs are regularly used for the packaging of tablets.

A blister pack can be produced very inexpensively by a deep drawing process. The individual chambers of a blister pack can be individually dimensioned without significantly changing the costs of a production process. A blister pack can therefore have different sized chambers without having to consider standards for cost reasons. The chambers may for example be arranged one behind the other, parallel in two or more rows, in a circle or in the form of a honeycomb. In order to be able to empty a single chamber of the blister pack in a machine, in one embodiment of the invention, it is suitably pierced in a machine in order to provide an outlet for the substance or mixture of substances in the chamber. (If the following is spoken of substance, then it can in principle be a

Act mixture of substances.) This output is used to bring the substance in the chamber from the chamber to the one or more objects to be treated with the substance. Following treatment, the next chamber of the blister pack is emptied in the same way and the one contained therein

Substance brought to the objects to be treated. One after the other substance by substance of the blister pack used for the treatment is brought to the objects and there used as intended.

Preferably, a substance is transported from a chamber to the object (s) by means of a liquid. For this purpose, the corresponding chamber of the blister pack used is flooded or rinsed with a liquid and passed on to the objects to be treated, for example via pipes or hoses. At the same time, the liquid thus transports the corresponding substance from the chamber to the object (s). As a rule, water will be used as transport liquid. Advantageously, the flooding or rinsing of a chamber takes place until it is ensured that the substance has been completely rinsed out of the respective chamber. Of the

Rinsing can take place at intervals (eg, rinse for 3 seconds, pause for 2 seconds, then rinse again for 3 seconds to ensure complete emptying), ensuring that the chamber is cleaned and can be disposed of without problem after use. In addition, it is thus ensured that the substance is metered in the intended manner.

In one embodiment of the invention, a hollow needle is used for the flooding or rinsing, which comprises two separate channels. Both Channels open into the needle tip. A channel of the needle is used to direct a liquid into the chamber after piercing. Via the second channel, the liquid then flows together with the substance which is located in the chamber, and is thus passed on to the object (s).

In another embodiment, a chamber of a hollow needle is pierced with two different hollow needles. About the one hollow needle, a liquid is passed after piercing into the chamber. About the other hollow needle, which pierces the blister pack suitable, the liquid is transported together with the substance to the one or more objects until the substance was completely removed from the chamber so and transported to the one or more objects.

In another embodiment, a needle has a widening, for example in the form of an external thread. After piercing, the male thread may be used to introduce liquid into the chamber or to transport liquid to the article or articles together with the substance in the chamber.

In a further embodiment, a hollow needle can be used, which has two holes laterally. The holes are separated in the interior of the hollow needle so that a liquid introduced at one end emerges via one of the holes, then is able to re-enter the other hole, to finally be led out of the other end of the hollow needle. If two opposite walls of a chamber of the blister pack are pierced so that the two holes are in the chamber, then such a chamber can be flushed with a liquid such as water in the manner described, so as to complete the contents of the chamber to the one or more objects transport. Combinations of the mentioned techniques are possible. It also does not necessarily have to be a blister pack that includes chambers. It can also be another container comprising various chambers with pierceable walls in order to be able to carry out the mentioned techniques for transporting substances to objects.

For example, the invention for washing clothes is carried out as follows. A needle of a washing machine is provided with an external thread. This creates the opportunity, on the one hand by

Piercing a chamber wall to provide a large hole through which the contents of the corresponding chamber of the blister pack can flow, and indeed into the fleet of the washing machine inside. The blister pack is pierced by the needle both up and down. The needle is a hollow needle, which is closed at the bottom. At the top there is a stop, which consists for example of plastic or rubber. In between, the needle is perforated. After piercing to the top stop, the perforated area of the needle is completely in the chamber. Through this perforation, water or other suitable liquid can then be flushed into the appropriate chamber of the blister pack to ensure complete emptying of the chamber. The stop seals the top of the blister pack. This ensures that undesirable substances do not escape upwards. The blister pack may also be pressed down against a rubber-like stop of the washing machine, for example, to seal the blister pack down around the needle. In this way it is ensured that the contents of the blister pack pass completely and without residue into the liquor via the thread. This ensures that even relatively aggressive chemicals can be safely stored in a blister pack, which is not possible with a conventional detergent. The aforementioned needle is for example 3 to 7 cm, for example 5 cm long. The chambers of the blister pack can be of different depths or different widths. The dimensioning of a blister pack is suitably coordinated with the machine in which the blister pack is to be used.

