Washing machine or the like with adjustable programming controls

• US 3,347,066 A
• Filed: 09/15/1966
• Issued: 10/17/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alvin S. Klausner
• Original Assignee: Alvin S. Klausner
• Inventors: Klausner, Alvin S.
• Application Number:
  US04/579,719
• Time in Patent Office: 397 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: G05B 19/02 electric

Claims

1. FOR LAUNDRY APPARATUS AND THE LIKE INCLUDING A LIQUID CONTAINING VESSEL, AN ELECTRIC MOTOR-DRIVEN AGITATOR MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID VESSEL, AND A PLURALITY OF SOLENOIDALLY-CONTROLLED LIQUID INLET VALVES AND A DUMP VALVE CONNECTED TO SAID VESSEL, A CONTROL SYSTEM MANUALLY PROGRAMMABLE AT AN OPERATOR'"'"''"'"'S PANEL FOR AUTOMATICALLY CARRYING OUT AN OVERALL CYCLE SEQUENCE OF A SERIES PRE-SELECTED OF OPERATIONAL CYCLES, A PLURALITY THEREOF BEING PRE-SELECTABLE IN RESPECTIVE DURATION, COMPRISING:

A TIME CONTROL AND SELECTION BRANCH INCLUDING A SET OF LIKE TIME SELECTION ROTARY SWITCHES EACH SERVING TO SELECT THE DURATION OF A CORRESPONDING POTENTIAL OPERATION CYCLE AND HAVING ALL LIKE POSITIONAL FIXED CONTACTS COMMONLY CONNECTED AND HAVING RESPECTIVE SELECTOR ARMS;

EACH CONTACT REPRESENTING A DURATION INCREASING BY FIXED INTERVALS FROM ZERO TO A MAXIMUM;

A TIME STEPPING RELAY HAVING CONTACTS SUCCESSIVELY CONNECTED TO SUCCESSIVELY POSITIONED COMMONLY CONNECTED FIXED CONTACTS OF THE TIME SELECLTION SWITCHES;

AND HAVING A SOLENOIDALLY STEPWISE ADVANCED AND SOLENOIRDALLY ZERO RESET MOVABLE CONTACT ARM;

TIMER MEANS PRODUCING WHEN OPERATING TIMING PULSES AT CONSTANT INTERVALS APPLIED TO ADVANCE THE TIME STEPPING RELAY;

A LIQUID SELECTION AND LEVEL CONTROLLING CIRCUIT BRANCH INCLUDING