Laundry treating appliance with indexing tang clutch
US10087566B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 9, 2016 |
| Grant date | Oct 2, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 2, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
- CPC primaryD06F37/304
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A laundry treating appliance having a tub defining an interior, a basket located within the interior and rotatably mounted within the tub, a clothes mover rotatably mounted within the basket, a motor drivingly coupled to the clothes mover to selectively oscillate or rotate the clothes mover, and a loss motion device having a clutch configured to move among a set of indexed positions in response to rotation of the clothes mover, with the loss motion device being configured to rotationally couple the clothes mover and the basket after the clutch moves through the set of indexed positions.
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