Washer auger with gravity assisted ratchet drive

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1995-08-07

1996-11-26

Coe, Philip R.

Textiles: fluid treating apparatus

Machines

Impulsing

192 46, D06F 1708

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active

055774075

ABSTRACT:
A drive mechanism for converting rotary oscillation of a washing machine clothes agitator to intermittent unidirectional rotation of an adjoining clothes auger includes a ratchet wheel and cooperating ratchet pawls. The wheel includes axially oppositely facing top and bottom sides, with the top side having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart ratchet teeth, and the bottom side being configured for being fixedly joined to the clothes agitator. The pawls are vertically suspended from a support disk for allowing gravity to engage the pawls with the ratchet teeth as the ratchet wheel oscillates with the agitator, with the support disk being driven in a single direction by the pawls for correspondingly rotating the auger joinable thereto.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4719769 (1988-01-01), Pielemeier et al.
patent: 5479793 (1996-01-01), Savkar et al.

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