Patent ID: 8485001

Claim:
A household appliance comprising: a housing having a door formed in a front panel thereof for accessing an interior of the housing; a tub disposed inside the housing; and a rotatable drum within the tub and having an axis of rotation, the rotatable drum for receiving laundry through the door, wherein the tub includes: a tub body; a heater pocket integrally formed in a lower portion of the tub body, the heater pocket forming a cavity in fluid communication with the drum, the heater pocket for at least partially surrounding a heating element for heating a fluid in the tub; and a fluid guide on an interior surface of one of the tub body and the heater pocket, the fluid guide being an integral or discrete structural element formed on the interior surface and the fluid guide one of guiding the fluid flowing over the interior surface from the tub body into the heater pocket and disrupting a fluid ring formed in the tub body during rotation of the rotatable drum.