AUTOMATIC CLOTHES WASHING MACHINE

• Main Author: WENDORF J,MX
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.04.1974
• Subjects: FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; LAUNDERING; LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILEARTICLES; TEXTILES; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE

An automatic clothes washing machine which comprises a housing, an imperforate stationary receptacle with its axis horizontally arranged in said housing, a perforate rotatory basket arranged with its axis colinear to the axis of said stationary receptacle and concentrically thereto, a sequence programming circuit, and a drive mechanism comprising a motor capable of rotating at a low speed and at a high speed in a first and a second opposite directions, a driving pulley directly connected to the shaft of said motor, a belt and pulley speed reducing mechanism between the pulley of said motor and the pulley of said rotating basket, means for engaging the pulley of said rotating basket with the pulley of said motor when the motor is rotating at a low speed in one of said directions, a centrifugal clutch directly engaged to the pulley of said motor, said centrifugal clutch being designed such that it will only act when the motor is rotating at said high speed in any of the two above mentioned directions, means for engaging said centrifugal clutch to the pulley of said rotating basket and to simultaneously disengage said speed reducing mechanism in order to drive the pulley of said rotating basket at a high speed when the motor is rotating in one direction, means for disengaging said centrifugal clutch from the pulley of said rotating basket and to simultaneously engage the speed reducing mechanism when the motor is rotating at a high speed in the opposite direction, in order to drive said basket at an intermediate speed; a centrifugal pump with its inlet connected by means of a flexible pipe to said stationary basket and with its outlet connected to drainage; a friction tire on said centrifugal pump frictionally engaged to said centrifugal clutch, said centrifugal clutch driving said friction tire in any of the two opposite directions of rotation.