Abstract: A washing method performed in a washing machine having a wash basket for containing wash water and a wash load includes the step of attaching a tile 10 of a ceramic material to the inside of the wash basket 12 so that the tile 10 is exposed to the wash water in the wash basket 12. A laundry tile 10 of ceramic material for use in the method is provided. It comprises a front side 14 and a rear side 18, wherein the front side 14 is at least partially unglazed. In one embodiment attachment strips 20,22 are provided for attaching the tile 10 by its rear side 18 to the inside of the wash basket 12 of a washing machine.

Abstract: A novel dispenser cup which may be employed in washing machines or other mechanical devices. More particularly, this dispenser cup mechanism comprises a top cap fixedly positioned above a bottom cup. This dispenser cup uses a parabolic shape in order to fully dispense a laundry additive placed within.

Abstract: A liquid fabric softener or treating liquid dispenser for a washing machine having a parabolic or egg-shaped body portion from which radially extends an annular rim portion. The rim portion rests upon a top surface of an agitator and is held in place thereon by a removable, resiliently press-fit cap. The rim portion has a series of bosses extending upwardly therefrom and a series of notched openings formed therein. The bosses space the cap member from the upper surface of the rim portion. During operation of the washing machine in a spin cycle, treating liquid within the body portion of the dispenser flows upwardly along an inner surface of the cup body, downwardly through the notched openings in the rim portion, and into a holding chamber provided within the hollow interior of the agitator.

Abstract: This invention relates to a pulsator of washing machine enhancing washing capability, having an active ceramic for enhancing the activeness of water, and a container for containing the active ceramic, the container detachably fixed on the pulsator and provided with a plurality of holes for contact of said active ceramic with water in a washing tub. The snarling of laundries at the center of washing machine is prevented and the washing capability of washing water is enhanced by the active ceramic.

Abstract: A clothes washing machine comprises a water container and a washing tub disposed in the water container to form a space therebetween for containing wash water. A tourmaline ceramic coating is applied to an outer bottom surface of the washing tub or to an inner surface of the water container for reacting with the wash water to form hydroxyl ions therein which reduce surface tension of the water. An ultrasonic vibrator is mounted on the water container across from the coating to generate waves in the water to accelerate the reaction between the coating and wash water. Alternatively, the tourmaline ceramic coating could be applied to an agitator disposed in the washing tub.

Abstract: An apparatus for laundering a textile wash load that includes an imperforate wash tub having a sump at its lower end. A perforate wash basket that is adapted to receive a load of textile materials to be laundered is disposed concentrically within the wash tub. The wash basket includes an inner surface upon which are disposed a plurality of agitator vanes. A fluid conducting tower is disposed along the central longitudinal axis of the wash basket. The tower includes a nozzle assembly that is adapted to spray liquid onto the wash load. The tower also includes a mixing tank that receives wash additive.

Abstract: In an automatic washing, a wash additive dispenser is disposed in a tub, and a drive mechanism is provided for selectively rotating the dispenser at a first angular speed and a second, greater angular speed. The wash additive fluid dispenser may be mounted on an agitator. The dispenser includes first passages for permitting liquid flow from the dispenser into the tub when the dispenser is rotated at least as fast the first angular speed, and second passages for permitting liquid flow from the dispenser into the tub when the dispenser is rotated as least as fast as the second angular speed. The dispensing cup can include a frutoconical portion having a sidewall diverging upwardly and terminating in a radially outwardly-extending toroidal portion disposed at the upper end of the frustoconical portion.

Abstract: A compact rinse aid dispenser that mounts on top of the agitator post and dispenses a rinse aid during the rinse cycle. The rinse aid is held in a conical-shaped cup during the wash/agitate cycle, and then is sprayed out and retained against the inner wall of the housing by centrifugal force during the spin cycle. The rinse aid then drains down through a funnel into the agitator post and out a slot therein when the spinning stops. The dispenser has a lid with a horizontal wall and a cylindrical downwardly extending barrier around the fill hole to prevent rinse aid from being sprayed back out the fill hole as a result of an out-of-balance load that causes the agitator post and dispenser to orbit about the vertical axis. Further, a labyrinth is provided around the drain hole in the funnel to prevent premature draining of rinse aid into the agitator post.

