CN115704165A - Additive feeding module, additive feeding device and clothes treatment equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses an additive feeding module, which comprises a water box, wherein the inside of the water box is hollow to form an installation cavity; the installation cavity of the water box is internally provided with a drainage joint, one end of the drainage joint is communicated with the lowest part of the installation cavity of the water box, and the other end of the drainage joint is communicated with the outside of the water box through a water outlet waterway arranged on the water box. The additive feeding module is provided with the drainage joint so as to communicate the installation cavity of the water box with the water outlet waterway which is integrally arranged on the water box, thereby realizing the effect of discharging dropping liquid, flushing water and the like in the installation cavity by using the water outlet waterway which is arranged on the feeding module; simultaneously, through the setting, the installation cavity inside the water box of the module is put in to the additive that does not supply the influent stream to flow through, can directly utilize the drainage to connect the effect that realizes the drainage, and then guaranteed to wash smooth and easy outer row of rivers, effectively avoided the production of the inside peculiar smell of water box in the installation cavity.

Description

Additive feeding module, additive feeding device and clothes treatment equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to a clothes treatment device in the technical field of household appliances, in particular to an additive feeding device applied to the clothes treatment device.

Background

The washing machine uses water, laundry additives and mechanical operation to wash and protect the laundry, so that the laundry can achieve the expected washing and protecting effect. With the improvement of the automation of the washing machine, in the related technology, the detergent automatic feeding technology of the washing machine is that an additive box for placing detergent or/and softener is communicated with a water inlet pipeline, and the detergent or/and softener in the additive box is flushed into a washing barrel through water inlet.

Chinese patent application No. 201610797034.7 discloses a detergent dispensing device for a washing machine and a washing machine having the same, the detergent dispensing device comprising: the storage cavity is limited with a special detergent box mounting groove, a first thimble and a second thimble which are used for puncturing a special detergent box are arranged in the special detergent box mounting groove, a water inlet hole is formed in the first thimble, a water outlet hole is formed in the second thimble, and the first thimble and the second thimble are both suitable for being communicated with the inner space of the special detergent box after the end part of the first thimble and the end part of the second thimble penetrate into the special detergent box.

In the existing additive feeding device, a thimble structure and the like disclosed in the patent documents are arranged in a water box of the additive feeding device to form a butt joint structure, and an outlet of a feeding cavity arranged in the water box is communicated with an inlet of a waterway integrally arranged on the water box by using the butt joint structure.

However, the additive dispensing device described above generally has the following problems:

because the putting cavity is generally arranged on the drawer part which can be pulled outwards on the water box, the phenomenon of dripping of liquid such as additives and the like at the butt joint structure is easy to occur in the pulling process of the drawer part; therefore, washing water needs to be fed into the mounting cavity inside the water box, the inside of the cavity is washed by the washing water, and the washing water in the mounting cavity inside the water box needs to be discharged outside after the washing.

Although the bottom of the water box of the existing throwing device is generally provided with a water outlet, the flushing inlet water can be discharged outside by utilizing the water outlet; however, the bottom wall of the water box of some throwing devices is not provided with a water outlet; especially, when the putting device is provided with a plurality of relatively independent modules and the additive attached to the putting module is put in the main putting module, the normally open water outlet is not arranged on the bottom wall of the water box attached to the putting module due to the fact that the water outlet is not arranged on the attached putting module, and water cannot be discharged outside the water box.

Therefore, how to set up an additive and put in the device to solve the diapire and do not establish the water box of normally opening the delivery port and can normally arrange the discharge sparge water outward, just become the technical problem that the urgent need was solved.

In view of the above, the present invention is particularly proposed.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to overcome the defects in the prior art and provide an additive feeding module, an additive feeding device and clothes treatment equipment.

In order to achieve the purpose of the invention, the invention adopts the following specific scheme:

an additive feeding module comprises a water box, wherein an installation cavity is formed by hollowing the inside of the water box; the installation cavity of the water box is internally provided with a drainage joint, one end of the drainage joint is communicated with the lowest part of the installation cavity of the water box, and the other end of the drainage joint is communicated with the outside of the water box through a water outlet waterway arranged on the water box.

Further, the drainage connects the vertical extension about locate the installation cavity in, the lower extreme that the drainage connects communicates with the lowest of installation cavity diapire, the upper end is linked together with the integrated play water route of locating on the water box upper cover.

Further, be equipped with the concave part of undercut on the installation cavity diapire, the drainage connects and stretches into in the concave part, and the lower extreme that the drainage connects sets up being close to in the clearance apart from the tank bottom of concave part.

Furthermore, the top wall of the water box is composed of an upper cover, a water outlet waterway is integrally arranged on the upper cover, and the top of the drainage joint is connected with the upper cover;

preferably, the drain joint is integrally provided with the upper cover of the water box.

Furthermore, a plurality of reinforcing ribs which are arranged at intervals along the axis, protrude radially and extend axially are arranged on the outer wall of the drainage connector, and the upper ends of the reinforcing ribs are connected with an upper cover forming the top wall of the water box.

Furthermore, a suction structure is arranged on or connected with the water outlet waterway and used for generating suction force at the inlet of the water outlet waterway and pumping out the water in the installation cavity along the water outlet waterway.

Further, a drawer part which can be drawn out outwards is arranged in the mounting cavity of the water box, at least one feeding cavity for storing additives is arranged on the drawer part, and the outlet of the feeding cavity is communicated with a feeding water channel arranged on the water box through a butt joint structure; and a flushing water path is arranged on the water box, and a flushing outlet of the flushing water path is formed towards the mounting cavity and used for flushing the additive dropping from the butt joint structure into the mounting cavity.

Furthermore, the drainage joint and the flushing outlet of the flushing waterway are respectively arranged at the left side and the right side of the butt joint structure; the bottom wall of the installation cavity is communicated with the lateral drainage connector from the flushing outlet and is arranged in a downward inclined mode in a lateral direction.

Further, a groove part which is sunken downwards is arranged on the bottom wall of the installation cavity below the butt joint structure, the drainage joint extends into the groove part, and the lower end of the drainage joint is close to the bottom of the groove part at a gap;

further preferably, the mounting cavity is a cavity structure with no opening on the bottom wall.

Furthermore, the water inlet end of the water outlet waterway is respectively communicated with the water discharge joint and the flushing waterway through a tee joint;

further preferably, the upper end of the vertically extending drainage joint is communicated with a first opening formed by the tee joint downwards;

the water inlet end of the flushing waterway is communicated with an external water source, the water outlet end of the flushing waterway is communicated with a second opening horizontally formed by the tee joint, and the middle part of the flushing waterway is provided with a flushing outlet which is formed towards the butt joint structure;

the water inlet end of the water outlet waterway is communicated with a third opening horizontally formed by the tee joint, and the water outlet end is communicated with the outside of the throwing device;

further preferably, the second opening and the third opening are coaxially arranged; the aperture of the third opening is smaller than that of the second opening, the aperture of the third opening is smaller than the diameter of the flushing waterway, and the third opening is higher than the flushing outlet.

The invention also provides an additive feeding device which comprises a plurality of feeding modules, wherein at least one feeding module is an additional feeding module formed by any one of the additive feeding modules.

Furthermore, the additive feeding device is also provided with a main additive feeding device, the main additive feeding device is provided with a water supply waterway, the inlet end of the water supply waterway is communicated with an external water supply source, and the outlet end of the water supply waterway is communicated with the water inlet end of a flushing waterway arranged on the auxiliary feeding module through an interactive waterway; the water outlet end of the water outlet waterway arranged on the auxiliary throwing module is communicated with the water outlet arranged on the main throwing module through another interactive waterway.

The invention also provides a clothes treatment device which is provided with the additive feeding device, wherein a water inlet structure on the clothes treatment device is communicated with the water inlet end of the water supply waterway of the main feeding module, and the water outlet of the main feeding module is communicated with the water containing cylinder or the water drainage pipe of the clothes treatment device.

The invention also provides clothes treatment equipment which is provided with any one of the additive feeding modules, wherein a water inlet structure on the clothes treatment equipment is communicated with a water inlet end of a flushing waterway of the additive feeding module, and a water outlet end of a water outlet waterway is communicated with a water containing barrel or a water discharge pipe of the clothes treatment equipment.

After the technical scheme is adopted, compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects.

The additive feeding module is provided with the drainage joint so as to communicate the installation cavity of the water box with the water outlet waterway which is integrally arranged on the water box, thereby realizing the effect of discharging dropping liquid, flushing water and the like in the installation cavity by using the water outlet waterway which is arranged on the feeding module; simultaneously, through the aforesaid setting for the installation cavity inside the water box of the additive that the water current of not supplying to flow through put in the module can directly utilize the drainage to connect the effect that realizes the drainage, and then guaranteed to wash smooth and easy outer row of rivers, effectively avoided the production of the inside peculiar smell of water box in the installation cavity.

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.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without limiting the invention to the right. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments, and that for a person skilled in the art, other drawings can be derived from them without inventive effort. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a partial structural view of a laundry treating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is an exploded structure view of a laundry treating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic side view of a laundry treating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 isbase:Sub>A schematic structural view of section A-A of FIG. 3 in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of section B-B of FIG. 4 in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of section D in FIG. 5 in an embodiment of the present invention

In the figure: 100. a releasing module; 101. a main delivery module; 102. an additional delivery module; 103. an interactive waterway; 1. a water box; 2. a drawer part; 3. an upper cover; 4. throwing water into a water channel; 5. a flushing waterway; 6. a water outlet waterway; 7. a water discharge joint; 8. a butt joint structure; 9. a throwing cavity; 10. a mounting cavity; 11. a water outlet; 12. a liquid storage box; 13. a tee joint; 14. a flush outlet; 15. a groove part; 16. a water supply waterway; 17. the water outlet is connected with a water path; 18. a control valve; 21. a first water box; 22. a second water box; 31. an upper cover plate; 32. a lower cover plate; 200. a housing; 300. a water containing cylinder.

