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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 1979
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert A Brenner, St. Joseph, MI (US);
Victor W Cuthbert, Sodus, MI (US);
Assignee:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
68133 ; 68134 ; 366277 ; 366278 ; 416 82 ;
Abstract
An agitator for a vertical axis washing machine and for effecting uniform, repetitive oscillations about the machine axis has upper, lower and middle portions with different degrees of lost motion so that the agitator can achieve multiple stroke lengths and so relative motion can be effected between the vanes and the skirt, for example, because of different stroke lengths.