Disclosure of Invention
The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to overcome the defects of the prior art and provide a washing machine so as to achieve the purpose of increasing the washing capacity of the washing machine. Another object is to provide a washing machine, which can enlarge the washing volume of the washing machine without cleaning between the inner and outer cylinders.
In order to solve the technical problems, the invention adopts the technical scheme that:
a washing machine, comprising; the shell is internally provided with a bracket supported by a damping piece; the support is provided with a rotary drum, the distance between any position of the support and the left side wall of the shell is greater than or equal to the minimum distance between the rotary drum and the left side wall of the shell, and the distance between any position of the support and the right side wall of the shell is greater than or equal to the minimum distance between the rotary drum and the right side wall of the shell.
Furthermore, the support comprises a vertically extending supporting piece, the rotary drum is rotatably arranged on the supporting piece, the supporting piece and the rotary drum are coaxially arranged, and the horizontal width of the supporting piece is less than or equal to the drum diameter of the rotary drum; preferably, the bottom of the rotating cylinder is connected with a motor shaft, the motor shaft penetrates through the supporting piece, and two ends of the motor shaft are respectively connected with the driving motor and the rotating cylinder.
Further, a water outlet is arranged at the bottom of the rotary cylinder and is close to the periphery of the cylinder bottom; the support piece at least covers the rotating path of the water outlet in the rotating process of the rotating cylinder; a valve body for controlling the opening and the closing of the water outlet is arranged at the water outlet; preferably, the valve body is a centrifugal valve which is automatically opened after the rotating speed of the rotary drum reaches a set value; or, a solenoid-operated control valve; further preferably, install inside hollow promotion muscle on the rotatory section of thick bamboo inner wall, be equipped with the hole of permeating water of the inside well kenozooecium of intercommunication on the promotion muscle, the outlet is used for the inside cavity of intercommunication promotion muscle, and the valve body that drain outlet department set up is in the inside well kenozooecium of promotion muscle.
Furthermore, the periphery of the supporting piece is a conical folded edge which inclines towards the direction close to the rotating cylinder, and the maximum radial width of the conical folded edge is less than or equal to the cylinder diameter of the rotating cylinder; preferably, the rotary cylinder is a conical cylinder which gradually narrows the cylinder diameter from the cylinder bottom side to the cylinder opening side, and the maximum radial width of the conical folding edge is less than or equal to the maximum cylinder diameter of the conical rotary cylinder; further preferably, the tapered wall of the rotary cylinder is provided with a necking part which is close to the bottom of the cylinder and is narrowed in the cylinder diameter, and the outer tapered folding edge of the supporting part covers at least part of the necking part.
Further, the bracket comprises a bottom support piece which is arranged below the rotary drum and extends along the horizontal direction, a water collecting tank is arranged on the bottom support piece, the bottom of the water collecting tank is communicated with a drain pipe of the washing machine, and the bottom support piece is positioned between the left end part and the right end part of the rotary drum; preferably, the width of the bottom support is smaller than the diameter of the rotary drum, and the axis of the bottom support and the axis of the rotary drum are in the same vertical plane.
Further, a notch is arranged on the peripheral conical folding edge of the supporting piece, is positioned at the bottommost part of the conical folding edge and is arranged opposite to the water collecting tank; preferably, the bracket is provided with a water guide structure which extends from the notch to the water collecting tank and guides the water flow flowing out of the water outlet of the self-rotating cylinder to flow to the water collecting tank.
Furthermore, the bottom support piece is connected with the lower part of the support piece, and a gap is formed between the bottom support piece and the rotary cylinder; the other end of the bottom support piece extends towards the side direction of the opening of the rotary drum, and the lowest part of the water collecting tank of the bottom support piece is connected with a drain pipe of the washing machine.
Further, a water outlet is arranged on the wall of the rotary cylinder, and a control valve is arranged at the water outlet; the bracket is provided with a positioning device used for stopping the rotating cylinder to a fixed position; when the rotary cylinder is at a fixed position, the water outlet is at the lowest position and is arranged towards the water collecting tank arranged on the bracket.
Further, an inner drum cover for opening and closing the drum opening is arranged on the rotary drum, so that the rotary drum forms a water container when the washing machine is in a washing state.
