Abstract: A laundry machine has means for receiving water and fabrics to be laundered therein. An electronically commutated motor is adapted to be electronically commutated in a plurality of different sequences to effect oscillation and unidirectional rotation of the receiving means so as to launder the fabrics in the fluid and thereafter centrifugally displace water from the fabrics, and driving means is associated between the electronically commutated motor and the receiving means.

Abstract: A method of making a core adapted to be used in a dynamoelectric machine. The core has a plurality of slots extending therethrough defining a plurality of first pole sections interposed between adjacent ones of a plurality of integrally interconnected second pole sections, respectively. In this method, a plurality of sets of magnetic material elements are located within the slots generally between the first pole sections and the adjacent ones of the second pole sections, respectively, and a nonmagnetic hardenable material is provided at least within the slots so as to at least in part fill the interstices of the slots generally about the magnetic material element sets in the slots, respectively.

Abstract: A water soluble composition including an amine or ammonium salt of a polyimide precursor which is obtained by the reaction steps of: reacting a tetracarboxylic compound and a diamine in about equimolar amounts in a water miscible organic solvent to obtain the polyimide precursor; and reacting the polyimide precursor with ammonia, or an aqueous solution of ammonia, or a primary or secondary aliphatic amine in an amount sufficient to neutralize the free carboxyl groups of the polyimide precursor.A process of coating and a substrate are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of assembling a switch and terminal assembly and mounting it to a dynamoelectric machine. In this method, a grounding device is associated with an enclosed casing from exteriorly thereof so as to expose a ground connection section of the grounding device beyond a wall of the enclosed casing generally in row formation with electrical connection sections of terminals supported in the wall. Mounting means are interconnected between the switch and terminal assembly and the dynamoelectric machine to effect the mounting thereto of the switch and terminal assembly, and the mounting means is coupled in ground circuit relation with the grounding device and an electrically conductive structural component of the dynamoelectric machine.

Abstract: An electrical circuit for an automotive type air conditioning system. The circuit has a pair of switch elements sequentially operable to place a resistor in circuit relation with a relay to effect its actuation, and the relay controls the energization of a coil of a clutch device for coupling it in driving relation with a refrigerant compressor operable in the system.A method of controlling an electrical circuit is also disclosed.

Abstract: A control device has a housing with a chamber therein, and a pair of means is mounted to the housing within the chamber for supporting a first contact and a switch having a resilient switch blade with a second contact engaged with the first contact. The supporting means include at least one deformable section, and a pair of adjusting means are adjustably movable in the housing to affect the deformations of the at least one deformable sections of the supporting means thereby to locate the first contact in an adjusted position defining a force required to break the first and second contacts upon actuation of the switch and to bias the switch blade toward another adjusted position defining another force required to remake the first and second contacts upon the actuation of the switch.

Abstract: In a method of assembling a wick and bearing, the wick is passed into a bore of the bearing through one end thereof, and bridge means on the bearing spanning the bore thereof is captured between bifurcated sections of the wick. In another method of assembling a wick and bearing, wiping sections of the wick are respectively disposed in slots in the bearing intersecting with a bore thereof and a bridge section on the wick is twistably displaced between the wiping sections thereof so as to span across a peripheral portion of the bearing.

Abstract: An electrical circuit adapted to control the operation of a refrigerant compressor in an automotive type air conditioning system. The electrical circuit has a pair of branch circuits, an impedance for connection in the branch circuits so as to be respectively energized and shunted therein, and condition responsive devices for enabling and disenabling one of the branch circuits. Switching means is operable for sequentially energizing and then shunting the impedance in the branch circuits to control the energization thereof subject to the enablement and disenablement of the one circuit branch by the condition responsive device.A method of operating an electrical circuit to control the operation of a refrigerant compressor in an automotive type air conditioning system is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of operating apparatus adapted for skewing a stack of laminations. In this method, one opposite end face of the stack is disposed on supporting means therefor, and skewing means pivotally associated with the supporting means is passed through passage means of the stack with a part of the skewing means extending beyond the other opposite end face of the stack. A rocker arm is associated with the other opposite end of the stack to initiate pivoting of the rocker arm generally about a pivotal arrangement with a means for carrying it, and the rocker arm is moved during its pivoting to engage the skewing means part so as to pivotally displace the skewing means from an at-rest position toward a displaced position thereby to effect the skewing of the laminations of the stack.Apparatus adapted for imparting skew to a stack of laminations is also disclosed.

