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EP3673126B1 - Schwimmbeckenreiniger mit einer durch zentrifugalspinnen und filtration arbeitenden ablagerungstrennvorrichtung - Google Patents

Schwimmbeckenreiniger mit einer durch zentrifugalspinnen und filtration arbeitenden ablagerungstrennvorrichtung Download PDF

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EP3673126B1
EP3673126B1 EP18778879.9A EP18778879A EP3673126B1 EP 3673126 B1 EP3673126 B1 EP 3673126B1 EP 18778879 A EP18778879 A EP 18778879A EP 3673126 B1 EP3673126 B1 EP 3673126B1
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Philippe BLANC TAILLEUR
E. Keith MC QUEEN
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  • the present invention relates to the field of equipment for swimming pools. It relates more particularly to an autonomous swimming pool cleaning device of the robot type comprising a water circuit to be cleaned and at least one means of filtering debris present in suspension in the water.
  • the invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning a surface immersed in a liquid, such as a surface formed by the walls of a basin, in particular of a swimming pool. More specifically, the invention refers to a mobile swimming pool cleaning robot. Such a cleaning robot performs said cleaning by traversing and brushing the walls of the swimming pool, and by sucking any debris towards a filter adapted to collect said debris.
  • Debris is understood here to mean all the particles present within the basin and having a surface or volume measurement within a predetermined interval, the limits of which are functions of the technical characteristics of the robot, so that, on the one hand, the lower limit allows the entry of said particles into the filtration device, and, on the other hand, the upper terminal prevents the exit of said particles from the filtration device.
  • Such debris can comprise, for example, pieces of leaves, microalgae, etc., this debris being normally deposited at the bottom of the basin or stuck on the side walls of the latter.
  • the robot is supplied with energy by an electric cable connecting the robot to an external control and power unit.
  • Such devices include a body, members for driving said body on the submerged surface, a filtration chamber formed within the body and comprising a liquid inlet, a liquid outlet, a hydraulic circuit for circulating liquid between the body. inlet and outlet through a filter device.
  • the filtering device is removable and extractable from the body of the device without having to return the cleaning device.
  • These devices have automatic programs for cleaning the bottom of the pool and possibly the side walls of the pool. Such a program determines a cleaning of the swimming pool in a predetermined time.
  • the robot is removed from the water by the user at the end of the cycle or at regular intervals, when the filter can no longer perform its functions due to an overflow of particles (leaves, microparticles, etc.), and needs to be cleaned.
  • the outdoor robot control and power unit emits a light signal when this filter cleaning operation must be carried out.
  • the object of the invention is to remedy this drawback in particular.
  • the device for separating debris suspended in a liquid comprises the technical features of claim 1.
  • washing pool cleaning apparatus refers to an apparatus for cleaning an immersed surface, that is to say typically an apparatus, mobile within or at the bottom of a swimming pool, and suitable for carrying out filtration. debris deposited both at the bottom and on a wall.
  • a swimming pool cleaning robot comprises means for automated management of movements at the bottom and on the walls of the swimming pool to cover the entire surface to be cleaned.
  • liquid is used here to name the mixture of water and debris, or particles, in suspension in the swimming pool or in the fluid circulation circuit within the cleaning device.
  • debris separation denotes any form of segregation of suspended debris to produce, at the outlet of the separation device, a liquid freed from its debris.
  • the means of segregation can in particular comprise means of centrifugation or filtration.
  • the centrifugation means advantageously allow mechanical separation of the particles, via centrifugal force.
  • the separation device comprises a supply or admission channel for the liquid opening in a tangential direction into a debris separation chamber, or filtration chamber, defining a substantially cylindrical volume, said debris chamber. filtration communicating with the centrifuged debris collection tank.
  • the liquid supply channel opens tangentially to a cylindrical wall of the filtration chamber.
  • the liquid supply channel is configured, in shape and size, so as to conduct a high velocity of the liquid laden with debris.
