Whirlpool Corporation

Whirlpool Corporaton

George L Turner

Dean L Tietz

Eric E Chang

A method of operating a laundry treating appliance having a foreign object trap located in a bottom of a wash basket underlying a clothes mover, the bottom of the wash basket having an upwardly extending wall, with at least the wash basket rotatable about an axis of rotation, the method including radially expelling liquid through an outlet opening of the foreign object trap.

Foreign object trap for a laundry treating appliance

A laundry treating appliance having a tub a defining an interior, a wash basket within the interior and having a bottom from which extends a peripheral wall to at least partially define a laundry treating chamber, a clothes mover located within the laundry treating chamber in an overlying relationship to at least a portion of the bottom of the wash basket, and rotatable about an axis of rotation, and a foreign object trap located in the portion of the wash basket defines a foreign object passageway for retaining foreign objects, the foreign object trap having at least one outlet opening with a first portion that is not at a right angle to the axis of rotation.

An automatic clothes washer having a clothes trap for reducing the likelihood that an article of clothing can escape from a wash basket during the spinning of the basket.

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Stevensville, MI, United States of America

George L Turner