Patent ID: 8672426

Claim:
A clothes treating apparatus, comprising: an upper clothes treating apparatus; and a lower clothes treating apparatus, wherein each of the upper and lower clothes treating apparatuses comprises a cabinet; a door installed on a front surface of the cabinet; a manipulation panel; and a plurality of legs installed below the cabinet, wherein the lower clothes treating apparatus further comprises a plurality of leg accommodation portions formed on an upper surface of the cabinet of the lower clothes treating apparatus to accommodate the plurality of legs of the upper clothes treating apparatus, wherein the cabinet of upper clothes treating apparatus further comprises a service hole for accessing inside thereof in its lower side and for serving as a passage through which a cable passes, the cable for electrically connecting the manipulation panel of the upper clothes treating apparatus to a controller inside the cabinet of the upper clothes treating apparatus, wherein the manipulation panel of the upper clothes treating apparatus for manipulating the upper clothes treating apparatus is detachably mounted to the cabinet to close the service hole, and wherein the upper and lower clothes treating apparatuses are fixed to each other as the plurality of legs of the upper clothes treating apparatus are insertion-fixed to the plurality of leg accommodation portions of the lower clothes treating apparatus.