  • the invention also meets the following characteristics, implemented separately or in each of their technically operative combinations.
  • the filtration chamber and the centrifuged debris collection tank communicates through an opening present in the cylindrical wall of the filtration chamber.
  • the opening is preferably placed in the lower part of the cylindrical volume of the filtration chamber, when the separation device is in place in the body of the robot.
  • the centrifuged debris collection tank forms a radial protuberance external to the cylindrical volume defined by the filtration chamber, from the cylindrical wall.
  • the centrifuged debris collection pan extends radially outside the filtration chamber from the cylindrical wall.
  • the axis of the filtration chamber is preferably parallel to a horizontal XY plane of the cleaning apparatus.
  • the centrifuged debris collection tank is in the lower part of the separation device when said separation device is inserted into the body of the robot.
  • the debris whose size and density are important with respect to the liquid are centrifuged and pushed against the peripheral wall of the filtration chamber while continuing their circular movement induced by the movement of the liquid then are expelled towards the collection bin when they arrive near it.
  • the separation device also comprises a filtration device.
  • the filtration device is arranged in the center of the filtration chamber. Thus, lighter and smaller debris, those that are not centrifuged, are filtered out.
  • the filtration device comprises a tangential filtration device.
  • the filtration device comprises a front filtration device.
  • the front filtration device is inserted in the tangential filtration device in a removable manner, which allows easy cleaning and great compactness of the device.
  • the separation device is such that the filtration device is removable from said debris separation device. This also favors easy cleaning of the swimming pool cleaner.
  • the separation device comprises two side faces, one of the faces forming a cover and being mounted hermetically, removably, on the filtration chamber.
  • the filtration device forms a mainly cylindrical volume mounted coaxially in the central part of the filtration chamber, and configured to separate the internal volume of said chamber from at least one outlet for filtered liquid.
  • the invention is characterized in that the separation device comprises, between the filtration chamber and the centrifuged debris collection tank, a baffle formed by a part of the cylindrical wall of the filtration chamber extending above the tank. collection of centrifuged debris.
  • the separation device comprises, between the filtration chamber and the debris collection tank, a baffle forming a wall of convex continuity with the cylindrical wall of the chamber.
  • a baffle creates an area in which the velocity of the liquid is low compared to its velocity in the centrifugal filtration chamber. As a result, the debris naturally comes to settle in said collection bin and remain there.
  • this baffle makes it possible to homogenize the peripheral speed in the filtration chamber and thus improve the centrifugation of the debris. It also makes it possible to generate a reverse circulation in the trap zone thus preventing the debris from re-entering the filtration chamber.
  • the baffle determines an angular opening ( ⁇ ) of approximately 60 ° from the filtration chamber towards the collection tank.
  • the invention relates in a second aspect to a swimming pool cleaning device comprising a separation device as explained above, the separation device being removably mounted in the swimming pool cleaning device.
  • the axis of the cylindrical filtration chamber is parallel to a horizontal XY plane of the apparatus.
  • the axis of the cylindrical filtration chamber is parallel to a transverse axis Y of the apparatus.
  • the invention also relates to a modification kit for a swimming pool cleaning device, said kit comprising a separation device as explained, and means for adapting this separation device to the body of the swimming pool cleaning device. .
  • the invention also relates to a submerged surface cleaning apparatus according to claim 11.
  • the invention finds its place within a technical swimming pool environment, for example an in-ground swimming pool of the family type.
  • a submerged surface cleaning system comprises, in the present example embodiment, a cleaning apparatus 10, referred to below as a swimming pool cleaning robot, and a power supply and control unit for said swimming pool cleaning robot (not illustrated on the figures).
  • this supply and control unit can be integrated into the cleaning device.
  • the swimming pool cleaning robot 10 is shown according to an embodiment given here by way of example, in figures 1, 2 and 3 .
  • the type of swimming pool cleaning robot 10 is here with water ejection inclined towards the rear of the cleaning device, relative to the running surface of the swimming pool cleaning robot.
