Water tank with filter cartridge
View Patent ↗A water tank for a domestic appliance, having a tank base, wherein there is provided on the tank base, for the sealed connection of a filter cartridge, an annular tank sealing surface which surrounds a tank passage opening for the flow of water through the wall of the tank base to the domestic appliance, characterized in that a water passage which bypasses the tank sealing surface is provided from outside the tank sealing surface inward to the tank passage opening, which water passage can be closed by a filter-side actuation element upon insertion of the filter cartridge, in that the tank sealing surface and/or the filter sealing surface of the filter cartridge have a varying radius in relation to a central axis (A), such that the tank sealing surface and/or the filter sealing surface comprise radial indentations and/or radial protuberances.
1. A water tank for a domestic appliance, the water tank comprising:
a tank base and an annular tank sealing surface on the tank base configured for a sealed connection of a filter cartridge, wherein the annular tank sealing surface surrounds a tank passage opening for a flow of water through a wall of the tank base to the domestic appliance,
a water passage which bypasses the annular tank sealing surface is provided from outside the annular tank sealing surface inward to the tank passage opening, wherein the water passage can be closed by a filter-side actuation element upon insertion of the filter cartridge,
wherein the annular tank sealing surface has a varying radius in relation to a central axis, such that the annular tank sealing surface comprises an annular elastomer seal in which radial indentations and/or radial protuberances having a round profile are preformed,
wherein the water passage which bypasses the annular tank sealing surface, from outside the annular tank sealing surface inward to the tank passage opening, comprises a bypass channel for unfiltered water from the water tank in the tank base and runs from the water tank interior through the annular elastomer seal,
the bypass channel comprises an annular gap in the annular elastomer seal, and
a portion of the annular elastomer seal forms a deformable closure element, wherein deformation of the deformable closure element is configured to close the bypass channel, and wherein the deformable closure element comprises two opposite annular sealing surfaces in the annular gap, through which the annular gap can be closed by deformation of the annular elastomer seal.
2. The water tank as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the annular tank sealing surface forms an inner surface of an annular tank connection element, said inner surface pointing toward the central axis of the tank passage opening.
3. The water tank as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the radial indentations and/or radial protuberances of the annular tank sealing surface comprise radial indentations and radial protuberances that oscillate periodically around a circular line.
4. The water tank as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the annular tank sealing surface is arranged on a radial inner side of the radial indentations and/or radial protuberances of the annular elastomer seal.
5. The water tank as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the annular tank sealing surface has an oblique profile leading from a top down toward the central axis.
6. The water tank as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one annular sealing surface, of two opposite annular sealing surfaces, comprises a profile that slants downward and inward relative to the central axis.
7. The water tank as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the profile of the at least one annular sealing surface is increasingly elastically deformed outward during the insertion of the filter cartridge, and a resultant restoring force creates a contact pressure that provides a sealing effect of the annular elastomer seal.
8. The water tank as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the annular tank sealing surface is configured to receive a filter sealing surface of the filter cartridge having radial indentations and/or radial protuberances.
9. The water tank as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the filter sealing surface forms an outer surface of an annular filter connection piece, said outer surface pointing away from the central axis of a filter outlet opening of the filter cartridge.
10. The water tank as claimed in claim 8 , wherein an annular filter connection piece has at least one of an outer wall or an inner wall which, in relation to an operating position of the filter cartridge, slant by an angle ω 1 and/or ω 2 relative to vertical, such that the outer wall and the inner wall converge from a top downward.