Abstract: A wash additive combination is provided which is loaded into a washing machine at the start of a wash cycle, and which releases a wash additive, such as a fabric softener, into the rinse solution. The combination comprises a wash additive packet of a foam substrate material having a first and a second stable conformation of differing surface area, and a wash additive deposited thereon. A dispenser is provided for mounting atop a washing machine agitator, and into which the packet may be releasably placed, after arranging the packet in its lesser surface area conformation. The packet is retained by the dispenser during initial phases of the wash cycle, and ejected during the spin phase, whereupon it regains its greater surface area conformation for rapid and complete dispersion of active. Embodiments are provided for dual, sequential release of active in the rinse and the dryer.

Abstract: This invention relates to a disposable dispenser which is designed to be removably fastened to the central agitating post of a washing machine for dispensing a laundry active into the wash water of the machine.

Abstract: A fully automatic washing machine having a washing/drying cell rotatably mounted in an outer cell, a rotary blade unit provided on the bottom of the washing/drying cell and provided with a cylindrical member mounted thereon, and a washing machine motor adapted to rotate the blade unit in forward and backward directions during washing and rinsing and, to rotate the washing/drying cell at a high speed in one direction during drying. The ratio of the outside diameter of the rotary blade unit to the inside diameter of the washing/drying cell is selected to range between 0.6 and 0.8. The speed of rotation of the rotary blade unit is selected to fall within the range of between 100 and 250 rpm. The time length of rotation of the washing machine motor in each of forward and backward directions is selected to be less than 1 second.

Abstract: A centrifugal liquid additive dispenser is provided for an automatic washer having a high stroke rate oscillating vertical agitator and a high spin speed which is readily assembled onto and removed from the agitator by means of a deformable annular wall with inwardly projecting buttons which engage below a lip on the agitator and are held in a locked position by a movable locking ring. The dispenser has a cup which is designed to prevent the dispensing of liquid below a rotational speed of 300 R.P.M.

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.

Abstract: An agitator mounted wash additive dispenser and shower spray is provided for an automatic washer wherein a charge of wash additive is retained in a vertical axis agitator during an agitation step at which time it is diluted, and then is dispensed into the wash tub after the spinning step. The agitator has spray means which provide an umbrella spray of wash liquid returning from a flow passage in the agitator to the wash tub.

Abstract: An automatic washing machine of the fresh-water, vertical-axis type has a dynamic system which includes a single perforate wash basket arranged to be driven continuously such that its central axis moves in an orbital path about another axis. The basket is restrained from rotating about its central axis when it is moving about the other axis and each point of the basket moves in a circulate path having an effective diameter which is small in relation to the diameter of the basket and having substantially the same excursion as the orbital path of the central axis of the basket. Water and soil removing agent are introduced into the basket during orbital motion and that motion is effective to induce a continuous motion of the fabric article load for washing the load. The machine tub and other working components are placed in the moving system and provide a stable base for the basket.

Abstract: A laundry additive pouch is disclosed which includes a pair of plastic sheets joined to one another along mutually confronting and opposed marginal edges, one of the sheets including a smaller region remote from the marginal edges which mutually confronts and opposes an identical such smaller region of the other of the sheets and is joined thereto, each of the sheets having an opening confronting and opposing one another and surrounded by the joined portions of the smaller regions, and a laundry additive substance confined in a substantially annular-like space in the pouch between the joined marginal edges of the sheets and the joined portions of the smaller regions of the sheets.

