Miele & Cie. Kg

Miele & Cie. Gmbh & Co.

Wolfgang Hellhake

Robert Muether

Bernard Graute

Siegfried Augustin

A front-loading laundry appliance includes a housing having a substantially circular housing opening closable by a door and a drum rotatably mounted in the housing. The front end of the drum has a substantially circular drum opening for introducing or removing laundry. The drum has an at least approximately horizontal axis of rotation lying lower than a central axis of the housing opening. The housing opening has a first diameter and the drum opening has a second diameter, the first diameter being greater than the second diameter.

Front-loading laundry appliance such as a washing machine, a laundry dryer or a washer-dryer machine

A washing machine includes a laundry-detergent and fabric-softener drawer that can be pulled out of the machine. A movement assist device is provided that cooperates with the drawer so as to assist an opening and/or closing movement of the drawer. The movement assist device includes a scroll spring for causing a restoring force for an autonomous closing procedure of the drawer.

Washing machine with laundry-detergent drawer having means to assist an opening or closing movement

A method of monitoring a washing drum in a washing machine for impermissible or atypical movement during a first phase of a washing program as may result, for instance, from the presence of a child or animal in the drum, and of aborting the washing program upon detection of such impermissible movement.

Method of monitoring the rotational movement of a washing machine drum

The invention relates to a washing machine or a washer-dryer with a drum ( ) mounted in a suds basin ( ) for horizontal or inclined rotation and having a cylindrical wall ( ) and to cover plates ( ), the cylindrical wall ( ) or one of the cover plates ( ) being provided with a removal opening and the cylindrical wall ( ) being made in part or completely from sheet metal provided with a texturized bulges facing the interior of the drum. In order to provide for an optimally gentle laundry treatment at the same time as good visual appearance and complete exhaustion of residual water the holes ( ) in the cylindrical wall ( ) are disposed on the outwardly facing marginal contours ( ) of the bulges>alternatively, the holes ( ) may be disposed in sections ( ) of the cylindrical wall ( ) formed without bulge texturization.

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Lippstadt, Germany

Wolfgang Hellhake