Dispenser for a laundry washing machine
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorBryan T. Snook
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Abstract
A dispenser for a laundry washing machine. The dispenser includes one or more screens adjacent one or more detergent trays. The one or more screens reduce the splashing of fluid to adjacent detergent trays. The one or more screens, or portions thereof, may include a plurality of though openings in fluid communication between one or more sprayers and one or more detergent trays.
Claims21
A laundry washing machine comprising:
- a first liquid detergent tray;
- a second liquid detergent tray adjacent the first liquid detergent tray;
- at least one sprayer;
- and
- at least one screen disposed between the at least one sprayer and at least one of the first liquid detergent tray and the second liquid detergent tray to receive fluid from the at least one sprayer and reduce fluid splashing to the other corresponding detergent tray.
A liquid detergent dispenser having a screen for reducing fluid transfer between adjacent liquid detergent trays comprising:
- a first liquid detergent tray;
- a second liquid detergent tray adjacent the first liquid detergent tray;
- at least one sprayer;
- and
- at least one screen disposed between the at least one sprayer and both the first liquid detergent tray and the second liquid detergent tray;
- and
- a first fluid from the at least one sprayer passing through a first portion of the at least one screen during a first time period into the first liquid detergent tray while minimizing fluid into the adjacent second liquid detergent tray and a second fluid from the at least one sprayer passing through a second portion of the at least one screen during a second time period into the second liquid detergent tray while minimizing fluid into the adjacent first liquid detergent tray.
A method of introducing liquid detergent into a wash tub of a laundry washing machine at different time periods comprising the steps of:
- spraying a first fluid through a first portion of one or more screens into a first liquid detergent tray;
- spraying a second fluid through a second portion of the one or more screens into a second liquid detergent tray adjacent to the first liquid detergent tray;
- blocking lateral spray of the first fluid into the second liquid detergent tray;
- and
- blocking lateral spray of the second fluid into the first liquid detergent tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.