CN113638201A

CN113638201A - Clothes dryer

Info

Publication number: CN113638201A
Application number: CN202110925716.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李晨熙; 李伟铭; 徐旭亮
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Priority date: 2021-08-12
Filing date: 2021-08-12
Publication date: 2021-11-12

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of clothes dryers, in particular to a clothes dryer. The method specifically comprises the following steps: a first housing; the second shell is connected with the first shell; the spin-drying mechanism is arranged in the first shell and used for bearing the clothes to be dried and removing the moisture left on the surface of the clothes to be dried; the drying mechanism is arranged in the second shell and used for sending hot air into the first shell so as to dry the clothes to be dried; to sum up, this application is through the cooperation jointly of stoving mechanism and the mechanism that spin-dries to treat the stoving clothing and dry the operation, thereby improve drying efficiency.

Description

Clothes dryer

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of clothes dryers, in particular to a clothes dryer.

Background

When people go on a business trip or travel, the changed and washed clothes can not be dried in time due to the inconvenience of airing in a hotel. In addition, the hotel often has insufficient light, the clothes are dried in the hotel room for a long time, and the clothes have peculiar smell due to long-time moisture. Can not be directly penetrated out.

At present, most people adopt the method that enough clothes are carried, and the changed clothes are taken home to be washed, so that more luggage can be caused, the trip is inconvenient, and bacteria can grow when the clothes are not washed for a long time; or the clothes are dried by using the hair dryer provided by the hotel, but the efficiency is very low, a long time is needed, and the hair dryer is unsafe to use for a long time.

Disclosure of Invention

The application aims to provide a clothes dryer to solve the technical problem that clothes cannot be dried when people go out.

Technical scheme (I)

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a clothes dryer comprising:

a first housing;

the second shell is connected with the first shell;

the spin-drying mechanism is arranged in the first shell and used for bearing the clothes to be dried and removing the moisture left on the surface of the clothes to be dried;

and the drying mechanism is arranged in the second shell and used for sending hot air into the first shell so as to dry the clothes to be dried.

As one of the alternatives of the present technical solution, the first housing and the second housing are detachably connected.

As one of the alternatives of the present technical solution, the spin-drying mechanism includes: the spin dryer comprises a first driving motor, a spin dryer tube and a water receiving disc, wherein the fixed end of the first driving motor is connected with a base in the first shell, and the output end of the first driving motor penetrates through the water receiving disc to be connected with the spin dryer tube.

As one of the alternatives of the present technical solution, the drying mechanism includes:

the fixed end of the second driving motor is connected with the top of the second shell, and the output end of the second driving motor faces the first shell;

the driving blade is connected with the output end of the second driving motor;

the air inlet frame is arranged between the first shell and the second shell and used for conveying an air source into the second shell;

and a heating assembly disposed on an inner wall surface of the second housing.

As one of the alternatives of the technical scheme, a supporting bottom is arranged at the end part of the air inlet frame close to the first shell, and a plurality of first air passing structures are arranged on the supporting bottom.

As one of the alternatives of the technical scheme, a smell removing box is further installed in the second shell, a plurality of second wind passing structures are arranged at the end part, close to the first shell, of the smell removing box, and smell removing agents are stored in the smell removing box.

As one of the alternatives of the technical scheme, the smell removing box is detachably connected to the lower part of the supporting base through a mounting structure.

As one of the optional schemes of the technical scheme, a cover body is movably connected at the opening of the smell removing box.

As one alternative of the technical solution, the cover body is divided into at least two parts, and at least two cover bodies are respectively rotatably connected to the opening of the odor removing box through rotating shafts.

As an alternative of the present technical solution, the first housing is detachably connected to the base through a connection structure.

