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US 5,289,702 AGranted
Load balance indicator for top loading automatic clothes washing machines
OwnerJoseph A. Murrayinventor
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Abstract
The disclosure is of washing machine apparatus including a ring, within the clothes basket, and imbalance indicators coupled thereto and adapted to provide a visual indication to an operator when an imbalance occurs and provides problems in the spin cycles. The indicators show the operator where the imbalance is located and it can be easily corrected.
Claims9
A clothes washer including
- a frame,
- a tub inside the frame,
- a clothes basket inside the tub,
- means for rotating said basket including means for permitting the basket to tilt in case of an imbalance in the location of the clothes in said basket, and
- means in operative relation with said basket and in contact with said basket for providing a visual indication to an operator when said basket deviates from the perpendicular as it rotates in operation of said washer,
- whereby an operator visually inspects said means for providing a visual indication means and can determine the location of an imbalance in the clothes in the basket and correct the clothes distribution to eliminate the imbalance,
- said means for providing a visual indication comrpises a ring fixed in position adjacent to said basket and
- a plurality of slideable members secured to said basket and engaging said ring whereby if the clothes basket deviates from the vertical in a spin operation, one of said slideable members slides to a position which indicates that there is an imbalance whereby an operator can visually detect the imbalance indication and can correct the imbalance.
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