The machine used is in particular a domestic appliance, ie a machine for use in a private household. It is above all a drum washing machine in which a laundry drum rotates about a horizontal axis. The drum washing machine may be a top loader with the hatch on the top, or a front loader with a porthole serving as a hatch on the front.

The machine used can also be a tub washing machine. Although the household is the preferred application area. In principle, however, a machine according to the invention can also be used industrially as well as commercially (for example in a laundromat). The invention may also relate to the washing of other objects such as machine parts, tools or metal parts.

In one embodiment, the object is achieved by a packaging, in particular a blister pack, which has a plurality of different, mutually separate chambers. In the chambers are different substances for the treatment of an object. On or in the package is stored information related to the program according to which the treatment is to take place. In the simplest case, the information is stored in the form of a number. In this case, there is an associated machine in which a treatment program, such as a washing or rinsing program according to this number is set. Depending on this setting, the treatment is carried out by the machine.

A washing machine then requires no elaborate electronics to carry out a specific treatment program. She can do that can be made very inexpensively, although individually depending on a selected system consisting of said package together with the substances contained therein can be treated.

In the aforementioned particularly simple case, however, only a few different settings are possible. Alternatively, therefore, the information may be coded printed, such as in the form of a bar code or other barcode. The associated machine then has means such as a bar code scanner to read the printed information as soon as the packaging is properly inserted into the machine. It is thus possible to convey more complex information from the packaging to the machine without making the operation of the machine more difficult.

However, the information about the treatment by an RFID system is preferably transmitted from the packaging to the machine. The packaging is then provided with a transponder in which the treatment information is stored. The associated machine has a reader for reading out the information stored in the transponder. The machine is also designed to handle the treatment in accordance with stored information. In particular, the machine is such that infinitely or at least virtually continuously treatment temperatures, for example, between room temperature and 95 ° C can be adjusted infinitely or at least virtually continuously a respective treatment time, for example, between one second and one hour can be adjusted continuously or at least virtually continuously Fluid pressure for the supply of a liquid can be adjusted in a treatment room and / or continuously or at least virtually continuously one

Rotational speed of a drum or cleaning arms can be adjusted In this case, each manufacturer of a treatment agent such as a detergent individually specify a program, so for example, a wash program, and for example, to wash at a specific time at 43 ° C instead of, for example, usual 50 ⁰ C. It can be a treatment such as a washing process extremely optimized. A machine then only needs a single start button or switch, as a user, for example, no longer has to set a washing program depending on a detergent, which significantly facilitates operation.

Modern detergents for the household differ in terms of

Composition depending on the respective commodity prices within a certain range or due to further developments. According to the invention, it is now possible, depending on raw material prices, the contents of a package with different

To vary chambers and at the same time modify the associated treatment program, so for example, the associated wash program and optimize each. Furthermore, due to further developments, the contents of a package can be changed and the washing program can be adapted to the changed content at the same time. For the consumer there is no change in the handling. Also in this respect, the invention therefore offers significant advantages over the prior art.

In conventional detergents, it is generally necessary to offer them in a fixed state of aggregation, for example in solid or liquid form. It is not possible to combine the different aggregate states. In the invention, solids may be present in a first chamber and a liquid in a second chamber of the package. It is also not necessary, as in the prior art, to certain colors of the product or,. of substances, because the packaging can visually cover the substances. For example, it is difficult to convey, with the help of a black fabric to wash laundry white. Therefore, in the prior art manufacturers are regularly reliant on providing substances with dyes that are available from a consumer be accepted . Such requirements are not to be considered in the invention. The same applies to fragrances. According to the invention, therefore, it is no longer necessary to ensure that fragrances accepted by the consumer are provided, which may indeed respond positively to the consumer's perception but run counter to the desired result or at least represent an unnecessary expense.

