Laundry appliance

US8028550B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION · US

Inventors

• Anna Kathryn Duncan · Auckland, NZ
• Erin Louise Hall · Whitford, NZ
• Geoffrey Walker · Auckland, NZ
• Gerald David Duncan · Auckland, NZ
• Flavio Bernardino · Saint Joseph, US
• Mary E. Zeitler · Three Rivers, US
• David W. Carr · Saint Joseph, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 20, 2011
• Grant date: Oct 4, 2011
• Expiry date: Jan 20, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D06F39/083
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A laundry machine configured to supply a first amount of water to the wash tub wherein a wash plate can be oscillated such that clothes items directly above and in contact with the impeller are frictionally dragged in a oscillatory manner with the wash chamber while continuing to oscillate said wash plate, an additional supply of water is added to said wash tub such that as cloth items lost frictional engagement with the wash plate, the cloth items continue to move along an inverse toroidal rollover path at higher water levels.