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(11) EP 0 091 668 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
05.09.1984 Bulletin 1984/36

(43) Date of publication A2:
19.10.1983 Bulletin 1983/42

(21) Application number: 83103413

(22) Date of filing: 07.04.1983
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 13.04.1982 IT 3401482

(71) Applicant: INDUSTRIE ZANUSSI S.p.A.
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(72) Inventor:
  • Regazzo, Olindo
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(54) Drum for a washing machine


(57) A drum for a washing machine of the top-loading type has a peripheral access opening provieded with a pair of door flaps hinged to opposite lateral edges thereof and mutually engageable for retainment in the closed position. The hinge connection between each door flap and the respective edge portion of the opening is formed by a rounded edge portion of the door flap rotatably received in a correspondingly rounded portion of a hinge element secured to the drum along the respective edge portion of the opening. The rounded portions of the door flaps and hinge elements each present a rectilinear profile, thus precluding the danger of the laundry being caught therebetween.






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