CN115726176A

CN115726176A - Clothes care equipment

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Publication number: CN115726176A
Application number: CN202111017089.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 管学伟; 顾彪; 韩燚; 苏真佑; 侯海
Original assignee: Wuxi Little Swan Electric Co Ltd
Current assignee: Wuxi Little Swan Electric Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-08-31
Filing date: 2021-08-31
Publication date: 2023-03-03
Also published as: WO2023029249A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a clothes care device, which comprises a box body, an air supply device, an ironing device and a drying device, wherein an air duct and a clothes accommodating cavity are arranged in the box body; the air supply device is arranged in the box body and communicated with the air duct; the ironing device is arranged in the box body and is communicated with the air duct; the drying device is arranged in the box body and is communicated with the air duct. The air blown out when the air supply device removes dust, the steam generated by the ironing device and the hot air formed by the drying device in the clothes care equipment provided by the invention can enter the clothes containing cavity through the same air duct, and the air, the steam and the hot air can be contacted with the clothes from top to bottom, so that the contact area is increased, the dust removing, ironing and drying effects are improved, and the problems of low steam ironing efficiency and poor effect of the conventional clothes care equipment are solved.

Description

Clothes care equipment

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of household appliances, and particularly relates to clothes care equipment.

Background

This section provides background information related to the present disclosure only and is not necessarily prior art.

Along with the improvement of the quality of life of people, the requirement on clothes care is continuously improved, the clothes care equipment is more and more widely used in daily life, and the clothes care equipment can realize one or more functions of dust removal, ironing, wrinkle removal and sterilization on clothes.

In the related art, the clothes care equipment utilizes the steam generated by the steam generator to remove wrinkles and iron clothes, but the steam generator is usually positioned at the bottom of the clothes, so that the flowing speed of the steam blown from bottom to top is slow, the temperature is reduced quickly, and the steam is difficult to contact the upper part of the clothes, so that the steam ironing efficiency of the clothes care equipment is low, and the effect is poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to at least solve the problems of low ironing efficiency and poor ironing effect of the existing clothes care equipment. The purpose is realized by the following technical scheme:

the invention proposes a laundry care appliance comprising:

the air duct is provided with an air supply opening and an air return opening which are communicated with the clothes containing cavity, the air supply opening is positioned above the clothes containing cavity, and the air return opening is positioned below the clothes containing cavity;

the air supply device is arranged in the box body and is communicated with the air duct;

the ironing device is arranged in the box body and is communicated with the air channel;

and the drying device is arranged in the box body and is communicated with the air duct.

According to the clothes care equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention, the functions of dust removal, ironing and drying of clothes are realized by arranging the air supply device and the ironing device, the air supply device and the ironing device in the embodiment are communicated with the air supply port, the air blown out during dust removal of the air supply device, the steam generated by the ironing device and the hot air formed by the drying device can enter the clothes containing cavity through the same path, namely, the same air channel can be commonly used, and the steam can improve the ironing efficiency under the drive of the air.

In addition, the clothes care equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention can also have the following technical characteristics:

in some embodiments of the present invention, the air duct includes a top air cavity, a side air cavity and a bottom air cavity, two ends of the side air cavity are respectively communicated with the top air cavity and the bottom air cavity, the air supply opening is disposed in the top air cavity, and the air return opening is disposed in the bottom air cavity.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the air return opening is located right below the clothing receiving cavity, and the air supply opening is located right above the clothing receiving cavity.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the air duct further includes an air duct cover plate, the air duct cover plate is disposed in the box body, and the side air cavity is located between the air duct cover plate and a side plate of the box body.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the air supply device is disposed in the top wind cavity and is communicated with the air supply port.

In some embodiments of the invention, the air supply device comprises an electric motor and an air impeller electrically connected to the electric motor.

In some embodiments of the invention, the ironing device comprises a steam generator in communication with the sole air chamber or the side air chamber.

