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US 8,397,544 B2Granted
Household cleaning appliance with a single water flow path for both non-bulk and bulk dispensing
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorMichael Stephen Hendrickson
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Abstract
An apparatus with a single water flow path suitable for a household cleaning appliance having both a non-bulk dispensing system and a bulk dispensing system.
Claims9
A household cleaning appliance configured to execute a cleaning cycle on an article, comprising:
- a cabinet defining an interior;
- a treating chamber located within the interior for receiving the article for cleaning;
- a dispensing system having multiple dispensing cups fluidly coupled to the treating chamber, with a first of the multiple dispensing cups defining a single use dispenser;
- a bulk dispensing cartridge received in another one of the multiple dispensing cups to define a bulk dispenser, the bulk dispensing cartridge having an outlet fluidly coupled to the first of the multiple dispensing cups through a port defined between the another one of the multiple dispensing cups and the first of the multiple dispensing cups;
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- a single water flow path supplying water to the dispensing system to flush treating chemistry from either of the single use dispenser or the bulk dispenser to the treating chamber.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.