For example, in one embodiment of the invention, a surfactant is in a chamber, particularly in a highly concentrated and / or highly viscous state. Since it is possible to flush a chamber, such highly viscous and / or highly concentrated states become possible. The following are some typical examples of a high-viscosity content of a chamber when the contents of the blister pack serve as a detergent:

Nonionic surfactants:

C ₁₂ C ₁₄ fatty alcohol ethoxylates having a concentration of preferably close to 100% with a viscosity at 20 ⁰ C of preferably 50-1 50 mPaS; C ₁₃ C ₁₅ oxoalcohol ethoxylates having a concentration of preferably approx. 1 00% with a viscosity at 20 ⁰ C of preferably 40-1 00 mPaS;

Fatty alcohol at a concentration of preferably about 1 00% and having a viscosity at 20 ⁰ C, preferably from 40-400 mPas.

Anionic surfactants: C ₁₀ C ₁₃ alkylbenzenesulfonic acids having a concentration of preferably> 40% with a viscosity at 20 ⁰ C of preferably> 300 mPaS.

Sodium hydroxide, for example, with a concentration of 50% with a viscosity at 20 ⁰ C of 79 mPaS or a

Concentration of 40% with a viscosity at 20 ⁰ C of 39 mPaS or intermediate values (between 40% and 50%). The viscosity is measured against water at a water temperature of 20 ⁰ C i with a viscosity of 1 mPas.

It can be used, for example, concentrated sodium hydroxide or caustic soda in solid form or else hydrochloric acid, which is not possible with conventional detergents for handling reasons.

Since substances can be used in highly concentrated form, volumes can be reduced. Therefore, the volume of each chamber can be only a few ml, especially in the case of substances for treating dishes or textiles. This reduces transport costs. The material usage for the packaging is lowered. Overall, so costs are saved.

Auxiliaries such as emulsifiers and stabilizers, inhibitors, etc. no longer have to be used, which simply have to be used in conventional detergents in order to arrive at a total of a manageable and usable product.

Detergents can be sold more marketable. Thus, matched to a single household, a total packaging can be sold which contains, for example, some packages for heavy-duty detergents, some packages for mild detergents, and so on. For large families can be packaged accordingly differently. It is not necessary to provide relatively large quantities of detergents in a household for each type of wash, such as a large 3kg package of heavy duty detergent, a large 3kg package for mild detergent, etc. All in all, space can be saved in a conventional household ,

A package such as a blister pack is advantageously configured liquid-tight. Then there is no moisture problem. The system can even be stored together with food. In conventional washing machines, it is not possible to disinfect laundry, which may be necessary in the event of illness. In one embodiment of the invention is in a chamber of the package, a disinfectant such as (please enumerate as many different disinfectants) to disinfect textiles can.

The packaging, such as a blister pack, is designed asymmetrically in one embodiment of the invention. According asymmetrically, a chamber for receiving the packaging of the associated machine is configured. This ensures that a package can only be properly inserted into the associated machine.

In one embodiment of the invention, the packaging, that is to say in particular the blister packaging, is used for coloring articles such as textiles. The package then contains a chamber with a coloring agent. For example, one pair of jeans can then be washed and dyed in a single operation.

A packaging containing a detergent for washing textiles generally has a surfactant in a chamber because a surfactant is the main washing component of a detergent. It is in particular an anionic or a nonionic surfactant.

A package containing a detergent or a rinse generally has a water softener in a chamber to produce white water. In particular, zeolite A_ and also phyllosilicates are used. So-called builders (among other functions) support these mineral softeners in one embodiment of the invention and are therefore located in a chamber of the package. In one embodiment of the invention, heat exchangers are located in a chamber of the package. These increase the pH of the wash liquor. Thus, the fibers swell up and the dirt is easier to peel off.

Bleaching agents and enzymes wash better in the alkaline range. Therefore, wash alkalis are preferably used so that they enter the wash water before or together with a bleach or enzyme so that the water has a pH above 7 when the wash is treated with a bleach or enzyme. If there are no undesirable reactions between a wash liquor and a bleach or enzyme, a bleach and a wash, or enzyme and wash, may be together in a chamber. Otherwise, washing alkali and bleaching agent or washing alkali and enzyme are housed in separate chambers. First, the chamber with the washing alkali is then preferably emptied by a washing machine and then a chamber with the bleaching agent or with the enzyme, so that the treatment with bleaching agent or enzyme takes place in an alkaline medium.