  • the swimming pool cleaning robot 10 comprises a body 11 and drive and guide members 12 of the body 11 on a submerged surface.
  • these drive and guide members 12 consist of wheels arranged sideways to the body 11 (see in particular figure 1 ).
  • the drive and guide members define an XY guide plane on a submerged surface by their points of contact with said submerged surface.
  • Said guide plane is generally substantially tangent to the submerged surface at the point at which the swimming pool cleaning robot is located.
  • Said XY guide plane is for example substantially horizontal when the swimming pool cleaning robot moves on a submerged surface of the pool bottom.
  • top and bottom are defined along a straight line Z, perpendicular to said guide plane XY, a “bottom” element being closer to the guide plane than a top element.
  • the guide plane is said to be horizontal, and the direction perpendicular to this plane is said to be vertical.
  • the axis of movement of the robot is called the longitudinal axis X, and the axis perpendicular to this direction in the guide plane is called the transverse axis Y.
  • the swimming pool cleaning robot 10 further comprises a motor 13 driving said drive and guide members 12, said motor 13 being, in the present example, supplied with energy by the command and control unit via a cable flexible waterproof 14, part of which is visible on the figures 1 to 4 , at the point of insertion of this cable 14 into the body 11 of the swimming pool cleaning robot 10.
  • the swimming pool cleaning robot 10 has at least one liquid inlet 15 and one liquid outlet 16.
  • the liquid inlet 15 is located at the base of the body 11 (in other words under the latter according to the vertical axis Z), that is to say immediately opposite a submerged surface on which the swimming pool cleaning robot 10 moves in order to be able to suck up the debris accumulated on said submerged surface.
  • the swimming pool cleaning robot 10 usually comprises a brush, for example with multiple concentric blades, intended to come off the particles, or debris, deposited on the walls of the swimming pool.
  • the liquid outlet 16 is located here at the rear and in the upper part of the swimming pool cleaning robot 10 in the longitudinal direction X.
  • the liquid outlet 16 is made in a direction oriented towards the rear of the pool. the device.
  • This arrangement is not, however, limiting, and a water outlet substantially perpendicular to the guide plane XY, that is to say oriented vertically (direction Z) if the swimming pool cleaning robot 10 rests on the bottom of the pool. swimming pool, is also possible.
  • the apparatus comprises a hydraulic circuit connecting the liquid inlet 15 to the liquid outlet 16.
  • the hydraulic circuit is adapted to be able to ensure circulation of liquid from the liquid inlet 15 to the liquid outlet 16.
  • the apparatus comprises for this purpose a circulation pump comprising the motor 13 of the electric type already mentioned, and a propeller 17 (see figure 4 ), said motor 13 driving the propeller 17 in rotation, said propeller 17 being arranged in the hydraulic circuit.
  • the apparatus comprises a device for separating debris suspended in a liquid, hereinafter referred to as the separation box 18.
  • the separation box 18 disposed, on the hydraulic circuit, downstream of the liquid inlet 15.
  • This control box separation 18 is advantageously, but not necessarily, of the extractable type from the body 11 of the swimming pool cleaning robot 10. This arrangement is illustrated by figure 5 .
  • the separation box 18 firstly comprises a substantially cylindrical volume, the internal part of which forms a filtration chamber 22.
  • the axis of this cylindrical volume is, in this non-limiting example of an embodiment, parallel to the transverse axis Y of the swimming pool cleaning robot 10.
  • the separation box 18 is completed in the lower part by a tank 23 for storing, or collecting, debris, said tank 23 coming in continuity with the cylindrical volume in the lower part thereof.
  • the debris collection tank 23 is not contained in the cylindrical volume.
  • the debris collection bin communicates with the cylindrical volume.
  • the separation box 18 is completed in the front part by an inlet channel, or supply, for liquid 24 in said cylindrical filtration chamber 22, this liquid inlet channel 24 being connected to the liquid inlet 15 .
