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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2010
Alexander Leibman, Prospect, KY (US);
Alaknanda Acharya, Hyderabad, IN;
David Scott Dunn, Smithfield, KY (US);
Jerrod Aaron Kappler, Louisville, KY (US);
Aaron Lee Welch, Louisville, KY (US);
Alexander Leibman, Prospect, KY (US);
Alaknanda Acharya, Hyderabad, IN;
David Scott Dunn, Smithfield, KY (US);
Jerrod Aaron Kappler, Louisville, KY (US);
Aaron Lee Welch, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is provided herein. The apparatus includes, a clothes basket rotatable about an axis, a motor coupled to the clothes basket, an additive tank, a Venturi component comprising a hole connecting to a water inlet, a hole connecting to the additive tank, and a hole connecting to the clothes basket, a first valve, a second valve, and a processor coupled to the first valve and the second valve, the processor being operative to carry out a dispensing phase of the apparatus, wherein the dispensing phase comprises dispensing additive to the clothes basket, and carry out a self-cleaning phase of the apparatus, wherein the self-cleaning phase comprises washing the additive tank.