US 12,102,278 B2
Modular system for loading a conveyor dishwasher
Stefan Scheringer, Offenburg (DE)
Assigned to MEIKO Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, Offenburg (DE)
Appl. No. 17/784,944
Filed by MEIKO Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, Offenburg (DE)
PCT Filed Dec. 11, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/085674
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/116363, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 17, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102019219439.7 (DE), filed on Dec. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0012018 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. A47L 15/24 (2006.01); A47L 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47L 15/247 (2013.01) [A47L 15/0076 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A modular system for loading a conveying device of a conveyor dishwasher, comprising:
A. at least one detection module for acquiring state data of supplied washware;
B. a plurality of interchangeable handling modules, the handling modules each being configured to carry out an individual handling function for handling the washware using at least one actuator;
C. at least one feeding unit for selectively feeding the supplied washware to the handling modules;
D. at least one control module,
the control module comprising at least one registration unit, the handling modules and the individual handling functions thereof being registrable, and deregistrable, at the registration unit,
the control module comprising at least one processor and being configured, by programming,
to evaluate the state data and assess a respective washware situation of the supplied washware; and
to recognize which handling modules are registered to the registration unit, whether the respective individual handling functions of handling modules are utilizable in the respective washware situation, and to drive the feeding unit in such a way that washware is fed to the handling modules according to utilizability.