US 11,739,468 B2
Drawer and clothes treating machine including the same
Sungwoon Jung, Seoul (KR); and Hunjun Jang, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed by LG Electronics Inc., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Aug. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/6,509.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0106712 (KR), filed on Aug. 29, 2019; and application No. 10-2020-0018600 (KR), filed on Feb. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0062394 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. D06F 39/02 (2006.01); D06F 34/14 (2020.01); D06F 39/12 (2006.01); D06F 103/60 (2020.01)
CPC D06F 39/022 (2013.01) [D06F 34/14 (2020.02); D06F 39/028 (2013.01); D06F 39/12 (2013.01); D06F 2103/60 (2020.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A drawer of a clothes treating machine, the drawer comprising:
a drawer frame that extends in a lengthwise direction and is configured to be inserted into and drawn out from a housing of the clothes treating machine, the drawer frame having an open top; and
a storage container that is configured to be detachably inserted into and separated from the drawer frame through the open top of the drawer frame, the storage container being configured to accommodate a clothes treatment agent therein,
wherein the storage container comprises:
a storage body portion configured to accommodate the clothes treatment agent therein, the storage body portion having a first side and a second side that are located opposite to each other in a longitudinal direction of the storage body portion,
a check valve that protrudes from the first side of the storage body portion, the check valve being configured to selectively allow the clothes treatment agent to be discharged from the storage container,
a storage cover portion configured to cover the storage body portion, the storage cover portion having (i) a cap opening that is defined at a position closer to the second side of the storage body portion than to the first side of the storage body portion, and (ii) a through hole that is defined at a position closer to the second side of the storage body portion than to the first side of the storage body portion, that is spaced apart from the cap opening, and that fluidly communicates with both of an inside of the storage body portion and an outside of the storage body portion, and
wherein the drawer frame comprises:
a rear end portion configured to accommodate at least a portion of the check valve therein, and
a partition member disposed at the rear end portion and configured to restrict movement of the check valve in an up and down direction to thereby prevent the clothes treatment agent in the storage container from leaking through the through hole.