Laundry treating apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsYoungjoo Lee, Jongseok Kim, Daeyun Park, Sungmin Kim
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a laundry treating apparatus that smoothly agitates laundry with as large space as possible for receiving laundry. The laundry treating apparatus includes: a rotatable drum that receives laundry, has open front and rear, and is formed to have a non-circular closed cross-section; a front panel closing the open front of the drum and having a plurality of discharge holes through which air in the drum is discharged; and a suction duct coupled to the front panel and sucks air discharged through the discharge holes.
Claims32
A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable drum that receives laundry, has open front and rear, and is formed to have a non-circular closed cross-section;
- a front panel closing the open front of the drum and having a plurality of discharge holes through which air in the drum is discharged;
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- a suction duct coupled to the front panel and sucks air discharged through the discharge holes.
A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable drum that receives laundry, has open front and rear, and is formed to have a non-circular closed cross-section;
- a rotatable upper circular guide that is disposed with the rotational center higher than the rotational center of the drum and supports a portion having a uniform curvature at the upper portion of the drum;
- a rotatable lower circular guide that is disposed with the rotational center lower than the rotational center of the drum and supports a portion having a uniform curvature at the lower portion of the drum;
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- a front panel closing the open front of the drum and having a plurality of discharge holes, through which air in the drum is discharged, at the portion corresponding to a space between the lower portion of the upper circular guide and the lower portion of the lower circular guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.