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High performance washing process for vertical axis automatic washer

  • US 4,987,627 A
  • Filed: 01/05/1990
  • Issued: 01/29/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of laundering a textile wash load in a washing apparatus having a wash tub for receiving a wash liquid within which there is a rotatable wash zone including a peripheral wall, a collection zone for said wash liquid, a pump for moving said wash liquid, means for rotating said peripheral wall and said wash load in said wash zone about a generally vertical axis, comprising the sequential steps of:

  • (1) introducing said textile wash load into said wash zone;

    (2) rotating said wash load and said peripheral wall at a speed that is sufficient to maintain the load against the peripheral wall;

    (3) introducing incremental amounts of wash liquid to said rotating wash load from a source external of said wash tub and monitoring the collection zone for the presence of wash liquid;

    (4) terminating the introduction of additional amounts of wash liquid into the wash zone from said source once a sufficient amount of wash liquid has been detected in the collection zone by said monitoring;

    (5) continuously passing said wash liquid from said collection zone through said rotating wash load so that the cumulative amount passed through is greater than the amount necessary to saturate the clothes load;

    (6) terminating steps b 2 and 5 after a first predetermined time period following the start of step 5; and

    (7) rinsing said wash liquid from said wash load.

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