Laundry treating appliance for drying laundry
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsMarcos Javier Rios Acebal, Eric G. Griswold, Brooke M. Gundersen, Nicholas Leep, Adrian A. Rodriguez, Brian K. Rogers, James B. Sutton, Nicholas B. Vaive
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Abstract
A method of operating a laundry treating appliance with a combination washer/dryer having a cabinet defining an interior, a tub located within the interior, and a rotatable drum located within the tub interior and defining a treating chamber, and an air recirculation conduit, the method comprising supplying water to the treating chamber, rotating the drum, and draining the water from the laundry treating appliance.
Claims13
A laundry treating appliance for performing a cycle of operation on an article, the laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a tub;
- a drum rotatably mounted within the tub;
- an air conduit having a port fluidly connected to the tub;
- a lint filter fluidly coupled to the port;
- and a controller configured to:
- determine when the previous cycle of operation was a drying cycle of operation, and upon determining the previous cycle of operation was a drying cycle of operation;
- determine whether a single dose dispenser is selected for the wash cycle;
- and wherein upon determining the single dose dispenser is selected for the wash cycle, implement:
- supplying, to the tub, a charge of water through a water supply configured to bypass the single dose dispenser, the charge of water sufficient to at least partially immerse the drum while not immersing the lint filter;
- and rotating the drum for a predetermined period of time in order to remove lint from the lint filter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.