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AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsAnthony H. Hardaway, K. David McAllister, Carrie Ann Dickinson, Duane M. Kobos
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A method to wash varying clothes load sizes with the same level of water is provided for a washer having a controller. A clothes load size setting signal is received in the controller. A mechanical duty cycle is set through the controller as a function of the clothes load size setting signal. A high-concentration wash step may be performed where a wash basket of the washer is spun at certain speeds while a highly concentrated wash bath solution is sprayed, extracted, and re-sprayed over the clothes load. On the completion of this high-concentration wash step, the washer is filled to a common water level regardless of the clothes load size setting signal. The clothes load is then processed through a wash cycle until completed.
A method of washing a clothes load comprising one or more articles of clothing in a clothes washer comprising a controller and a wash basket of a predetermined capacity and capable of holding any size clothes load up to the predetermined capacity of the wash basket, the method comprising:
A method of washing a clothes load comprising one or more articles of clothing in a clothes washer comprising a controller and a wash basket of a predetermined capacity and capable of holding any size clothes load up to the predetermined capacity of the wash basket, the method comprising:
A method of washing a clothes load comprising one or more articles of clothing in a vertical axis impeller washer having a controller and configured to achieve rollover motion of a clothes load during a wash cycle and a wash basket of a predetermined capacity capable of holding any size clothes load up to the predetermined capacity of the wash basket, the method comprising:
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