Electrolux Home Products Corporation N.v.

Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag

Danny Buso

Daniele Favaro

Mauro Cinello

Pietro Rizzetto

Stefano De Paoli

Marco Santarossa

Marco Clara

Paolo Olivaro

Dario Braconi

Luca Pradal

Iyer Swaminathan

Flavio Rigo

Fabio Zanello

Marco Rigo

A laundry treatment machine door assembly having a front frame and a cap element outwardly assembled to the front frame. The front frame and the cap element both comprise an irregularity which defines a handle for the door assembly.

Door assembly for a laundry treatment machine

Laundry appliance (), for example laundry washing machine, laundry dryer or laundry washer dryer, having a) a cabinet () with a housing () having at least one front face (A,B) and at least one front panel (), b) at least one fixing device () for fixing said front panel () to the housing () by applying a fixing force in a fixing direction (FD),and c) at least one pulling device (A,B) for exerting a pulling force (F) in a pulling direction (PD) onto the front panel () pulling the front panel () against at least one front face (A,B) of the housing (A,B). The fixing direction (FD) of the fixing force is different to the pulling direction (PD) of the pulling force (F), and the fixing device (A,) is coupled to the pulling device () in such a way that the fixing force generates the pulling force (F) or is partly transformed into the pulling force (F).

Laundry appliance

A laundry machine includes a cabinet with a front panel having a laundry loading/unloading opening, and a door. A washing tub is accommodated within the cabinet. A drum is rotatably arranged within the washing tub in such a way that a frontal rim of the drum faces the laundry loading/unloading opening, and a bellows connecting a rim of the laundry loading/unloading opening to the opening of the washing tub. The bellows includes a first and a second lip protruding towards the rotation axis of the drum wherein the first and second lips are each placed to hinder the passage of foreign bodies from the drum to the washing tub through a gap between the drum and the washing tub. The frontal rim of the drum is located between the first and the second lips.

Front loading laundry machine having bellows

A laundry machine may include a casing () with a panel () having a laundry loading/unloading opening (), a door () hinged to the casing () for opening/closing the laundry loading/unloading opening (), a hinge () adapted to pivotably support the door () to the casing (), and one or more apertures () in the door frame () on the hinge side allowing the rotation of the door () with respect to the hinge () when opening/closing. The laundry machine () may further include at least one closure element () for at least partially closing the one or more apertures () when the door () is in a closed position in which it closes the loading/unloading opening ().

Laundry machine

The invention relates to a home appliance, in particular washing and/or drying machine (), comprising a detergent feeding device () having at least one detergent storing compartment () for storing a detergent, the at least one detergent compartment () comprising: an outlet () for a detergent and water mixture, and a pivoted partition element () arranged in the detergent compartment (), wherein in a first position the partition element () separates a partial compartment () in the detergent compartment () from the outlet () for storing an amount of liquid detergent in the partial compartment, and wherein in a second position the partition element () provides passage from the partial compartment to the outlet (). According to the invention in the first position the partition element () is inclined with respect to the bottom () of the detergent compartment (), such that from the first position the partition element can be pivoted to the second position only in one pivoting direction and wherein the pivoting path of the partition portion () of the partition element () from the first to the second position is partially situated in the partial compartment (). According to another embodiment of the invention the pivoted partition element () has a single pivot rest () arranged at the bottom () of the detergent compartment ().

Home appliance having detergent compartment

A washing machine () has a washing tub () containing a rotary perforated drum (), and a washing/rinsing-liquid dispenser (), fluidly connectable to a water source. The liquid dispenser includes a housing () and a drawer (), removably associated to the housing (), provided with one or more compartments () adapted to be filled with washing and/or rinsing products. A water line () fluidly connects the washing/rinsing-liquid dispenser () and the tub (). The water line () has one or more single-piece elements () including a first conduit (), fluidly connecting the one or more compartments () and the tub (), and a second conduit (), fluidly separated from the first conduit (), fluidly connectable, upstream, with the water source, and fluidly connected, downstream, with the tub ()). The first and second conduits () are provided in a single-piece construction.

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San Quirino, Italy

Danny Buso