Agitator comprising a floating element

Abstract

Agitator provided with floating element with blades applied in washing machine, more particularly, it's about an agitator of the type applied in clothes washing machines, preferentially with top load, conventionally provided with a water reservoir or tank, a perforated basket with pulsing/alternated spin movement, configuring the place where the clothes are accommodated; the agitator element is from type installed at the bottom of the basket and in the center of the same, and it can be followed by an accessory, provided with vertical blades, integrated to the pulsing rotating system of the basket, the agitator includes a base sector with skirt shape configuration which surface is multi-perforated and provided with radial threads, equidistantly distributed; from the interior face of the plan is developed the tubular body that, along with the lateral wall of the skirt configures space for the assembly of a floating element with radial vertical blades dimensioned for acting at the respective radial threads; referred floating element has a vertical displacement course foreseen between the internal face of the surface and the bumper ring appropriately fixed at the base of the tubular body for allowing the blades to adopt a projecting position in projection or a collected position with regards to the surface based on the existence or not of water inside the reservoir/basket of the clothing washing machine.