In one embodiment of the invention, there are enzymes in one compartment of the package for the removal of proteinaceous and starchy stains. They act differently well at low and / or medium wash temperatures, for example 40 ⁰ C and are destroyed at high temperatures, for example 95 ° C (denatured). Amylases split starch, lipases split fats, proteases split proteins, and cellulases split cellulose to reduce the roughness of cotton textiles.

In one embodiment of the invention, there are dirt carriers in a chamber. Dirt carriers hold the dirt detached from the laundry in the air or prevent it from laying on the laundry again. In one embodiment of the invention is located in a chamber carboxymethylcellulose. Carboxymethyl cellulose coated cotton fibers against dirt.

In one embodiment of the invention, a core soap and / or a silicone for the regulation of the foam development is located in a chamber of the packaging.

In one embodiment of the invention are in a chamber fragrances that should give the laundry a pleasant fragrance. Such a chamber is preferably emptied by a washing machine towards the end of a laundry when the actual cleaning of the laundry has already been carried out.

In particular, a package contains no neutral salts or adjusters such as sodium sulfate. Such additives are used in a conventional household detergent to keep powdery detergents in powder form during storage. These also serve as a cost effective extender to increase profits.

Bleaching agents do not remove washable colored stains, such as fruits or blood. It can be used on hydrogen peroxide bleaching agents such. B. Sodium perborate, they work especially well at high washing temperatures.

In one embodiment of the invention, in one compartment of the package is a bleach activator that increases the effectiveness of a bleach at low temperatures so as to successfully use a bleach even at low temperatures. If tolerated, a bleach activator is preferably present together with a bleach in a common chamber. Otherwise, these are housed in separate chambers. The two chambers concerned are then emptied by a washing machine so that the bleach activator is effective with respect to the bleaching agent so that the bleaching agent becomes effective at a reduced temperature. In one embodiment of the invention, optical brighteners, that is, fluorescent substances that make whites whiter appear in a chamber of the packaging.

In one embodiment of the invention, a bleach stabilizer is present in a chamber which prevents the uncontrolled breakdown of a bleach during storage and use of the detergent. The bleach stabilizer is located in particular in a chamber in which there is already a bleach.

In one embodiment of the invention is located in a chamber of the package, an alcohol, are reinforced with the cleaning-effective substances and / or surfactants can be solved. Such a chamber is emptied so that the alcohol together with detergent substances such as surfactants get into the wash water.

In one embodiment of the invention is located in a chamber of the package, a water softener and in particular a complexing agent such. NTA, phosphonates, EDTA, but no mineral softeners.

If colored laundry is to be washed, then in one embodiment of the invention, a color transfer inhibitor for protecting the color of the textiles is located in a chamber of the packaging. Color transfer inhibitors avoid rubbing off on other textiles during the washing process.

Most enzymes have their pH optimum in a neutral to acid environment. Many of these very active enzymes can not be used in today's household detergents, because only enzymes with a pH optimum in an alkaline environment are applicable. In one embodiment of the invention, therefore, in one embodiment of the invention in a chamber are enzymes having a pH optimum in the neutral to acidic medium. A chamber containing such an enzyme is emptied by the washing machine during washing before wash alkalis enter the wash water. If necessary, there is an acid in a chamber to previously or simultaneously to show an acidic environment in the wash water. It is therefore possible to use the entire range of enzymes in a washing process. Thus, in a chamber to be emptied first, one or more enzymes are used which have their pH optimum in the neutral range. In a chamber to be subsequently emptied, one or more enzymes are combined with acid (citric acid or hydrochloric acid). In a subsequent chamber to be emptied, one or more enzymes may be combined with alkali. pH changes stop the activity of the respective enzymes. By suitable selection of the enzymes and the pH value of the wash liquor, individual enzymes can specifically develop their full effect without influencing other enzymes.

The stability of other starting materials (eg certain biocides) are also dependent on pH. Accordingly, such substances are supplied to the wash water or the liquor, if a suitable pH environment prevails.

For bleaching, oxidizing agents and bleach activators are used in separate chambers in one embodiment.

It makes sense, after cleaning the textiles to drain the wash and bring in the last wash with fresh water, the starting materials on the fibers, which should also remain as optical brighteners, fragrances, fabric softener, impregnation u.a. m. One or more such substances are therefore individually or in combination in one or more chambers, which are emptied only after the actual washing.

In particular, the emptying of such chambers takes place only when previously the wash water has been replaced.

