Laundry handling apparatus with a cuff and a filling support

• US 20100154485A1
• Filed: 12/19/2008
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerã¤Te GmbH (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Bolduan, Edwin, Wiemer, Horst
• Granted Patent: US 9,309,616 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 68/17.R
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 37/266 Gaskets mounted between tub and casing around the loading opening
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 39/02 Devices for adding soap or other washing agents

Abstract

The invention relates to a laundry treatment device, which in particular serves as a washing machine or washer drier, having a housing and a container suspended in the housing. Also provided is an elastically deformable seal, which, is connected, on the one hand to the housing and, on the other, to the container. In addition, a dispenser housing with a filling connector is arranged in the housing. The seal has on a tubular projection an opening with one end of the filling connector being inserted into the seal at the opening of the seal.

Claims

1. A laundry treatment device comprising:

a housing;

a container suspended in the housing;

an elastically deformable seal connected to the housing and to the container and comprising an opening; and

a filling connector having an end inserted into the seal at the opening of the seal.

2. The laundry treatment device of claim 1, wherein the elastically deformable seal comprises an approximately tubular projection having the opening and wherein the filling connector end is inserted in the tubular projection of the seal.

3. The laundry treatment device of claim 1, further comprising a dispenser housing connected to the filling connector.

4. The laundry treatment device of claim 1, further comprising a dispenser housing that includes the filling connector.

5. The laundry treatment device of claim 3, wherein the filling connector is in a front region of the dispenser housing on a front side of the housing.

6. The laundry treatment device of claim 5, wherein the seal is in a region behind a front side of the housing within the housing.

7. The laundry treatment device of claim 3, wherein the filling connector comprises only one filling connector for the dispenser housing.

8. The laundry treatment device of claim 3, wherein the filling connector is for the dispenser housing which is connected via an inlet hose to the container.

9. The laundry treatment device of claim 1, wherein the filling connector is substantially in a fixed position in the housing.

10. The laundry treatment device claim 1, wherein the container is suspended resiliently in the housing by spring elements and wherein the container encompasses a rotatable drum.

11. The laundry treatment device of claim 1, wherein the opening of the seal is in a region of the seal which is not dynamically stressed during operation.