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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2011
Dean L. Tietz, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
George L. Turner, Stevensville, MI (US);
Dean L. Tietz, Saint Joseph, MI (US);
George L. Turner, Stevensville, MI (US);
Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A laundry treating appliance having a tub a defining an interior, a wash basket within the interior and having a bottom from which extends a peripheral wall to at least partially define a laundry treating chamber, a clothes mover located within the laundry treating chamber in an overlying relationship to at least a portion of the bottom of the wash basket, and rotatable about an axis of rotation, and a foreign object trap located in the portion of the wash basket defines a foreign object passageway for retaining foreign objects, the foreign object trap having at least one outlet opening with a first portion that is not at a right angle to the axis of rotation.