A laundry treating appliance includes a treating chamber provided for receiving laundry for treatment, a controller having a memory in which is stored a set of executable instructions including a set of cycles of operations. The laundry treating appliance also includes a user interface operably coupled with the controller and having a touchscreen configured to provide an input and output function for the controller.

A laundry washing machine contains a rotatable drum (210) configured to hold laundry (240) during washing thereof. The rotatable drum (210), in turn, contains at least one flexible body (215) configured to alter its volume in response to a fluid medium (F) being fed into or extracted out from an interior of the at least one flexible body (215). As a result, the at least one flexible body (215) varies a volume available for washing fluids (W) and the laundry (240) in the rotatable drum (210), so that for example gentle and yet highly efficient kneading washing actions can be performed.

A laundry treating appliance includes a treating chamber provided for receiving laundry for treatment, a controller having a memory in which is stored a set of executable instructions including a set of cycles of operations. The laundry treating appliance also includes a user interface operably coupled with the controller and having a touchscreen configured to provide an input and output function for the controller.

The invention provides an apparatus and method for use in the treatment of substrates, whereby the apparatus comprises housing means having mounted therein a rotatably mounted drum (17), access means through which said substrates may be loaded into said drum (17), and a multiplicity of solid particulate material delivery means.

Methods of washing laundry in an automatic laundry machine using a multicompartment water-soluble unit dose article having a water-soluble film and a liquid laundry detergent composition, wherein the unit dose article has a height, a width and a length, wherein the length is the longest dimension and the height is the smallest dimension, and wherein the ratio of the maximum length to the maximum height is between about 2:1 and about 10:1, wherein the unit does article comprises a gas, and wherein the ratio of the volume of said gas to the volume of the liquid laundry detergent composition is between about 1:25 and about 1:10.

Methods of washing laundry in an automatic laundry machine using a multicompartment water-soluble unit dose article having a water-soluble film and a liquid laundry detergent composition, wherein the unit dose article has a height, a width and a length, wherein the length is the longest dimension and the height is the smallest dimension, and wherein the ratio of the maximum length to the maximum height is between about 2:1 and about 10:1, wherein the unit does article comprises a gas, and wherein the ratio of the volume of said gas to the volume of the liquid laundry detergent composition is between about 1:25 and about 1:10.

Disclosed is a method for controlling a spin-drying cycle of a laundry treatment machine. The method includes performing a plurality of spin-drying operations by rotating a drum above an adjusted rotational speed range configured to adjust disposition of balls within a ball balancer so as to correspond to a changed amount of eccentricity, and adjusting the disposition of the balls within the ball balancer by rotating the drum within the adjusted rotational speed range, between the respective spin-drying operations.

Disclosed is a method for controlling a spin-drying cycle of a laundry treatment machine. The method includes performing a plurality of spin-drying operations by rotating a drum above an adjusted rotational speed range configured to adjust disposition of balls within a ball balancer so as to correspond to a changed amount of eccentricity, and adjusting the disposition of the balls within the ball balancer by rotating the drum within the adjusted rotational speed range, between the respective spin-drying operations.

Disclosed herein are a washing machine with a balancer to counterbalance unbalanced load produced during rotation of a drum and a control method thereof. The washing machine having a balancer to counterbalance unbalanced load produced during rotation of the drum seats a mass in a groove in the balancer before rotation of the drum possibly producing unbalance as in the spin-drying cycle begins, thereby efficiently maintaining balance of the drum. Accordingly, vibration in the drum may be reduced and product liability incident due to touch of the frame may be prevented.

A drum washing machine includes a tub and a drum rotatably supported in the tub and implements a control method that allows the tub to be easily cleaned. The method of controlling the washing machine includes supplying washing water during a first water supplying step to the interior of the tub while the drum is rotating at a water-supplying RPM; and executing a first wash step following completion of the first water supply step by accelerating the rotation of the drum from the water-supplying RPM to a first-wash RPM so that a circulatory flow is created in which the washing water falls from the top of opposite ends of the tub while circulating along the inner circumferential surface of the tub due to the rotational power of the drum.