In some embodiments of the invention, the garment care device further comprises a heating device mounted within the air duct and proximate to the air supply opening.

In some embodiments of the invention, a water collecting part is arranged below the air return opening, and a flow guide plate is arranged at the bottom of the box body and is inclined towards the air return opening so as to guide water to flow into the water collecting part.

In some embodiments of the invention, the garment care device further comprises a ventilation hanger disposed within the garment receiving cavity and in communication with the air supply port.

Drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Also, like parts are designated by like reference numerals throughout the drawings. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram showing the construction of a clothes care apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an exploded view of a garment care device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a top view of a garment care device according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 isbase:Sub>A cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line B-B of FIG. 4;

fig. 6 is a partial structural schematic view of a clothes care device according to an embodiment of the invention.

The reference symbols in the drawings denote the following:

100. a garment care device;

10. a box body;

101. a main housing; 1011. a first vent; 1012. a second ventilation opening; 1013. a third vent;

102. a first housing; 103. a second housing;

11. an air duct;

111. an air supply port; 112. an air return inlet; 113. a windward cavity; 114. a side air cavity; 1141. an air duct cover plate; 115. a bottom air cavity;

12. a laundry accommodating chamber;

13. a baffle;

20. an air supply device;

30. a steam generator;

40. a drying device; 41. a compressor; 42. a condenser; 43. an evaporator;

50. a water tank;

60. a ventilated clothes hanger; 61. an air inlet; 62. an air outlet;

70. clothes.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art.

It is to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" may be intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The terms "comprises," "comprising," "including," and "having" are inclusive and therefore specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

Although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used herein to describe various elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections, these elements, components, regions, layers and/or sections should not be limited by these terms. These terms may be only used to distinguish one element, component, region, layer or section from another region, layer or section. Terms such as "first," "second," and other numerical terms when used herein do not imply a sequence or order unless clearly indicated by the context. Thus, a first element, component, region, layer or section discussed below could be termed a second element, component, region, layer or section without departing from the teachings of the example embodiments.

For convenience of description, spatially relative terms, such as "inner", "outer", "lower", "below", "upper", "above", and the like, may be used herein to describe one element or feature's relationship to another element or feature as illustrated in the figures. Such 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 the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" or "beneath" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" or "over" the other elements or features. Thus, the example term "at 8230; \8230; below" may include both upper and lower orientations. The device may be otherwise oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

As shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a clothes care apparatus 100, the clothes care apparatus 100 includes a cabinet 10, an air supply device 20, an ironing device, and a drying device 40, an air duct 11 and a clothes accommodating chamber 12 are disposed in the cabinet 10, the air duct 11 has an air supply opening 111 and an air return opening 112 communicated with the clothes accommodating chamber 12, the air supply opening 111 is located above the clothes accommodating chamber 12, and the air return opening 112 is located below the clothes accommodating chamber 12; the air supply device 20 is arranged in the box body 10 and communicated with the air duct 11; the ironing device is arranged in the box body 10 and communicated with the air duct 11; the drying device 40 is installed in the cabinet 10 and communicates with the air duct 11.

