CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims the benefit of the earlier filing date and the right of priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2018-0148952, filed Nov. 27, 2018, and Korean Patent Application No. 10-2019-0132496, filed Oct. 23, 2019, the subject matter of which are incorporated herein by reference.

BACKGROUND

1. Field

The present disclosure relates to a laundry treating apparatus having a door configured to open and close a laundry introduction opening of a body.

2. Background

A laundry treating apparatus may include an apparatus for washing laundry (or clothes), an apparatus for drying laundry, and an apparatus for washing and drying laundry together. In the laundry treating apparatus, washing laundry is a stroke of removing contaminants from the laundry through reaction between water and detergents, and drying laundry is a stroke of removing moisture contained in the laundry by use of a hot air supply device provided in the laundry treating apparatus.

A laundry treating apparatus may include a body having a laundry introduction opening, and a door configured to open and close the laundry introduction opening. In an example in which the door includes a circular front glass, a mechanical object (a pin, a hook, etc.) for guiding a precise attachment position when a door frame is coupled to the front glass, can not be formed at the front glass due to a characteristic of glass. Further, there may be no physical reference point for locating the front glass to a proper position of the door frame, due to a characteristic of the circular shape.

Accordingly, an alignment structure for attaching a circular front glass to a proper position of a circular door frame should be provided, and research on a method to make the alignment structure invisible from the outside of a door may be required.

An adhesive may be used to attach the front glass to the door frame. According to experimental results, the amount of an adhesive to be applied, and the time taken for an adhesive filled in an adhesive gun to harden are variable according to an adhesive application method. Thus, research may be ongoing for a method capable of reducing the amount of an adhesive to be applied, and capable of prolonging time taken for an adhesive filled in an adhesive gun to harden.

