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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1975
Gerhard K Losert, Louisville, KY (US);
Laddie A DePas, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
A laundry machine and method for washing clothes having both a wash and extraction operation. There is included in the machine a rotatable drum for tumbling the clothes and liquid introduction means are provided for introducing liquid into the drum at the average rate of 0.5 to 3 gallons per minute during the wash operation. Means are also provided for producing a vacuum or negative pressure to withdraw the liquid from the drum during the wash operation at a rate sufficient to prevent a bath type washing action, then at the end of the wash operation stop the introduction of liquid into the drum and continue the negative pressure to withdraw the liquid during the extraction operation.