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US 2020/0370228 A1Published application
Household cleaning appliance with a non-bulk dispensing system convertible to a household cleaning appliance with a bulk dispensing system
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsMICHAEL S. HENDRICKSON, JOEL A. LUCKMAN
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Abstract
A household cleaning appliance having a treating chamber and a non-bulk dispensing system coupled with the treating chamber and having a portion of material configured to be removable wherein the non-bulk dispensing system is configured to receive a removable cartridge containing a treating chemistry when such material is removed.
Claims20
A treating chemistry dispensing system for an appliance having a treating chamber, comprising:
- a non-bulk dispensing system including a set of walls forming a dispensing cup configured to be fluidly coupled with the treating chamber and dispense an entirety of a dose located within the dispensing cup and wherein a portion of one of the set of walls is configured to be removed to create an opening in the one of the set of walls and wherein the non-bulk dispensing system is configured to receive at least a portion of a removable cartridge containing a treating chemistry that is fluidly coupled to the treating chamber via the opening when the portion is removed and the removable cartridge is received in the non-bulk dispensing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.