A heavy duty detergent may be composed as follows.

1 . Chamber: neutral phase: enzymes (lipase) and / or microbiocide MIT (methylisothiazolinone)

2nd chamber: acid phase: citric acid and / or hydrochloric acid and enzymes (cellulase, amylase) 3rd compartment: basic phase: nonionic and / or amphoteric surfactants and also alkali such as KOH and / or NaOH and / or phosphonates, soaps, silicone, enzymes (protease) and / or ISN (isatynic anhydride)

4th chamber: oxidizing agents such as sodium percarbonate, sodium perborate and / or EDTA

5th chamber: neutral phase: optical brightener, fabric softener and / or fragrances.

The numbering of the chambers designates the order of emptying by a washing machine. Thus, the second chamber is emptied only after the first chamber has been emptied. The third chamber is emptied only after the second chamber has been emptied, etc. With 1. Chamber does not mean that this is a chamber that is necessarily emptied first. The same applies to the other chambers. A heavy-duty detergent can therefore contain more than five chambers. One

Heavy duty detergent may also comprise less than the five chambers mentioned above. If, for example, the third chamber is omitted, the fourth chamber is emptied after the second chamber has been emptied beforehand, etc.

In one embodiment of the invention, a compartment of a package contains a disinfectant such as Dismozon®, magnesium, monoperoxyphthalate hexahydrate, Kohrsolin®, glutaral, (ethylenedioxy) dimethanol, 1,3-bis (hydroxymethyl) urea, tetrahydrol, 3,4,6- tetrakis (hydroxymethyl) imidazo [4,5-d] imidazole-2,5 (IH, 3H) -dione, trichlorol®, tosylchloramide sodium and / or sodium lauryl sulfate.

A packaging according to the invention can also be used commercially. Since then, for example, larger amounts of textiles are washed with a washing machine, then the total volume of a blister pack is correspondingly larger. So household washing machines are usually designed so that in a wash up to 5 kg of laundry, such as 4.5 kg of laundry can be washed. Is a conventional detergent powder for washing 4.5 kg of laundry used, then cα. 30 g Wαschmittelpulver needed. According to the invention, however, less than 10 g of washing substances have to be used without consideration of a softener for 4.5 kg of laundry, for example only 6 g or approx. 6 ml. A packaging used for this therefore provides a correspondingly small total volume. Without

Considering a softener, the volume is typically 4 to 1 5 ml, more preferably 6 to 1 0 ml. If the detergent contains a softener, the total volume increases by the volume that is provided for the softener.

Is commercially washed, the corresponding washing machines are designed to wash several 1 0 kg of laundry in a single operation. For example, a typical commercial washing machine washes 32 kg of laundry in one operation. For this purpose, 30 g to 90 g of washing substances are needed. The total volume of a package in a commercial application is therefore typically between 30 ml and 200 ml, more preferably between 30 and 100 ml. If water is softened by ion exchangers, then around 30 g of substances can suffice. If the commercially used detergent contains a softener, then up to 90 g of material is needed to wash 32 kg of laundry.

In one embodiment of the invention, a washing machine, in particular a washing machine for commercial use, comprises a magazine into which a plurality of detergent packages according to the invention can and should be inserted. The

Washing machine has means to automatically use a detergent package from the magazine for each new washing process. Such a washing machine preferably also has means to automatically collect emptied packages in a container in order to be able to empty this container from time to time. In the prior art, commercial washing machines are associated with one or more bottles and liquid detergents therein for washing so as not to have to constantly replenish detergent. However, the time when almost empty bottles have to be exchanged is not precise predictable. So it must always be replaced bottles with residues therein, resulting in disposal problems. These problems are avoided in washing machines with a magazine for detergent packages according to the invention, which comprise a plurality of chambers, since no residues accumulate and can be accurately predicted when a magazine must be replenished. In addition, handling problems are avoided, which occur in the prior art, for example, in conjunction with inserted peristaltic pumps.

A magazine for a washing machine for receiving detergent packages according to the invention comprises, in one embodiment of the invention, a tray for receiving a plurality of packages, a receiving frame or other receiving means for a packaging to be used for washing and a container for collecting a deflated previously used for washing packaging. The footprint of the well preferably corresponds to the footprint of the wrapper so that each wrapper is passed through the well as a wrapper is moved from the well to the take-up frame, preferably by gravity. Even with non-symmetrical base area is achieved so that the packaging can be used in the required manner.

