Front-loadable washing machine having a rotatable laundry drum

US6463767B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Detlef Uzkureit · Berlin, DE
• Reinhard Heyder · Berlin, DE
• Thomas Wiesner · Leipzig, DE
• Horst Schermuck · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 7, 2001
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2002
• Expiry date: Dec 7, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC D): Textiles; Paper
• CPC primary: D06F23/06
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A front-loading washing machine includes a rotatable laundry basket. The basket's lowest casing line deviates from horizontal by sloping upward toward the front when the machine is in an operating position. The basket has hollow longitudinally extended carriers disposed on the inside surface of the casing and including liquid inlets in the basket's rear area. The inlets are loaded with liquid when the basket rotates into a lowest position and direct the liquid into the carriers, which lift the liquid therein and deliver it from a lifted position into the basket's interior through openings. The basket remains easy to manufacture while ensures both rapid wetting of the laundry and at least equally good washing action. The laundry basket is mounted cylindrically around a rotational axis that slopes upward toward the front, and the carriers are slantingly disposed with regard to the basket rotation direction.