D06F 31/005
Consisting of one or more rotating drums through which the laundry passes
Official title: {consisting of one or more rotating drums through which the laundry passes in a continuous flow}
D06F31/005 (Consisting of one or more rotating drums through which the laundry passes) appears on 93 US grants and 71 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D06F- Granted patents
- 93
- Published applications
- 71
- Assignees
- 48
- Inventors
- 136
- Latest grant
- 9 Sep 2025
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2002 | 0 | 4 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2009 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 3 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2 | 5 |
| 2015 | 4 | 1 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5 |
| 2017 | 3 | 6 |
| 2018 | 4 | 8 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 4 | 3 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Processes and apparatuses for controlling microbial growth in a tunnel washer15 May 2025US 2025/0154709 A1Gurtler Industies, Inc.
- System and a process of a fabric material5 Dec 2024US 2024/0400946 A1
- Isolation Type Tunnel Washer for Cleaning Clothes Against Secondary Pollution14 Dec 2023US 2023/0399783 A1Jiangsu Sea-Lion Machinery Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Washing machines29US 4,034,583 AFirma Vosswerk GmbH · 1977
- Continuous tunnel batch washer28US 4,236,393 APellerin Milnor Corporation · 1980
- Continuous flow laundry system and method28US 4,546,511 A1985
- Continuous flow washing machine27US 4,879,887 AMaschinenfabrik Ad. Schulthess & Co. Aktiengesellschaft · 1989
- Washing machine and washing method24US 9,404,210 B2Haier Group Corporation · 2016