Textiles: fluid treating apparatus – Machines – Combined
Patent
1996-12-16
1998-11-03
Vanatta, Amy B.
Textiles: fluid treating apparatus
Machines
Combined
68 58, 68131, 68171, D06F 2304
Patent
active
058292772
ABSTRACT:
An improved washing machine is provided with a rotatable wash basket having rotatable agitators mounted therein. The agitators have the shape of a spherical segment so as to nest adjacent the interior surface of the wash basket. The agitators include a spur gear which meshes with a ring gear extending around the wash basket so as to impart rotation to the agitators as the wash basket rotates within the ring gear. The agitators include ribs or baffles to impart tumbling or mixing action to the laundry in the wash or rinse water in the wash basket.
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Maytag Corporation
Vanatta Amy B.
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