Below and / or at the bottom of the shaft are in one embodiment slats that can be rotated or tilted by a suitable mechanism controlled by 90 °. The edge of a

Packaging rests on corresponding slats during operation. If the corresponding lamellae are rotated by 90 °, then a package resting with its edge passes to the following station by gravity, for example, from the shaft to the mounting frame or from the mounting frame into the container for empty packages. In one embodiment of the invention, a washer comprises a display indicating what type of laundry is to be laundered or washed. Alternatively or additionally, the washing machine has control means for checking whether or not there is a packaging suitable for the intended laundry before starting a washing process. If the correct packaging is missing, it is immediately possible to read on an existing display which detergent is missing. In one embodiment, the display is designed such that it can also be used to enter the type of laundry which is to be washed.

In a washing machine, the washing water is usually not replaced when a next chamber is emptied and the content is brought into the fleet. Instead, the wash water is basically conducted in circulation through the actual wash tank. Preferably, the emptying of the contents of a chamber does not take place directly into the actual washing container in which the laundry to be washed is located. Instead, the contents are introduced into a tube (or tube), which is part of the circuit and therefore opens with its two ends into the washing container. A substance will be at this

Embodiment therefore advantageously further diluted before the substance enters the actual wash tank.

In one embodiment, the aforesaid hose (pipe) is provided with a branch through which water thus diverted from the circuit can be introduced into a chamber of the packaging used so as to empty a chamber. Preferably, this branch has a valve with which the inflow of water through a chamber of the packaging can be controlled in a simple manner.

The invention will be explained in more detail with reference to figures and embodiments. FIG. 1 initially shows a plan view of a blister pack 1 having a plurality of chambers 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. The base area of the blister pack is asymmetrical, as the plan view illustrates. The receptacle of the associated machine has the same footprint so that the package can not be misplaced in the machine. The chamber 2 is filled for example with a liquid and the chamber 3 with a granulate. To the left of the top view is a section through the blister pack. The sections illustrate that the chamber 5 is deeper than the chambers 2, 3 and 6. The chamber 4 in turn is deeper than the chamber 5. In addition, the base of the chamber 3 is smaller than the base of the other chambers. With a blister packaging so easily and inexpensively different sized chambers can be provided by varying the base area and / or the depth.

FIG. 2 shows a lateral section through another blister pack 1. In one chamber 3 is a liquid substance 7. In the other chamber 2 is a solid, granular substance 8. Although the chambers 2 and 3 have the same base area, but are different deep and therefore different sizes.

Also shown in Figure 2 is a needle 9 of an associated machine having two separate channels 10 and 11 extending from one end of the needle to the other. The needle has an upper inlet 1 2, which is connected to the first channel 1 0. In addition, the needle has an outlet 1 3, which is connected to the second channel 1 1.

If the packaging is inserted into the machine, the machine first reads out the program, which is stored on or in the packaging in a transponder, not shown, with the aid of a reading device. According to the program, the machine then runs the

Treatment by. The treatment comprises piercing the upper wall 1 4 of the chamber 3 with the needle 9 until the stop 1 5 of the needle 9 abuts against the wall 1 4. The stop 1 5 consists of a rubber which is pressed tightly against the wall 1 4. It will get the bottom Cαnαlöffnungen 1 6 and 1 7 in the interior of the chamber 3. Subsequently, a liquid such as water is introduced into the inlet 1 2 and passes through the channel 1 0 and the lower opening 1 6 into the chamber 3 inside. The introduced liquid is transported together with the liquid of the chamber 3 through the other lower needle opening 1 7 via the second channel 1 1 through the outlet 1 3 through and into a treatment room, not shown, of the machine, in which objects to be treated, so for example, to be washed textiles. After so the substance 7 has been transported out of the chamber 3 completely out, the needle 9 is pulled out. Subsequently, by appropriate movement of the package 1 and / or the needle 9, the upper wall 1 8 of the chamber 2 to the stop 1 5 pierced. Subsequently, the chamber 2 is flushed with a liquid such as water and so the granular solid transported, for example in dissolved form to the treatment chamber. Were all the chambers of the

Packaging completely emptied according to the program, so the packaging can be disposed of easily.

