Laundry treating apparatus with solvent supply part for dry-cleaning solvent
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSang Wook Hong, Jae Won Chang, Sun Young Park, Bon Kwon Koo, Ki Young Kang, Ji Hee Kim
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Abstract
A laundry treating apparatus includes a casing, a tub provided in the casing (10), and a rotatable drum (20) provided in the tub. The laundry treating apparatus also includes a water supply part provided in the casing to supply water to the rotatable drum and a solvent supply part supplying dry-cleaning solvent to the rotatable drum. The laundry treating apparatus further includes a condensation device that condenses a gaseous portion of the solvent into a liquid form and supplies the solvent in the liquid form to the solvent supply part.
Claims16
A laundry treating apparatus comprising:
- a casing;
- a tub provided in the casing;
- a rotatable drum provided in the tub;
- a water supply part provided in the casing to supply water to the rotatable drum;
- a hot air supply device to supply hot air to the rotatable drum, the hot air supply device comprising a guide duct connected to a lower surface of the tub and an upper surface of the tub to circulate air in the tub, a heating device provided in the guide duct to generate the hot air supplied to the rotatable drum, and a fan provided in the guide duct to blow the generated hot air through the guide duct into an upper portion of the tub;
- a condensation device provided in the guide duct under the tub to condense dry-cleaning solvent discharged through the guide duct from a lower portion of the tub from a gaseous portion of the dry-cleaning solvent into a liquid form of the dry-cleaning solvent, wherein cooled air separated from the dry-cleaning solvent by having passed the condensation device is moved toward the heating device along the guide duct and heated by the heating device prior to being supplied into the tub;
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- a solvent supply part to supply the dry-cleaning solvent to the rotatable drum, wherein the solvent supply part comprises a solvent receiving part configured to store the dry-cleaning solvent and connected to a lower portion of the condensation device to store solvent condensate condensed by the condensation device, and a pump connected to the solvent receiving part to supply the dry-cleaning solvent to the rotatable drum via a solvent supply pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.