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.
Claims29
A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable drum that receives laundry, has an open front and an open 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 that sucks air discharged through the discharge holes,
- wherein the front panel has a panel hole for receiving laundry and taking laundry out of the drum and a panel protrusion protruding forward around the panel hole, wherein the discharge holes include a first discharge hole formed through a side of the lower portion of the panel protrusion and a second discharge hole formed below the panel protrusion of the front panel, and wherein the suction duct includes:
- a first suction duct member that forms a front of the suction duct, with an upper portion coupled to the front panel around the first discharge hole;
- a second duct member with an upper portion coupled to the front panel around the first discharge hole and a lower position coupled to the front panel around the second discharge hole;
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- a third suction member with an upper portion coupled to the front panel around the second discharge hole.
A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a rotatable drum that receives laundry, has an open front and rear, and is formed to have a non-circular closed cross-section;
- a rotatable upper circular guide having a rotational center higher than a rotational center of the drum and supporting an upper portion of the drum having a uniform curvature;
- a rotatable lower circular guide having a rotational center lower than the rotational center of the drum and supporting a lower portion of the drum having a uniform curvature;
- 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 a lower portion of the upper circular guide and a lower portion of the lower circular guide;
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- a suction duct that is coupled to the front panel and sucks air discharged through the discharge hole, wherein the discharge holes include a first discharge hole formed through a side of the lower portion of the panel protrusion and a second discharge hole formed below the panel protrusion of the front panel, wherein the suction duct includes:
- a first suction duct member that forms a front of the suction duct, with an upper portion coupled to the front panel around the first discharge hole;
- a second suction duct member with an upper portion coupled to the front panel around the first discharge hole and a lower portion coupled to the front panel around the second discharge hole;
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- a third suction member with an upper portion coupled to the front panel around the second discharge hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.