Washing Household Device, in Particular a Clothes Dryer

• US 20090113747A1
• Filed: 02/23/2006
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Ziemann, Andreas, Stolze, Andreas, Nawrot, Thomas, Stahn, Hans-Werner
• Granted Patent: US 8,020,316 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 34/218
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 58/04 Details controlling or regulating devices D06F34/00
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 58/20 General details of domestic laundry dryers D06F59/00 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to a washing household device, in particular to a clothes dryer, that includes an air-supply device which is arranged on a rear side area thereof and is provided with a closed self-contained cross-section flow channel.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. An appliance for handling laundry items, in particular a clothes dryer, the appliance comprising:

means forming a laundry item handling area in which laundry items to be handled are received;

a housing in which the means forming a laundry handling area is located, the housing including a back side wall forming at least a portion of a back side of the appliance;

an air conveying device mounted adjacent the back side wall, the air conveying device having a first open end area communicated with a heating device and a second open end area communicated with a housing of a fan assembly and the air conveying device having a flow channel that is cross-sectionally closed such that the flow channel is self-contained;

a cover that covers the housing of the fan assembly and the flow channel; and

a sealing element disposed between the housing of the fan assembly and the cover.

11. The appliance as claimed in claim 10, wherein the flow channel is formed by two parts with one of the parts being the back side wall that faces the exterior of the domestic appliance and the other of the parts being an element having a U-shaped cross section and mounted on the back side wall.

12. The appliance as claimed in claim 10, wherein the sealing element is mounted on one of a peripheral area of the housing and the cover.

13. The appliance as claimed in claim 10, wherein the first open end area and the second open end area of the air conveying device are located opposite to each other and the flow channel is oriented essentially vertically.