Laundry crosspiece
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsMatteo CARNEVALE, Stefano TURCHI, Vikrant P. PATIL, Andrea IENKO, Crescenzo IANNICELLI, Marco ANGELINI
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a crosspiece forming a spider for a laundry appliance, may include a plurality of support arms extending from a center, the support arms configured to be attached to a drum of the laundry appliance, wherein the center is configured to receive a shaft of a drive mechanism of the laundry appliance and translation rotational motion to the drum during use; and where the support arms are formed from a first part and a second part, where the first part is coupled to the second part to form a hollow interior and increase inertia momentum of the spider during use.
Claims20
A crosspiece forming a spider for a laundry appliance, comprising:
- a plurality of support arms extending from a center, the support arms configured to be attached to a drum of the laundry appliance, wherein the center is configured to receive a shaft of a drive mechanism of the laundry appliance providing rotational motion to the drum during use,
- wherein the support arms are formed from a first part and a second part, where the first part is coupled to the second part to form a hollow interior and increase inertia momentum of the spider during use.
A crosspiece forming a spider for a laundry appliance, comprising:
- a plurality of support arms extending from a center, the support arms configured to be attached to a drum of the laundry appliance, wherein the center is configured to receive a shaft of a drive mechanism of the laundry appliance providing rotational motion to the drum during use;
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- where each support arm includes a first part and a second part, where the first part is coupled to the second part which cooperate to form a quadrilateral cross-section with a hollow interior to increase strength and inertia momentum of the spider during use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.