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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas H Buckleitner, Lincoln Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
Assignee:
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
192 71 ; 1921 / ; 1921 / ; 1921 / ;
Abstract
A means for operating a washing machine transmission in a neutral state is provided which includes a reversible drive gear for driving the transmission in a first agitate direction and an opposite spin direction. A drive pawl is pivotally mounted on the drive gear and has an arcuate channel formed in an upper flat surface. Pawl retaining means, being a circular keeper plate with downwardly extending keeper fingers selectively movable into the channel in the pawl causes the transmission to operate in the neutral state when the fingers are in the channel and when the drive gear is rotating in the spin direction.