(19)
(11) EP 1 197 592 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
05.03.2003 Bulletin 2003/10

(43) Date of publication A2:
17.04.2002 Bulletin 2002/16

(21) Application number: 01119424.8

(22) Date of filing: 11.08.2001
(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: 10.10.2000 IT PN000059

(71) Applicant: Electrolux Zanussi S.p.A.
33080 Porcia, Pordenone (IT)

(72) Inventors:
  • Bertolin, Luca
    IT-33170 Pordenone (IT)
  • Napolitano, Gennaro
    IT-33170 Pordenone (IT)

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

   


(54) Combined clothes washing and drying machine


(57) The washing and drying machine has a water supply circuit comprising a pipe (5; 6) with an electromagnetic valve (7; 8), a washing product container and dispenser (3), and a conduit (9) with a siphon (10) that normally fills up with residual water. The electromagnetic valve is opened temporarily, both before and during the clothes drying phase, in order to fill up, ie. re-fill the siphon (10) with a calibrated amount of water, so as to ensure that said siphon is appropriately filled to prevent moist air from leaking outside, ie. into the surrounding ambient through said washing product container (3).






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