Patent ID: 6550292
Filing Date: 2003-04-22
Classification: D06F,Y10T

Abstract:
A dynamic balancer device for an automatic washer including a rotatable wash basket for receiving a wash load, the balancer device comprising:an annular hollow first chamber mounted to rotate with the basket; a first fluid held in and only partly filling the first chamber; an annular hollow second chamber mounted to rotate with the basket; a plurality of objects disposed in the second chamber and movable therein; and a second fluid held in the second chamber and, in combination with the objects only partly filling the second chamber; the first chamber being at least partly defined in a first annular ring of material and the second chamber being at least partly defined in a second annular ring of material, the first and second annular rings attached to one another; a third annular ring of material disposed generally horizontally between the first and second annular rings separating the first and second chambers from one another, wherein the third annular ring is attached at a pair of joints to the second annular ring, and wherein the first annular ring is attached to the combined second and third annular rings with the pair of joints disposed within the first chamber.