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US 2020/0399819 A1Published application
Clothes dryer
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSeung-Mok Lee, Sam Young Jang
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Abstract
Provided is a clothes dryer having an improved structure which allows a drying performance to be improved. The clothes dryer includes a cabinet having an inlet, a support frame having a laundry inlet corresponding to the inlet and disposed inside the cabinet, a drum rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and having an opening corresponding to the laundry inlet, and a sealing member disposed between the laundry inlet of the support frame and the opening of the drum, wherein the sealing member includes a seal body having an elastic material.
Claims11
A clothes dryer comprising:
- a cabinet having an inlet;
- a support frame having a laundry inlet corresponding to the inlet and disposed inside the cabinet;
- a drum rotatably disposed inside the cabinet and having an opening corresponding to the laundry inlet;
- and
- a sealing member disposed between the laundry inlet of the support frame and the opening of the drum,
- wherein the sealing member includes a seal body having an elastic material, and
- the seal body includes:
- a base portion disposed on a seal body seating portion formed on the laundry inlet of the support frame;
- an extension portion extended from one end portion of the base portion in a bent shape and facing an inner surface of the opening of the drum;
- and
- a lip portion extended from one end portion of the extension portion in a bent shape,
- wherein the lip portion has a length shorter than a length of the extension portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.