Patent ID: 8789290

Claim:
A domestic appliance for care of items of washing, comprising: a drum for accepting the items of washing; a process air supply having walls defining a duct through which a stream of air is directed through the drum; a mesh filter for separation of lint from the air stream, the mesh filter including: a portion disposed between the walls of the duct of the process air supply and in the stream of air; and a side edge disposed outside of the process air supply and outside the stream of air; a scraper movable with respect to the mesh filter to remove the lint from the portion of the mesh filter and to collect the lint on a surface of the side edge of the mesh filter that is outside the process air supply and outside the stream of air; and a rinsing device configured to direct rinsing fluid onto the collected lint on the surface of the side edge of the mesh filter to wet the collected lint to reduce an amount of space needed to store the collected lint and to remove the collected lint from the side edge of the mesh filter.