Laundry treating appliance with removable basket
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsALEXANDRE L. MARANGONI, FERNANDO RAISS MARTINS, MARCELO A. SANTOS, EDUARDO LUIS VIOLIN
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Abstract
An apparatus for a laundry treating appliance including a first basket defining a first treating chamber for receiving laundry for treatment according to a selected cycle of operation. A first clothes mover can be provided in the first treating chamber. A removable basket assembly can include a second basket with a second clothes mover. A transmitter can be included in the removable basket assembly for operably coupling the second clothes mover to the first clothes mover.
Claims26
A removable basket assembly for a laundry treating appliance having a first clothes mover, the removable basket assembly, comprising:
- a basket adapted to be selectively receivable within a portion of the laundry treating appliance, the basket defining a treating chamber for receiving laundry for treatment according to a cycle of operation;
- a clothes mover disposed in the treating chamber and adapted for rotation within the basket;
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- a transmitter having a body mounted to the clothes mover and wherein when the basket is received within the laundry treating appliance the body is operably coupled to the clothes mover such that rotation of the clothes mover can be transmitted to the clothes mover through the transmitter.
A removable basket assembly for a laundry treating appliance having a first clothes mover disposed in a first treating chamber and operably coupled to a motor for rotation within the first treating chamber, the first clothes mover comprising a set of blades extending from a bottom wall of the first clothes mover and along a length of the first clothes mover and terminating in a set of blade ends, the removable basket assembly, removable basket assembly selectively receivable within at least a portion of the first treating chamber and removably coupled to the first clothes mover, the removable basket assembly, comprising:
- a second basket defining a second treating chamber for receiving laundry for treatment;
- a second clothes mover disposed in the second treating chamber, the second clothes mover comprising one of a plurality of extensions or a plurality of corresponding grooves disposed about a circumference of an interior wall of the second clothes mover;
- a transmitter having a body comprising an interior and an exterior wall, the interior comprising a set of recesses adapted to receive the set of blade ends for coupling the transmitter to first clothes mover, the exterior wall of the transmitter comprising the other of the plurality of extensions or the plurality of corresponding grooves disposed about an outer circumference of the transmitter body for coupling the second clothes mover to the transmitter;
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- wherein when the second basket is rotatably coupled to the first basket and the second clothes mover is operably coupled to the first clothes mover via the transmitter and when the second basket is received within the at least a portion of the first treating chamber, rotation of the first clothes mover is transmitted to the second clothes mover through the transmitter and separately from rotational movement of the first basket and the second basket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.