Laundry treating appliance for drying laundry
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorNicholas B. Vaive
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Abstract
A method of operating a laundry treating appliance with a treating chamber for treating a load of laundry the method comprising supplying a rinse to the treating chamber during a rinse cycle, rotating the treating chamber at a tumbling speed, spinning the treating chamber in an extraction cycle to remove excess moisture from the load of laundry, sensing a parameter indicative of a remaining moisture content value in the load of laundry, comparing the remaining moisture content value to a pre-determined remaining moisture content value.
Claims20
A method of extracting liquid from a laundry load residing in a rotating drum of a laundry treating appliance during a rinsing phase of operation, the method comprising:
- a) supplying water into the drum;
- b) heating the water in the drum to a predetermined temperature to form hot water;
- c) rotating the drum at a tumbling speed;
- d) after rotating at the tumbling speed, rotating the drum at a spinning speed;
- e) sensing a parameter indicative of a residual moisture content of the laundry load;
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- f) comparing the parameter indicative of the residual moisture content of the laundry to a pre-determined residual moisture content value;
- g) repeating at least b), c) d), e) and f) until the parameter that is sensed indicates a residual moisture content value below the predetermined residual moisture content value.
A method of operating a laundry treating appliance with a treating chamber for treating a load of laundry the method comprising:
- heating a water supply to a predetermined temperature to form a hot water rinse;
- supplying the hot water rinse to the treating chamber during a hot rinse cycle;
- rotating the treating chamber at a tumbling speed;
- spinning the treating chamber in an extraction cycle to remove excess moisture from the load of laundry;
- sensing a parameter indicative of a remaining moisture content value in the load of laundry;
- comparing the remaining moisture content value to a pre-determined remaining moisture content value;
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- repeating the hot rinse cycle and the extraction cycle until the remaining moisture content value is less than the pre-determined remaining moisture content value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.