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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1986
Robert A Brenner, St. Joseph Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
William L Kennedy, Coloma Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
Anthony Mason, Lincoln Township, Berrien County, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A clothes rollover agitation system is provided for a vertical axis automatic washer in which the agitator has a skirt portion that has an inner portion which extends outwardly and downwardly and an outer portion which extends outwardly and upwardly to assist the clothes within the washer to undergo a 180.degree. direction reversal in the bottom of the wash basket. The skirt portion stops short of the basket side wall and a removable ring member is secured to the basket wall to continue the upward and outward shape toward the sidewall. A plurality of buttons engagable in holes in the basket sidewall are used to secure the ring to the sidewall.