Laundry treating appliance and treating chemistry dispenser
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorMarcos Javier Rios
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Abstract
A laundry treating appliance and a treating chemistry dispenser including a receptacle at least partially defined by a set of walls and a moveable barrier rotatably mounted between a closed position wherein the receptacle and moveable barrier are configured for selectively holding a liquid treating chemistry or a powder treating chemistry and an opened position where the moveable barrier is rotated and configured to allow dispensing of the liquid treating chemistry or the powder treating chemistry; and a water diverter configured to selectively divert a flow of water to the receptacle.
Claims19
A laundry treating appliance configured to execute a treating cycle, comprising:
- a cabinet defining a cabinet interior;
- a treating chamber located within the cabinet interior and configured for receiving an article;
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- a treating chemistry dispenser system, comprising:
- a receptacle have an interior at least partially defined by a set of walls including a first side wall, a second side wall that is spaced from the first side wall, and a bottom wall extending therebetween, and a moveable wall defined by a planar element having a length that spans between the first side wall and the second side wall and wherein the moveable wall is rotatably mounted at a pivot point to at least one of the first side wall or the second side wall, the moveable wall rotatable between a closed position wherein the receptacle and moveable wall are configured for selectively holding a liquid treating chemistry or a powder treating chemistry and an opened position where the moveable wall is rotated away from the bottom wall and configured to allow dispensing of the liquid treating chemistry or the powder treating chemistry to the treating chamber;
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- a water diverter configured to selectively divert a flow of water into the receptacle, the flow of water within the interior of the receptacle configured to provide pressure on an upper portion of the planar element defining the moveable wall and rotate the upper portion of the planar element defining the moveable wall about the pivot point and away from the receptacle to the opened position once any treating chemistry and the flow of water added from the water diverter into the interior of the receptacle has reached a predetermined height above the pivot point.
A treating chemistry dispenser for a laundry treating appliance, the treating chemistry dispenser comprising:
- a water diverter configured to selectively provide water to the treating chemistry dispenser;
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- a receptacle at least partially defined by a set of walls and a moveable barrier defined by a planar element that is mounted at a pivot point of the moveable barrier between at least two of the set of walls, an entire body of the planar element is pivoted about the pivot point between a closed position wherein the receptacle and moveable barrier are configured for selectively holding a liquid treating chemistry or a powder treating chemistry and an opened position wherein upon pivoting of the entire body of the planar element about the pivot point an upper portion of the moveable barrier is pivoted downwards and a lower portion of the moveable barrier is pivoted upwards into the receptacle to allow for dispensing the liquid treating chemistry of the powder treating chemistry along a bottom wall from the receptacle, wherein the planar element is automatically configured to pivot from a pressure on the planar element of the water and any of the liquid treating chemistry or the powder treating chemistry located in the receptacle above a predetermined height, the predetermined height above the pivot point of the moveable barrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.