Laundry bag

Abstract

Soiled garments are placed in a mesh laundry bag. Two holes in the bag are connected by a spindle sleeve and placed over a spindle of a washing machine so the spindle passes through the center of the bag to center the bag during washing. The bag allows delicate garments to be washed and held separate from other garments in the washing machine. The bag is releasably fastened to connectors on the washing machine's tub which contains the spindle. Releasable closures around the holes prevent garments from slipping out of the bag during washing. An internal stand can be placed in the spindle sleeve to hold the bag in position to receive laundry when the bag is outside the tub. An external frame can do the same.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention relates to laundry bags and apparatus for holding laundry bags, including laundry bags used for accumulating soiled laundry as well as for holding laundry during washing.BACKGROUND[0002]Laundry bags are used to hold soiled clothing and other items and transport them to the Laundromat for washing. But when the laundry is removed from the laundry bag it sometimes falls on the floor of the Laundromat and acquires undesirable matter which further contaminates laundry being washed. There is thus a need for an improved way to transport soiled laundry to a washer while minimizing the soiling of the laundry contained in the laundry bag.[0003]After being washed and / or dried, the cleaned laundry is often placed back in to the same laundry bags in which the soiled laundry was previously transported. The laundry bag may accumulate dirt from the soiled laundry and redeposit it on the freshly cleaned laundry. There is thus a need for a laundry bag that i...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]In a still further embodiment, the laundry bag has an annular shape having an inner and outer wall, and is placed in a frame which supports the inner wall in an upward orientation. Clothes or other items can be placed into the laundry bag through an aperture that is advantageously held open or held in an accessible orientation by the frame. When the bag and clothes in the bag are removed from the frame the inner wall is held in an upward orientation by the clothes inside the bag. The spindle of a washing machine can slip into the upwardly supported inner wall following the same path as the frame, to support the bag around the spindle. The frame supporting the inner

Problems solved by technology

But when the laundry is removed from the laundry bag it sometimes falls on the floor of the Laundromat and acquires undesirable matter which further co

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