Dual use detergent dispenser
CA 2417070 A1 · Owner: Kjellman, Shaun T. · Inventors: Lansil, Clifford S.; Shown, Jeffrey A.; Berube, Jason D.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A clothes washing machine is provided with an improved detergent dispenser which can use either liquid or powder detergent for both the prewash and wash cycles of the machine. The dispenser includes a base for receiving the, prewash detergent. A tray having a powder detergent cup and a fabric softener cup is positioned within the base. A liquid detergent cup is removably nested within the powder detergent cup. The liquid detergent cup includes a siphon which drains into the powder detergent cup which in turn drains into the base , of the dispenser. The softener cup includes a siphon which drains into the base of the, dispenser. The base includes an outlet drain through which the detergent …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed January 22, 2003. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 22, 2023.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 22, 2025.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
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