FIG. 3 shows a plan view of another blister pack 1 with chambers 1 9 through 23. A lateral notch 24 ensures that the blister pack does not have a symmetrical base surface for the reasons stated above. Figure 4 shows a plan view of a blister pack with particularly space-saving arranged chambers 25a to 25j. The chambers always have the same footprint, but are different deep, if different volumes are desired or needed. Such an embodiment with equal base areas of the chambers and regular arrangement makes it possible to move a needle relative to an inserted blister pack in always the same way from chamber to chamber. A corresponding movement mechanism of a machine can then be designed particularly easily. In FIG. 5, another regular arrangement of blister pack chambers is shown which allows for a simply constructed moving mechanism of a needle relative to the blister pack. First, a top view and below a section is shown. Figure 6 shows another embodiment of a needle. This has in an upper region of an outer tube 27, via which, for example, water 27 in a Kam mer 28 a blister pack in the form of a water jet 29 is introduced. To the outer tube, a hollow needle 30 connects, which is provided with a passage 31 which is located in the chamber and can reach down out of the chamber kan n. On the one hand, the passage 31 preferably reaches close but not completely up to the stop 15, so as to ensure that, irrespective of the depth of the chamber, the passage is at least partially located in the chamber 28. The region of the hollow needle 30 is chosen so long that it is able to rupture a chamber bottoms 32 provided, regardless of a planned depth of a chamber. In that regard, provided depths and lengths of a needle from one of the seal serving stop 1 5 are coordinated. The contents of the chamber 28, together with the introduced water 29 through the passage 31 through the hollow needle in a line to the fleet 33. As Figure 7 illustrates, instead of an outer tube and a two-part hollow needle can be provided, the first from above into a Water nozzle opens, enters the above-introduced water into the chamber. Figure 8 shows another alternative embodiment. The upper part of a needle is designed as a hollow needle, which extends to water nozzles. The under part of the needle is provided with a kind of thread through which the contents of a chamber can drain after tearing the bottom of the blister pack.

The line to the liquor is as shown in Figures 6 to 8, preferably pressed sealingly against the bottom of a chamber when the contents of the chamber is emptied.

FIG. 9 shows a further embodiment for emptying a chamber of a blister. Water is introduced into an upper feed as shown when this part of the feed opens into the blister pack chamber as shown, after piercing. From this supply water emerges as shown and thus enters the chamber. At the bottom End of this feeder, as shown, a thinner hollow needle attached. The hollow needle is provided with lateral elongated openings, passes through the water from the chamber into the needle and down z. B. passes through the needle tip into the leading to the fleet line. The entry into this line but can also be done alternatively or additionally by the elongated lateral opening when it extends as shown in the line to the fleet. As a rule, this embodiment does not require a seal on the upper side for the pierced surface of the chamber. However, such a seal may be present, which then serves as a stop for reaching the end position. The underside of the chamber rests on cushions that serve to seal.

Figure 10 shows a container 40 of a washing machine into which laundry for washing is put. Via a pipe (hose or pipe)

41, wash water is circulated through the container 40.

A branch 42 is provided with a valve 43. This branch leads during operation into a chamber of an inserted

Detergent packaging into it. If the valve 43 is opened, water flows from the line 41 via the branch 42 through the chamber through and from here back via the feed 44 into the conduit 41 into it, in order subsequently to reach the container 40.

In FIG. 11, the shaft of a magazine is shown, which is filled with a plurality of blisters. The blister stack rests on the first upper retaining louvers, which can be rotated 90 ° between a horizontal and a vertical position back and forth. The lowermost blister rests on the edges of slats that are adjacent to the bottom of the shaft and that extend horizontally inwards. These fins are distributed so that the blister stack is held in its position shown.

If a blister to be transprotected to a receiving frame, the aforementioned lamellae are folded down by 90 ° and the Due to gravity, the blister bar moves downwards by the height of one blister, since the bottom blister is caught by the next correspondingly arranged, horizontally inwardly unfolded louvers. This situation is shown in FIG.

Subsequently, the overlying slats are folded back from their vertical position to its horizontal position and the stack is held again by these uppermost slats. This situation is shown in FIG.

