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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2006
Front-loading laundry appliance such as a washing machine, a laundry dryer or a washer-dryer machine
Applicants:
Bernard Graute, Rietberg, DE;
Wolfgang Hellhake, Lippstadt, DE;
Inventors:
Bernard Graute, Rietberg, DE;
Wolfgang Hellhake, Lippstadt, DE;
Assignee:
Miele & Cie. KG, Guetersloh, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 39/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
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.