US Patent 7650765 Clothes washing machine with an integrated arrangement of electromagnetic valves

Clothes washing machine comprising: a common water-distribution manifold (2), a plurality of electromagnetic (3B, 4B, 5B) valves provided downstream of said water-distribution manifold and connected on a respective inlet side thereof to said common water-distribution manifold, a plurality of outlet conduits (3, 4, 5) provided at the delivery orifices of said electromagnetic valves, a respective plurality of chambers (3A, 4A, 5A) supplied via a respective one of said outlet conduits (6), in which a cold-water inlet conduit (7) directly connects the low-temperature water delivery system to said water-distribution manifold, a hot-water inlet conduit (7) connects the high-temperature water delivery system to a pre-determined one of said outlet conduits downstream of the respective electromagnetic valve, and a further electromagnetic valve (7B) is provided in said hot-water inlet conduit. Inside a pre-determined outlet conduit, and downstream of the respective electromagnetic valve, there is provided a temperature sensor (20).