US 11,932,979 B2
Laundry treating appliance having a removable clothes mover
Jonathan A. Andrejczuk, Stevensville, MI (US); Adam Gary, Marco Island, FL (US); Philip J. Czarnecki, Saugatuck, MI (US); Benjamin D. Lowell, Benton Harbor, MI (US); Sayer J. Murphy, St. Joseph, MI (US); James Jeffery, St. Joseph, MI (US); Eric W. Merrow, Benton Harbor, MI (US); Emmanuel F. Gonzaga, Rio Claro (BR); Thomas R. Scott, Hartford, MI (US); Donald E. Erickson, Stevensville, MI (US); Bradley D. Morrow, Stevensville, MI (US); Jason S. Burnette, St. Joseph, MI (US); Kevin Peralta, Chicago, IL (US); Corinne M. Gorenchan, Lawton, MI (US); and Kenneth L. McConnell, Stevensville, MI (US)
Assigned to WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION, Benton Harbor, MI (US)
Filed by WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION, Benton Harbor, MI (US)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/010,422.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/895,331, filed on Sep. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0062382 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. D06F 13/02 (2006.01); D06F 17/10 (2006.01); D06F 37/20 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 17/10 (2013.01) [D06F 37/20 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agitator configured to be removably mounted to an impeller mount as a clothes mover, the agitator comprising:
a post having a first end and an opposing second end;
a connector disposed at the first end of the post, the connector being configured to removably attach to a corresponding connector of the impeller mount;
a handle disposed at the second end of the post for manipulating the agitator; and
a lock, controllable towards the second end of the post, configured to be adjusted between a locked position in which the agitator is secured to the impeller mount and an unlocked position allowing movement of the agitator with respect to the impeller mount, the lock including a pull portion positioned to facilitate gripping of both the handle and the pull portion, such that the pull portion is configured to be compressible towards the handle to transition the lock from the locked position into the unlocked position.