| 摘要 |
A multiple charge dispenser has two compartments on the inner panel of a dishwasher door. A semi-circular lid selectively automatically or manually uncovers one or both of the compartments. The lid is integral with one end of a pivot shaft which extends through the inner panel to receive a latch plate on the other side of the panel. Lid and latch plate are spring-biased to pivot together from a CLOSED position to an OPEN position with an INTERMEDIATE position therebetween. Such positions are defined by CLOSED, INTERMEDIATE and OPEN dispensing cam stops formed along an inboard side of the latch plate. A detent, normally stationary relative to the pivotal movement of the latch plate, is yieldably, normally biased toward the inboard side of the latch plate to engage sequentially each one of the cam stops as the latch plate pivots past the detent. The latch plate has an outboard pause stop cantilevered from the inboard side thereof and pivotally between the CLOSED and INTERMEDIATE dispensing cam stops. A solenoid is energized to shuttle the detent away from said inboard side for successively, automatically releasing the CLOSED and INTERMEDIATE dispensing cam stops to successively uncover the compartments. With the solenoid deenergized, the compartments may be selectively uncovered by pivoting the lid manually. As the lid is thus pivoted, the cam stops on the latch plate act to cam the yielding detent in a direction away from the inboard side for successively, manually releasing the CLOSED and INTERMEDIATE dispensing cam stops so that the compartments may be spring-biasingly successively uncovered.
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