Patent ID: 7418842

Claim:
Clothes washing machine comprising: a clothes holding and washing tub ( 1 ), a drain manifold or pipe ( 2 ) provided under said tub and connecting the internal volume of said tub with a drain pump chamber ( 3 ), said drain pipe comprising a central length ( 15 ) and a final length ( 5 ), in which said final length ( 5 ) extends towards and into said drain pump chamber in a substantially horizontal direction, a hydraulic impeller ( 4 ) provided within said drain pump chamber and driven by an appropriate electric motor, filtering means for the liquor descending through said drain pipe and comprising an auxiliary filtering chamber ( 6 ) underneath said final length of said drain pipe extending into the drain pump, the internal volume of said auxiliary filtering chamber being connected to said final length, wherein said auxiliary filtering chamber ( 6 ) is formed by the cavity intervening between said final length ( 5 ) and a horizontal cylinder ( 19 ) arranged inside said final length ( 5 ), and that said horizontal cylinder ( 19 ) and said final length ( 5 ) have their axes (X, Y) extending parallel to each other, but offset relative to each other.