(II) advantageous effects

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

the present invention provides a clothes dryer, including: a first housing; the second shell is connected with the first shell; the spin-drying mechanism is arranged in the first shell and used for bearing the clothes to be dried and removing the moisture left on the surface of the clothes to be dried; the drying mechanism is arranged in the second shell and used for sending hot air into the first shell so as to dry the clothes to be dried; to sum up, this application is through the cooperation jointly of stoving mechanism and the mechanism that spin-dries to treat the stoving clothing and dry the operation, thereby improve drying efficiency.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments consistent with the invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious for a person skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without inventive exercise, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a dryer in the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the air inlet frame and odor elimination box of the present invention in combination;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the air intake frame of the present invention in cooperation with an odor elimination cassette;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of an air intake frame according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the odor eliminating box of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the present invention showing the air intake frame engaged with the odor elimination cartridge;

fig. 7 is a perspective view of a dryer in the present invention.

In the figure: 1. a first housing; 2. a second housing; 3. a spin-drying mechanism; 4. a drying mechanism; 5. a first drive motor; 6. a spin dryer tube; 7. a water pan; 8. a base; 9. a second drive motor; 10. a driving blade; 11. an air inlet frame; 12. a support base; 13. a deodorizing box; 14. a cover body; 15. a rotating shaft; 16. a first mounting member; 17. a second mount; 18. a handrail; 19. and a heating assembly.

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 of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention.

The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the following figures and detailed description:

in order to solve the technical problem that people cannot dry clothes when going out, as shown in fig. 1-7, the present application provides a clothes dryer, comprising:

a first housing 1;

a second housing 2 connected to the first housing 1;

the spin-drying mechanism 3 is arranged in the first shell 1 and used for bearing clothes to be dried and removing water left on the surfaces of the clothes to be dried;

the drying mechanism 4 is arranged in the second shell 2 and used for sending hot air into the first shell 1 so as to dry clothes to be dried; in conclusion, this application is through drying mechanism 4 and the cooperation jointly of mechanism 3 that spin-dries to treat the stoving clothing and dry the operation, thereby improve drying efficiency.

Specifically, when the stability of the connection between the first housing 1 and the second housing 2 needs to be improved, preferably, the first housing 1 and the second housing 2 are fixedly connected, for example, a welding or integral molding design may be adopted, and the fixed connection mode is not limited in this embodiment; in a similar way, be convenient for maintain and change the spin-dry structure or stoving mechanism 4 as required, it is preferred, be connected first casing 1 and second casing 2 design for dismantling, exemplary, can adopt screw-thread fit between first casing 1 and the second casing 2, perhaps slide rail and spout cooperation, perhaps magnetism is inhaled the cooperation and other can realize dismantling the connected cooperation mode, does not prescribe a limit to its concrete structure in this embodiment.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, the spin-drying mechanism 3 includes: the spin dryer comprises a first driving motor 5, a spin dryer tube 6 and a water receiving disc 7, wherein the fixed end of the first driving motor 5 is connected with a base 8 in the first shell 1, and the output end of the first driving motor passes through the water receiving disc 7 to be connected with the spin dryer tube 6; and, be equipped with the plastic envelope layer between water collector 7 and the first driving motor 5 to avoid corroding first driving motor 5 via spin dryer tube 6 or the moisture that water collector 7 flows out, guarantee that first driving motor 5 works steadily.

When clothes need to be dried, firstly, the clothes to be dried are placed in the spin dryer tube 6, at the moment, under the action of gravity, part of moisture flows into the water receiving tray 7 through the spin dryer tube 6, then, the spin dryer tube 6 is driven to rotate at high speed only through the first driving motor 5, at the moment, the moisture left on the surface of the clothes to be dried is completely thrown into the water receiving tray 7 under the action of centrifugal force, then, hot air is sent to the clothes to be dried only through the drying mechanism 4, so that the clothes to be dried are completely dried, wherein the spin drying operation and the drying operation can be simultaneously executed or can be separately executed; in one embodiment, the drying operation may be performed after the spin-drying operation is performed to completely remove the moisture remaining on the surface of the laundry to be dried, and then the drying operation is performed to completely dry the laundry to be dried; in a similar way, the drying operation and the drying operation can be simultaneously executed, so that the drying time of the clothes to be dried is shortened, and the drying efficiency is improved; to sum up, the design of adopting this embodiment especially can be got rid of the moisture of remaining over in the lower floor and treating the clothing of drying to effectively avoid appearing the hot-blast upper strata of weathering of top and treat that the clothing of drying is still moist in the lower floor behind the clothing of drying, and the condition emergence of 1 internal existence ponding of first casing.

