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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2011
Alexander Leibman, Louisville, KY (US);
Alaknanda Acharya, Louisville, KY (US);
Paul Owen Davis, Louisville, KY (US);
Jerrod Aaron Kappler, Louisville, KY (US);
Christopher Omalley, Louisville, KY (US);
Alexander Leibman, Louisville, KY (US);
Alaknanda Acharya, Louisville, KY (US);
Paul Owen Davis, Louisville, KY (US);
Jerrod Aaron Kappler, Louisville, KY (US);
Christopher Omalley, Louisville, KY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for delivering additive into a clothes basket and cleaning remaining additive from an additive container are provided. The apparatus includes a clothes basket rotatable about an axis, a motor coupled to the clothes basket, a Venturi component, an additive container connected to a vacuum area of the Venturi component through a U-tube, a water inlet connected to the Venturi component through an inlet hose, an outlet hose connecting the Venturi component to the clothes basket, a valve controlling flow of water into the inlet hose, a valve controlling flow of water into the additive container, and a processor coupled to the motor and the valves, the processor being operative to manipulate the valve controlling flow of water into the inlet hose and the valve controlling flow of water into the additive container to deliver additive into the clothes basket and to clean remaining additive from the additive container.