Patents Assigned to Whirlpool Coporation
  • Patent number: 10132558
    Abstract: A bottom mount refrigerator is provided with a pantry compartment that is accessible from outside the refrigerator by pulling open an easy access pantry drawer without the need to first open the fresh food compartment or the freezer compartment. A divider between the pantry compartment and the fresh food compartment is formed by a secondary mullion and a transparent shelf. The secondary mullion is provided with a light source for illuminating the contents of the pantry drawer. A light source at the rear of the pantry compartment shines generally forwardly and upwardly to illuminate the fresh food compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Coporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Eveland, Steven G. Herndon, Todd E. Kniffen, Bill J. Koons
  • Patent number: 9885140
    Abstract: A method of operating a laundry treating appliance having a foreign object trap located in a bottom of a wash basket underlying a clothes mover, the bottom of the wash basket having an upwardly extending wall, with at least the wash basket rotatable about an axis of rotation, the method including radially expelling liquid through an outlet opening of the foreign object trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Whirlpool Coporation
    Inventors: Dean L. Tietz, George L. Turner