Laundry machine

• US 8,307,567 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2009
• Issued: 11/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Han, Dong Joo, Son, Young Bok, Lim, Jae Yoen, Cho, Ki Chul
• Primary Examiner(s): GRAVINI, STEPHEN MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US12/432,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20100083521A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,294 Days
• Field of Search: 34/73, 341/32, 342/02, 342/10, 342/18, 345/95, 346/01, 346/06, 346/10, 68/5.C, 68/9.C, 68/19, 68/20, 68/21
• US Class Current: 34/73
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 29/005 the other separate apparatus being a drying appliance
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 31/00 Washing installations comprising an assembly of several washing machines or washing units, e.g. continuous flow assemblies

Abstract

A laundry machine includes a cabinet and a partition wall dividing an inner space of the cabinet into a first space for main laundry treatment and a second space for auxiliary laundry treatment. An air supply unit is provided outside of the second space and supplies a downward airflow into the second space.

Claims

1. A laundry machine, comprising:

a cabinet defining a space therein;

a single partition located within the space and dividing the space of the cabinet horizontally into an upper space corresponding to a first laundry treatment space and a lower space corresponding to a second laundry treatment space;

a drum provided in the first laundry treatment space, the drum being configured to receive laundry therein;

a drawer provided in the second laundry treatment space, the drawer being configured to receive laundry therein; and

an air supply unit provided at the single partition in the first laundry treatment space to be detachably attached to the single partition of the first laundry treatment space and configured to supply air of the first laundry treatment space into the drawer of the second laundry treatment space independent of the operation of the drum,

wherein a central portion of the single partition includes a recess portion and the air supply unit is located in the recess portion,

wherein the recess portion includes an air inlet opening therein and the air supply unit includes an air outlet connected to the air inlet opening, and

wherein the air outlet of the air supply unit is downwardly directed substantially perpendicular to the air inlet opening so that air is supplied into the drawer.

2. The laundry machine of claim 1, wherein the single partition forms a base of the first laundry treatment space and a top cover of the second laundry treatment space.

3. The laundry machine of claim 1, wherein the single partition has a first side and a second side, the first side being exposed to the first laundry treatment space, and the second side being exposed to the second laundry treatment space.

4. The laundry machine of claim 1, wherein the second laundry treatment space is provided in an air discharging path of the air supply unit.

5. The laundry machine of claim 1, wherein the cabinet includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall, each of the first and second sidewalls extending continuously and uninterrupted from the first laundry treatment space to the second laundry treatment space.

6. The laundry machine of claim 1, wherein the cabinet includes a pair of first sidewalls at opposing sides of the first laundry treatment space, and a pair of second sidewalls at opposing sides of the second laundry treatment space, the pair of first sidewalls being contiguous with the pair of second sidewalls.