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US 8,984,915 B2Granted
Laundry washing apparatus
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsNam Yeong Heo, In Hee Han
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a laundry washing apparatus and particularly to a laundry washing apparatus comprising a base that forms a lower face, front/rear plates that form front and rear directions, side plates that form both sides, and a top plate that forms an upper part, wherein the top plate is further furnished with a locking device that controls the locking state of the top plate by means of an external key insertion operation, so that theft of a payment apparatus installed on the top plate can be effectively prevented.
Claims7
A laundry machine comprising:
- a base which forms a bottom of the laundry machine;
- front/rear plates which form a front and a rear of the laundry machine, respectively;
- side plates which form opposite sides of the laundry machine;
- and a top plate which forms a top of the laundry machine,
- wherein the top plate includes a locking device for controlling a locking state of the top plate by an external key placing-in action,
- wherein the top plate has an edge bent downward in a ‘⊂’ shape in section, to form a first coupling surface and one of the front plate, the rear plate or the side plates has a second coupling surface formed on a top side, which is a bent extension therefrom to have a ‘┌’ shape to be in contact with the first coupling surface, and
- wherein the first coupling surface and the second coupling surface respectively have a first locking slot and a second locking slot aligned to each other so that the locking device is placed in the first locking slot and the second locking slot at a time for maintaining a locked state of the top plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.