Abstract: A packaged detergent composition consisting essentially of a container and, packed in the container, a first plurality of units each comprising a water-soluble synthetic organic detergent component of the composition, and at least one other plurality of units different from those of the first plurality and comprising at least one other component of the composition selected from the group consisting of detergent builders and detergent adjuvants each unit being in tablet, envelope, packet, capsule or other container form and having a weight of 5 to 30 grams and a volume of 4 to 20 milliliters.

Abstract: A two piece liquid rinse agent dispenser for use in a top loading automatic clothes washing machine, includes an inner annular member having a central, hollow hub for mounting the dispenser on the agitator of the machine, a first annular wall joined to the hub to define therebetween a first rinse agent receiving chamber having an open upper end and an outwardly extending flange or base wall joined to the hub, including a depending annular wall having external threads formed thereon. An outer cover member of the dispenser comprises an inverted cup dimensioned for receipt over the inner annular member. The upper wall of the outer member defines an opening through which liquid rinse agent is poured into the first chamber. Internal threads are formed along the interior wall of the rim of the cup for mating engagement with the external threads of the inner annular member.

Abstract: A rinse agent dispenser assembly for use with an agitator for rotation and vertical reciprocation. The dispenser includes labryinth seals to retain the liquid rinse agent during vertical reciprocation of the agitator. The liquid agent retainer cup is designed to permit centrifugal discharge of the liquid agent at spin speeds. The three-part dispenser assembly is readily separated for easy cleaning.

Abstract: A dispenser for use on an agitator-type washing machine is provided. Means are provided for mounting the dispenser on various machines by means of an adapter. The dispenser has a body of generally cylindrical shape which may be mounted on the agitator. The dispenser includes a measuring chamber for containing a volume of liquid such as bleach, soap, etc. Also included are dispensing and timing means for dispensing the liquid in the chamber a predetermined time after the initiation of agitator action. In this manner, liquid is not dispensed until after filling of the machine has occurred. In the first embodiment, the dispensing and timing means includes a double siphon arrangement. In a second embodiment, a single siphon arrangement is used.

Abstract: A compact and shallow rinse agent dispenser is removably assembled upon the top of an agitator in an automatic clothes washing machine for dispensing a liquid product upon completion of a spin cycle of the washing machine. An annular, wave dampening baffle is fixed inwardly adjacent the rim of a receptacle cup in which the liquid product is initially placed. The baffle is vertically slotted and limits splashing of the liquid into a dispensing chamber or through filling ports in the cover of the dispenser during the agitation cycle, prior to spin. The discharge chamber to which liquid is passed during the spin cycle has a number of impeller vanes fitted adjacent radially-inwardly-disposed discharge openings therein to minimize loss of liquid during start-up stages of the spin cycle, when centrifugal forces alone are insufficient to confine the liquid to the outside of the chamber.

Abstract: A water softening system utilizing a reusable, self-contained water softener device for an agitator type clothes washer. The water softener device includes a quantity of cation exchange resin contained in a chamber. The water softener device is placed in the clothes washer in association with the agitator and water is percolated upwardly through the resin by a pump to thereby effect hardness reduction by the removal of calcium and/or magnesium ions from the water. After the softening operation, the water softener is removed from the washer and detergent and soiled fabrics are placed therein. The resin may then be regenerated by treatment of the device with a salt solution.

Abstract: This application relates generally to the provision of an apparatus for the dispensing of a laundry additive into an automatic washing machine at the proper interval. More specifically, the present application relates to the provision of an apparatus that will introduce a laundry additive into the rinse cycle of an automatic washing machine, which apparatus is disposable upon completion of use.

Abstract: A water softening system utilizing a reusable, self-contained water softener device for an agitator type clothes washer. The water softener device includes a quantity of cation exchange resin contained in a torus shaped jacket formed of a closely woven porous, synthetic-fiber fabric. The water softener device is placed in the clothes washer in association with the agitator such that water will be circulated through the resin to effect a hardness reduction thereof by the removal of calcium and/or magnesium ions. After the softening operation, the water softener is removed from the washer and detergent and soiled fabrics are placed therein. The resin is then regenerated by treatment of the device with a salt solution.