Patents by Inventor Roy K. Yates

Roy K. Yates has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Additive dispenser system for clothes washing appliance
    Patent number: 4478059
    Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements in clothes washing machines of the type having an inner clothes wash basket and an outer water-retaining tub, and more particularly to an additive dispenser system mounted on the hollow post type agitator and including an additive diverter on the basket bottom wall for introducing additive to the outer water-retaining tub free of contact with the clothes being washed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Roy K. Yates
  • Laundry machine blower mechanism
    Patent number: 3963370
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1976
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Roy K. Yates, Charles T. Lutes