The clothes care equipment 100 provided by the embodiment of the invention realizes the functions of dust removal, wrinkle removal, ironing and drying of clothes 70 by arranging the air supply device 20 and the ironing device, wherein the air supply device 20 and the ironing device are both communicated with the air supply port 111 in the embodiment, air blown out when the air supply device 20 removes dust, steam generated by the ironing device and hot air formed by the drying device 40 can enter the clothes accommodating cavity 12 through the same path, namely, the same air duct 11 can be commonly used, and the ironing efficiency can be improved by the driving of the air, because the air supply port 111 is positioned above the clothes accommodating cavity 12, the air, the steam and the hot air can be contacted with the clothes 70 from top to bottom, the contact area is increased, so that the dust removal, ironing and drying effects are further improved, and the steam after being contacted with the clothes and the hot air carrying water vapor on the wet clothes can naturally fall into the return air port 112 positioned below the clothes accommodating cavity 12, so that the steam and the air are prevented from flowing to the outside, therefore, the clothes care equipment 100 provided by the embodiment solves the problems of low ironing efficiency and poor ironing effect of the existing clothes care equipment 100.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1 and 2, fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a laundry care apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, fig. 2 is an exploded schematic diagram of the laundry care apparatus 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the laundry care apparatus 100 includes a cabinet 10, the cabinet 10 may be shaped as a rectangular parallelepiped so as to facilitate the laundry care apparatus 100 to be placed in a user room, an air duct 11 and a laundry accommodation chamber 12 are disposed in the cabinet 10, illustratively, the laundry accommodation chamber 12 is located at a central portion of the cabinet 10, the air duct 11 may be disposed at a position close to a side panel of the cabinet 10 or a position close to a back panel of the cabinet 10, and the air duct 11 is communicated with the laundry accommodation chamber 12 through an air supply opening 111 so as to ensure that air for dust removal, steam for ironing and hot air for drying can enter the laundry accommodation chamber 12 through the air duct 11, and the laundry accommodation chamber 12 is communicated with the air duct 11 through an air return opening 112, so as to ensure that steam after ironing and high-temperature wet gas with water vapor can be recovered from the laundry accommodation chamber 12 to a drying device 40 for next cycle.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the air duct 11 is disposed at a position close to a side plate of the box 10, and the air duct 11 includes a top air chamber 113, a side air chamber 114 and a bottom air chamber 115 which are sequentially communicated, specifically, a top of the side air chamber 114 is communicated with the top air chamber 113, and a bottom of the side air chamber 114 is communicated with the bottom air chamber 115, on this basis, the air supply port 111 is disposed in the top air chamber 113 so as to communicate the top air chamber 113 with the clothes accommodating chamber 12, and the air return port 112 is disposed in the bottom air chamber 115 so as to communicate the clothes accommodating chamber 12 with the bottom air chamber 115, further, the air supply port 111 may be provided with one or more air return ports 112 may also be provided with one or more air return ports, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment.

Further, in this embodiment, the box 10 may be configured as an integrally formed structure, or may be configured as an assembled structure including a plurality of parts, please refer to fig. 2, the box 10 includes a main housing 101, a first housing 102 and a second housing 103, the clothing accommodating cavity 12 and the side air cavity 114 of the air duct 11 are disposed in the main housing 101, the top air cavity 113 is disposed in the first housing 102, the bottom air cavity 115 is disposed in the second housing 103, and the first housing 102 and the second housing 103 are respectively connected to the main housing 101, for example, the connection manner between the first housing 102 and the main housing 101 and the second housing 103 may be welding, or may be connected by fasteners such as screws, which is not limited in this embodiment.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, a stepped recess is formed at the top of the main housing 101, the first housing 102 is connected to the recess, and on the basis, a first ventilation opening 1011 is formed at the recess, and an air supply opening 111 communicated with the head wind cavity 113 is formed in the first housing 102, and when the first housing 102 is connected to the main housing 101, the air supply opening 111 is aligned with and communicated with the first ventilation opening 1011 at the recess, so that the head wind cavity 113 in the first housing 102 is communicated with the clothing accommodating cavity 12 in the main housing 101.

Further, referring to fig. 3 and 4, fig. 3 isbase:Sub>A top view of the clothes care apparatus 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention, fig. 4 isbase:Sub>A sectional view taken alongbase:Sub>A directionbase:Sub>A-base:Sub>A of fig. 3, the first housing 102 is connected to the top of the main housing 101 as shown in fig. 3, the top surface of the first housing 102 may be flush with the top surface of the main housing 101, or the top surface of the first housing 102 may be slightly higher than the top surface of the main housing 101, exemplarily, the first housing 102 is connected to the main housing 101 and slightly higher than the main housing 101 as shown in fig. 4, so that the first ventilation opening 1011 may be disposed on the top plate of the main housing 101, i.e., directly above the clothes receiving cavity 12, and accordingly, the air supply opening 111 aligned with and communicating with the first ventilation opening 1011 is also directly above the clothes receiving cavity 12, thereby facilitating air, steam and hot air to be blown perpendicularly to the clothes 70 along the shortest path, reducing loss on the flow path, and improving dust removal and ironing efficiency of the clothes 70.

