Patent ID: 8336342

Claim:
A clothes refreshing apparatus comprising: a cabinet which forms an external appearance; a front panel which forms a front surface of the cabinet and has a loading port through to load clothes; a drum which is installed in the cabinet and provides a space in which the clothes loaded through the loading port are refreshed; a door which is installed to selectively open and close the loading port; a tub which is installed in the cabinet to cover the drum and has a loading port; and a gasket formed in a cylindrical shape, which connects the loading port of the tub to the loading port of the front panel, wherein the door is formed to have a vertical length larger than a vertical length of side surfaces of the front panel and wherein the gasket includes; a first connecting portion connected to the loading port of the front panel; and a second connecting portion connected to the loading port of the tub; and an upper connecting portion which connects an upper portion of the first connecting portion to an upper portion of the second connecting portion; and a lower connecting portion which connects a lower portion of the first connecting portion to a lower portion of the second connecting portion, and wherein the upper connecting portion is formed to be inclined outwardly in the radial direction toward the door and the lower connecting portion is formed horizontally so as to position a central portion of the door higher than a central portion of the loading port of the tub.