Basket overflow for water recirculating clothes washing machine

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A clothes washing machine having water recirculation from the tub into the clothes holding basket with a, series of overflow openings located about the periphery of the upper region of the basket at a point below the basket balancing ring. The maximum water level is established above the overflow openings even with the balancing ring by a gutter ring secured to the exterior of the basket defining a trough accepting the water from the overflow openings. The outer wall of the gutter ring extends upwardly from the level of the overflow openings and has an upper edge at the level at which the basket water level is establised.