With continuing reference to fig. 4 in combination with fig. 5, fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along the direction B-B in fig. 4, as shown in fig. 4, in an alternative embodiment, the side air cavity 114 is disposed in the main casing 101 of the box 10 and is close to a side plate of the box 10, that is, a side plate of the main casing 101, specifically, an air duct cover 1141 is disposed in the main casing 101, and the air duct cover 1141 is connected between the side plate and the clothing receiving cavity 12, in the above embodiment, the air duct cover 1141 may be disposed parallel to the side plate of the main casing 101, and the air duct cover 1141 may be connected to the inner wall of the main casing 101 through fasteners such as screws or may be welded to ensure stability of the internal structure of the main casing 101.

On the basis of the foregoing embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, two sides of the air duct cover plate 1141 are respectively connected to the inner wall of the main housing 101, that is, the side air cavity 114 of the air duct 11 is enclosed between the wind shield and the side plate, it can be understood that the side air cavity 114 of the present embodiment is completely located in the main housing 101, and a sealing strip is not required to be disposed at a connection position of the air duct cover plate 1141 and the inner wall of the main housing 101, even if a small amount of air leaks out from the side air cavity 114, the air can also flow into the inside of the clothes accommodating cavity 12, and cannot leak to the outside of the clothes care apparatus 100, thereby avoiding pollution to the external environment. In another alternative embodiment, a separately arranged air duct structure is connected to the outside of the side plate of the main casing 101, a side air cavity 114 of the air duct 11 of this embodiment is formed in the air duct structure, and the air duct structure may be welded to the side surface of the main casing 101.

Further, as shown in fig. 2, the bottom of the main casing 101 is provided with a second ventilation opening 1012 and a third ventilation opening 1013, the second ventilation opening 1012 being disposed at a position close to the side plate of the main casing 101, it being understood that the second ventilation opening 1012 is located at the bottom of the side air chamber 114 so as to communicate with the side air chamber 114, and the third ventilation opening 1013 is disposed at the bottom plate of the main casing 101 so as to communicate with the laundry accommodating chamber 12, and on this basis, the second casing 103 is provided with a fourth ventilation opening communicating with the second ventilation opening 1012 and a return air opening 112 communicating with the third ventilation opening 1013, and when the second casing 103 is coupled to the main casing 101, the return air opening 112 is aligned with and communicates with the third ventilation opening 1013, and the fourth ventilation opening is aligned with and communicates with the second ventilation opening 1012.

On the basis of the above embodiment, the clothes care apparatus 100 includes the air supply device 20, the ironing device and the drying device 40, the air supply device 20, the ironing device and the drying device 40 are respectively communicated with the air duct 11, specifically, the air supply device 20 and the ironing device are communicated with the air supply opening 111, the air blown by the air supply device 20 and the steam generated by the ironing device can be sent into the clothes accommodating cavity 12 through the air supply opening 111, and exemplarily, the air supply device 20 and the ironing device can be installed in the air duct 11 so that the air and the steam flow into the clothes accommodating cavity 12 along the air duct 11.

With continuing reference to fig. 1, 2 and 4, further, the air supply device 20 may include a fan or other device capable of generating a flowing air current, specifically, in some embodiments of the present invention, the air supply device 20 includes a motor and an impeller, the impeller is electrically connected to the motor, the impeller is capable of rotating under the driving of the motor to generate flowing air, and the air supply device 20 blows the air into the clothing accommodating cavity 12 to carry away dust adhered to the clothing with the flowing air.

