Washing machine with detergent dispenser

• US 20050188729A1
• Filed: 02/25/2005
• Published: 09/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
• Original Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
• Inventors: Buss, Karl-Heinz, Zsambeki, Marcus
• Application Number:
  US11/067,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20050188729A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 68/12.180
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 39/028 Arrangements for selectively supplying water to detergent compartments

Abstract

A washing machine having a detergent dispenser provided with a plurality of separate compartments for containing wash and/or rinse products to be added into the tub of the machine, such detergent dispenser including a rotating selector capable of being displaced into various operational positions by a driver so as to enable the incoming water to selectively flow through each one of the compartment. The driver comprises an electric motor linked through a lever assembly to the rotating selector so that the rotation of the motor is transformed into an oscillating movement of the selector between two predetermined end positions.

Claims

1. A washing machine including a detergent dispenser provided with a plurality of separate compartments for containing wash and/or rinse products to be added into a tub of the machine, the detergent dispenser comprising:

a rotating selector capable of being displaced into various operational positions by a driver so as to enable the inflowing water to selectively flow through each one of the compartment, in that the driver comprises;

an electric motor linked through a lever assembly to the rotating selector so that the rotation of the motor is transformed into an oscillating movement of the selector between two predetermined end positions.

2. The washing machine of claim 1, wherein the lever assembly further comprises:

a first crank keyed to the motor axle;

a second crank as part of the rotating selector; and

a connecting rod linking the two cranks.

3. The washing machine of claim 1, wherein the lever assembly is placed on an upper surface of a box shaped recess containing a reservoir.

4. The washing machine of claim 1, wherein the electric motor has a single sense of rotation.