Patent ID: 7578019

Claim:
A method for washing articles of clothing forming a clothes load in an automatic clothes washer comprising a wash basket defining a wash chamber for receiving a clothes load and a clothes mover provided in the wash chamber for reciprocal rotation, the method comprising: introducing wash liquid into a pre-selected region of the wash chamber to locally wet only a portion of a clothes load located in the pre-selected region to form a clothes load with both wetted and unwetted articles to define a first volume of wash liquid; ceasing the introduction of wash liquid upon reaching the first volume of wash liquid; rotating the clothes mover for reorientation of a clothes load; introducing wash liquid into the wash chamber sufficient to saturate both the wetted and unwetted articles to define a second volume of wash liquid, wherein the second volume of wash liquid is greater than the first volume of wash liquid; and rotating the clothes mover for washing of a clothes load.