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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1995
Sudhir D Savkar, Schenectady, NY (US);
Roger N Johnson, Hagaman, NY (US);
Brian D Lisek, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A drive mechanism for converting rotary oscillation of a washing machine clothes agitator to intermittent unidirectional rotation of an adjoining clothes auger includes a ratchet wheel and cooperating ratchet pawls. The wheel includes axially oppositely facing top and bottom sides, with the top side having a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart ratchet teeth, and the bottom side being configured for being fixedly joined to the clothes agitator. The pawls are vertically suspended from a support disk for allowing gravity to engage the pawls with the ratchet teeth as the ratchet wheel oscillates with the agitator, with the support disk being driven in a single direction by the pawls for correspondingly rotating the auger joinable thereto.