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US 11,230,806 B2Granted
Fabric treating appliance with pelletizer
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsRodney Michael Welch, Erica Roberts
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Abstract
A laundry treating appliance having a lint pelletizer whereby clothing fibers retained within a fluid can be extracted from the fluid and formed into a pellet. The laundry treating appliance can be a clothes washer or a clothes dryer. The clothes washer or clothes dryer can be a vertical or horizontal axis, either of which can be top-loading or front loading.
Claims21
A laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a treating chamber with a fluid circuit;
- and
- a lint pelletizer having a hopper, a ram, and a lint trap coupled to the fluid circuit;
- wherein lint from the fluid circuit is trapped by the lint trap and formed into a pellet by the lint pelletizer.
1 more element
A method for pelletizing lint entrained in waste liquid in a household appliance, the method comprising:
- trapping the lint from the waste liquid,
- compressing the trapped lint into a pellet, and
- fusing at least a portion of the lint in the pellet wherein the fusing results in a mechanical or chemical connection between at least some fibers forming the lint.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.