Further, the shock absorbing member includes a shock absorbing rod and/or a hanging spring connecting the bracket with the housing; one end of the shock absorption rod is connected with the bracket, and the shock absorption rod extends downwards to the other end to be connected with the shell; one end of the hanging spring is connected with the bracket, and the hanging spring extends upwards to the other end to be connected with the shell.
After adopting the technical scheme, compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
through the arrangement, the support does not have a part protruding out of the rotary drum in the horizontal direction, and the smooth operation of the washing machine can be realized only by reserving the gap between the support and the rotary drum in the shell.
Compared with the common drum washing machine with an outer drum occupying a certain space, the space occupied by the bracket is smaller than the space required by the outer drum when the outer drum exists in the embodiment of the invention, so that the radial size of the rotary drum is increased, and the washing capacity of the washing machine is expanded.
Meanwhile, the invention has simple structure and obvious effect and is suitable for popularization and application.
The following describes embodiments of the present invention in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and the following embodiments are used for illustrating the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "inner", "outer", etc., indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element being referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.
In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning either a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in a specific case to those of ordinary skill in the art.
As shown in fig. 1 to 3, a washing machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes; the washing machine comprises a shell 1, wherein a rotary drum 3 is arranged in the shell 1, the axis of the rotary drum 3 is horizontal or the side of a drum opening is inclined upwards, and the rotary drum 3 is used for a user to contain a load to be washed; the rotary drum 3 is connected with the driving motor 7 to rotate around a shaft under the driving of the driving motor 7, so that the load contained in the rotary drum is driven to lift, beat and wash the load by utilizing beating acting force. Meanwhile, washing water is supplied into the rotary drum 3, the washing water soaks the load, and additives such as detergent, softener and disinfectant contained in the inlet water are contacted with the load, so that the washing effect of the load is improved.
In the embodiment of the invention, the rotary drum 3 is arranged in the shell 1 through the bracket 4, the bracket 4 is supported and arranged in the shell 1 through the damping piece 9, and the damping piece 9 can be a damping rod, a spring and the like; the damping rod and the spring can be any one or a combination of a hydraulic rod, a pneumatic rod, a damping spring, a damping hanging spring and the like which can provide axial damping supporting force. Preferably, as shown in fig. 1 to 3, the shock absorbing members 9 may be disposed below the bracket, and connect the bracket 4 with the bottom wall and/or the side wall of the housing 1, two sets of shock absorbing members 9 symmetrically arranged with respect to the axis of the rotating cylinder may be disposed on the left and right sides of the bracket, respectively, and each shock absorbing member 93 extends along the radial direction or the radial inclined direction of the rotating cylinder, so that the shock absorbing force may be from the two sides to the middle direction, and then the shock absorbing members on the left and right sides form a shock absorbing supporting force in the vertical direction after being combined.
In order to cooperate with the operation of the washing machine, the rotary drum 3 can be set to be a closed door cover arranged on the rotary drum 3 when the washing machine is used for normal washing, so that the rotary drum 3 forms a sealed water container, the rotary drum 3 can simultaneously integrate the functions of the outer drum and the inner drum, and the put load can be washed by using the washing water contained in the rotary drum.
In the embodiment of the invention, the rotating cylinder 3 is installed on the support 4, the distance between any position of the support 4 and the left side wall 11 of the shell 1 is greater than or equal to the minimum distance between the rotating cylinder 3 and the left side wall 11 of the shell 1, and the distance between any position of the support 4 and the right side wall 12 of the shell 1 is greater than or equal to the minimum distance between the rotating cylinder 3 and the right side wall 12 of the shell 1.
The support is arranged between the leftmost end and the rightmost end of the rotary drum, so that the radial size of the rotary drum is not exceeded in the horizontal direction, and compared with a common drum washing machine with an outer drum needing to occupy a certain space.
Example one
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, in the present embodiment, a washing machine is described, which includes a housing 1, a spin basket 3 is disposed in the housing 1, the spin basket 3 is rotatably disposed on a support 4, and a gap is formed between the support 4 and the spin basket 3 to ensure that the spin basket 3 does not interfere with the support 4 during the rotation process.
