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US 10,648,121 B2Granted
Laundry treating appliance and dispenser
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsTobias Bronn, Tibor Budicky, Jan Martinko
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Abstract
A laundry treating an appliance comprises a cabinet defining an interior and having an access opening located on one of a front or top of the cabinet, a tub located within the interior and defining a liquid reservoir, a drum located within the liquid reservoir and rotatable about a horizontal or vertical axis, a dispenser fluidly coupled to the liquid reservoir having at least one treating chemistry compartment with a siphon movable between a first position and a second position.
Claims18
A dispenser for a laundry treating appliance comprising:
- at least one treating chemistry compartment having a chamber and defining an outlet opening fluidly coupling the chamber to an exterior of the chamber;
- a siphon at least partially located within the chamber and movable relative to the chamber to selectively open or close the outlet opening;
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- an actuator moving the siphon between a first position, wherein the siphon closes the outlet opening to enable the dispenser to operate in a liquid mode, and a second position, wherein the siphon opens at least a portion of the outlet opening to enable the dispenser to operate in a powder mode.
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A laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a cabinet defining an interior and having an access opening located on one of a front or top of the cabinet;
- a tub located within the interior and defining a liquid reservoir;
- a drum located within the liquid reservoir and rotatable about one of a horizontal or vertical axis;
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- a dispenser fluidly coupled to the liquid reservoir having at least one treating chemistry compartment having a chamber and defining an outlet opening fluidly coupling the chamber to an exterior of the chamber, a siphon at least partially located within the chamber and movable relative to the chamber to selectively open or close the outlet opening, and an actuator moving the siphon between a first position, wherein the siphon closes the outlet opening to enable the dispenser to operate in a liquid mode, and a second position, wherein the siphon opens at least a portion of the outlet opening to enable the dispenser to operate in a powder mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.