Textiles: fluid treating apparatus – Machines – Combined
Patent
1995-12-18
1997-03-25
Stinson, Frankie L.
Textiles: fluid treating apparatus
Machines
Combined
68 231, 248610, 248638, D06F 3724
Patent
active
056133804
ABSTRACT:
A suspension mounts a tub to a housing in a clothes washer. The suspension includes a coil spring having first and second loops at opposite ends thereof, and an integral rod joined thereto. A one-piece snubber has a resilient middle portion and opposite first and second lugs disposed inside the coil spring, with the first lug being aligned with the first loop, and the second lug being aligned with the second loop. The snubber middle portion includes a sidewall defining a cavity which changes in volume in response to excursions between the first and second lugs. The rod has a proximal end for joining one end of the spring to the washer housing, with the other end of the spring being joinable to the tub so that the snubber and spring cooperate together to provide a variable spring and damper suspension supporting the tub.
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General Electric Company
Snyder Marvin
Stinson Frankie L.
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