IP Library Granted Patent US 8,887,540
Granted Patent B2
US 8,887,540 · App. 12/844,870 · Granted Nov 18, 2014

Laundry drum for a laundry treatment machine

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Patent No.
US 8,887,540
App. No.
12/844,870
Granted
Nov 18, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A laundry drum on the one hand is to exhibit the advantageous features of structures of the prior art distributed in the circumferential direction, which protrude from the cylinder shape of the drum casing accommodated in the laundry drum, but at the same time however create the basics for their embodiment for advantageous influencing of the laundry movement within the laundry drum during its rotational movement. To this end structures are inventively formed from ring-shaped protrusions distributed in the circumferential direction.

Claims (13)

1. A laundry drum, comprising:

a drum casing;

a plurality of first raised protrusions having a closed, circular shape provided on the drum casing; and

a plurality of second raised protrusions having a closed, circular shape provided on the drum casing and arranged concentrically with respect to the plurality of first raised protrusions.

2. The laundry drum of claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of first raised protrusions have a first diameter; and

the plurality of second raised protrusions have a second diameter which is different than the first diameter.

3. The laundry drum of claim 2 , wherein the first diameter is greater than the second diameter.

4. The laundry drum of claim 1 , wherein:

the plurality of first raised protrusions have a first height; and

the plurality of second raised protrusions have a second height.

5. The laundry drum of claim 4 , wherein the first height is different than the second height.

6. The laundry drum of claim 4 , wherein the first height is equal to the second height.

Assignments (2)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO REMOVE USSN 14373413; 29120436 AND 29429277 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 035624 FRAME: 0784. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Jun 19, 2015
From: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
To: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
Reel/Frame 036000/0848 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 11, 2015
From: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
To: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
Reel/Frame 035624/0784 →