US 12,252,838 B2Granted

Laundry treating apparatus

AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.

InventorsDonghwan Lee, Myungshik Kim, Jeaseok Seong, Sungkyong Han, Junyi Heo

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Abstract

A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, and a laundry receiving space in the cabinet that provides a space for accommodate laundry. A laundry introduction opening in a front surface of the cabinet and communicating with the laundry receiving space, a door coupled to the cabinet and configured to open and close the laundry receiving space, a supply unit configured to supply at least one of air or water to the laundry receiving space, and a presser configured to form creases of pants or unfold wrinkles of pants. The presser includes a housing on the laundry receiving space, a housing chamber in the housing that provides a space in which pants are secured thereto, a housing door rotatably coupled to the housing and configured to open and close the housing chamber, and a housing guide configured to withdraw the housing from the laundry receiving space through the laundry introduction opening.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A laundry treating apparatus comprising:

a cabinet;
a laundry receiving portion provided in the cabinet and providing a predetermined space for accommodating laundry, the laundry receiving portion including a first inner side surface and a second inner side surface opposite to the first inner side surface;
a support bar disposed widthwise inside the laundry receiving portion to hang a first laundry;
a laundry introduction opening provided in a front surface of the laundry receiving portion;
a door coupled to the cabinet and configured to open and close the laundry introduction opening;
a supply unit configured to supply at least one of air or water to the laundry receiving portion;
and
a presser spaced apart from the support bar and configured to form creases of a second laundry or unfold wrinkles of the second laundry, the presser including:
a housing provided on the laundry receiving portion to support and press the second laundry;
and
a housing guide coupling the housing to only the first inner side surface of the laundry receiving portion and configured to withdraw the housing from the laundry receiving portion and support the housing while the housing is being withdrawn from the laundry receiving portion.

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Facts

Application: 18/242,366Filed 5 Sep 2023 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2018-01065426 Sep 2018
Published: US 2023/0407552 A121 Dec 2023
Granted: 18 Mar 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

D06F 58/10
Domestic laundry dryers: drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
D06F 73/02
Apparatus for smoothing or removing creases from garments or other textile articles by formers, cores, stretchers, or internal frames, with the…:…
D06F 71/10
Wherein one or more of the pressing elements is moved laterally between successive pressing operations: by movement about a vertical axis
D06F 71/29
For pressing sleeves, trousers, or other tubular garments or tubular parts of garments: trousers

Family

Application16/561,550Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Sep 2019
Application17/841,421Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Jun 2022
US 11,377,782 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Jul 2022
US 2023/0407552 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Dec 2023
US 11,781,264 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2020/0080252 A1Published application
US 2022/0307189 A1Published application
US 12,252,838 B2This patent

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