US 12,000,078 B2
Laundry treatment apparatus having multiple treatment composition receptacles
Scott Eugene Mizer, Loveland, OH (US); Corey Elizabeth DeRossett, Highland Heights, KY (US); and Carlos Amador Zamarreno, Newcastle upon Tyne (GB)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/507,290.
Claims priority of application No. 20203500 (EP), filed on Oct. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0127775 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. D06F 39/02 (2006.01); D06F 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC D06F 39/022 (2013.01) [D06F 25/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A laundry treatment apparatus comprising:
a base upon which said laundry treatment apparatus rests;
a tub defining a portion of a fluid containment envelope, wherein said tub is above said base;
a drum positioned within the tub and rotatable relative to the tub about an axis of rotation that is within 20 degrees of horizontal, wherein said axis of rotation is in a sagittal plane of said drum, wherein said sagittal plane is orthogonal to said base;
a detergent container receptacle;
a fabric softener container receptacle; and
a heater, wherein said heater is engaged with a heated air conveyance, and wherein said sagittal plane is between said detergent container receptacle and at least a portion of said heater;
wherein said detergent container receptacle is further away from said sagittal plane than said fabric softener container receptacle, wherein said detergent container receptacle has a detergent container bottom wall and said fabric softener container receptacle has a fabric softener container receptacle bottom wall, and wherein said detergent container receptacle bottom wall is lower relative to said apparatus base than said fabric softener container receptacle bottom wall.