Patent AU-2017330127-B2 (AU)
Title: Apparatus for processing laundry
Inventor: BAE SANGHUN
IPC: D06F37/10
Filed: 2017-09-22
Granted: 2019-10-03
Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing laundry, the apparatus comprising: a cabinet in which an insertion opening is formed; a laundry-accommodating part which is provided inside the cabinet and in which items to be washed, entered via the insertion opening, are stored; a door which opens and shuts the insertion opening; a housing first fixing part and a housing second fixing part provided to the door so as to have mutual line symmetry with reference to a vertical line passing through the centre of the door; a first hinge provided with a first shaft that is provided to the cabinet and forms a first axis of rotation for the door, a housing that is fixed to the door by the housing first fixing part or the housing second fixing part, and a first shaft accommodating part that is provided to the housing and in which the first shaft is detachably accommodated; a second hinge provided with a second shaft that is connected to the door and forms the first axis of rotation together with the first shaft, and a third shaft that rotatably fixes the second shaft to the cabinet and forms a second axis of rotation for the door; a third hinge provided with a fourth shaft that is provided to the door and forms the second axis of rotation together with the third shaft, a fourth shaft accommodating part that is provided to the cabinet and in which the fourth shaft is detachably accommodated, and a switch part accommodating part that is provided to the cabinet and positioned below the fourth shaft accommodating part; a handle comprising a handle body that is rotatably fixed to the door, and an input part that is fixed to the handle body; a first switch part positioned between the housing first fixing part and the housing second fixing part; a first contact part which is provided to the first switch part, and which, when the housing is in a fixed state fixed to the housing first fixing part and the handle body rotates, moves the first switch part, by means of the input part, from the direction in which the housing first fixing part is positioned to the direction in which the housing second fixing part is positioned; a second contact part which is provided to the first switch part, and which, when the housing is in a fixed state fixed to the housing second fixing part and the handle body rotates, moves the first switch part, by means of the input part, from the direction in which the housing second fixing part is positioned to the direction in which the housing first fixing part is positioned; a first shaft control unit which, if the housing is fixed to the housing first fixing part, is fixed to a first free end of the first switch part that is facing the housing first fixing part, and if the housing is fixed to the housing second fixing part, is fixed to a second free end of the first switch part that is facing the housing second fixing part, and when the first switch part moves, opens or shuts the first shaft accommodating part; and a second switch part which, if the first switch part moves the first shaft control unit so as to open the first shaft accommodating part, is inserted into the switch part accommodating part by moving in the direction in which the fourth shaft is positioned, by means of the free end to which the first shaft control unit is not fixed, thereby shutting the fourth shaft accommodating part.