paddle mounted thereon application_number US 858908 A description referring now to the figures of the drawings in detail and first particularly to fig1 thereof there is shown a front loading washing machine 3 having a laundry drum subassembly 11 mounted about a drum axis of rotation 16 which is slightly inclined from rear to front in an upward direction relative to a horizontal line the washing machine 3 includes a front loading opening 17 the drum subassembly 11 is arranged to rotate about the axis 16 the drum subassembly 11 is a rotatable drum and is provided with a plurality of paddles that are described in more detail hereinafter each paddle has a body element mountable in a rotatable drum that rotates about the drum axis 16 a distal opening and a promixal opening the body element of each paddle has an interior and the body element has an axial extent bi sected by a mid axial line and formed by a distal portion extending from the mid axial line to a distal axial end and a proximal portion extending from the mid axial line to a proximal axial end the body element of each paddle is mountable on an inner surface of the drum subassembly 11 with the distal axial end thereof oriented toward one axial end of the drum subassembly 11 and the proximal axial end thereof oriented toward an opposite axial end of the drum subassembly 11 the distal opening in the distal portion of the body element of each paddle is operable to receive liquid therethrough for entry of liquid into the interior of the body element the proximal opening in the proximal portion of the body element is operable for the passage.