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Eaton Corporation

Robert A Livernash

Joseph J Mahon

Robert J Cooper

Robert K Aigner

Manuel Gamez

A diverter valve for diverting fluid flow between an inlet and an outlet selected from among several outlets is disclosed. The diverter valve disclosed is useful for distributing fluids in laundry applications, especially automatic clothes washers and the like. It includes a body, a valve member, a motor to operate the valve, an actuable switch, a cam mechanism to de-energize the motor upon movement to a position, and a housing for the device.

Motorized diverter valve

A programmer for an appliance having a single timing motor drive for a rotating cam drum which actuates plural appliance program function switches. An advance pawl drives the cam drum in one direction when selectively engaged with a toothed wheel on the drum and drives through a first rotary frictional coupling. A gear train drives continuously through a second rotary frictional coupling and drives the cam drum in a reverse direction when the advance pawl is disengaged. When the pawl is engaged, the second rotary frictional coupling slips and is overdriven in a direction opposite its driving direction by said first frictional coupling.

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Naperville, IL, United States of America

Robert A Livernash