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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1995
Rok Sribar, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Kiernan F Ryan, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A rotatable subassembly for a horizontal axis clothes washing machine, such subassembly having a rotatable clothes basket and a pair of balance rings. The clothes basket has a generally longitudinally extending and generally horizontally oriented axis of rotation and has two longitudinally spaced-apart ends. Each balance ring has a circumferential interior cavity, is attached to the clothes basket near a corresponding one of the ends of the clothes basket, and has a generally longitudinally extending axis generally coaxially aligned with the axis of rotation. The cavities of the balance rings are in fluid communication with the clothes basket.