Textiles: fluid treating apparatus – Machines – Single tub and automatic sequential operation mechanism
Patent
1996-09-23
1997-09-23
Coe, Philip R.
Textiles: fluid treating apparatus
Machines
Single tub and automatic sequential operation mechanism
68 1204, 68 1219, 68207, D06F 3302, D06F 3908
Patent
active
056692501
ABSTRACT:
An energy efficient washing machine includes a cleansing fluid supply system, a washer basket having an agitator device for displacing the articles to be cleansed within the basket, and a closed loop water level controller coupled to the cleansing fluid supply system and to the drive system for the agitator. The fluid supply system includes a fill nozzle designed to provide a clothes-positioning spray pattern that serves to maintain the articles evenly distributed in the basket to enables the load sensing systems of the closed loop adaptive water level controller to function to accurately provide the optimal water level for cleansing. To accomplish this positioning of the articles to be cleansed, the fluid fill nozzle typically provides a fan discharge of fluid passing therethrough and is disposed at a cant angle with respect to the direction of rotation of the basket such that the fan discharge covers an area between the agitator assembly and the sidewall of the basket.
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Badami Vivek Venugopal
Dausch Mark Edward
Jenkins, Jr. Harold John
Whipple, III Walter
Coe Philip R.
General Electric Company
Ingraham Donald S.
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