Laundry treating apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJeongryeol Choi, Junyoung Choi, Minhyoung Lee, Sunyong Kim, Hyunggyu Lim, Junyoung Nam
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Abstract
A laundry treating apparatus is disclosed, which enables washing, drying, deodorization, sterilization and wrinkle removal. The laundry treating apparatus comprises a cabinet provided with a receiving space in which laundry is received; a supply unit for supplying at least one of the air and water into the receiving space; a presser provided in the receiving space to pressurize the laundry so as to remove a wrinkle of the laundry; and a clamp unit detachably pressurizing and fixing both ends of the laundry before pressurizing the laundry by using the presser.
Claims12
A laundry treating apparatus, comprising:
- a cabinet including a receiving space to receive laundry;
- a door coupled to the cabinet, the door configured to open or close the receiving space;
- a supply unit configured to supply at least one of air and water into the receiving space;
- a laundry compress provided at an inner surface of the door, the laundry compress configured to rotate (1) around a rotation axis parallel to a width direction of the door, and (2) in a height direction of the door to compress the laundry,
- wherein the laundry compress comprises:
- a compression unit provided to rotate in the height direction of the door to compress the laundry,
- a support unit provided to be contacted with the laundry between the compression unit and the door;
- wherein the support unit comprises:
- a support body provided to be contacted with the laundry that is compressed by the compression unit,
- an open space located in a center of the support body to separate the support body in the width direction of the door, and the open space is provided to avoid pressing a sewing line of the laundry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.