and fabric care the examples disclosed herein can improve significantly also the drying and fabric care performances with delicate cycles as described above aiming to reduce the mechanical action on this type of loads the tumbling is often reduced or even avoided this solution has the negative result of increasing the temperature gradient thus leading to the already discussed drawbacks if the proposed lifter design is used the machine can be designed to stop tumbling for the whole cycle or only for part of it also e g using a pwm approach in a way that the air can flow through the lifter 18 to provide a means to optimize heat flux for these type of loads using appropriate design of the lifter in some examples the drum 16 is in a position where the lifter 18 lays on the bottom of the drum 16 thus having the clothes laying on it the method used to stop the drum 16 in the correct position is well known in the art and it can be easily transferred from the known solutions for top loader washer for having the door in upwards location to facilitate loading and unloading of the drum moreover since air can flow through the lifter 18 the latter can be designed to host a cartridge containing a fragrance or some other chemical additives to improve quality of drying that can be released in the drum 16 in some examples the lifter 18 is used with a drum 16 having an air inlet and outlet port on opposite sides thus enabling fine.