Patent ID: 7082793

Claim:
A drum-type washing machine, comprising: a housing; a tub disposed in said housing and having an end side at which laundry is loaded; and a laundry drum disposed in said tub, said laundry drum having: a drum casing defining an interior and an interspace between said drum and said tub, and having: an operating section for spin-drying laundry located in said laundry drum: a rear wall at which said laundry drum is mounted in said tub in a substantially horizontally floating manner; a perforated structure that, during spin-drying of the laundry, substantially prevents air from flowing from said interspace through said interior of said laundry drum and back to said interspace; and wherein said perforated structure has a flow resistor disposed in a path of a potential air stream out of the tub through said interior of said drum and back to the tub.