  • the separation box 18 is disassembled in the form, on the one hand, of a box body 20, and, on the other hand, of a filter assembly 21.
  • the box body 20 comprises in its upper part a gripping handle 19, here produced integrally with said box body 20, and adapted to allow the extraction of the separation box 18 from the body 11 of the robot. pool cleaning 10.
  • the handle 19 is movable relative to the housing body 20.
  • the substantially cylindrical volume forming the filtration chamber 22 consists of a cylindrical wall 201 (of axis here parallel to the transverse axis Y when the housing separation 18 is mounted on the body 11 of the robot 10), and two lateral faces (perpendicular to this transverse axis Y), the cylindrical wall 201 and a first lateral face, called the external lateral face, of the cylindrical volume forming the filtration chamber 22 being included in the housing body 20, while the second lateral face, called the internal lateral face, is included in the filter assembly 21.
  • the liquid inlet channel 24 and the filtration chamber 22 partly form the debris centrifugation means.
  • the liquid inlet channel 24 has a substantially rectangular elongated section in the horizontal plane XY.
  • the water inlet channel which connects the liquid inlet 15 to the filtration chamber 22 in the front part thereof, presents in the vertical plane XZ a slightly curved profile ending in the upper part 24a of said liquid inlet channel 24 in a direction of the flow of water that is substantially vertical.
  • the liquid inlet channel 24 is thus disposed in its upper part 24a tangentially to the cylindrical wall 201 of the filtration chamber 22.
  • the liquid intake channel 24 then merges with the filtration chamber 22, the wall of which is cylindrical has in this place an opening, called a mouth, allowing the entry of liquid almost tangentially to the cylindrical wall 201 on its internal face.
  • the flow of liquid in the filtration chamber 22 is tangential to the wall, which gives the liquid a rotational movement within said filtration chamber 22, the speed of this flow being determined by various parameters including the power of the fluid circulation pump, the cross section of the liquid inlet 15 and the pressure drops in the liquid circuit.
  • This generates a centrifugation effect of predetermined intensity for the most dense particles, present in the liquid and therefore driven in circular motion in the cylindrical volume of the filtration chamber 22.
  • the centrifuged particles are collected in the debris collection tank 23.
  • the centrifugation effect is also obtained from a suitable geometry of the liquid inlet channel 24 and of the filtration chamber 22, and from a suitable size of the mouth.
  • the debris collection tank 23, arranged under the filtration chamber 22, has in the longitudinal vertical plane XZ a section formed in the front part by the curved wall of the liquid inlet channel 24, in the rear part by a flat surface, here disposed tangentially to the cylindrical wall 201 of the housing body 20. These two walls are in the present example arranged in substantially perpendicular planes.
  • this section of the collection tank 23 is therefore open to the filtration chamber 22 over at most a quarter of the circumference of said cylindrical filtration chamber 22.
  • the precise angle ⁇ ( figure 9 ) the angular opening of the cylindrical chamber towards the collection tank 23 is determined by the choice of the length of a part of the cylindrical wall of the filtration chamber 22 extending above the collection tank 23 and forming thus a baffle 34 which constrains the circulation of the liquid.
  • the angular opening ⁇ of the cylindrical filtration chamber 22 towards the debris collection tank 23 is approximately 60 ° of the circumference of said cylindrical filtration chamber 22. Lower or higher values of this opening angle ⁇ are however possible.
  • the effect of the baffle 34 is to create within the collection tank a zone of almost zero liquid velocity, which allows the debris centrifuged in the cylindrical filtration chamber 22 to come and settle in the collection tank 23 and d 'remain there without being again drawn into the flow by the rapid movement of the liquid in the filtration chamber 22.
  • the filter assembly 21 can be removed from the housing body 20, to allow the user to clean the interior of the housing body 20 and the filter assembly 21. In the closed position, the filter assembly 21 is hermetically assembled on the housing body 20.
