公开(公告)号：US20170107653A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-20

申请号：US14885153

申请日：2015-10-16

Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Inventor： BRENT BURGESS ,  DALE MUELLER ,  NICHOLAS VAIVE

IPC: D06F17/10 ,  F04D29/24

CPC classification number: D06F17/10 ,  D06F13/00 ,  D06F13/02 ,  D06F17/06 ,  D06F23/04 ,  D06F33/02 ,  D06F35/006 ,  D06F37/14 ,  D06F37/40 ,  F04D29/2288 ,  F04D29/242

Abstract: An impeller with vanes extending above the upper surface of the impeller base plate along with a sweeper which extends beyond an outer periphery of the base plate. The sweeper pulls clothes from the basket that may have become stuck or lodged in a wet state back in toward the center of the impeller and in turn pushes them up by the impeller vane design.