DRUM TYPE WASHING/DRYING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drum type washing/drying machine preventing generation of offensive odor due to soaking in bubbles by preventing intrusion of detergent bubbles into a heating means and an air blowing means in an air blowing and heating passage even if abnormally generating the detergent bubbles, and securing the reliability of the heating means and the air blowing means. SOLUTION: This drum type washing/drying machine is provided with a water tub 3 resiliently supported on the inside of a body 1 and incorporating a rotating drum 4; the air blowing and heating passage 18 incorporating a blower fan 23 sending the air exhausted from inside the rotating drum 4 to the interior of the rotating drum 4 via a humidification part 20 and a heater 24, a connecting opening part 25 as a connecting part between the air blowing and heating passage 18 and a circulating passage 22 is provided with a sealing member 26 with approximately the same shape as the opening part. The sealing member 26 is turned in cooperation with the driving of the blower fan 23 to open/close the connecting opening part 25 and prevent the intrusion of the bubbles in washing without resisting the air flow of the drying. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI