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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
May. 29, 1997
Prabhat Kumar Tekriwal, Schenectady, NY (US);
Joseph Duane Tobbe, Taylorsville, KY (US);
Andrew Joseph Spanyer, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
The instant invention is directed in general to dishwashers and, more specifically, to a non-symmetric heating element/spray-arm alignment within a dishwasher. In a first embodiment of the instant invention, a dishwasher having a washing phase and a drying phase, includes a spray-arm having a center point, rotatably attached within a dishwasher and a heating element having a center point positioned within the dishwasher, where the center point of the heating element and the center point of the spray-arm are offset such that the heating element and the spray-arm are non-symmetrically aligned and the spray-arm is exposed to the heating element in varying regions during drying phases.