Clothes basket and balance ring subassembly for a horizontal axis clothes washing machine
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRok Sribar, Kiernan F. Ryan
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Abstract
A rotatable subassembly for a horizontal axis clothes washing machine, such subassembly having a rotatable clothes basket and a pair of balance rings. The clothes basket has a generally longitudinally extending and generally horizontally oriented axis of rotation and has two longitudinally spaced-apart ends. Each balance ring has a circumferential interior cavity, is attached to the clothes basket near a corresponding one of the ends of the clothes basket, and has a generally longitudinally extending axis generally coaxially aligned with the axis of rotation. The cavities of the balance rings are in fluid communication with the clothes basket.
Claims10
A clothes washing machine rotatable subassembly comprising:
- a) a rotatable clothes basket having a generally longitudinally extending and generally horizontally disposed axis of rotation and having two longitudinally spaced-apart ends;
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- b) a pair of balance rings each having a circumferential interior cavity, each attached to said clothes basket proximate a corresponding one of said two longitudinally spaced-apart ends of the clothes basket, and each having a generally longitudinally extending axis generally coaxially aligned with said axis of rotation, wherein said cavities of said balance rings are abuttingly-open to said clothes basket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.