Patent ID: 8621763

Claim:
A fabric treatment apparatus comprising: a treatment room adapted to receive laundry to be treated; a clothes rack disposed in the treatment room, and adapted to support a plurality of hangers to hang the laundry; one or more electromagnets positioned near each end of and a predetermined distance from each end of the clothes rack, wherein when the one or more electromagnets positioned at a first end of the clothes rack apply an attractive force to the clothes rack, the one or more electromagnets positioned at a second end of the clothes rack also apply a repulsive force such that the clothes rack linearly moves towards the one or more electromagnets positioned at the first end, wherein when the one or more electromagnets positioned at the second end of the clothes rack apply an attractive force to the clothes rack, the one or more electromagnets positioned at the first end of the clothes rack also apply a repulsive force such that the clothes rack linearly moves towards the one or more electromagnets positioned at the second end, wherein the predetermined distance from each end of the clothes rack respectively increases and decreases accordingly to the linear movement of the clothes rack by an amount equal to the linear movement of the clothes rack, and wherein said linear movement produces a reciprocal movement along a linear path; and a heating unit provided below the treatment room, but within the fabric treatment apparatus, and adapted to supply at least one of hot air and steam into the treatment room.