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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1990
Filed:
May. 03, 1989
Piero Durazzani, Pordenone, IT;
Giuseppe Carniel, Treviso, IT;
Industrie Zanussi S.p.A., Pordenone, IT;
Abstract
A clothes washing machine is convertible to a clothes drying or a combined clothes washing and drying machine and includes a washing tub made of plastic material and a rotating inner drum housed in the tub and capable of being driven at the various revolving speeds required for both washing and drying cycles. The tub is provided with an upper opening which can be closed by exchangeable or interchangeable closing elements including, when the machine is being used as a dryer, an arched closing element provided with a number of electrical heating elements and an upper port capable of being connected with an exhaust manifold of the machine via a hot air circulating conduit.