Preferably, the shape of the water pan 7 is matched with that of the first housing 1 to ensure that all water flowing out of the spin dryer tube 6 is received by the water pan 7, and further, a guide part is arranged on the circumferential direction of the water pan 7, and one end, away from the water pan 7, of the guide part is connected with the inner wall surface of the first housing 1, so that an included angle is formed between the guide part and the inner wall surface of the first housing 1, and is used for storing part of water which is not collected by the water pan 7; furthermore, a drain hole can be formed in the position, close to the included angle, of the first shell 1, when moisture is required to be discharged, the first shell 1 and the second shell 2 do not need to be detached, the drain hole only needs to be opened, specifically, the plug is arranged on the drain hole, the plug is taken down when water is required to be discharged, the drain hole is plugged through the plug when water is not required to be discharged, and therefore the sealing performance is guaranteed and the drying effect is guaranteed.

According to one embodiment of the invention, in order to facilitate the water in the water pan 7 to be poured out, as shown in fig. 7, the first shell 1 is detachably connected with the base 8 through a connecting structure; specifically, the connection structure includes: the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece are matched, one of the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece is installed on the side wall surface of the first shell 1, and the other one of the first connecting piece and the second connecting piece is installed on the side wall surface of the base 8, in the embodiment, as shown in fig. 7, the first connecting piece is installed on the side wall surface of the base 8 and is arranged to be a protrusion, the second connecting piece is installed on the side wall surface of the first shell 1 and is arranged to be a buckle matched with the protrusion, the first shell 1 and the base 8 can be separated through the matching of the protrusion and the buckle, at the moment, the whole structure of the spin drying barrel 6, the water receiving tray 7, the first driving motor 5 and the base 8 can be disassembled in sequence, a user can discharge water in the water receiving tray 7, and the water can be installed back into the first shell 1 again after being dried and then the buckle is clamped back to the original position so that the user can continue to use.

In the above embodiment, the drying mechanism 4 includes:

a fixed end of the second driving motor 9 is connected with the top of the second shell 2, and an output end of the second driving motor faces the first shell 1;

the driving blade 10 is connected with the output end of the second driving motor 9;

the air inlet frame 11 is arranged between the first shell 1 and the second shell 2 and used for conveying an air source into the second shell 2;

and a heating unit 19 provided on an inner wall surface of the second casing 2.

Specifically, the heating assembly 19 is an annular electric heating wire circumferentially arranged on the inner wall surface of the second housing 2, and preferably, the annular electric heating wire is arranged on the outer side of the air inlet frame 11 to rapidly heat cold air entering the second housing 2, so that the heating efficiency is improved; in addition, in the present embodiment, the driving blade 10 is disposed inside the air intake frame 11, thereby rapidly delivering the air source entering through the air intake frame 11 to the spin-drying mechanism 3; specifically, be provided with the air-inlet grille on the air inlet frame 11, it is preferred, the height that highly is less than air inlet frame 11 of air-inlet grille to reserve for annular electric heating wire and place the space, that is to say, only have air-inlet grille and air direct contact this moment, and annular electric heating wire then sets up in second casing 2, thereby when guaranteeing air inlet efficiency, can not bring the potential safety hazard because the heater strip waste heat produces for the user.

