WASHING MACHINE Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC D06F39/00 

FIELD: personal use articles.

SUBSTANCE: washing machine comprises a plastic tank (1), a cylindrical drum (3) with an axially protruding shaft (31) in the center, driven by an electric motor, the engaged with the tank pipe (11) bearing support (500) which is fully molded with deep drawing from of flat sheet metal (LP). The bearing support (500) comprises a first (500a) and a second (500b) edge parts with the corresponding housings (501, 502) for two ball bearings (4, 40) with different diameters and with the structure of their peripheral stoppers (500d and 500e) inside the housings ( 501 and 502) and comprises a peripheral flange (600) on the rib of the first edge part (500a) for engaging the support (500) with the pipe (11) of the tank. The first edge part (500a) of the support (500) is located higher than the second edge part (500b) so that the first ball bearing (4) is located in the housing (501) of the first edge part (500a), and the second ball bearing (40) is located in the housing (502) of the second edge part (500b). The support (500) is inserted into the plastic material of the pipe (11) of the tank, and the peripheral flange (600) of the support is folded back and is provided with an outer toothed rib (601) for attaching to the plastic structure of the pipe (11).

EFFECT: design improvement.

1 cl, 9 dwg