| 摘要 |
<p>A clothes washing machine of the front loading type is provided with a hot air clothes dryer for drying the clothes after washing. A fan (14) draws air from within the machine casing (1) and blows it through a heater box (21) containing electrical resistance heating elements (26) and into a rotary clothes-receiving drum (4) located within an outer container (2) which retains the washing water during the washing cycle. The path of the hot air is from the heater box into the container (2), through the front loading aperture (5) of the drum (4) and then through circumferential outlets in the drum (4) to a rear outlet (6) from the container (2) and through an exterior conduit (12) having at its outlet a removable circular ring (13), a stem (35), Fig. 9, and bristles (36) to retain lint (37) from the washed clothes. In another embodiment, Figs. 2 and 3 (not shown), the container outlet (5) is connected to a condenser (32) so that a closed circuit is formed for the drying air. <IMAGE></p> |