In an alternative embodiment, the air supply device 20 is installed in the air duct 11, as shown in fig. 2, the air supply device 20 is located at a concave position at the top of the main housing 101, and after the first housing 102 is connected to the main housing 101, the air supply device 20 is located in an air ejection cavity 113 inside the first housing 102, so that air blown by the wind impeller enters the clothing accommodating cavity 12 from an air supply opening 111 of the air ejection cavity 113, in this embodiment, the air supply device 20 is close to the air supply opening 111, the flow path of the air in the air duct 11 is reduced, thereby improving the strength of the wind force and improving the dust removing effect on the clothing.

In some embodiments of the present invention, with continued reference to fig. 1, 2 and 4, the ironing device comprises a steam generator 30, the steam generator 30 being capable of generating steam at a high temperature, by feeding the steam into the clothes receiving cavity 12, to iron the clothes with the steam. In an alternative embodiment, the steam generator 30 is installed at the bottom of the cabinet 10, and it is understood that the steam generator 30 needs to be communicated with an external water source or a water storage tank of the clothes care device 100, so in this embodiment, the steam generator 30 may be specifically disposed at the bottom of the main housing 101, and the air outlet of the steam generator 30 is communicated with the air duct 11, and may be specifically communicated with the side air chamber 114 or the bottom air chamber 115, so that the steam flows along the air duct 11 and flows into the clothes accommodating chamber 12 from the air supply opening 111.

On the basis of the above embodiment, the air impeller in the air supply device 20 can generate flowing air, in this embodiment, after steam generated by the steam generator 30 enters the air duct 11, because airflow at the top of the air duct 11 flows, the air pressure at the top is smaller than that at the bottom, thereby further ensuring that the steam can flow upwards, so that the flowing air generated along with the air impeller flows into the clothes accommodating cavity 12 from the air supply port 111, compared with the prior art in which a driving device for driving the steam to flow needs to be arranged below the clothes accommodating cavity 12, in this embodiment, the air impeller in the air supply device 20 is used to improve the fluidity of the steam, reduce the driving device, reduce the complexity of the internal structure and save resources, and in this embodiment, the air supply device 20 and the steam generator 30 use the same air duct 11, thereby improving the structural compactness of the clothes care apparatus 100.

On the basis of the above embodiment, the clothes care apparatus 100 may further include a heating device, the heating device may also be disposed in the air duct 11, and specifically may be installed near the air supply opening 111, for heating the air generated by the air impeller and the steam generated by the steam generator 30, exemplarily, the heating device may be configured as a PTC heater, the PTC heater includes a PTC ceramic heating element and an aluminum tube, and has the advantages of small thermal resistance and high heat exchange efficiency, and can rapidly heat the hot air and the steam, and the safety is high, in this embodiment, by disposing the heating device, the air blown by the air supply device 20 is converted into the hot air, so as to perform a certain sterilization effect on the clothes; it can be understood that, when the steam generator 30 is installed at the bottom of the cabinet 10, the temperature of the steam will be reduced to some extent after the high-temperature steam generated by the steam generator flows in the air duct 11 for a certain distance, so that the heating device is disposed at a position close to the air supply opening 111 in this embodiment, so as to compensate the temperature lost by the steam during the flowing process or further increase the temperature of the steam by heating the steam, so that the steam entering the clothes accommodating cavity 12 can iron the clothes, thereby improving the ironing effect.

Further, in some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2 and fig. 4, the air supply opening 111 is located right above the clothes accommodating cavity 12, the air return opening 112 is located right below the clothes accommodating cavity 12, and referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a partial structural schematic diagram of the clothes care equipment 100 of the embodiment of the present invention, in the embodiment, the drying device 40 includes a compressor 41, an evaporator 43 and a condenser 42, specifically, in the embodiment, the compressor 41 is communicated with the condenser 42 through a pipeline, the condenser 42 is communicated with the evaporator 43 through a pipeline, and the evaporator 43 is communicated with the compressor 41 through a pipeline, so as to realize refrigerant circulation among the compressor 41, the evaporator 43 and the condenser 42, and it can be understood that the refrigerant is compressed into high-temperature and high-pressure gas in the compressor 41, enters the condenser 42, is condensed and liquefied into liquid in the condenser 42, enters the evaporator 43, absorbs heat in the evaporator 43 and turns into gas, and finally enters the compressor 41.