It should be noted that the drawings and the description are not intended to limit the scope of the inventive concept in any way, but to illustrate it by a person skilled in the art with reference to specific embodiments.

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", "left", "right", "inner", "outer", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific 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 specific cases to those skilled in the art.

Example one

As shown in fig. 1 to 6, the present embodiment provides an additive dispensing device, which includes: more than two delivery modules 100; each is put in the module and has at least one and puts in the chamber 9 respectively, puts in the chamber 9 and can be used for putting in after the washing powder etc. mixes for open cavity of crossing water, also can be used for airtight cavity to supply detergent etc. to save and put in after the extraction and use. In the present embodiment, the dispensing chamber 9 is formed as a hollow chamber of a sealed container formed of the liquid storage cartridge 12 having a cartridge structure, which is developed by way of example, but the dispensing chamber 9 in the present invention is not limited to the above-described structure. In this embodiment, each of the feeding cavities 9 is respectively communicated with at least one feeding water-discharging channel 4, and each feeding water-discharging channel 4 is integrally disposed on the respective feeding module 100, so that the additive in the feeding cavity 9 is pumped out by the feeding water-discharging channel, thereby achieving the effect of correspondingly feeding the additive in the feeding cavity 9. In this embodiment, the additive feeding device further includes an interactive waterway 103, both ends of the interactive waterway 103 are respectively communicated with waterways integrally formed on different feeding modules 100, the waterways include but are not limited to the feeding waterway 4, and then the additive pumped out from the feeding waterway 4 formed on the feeding module 100 can be fed outwards by using other feeding modules.

Through the arrangement, the additive feeding device is expanded in space outwards, the number of types of additives which can be fed is enriched, and the same type of additives can be respectively stored and fed in different feeding modules for use, so that the storage capacity of the additives is remarkably improved.

As shown in fig. 1 to 6, in this embodiment, one of the dosing modules 100 in the additive dosing device is a main dosing module 101, a body of the main dosing module 101 is formed by a first water box 21, the first water box 21 has at least one water outlet 11 for providing water flow to the outside, and an outlet of a dosing waterway 4 provided in the main dosing module 101 is communicated with the at least one water outlet 11; the other throwing module 100 is an additional throwing module 102, each throwing water channel 4 of the additional throwing module 102 is integrally arranged on the body of the additional throwing module 102, and each throwing water channel 4 of the additional throwing module 102 is communicated with a water outlet 11 arranged on the first water box 21 of the main throwing module 101 through an interactive water channel 103.

In this embodiment, the main launching module 101 and the auxiliary launching module 102 respectively have main bodies, and the main bodies formed by the main bodies and the auxiliary launching module are independent from each other; the main bodies of the main and auxiliary throw modules 101 and 102 are respectively composed of a first water box 21 and a second water box 22, which are independent from each other and communicate with each other via an interactive waterway 103.

Through the arrangement, different throwing modules can share one group of water outlets 11 to throw the additives outwards, so that the types of the additives are enriched, and the structure of the throwing device is simplified; meanwhile, the water outlet 11 is only arranged on the main throwing module 101, so that the auxiliary throwing module 102 does not need to be provided with other accessories, the proportion of the throwing cavity 9 arranged on the auxiliary throwing module 102 is increased, and the additive volume of the auxiliary throwing module 102 can be further increased.

In this embodiment, each interactive waterway 103 is communicated with the corresponding water outlet 11 through the same or different waterway arranged on the first water box 21 of the main throwing module 101, so that the throwing waterway 4 of the auxiliary throwing module 102 can realize a single or multiple forms of water outlet modes. The waterway connected with the corresponding water outlet 11 may be a water feeding waterway 4 arranged on the main feeding module 101, or a water outlet connecting waterway 17 which is integrally arranged on the main feeding module 101, is not connected with the feeding cavity 9 arranged on the main feeding module 101, and is connected with the water outlet 11.

As shown in fig. 1 to fig. 6, in the drawings of the present embodiment, only the following are shown as an example: the main throwing module 101 is provided with a plurality of throwing waterways 4, each throwing waterway 4 arranged on the auxiliary throwing module 102 is communicated with different throwing waterways 4 arranged on the main throwing module 101, and the outlet of each throwing waterway 4 arranged on the main throwing module 1 is communicated with one or a combination of different water outlets 11 arranged on the main throwing module 101 through a control valve 18.

