Patent ID: 8250691

Claim:
Continuous washing machine with a drum ( 2 ) comprising, in longitudinal direction ( 4 ), washing chambers ( 12 ), which are arranged adjacent to and separate from each other and through which laundry items ( 22 ) to be washed can be conveyed in longitudinal direction of the drum ( 2 ), whereby the washing chambers ( 12 ) which are separate from each other are configured to represent an Archimedean screw ( 6 ) which is connected, along its exterior edge ( 8 ) to the drum ( 2 ), and that the drum ( 2 ) can be driven so as to rotate about its longitudinal axis ( 4 ) in two opposing directions of rotation (B, C), whereby a first direction of rotation (C) corresponds to a washing mode and the second direction of rotation (B) corresponds to a conveying mode, whereby, also a washing mode by back-and-forth pivoting of the drum ( 2 ) about a pivot angle of 180°+/−45° is possible, namely about a pivot angle within the range of 225° to 135°, when in washing mode, and whereby an entrainment device ( 14 ) extending in outward direction toward the interior wall of the drum ( 2 ) and being non-rotationally connected to the drum ( 2 ) is arranged in at least one of the washing chambers ( 12 ), said entrainment device carrying along the laundry items ( 22 ) during the rotation of the drum ( 2 ) in washing mode, wherein the entrainment device ( 14 ) is laterally connected to the screw ( 6 ) and is arranged in the washing chamber in such a manner that, in washing mode, the entrainment device ( 14 ) prevents a transport of the laundry—against the conveying direction (A)—from the washing chamber ( 12 ), in which the entrainment device ( 14 ) is provided, to the washing chamber ( 12 ) that is arranged upstream when viewed in conveying direction (A), whereby the entrainment device comprises a metal entrainment baffle ( 14 ) which extends from a region facing the longitudinal axis ( 4 ) of the drum ( 2 ) and is laterally connected to the screw ( 6 ), and whereby the metal entrainment baffle ( 14 ) extends—viewed in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis ( 4 ) of the drum ( 2 )—in an at least partially curved manner.