Laundry treatment apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSungwoon Jung, Hunjun Jang
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Abstract
A laundry treatment apparatus is disclosed. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a tub disposed in the cabinet to provide a washing space, a drum rotatably disposed in the tub to receive laundry placed therein, a detergent pump for supplying detergent to the tub, and a detergent box removably mounted to the detergent pump and configured to contain the detergent. The detergent box includes a body for providing a space containing the detergent and a through-hole formed in a rear side of the body to allow the detergent to flow out therethrough. The body includes a lower surface including a first slanted surface, which is slanted downwards from a front side of the body toward the rear side of the body. The through-hole is located at the lowermost position of the body.
Claims26
A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a tub disposed in the cabinet to provide a washing space;
- a drum rotatably disposed in the tub to receive laundry placed therein;
- a detergent pump for supplying detergent to the tub;
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- a detergent box removably mounted to the detergent pump and configured to contain the detergent,
- a detergent box accommodation part for accommodating the detergent box,
- wherein the detergent box includes a body for providing a space containing the detergent, and a through-hole formed in a rear side of the body to allow the detergent to flow out therethrough,
- wherein the body includes a lower surface including a first slanted surface and a second slanted surface,
- wherein the first slanted surface being slanted downwards from a front side of the body toward the rear side of the body and the through-hole is located at a lowermost position of the body,
- wherein the second slanted surface extending in a downwardly slanted manner from at least one of left and right surfaces of the body toward the through-hole,
- wherein the through-hole is spaced a predetermined distance apart from left and right surfaces of the body,
- wherein the detergent box further includes a check valve coupled to the through-hole to move the detergent in one direction, and a seating recess formed in the lower surface of the body to allow the check valve to be seated therein,
- wherein the first slanted surface is slanted toward the seating recess, and the second slanted surface is slanted toward the seating recess.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.