Thread Number: 16768
Patent o' day for Filter-flo? |
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Post# 276846   4/26/2008 at 07:00 (5,815 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 276914 , Reply# 1   4/26/2008 at 11:24 (5,814 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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You're right, the recirculating Filter-Flo was much earlier than this, but reading section one of the patent explanation, this patent was particularly for a self-cleaning filtering system. Look at the drawing for the patent and under the wash-tub, you'll see the filtering screen that would clean itself when the washer spins. How cool is that?? I love reading these patents.
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Post# 276918 , Reply# 2   4/26/2008 at 11:30 (5,814 days old) by geextrarinse (Hudson Valley, New York )   |   | |
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Thinking it would be cool to read the original patent and inventors description of the Filter-Flo, i clicked through and found this to also be very interesting - a self cleaning version of the Filter-Flo. I wonder why they never tried this. He seems to be very intent on making it so that the operator doesn't need to fuss with the lint filter. Sounds to be a great idea as far as the sold tub is concerned... This is also basically the same concept as used in the Hotpoint tub ring filters. They were the same as Filte-Flo's but you didn't need to deal with the lint and extracted the lint with the centrifugal motion of the spin cycle... This was neat -I'm glad you pointed it out to read... |