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Fluid Delivery System for a Front-Loader

Whirlpool inventors rethink front-loading washing machines. Photo: Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff

US Patent 12,139,837 B2. (Marco Angelini, Matteo Carnevale, Massimiliano Daniele, Deepak Gupta, Mauro Mancini and Vaclav Petracek, Whirlpool Corp. Whirlpool Corp. researchers patented a laundry appliance comprising: a tub having a structural hub; a drum that is rotationally operable within the tub; a drive shaft attached to the drum and extending through the structural hub; lifters that are disposed on an interior surface of the drum, wherein fluid is delivered to the drum via a fluid inlet ...

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