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US 9,809,917 B2Granted
Apparatus for treating laundry
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsSogkie Hong, Jongseok Kim, Sungmin Kim, Daeyun Park, Sungryong Kim
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Abstract
Provided is a laundry treating apparatus including a drum, a circular guide, and a panel. The drum holds laundry, has a front side and a rear side opened, and has a cross-section of a noncircular looped curve in which a distance from a rotation center is not uniform. The circular guide rotatably supports a portion of the drum in which a section curvature is uniform. The panel is provided on a front side or a rear side of the drum and supports the circular guide such that the circular guide is rotatable.
Claims19
A laundry treating apparatus, comprising:
- a cabinet;
- a drum rotatably disposed in the cabinet to hold laundry, the drum having a cross-section including at least one first portion having a uniform curvature and at least one second portion having a non-uniform curvature;
- a first circular guide coupled to the cabinet and supporting the at least one first portion of the drum;
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- at least one rolling device rotatably provided in the cabinet to support the first circular guide,
- wherein the first circular guide has a ring shape,
- wherein a portion of an outer surface of the first circular guide contacts an inner surface of a front or a rear of the at least one first portion of the drum,
- wherein a portion of an inner surface of the first circular guide contacts the at least one rolling device, and
- wherein an inner surface of a front or rear of the at least one second portion of the drum does not contact the at least one circular guide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.