Drawer and clothes treating machine including the same
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSungwoon JUNG, Hunjun JANG
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Abstract
A drawer of a clothes treating machine includes a drawer frame that extends in a lengthwise direction and defines an inner space, and a storage unit disposed in the inner space of the drawer frame and configured to accommodate a clothes treatment agent therein. The drawer frame includes a housing accommodation part that defines a space separated from the inner space, a clothes treatment agent housing that is configured to be inserted into the housing accommodation part, and a protruding portion that separates the housing accommodation part and the clothes treatment agent housing from each other.
Claims20
A drawer of a clothes treating machine, the drawer comprising:
- a drawer frame that extends in a lengthwise direction and defines an inner space;
- and
- a storage unit disposed in the inner space of the drawer frame and configured to accommodate a clothes treatment agent therein,
- wherein the drawer frame comprises:
- a housing accommodation part that defines a space separated from the inner space,
- a clothes treatment agent housing that is configured to be inserted into the housing accommodation part, and
- a protruding portion that separates the housing accommodation part and the clothes treatment agent housing from each other.
A clothes treating machine comprising:
- a housing;
- a tub disposed in the housing;
- a drum rotatably disposed in the tub;
- a drawer configured to be drawn out and inserted into the housing, the drawer being configured to accommodate a clothes treatment agent therein;
- and
- a clothes treatment agent housing that is configured to be disposed in the drawer and defines an opening configured to receive the clothes treatment agent,
- wherein the drawer comprises:
- a drawer frame that extends in a lengthwise direction and defines an inner space,
- an inner wall that faces the inner space and divides the inner space into at least two spaces,
- a housing accommodation part surrounded by the inner wall and configured to accommodate the clothes treatment agent housing, and
- a protruding portion that protrudes from a first side of the inner wall and is configured to, based on the clothes treatment agent housing being accommodated in the housing accommodation part, contact the clothes treatment agent housing to separate the clothes treatment agent housing from the first side of the inner wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.