On this basis, in the present embodiment, condenser 42 and evaporator 43 are both in communication with laundry accommodation chamber 12 through air duct 11, specifically, condenser 42 may be in communication with laundry accommodation chamber 12 through air supply opening 111, and evaporator 43 is in communication with laundry accommodation chamber 12 through air return opening 112, so as to realize circulation of drying air in laundry care apparatus 100: the refrigerant is liquefied in the condenser 42 and then releases heat, so that the air in the condenser 42 is heated into hot air, the hot air flows into the clothes accommodating cavity 12 through the air supply opening 111, the hot air adsorbs water vapor of wet clothes in the clothes accommodating cavity 12 to form high-temperature wet gas, the high-temperature wet gas continuously flows downwards and then is collected through the air return opening 112, the evaporator 43 carries out evaporation and heat absorption treatment on the high-temperature wet gas, the air is cooled to form cold air, the cold air flows to the condenser 42 again for the next circulation, and the water vapor entrapped in the high-temperature wet gas is condensed to form water drops to be collected.

Further, a water collecting part is arranged below the air return opening 112, a guide plate 13 is arranged at the bottom of the box body 10 in the embodiment, specifically, referring to fig. 2, the guide plate 13 is installed at the bottom of the main shell 101, it should be noted that, in fig. 2, the right side of the box body 10 is the side where the door of the clothes care equipment 100 is installed, an included angle is formed between the guide plate 13 and the horizontal plane, a position of the side of the guide plate 13 close to the installed door is higher than a position of the side close to the third air return opening 1013 in the vertical direction, that is, the guide plate 13 inclines towards the air return opening 112 in butt joint with the third air return opening 1013, therefore, when the water vapor forms water drops on the inner wall of the box body 10, especially on the inner side of the door, the water drops formed by gathering of the water drops can flow towards the air return opening 112 along the guide plate 13, and further flow into the water collecting part, thereby preventing the water drops from gathering too much in the box body 10, and improving user experience.

On the basis of the above embodiment, the wind impeller in the wind supply device 20 can generate flowing wind, so that in the present embodiment, the hot air heated by the condenser 42 can flow along with the wind in the process of entering the clothes accommodating cavity 12, further improving the fluidity of the hot air, and further improving the drying efficiency of the clothes, and the steam generated by the steam generator 30 can enter the evaporator 43 through the air return opening 112 after the clothes are ironed, that is, the ironed steam and the dried high-temperature wet gas can be recovered to the evaporator 43, thereby avoiding the gas leakage.

In some embodiments of the present invention, with continuing reference to fig. 6, the laundry care apparatus 100 further includes a water tank 50, and specifically, the water tank 50 includes a water purifying box and a sewage box, which may be separately provided or integrally provided, and this embodiment is not particularly limited thereto. On this basis, thereby the water purification box communicates with steam generator 30 and provides water for steam generator 30, and the sewage box passes through the pump intercommunication with the water catch portion, and rivers in the water purification box flow into steam generator 30, are handled by steam generator 30 and form steam, and after the steam after the clothing is held the chamber 12 and the high temperature humid gas after the stoving entered evaporator 43, the water droplet that the condensation formed flowed into the sewage box with evaporator 43 intercommunication, and the user can handle the water in the sewage box through clearance or filtration.

