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US 5,862,684 AGranted
Washer having shoe cleaning device
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJoo Heum Park
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Abstract
A clothes washer includes a wash tub in which an agitator is mounted. The agitator includes a blade member which oscillates clockwise and counterclockwise about a vertical axis, a reciprocable member which oscillates with the blade member while reciprocating up-and-down, and a shoe cleaning device mounted on the reciprocable member for oscillation and vertical reciprocation therewith. The shoe cleaning device includes a circular plate carrying a plurality of brushes.
Claims7
A clothes washer comprising:
- a housing;
- a water container mounted in the housing;
- a motor-driven agitator mounted in the water container and including:
- an oscillatable blade member mounted for oscillation about a vertical axis,
- a vertically reciprocable member mounted on the blade member for up-and-down reciprocation while oscillating with the blade member, and
- a shoe cleaning device, including shoe-cleaning brushes, mounted on the reciprocable member for oscillation and up-and-down movement therewith, wherein the shoe cleaning device is removable from the blade member and comprises a circular plate on which the brushes are mounted, the circular plate including a downwardly projecting connecting member connectible with the reciprocable member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.