In this embodiment, the additional dispensing module 102 includes a second water box 22, a hollow cavity inside the second water box 22 forms an installation cavity 10, a drawer portion 2 capable of being pulled outwards is arranged in the installation cavity 10, and at least one dispensing cavity 9 is arranged on the drawer portion 2. The throwing waterways 4 arranged on the additional throwing module 102 are all integrated on the second water box 22. Preferably, the top of the second water box 22 of the additional throwing module 102 is composed of an upper cover 3, and the upper cover 3 is composed of two cover plates which are buckled with each other, namely an upper cover plate 31 and a lower cover plate 32; a convex rib is arranged between the two cover plates 31 and 32, and the convex rib divides the space between the two cover plates 31 and 32 into different water paths. Similarly, the main drop module 101 includes a first water box 21, the top wall of the first water box 21 is formed by another upper cover 3, and the water channel structures such as the water drop channel 4 and the like on the main drop module 101 are also integrally arranged on the upper cover 3 forming the top wall of the first water box 21.

In this embodiment, the outlets of the throw-in water channels 4 disposed on the additional throw-in module 102 are respectively communicated with one or more interactive water channels 103, so as to achieve the purpose that the additive contained in the throw-in cavity 9 of the additional throw-in module 102 can only flow to the water channel disposed on the main throw-in module 101 through one or more combined interactive water channels 103. In the drawings of the present embodiment, the example is only shown that the outlets of the water discharge channels 4 arranged on the additional dispensing module 102 are respectively communicated with the different interactive water channels 103 one by one, but the additive dispensing device of the present invention is not limited to the drawings, and may be configured in other arrangement manners.

In this embodiment, a water supply channel 4 is integrally formed in the upper cover 3 of the second water box 22 of the additional supply module 102, an inlet of the water supply channel 4 is communicated with an outlet of a supply chamber 9 formed inside a liquid storage box 12 installed on the drawer 2 through a docking structure 8 provided between the second water box 22 and the drawer 2, and an outlet of the supply chamber 9 after the drawer 2 is installed on the water box 1 is communicated with an inlet of the corresponding water supply channel 4. The docking structure 8 in this embodiment may be any one of the existing structures, and it is only necessary to communicate the feeding cavity 9 provided on the drawer 2 with the inlet of the feeding waterway 4 provided on the water box 1.

In this embodiment, the feeding cavity 9 forms a liquid storage structure for storing the additive or a cavity structure for feeding the additive along with the inflow water; the throwing cavity 9 may be formed by a cavity structure fixedly mounted on the drawer 2 provided in the water box 1, or as shown in fig. 1 to 5, a cavity hollow inside the liquid storage box 12 formed by an independent box body detachably mounted on the drawer 2 in the water box 1.

Example two

The present embodiment is based on the first embodiment, and has the following distinguishing technical features:

in this embodiment, water outlets 11 for flowing out the additive and/or the inlet water are respectively arranged on the water boxes 1 of the two additive feeding modules 100 in the additive feeding device; a throwing water channel 4 arranged on one additive throwing module 100 in the two additive throwing modules 100 is communicated with a water channel on the other additive throwing module 100 through an interactive water channel 103; meanwhile, the throwing-off waterways 4 arranged on the two throwing modules 100 are also communicated with the water outlets 11 arranged on the respective additive throwing modules 100, so that the effect that the additives in the same throwing cavity 9 on the additive throwing modules 100 can be thrown outwards for use simultaneously or respectively through the water outlets 11 arranged on different additive throwing modules 100 is realized (not shown in the drawing).

Preferably, in this embodiment, the main dosing module 101 and the additional dosing module 102 of the additive dosing device are communicated with each other through an interactive waterway 103; the first water box 21 of the main throwing module 101 and the second water box 22 of the additional throwing module 102 are respectively provided with a water outlet 11.

In this embodiment, an inlet of the throwing water channel 4 disposed on the additional throwing module 102 is communicated with the throwing cavity 9, and an outlet of the throwing water channel 4 is communicated with a water outlet 11 disposed on the first water box 21 of the main throwing module 101 through the interactive water channel 103 and/or directly communicated with a water outlet 11 disposed on the second water box 22 of the additional throwing module 102 through the control device, so as to throw the additive in the throwing cavity 9 disposed on the additional throwing module 102 directly through the water outlet 11 disposed on the second water box 22 of the additional throwing module 102 or through the water outlet 11 disposed on the first water box 21 of the main throwing module 101 (not shown in the drawings).

EXAMPLE III

As shown in fig. 1 to 6, in the present embodiment, there is introduced a laundry treating apparatus including: the shell 200 comprises a frame, and a layer of shell can be wrapped outside the frame to form a hollow shell structure; a water containing cylinder 300 is installed in the housing 200, and the water containing cylinder 300 is used for allowing the additive and/or the inlet water flowing out from the water outlet 11 of the additive feeding module 100 to flow in, so as to realize the effect of washing, rinsing, renewing and the like of the load in the water containing cylinder 300 by using the additive and/or the inlet water.

In this embodiment, the additive feeding device described in the first or second embodiment is installed in the housing 200 of the laundry treatment apparatus, the additive feeding device is located inside the housing 200 and outside the water containing cylinder 300, the inlets of the water paths of the additive feeding module 100 are respectively communicated with the water inlet structure of the laundry treatment apparatus through control parts such as a water inlet valve, and the outlets of the water paths are communicated with the inlet of the water containing cylinder 300 of the laundry treatment apparatus through a pipeline, so as to achieve the effect of feeding the additive and/or water into the water containing cylinder 300.

