Abstract: A treating agent dispenser system for an automatic washing machine of the top loading type having an outer tub and a basket spaced inwardly therefrom. There is a dispenser having an upper housing portion and a lower housing portion adapted to be mounted above the machine's wash tub and has a plurality of compartments for receiving treating agents to be dispensed into the wash tub at predetermined times in a cycle of the washing machine. One of the compartments is for a bleach agent and has a surrounding upstanding wall and a channel in the bottom thereof with a drain opening therein. A sealing gasket is provided between the upstanding wall and upper housing portion. Ribs outside the compartment converge toward each other and terminate at an opening in communication with the adjacent compartment for directing any bleach leaking from the bleach compartment into the adjacent compartment for subsequent diluting before being dispersed onto the clothes.

Abstract: A combinaton washer-dryer laundry machine having a washing, extraction and drying operations. There is included in the machine a rotatable drum for tumbling the clothes, a liquid pump for removing liquid from the machine, a vacuum blower for extracting liquid, and a heater and blower to be utilized during the drying operation. The vacuum blower is structurally arranged to help reduce noise.

Abstract: An automatic washing machine of the fresh water flow through, vertical axis, wobble type has a dynamic system which includes a single imperforate wash basket arranged for rotation and oscillation about its vertical axis and a diametrically opposed set of masses arranged for rotation about the same vertical axis. A hollow vertical shaft couples the rotatable wash basket and the rotatable mass system to a shifting nodal point, damped gyratory suspension system mounted upon the cabinet base. During the washing operation, the basket is prevented from rotation and oscillatory motion is transferred thereto as a result of the rotation of the system of masses. The system of masses is only slightly statically unbalanced but the members are vertically offset with respect to each other such that they form a dynamically unbalanced couple, the effect of vibration of which is to cause turnover and simultaneous circumverential tumbling of clothes placed within the wash basket.

Abstract: There is provided a hinge structure for pivotally connecting a first and second member at a pivot axis. A first hinge portion has a base secured to the first hinged member and has rearwardly extending arms spaced from each other, the arms terminating with laterally extending spaced pivot pins. A second hinge portion is secured to the second hinged member with both of the end walls of the second hinge portion having a recess that is open at the back wall. These recesses receive each of the respective pivot pins of the first hinge portion such that the second hinged member acts as a bearing surface for the pivot pins. By this arrangement, when the second hinged member is moved to an open position it is spaced from the first hinged member as far as possible thereby allowing more ready access for cleaning between the two hinged members.

Abstract: An improved liquid flow diversion arrangement for use with an additive dispensing system in an automatic washer. Included is a liquid flow diverter of the transverse pressure differential type having control ports coupled to atmosphere by tubes whose open ends terminate at the machine sequence control timer. Means are provided associated with the timer for closing the open ends of the tubes and thereby the control ports at predetermined times to effect liquid flow diversion. A check valve is provided at the outer end of each control port for preventing liquid from escaping from the fluid diverter. A chamber is coupled by a segment of the tubing between each control port and the timer for accumulating liquid that may bypass the check valves and further, for preventing audible sonic oscillations which may occur in the liquid flow diversion arrangement due to the inherent ability of the diverter to amplify resonance in the system.