(19)
(11) EP 1 152 082 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
15.01.2003 Bulletin 2003/03

(43) Date of publication A2:
07.11.2001 Bulletin 2001/45

(21) Application number: 01105746.0

(22) Date of filing: 08.03.2001
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: D06F 25/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 27.04.2000 IT PN000026

(71) Applicant: Electrolux Zanussi S.p.A.
33170 Pordenone (IT)

(72) Inventor:
  • Poloni, Fabio
    33078 San Vito al Tagliamento, Pordenone (IT)

(74) Representative: Giugni, Valter et al
PROPRIA S.r.l., Via Mazzini 13
33170 Pordenone
33170 Pordenone (IT)

   


(54) Top-loading clothes washing and drying machine with substantially horizontal-axis rotating drum


(57) Clothes washing and drying machine having an oscillating tub (9) which is substantially formed by a cylindrical enclosure and a pair of vertical head pieces, and which encloses a single perforated drum (7) capable of being loaded from the top and rotating about a sensibly horizontal axis. One of said head pieces (10) consists substantially of a first portion (11) and a second portion (12) that are separably joined to each other so as to form, on the outside of the seat (30) provided for at least a bearing of the drum (7), a channel (28) for the drying air, in which there are accommodated all means (15, 22, 25, 29, 31) needed to create a flow of heated drying air in a closed-loop circuit through the rotating drum (7).






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