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US 11,732,396 B2Granted
Laundry treating appliance and method of control
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsEmmanuel F. Gonzaga, Fernando Raiss Martins
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for a laundry treating appliance dispense treating chemistry into a rotating basket. A dispenser can be a centrifugal dispenser adapted to move or dispense treating chemistry based upon rotational movement of a basket. The dispenser can include a holding pocket to hold a volume of treating chemistry, a transferring pocket to centrifugally receive the treating chemistry, and a dilution pocket to dilute the treating chemistry and dispenser the treating chemistry.
Claims20
A laundry treating appliance, comprising:
- a tub defining a liquid chamber;
- at least one basket assembly defining a laundry chamber and having an open top, the at least one basket assembly having an upper ring secured to the basket assembly for rotation with the basket assembly, the upper ring defining a top wall with a dilution pocket formed in the top wall and having a dilution pocket centrifugal outlet fluidly coupled to at least one of the liquid chamber or the laundry chamber;
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- a centrifugal dispenser adapted to be received within the dilution pocket, the centrifugal dispenser including a holding pocket having a radially outer wall at least partially defining a holding pocket centrifugal outlet and a transfer pocket located radially exterior of the holding pocket and defined in part by an outer transferring wall spaced from the radially outer wall, the transfer pocket having at least a portion fluidly coupled to the holding pocket centrifugal outlet, wherein the transfer pocket includes a drain outlet fluidly coupled to the dilution pocket.
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A laundry treating appliance, comprising:
- a tub defining a liquid chamber;
- a first basket defining a laundry chamber and having an open top;
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- a centrifugal dispenser carried by and secured to the first basket for rotation with the first basket, the centrifugal dispenser comprising:
- a holding pocket having a radially outer wall at least partially defining a first centrifugal outlet;
- a transfer pocket located radially exterior of the holding pocket and defined in part by an outer transferring wall spaced from the radially outer wall of the holding pocket, the transfer pocket having at least a portion fluidly coupled to the first centrifugal outlet, wherein the transfer pocket has a drain outlet;
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- a dilution pocket defined at least in part by an inner dilution wall and an outer dilution wall, that is radially exterior from the inner dilution wall, the dilution pocket fluidly coupled to the drain outlet and having a second centrifugal outlet at least partially formed by the outer dilution wall, the second centrifugal outlet fluidly coupled to at least one of the liquid chamber and the laundry chamber, wherein a first body defines the holding pocket and the transfer pocket and a second container defines the dilution pocket and the first body is received within the second container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.