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US 2023/0175185 A1Published application
Laundry washing machine with biased variable length agitator
AssigneeMidea Group Co., Ltd.
InventorBryan T. Snook
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Abstract
A laundry washing machine includes a variable length agitator that is configurable in multiple configurations that provide different lengths for the agitator along its axis of rotation, and that is further biased to at least one of the configurations to facilitate user reconfiguration of the agitator.
Claims22
A laundry washing machine, comprising:
- a housing;
- a wash tub disposed within the housing;
- and
- a variable length agitator disposed within the wash tub and configured to rotate about an axis of rotation, the variable length agitator being configurable in at least first and second configurations that respectively provide first and second lengths for the variable length agitator along the axis of rotation, and the variable length agitator including a bias mechanism configured to bias the variable length agitator towards the first configuration.
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A variable length agitator configured to rotate about an axis of rotation in a wash tub of a laundry washing machine, comprising:
- first and second members, wherein the first member is moveable relative to the second member along the axis of rotation to selectively configure the variable length agitator in at least first and second configurations that respectively provide first and second lengths for the variable length agitator along the axis of rotation;
- and
- a bias mechanism configured to bias the variable length agitator towards the first configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.