CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION(S)

Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 119(a), this application claims the benefit of an earlier filing date of and the right of priority to Korean Patent Applications No. 10-2019-0014064, filed in Korea on Feb. 1, 2019, No. 10-2019-0058238, filed in Korea on May 17, 2019 and No. 10-2019-0128703, filed in Korea on Oct. 16, 2019, the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.

BACKGROUND

1. Field

A laundry treating apparatus having a mounting guide that surrounds and supports an outer circumferential surface of a front glass of a door is disclosed herein.

2. Background

In general, a laundry treating apparatus may include an apparatus having a function of washing or drying laundry or other items (hereinafter, collectively “laundry”). In addition, the laundry treating apparatus may be configured to have both a washing function and a drying function of the laundry.

The laundry treating apparatus may include a main body having a laundry inlet port, a door configured to open and close the laundry inlet port, and a laundry accommodating portion provided in the body. The door may include a door frame, a front glass attached to a front surface of the door frame, and a door window mounted on the door frame to protrude through the laundry input port. The door frame may include an outer frame disposed toward an outside of the main body, and an inner frame disposed toward an inside of the main body when the door is closed.

The prior art, Korean Patent No. 10-0595180 granted an Jun. 23, 2006 and hereinafter, “Patent Document 1”, which is hereby incorporated by reference, discloses a door of a laundry dryer/drum washing machine. According to Patent Document 1, a rim protruding at a front side of the door to surround an outer circumferential surface of an outer window attached to a front surface of an outer frame may be provided.

The rim protrudes to correspond to a thickness of the outer window, and completely covers an outer circumferential surface of the outer window in a thickness direction. However, Patent Document 1 has a problem that when a protruding length of the rim protruding in a thickness direction of the outer window increases, a thickness of the rim increases to reinforce the strength of the rim, thereby increasing a size of the door frame.

The prior art Korean Patent No, 10.1708352, granted on Feb. 14, 2017 and hereinafter “Patent Document 2”, which is hereby incorporated by reference, discloses a laundry treating apparatus. According to Patent Document 2, an outer circumference of the inner frame may define a mounting guide that protrudes from a front surface of the outer frame to cover a side surface of a door cover.

The mounting guide of Patent Document 2 is inclined downward from a front surface of the outer frame toward a side surface of the door cover. However, the downwardly inclined structure of the mounting guide has the following problems.

Due to a weight of the front glass and a weakening of an adhesive force between the front glass and the outer frame, the front glass moves along the downwardly inclined inner surface of the mounting guide and is released from an outside of the door frame, thereby causing the front glass to be broken. In addition, a sealant coating portion filled with a sealant for bonding the front glass and a plurality of sealant collecting portions spaced apart at inner and outer sides of the sealant coating portion to collect the sealant leaked from the sealant coating portion are disposed on a front surface of the outer frame of Patent Document 2. However, the sealant coating portion and the sealant collecting portions reduce a thickness of the outer frame to weaken a rigidity of the outer frame, and Patent Document 2 does not have structure for compensating for the rigidity of the outer frame.

