Patent ID: 6327729
Filing Date: 2001-12-11
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
A lid for a washing machine having a cabinet with an upwardly presented access opening therein, comprising:a lid frame having a front edge, a rear edge, side edges, an upper surface, and a lower surface;a hinge connected to one of said edges of said lid frame permitting hinged attachment of said lid frame to said cabinet for pivotal movement between an open position wherein said upper and lower surfaces are upstanding and a closed position wherein said lid is in covering relation over said access opening;a housing carried on said lower surface of said lid frame and forming an enclosed chamber, said chamber having a lowest portion when said lid is in said open position;said housing having a dispensing opening located adjacent said lowest portion and communicating from within to outside said chamber;said housing having a fill opening providing communication into said chamber for filling said chamber with a fluid;a manually operated dispensing valve mounted in said dispensing opening and manually movable from a normally closed position preventing fluid from leaving said chamber through said dispensing opening to an open position permitting fluid to exit through said dispensing opening when said lid frame is in said open position; andsaid dispensing opening being located above said access opening when said lid frame is in said open position whereby fluid exiting from said dispensing opening will fall by gravity into said access opening.