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US 10,815,607 B2Granted
Dispenser for a laundry treating appliance
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsMarcos L. Costa, Diogo M. Rodrigues, Rui Silva
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Abstract
A laundry treating appliance with a dispenser and method dispensing where the laundry treating appliance comprises a basket at least partially defining a treating chamber with an open top, a clothes mover rotatable about a vertical axis within the treating chamber, the clothes mover defining an inner chamber and having an access opening to the inner chamber, and a dispenser at least partially received through the access opening and within the inner chamber.
Claims22
A laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a basket at least partially defining a treating chamber with an open top;
- a clothes mover rotatable about a vertical axis within the treating chamber, the clothes mover defining an inner chamber and having an access opening to the inner chamber;
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- a dispenser at least partially received through the access opening and within the inner chamber, the dispenser comprising:
- a cap having a first dividing wall,
- a divider having a divider body and a second dividing wall extending beyond the divider body to define a tab, the second dividing wall separating and partially forming at least two dispensing compartments, which are fluidly separate from each other and fluidly coupled to the treating chamber, and
- a funnel in which the divider is received, the funnel having ribs that circumscribe an interior of the funnel;
- wherein the cap and the divider are removable and when assembled the tab is received within the first dividing wall.
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A laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a basket at least partially defining a treating chamber with an open top;
- a clothes mover mounted for rotational movement about a vertical axis within the treating chamber, the clothes mover defining an inner chamber and having an access opening to the inner chamber;
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- a dispenser at least partially received through the access opening and within the inner chamber, the dispenser comprising:
- a cap having a first dividing wall,
- a divider having a divider body and a second dividing wall extending beyond the divider body to define a tab, the second dividing wall separating and partially forming a flow-through dispenser and a centrifugal dispensing compartment, which are fluidly separate from each other and fluidly coupled to the treating chamber, and
- a funnel in which the divider is received, the funnel having ribs that circumscribe an interior of the funnel;
- wherein the cap and the divider are removable and when assembled the tab is received within the first dividing wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.