Patent ID: 6951121

Claim:
A washing machine comprising: a water tub; a cleansing basket rotatably contained within the water tub; a pulsator rotatably mounted on the bottom surface of the cleansing basket, having a wing part for forming a water stream, and a hub part disposed in the center of the wing part; a motor for generating a driving force required to rotate the cleansing basket and the pulsator; a transmission for transmitting the driving force of the motor to the cleansing basket and the pulsator, having a hollow dryer shaft integrated to the cleansing basket; and a washing shaft mounted to penetrate the hollow dryer shaft, whose upper end of the transmission is fixed to the hub part of the pulsator, and whose lower end thereof is connected with the motor; and a floatage clutch for allowing the cleansing basket to selectively cooperate with the pulsator by being intermittently actuated depending on the existence and nonexistence of water, having a float engaged with the washing shaft to be capable of moving up and down due to the supply/drain of the water, and a fixed member fixed to the upper end of the hollow dryer shaft to be separated from and coupled with the float at the lower side thereof.