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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2016
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
David Carr, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Eric Farrington, Stevensville, MI (US);
David Goshgarian, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Vetrivel Kanagaraj, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Narendra Kapure, Pune, IN;
Abhijeet Nalawade, Pune, IN;
Kartik Vastrad, Pune, IN;
Bret Wamhoff, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A laundry treating appliance having a tub defining an interior, a basket located within the interior and rotatably mounted within the tub, a clothes mover rotatably mounted within the basket, a motor drivingly coupled to the clothes mover to selectively oscillate or rotate the clothes mover, and a loss motion device having a clutch configured to move among a set of indexed positions in response to rotation of the clothes mover, with the loss motion device being configured to rotationally couple the clothes mover and the basket after the clutch moves through the set of indexed positions.