Patent ID: 9631310
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: C11D,D06F,D06M,G05B

Claim:
1. A method of wetting laundry in a laundry treating appliance having a rotatable treating chamber in which laundry is received for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation and a recirculation system comprising a recirculation pump and at least one sprayer, the method comprising: prior to the wetting the laundry, rotating the treating chamber to a satellizing speed to form a first annulus of laundry within the treating chamber; wetting the laundry in the treating chamber by spraying liquid from the at least one sprayer onto the first annulus while the treating chamber is being rotated at a first satellizing speed that is insufficient to extract liquid by centrifugal force from the laundry at a rate great enough to satisfy the recirculation pump; after the formation of the first annulus, redistributing the laundry by slowing a rotational speed of the treating chamber to a redistribution speed where at least a portion of the first annulus collapses; after the redistributing, rotating the treating chamber to a second satellizing speed to form a second annulus of laundry within the treating chamber that is sufficient to extract liquid by centrifugal force from the second annulus of laundry to satisfy the recirculation pump; and while the treating chamber is rotated at the second satellizing speed, recirculating the liquid through the laundry by spraying the liquid onto the second annulus, extracting the sprayed liquid from the laundry, and re-spraying the extracted liquid onto the second annulus.