Meanwhile, in this embodiment, the additive feeding device is fixedly installed on the housing 200.

In this embodiment, the axis of the water container 300 extends horizontally or back and forth approximately horizontally, and is centrally installed inside the housing 200, the additive feeding modules 100 fixed to the housing 200 are respectively installed above the left and right sides of the water container 300, and the additive feeding modules 100 on the left and right sides are communicated with each other through an interactive waterway 103 formed by a pipeline above the water container 300.

In this embodiment, only the main dispensing module 101 is disposed on the left side, the auxiliary dispensing module 102 is disposed on the right side, and the main dispensing module 101 and the auxiliary dispensing module 102 on the left and right sides are communicated with each other through an interactive water path 103 formed by a pipeline above the water container 300, which is shown in the drawings of the specification as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to the above configuration, and may be implemented in an embodiment in which a plurality of the dispensing modules are provided on the left and right sides of the water tub 300, respectively, or a dispensing module is provided below the water tub 300 (not shown in the drawings).

Example four

As shown in fig. 2 to 6, in the present embodiment, an additive dispensing module 100 is disclosed, which includes an independent main body formed by a water box 1, an installation cavity 10 is formed in the water box 1 in a hollow manner, a drawer portion 2 capable of being drawn out is installed in the installation cavity 10, at least one dispensing cavity 9 for storing an additive is provided on the drawer portion 2, and an outlet of the dispensing cavity 9 is communicated with a water dispensing channel 4 integrally provided on the water box 1 through a docking structure 8; the water box 1 is further provided with a washing water path 5, and a washing outlet 14 of the washing water path 5 is formed towards the inside of the installation cavity 10 and used for washing the additive which drips at the butt joint structure 8.

The additive feeding device is provided with the flushing waterway, so that the inside of the water box of the feeding device is flushed by the flushing waterway, the aim of flushing the additive leaked from the butt joint structure to the mounting cavity in the process of drawing the drawer part into the water box is fulfilled, and the leaked additive is prevented from being accumulated in the mounting cavity of the water box; especially, under the condition that the water box is not provided with a water outlet and additive and/or water which is put in through a water feeding waterway are/is not put in through the water box, peculiar smell is easily generated due to the accumulated additive in the installation cavity of the water box, and the use experience of a user is influenced.

In this embodiment, the docking structure 8 is disposed at the rear side of the installation cavity 10, the flushing water path 5 is integrally disposed on the upper cover 3 forming the top wall of the water box 1, the upper cover 3 includes an upper cover plate 31 and a lower cover plate 32 which are fastened to each other, a gap between the two cover plates 31 and 32 forms a hollow space, a convex rib is disposed between the two cover plates 31 and 32 to separate the hollow space into different water paths, and the water paths at least include a water feeding path 4 and a flushing water path 5.

In this embodiment, the flushing outlet 14 of the flushing waterway 5 is correspondingly arranged at the upper cover 3 of the water box 1 above the docking structure 8, so that the flushing water flowing out from the flushing waterway 5 is directly sprayed into the installation cavity 10 from top to bottom to the docking structure 8 and the vicinity thereof, thereby improving the flushing effect of the additive dropping from the docking structure 8.

In the embodiment, the front side of the installation cavity 10 of the water box 1 is open, the drawer part 2 can be installed in the installation cavity 10 in a pulling manner from the opening, and the butt joint structure 8 is arranged on the rear side of the installation cavity 10; the putting cavity 9 is arranged on the drawer part 2, the outlet of the putting cavity 9 is arranged at the rear side of the drawer part 2 and can be butted with the inlet which is arranged forward of the butting structure 8, the butting structure 8 is provided with at least one outlet, and each outlet is respectively communicated with the inlet end of a putting water channel 4 which is integrally arranged on the upper cover 3 of the water box 1; meanwhile, the water feeding and discharging channel 4 is provided with or connected with a suction structure, so that the effect of sucking and discharging the additive in the discharging cavity 9 to the water feeding and discharging channel 4 by using the butt joint structure 8 is realized. In this embodiment, the suction structure may be any structure in the prior art, such as: suction pumps, venturis, and the like.

In this embodiment, a flushing outlet 14 of the flushing waterway 5 is opened toward a butt joint of an inlet of the butt joint structure 8 and an outlet of the feeding cavity 9 provided on the drawer 2.

In the embodiment, the flushing waterway 5 is integrated on the upper cover 3 of the water box 1; the two ends of the flushing waterway 5 are respectively an inlet end and an outlet end which are communicated with the outside, and the middle part of the flushing waterway 5 is provided with a flushing outlet 14; preferably, the middle part of washing water route 5 is equipped with the kink 19 that changes the flow direction, washes export 14 and locates kink 19 department to make the kink 19 that utilizes to change the rivers flow direction make rivers velocity of flow slow, the extension is at the dwell time who washes export 14 department, and then promote rivers from washing export 14 spun rivers flow, promotion water spray water pressure, reach and wash rivers and show the technological progress that promotes to the installation intracavity washing effect.

