Textiles: fluid treating apparatus – Machines – Impulsing
Patent
1993-06-21
1994-09-13
Coe, Philip R.
Textiles: fluid treating apparatus
Machines
Impulsing
68 237, 475345, 475901, 475902, D06F 3730
Patent
active
053457935
ABSTRACT:
In an automatic washer drive system, a planetary gear arrangement is provided including an input drive shaft being drivingly connected to a motor at one end and having a sun gear interconnected with a second end. A plurality of cylindrical plastic planet gears are disposed around and engage the sun gear. A plastic unitary carrier member rotatably supports the planet gears and further interconnects with an output drive shaft for causing rotation of an agitator. A gear housing surrounds the cylindrical planetary gears which engage an internal ring gear disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the gear housing. The plastic unitary carrier member is configured to include a plate portion which extends outwardly in the radial direction with respect to the output drive shaft. A plurality of the cylindrical pin portions extend from the plate portion in the longitudinal direction with respect to the output drive shaft. These cylindrical pin portions provide the rotatable support of the cylindrical planet gears. A boss portion extends from a center portion of the plate portion and includes internal grooves for receiving splines disposed on the output drive shaft such that the unitary carrier member and output drive shaft are rigidly interconnected.
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Coe Philip R.
Krefman Stephen D.
Rice Robert O.
Van Winkle Joel M.
Whirlpool Corporation
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