The lowermost blister can now already be in a frame which can be moved relative to a needle in order to supply the substances contained therein according to the invention to the washing process. But it can also be such a frame underneath, as the figure 1 3 illustrates, which is also equipped with the hinged slats. By corresponding already described flaps of the corresponding blades so the bottom blister reaches the frame, as is illustrated by the figure 1 3.

After washing, the lamellae of the frame are folded from the horizontal position into the vertical position and the empty blister falls down into a collecting container, as illustrated in FIG.

Figure 1 5 shows a possible position of the frame relative to the means of the washing machine, with which the chambers of the blister are opened and emptied. The frame is then moved horizontally so that the respective chambers can be emptied by the perforation system in due course. The resulting situation is shown in FIG. As shown, the chamber to be emptied is held positively by retaining means of the perforation system.

Figure 1 7 outlines the situation during the emptying of a chamber. To particularly simple chambers as shown in Figures 1 6 and 1 7, these are advantageously arranged in a circle within a package. It then suffices to rotate the packaging in order to move the individual chambers successively into the position required for the immersion. To ensure that these circular packages are always properly used, the edge of the package may diverge suitably from the ideal circular shape and / or there may be an internal engagement which is not symmetrical and which is grasped by a gripping means to grip the package and to turn.

A perforation system can also comprise a plurality of needles, which can then advantageously puncture and empty several chambers of an inserted package in succession or else simultaneously. This embodiment has the advantage that an inserted package does not have to be moved relative to the perforation system in order to empty chambers.

A perforation system can be moved and the position of the chambers rest when chambers are to be emptied in the desired manner.

AGENDA

101: hollow needle

102: sealing the perforation

103: water nozzle

104: water jet

105; Blisterkammer

106: Broken blister floor 1_07: Line to the fleet

108: spiral for expanding the perforation

109: Magazine shaft

110: blister pack

VjΛ_: Folding holder

112: Recording frame for blister

113: valve

114: perforation system

IJj): drain pump

116: intervention

Claims

claims 1 . System for the treatment of objects with a blister pack, which are several different, separate Chambers containing therein different substances. 2. System according to claim 1 with therein washing substances for washing laundry or detergent substances for washing dishes. 3. System according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the different substances differ not only in the nature, but also in the amount. 4. System according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the chambers of a blister pack are of different sizes. 5. System in particular according to one of the preceding claims with a package, the several different, separate from each other Includes chambers with different substances contained therein, as well as with a storage means, in particular a transponder and a stored by the storage means program for performing the treatment. 6. System according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein each substance is individually packaged liquid-tight. 7. System according to any one of the preceding claims with a disinfectant in a chamber or a coloring agent in one Chamber. A system according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the volume of each chamber is not more than 20 ml, preferably not more than 1 0 ml. 9. System according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the packaging has an asymmetric base. 1 0. A method for treating articles with a system according to any one of the preceding claims according to which the combi rn are opened successively by a machine for the treatment of articles, following the opening of each chamber, the contents to the object to be treated or is brought to the objects to be treated and treated or the objects to be treated by the machine with the respective substance. 1 1. Method according to the preceding claim, in which the method is carried out in accordance with information printed on the package or a stored. 1 2. The method according to one of the two preceding claims, wherein the machine is a washing machine or a dishwasher. 1 3. The method according to any preceding method claims, wherein the method is used in particular in a private Hausha lt for washing or dyeing laundry or for washing dishes. 1 4. A method according to any one of the preceding method claims, in which each chamber for the emptying and tra nsportieren of the respective substance is flushed with a liquid and the substance is brought to the one or more objects by means of the liquid. 1 5. The method according to any one of the preceding method claims, wherein the machine is a chamber by means of a needle, in particular a Hollow needle opens. A method as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein an opening created by the machine is sealed to a chamber by a stop which is forced against the package around the opening. 1 7. Machine for carrying out a method according to any one of the preceding claims with a receiving part for a package having a plurality of separate chambers, with Opening means for the stepwise opening of each chamber, with Tra nsportmitteln for transporting the contents of each chamber to a treatment room for the treatment of objects. A machine according to the preceding claim, wherein the machine is a washing machine or a dishwasher. A machine as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the machine includes means for reading out information stored on or in the package and means for receiving the information Treatment of the object or objects according to the information read. 20. Machine according to one of the three preceding claims, wherein the machine has only one Sta rtschalter or -knöpf.