In this embodiment, the outlet end of the flushing waterway 5 is further provided with an overflow outlet 20; the two ends of the flushing waterway 5 are respectively provided with a water inlet and an overflow outlet 20 communicated with the outside, and the flushing outlet 14 is arranged on the bottom wall of the outlet of the bent part 19 in the middle of the flushing waterway 5.

In this embodiment, the overflow outlet 20 is disposed higher than the flushing outlet 14; preferably, the flushing outlet 14 is formed in the bottom wall of the flushing water channel 5 and opens downward to communicate with the lower mounting chamber 10, and the overflow outlet 20 is formed in the closed side wall at the water outlet end of the flushing water channel 5 and opens horizontally through the closed side wall.

In this embodiment, the aperture of the overflow outlet 20 is smaller than the aperture of the flushing outlet 14 and smaller than the pipe diameter of the flushing waterway 5; preferably, the sum of the cross-sectional area of the flushing outlet 14 and the cross-sectional area of the overflow outlet 20 is smaller than or equal to the cross-sectional area of the inlet of the flushing waterway 5, so as to ensure that the water pressure inside the flushing waterway is not too high, and to realize that the effluent water flow at the flushing outlet has certain pressure.

EXAMPLE five

As shown in fig. 2 to 6, in the present embodiment, an additive dispensing module 100 is described, which includes an independent main body formed by a water box 1, an installation cavity 10 is formed in the water box 1, a drawer portion 2 capable of being drawn out is installed in the installation cavity 10, at least one dispensing cavity 9 for storing an additive is disposed on the drawer portion 2, and an outlet of the dispensing cavity 9 is communicated with a water dispensing channel 4 integrally disposed on the water box 1 through a docking structure 8; the water box 1 is provided with a water drainage joint 7, one end of the water drainage joint 7 is communicated with the lowest part of the installation cavity 10 of the water box 1, and the other end of the water drainage joint 7 is communicated with the outside of the water box 1 through a water outlet waterway 6 arranged on the water box 1.

The additive feeding module is provided with the drainage joint so as to communicate the installation cavity with the water outlet waterway integrally arranged on the water box, thereby realizing the effect of discharging dropping liquid, flushing water and the like in the installation cavity by utilizing the water outlet waterway arranged on the feeding module; simultaneously, through the setting, the installation cavity inside the water box of the module is put in to the additive that does not supply the influent stream to flow through, can directly utilize the drainage to connect the effect that realizes the drainage, and then guaranteed to wash smooth and easy outer row of rivers, effectively avoided the production of the inside peculiar smell of water box in the installation cavity.

In this embodiment, the drainage connector 7 vertically extends up and down and is arranged in the mounting cavity 10, and the lower end of the drainage connector 7 is communicated with the lowest part of the bottom wall of the mounting cavity 10, and the upper end of the drainage connector 7 is communicated with the water outlet waterway 6 integrally arranged on the upper cover 3 of the water box 1. In the embodiment, the top wall of the water box 1 is composed of an upper cover 3, a water outlet waterway 6 is integrally arranged on the upper cover 3, and the top of a water discharge joint 7 is connected with the upper cover 3; preferably, the drain joint 7 is integrally provided with the upper cover 3 of the water bucket 1.

In this embodiment, the outer wall of the drainage connector 7 is provided with a plurality of reinforcing ribs which are arranged at intervals along the axis, protrude radially and extend axially, and the upper ends of the reinforcing ribs are connected with the upper cover 3 which forms the top wall of the water box 1, so that the installation strength of the drainage connector 7 is improved.

In this embodiment, the water box 1 of the additive feeding module 100 includes an upper cover 3, and the water outlet waterway 6 is integrally disposed on the upper cover 3; the drainage joint 7 is a vertically extending sleeve structure arranged on the lower side of the upper cover 3, and an internal hollow channel of the sleeve structure communicates the upper side water outlet waterway 6 with the lower side installation cavity 10. The lower end of the drainage joint 7 is approximately contacted with the bottom wall of the mounting cavity 10, so that the lower end opening of the drainage joint 7 can utilize a gap to realize the purpose of pumping water; meanwhile, the height of the gap is reduced as much as possible so as to reduce the residual water remaining in the installation cavity 10 of the water box 1.

Preferably, a suction structure is arranged on or connected with the water outlet channel 6, and the suction structure is used for generating suction force in the water outlet channel 6 and sucking water in the installation cavity 10 along the water discharge joint 7 and the water outlet channel 6. The above-mentioned suction structure may be any structure in the prior art that can provide suction power, for example: suction pumps, venturi tubes, etc.

