Patent ID: 6094763
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
A method for unloading items of laundry from a spin-dryer or washer-dryer having a perforated operating drum and a drum housing with an end-sided unloading opening which can be closed by a door, comprising:after a spin-drying the items, setting the operating drum to a speedwhich is lower than the spin-drying speed andwhich nevertheless is sufficiently high for a centrifugal force acting on the items of laundry to be greater, by a specified amount, than the force of gravity,opening the door of the drum housing,connecting a pipe of a suction conveying system to the unloading opening of the drum housing,activating the suction conveying system, andintermittently or continuously opening, to a varying extent, a closure member of an air inlet opening which is arranged on a peripheral wall on the drum housing.