Appeal No. 1998-0212 Page 5
Reissue Application No. 07/837,588
at 1.) On November 19, 1996, the examiner mailed an Office
action making a final rejection of claims 35-74, 76-85, 87,
88, 90-107, 109, 110, and 112-144 under 35 U.S.C § 251.
(Paper No. 32 at 2.) The instant appeal followed.
Claim 85, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
85. In a method of operating a laundry machine
having a container for a wash load of soiled fabrics
in wash water and a reciprocatable agitator in said
container, an electric motor having a rotor for
driving said agitator, setting means for setting a
desired rate and amplitude of oscillating rotation
of said agitator, electronic control means for
controlling a supply of electrical power to said
electric motor in one of a plurality of sequences of
operation selected from an agitation sequence and a
spinning sequence, the improvement comprising the
steps of:
(a) setting a selected one of said
plurality of sequences of operation so that said
agitator is driven in oscillating rotation during a
wash phase in a sequence of washing operations,
(b) sensing resistance to oscillation of
said agitator due to the wash load in said
container,
(c) adjusting the power supplied to said
electric motor so that a selected rate of removal of
soil from said soiled fabrics is substantially
achieved, and
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