Horizontal axis washing machine clothes drum has two part lifters axially separated at slightly different radial positions to increase tumbling effect

摘要

The wash drum (1) has ribs (3) which raise the washing articles above the water level before dropping them. Instead of them running from front to back they are divided (3a,3b) with one part (3b) lagging the other (3a) towards the rear of the drum to raise the clothes higher.