In this embodiment, the support 4 includes a vertically extending support 40, the rotary drum 3 is rotatably mounted on the support 40, the support 40 is coaxial with the rotary drum 3, and the horizontal width of the support 40 is less than or equal to the drum diameter of the rotary drum 3. Preferably, in this embodiment, a motor shaft 8 is connected to the bottom of the rotary drum 3, the motor shaft 8 penetrates through the supporting member 40, and two ends of the motor shaft 8 are respectively connected to the driving motor 7 and the rotary drum 3 to directly connect the rotor of the driving motor 7 and the rotary drum 3, so that the rotary drum 3 rotates around the shaft under the action of the driving motor.
Through the arrangement, the support does not have a part protruding out of the rotary drum in the horizontal direction, and the smooth operation of the washing machine can be realized only by reserving the gap between the support and the rotary drum in the shell.
In the embodiment, the bottom of the rotary cylinder 3 is provided with a water outlet 2, and the water outlet 2 is arranged close to the periphery of the cylinder bottom; the support member 40 covers at least a rotation path of the drain port 2 during rotation of the spin basket 3 so that a flow of drain water flowing out of the drain port 2 can be guided by the support member 40 to flow in a downwardly converging manner. The drain port 2 is provided with a valve body 22 for controlling opening and closing thereof. In this embodiment, the valve body 22 is a centrifugal valve that is automatically opened when the rotation speed of the rotary drum 3 reaches a set value; or, a solenoid-operated control valve. In this embodiment, install inside hollow promotion muscle 21 on the inner wall of rotary drum 3, be equipped with the hole of permeating water of the inside well kenozooecium of intercommunication on the promotion muscle 21, outlet 2 is used for the inside cavity of intercommunication promotion muscle 21, and the valve body 22 that outlet 2 department set up is in the inside well kenozooecium of promotion muscle 21.
In this embodiment, in order to improve the smoothness of drainage, a plurality of drainage ports 2 may be disposed at the bottom of the rotary drum 3, and the drainage ports 2 are arranged symmetrically with respect to the axis of the rotary drum 3, so that the washing water in the rotary drum 3 may be discharged from the drainage ports 2 under the action of centrifugal force, thereby improving the smoothness of drainage.
In this embodiment, the outer circumference of the supporting member 4 is a tapered flange 43 inclined toward the direction approaching the spin basket 3, and the maximum radial width of the tapered flange 43 is smaller than or equal to the diameter of the spin basket 3, so that the bracket 4 does not have a portion protruding out of the spin basket 3 in the horizontal direction, and the smooth operation of the washing machine can be realized only by keeping a gap between the bracket and the spin basket 3 in the casing 1. Meanwhile, the tapered folding edge 43 which is inclined towards the bottom direction of the rotary drum 3 is arranged on the periphery of the supporting member 4, so that the water flow discharged from the water discharge port 2 can be guided by the supporting member 40 to flow downwards in a converging manner.
In this embodiment, the rotary drum 3 is a tapered drum gradually narrowing the diameter from the bottom side to the mouth side, so as to converge toward the bottom of the rotary drum 3 when the washing water flows along the wall in the drum under the action of centrifugal force, and discharge the washing water from the water outlet 2 formed at the bottom of the drum. The angle between the structural line of the cylinder wall of the rotary cylinder 3 and the horizontal line is a, so that the cylinder wall of the rotary cylinder is a conical cylinder with the cylinder diameter enlarged from the cylinder opening side to the cylinder bottom side. In this embodiment, the maximum radial width of the tapered folded edge 43 is equal to or less than the maximum cylinder diameter of the tapered rotary cylinder 3; it is further preferred that the tapered wall of the rotary drum 3 is provided with a reduced portion of the drum diameter near the bottom of the drum, and that the peripheral tapered flange 43 of the support 40 covers at least part of the reduced portion.
In this embodiment, the bracket 4 includes a bottom support 41 disposed below the spin basket 3 and extending in a horizontal direction, the bottom support 41 has a water collection tank 42, the bottom of the water collection tank 42 is communicated with the drain pipe 5 of the washing machine, and the bottom support 41 is located between the left and right ends of the spin basket 3; preferably, the width of the bottom support 41 is smaller than the diameter of the rotary drum 3, and the axis of the bottom support 41 is in the same vertical plane as the axis of the rotary drum 3. Through set up the bottom support under rotatory section of thick bamboo to make the drainage rivers that flow from the drain outlet receive support piece guide to assemble downwards and flow to the water catch bowl that sets up on the support piece of bottom, realize accomodating, the outer effect of arranging through the drain pipe that links to each other again to assembling of drainage.
