EP1690969A1 - Verbesserung des vorderen Randes einer Haushaltswaschmaschine - Google Patents

Verbesserung des vorderen Randes einer Haushaltswaschmaschine Download PDF

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EP1690969A1
EP1690969A1 EP05100969A EP05100969A EP1690969A1 EP 1690969 A1 EP1690969 A1 EP 1690969A1 EP 05100969 A EP05100969 A EP 05100969A EP 05100969 A EP05100969 A EP 05100969A EP 1690969 A1 EP1690969 A1 EP 1690969A1
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Silvano Cimetta
Luca Gruppo
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Electrolux Home Products Corp NV
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Priority to MXPA06001545A priority patent/MXPA06001545A/es
Priority to JP2006032888A priority patent/JP2006218306A/ja
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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
    • D06F37/00—Details specific to washing machines covered by groups D06F21/00 - D06F25/00
    • D06F37/26—Casings; Tubs
    • D06F37/266—Gaskets mounted between tub and casing around the loading opening

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  • the present invention refers to an improved kind of front-loading clothes washing machine, which is adapted to eliminate, or at least decisively reduce, one of the factors causing the clothes to suffer damages during washing.
  • the way in which the clothes are handled in a front-loading clothes washing machine ultimately depends to a substantial extent on the actual architecture of the same machine.
  • the tub containing the rotating drum is provided with a front opening of its own, which faces the front wall of the machine; the rotating drum contained therein is in turn provided with an access opening of its own, which of course is in a corresponding, i.e. mating relationship with the opening in the tub.
  • the outer casing, or cabinet, of the machine is provided with a corresponding aperture, which is usually closed by an appropriate door, which is generally referred to as loading door.
  • Such water-tight seal is usually provided in the form of an annular gasket, generally referred to as bellows in the art, which is arranged between the circular rim of the opening of the tub and the corresponding aperture in the outer casing.
  • annular gasket Owing to the fact that the tub must be capable of oscillating freely, albeit within definite limits, within the outer casing of the machine, said annular gasket must also be flexible, so as to allow for the relative movements and displacements that can take place between outer casing and tub.
  • the gasket itself is shaped so as to feature a circular lip, or appendix, that is adapted to arrange itself in a stable manner in front of the front edge of the access opening of the drum, quite close thereto, so that the resulting narrow gap therebetween is such as to practically prevent the washload items that may possibly stick out of the access opening of the drum from slipping in between the same drum and the tub.
  • the above-mentioned gasket works in the same way as a sealed chamber that prevents washload items from slipping in from the drum into the tub, or between the respective openings, but not washing liquor from passing therethrough.
  • prior-art solutions are generally characterized in that, even if provided with such gasket made and arranged in an optimum manner in front of the access opening of the drum, the fact that this access opening is substantially aligned almost on the same plane as the front vertical wall of the drum, as best shown in the cross-sectional view of Figure 1 and the illustration in Figure 2, gives rise to the circumstance that the washload items that are lifted within the drum during the rotation thereof tend to substantially arrange themselves, i.e. distribute over the entire the cylindrical side wall thereof, as well as onto the front portion thereof, so that, when falling down again, they can easily fall also onto the rim of the access door of the drum, especially when the latter is fully loaded.
  • a clothes washing machine comprises an outer casing 1 provided with a front aperture 2 enabling the washload to be introduced in the machine, a washing tub 3 provided with an access opening 4, a perforated drum 5 rotatably mounted within said drum and provided in turn with an access opening of its own, and a bellows-like gasket 7 arranged in a water-tight manner between the access opening 4 of the tub and the loading aperture 2 in the outer casing, wherein said aperture is adapted to be closed by an appropriate loading door 8.
  • said aperture 2, said access opening 4 of the tub and said access opening 6 of the drum are arranged almost coaxially with each other and have the same size, so as to facilitate introducing and removing the washload.
  • said access opening 6 of the drum 5 terminates frontally with a rim 11 that is separated, relative to the front flange 9 of the same drum, by an elongated cylindrical configuration 12, and not - as usual in the prior art (see Figure 2 - with a circular edge 10 of a minimum thickness that joins directly with the front flange 9 of the drum.
  • Said elongated configuration 12 then projects from said front flange 9 towards the aperture 2 of the outer casing as a cylinder having an axis that substantially coincides with the axis (not shown) of the same drum.
  • said cylindrical flange projects out of said front flange 9 of the drum and, as a result, the cylindrical mantle thereof keeps the circular edge 10 of the access opening of the drum spaced apart from the flange 9.
  • a further embodiment of the present invention is based on a solution in which also the access opening 4 of the tub 3 is provided with a cylindrically shaped portion 14 so as to enclose said elongated cylindrical configuration 12 from the outside, in such a manner that said portion 14 and said elongated configuration 12 come to arrange themselves as two coaxial cylinders, one inside the other.
  • said annular lip 13 of the bellows 7 is of course so shaped and arranged as to ensure that it comes in all cases to lie in front of the edge 11 of the access opening of the drum, as this is the case in the prior art.
  • the ideal size of said elongated cylindrical configuration 12 representing the best possible compromise between functional considerations, calling for it to be as large as possible, and moulding considerations, calling for it to be as narrow as possible, is at least 12 mm, as measured on the generatrix of the cylinder.

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EP05100969A EP1690969A1 (de) 2005-02-10 2005-02-10 Verbesserung des vorderen Randes einer Haushaltswaschmaschine
US11/330,775 US20060174663A1 (en) 2005-02-10 2006-01-12 Front flange of a household-type clothes washing machine
MXPA06001545A MXPA06001545A (es) 2005-02-10 2006-02-08 Mejora en la pestana frontal de una maquina lavadora domestica de prendas de vestir.
JP2006032888A JP2006218306A (ja) 2005-02-10 2006-02-09 前側フランジが改良された家庭用洗濯機

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