Abstract: A control device has a housing with an electrical circuit therethrough, and at least a pair of switch means are operable between a pair of switching modes for controlling the electrical circuit. Resistor means are connected in series circuit relation with one of the switch means in one of the switching modes thereof and in parallel circuit relation with the other of the switch means in one of the switching modes thereof. Means is provided for sequentially operating the switching means to the one switching modes thereof, respectively, to energize the resistor means in the series circuit relation with the one switching means prior to the connection of the resistor means in the parallel circuit relation with the other of the switching means.A method of making the control device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of operating a laundry machine. The machine has a pair of rotatable components and is driven by an electronically commutated motor having a stationary assembly with a plurality of winding stages and also having a rotatable assembly adapted to be selectively coupled to at least one of the rotatable components. In this method, a DC voltage for application to the motor is received, and a first control function is imposed on the operation of the machine to control the application of the DC voltage in accordance with a selected one of a plurality of first waveshapes so as to provide a resultant effective voltage to the motor.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine has only a pair of line terminals adapted for selective connection across a single phase power source and is operable to be started in a split-phase mode, to run at a predetermined low speed in a single phase mode, and to run at a predetermined high speed generally in a two phase mode.

Abstract: A method of assembling a combination starter-protector device and mounting it in a preselected assembly position onto at least a pair of plug terminals associated with a housing having a dynamoelectric machine arranged therein and with the at least plug terminal pair connected in circuit relation with a winding circuit of the dynamoelectric machine. The combination starter-protector device includes a pair of separable casing members, a PTCR, an overload protector, and at least a pair of female terminals. In this method, the PTCR, the protector device and the at least female terminal pair are enclosed within the casing members, and a resilient means is releasably secured generally about a major peripheral portion of the casing members for retaining them against separation.

Abstract: A defrost control device has camming means for rotational movement and gear train means operable generally in a pair of preselected speed modes for effecting the rotational movement of the camming means. Means actuated by the camming means during a part of the rotational movement thereof toward a displaced position is adapted for translating the gear train means from one of the preselected speed modes to the other of the preselected speed modes thereof. Means is selectively operable upon the occurrence of a preselected condition for releasably maintaining the translating means in the displaced position thereof to effect the operation of the gear train means in its other preselected speed mode.A method of operating a defrost control device is also disclosed.

Abstract: An electrical switch adapted to control a plurality of circuits therethrough has a plurality of push buttons reciprocally movable to effect the control of the circuits and including an "off" push button operable generally upon the depression thereof to open all of the circuits. Means is responsive to the depression of the "off" push button for precluding depression of certain of the other of the push buttons, and means actuated by an operator for rendering ineffective the precluding means includes one of the "off" push button and another of the push buttons.

Abstract: A method of making an electrical control having a relay device, a solid state starter device and an overload protector device predeterminately arranged therein and connected in circuit relation.

Abstract: A self-aligning bearing assembly includes a bearing sleeve having a spherical outer contour supported at one side of the equator thereof by a plurality of arms having spherically concave ends making intimate contact with the spherical outer contour. A retaining member engages the spherical outer contour at the other side of the equator to secure the bearing sleeve against linear displacement but to permit angular adjustment about the center of the spherical outer contour. A wick member having fingers fitting into windows in the bearing sleeve conducts a lubricant such as oil to the tangential surface of a shaft. A reservoir containing an absorbent material having a lubricant absorbed therein and available therefrom surrounds the bearing sleeve with the absorbent material in contact with the wick member.

Abstract: A method of making a control device having an opening therein, at least a pair of abutments on the control device within the opening and having a pair of laterally spaced apart points thereon defining a chord of the opening, and a snap-action member in the opening and operable between a stable configuration and an unstable configuration thereof with the snap action member being engaged only in the unstable configuration thereof the at least abutment means pair. In this method, the snap-action member is formed into the stable configuration thereof from a metallic material having a directed grain structure. The snap-action member is seated on the control device in a preselected assembly position so as to extend at least in part about the opening, and the direction of the grain orientation of the snap-action member is aligned so as to extend generally perpendicularly with respect to the chord of the opening.

Abstract: A thermostat adapted to regulate the temperature of a given space. The thermostat has a mode selecting member which is movable between a heating mode position and a cooling mode position. A temperature setting member is selectively movable for setting a selected operating temperature of the thermostat and has a preselected maximum heating set point temperature and a preselected minimum cooling set point temperature. One of the temperature setting member and the mode selecting member includes a pair of abutments engageable with the other of the temperature setting member and the mode selecting member when the mode selecting member is in its heating mode position and its cooling mode position to define the preselected maximum heating set point temperature and the preselected minimum cooling set point temperature of the temperature setting members, respectively.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for supporting a motor having cradle engageable rings at opposite ends thereof in the arms of a selected one of a plurality of different size support or cradle bases is disclosed wherein the motor has at least one end shield with an axially extending hub and a resilient mounting ring embracing that hub and movable axially therealong. A support base has a cradle portion for engaging the mounting ring to support the hub and a clamp arrangement for securing the ring to the cradle portion. The opposite motor end may have a similar axially extending hub on the opposite motor end shield embraced by another mounting ring clampable in a second similar cradle portion.