EP0057620B1 - Machine à laver le linge à chargement par le dessus - Google Patents

Machine à laver le linge à chargement par le dessus Download PDF

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EP0057620B1
EP0057620B1 EP82400051A EP82400051A EP0057620B1 EP 0057620 B1 EP0057620 B1 EP 0057620B1 EP 82400051 A EP82400051 A EP 82400051A EP 82400051 A EP82400051 A EP 82400051A EP 0057620 B1 EP0057620 B1 EP 0057620B1
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Michel Bertrand
Pierre Buclet
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F39/00—Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00 
    • D06F39/12—Casings; Tubs
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F37/00—Details specific to washing machines covered by groups D06F21/00 - D06F25/00
    • D06F37/26—Casings; Tubs

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  • the present invention relates to a narrow washing machine, top-loading (as opposed to front-loading machines), in particular of the type without rubber sleeve between the tank, in which the drum turns, and the carcass of the machine .
  • It relates more particularly to such a machine capable of being used both directly in standardized sets of kitchen furniture and accessories, the top of the machine being aligned with the work plan of the bottom elements of the kitchen, use often called free- standing, only built-in, that is to say where the machine is slid under the worktop of the bottom elements of the kitchen.
  • Narrow top-loading washing machines are generally not built-in machines under standard worktops, leaving a total available height of 82 cm between the floor and their lower surface. On the contrary, they are machines that can be placed next to the kitchen base elements, or between these elements, their total height of 85 cm coming to align with the surface of the worktop. These are called free-standing machines, as opposed to built-in machines.
  • the built-in washing machines offered by the manufacturers have so far been front-loading machines.
  • the machines to be built-in that is to say, they can be slid under a continuous work surface which covers the bottom elements of a kitchen, they must first of all have a slightly lower total height 82 cm, the standard size available under the worktop.
  • This is relatively easy to obtain in front loading machines which are wide and where the space lost in height and necessary for the various parts of the machine is available across its width; on the other hand, this goal is more difficult to achieve with narrow machines as are the top-loading machines.
  • the machine according to the invention is narrow and top-loading. It is characterized in that, so that it can be used both in the built-in mode and in the free-standing mode, the upper height of the work surface being in both cases the standard height of 85 cm, its carcass is made up a lower part housing all the elements necessary for the operation of the machine and the control panel, of total height less than or equal to the standard height under a work surface, and an upper part which is provided with a machine cover, and which is removable and has a thickness such that when it is fixed to the lower part of the carcass, the total height of the machine is equal to the standard height of the upper surface of the work surface.
  • the invention is particularly well suited to machines of the type without cuff in which the tank, containing the rotating drum, is sealed at its upper part by a tank cover.
  • the tank containing the rotating drum
  • it is necessary, in built-in mode, to provide a seal between the upper face of the lower part of the carcass and the lower face of the work surface to ensure sealing.
  • machines illustrated here are machines where the suspended assembly, constituted by the tank 2, the drum 3 and its drive motor 8, is suspended from the carcass 1 by suspension springs, two, 9 and 10, are visible in the figures; it could just as well be posed machines, that is to say in which the suspended assembly is posed on the base of the machine by spring feet.
  • the shock absorbers accompanying, in one case as in the other, the suspension have not been shown so as not to weigh down the figures.
  • the lower part 5 of the carcass has at its upper part a flange 12 which makes it possible to fix the upper part 6 by any appropriate means and which can support the cover safety device 13 which interrupts the operation of the machine when the machine cover is open.
  • the lower part 5 of the carcass houses, as already said, the tank 2 closed by its own cover 4, the motor 8 driving the drum, the suspension systems such as 9 and 10 and damping, the product boxes one of which is schematically shown in 14, and all the other members, whether mechanical, hydraulic or electrical, necessary for the operation of the machine.
  • the control panel 15 is fixed to the upper front part of this lower part 5 of the carcass.
  • the upper part 6 of the carcass 1 comprises a cover support 16 which is removably attached to the lower part 5 of the carcass and a machine cover 7.
  • the total height of 85 cm is the sum of the height h 1 of the feet 11, of part 5 of the carcass and part 6 of the same carcass.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate how the same machine can be used in the built-in mode, and this in a very simple way.
  • the height h z of the feet 11 of the built-in machine is advantageously a little less than that h 1 of the feet of the free-standing machine, so that the total height of the feet and of the lower part 5 of the carcass is less than 82 cm (81.5 cm for example), thus facilitating the introduction of the machine under the worktop.

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EP82400051A 1981-01-30 1982-01-12 Machine à laver le linge à chargement par le dessus Expired EP0057620B1 (fr)

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FR8101823 1981-01-30
FR8101823A FR2499113A1 (fr) 1981-01-30 1981-01-30 Machine a laver le linge a chargement par le dessus du type sans manchette caoutchouc

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EP0057620B1 true EP0057620B1 (fr) 1985-02-27

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DE (1) DE3262467D1 (OSRAM)
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GB1140723A (en) 1965-05-06 1969-01-22 Nelson Norton Mccuaig Improvements in kitchen units

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FR2163361B3 (OSRAM) * 1971-12-15 1973-12-07 Rochel Roger
DE2512678C3 (de) * 1975-03-19 1979-01-25 Bosch-Siemens Hausgeraete Gmbh, 7000 Stuttgart An eine vergrößerte Arbeitshöhe anpaflbares Haushalt-Großgerät

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GB1140723A (en) 1965-05-06 1969-01-22 Nelson Norton Mccuaig Improvements in kitchen units

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FR2499113A1 (fr) 1982-08-06
ES271907U (es) 1983-10-16
DE3262467D1 (en) 1985-04-04
FR2499113B1 (OSRAM) 1984-01-20

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