Abstract: An operating panel for an electrical appliance that includes a receiving compartment open at least on one side thereof and an electronic circuit board. The electronic circuit board may be introduced by way of the at least one open side and fixed in the receiving compartment by fixing elements. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, at least one side wall of the receiving compartment includes at least a first spring tongue, the first spring tongue intersecting a mounting plane for the electronic circuit board defined by the fixing elements.

Abstract: A compressor arrangement comprises a mounting, an evaporation trough, which may be inserted in the mounting on a number of slide-in tracks up to a final position and a compressor, wherein the separation of the evaporation trough from the compressor is greater in the final position of each slide-in track than at least one other point on the slide-in track.

Abstract: A motor arrangement is provided and includes a mounting clamp having flanks that support the shaft lugs of a motor. The mounting clamps includes arms that are in rotation-blocking contact with a motor housing of a motor and these arms are elastically configured so that deviations in housing dimensions from one make of motor to the other can be adapted.

Abstract: A motor arrangement for mounting a variety of different sized motors on a carrier. The arrangement includes a mounting clamp, which is fixed to the motor and includes means for fixing the motor to the carrier. The motor has a housing, which is eccentric in relation to its rotational axis and from which shaft projections protrude. The mounting clamp has two flanks located on each side of a motor receiving cavity. The flanks each have a recess for receiving one of the shaft projections of the motor. The mounting clamp further includes a pair of arms, which contact the motor in an elastic manner to block rotation of the motor about its rotational axis.

Abstract: A domestic appliance, for example a refrigerator, comprising a housing, a recess in the housing and a display screen which can be swiveled relative to the housing and is disposed flush in the recess of the housing. The display screen is linked on its back with a pair of first arms so as to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation. The first arms can be extended from an expanded configuration in the flush arrangement of the display screen to an angular configuration. In this angular configuration the at least one, first axis of rotation is displaced beyond the recess, thereby allowing swiveling the display screen about the first axis of rotation.

Abstract: An interconnected structural unit containing an illuminant and a fan, which can be mounted at the inside top of a refrigerating appliance. The interconnected structural unit includes two components which can be fixed in various positions in relation to each other inside of the appliance.

Abstract: An operator control panel for an electrical appliance, in particular, a refrigerator, includes a base panel for fastening on the electrical appliance, a control circuit for the electrical appliance, an insert for attachment to a visible side of the base panel, and an adapter for fastening the control circuit behind the base panel in a number of different positions.

Abstract: An operator control panel for an electrical appliance, in particular, a refrigerator, includes a base panel for fastening on the electrical appliance, a control circuit for the electrical appliance, an insert for attachment to a visible side of the base panel, and an adapter for fastening the control circuit behind the base panel in a number of different positions.

Abstract: In order to provide a household appliance having a door (1) which can be pivoted about a horizontal axis formed by hinges arranged on both sides of the door (1), which is composed of a shell of an outer door panel (2) and an inner door panel, in which the door (1) is effectively safeguarded against twisting in a simple manner and without using large-volume constructional units, supporting elements are arranged at least in the lower corner regions of the door (1), said elements extending between the hinge and the inner wall of at least one door panel (2, 3).

Abstract: In a post-mix beverage dispenser system including beverage concentrate containers and a storage tank for the supply of diluent through an electromagnetically actuated valve, the beverage concentrate is provided to the mixing station in a series of individual pulsed portions by a reciprocating piston pump coupled to the containers for the beverage concentrate. An electromechanical control circuit is also provided for rhythmically opening and closing the electromagnetic valve for a pulsed supply of diluent in synchronism with the pulsed delivery of the beverage concentrate for providing a mixture of precise proportions.

Abstract: An assembly for regulating the flow of liquid includes a housing made of a first, second and third housing part. The housing parts being placed immediately following one another in the flow direction. The second of three housing parts constitutes a component of a discharge shutoff valve and a component of a flow regulating valve into which a flow-through conduit is integrated between the discharge shutoff valve and the flow regulating valve immediately following it in the flow direction. The assembly includes no freely moving parts and is distinguished by a compact construction.

Abstract: A dosing unit for concentrate in a post-mix beverage dispenser is described which includes an enclosed cylinder space, and a pump piston with a bore running parallel with the axis. A control piston which is in contact with the input side shutoff of the cylinder space is disposed within and movable longitudinally of the bore in the pump piston. The control piston includes an intake opening, and in contact with the pump piston, forms an outlet opening, where the intake and the outlet openings are alternately opened or closed through axial movement of the control piston with respect to the cylinder space and the pump piston. The control piston movement is restricted with respect to the accelerator piston and constrained by axial impact points, so that an axial movement forced upon the control piston causes an impulse in both directions to open or close the intake or the outlet openings, after which by carry-over of the particular impact, the pump piston is moved axially the same distance.

Abstract: A cooling arrangement is provided for the sealing members of a plastic bodied pump. The cooling arrangement comprises a metal cup-shaped member which is mounted to the pump housing to hold a stationary member of the seal. The metal member is exposed to the dry side of the seal and surrounds the drive shaft. A flinger, which may take the form of a disk, is carried on the shaft on the dry side of the seal closely adjacent to the exposed portion of the metal member to provide a localized air flow to assist in the cooling of the metal member, and thus, the seal members.

Abstract: A hydro-air jet assembly wherein a ball-shaped element has a first passageway therethrough communicating with an air supply and a second passage therethrough communicating with a water supply which is rotatably mounted in a housing and has a venturi nozzle secured to the ball to corotate therewith but which is adjustable in an axial direction with respect to the ball member providing constant water and air flow rates through the ball and nozzle assembly regardless of the angular position of the ball. A venturi nozzle holder is used which provides a novel means of securing the adjustable venturi nozzle to the ball member.

Abstract: A one-way flow check valve is placed over an air inlet conduit to a hydrotherapy unit to prevent back flows of air and water up through and out of the conduit when the hydrotherapy nozzle outlet is blocked. A body of the valve contains a vertically-movable float which normally rests upon a retainer ring in a downward, air suction position. The float is raised upwardly and against a valve seat upon reverse flow of air and water. The light weight, buoyant construction of the float, as a hollow plastic member with top and side walls, allows the valve to shut off reverse flows of water whether fast or slow moving and to respond also to fast reverse flows of air ahead of a rising column of water. A retainer ring with float abutment pins retains the float in the body removably for cleaning the valve surfaces.

Abstract: A hydrotherapeutic aerator assembly for mixing air as fine bubbles into the center of a stream of pressurized water has a swivelable ball carrying a nozzle in which mixing of air and water occurs before ejection of the stream into a pool or bath. A housing containing the ball and nozzle has half of a ball socket formed therein. A one-piece ball seal and retaining member attachable to the housing forms a second half of the ball socket. The nozzle is adjustable axially within the ball on cooperating threads and is made non-removable from the ball by a radially-extending O-ring snapped into a channel in a rearward part of the nozzle. A circumferential abutment surface in the ball prevents withdrawal of the nozzle beyond a selected position.