Laundry Washing Machine

Abstract

A laundry washing machine (1) includes an outer casing (2) and, inside said outer casing (2), a washing tub (3), a rotatable drum housed in axially rotatable manner inside the washing tub (3) and structured for housing the laundry to be washed, a detergent dispenser (7) which is structured for supplying detergent into the washing tub (3), a fresh-water supply circuit (9) which is structured for selectively channelling a flow of fresh water from the water mains towards the detergent dispenser (7) and/or the washing tub (3), and an internal water softening device (11) capable of reducing the hardness degree of the fresh water that the fresh-water supply circuit (9) channels towards the detergent dispenser (7) or the washing tub (3). The detergent dispenser (7) in turn includes a detergent drawer (16) which is fitted/inserted in extractable manner into a corresponding substantially basin-shaped, drawer housing (17) which is located/recessed inside the outer casing (2), and is movable in a substantially horizontally-oriented, displacement direction (d) between a retracted position in which the detergent drawer (16) is almost completely recessed into the outer casing (2), and an extracted position in which detergent drawer (16) partly juts out from the outer casing (2). The detergent drawer (16) is furthermore provided with one or more detergent compartments (19) each structured for being manually fillable with a given amount of detergent, softener or other washing agent, and with a regeneration-agent compartment (20) which is structured for being manually fillable with a given amount of consumable salt or other regeneration agent. The regeneration-agent compartment (20) is arranged on the detergent drawer (16) beside the detergent compartment/s (19) transversally to the displacement direction (d) of the detergent drawer (16) inside the drawer housing (17), so that both the detergent compartment/s (19) and the regeneration-agent compartment (20) are simultaneously fully accessible to the user when the detergent drawer (16) is arranged in the extracted position.

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