Disclosed are systems, methods, devices and kits for the timed dispensing
of laundry rinse additive materials into the drum of an automatic washing machine
as that machine is used to carry out a fabric laundering operation. To bring about
such dispensing of rinse additives, a housing structure device is placed within
the drum of an automatic washing machine, a unit dose insert package, containing
laundry rinse additives in at least one compartment of the insert, is placed within
the housing structure, and the machine is run through the several stages of its
laundering cycle. Means are provided to open at least one rinse additive-containing
compartment of the insert later in the laundering cycle to dispense contents of
this compartment into the washing machine drum as rinse additive materials. The
means for opening such compartments of the insert are activated by centrifugal
force arising during the spin cycle of the laundering operation. This spin cycle
centrifugal force also holds the contents of the opened insert compartment(s) within
the structure until the rinse cycle of the laundering operation, whereupon those
contents are dispensed from the housing structure into the washing machine drum.