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US 2017/0245727 A1Published application
Dishwasher with Rack Corner Spray System
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsWalter T. BLANCHARD, David H. CHEN
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Abstract
A dishwasher includes a rack provided with interior and exterior corner nozzles to direct washing fluid onto interior and exterior surface portions of an object placed in a corner of the rack.
Claims20
A dishwasher comprising:
- a tub defining a washing chamber adapted to receive and cleanse soiled kitchenware with recirculating washing fluid during a washing operation;
- a rack mounted in the tub for supporting kitchenware during the washing operation, said rack including a base, a front wall portion, a rear wall portion, side wall portions, and multiple corner portions including front corner portions at intersections of the front and side wall portions;
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- a spray arm configured to direct washing fluid during a washing operation upon kitchenware placed in the rack, said spray arm being bifurcated to establish sub-arm sections, with each of the sub-arm sections extending to a respective one of the corner portions and including multiple nozzles at the respective one of the corner portions.
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A dishwasher comprising:
- a tub defining a washing chamber adapted to receive and cleanse soiled kitchenware with recirculating washing fluid during a washing operation;
- a rack mounted in the tub for supporting kitchenware during the washing operation, said rack including a base, a front wall portion, a rear wall portion, side wall portions, and multiple corner portions including front corner portions at intersections of the front wall portion with the side wall portions and rear corner portions at intersections of the rear wall portion and the side wall portions, wherein the rack is movable relative to the tub between a retracted, operational position within the washing chamber to an extended, access position at least partially out of the washing chamber;
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- a spray arm mounted for concurrent movement with the rack between the extended and retracted positions and being configured to direct washing fluid during a washing operation upon kitchenware placed in the rack, said spray arm including:
- a main supply tube extending from the rear wall portion, substantially intermediate the side wall portions, toward the front wall portion;
- sub-arm sections leading from the main supply tube along the front wall portion toward the front corner portions and then extending rearward toward the rear corner portions;
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- corner nozzles provided at the front corner portions and configured to direct washing fluid upon kitchenware placed in the front corner portions of the rack during the washing operation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.