Patent ID: 8893530

Claim:
A washing machine comprising: a wash water tub; a drum provided in the wash water tub rotatably about a rotation axis extending in a horizontal direction or inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the horizontal direction, the drum having a port provided in one of opposite end faces thereof with respect to a rotation axis extending direction, the drum being capable of containing laundry loaded therein through the port; three baffles circumferentially equidistantly provided on an inner peripheral surface of the drum for agitating the laundry in the drum; cleaning air supply means which supplies cleaning air into the drum through the port for sanitizing the laundry; a boot tray having a baffle receiving portion which receives one of the baffles located at a lowermost position, the boot tray being set in the drum so as to straddle the one baffle for receiving a pair of boots placed thereon; and a pair of boot attachments to be inserted into the respective boots; wherein the paired boot attachments each include: a tubular member to be inserted into the boot with a sufficient clearance for causing the cleaning air supplied into the drum to flow down therethrough from an upper portion thereof; an introduction portion provided in the upper portion of the tubular member so as to be exposed from a boot top for introducing the cleaning air supplied to the drum into the tubular member; a lower vent provided in a lower portion of the tubular member so as to be directed toward a toe portion in the boot for causing the cleaning air to flow out of the tubular member; an intermediate vent provided in a vertically intermediate portion of the tubular member for causing the cleaning air to flow out of the tubular member; a guide portion which guides the air flowing out of the tubular member and, after sanitization of inside of the boot, causes the air to flow up through a space between the tubular member and an interior surface of the boot toward the boot top; and a unifying mechanism provided in the upper portion of the tubular member for unifying the paired boot attachments.