Automatic clothes washing machines
AssigneeFisher & Paykel Limited
InventorsDennis E. Smith, Graeme D. Thomas, Keith D. Ferguson
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Abstract
A clothes washing machine has a cabinet with either a back panel or front panel integral with two side panels and a removable front back panel. A platform integral with or mounted on stiffening members is fixed to the cabinet intermediate of the height thereof by shear resistant fastenings and a lightweight outer container containing an inner perforated frame is mounted on the platform. The washing and spinning mechanism is also supported by the platform.
Claims5
A clothes washing machine comprising a cabinet including a front panel and a back panel one of which is removable and two side panels, said panels, except the removable one, being integral with each other, stiffening members fixed to said integral panels in shear resistant manner intermediate of the height of the integral panels, a platform having a flat tub supporting surface supported on and in direct contact with said stiffening members, a moulded plastics cylindrical leak proof tub supported on and in direct contact with said tub supporting surface, said tub having an upper edge, a cabinet top engaged with said integral panels, a cylindrical flange depending from said top and engaging the upper edge of said tub to rigidify said tub and said cabinet, an opening in said top through which access to said tub is obtained, a lid for said opening, a perforated rotatable spinning bowl concentrically mounted within said tub, an agitator disposed within said bowl, a clothes washing and spinning mechanism supported from said platform and operatively connected to said bowl and agitator through said platform.
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