Patent ID: 6386004
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
In a substantially cylindrical laundry drum having a rotation axis, rotary positions, and rotation directions, the laundry drum scooping and lifting liquid into an interior of the laundry drum when rotated, a liquid diverter, comprising:at least one driver having a lifted position, a highest position, a driver interior, and at least one run-off ramp in said driver interior; said driver interior receiving liquid scooped and lifted by the laundry drum during rotation of the laundry drum; said at least one driver discharging scooped liquid in said lifted position into the interior of the laundry drum; and said at least one run-off ramp one of being oriented horizontally and having a descending gradient when the rotation axis is orientated in a direction deviating from horizontal and when the laundry drum is in a rotary position in which said at least one driver is in said highest position, and thereby, permits, in the rotation directions of the laundry drum, a flow of scooped liquid on said at least one run-off ramp in a direction of a rising part of the rotation axis when in said lifted position.