When the clothing of treating to dry is dried as required, only need drive second driving motor 9 can, second driving motor 9 will drive driving vane 10 this moment and carry out high-speed rotation to realize inhaling cold wind fast in second casing 2, and utilize annular heater strip to heat and become hot-blast back, carry to first casing 1 in, to place with first casing 1 in the clothing of treating to dry and carry out the stoving operation.

In another embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, a supporting base 12 is disposed at an end of the air inlet frame 11 close to the first casing 1, and a plurality of first air passing structures are disposed on the supporting base 12, preferably, the first air passing structures are grid structures, and of course, the first air passing structures may also be hole-shaped structures, and a specific structure in this embodiment is not particularly limited as long as it can ensure that the hot air generated by the drying mechanism 4 can be smoothly delivered into the second casing 2; in conclusion, the design of the embodiment can effectively avoid that clothes to be dried directly contact with the driving blade 10 rotating at a high speed due to the fact that the clothes dryer is inverted due to misoperation of a user, the clothes and the driving blade 10 are damaged, and even the clothes dryer is burnt out, and further, the filter screen is arranged on each first air passing structure, so that impurities existing in the first shell 1 are effectively prevented from flowing back to the second shell 2.

According to one embodiment of the invention, in order to generate odor on clothes, odor removing boxes 13 are further installed in the second shell 2, a plurality of second air passing structures are arranged at the end parts, close to the first shell 1, of the odor removing boxes 13, and odor removing agents are stored in the odor removing boxes 13; specifically, the second air passing structure may be a grid structure, and certainly, may also be a hole structure, etc. when in use, a part of the hot air generated by the drying mechanism 4 is emitted to the first casing 1 through the supporting base 12, and another part of the hot air with the odor eliminating agent is emitted to the first casing 1 through the odor eliminating box 13, so as to eliminate the odor on the surface of the clothes to be dried.

In a specific embodiment, the odor elimination cassette 13 can be directly and fixedly connected to the inner wall surface of the second housing 2, and of course, the odor elimination cassette 13 can be detachably connected to the inner wall surface of the second housing 2 in order to facilitate maintenance and replacement of the odor elimination cassette 13.

Further, in order to improve the convenience of detaching the smell removing box 13 and reduce the volume of the clothes dryer, as shown in fig. 2, the smell removing box 13 is detachably connected below the supporting base 12 through a mounting structure; further, seted up the opening on the support base 12, remove flavor box 13 and pass through mounting structure via the opening and can dismantle with support base 12 and be connected, and is concrete, and mounting structure includes: the odor removing box comprises a first mounting part 16 and a second mounting part 17 which are matched with each other, wherein one of the first mounting part 16 and the second mounting part 17 is mounted on the odor removing box 13, and the other one is mounted on the supporting base 12; further, the length of reference column is greater than the open-ended degree of depth to make when removing flavor box 13 and supporting the end 12 assembly back, partial reference column exposes, this moment, because the reference column is made by elastic material, consequently has certain elasticity deformation volume, so, when needs maintain and change removing flavor box 13, the user only need inwards pinch the reference column can, so that the reference column breaks away from with spacing hole emergence.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 6, a cover 14 is movably connected to the opening of the odor removal box 13; preferably, the cover 14 is divided into at least two parts, and at least two covers 14 are respectively connected to the opening of the odor removing box 13 in a rotating manner through a rotating shaft 15; specifically, when the rotating shaft 15 is set to be one, the cover 14 is divided into two, and similarly, when the rotating shaft 15 is set to be two, the cover 14 is divided into four, and so on, the design can be specifically performed according to the user requirement, and when the odor removing agent is required to be added to the odor removing box 13, the user only needs to open one of the covers 14.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in order to improve portability of the dryer, the top end of the second housing 2 is provided with an armrest 18, and preferably, the armrest 18 can rotate relative to the second housing 2 for user's convenience; as shown in FIG. 7, the whole clothes dryer is similar to a vacuum cup structure, and is small in size and light in weight, so that the clothes dryer is convenient to carry and improves the utilization rate.

