Washer auger with flexible ratchet drive

Details Washer auger with flexible ratchet drive Washer auger with flexible ratchet drive

1995-08-07

1997-01-07

Coe, Philip R.

Textiles: fluid treating apparatus

Machines

Impulsing

192 46, D06F 1708

Patent

active

055905501

ABSTRACT:
A drive mechanism for converting rotary oscillation of a washing machine clothes agitator to unidirectional rotation of an adjoining clothes auger includes a one-piece ratchet wheel, and a cooperating one-piece pawl wheel. The pawl wheel includes integral pawls, with each pawl having an elastically flexible arm supporting a bulbous distal end. The pawl wheel is fixedly joined to the agitator for rotary oscillation therewith, and the ratchet wheel is fixedly joined to the auger. Rotary oscillation of the agitator correspondingly rotates the pawl wheel for intermittently engaging the pawls with the ratchet teeth which drive the ratchet wheel in a single direction for correspondingly rotating the auger joined thereto.

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