  • the means for hermetically fixing the filter assembly 21 on the housing body 20 are of a type known to those skilled in the art and as such fall outside the scope of the present invention. The same applies to the means for fixing the separation box 18 to the body 11 of the swimming pool cleaning robot 10.
  • the filter assembly 21 comprises a support plate 25, forming the second lateral face of the filtration chamber 22 mentioned above, and two coaxial filters 26, 27.
  • the external filter 26 is of the mesh filter type supported by a structure of support, here represented by three circles connected by four spacers.
  • This filter is made of a material suitable for retaining particles larger than 300 microns. This value is given as an indication; it can vary between 200 and 700 ⁇ m.
  • This filter collects large non-centrifuged particles (pieces of leaves or grass). This filter can be used on its own outside of the pool's use period to remove large debris such as leaves.
  • the internal filter 27 is of the accordion cartridge filter type. It is suitable for retaining particles in suspension in the liquid having dimensions greater than 50 microns. The folds allow to significantly increase the filtering surface and thus to limit the clogging of this filter
  • the diameter of the internal filter 27 is adapted to be inserted within the external filter 26 with a clearance less than a few millimeters. For each of these two filters 26, 27, the water to be filtered enters through the part outside the filter and the filtered water outlet by the part inside said filter. In this way, the water which has passed through the two coaxial filters 26, 27 exits via the axial zone of the filter assembly 21.
  • the support plate 25 has in its central part an axial opening 28, intended to come opposite the axial zone of the filters 26, 27, when the latter are assembled in the separation box 18 and to allow the filtered water outlet from the separation box via this second side end wall.
  • the diameter of this axial opening is substantially identical to the internal diameter of the filter cartridge 27, from so as to limit the pressure drops in the hydraulic circuit.
  • the housing body 20 has an axial opening (28 on the figures 4 , 7 and 9 ) in the central part of the first end wall of the cylindrical volume, so as to provide another outlet for filtered liquid at the other end of the coaxial filters 26, 27, when these are assembled in the separation box 18 .
  • the two coaxial filters 26, 27 are clamped between, on one side, the lateral face of the body of the box 20 forming the first lateral face of the separation box 18 and, on the other hand, the support plate 25 forming the second side face of the separation box 18, when the filter assembly 21 is mounted in the body of the box 20 to form the separation box 18.
  • This assembly of the two coaxial filters 26, 27 on the side faces of the separation box 18 is airtight to avoid as much as possible the passage of unfiltered water to the water circulation pump.
  • the body of the housing 20 and the support plate 25 are made of plastic or other suitable material, by techniques known to those skilled in the art, for example molding, gluing, etc.
  • the separation box 18 is inserted, when it is assembled on the body 11 of the swimming pool cleaning robot 10, between two flat walls 29 in the form of discs (only one of these flat walls being visible on the figures 5 and 6 ). These flat walls 29 here protect the side faces of the body of the box 20 and allow better guidance during the placement of the separation box 18.
  • these flat walls 29 have fixing points 31 (see figure 1 ) on the frame of the body 11 which determine the positioning of the separation box 18 vis-à-vis the body 11 of the robot 10 and in particular allow the positioning of the water inlet channel 24 above the inlet d 'water 15 (see figures 4 and 8 ) to ensure continuity of the liquid flow.
  • each of these flat walls 29 has at its center an opening 30 (see figure 5 ) intended for the passage of filtered water, said opening 30 coming opposite the corresponding axial opening 28 of the body of the housing 20 when the latter is assembled on the body 11 of the robot 10.
  • each of the flat walls 29 comprises a seal adapted to ensure a seal of the filtered water circuit, when the robot 10 is in use.
  • the robot 10 comprises a filtered water collector tube 31.
  • This filtered water collector tube 31 shaped substantially in a “U” shape, is arranged in the rear part of the body 11 of the robot, and comprises two lateral arms 32, each of these arm 32 connecting to a side wall 29 at the axial opening 30.
