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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2009
Applicants:
Marion Fechler, Guetersloh, DE;
Volker Karweg, Guetersloh, DE;
Dirk Sieding, Luenen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Miele & Cie. KG, Guetersloh, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 35/00 (2006.01); D06F 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 35/00 (2013.01); D06F 25/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of treating laundry in a washing machine having a substantially rotatable drum disposed in a suds container. The method includes heating the drum wall with a heater during a laundry smoothing cycle and rotating the drum during the smoothing cycle at a first speed so as to lift the laundry in the drum to a height at which the laundry slides down the drum wall.