Molded collection basket
AssigneeElectrolux Professional S.p.A.
InventorsRichard Seiss, Roger Moore, Michael P. Licata
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Abstract
A basket assembly is provided. The basket assembly includes a molded basket body having opposed side walls with minimal draft angles. The basket body defines a front opening for receiving fluid and items, an interior area of receiving and holding the items, and a plurality of perforations for allowing the fluid to escape the interior area while retaining the items within the interior area. The perforations are placed, oriented, sized, and configured to maximize fluid flow and item retention while the basket assembly is positioned in flowing fluid of a washing machine wash tank. Support pins retain the basket assembly at the top of the wash tank and handles extending therebetween facilitate removal of the basket assembly from the wash tank.
Claims10
A basket assembly, the basket assembly comprising:
- a basket body including opposing first and second side walls, wherein said first and second side walls are parallel;
- and
- a plurality of body walls extending between said first and second side walls,
- thereby defining an interior area,
- wherein the plurality of body walls includes:
- a rear wall extending along a rear edge of each side wall;
- an intermediate angled wall extending from a bottom edge of the rear wall;
- a bottom wall extending from a front edge of the intermediate angled wall;
- and
- a front wall extending from the bottom wall towards a front edge of each side wall;
- and
- a plurality of handle assemblies, each handle assembly extending between first and second side walls and spaced apart by a first distance,
- wherein each handle assembly comprises a handle member having proximal and distal ends, each end of the handle member defining an engagement feature,
- wherein each said engagement feature comprises a lip and a boss extending therefrom, wherein said lip of each engagement feature is configured to engage with an inner surface of a respective side wall, and
- wherein each handle assembly is keyed to one or more side wall, thereby preventing or otherwise inhibiting rotation of the handle assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.