  • the two side arms 32 meet above a water intake area 33 of the propeller 17 of the fluid circulation pump. In this way, the water collected at the outlet from the two side faces of the separation box 18, through the side walls 29, is returned to the circulation pump and discharged at the rear of the swimming pool cleaning robot 10.
  • the filtered water collecting tube 31 has a geometry such that the water outlet of the tube is located at the bottom. look from the water inlet of the liquid circulation pump.
  • the side walls 29 and the filtered water collecting tube 31 are therefore specific to the robot model 10, while the separation box 18 is unchanged. for a set of robots.
  • the other particles in suspension in the liquid, continue to rotate in the cylindrical chamber and are gradually sucked towards the filter assembly by the effect of the vacuum created by the liquid circulation pump.
  • the largest particles (diameter greater than 300 microns) are retained by the external filter 26, which they constantly sweep tangentially under the effect of the circulation of fluid in the filtration chamber 22.
  • This external filter can be assimilated. 26 to a tangential filtration device. They thus contribute to continuously unclog this external filter 26.
  • the smallest particles (dimensions less than 300 microns) pass through the external filter 26, and the liquid flow is then substantially frontal at the outlet of the external filter 26 and at the inlet of the filter.
  • internal filter cartridge 27 which constitutes favorable conditions for the use of this type of filter.
  • This internal filter 27 can be likened to a front filtration device. As the internal filter 27 becomes clogged, the suction pressure decreases in the liquid circuit, at unchanged pumping power, and the circulation speed decreases in the filtration chamber 22, which reduces the effect of sweeping of the external filter by large particles and therefore increases the clogging of this external filter. All the while, the larger debris remains in the debris collection pan 23, the internal liquid velocity of which is very low compared to the velocity in the chamber. filtration 22.
  • an alert signal is sent to the user of the pool cleaning robot 10, who then takes it out of the pool, extracts the box separation 18, opens it to extract the filter assembly 21, dismantles the external filter 26 and the internal filter 27, and cleans them with plenty of water, as well as the collection tank 23.
  • the filtration efficiency is significantly improved by the use of centrifugation and segregation of centrifuged debris in conjunction with a filtration device at two levels, tangential and frontal, which reduces the number of filter cleanings to be carried out by the user for the same total quantity of debris extracted from the liquid.
  • the figure 10 illustrates two curves obtained for two cleaning devices which differ only in the size of the mouth. Each curve is a delimitation curve between the particles that will be centrifuged and those that will not, depending on the density and size (diameter) of the particles.
  • Curve 1 was obtained for a cleaning device with a rectangular shaped mouth 38 mm high, inducing a fluid speed of about 0.75 ms -1 in the filtration chamber 22 for a liquid flow rate of 15 m 3 h -1 .
  • Curve 2 was obtained for a cleaning device with a rectangular mouth of height 20 mm, inducing a speed of the fluid of about 1.15 ms -1 in the filtration chamber 22 for a liquid flow rate of 15 m 3 h -1 .
  • a liquid non-return valve of a type known per se is arranged in the upper part of the water inlet channel 24.
  • the axis of the cylindrical filtration chamber is not parallel to the transverse axis Y, but takes another orientation, parallel to the horizontal plane XY or not.
  • the arrangement in which the cylindrical chamber has an axis parallel to the transverse axis Y of the robot is however advantageous in that it minimizes the gyroscope effects during the turns of the robot in the basin.
  • each outlet 28 is connected to an independent collecting tube 31 which conducts the clean water to a water inlet zone 33 of each propeller 17 for circulating fluid.
  • Each propeller 17 is driven by an independent pump motor 13 and pushes the water towards an independent outlet located at the rear of the swimming pool cleaning robot 10.