In an alternative embodiment, the water tank 50 includes a tank 10, a water storage cavity is provided inside the tank 10, a water inlet and a water outlet are provided on the tank 10, wherein the water outlet is communicated with the steam generator 30, the water inlet is communicated with the evaporator 43, a filtering device is provided in the water storage cavity, an inlet of the filtering device is communicated with the water inlet, an outlet of the filtering device is communicated with the water storage cavity, therefore, water flowing in from the evaporator 43 firstly enters the filtering device and then flows into the water storage cavity after being filtered by the filtering device, that is, the water purification box and the sewage box are provided as an integral structure in this embodiment, and the compactness of the structure is improved.

Further, with continuing reference to fig. 1 and 4, in some embodiments of the present invention, the clothes treating apparatus 100 further includes a ventilation hanger 60, the ventilation hanger 60 is used for hanging the clothes 70, in this embodiment, the ventilation hanger 60 is disposed in the clothes accommodating chamber 12 and is communicated with the air supply opening 111, according to the above embodiment, one or more air supply openings 111 may be disposed in this embodiment, and when a plurality of air supply openings 111 are disposed, the ventilation hanger 60 may be communicated with one of the air supply openings 111.

Illustratively, in an alternative embodiment, the top of the ventilation clothes hanger 60 is provided with an air inlet 61, the bottom of the ventilation clothes hanger 60 is provided with an air outlet 62, the air inlet 61 is communicated with the air outlet 62, the top of the ventilation clothes hanger 60 is connected with an air supply opening 111, the air inlet 61 is communicated with the air supply opening 111, air generated by the air supply device 20, steam generated by the ironing device and hot air generated by the drying device 40 flow into the ventilation clothes hanger 60 from the air supply opening 111 and the air inlet 61 and flow out from the air outlet 62 of the ventilation clothes hanger 60, so that the air, the steam and the hot air are more accurately blown onto the clothes 70, the contact area of the air, the steam and the hot air and the clothes 70 is increased, and the dust removal, wrinkle removal, ironing and drying efficiencies are improved.

Specifically, the ventilation hanger 60 may include a main body, the air inlet 61 may be disposed at the top of the main body, and an outer side wall of the air inlet 61 may be provided with an external thread, and correspondingly, an inner wall of the air supply port 111 of the air duct 11 may be provided with an internal thread, so that the top of the main body may extend into the air supply port 111, and be connected with the air supply port 111 in a manner of matching the external thread with the internal thread, or may be connected in a manner of clamping, and the connection manner of the threaded connection in this embodiment is convenient for a user to detach and install the ventilation hanger 60 in the box 10 of the clothing care apparatus 100.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any changes or substitutions that can be easily conceived by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present invention are also included in the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A garment care device, comprising:

2. The clothing care apparatus of claim 1, wherein the air duct includes a top air chamber, a side air chamber and a bottom air chamber, two ends of the side air chamber are respectively communicated with the top air chamber and the bottom air chamber, the air supply opening is disposed in the top air chamber, and the air return opening is disposed in the bottom air chamber.

3. The garment care device as recited in claim 2, wherein said air return opening is located directly below said garment receiving cavity and said air supply opening is located directly above said garment receiving cavity.

4. A garment care device as recited in claim 2, wherein the air chute further includes an air chute cover disposed within the cabinet, the side air cavity being located between the air chute cover and a side panel of the cabinet.

5. A garment care device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the air supply means is disposed within the top plenum and is in communication with the air supply opening.

6. A garment care device as claimed in claim 1 or 5, characterized in that the air supply means comprise an electric motor and an air impeller electrically connected to the electric motor.

7. A garment care device as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that the ironing means comprise a steam generator which communicates with the bottom plenum or the side plenum.

8. The garment care device as recited in claim 1, further comprising a heating device mounted within the air chute and proximate the air supply opening.

9. A garment care device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that a water collection portion is provided below the air return opening, and a flow guide plate is provided at the bottom of the cabinet, the flow guide plate being inclined toward the air return opening to guide the water flowing into the water collection portion.

10. A garment care device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a ventilation hanger disposed within the garment receiving cavity and in communication with the air supply port.