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US 11,028,521 B2Granted
Fabric treating appliance comprising a bulk dispenser
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsMarcus A. Cannon, Bruno T. Ramasco
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Abstract
A bulk dispenser for a fabric treating appliance wherein the fabric treating appliance has a tank defining a bulk dispensing reservoir and a timer valve that is fluidly coupled to the bulk dispensing reservoir. A time selector is located on the tank and operably coupled to the timer valve. The time selector has non-time selection indicia such as load amount, liquid volume, or soil level. The timer valve is a mechanical timer valve.
Claims13
A bulk dispenser for a fabric treating appliance comprising:
- a tank defining a bulk dispensing reservoir;
- a timer valve fluidly coupled to the bulk dispensing reservoir;
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- a time selector carried by the tank and operably coupled to the timer valve and having non-time selection indicia corresponding to at least one characteristic of load amount, liquid volume, or soil level;
- wherein the timer valve is a mechanical timer valve and the time selector is an input movably mounted to the tank wherein the physical position of the input sets an activation time for the mechanical timer valve.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.