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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2006
Philip S. Johnson, Granite City, IL (US);
Marshall J. Huggins, Kirkwood, MO (US);
Michael Peebles, Merritt, NC (US);
John R. Holden, Trent Woods, NC (US);
Philip S. Johnson, Granite City, IL (US);
Marshall J. Huggins, Kirkwood, MO (US);
Michael Peebles, Merritt, NC (US);
John R. Holden, Trent Woods, NC (US);
Emerson Electric Co., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A clothes dryer includes a motor adapted to be mounted on a frame of the dryer for driving a dryer belt to rotate a drum of the dryer. The motor includes a rotor adapted to rotate the belt, at least one winding energizable to cause rotation of the rotor, and a first switch operable to control energization of the winding. A second switch has a sensor for sensing belt breakage. The second switch is mounted on the first switch and is electrically connected to the winding so that when the belt is no longer sensed, the second switch stops operation of the winding and thereby stops rotation of the rotor.