Door and a drum type washing machine and a clothes dryer using the same

• US 20040089031A1
• Filed: 09/09/2003
• Published: 05/13/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.), LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Myun Sik, Kim, Jong Seok, Kang, Jung Hoon, No, Yang Hwan, Cho, Han Ki, Ha, Young Hoon, Jung, Yeon Su
• Application Number:
  US10/471,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20040089031A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 68/196
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 37/28 Doors; Security means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 39/14 Doors or covers; Securing means therefor

Abstract

Door including a hinge assembly, an inner frame and an outer frame joined together, at least one thereof connected to the hinge assembly (15), a transparent door glass (63) having an edge positioned between, and fixed to the inner frame (62) and the outer frame (64), and a handle (70) formed in a form of recess so that fingers are put into the outer frame from an exterior and pulling the outer frame, thereby forming the handle not projected from the outer frame, being useful to a drum type washing machine or clothes drier.

Claims

1. A door comprising:

a hinge assembly;

an inner frame and an outer frame joined together at least one thereof is connected to the hinge assembly;

a transparent door glass having an edge positioned between, and fixed to, the inner frame and the outer frame; and

a handle formed in a form of a recess so that fingers are put into the outer frame from an exterior and pulling the outer frame.

2. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the inner frame and the outer frame have ring forms.

3. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the handle has a plurality of projections on a surface thereof.

4. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the handle has a finger recess in an inside thereof so that ends of the fingers are inserted therein and caught at the finger recess when the fingers are put therein.

5. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the handle is formed in an inner circumferential surface of the outer frame.

6. The door as claimed in claim 5, wherein the outer frame has a sloped inner circumferential surface for exposing an opening of the handle.

7. The door as claimed in claim 5, wherein the outer frame has an outside surface opposite to a part the handle is formed therein formed of a transparent material for making the handle visible.

8. The door as claimed in claim 5, wherein the handle is fabricated separately, and detachably inserted in a cavity recessed in the inner circumferential surface of the outer frame.

9. The door as claimed in claim 1, wherein the handle is formed in an outside surface of the outer frame.

10. The door as claimed in claim 9, wherein the handle is fabricated separately, and detachably inserted in a cavity recessed in the outside surface of the outer frame.

11. A drum type washing machine comprising:

a cabinet;

a tub and a drum mounted inside of the cabinet for washing laundry;

a motor for rotating the drum;

a hinge assembly provided to a point in the vicinity of an opening in the cabinet;

an inner frame and an outer frame joined together at least one thereof connected to the hinge assembly;

a transparent door glass having an edge between, and fixed to the inner frame and the outer frame; and

a handle formed in a form of a recess so that fingers are put into the outer frame from an exterior and pulling the outer frame.

12. The drum type washing machine as claimed in claim 11, wherein the inner frame and the outer frame have ring forms.

13. The drum type washing machine as claimed in claim 11, wherein the handle has a plurality of projections on a surface thereof.

14. The drum type washing machine as claimed in claim 11, wherein the handle has a finger recess in an inside thereof so that ends of the fingers are inserted therein and caught at the finger recess when the fingers are put therein.

15. The drum type washing machine as claimed in claim 11, wherein the handle is formed on an inner circumferential surface of the outer frame.

16. The drum type washing machine as claimed in claim 15, wherein the outer frame has a sloped inner circumferential surface for exposing an opening of the handle.

17. The drum type washing machine as claimed in claim 15, wherein the outer frame has an outside surface opposite to a part the handle is formed therein formed of a transparent material for making the handle visible.

18. The drum type washing machine as claimed in claim 15, wherein the handle is fabricated separately, and detachably inserted in a cavity recessed in the inner circumferential surface of the outer frame.

19. The drum type washing machine as claimed in claim 11, wherein the handle is formed in an outside surface of the outer frame.

20. The drum type washing machine as claimed in claim 19, wherein the handle is fabricated separately, and detachably inserted in a cavity recessed in the outside surface of the outer frame.

21. A clothes drier comprising:

a cabinet;

a drying drum rotatably mounted in the cabinet;

a plurality of ducts of an air circulation passage for drying a drying object in the drum;

a heater for heating the air;

a blower for circulating the air;

a hinge assembly provided to a point in the vicinity of an opening in the cabinet;

an inner frame and an outer frame joined together at least one thereof connected to the hinge assembly;

a transparent door glass having an edge between, and fixed to the inner frame and the outer frame; and

a handle formed in a form of a recess so that fingers are put into the outer frame from an exterior and pulling the outer frame.

22. The clothes drier as claimed in claim 21, wherein the inner frame and the outer frame have ring forms.

23. The clothes drier as claimed in claim 21, wherein the handle has a plurality of projections on a surface thereof.

24. The clothes drier as claimed in claim 21, wherein the handle has a finger recess in an inside thereof so that ends of the fingers are inserted therein and caught at the finger recess when the fingers are put therein.

25. The clothes drier as claimed in claim 21, wherein the handle is formed on an inner circumferential surface of the outer frame.

26. The clothes drier as claimed in claim 25, wherein the outer frame has a sloped inner circumferential surface for exposing an opening of the handle.

27. The clothes drier as claimed in claim 25, wherein the outer frame has an outside surface opposite to a part the handle is formed therein formed of a transparent material for making the handle visible.

28. The clothes drier as claimed in claim 25, wherein the handle is fabricated separately, and detachably inserted in a cavity recessed in the inner circumferential surface of the outer frame.

29. The clothes drier as claimed in claim 21, wherein the handle is formed in an outside surface of the outer frame.

30. The clothes drier as claimed in claim 29, wherein the handle is fabricated separately, and detachably inserted in a cavity recessed in the outside surface of the outer frame.