Automatic washing machine with improved cycle selection means

• US 3,142,976 A
• Filed: 05/22/1963
• Issued: 08/04/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lawrence R. Collins, Renor S. Faidy
• Original Assignee: Lawrence R. Collins, Renor S. Faidy
• Inventors: Collins, Lawrence R., Faidy, Renor S.
• Application Number:
  US04/282,463
• Time in Patent Office: 440 Days
• US Class Current: 68/12.23
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 34/08 Control circuits or arrangements thereof
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 34/28 Arrangements for program selection, e.g. control panels therefor; Arrangements for indicating program parameters, e.g. the selected program or its progress
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 34/30 characterised by mechanical features, e.g. buttons or rotary dials

Claims

1. IN A WASHING MACHINE HAVING A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT SELECTABLE WASHING SEQUENCES INCLUDING A WASH STEP, A RINSE STEP, AND A LIQUID EXTRACTION STEP:

(A) FIRST MANUAL MEANS OPERABLE TO A PLURALITY OF POSITIONS CORRESPONDING TO THE PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT WASHING SEQUENCES;

(B) FIRST SWITCH MEANS HAVING A PLURALITY OF POSITIONS AND CONTROLLING AT LEAST ONE FUNCTION OF SAID MACHINE TO PROVIDE SAID PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT WASHING SEQUENCES, SAID FIRST MANUAL MEANS IN EACH POSITION PROVIDING ONE OF SAID SWITCH MEANS POSITIONS;

(C) ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED MEANS FOR EFFECTING SAID STEPS;

(D) TIMER MOTOR MEANS;

(E) SECOND SWITCH MEANS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAID ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED MEANS AND SAID TIMER MOTOR MEANS TO PROVIDE A WASH STEP FOLLOWED BY RINSE AND EXTRACTION STEPS OF PREDETERMINED DURATION AND THEN TERMINATION OF OPERATION OF SAID MACHINE SAID TIMER MOTOR MEANS OPERATING SAID SECOND SWITCH MEANS TO PROVIDE SAID STEPS AND SAID TERMINATION;

(F) A DIAL (G) A FIRST INDICATING MEANS SHOWING ON SAID DIAL WHICH POINT IN A SEQUENCE OF STEPS HAS BEEN REACHED;