In this embodiment, the additive dispensing module 100 is the additive dispensing module 100 in the fourth embodiment, and has all the technical features and the following differences: the water discharge joint 7 of the additive feeding module 100 and the flushing outlet 14 of the flushing waterway 5 are respectively arranged at the left side and the right side of the butt joint structure 8; the bottom wall of the installation cavity 10 is communicated with the lateral drainage joint 7 from the flushing outlet 14 and is arranged in a downward inclined mode in the lateral direction, so that flushing water flowing into the installation cavity 10 from a flushing water path can be gathered and flow towards the drainage joint, and the purpose that all flushing water flow can be smoothly discharged through the drainage joint is achieved. Preferably, the installation cavity 10 is a cavity structure with a bottom wall without an opening; in order to ensure that the flushing water flow cannot flow randomly in the installation cavity 10 and cause excessive drainage residues, as shown in fig. 6, a concave groove portion 15 which is concave downwards can be arranged in the installation cavity 10 below the butt joint structure 8, the drainage connector 7 extends into the groove portion 15 and is arranged at a distance from the groove bottom of the groove portion 15, and the flushing outlet 14 is arranged towards the groove portion 15 so as to realize that the flushing water flow is gathered in the groove portion 15 and is discharged from the drainage connector 7 communicated with the groove portion 15, thereby achieving the effect of reducing the residual water in the installation cavity 10.

In the embodiment, the water inlet end of the water outlet waterway 6 is respectively communicated with the water discharge joint 7 and the flushing waterway 5 through a tee joint 13; preferably, the upper end of the vertically extending water discharge joint 7 is communicated with a first opening A formed by a tee 13 facing downwards; the water inlet end of the flushing waterway 5 is communicated with an external water source, the water outlet end of the flushing waterway 5 is communicated with a second opening B horizontally formed by the tee joint 13, and the middle part of the flushing waterway 5 is provided with a flushing outlet 14 which is formed towards the butt joint structure 8; the water inlet end of the water outlet waterway 6 is communicated with a third opening C horizontally arranged on the tee joint 13, and the water outlet end is communicated with the outside of the additive feeding module. Preferably, the tee 13 is integrated with the drain joint 7; more preferably, the three-way pipe 13 and the drain joint 7 are integrally fixed to the upper cover 3 of the water box 1 or directly formed integrally with the upper cover 3.

As shown in fig. 1 to 6, in the present embodiment, the second opening B and the third opening C horizontally opened by the tee 13 are coaxially arranged; the aperture of the third opening C of the tee joint 13 is smaller than that of the second opening B, and the aperture of the third opening C is smaller than the pipe diameter of the flushing waterway 5, so that the water flow of the flushing waterway 5 directly flowing to the water outlet waterway 6 through the tee joint 13 is reduced, the water outlet quantity of flushing water at the flushing outlet 14 is increased, and the flushing effect is further ensured.

Furthermore, a third opening C of the tee joint 13 communicated with the water outlet waterway 6 is higher than the flushing outlet 14, so that most of water in the flushing waterway 5 can flow out through the flushing outlet 14, and the flushing effect in the installation cavity 10 is further improved; simultaneously, can directly flow into the water route from the tee bend with the too big unnecessary rivers of flow in the washing water route 5, avoided washing the too big, cause the production of leaking even the pipe explosion problem of water route water pressure.

Example six

The present embodiment describes a laundry treating apparatus, including; the shell 200 comprises a frame, and a layer of shell can be wrapped outside the frame; the water container 300 is installed in the housing 200, and the water container 300 is used for allowing the additive and/or the intake water flowing out from the water outlet 11 of the additive feeding module 100 to flow in, so that the effect of washing, rinsing, refreshing and the like on the load in the water container 300 by using the additive and/or the intake water is realized. In this embodiment, the additive feeding module 100 according to the fourth or fifth embodiment is installed in the housing 200 of the laundry treating apparatus.

In this embodiment, the water inlet structure of the laundry treatment apparatus is communicated with the water inlet end of the flushing waterway 5 of the additive feeding module 100, and the water outlet waterway 6 is communicated with the water containing barrel 300 or the water discharge pipe of the laundry treatment apparatus, so as to achieve the effect (not shown in the drawings) that the additive feeding module 100 is additionally installed on the laundry treatment apparatus, and the additive feeding module 100 is used to feed the additive and/or the water into the water containing barrel 300.

EXAMPLE seven

The present embodiment provides an additive delivery device, which includes: more than two delivery modules 100; each throwing module 100 is provided with at least one throwing cavity 9, and the throwing cavity 9 can be an open water passing cavity for mixing washing powder and the like and then throwing, or can be a closed cavity for storing detergent and the like and pumping and then throwing.

In this embodiment, one of the dosing modules 100 of the additive dosing device is the additive dosing module 100 of the fourth and/or fifth embodiment, and has all the technical features thereof.

Preferably, in this embodiment, the additive dispensing device is the additive dispensing device according to any one of the first to third embodiments, and the additional dispensing module 102 provided thereon is the additive dispensing module 100 according to the fourth and/or fifth embodiments.

