Laundry treating appliance and method of operating a laundry treating appliance
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsBRANDON R. HENGESBACH, TREMITCHELL WRIGHT
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Abstract
A laundry treating appliance having a tub having an open face and at least partially defining a treating chamber in which laundry may be received for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation, a door for closing the open face of the tub, a perforated rotatable drum located within the tub and a method of operating such that the rotation of the drum is accelerated at a rate sufficient to cause an inrush of supplied liquid into the treating chamber from the tub via the perforations that locates a unit dose treating chemistry within the treating chamber.
Claims22
A method of positioning a unit dose treating chemistry within a treating chamber of a laundry treating appliance having a perforated rotatable drum located within a tub, with the tub at least partially defining a liquid reservoir and the tub at least partially defining a treating chamber in which laundry may be received for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation, the method comprising:
- supply an amount of liquid to the tub such that the liquid is at least at a first level where rotation of the drum relative to the tub will force liquid through the perforations;
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- accelerate the rotation of the drum at an acceleration rate sufficient to cause an inrush of the supplied liquid into the treating chamber from the tub via the perforations when the liquid is at least at the first level;
- wherein the inrush of liquid locates a unit dose treating chemistry within the treating chamber.
A laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a tub having an open face and at least partially defining a liquid reservoir and at least partially defining a treating chamber in which laundry may be received for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation;
- a door for closing the open face of the tub;
- a bellows coupled to the open face of the tub and configured to seal against the door when the door closes the open face of the tub;
- a perforated rotatable drum located within the tub;
- a liquid supply system for introducing liquid into one of the drum and tub;
- a motor drivingly coupled with the drum for rotating the drum;
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- a controller operably coupled with the liquid supply system to introduce liquid into one of the drum and tub such that the liquid is at least at a first level where rotation of the drum relative to the tub will force liquid through the perforations and operably coupled to the motor to accelerate the rotation of the drum at an acceleration rate sufficient to cause an inrush of supplied liquid into the treating chamber from the tub via the perforations when the liquid is at least at the first level and where the inrush of liquid locates a unit dose treating chemistry within the treating chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.