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  1. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) von in einer Flüssigkeit schwimmenden Ablagerungen, für ein Schwimmbeckenreinigungsgerät, wobei das Reinigungsgerät Folgendes umfasst:
    - ein Gehäuse (11),
    - mindestens einen Flüssigkeitszirkulations-Hydraulikkreislauf zwischen mindestens einem Flüssigkeitseingang (15) und mindestens einem Flüssigkeitsausgang (16) und durch die Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) von in der Flüssigkeit schwimmenden Ablagerungen hindurch,
    - mindestens eine Fluidzirkulationspumpe, die in dem Hydraulikkreislauf installiert ist,
    wobei die Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) von in einer Flüssigkeit schwimmenden Ablagerungen Mittel zum Zentrifugieren von in der Flüssigkeit schwimmenden Ablagerungen, einen Sammelbehälter (23) dieser zentrifugierten Ablagerungen und einen Zuführungskanal der Flüssigkeit (24) beinhaltet, der in eine Filterkammer (22) mündet, die ein im Wesentlichen zylindrisches Volumen tangential zu einer zylindrischen Wand (201) der Filterkammer definiert, wobei die Filterkammer (22) mit dem Sammelbehälter (23) zentrifugierter Ablagerungen in Verbindung steht,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) zwischen der Filterkammer (22) und dem Sammelbehälter (23) zentrifugierter Ablagerungen eine Schikane (34) beinhaltet, die durch einen Teil einer zylindrischen Wand (201) der Filterkammer (22) gebildet wird, die sich über den Sammelbehälter (23) zentrifugierter Ablagerungen hinaus verlängert, wenn die Vorrichtung zur Trennung in dem Gehäuse (11) des Reinigungsgerätes vorhanden ist.
  2. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Filterkammer (22) und der Sammelbehälter (23) zentrifugierter Ablagerungen durch eine Öffnung, die in der zylindrischen Wand der Filterkammer vorhanden ist, in Verbindung stehen.
  3. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie auch eine Filtervorrichtung (21) beinhaltet.
  4. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Filtervorrichtung (21) eine tangentiale Filtervorrichtung (26) beinhaltet.
  5. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Filtervorrichtung (21) eine frontale Filtervorrichtung (27) beinhaltet.
  6. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach Anspruch 4 oder 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die frontale Filtervorrichtung (27) in abnehmbarer Form in die tangentiale Filtervorrichtung (26) eingeführt wird.
  7. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Filtervorrichtung (21) von der Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) von Ablagerungen abnehmbar ist.
  8. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie zwei Seitenflächen beinhaltet, wobei eine der Flächen (25) einen Deckel bildet, und hermetisch in abnehmbarer Form auf der Filterkammer (22) angebracht ist.
  9. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Filtervorrichtung (21) ein hauptsächlich zylindrisches Volumen bildet, das koaxial in dem zentralen Teil der Filterkammer (22) angebracht ist, und konfiguriert ist, um das Innenvolumen der Kammer (22) von mindestens einer Ausgangsöffnung (28) für gefilterte Flüssigkeit zu trennen.
  10. Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Schikane (34) eine Winkelöffnung (α) von etwa 60° von der Filterkammer (22) zum Sammelbehälter (23) bestimmt.
  11. Schwimmbeckenreinigungsgerät (10), dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es eine Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10 beinhaltet, wobei die Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) abnehmbar in dem Schwimmbeckenreinigungsgerät (10) angebracht ist.
  12. Schwimmbeckenreinigungsgerät (10) nach Anspruch 11, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Achse der zylindrischen Filterkammer (22) parallel zu einer horizontalen Ebene XY des Gerätes (10) verläuft.
  13. Schwimmbeckenreinigungsgerät (10) nach Anspruch 11, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Achse der zylindrischen Filterkammer (22) parallel zu einer Querachse Y des Gerätes (10) verläuft.
  14. Umbausatz für ein Schwimmbeckenreinigungsgerät (10), wobei der Satz eine Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10, und Mittel zum Anpassen (29, 31) dieser Vorrichtung zur Trennung (18) am Gehäuse (11) eines Schwimmbeckenreinigungsgerätes (10) beinhaltet.
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