Dispenser for a laundry treating appliance
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsMARCOS L. COSTA, DIOGO M. RODRIGUES, RUI SILVA
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Abstract
A laundry treating appliance with a dispenser and method dispensing where the laundry treating appliance comprises a basket at least partially defining a treating chamber with an open top, a clothes mover rotatable about a vertical axis within the treating chamber, the clothes mover defining an inner chamber and having an access opening to the inner chamber, and a dispenser at least partially received through the access opening and within the inner chamber.
Claims27
A laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a basket at least partially defining a treating chamber with an open top;
- a clothes mover rotatable about a vertical axis within the treating chamber, the clothes mover defining an inner chamber and having an access opening to the inner chamber;
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- a dispenser at least partially received through the access opening and within the inner chamber, the dispenser having at least two dispensing compartments, which are fluidly separate from each other and fluidly coupled to the treating chamber.
A laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a basket at least partially defining a treating chamber with an open top;
- a clothes mover mounted for rotational movement about a vertical axis within the treating chamber, the clothes mover defining an inner chamber and having an access opening to the inner chamber;
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- a dispenser at least partially received through the access opening and within the inner chamber, the dispenser having a flow-through dispenser and a centrifugal dispensing compartment, which are fluidly separate from each other and fluidly coupled to the treating chamber.
A method of dispensing at least two treating chemistries from a dispenser located in a clothes mover for a laundry treating appliance during a cycle of operation, the method comprising:
- non-centrifugally dispensing a first treating chemistry into a treating chamber from a first dispenser located within the clothes mover;
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- centrifugally dispensing a second treating chemistry into the treating chamber from a second dispenser located within the clothes mover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.