The specific working process is as follows:

when clothes need to be dried, firstly, the clothes to be dried are placed in the spin dryer tube 6, at the moment, under the action of gravity, part of water flows into the water receiving tray 7 through the spin dryer tube 6, then the spin dryer tube 6 is driven to rotate at high speed only by the first driving motor 5, and at the moment, all the water left on the surfaces of the clothes to be dried is thrown into the water receiving tray 7 under the action of centrifugal force; then, only the second driving motor 9 needs to be driven, at the moment, the second driving motor 9 drives the driving blade 10 to rotate at a high speed, so that cold air is quickly sucked into the second shell 2, heated by the annular heating wire and changed into hot air, and then conveyed into the first shell 1, and clothes to be dried placed in the first shell 1 are dried, wherein the spin-drying operation and the drying operation can be simultaneously executed or can be separately executed, and the self-setting is specifically carried out according to the needs of a user; later, only need open the buckle so that first casing 1 and base 8 separate, at this moment, in proper order spin dryer tube 6-water collector 7-first driving motor 5-base 8 overall structure detachable, the user can discharge the water in the water collector 7, can pack it back again in first casing 1 after drying to the back again with the buckle card normal position just can continue to use.

The embodiments in the present description are all described in a progressive manner, and some of the embodiments are mainly described as different from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments can be referred to each other.

It is noted that in the description and claims of the present application and in the above-mentioned drawings, relational terms such as "first" and "second", and the like, are used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are, for example, capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or otherwise described herein.

Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," as well as any variations thereof or any other variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements explicitly listed, but may include other steps or elements not explicitly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

Spatially relative terms, such as "above … …," "above … …," "above … …," "above," and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one device or feature's spatial relationship to another device or feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that the spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if a device in the figures is turned over, devices described as "above" or "on" other devices or configurations would then be oriented "below" or "under" the other devices or configurations. Thus, the exemplary term "above … …" can include both an orientation of "above … …" and "below … …". The device may be otherwise variously oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

The foregoing are merely exemplary embodiments of the present application and are presented to enable those skilled in the art to understand and practice the present application. Various modifications and changes to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the application. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application. Thus, the present application is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A clothes dryer, characterized by comprising:

a first housing;

the second shell is connected with the first shell;

2. The clothes dryer of claim 1 wherein the first housing is removably coupled to the second housing.

3. The clothes dryer of claim 1, wherein the spin-drying mechanism comprises: the spin dryer comprises a first driving motor, a spin dryer tube and a water receiving disc, wherein the fixed end of the first driving motor is connected with a base in the first shell, and the output end of the first driving motor penetrates through the water receiving disc to be connected with the spin dryer tube.

4. The clothes dryer of claim 3, wherein the drying mechanism comprises:

the driving blade is connected with the output end of the second driving motor;

and a heating assembly disposed on an inner wall surface of the second housing.

5. The clothes dryer of claim 4, wherein the end of the air inlet frame adjacent to the first housing is provided with a support base, and the support base is provided with a plurality of first air passing structures.

6. The clothes dryer of claim 5 further comprising a odor elimination cartridge mounted within the second housing, wherein a plurality of second overfire air structures are provided at an end of the odor elimination cartridge proximate the first housing, and odor elimination agent is stored within the odor elimination cartridge.

7. The clothes dryer of claim 6 wherein the odor removing cartridge is removably attached to the underside of the support base by a mounting structure.

8. The clothes dryer of claim 6, wherein a cover is movably connected to the opening of the odor removing box.

9. The clothes dryer of claim 8, wherein the cover is divided into at least two parts, and at least two covers are rotatably connected to the opening of the deodorizing box through rotating shafts, respectively.

10. The clothes dryer of claim 3 wherein the first housing is removably coupled to the base by a coupling structure.