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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2011
Uwe Mette, New Bern, NC (US);
Jonathan Murrell, Cookeville, TN (US);
Ramon Rodriguez, New Bern, NC (US);
Rolf Schuck, New Bern, NC (US);
Uwe Mette, New Bern, NC (US);
Jonathan Murrell, Cookeville, TN (US);
Ramon Rodriguez, New Bern, NC (US);
Rolf Schuck, New Bern, NC (US);
BSH Home Appliances Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A household appliance includes a housing having a door formed in a front panel thereof for accessing an interior of the housing, a tub disposed inside the housing, and a rotatable drum within the tub and having an axis of rotation, the rotatable drum for receiving laundry through the door. The tub includes a tub body, a heater pocket integrally formed in a lower portion of the tub body, the heater pocket forming a cavity in fluid communication with the drum, the heater pocket for at least partially surrounding a heating element for heating a fluid in the tub, and a fluid guide on an interior surface of the tub, the fluid guide one of guiding the fluid from the tub body into the heater pocket and disrupting a fluid ring formed in the tub body during rotation of the rotatable drum.