Title: Clothes washer with centerpost mounted lint filter bag

Abstract: A self-compacting lint filter for a domestic clothes washer is mounted on a rotatable and vertically reciprocal agitator for movement therewith. The filter is in the form of an elongated mesh bag which extends axially into the hollow of the agitator upstanding centerpost. Re-circulating wash water is conveyed to a nozzle which directs the flow with its entrained lint through the mesh bag. The vertical reciprocation of the agitator provides relative motion between the flow and the bag filtering lint from the water while the shaking of the bag causes the bag to fold upon itself to self-clean collected lint from the sidewall of the bag whereby the lint is aggregated into an easily removable wad at the bottom of the bag.

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Inventors: Wortham, Otis W. (Springfield, OH, US)
Sundstrom, John A. (Springboro, OH, US)

Application Number: 790075
Filing Date: 1977-04-22
Publication_date: 1978-04-04
Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Detroit, MI)
Primary Class(es): 68/18FA
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

2498894	Feb, 1950	McCormick et al.	68/18.
2642733	Jun, 1953	McCormick et al.	68/18.
2942444	Jun, 1960	Abresch	68/18.
3111831	Nov, 1963	Tope et al.	68/18.
3275143	Sep, 1966	Bochan	68/18.
3330135	Jul, 1967	Douglas	68/18.
3769818	Nov, 1973	Smith	68/18.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Coe, Philip R.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Barthel; Edward P.