Patent ID: 6439676
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: D06F

Abstract:
A clothes storing cabinet adapted to hold soiled clothes preparatory to washing, comprising:a body forming a plurality of chambers disposed alongside one another, the body including filling openings communicating with respective chambers for enabling soiled clothes to be loaded into selected chambers; and a plurality of closures attached to the body beneath undersides of respective chambers, each closure arranged to be swung downwardly from a closed position to an open position to permit unloading of clothes from the respective chamber; the body, together with the chambers, being mounted for up-and-down sliding movement between a lowered clothes-loading position and a raised clothes-discharging position; the body defining an upper portion when in its clothes-loading position, and the filling openings being disposed in that upper portion; the body defining a lower portion when in its clothes-discharging position, with the closures arranged on that lower portion; the clothes-discharging position of the body being superimposed over the clothes-loading position of the body; each of the closures arranged to underlie substantially the entire underside of its respective chamber and mounted for swinging movement about a substantially horizontal axis disposed adjacent a rear portion of the body, wherein substantially the entire underside is uncovered when the closure is in its open position.