As shown in fig. 1 to 6, in the present embodiment, a laundry treatment apparatus is further introduced, which includes the additive feeding device, the additive feeding device includes an additional feeding module 102 and a main feeding module 101, a water supply waterway 16 is provided on a first water box 21 of the main feeding module 101, a water inlet end of the water supply waterway 16 is communicated with a water inlet structure provided on the laundry treatment apparatus through a control structure such as a control valve, and a water outlet end of the water supply waterway 16 is communicated with a water inlet end of a flushing waterway 5 integrally provided on a second water box 22 of the additional feeding module 102 through an interactive waterway 103; the water outlet end of the water outlet waterway 6 integrally arranged on the second water box 22 of the auxiliary throwing module 102 is communicated with the water outlet 11 arranged on the main throwing module 101 through another interactive waterway 103 and a water outlet connecting waterway 17 arranged on the main throwing module 101, and the water outlet 11 is communicated with a drain pipe or a water containing barrel 300 of the clothes treatment equipment, so as to realize the effect of discharging the washing water outwards.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims (10)

1. An additive feeding module comprises a water box, wherein an installation cavity is formed in the water box in a hollow mode; the method is characterized in that: the installation cavity of the water box is internally provided with a drainage joint, one end of the drainage joint is communicated with the lowest part of the installation cavity of the water box, and the other end of the drainage joint is communicated with the outside of the water box through a water outlet waterway arranged on the water box.

2. Additive dosing module according to claim 1, characterized in that: the drainage connects the installation intracavity of locating of vertical extension from top to bottom, and the lower extreme that the drainage connects communicates with the lowest of installation cavity diapire, the upper end is linked together with the integrated play water route of locating on the water box upper cover.

3. Additive dosing module according to claim 2, characterized in that: the installation cavity bottom wall is provided with a concave groove portion which is sunken downwards, the drainage connector extends into the concave groove portion, and the lower end of the drainage connector is close to the groove bottom of the concave groove portion at a distance of a gap.

4. Additive dosing module according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein: the top wall of the water box is formed by an upper cover, a water outlet waterway is integrally arranged on the upper cover, and the top of the drainage joint is connected with the upper cover;

preferably, the drain joint is integrally provided with the upper cover of the water box.

5. Additive dosing module according to claim 4, wherein: the outer wall of the water discharging connector is provided with a plurality of reinforcing ribs which are arranged at intervals along the axis, protrude radially and extend axially, and the upper ends of the reinforcing ribs are connected with an upper cover forming the top wall of the water box.

6. Additive dosing module according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein: the water outlet waterway is provided with or connected with a suction structure, and the suction structure is used for generating suction force at the inlet of the water outlet waterway and pumping out the water in the installation cavity along the water outlet waterway.

7. Additive dosing module according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein: a drawer part which can be drawn out outwards is arranged in the mounting cavity of the water box, at least one feeding cavity for storing additives is arranged on the drawer part, and the outlet of the feeding cavity is communicated with a feeding water channel arranged on the water box through a butt joint structure; a washing water path is arranged on the water box, a washing outlet of the washing water path is formed towards the mounting cavity and used for washing the additive dropping from the butt joint structure into the mounting cavity;

preferably, the water inlet end of the water outlet waterway is respectively communicated with the water drainage joint and the flushing waterway through a tee joint; the upper end of the drainage joint extending up and down is communicated with a first opening formed by the tee joint facing downwards; the water inlet end of the flushing waterway is communicated with an external water source, the water outlet end of the flushing waterway is communicated with a second opening horizontally formed in the tee joint, and the middle part of the flushing waterway is provided with a flushing outlet which is formed towards the butt joint structure; the water inlet end of the water outlet waterway is communicated with a third opening horizontally arranged on the tee joint, and the water outlet end is communicated with the outside of the throwing device.

8. An additive dispensing device, characterized in that: the additive dosing system comprises a plurality of dosing modules, wherein at least one dosing module is an additional dosing module formed by the additive dosing modules in any one of the embodiments 1-7.

9. The additive delivery device of claim 8, wherein: the additive feeding device is also provided with a main additive feeding device, the main additive feeding device is provided with a water supply waterway, the inlet end of the water supply waterway is communicated with an external water supply source, and the outlet end of the water supply waterway is communicated with the water inlet end of a flushing waterway arranged on the additional feeding module through an interactive waterway; the water outlet end of the water outlet waterway arranged on the auxiliary throwing module is communicated with the water outlet arranged on the main throwing module through another interactive waterway.

10. A laundry treating apparatus, characterized in that: the additive feeding module of any one of the claims 1 to 7 is installed, a water inlet structure on the clothes treatment equipment is communicated with a water inlet end of a flushing waterway of the additive feeding module, and a water outlet end of a water outlet waterway is communicated with a water containing barrel or a water discharge pipe of the clothes treatment equipment;

or, the additive feeding device of claim 8 or 9 is installed, the water inlet structure of the clothes treatment device is communicated with the water inlet end of the water supply waterway of the main feeding module, and the water outlet of the main feeding module is communicated with the water containing cylinder or the water discharge pipe of the clothes treatment device.

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