Laundry treating appliance and method of control
AssigneeWhirlpool Corporation
InventorsScott A. Merkle, Dale E. Mueller
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for operating a laundry treating appliance having a tub and a rotatably wash basket, the method comprising draining at least a portion of a wash liquid, accelerating the wash basket, enabling the wash basket to decelerate and supplying a rinse liquid during at least a portion of the deceleration of the wash basket.
Claims13
A method of operating a laundry treating appliance having a tub defining an interior, with a wash basket rotatably mounted within the interior and at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving laundry for treatment in accordance with a cycle of operation, the tub having a wash liquid, the method comprising:
- a) draining at least a portion of the wash liquid from the tub;
- b) accelerating the wash basket to a first wash basket rotation speed;
- c) enabling the wash basket to decelerate from the first wash basket rotation speed to a wash basket rotation speed less than the first wash basket rotation speed;
- d) supplying a rinse liquid to the tub during at least a portion of the deceleration of the wash basket from the first wash basket rotation speed;
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- e) repeating steps a) through d), wherein the repeated b) accelerating the wash basket includes accelerating the wash basket to successively higher wash basket rotation speeds.
A laundry treating appliance comprising:
- a tub defining an interior with a wash basket rotatably mounted within the interior and at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving laundry for treatment with a wash liquid in accordance with a cycle of operation;
- a motor operably coupled with the wash basket to rotate the wash basket within the tub;
- a liquid supply system configured to supply rinse liquid to the tub;
- a drain pump configured to drain wash liquid from the tub;
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- a controller configured to:
- a) drain at least a portion of the wash liquid from the tub;
- b) accelerate the wash basket to a first wash basket rotation speed;
- c) enable the wash basket to decelerate from the first wash basket rotation speed to a wash basket rotation speed less than the first wash basket rotation speed;
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- d) supply a rinse liquid to the tub during at least a portion of the deceleration of the wash basket from the first wash basket rotation speed;
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- e) repeating steps a) through d), wherein the repeated b) accelerating the wash basket includes accelerating the wash basket to successively higher wash basket rotation speeds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.