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Abstract

A clothes washing machine including a cabinet having an upper wall portion provided with a clothes receiving opening, an annular cowling within the cabinet and having an inner peripheral portion encircling the clothes receiving opening, the cowling having an annular midportion sloped radially downward to an outer peripheral portion of the cowling which is secured to a rim of a drain tub defining an open end thereof, the drain tub having rotatably supported therein a spin tub with an opening disposed within the open end portion of the drain tub and aligned with the clothes receiving opening, and a liquid soap dispensing system disposed within the cabinet and externally of the drain tub, the soap dispensing system comprising a multi-load reservoir of liquid soap connected hydraulically through a pump to a nozzle having a drain tube with a spout end portion adjacent the inner peripheral portion of the cowling and encircling a delivery tube which is disposed longitudinally and eccentrically within the drain tube, the delivery tube having an input end portion connected hydraulically to the pump and having an opposing spout end portion recessed axially within the spout end portion of the drain tube, the spout end portion of the delivery tube being conically shaped and having extended through a sloped wall portion thereof an outlet orifice which is aligned with a target aperture in the cowling overlooking the opening in the spin tub.

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First Claim