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Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 1983

Filed:

Apr. 30, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jimmy R Rickard, Louisville, KY (US);

Robert K Hollenbeck, Louisville, KY (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, Louisville, KY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F / ; D06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
8158 ; 8159 ; 68 1 / ; 68 233 ; 210144 ;
Abstract

An automatic clothes washing appliance of the vertical axis type for a clothes washing operation having a plurality of cycles including wash and spin cycles incorporating a tub, a clothes receiving basket movably supported in the tub, means for distributing fill water to the articles received in the basket, and a drive motor which selectively drives the basket for a wash mode and a spin mode. The control system for the appliance includes an arrangement for detecting the existence of a basket out-of-balance condition in the spin mode and initiates a rebalance operation which includes means to measure the basket rotational speed during the spin mode and means responsive to detection of basket rotational speed being less than a predetermined normal balanced basket rotational speed at a predetermined time in the spin cycle to interrupt the spin cycle and to actuate a rebalance cycle and thereafter to resume the spin cycle.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Rickard, Jimmy. (1983). Washing machine with out-of-balance detection and correction capability (U.S. Patent No. 4411664). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/4411664

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