In this embodiment, the outer peripheral tapered flange 43 of the supporting member 40 is provided with a notch, and the notch is located at the bottommost part of the tapered flange 43 and is opposite to the water collecting tank 42; preferably, the bracket 40 is provided with a water guiding structure extending from the notch to the water collecting groove 42 and guiding the water flowing out from the water outlet 2 of the spin basket 3 to the water collecting groove 42. The water guiding structure may be a water guiding groove for communicating the gap to the water collecting groove 42, or a water guiding channel formed by two water guiding ribs arranged at intervals.
In this embodiment, the bottom support 41 is connected to the lower portion of the support 40, and a gap is formed between the bottom support 40 and the rotary cylinder 3; the other end of the bottom support 41 extends toward the opening of the spin basket 3, and the lowest part of the water collection groove 42 of the bottom support 40 is connected with the drain pipe 5 of the washing machine, so that the drain water collected in the water collection groove 42 can be smoothly discharged through the drain pipe 5.
Example two
As shown in fig. 3, the present embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that: in this embodiment, there is no included angle between the wall of the rotary drum 3 and the horizontal plane, the wall of the rotary drum 3 is provided with a water outlet 2, and a valve 22 is disposed at the water outlet 2 for controlling the opening and closing of the water outlet 2, so that the rotary drum 3 forms a sealed water container when the washing machine performs a washing procedure; the valve body 22 may be any conventional structure such as an electronic control valve with wireless power supply and signal transmission.
In this embodiment, the bracket 4 and/or the housing 1 are/is provided with a positioning device for stopping the rotation of the rotary drum 3 to a fixed position; when the rotary drum 3 is at a fixed position, the rotary drum 3 is provided with the drum wall of the water outlet horizontally and at the lowest position, the water outlet 2 is at the lowest position and is arranged towards the water collecting tank 42 arranged on the bracket, so that the drainage water flow opened from the water outlet 2 smoothly flows into the water collecting tank 42, and the effect of smoothly discharging the washing water in the rotary drum 3 is achieved.
Preferably, the wall of the rotary drum 3 is provided with two ends inclined to the middle part, the mouth of the drum shrinks with the bottom of the drum, the middle part outwards forms a corresponding radian, the drum wall is in a protruding shape, the water outlet is arranged at the lowest point of the protruding part, the water flows to the lowest point under the action of gravity and is converged to the water tank 42 smoothly, and then the effect of optimizing the discharge of the washing water in the rotary drum 3 is achieved.
In this embodiment, the positioning device may be any device (not shown in the drawings) that can stop the rotating drum 3 to a fixed position; for example: the spring bolt that can produce flexible displacement that sets up on the support, the spring bolt links to each other with driving motor, is provided with the socket on rotatory section of thick bamboo and/or the electric motor rotor, and the spring bolt stretches out to inserting in the socket under the motor drive effect, realizes the rotation section of thick bamboo directness, or through with the jointly pivoted electric motor rotor locking location of rotatory section of thick bamboo, and then reaches the effect of rotatory section of thick bamboo stall to fixed position.
EXAMPLE III
As shown in fig. 1 to fig. 3, the washing machine according to the embodiment of the present invention further includes the following technical features: the support 4 is connected with the casing 1 through a shock absorbing member 9, and the shock absorbing member 9 can be arranged below the support to connect the support 4 with the bottom wall and/or the side wall of the casing 1. It is also possible that said shock absorbing members 9 are arranged above the support 4, connecting the support 4 to the top wall and/or the side walls of the casing 1. Thereby, the bracket 40 can be supported in the casing 1 by the damper 9, and the vibration is buffered by the elastic expansion and contraction of the damper 9 itself, and the vibration impact on the washing machine casing 1 is reduced.
In this embodiment, a spin basket 3 is disposed in the washing machine housing 1, and the spin basket 3 is rotatably mounted on the bracket 4.
In this embodiment, the washing machine is provided with a door cover 10 for opening and closing the opening of the rotary drum 3, and the rotary drum 3 forms a sealed water container when the washing machine executes a washing program, so that the rotary drum 3 integrates the functions of the inner drum and the outer drum at the same time.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes may be made and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof without departing from the scope of the present invention.