Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Laundry treating appliance with indexing tang clutch
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Application No.: US15065184Application Date: 2016-03-09
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Publication No.: US10087566B2Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Inventor: David Carr , Eric Farrington , David Goshgarian , Vetrivel Kanagaraj , Narendra Kapure , Abhijeet Nalawade , Kartik Vastrad , Bret Wamhoff
- Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US MI Benton Harbor
- Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
- Current Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Benton Harbor
- Main IPC: D06F37/40
- IPC: D06F37/40 ; D06F39/02 ; D06F39/04 ; D06F39/00 ; D06F33/02 ; D06F37/30 ; D06F39/08

Abstract:
A laundry treating appliance having a tub defining an interior, a basket located within the interior and rotatably mounted within the tub, a clothes mover rotatably mounted within the basket, a motor drivingly coupled to the clothes mover to selectively oscillate or rotate the clothes mover, and a loss motion device having a clutch configured to move among a set of indexed positions in response to rotation of the clothes mover, with the loss motion device being configured to rotationally couple the clothes mover and the basket after the clutch moves through the set of indexed positions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170260679A1 LAUNDRY TREATING APPLIANCE WITH INDEXING TANG CLUTCH Public/Granted day:2017-09-14
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