CN210420648U

CN210420648U - Clothes drying equipment

Info

Publication number: CN210420648U
Application number: CN201920779660.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨帆; 成荣锋; 李怡锦
Original assignee: Qingdao Haier Drum Washing Machine Co Ltd
Current assignee: Qingdao Haier Drum Washing Machine Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-05-28
Filing date: 2019-05-28
Publication date: 2020-04-28
Anticipated expiration: 2029-05-28

Abstract

The utility model discloses a clothes drying equipment relates to clothing treatment facility technical field. The clothes drying equipment comprises an outer drum, a circulating air duct and a first line scrap filter, wherein the drum is used for accommodating wet clothes, and the circulating air duct comprises a front air duct communicated with an air outlet of the drum and a rear air duct communicated with an air inlet of the drum; the first line bits filter sets up in the back wind channel. Among this clothing drying equipment, be provided with first line bits filter in the back wind channel, after clothing drying equipment falls, the intercommunication mouth of back wind channel and cylinder is down, and the line bits that get into in the back wind channel will pass through first line bits filter at the whereabouts in-process, avoids the line bits to enter into the cylinder inside once more to avoid the clothing secondary pollution, be favorable to improving user's use and experience.

Description

Clothes drying equipment

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a clothing treatment facility technical field especially relates to a clothing drying equipment.

Background

A laundry drying apparatus is used to dry washed laundry, and a clothes dryer is one type of laundry drying apparatus commonly used in homes. With the improvement of living standard, the application of the clothes dryer is more and more extensive. In order to save the user's usage space and facilitate the user's operation, the clothes dryer is generally inverted on the top of the washing machine, or the clothes dryer is fixed on the wall in an inverted state through a special fixing bracket, thereby saving the space, reducing the distance between the operation panel of the clothes dryer and the ground, and facilitating the user's operation.

As shown in fig. 1, the dryer includes a housing 1 ' and a drum 2 ' positioned in the housing 1 ', and an air duct is formed between the housing 1 ' and the drum 2 '. The air duct comprises a front air duct 31 'and a rear air duct 32', the front air duct 31 'is communicated with the bottom of the front side of the roller 2', and the rear air duct 32 'is communicated with the rear side of the roller 2'. When the clothes dryer works, air enters the roller 2 'from the rear air duct 32', and returns to the rear air duct 32 'from the front air duct 31'. After the dryer is inverted, as shown in fig. 2, the operation panel 4' is located at the lower side, which is convenient for the user to operate. However, in the working process of the clothes dryer, the thread scraps in the drum 2' enter the air duct along with the air flow, and part of the thread scraps are collected in the air duct. Under the influence of gravity, the residual thread scraps in the rear air duct 32 ' can easily enter the drum 2 ' again, so that the clothes in the drum 2 ' are secondarily polluted, and the use experience of a user is influenced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

An object of the utility model is to provide a clothing drying equipment can avoid clothing drying equipment to invert the secondary pollution's that the back line bits arouse problem.

To achieve the purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical proposal:

a clothes drying apparatus comprising:

a drum for accommodating wet laundry;

the circulating air duct comprises a front air duct communicated with the air outlet of the roller and a rear air duct communicated with the air inlet of the roller;

the first line chip filter is arranged in the rear air duct.

Wherein, be provided with in proper order along gaseous flow direction in the back wind channel first thread scraps filter and heating element.

The first line chip filter is arranged at the position where the area of the inner cross section of the rear air duct is narrowed.

Wherein a fan is arranged in the circulating air duct, and the fan is configured to drive air to circularly flow in the roller and the circulating air duct.

The clothes drying equipment further comprises a box body and a protection plate detachably mounted on the outer side of the box body, and the rear air duct is formed between the box body and the protection plate.

Wherein, the first dandruff filter and the box body or the guard plate are detachably connected.

The protective plate is provided with a mounting opening, and the first line chip filter is mounted in the rear air duct through the mounting opening.

Wherein, first thread scraps filter include the filter screen and with the handle that the filter screen is connected, the filter screen can by the installing port insert extremely in the back wind channel, and the filter screen by the installing port insert extremely during the back wind channel, the handle with installing port sealing connection.

The box body is provided with a mounting hole, the mounting hole is arranged on the box body, a clamping groove is formed in the position, corresponding to the mounting hole, of the outer side of the box body, and the filter screen can be inserted into the clamping groove.

Wherein, be provided with second line bits filter in the preceding wind channel.

Has the advantages that: the utility model provides a clothes drying equipment. In the clothes drying equipment, the first thread scrap filter is arranged in the rear air duct, when the clothes drying equipment is inverted, the communication port of the rear air duct and the roller faces downwards, thread scraps entering the rear air duct pass through the first thread scrap filter in the falling process, and the thread scraps are prevented from entering the roller again, so that the secondary pollution to clothes is avoided, and the use experience of a user is improved;

the first thread scrap filter can be arranged at the position where the cross section area in the rear air duct is narrowed, so that thread scraps are conveniently collected, and the thread scrap filtering efficiency is improved;

the airflow in the rear air duct sequentially passes through the first thread scrap filter and the heating assembly, so that thread scrap can be prevented from entering the heating assembly, the heating efficiency of the heating assembly is prevented from being influenced, and potential safety hazards are avoided;

the first lint filter is detachably connected with the guard plate or the box body, so that the first lint filter is convenient to clean, the air flow of the air channel is ensured, and the drying efficiency of clothes is prevented from being influenced by lint;

through set up the installing port on the backplate, the dismouting can be realized by clothing drying equipment's the outside to first line bits filter, need not dismantle the backplate, and the clearance of first line bits filter is more convenient, swift.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the internal structure of a prior art clothes dryer;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the internal structure of a prior art clothes dryer after being inverted;

fig. 3 is a schematic view of an internal structure of a clothes drying apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of an inverted internal structure of a clothes drying apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of a clothes drying apparatus provided in the second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is an exploded view of a part of the structure of a clothes drying apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic view of a part of the structure of a clothes drying apparatus provided in the third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is an exploded view of a part of the structure of a clothes drying apparatus according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein:

1. a housing; 11. a box body; 111. a through hole; 12. a guard plate; 121. an installation port; 2. a drum; 31. a front air duct; 32. a rear air duct; 4. an operation panel; 5. a first lint filter; 6. a second line crumb filter; 7. a heating assembly;

1', a housing; 2', a roller; 31', a front air duct; 32', a rear air duct; 4', an operation panel.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problem solved by the present invention, the technical solution adopted by the present invention and the technical effect achieved by the present invention clearer, the technical solution of the present invention will be further explained by combining the drawings and by means of the specific implementation manner.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the 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. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance. Wherein the terms "first position" and "second position" are two different positions.

In the description of the present invention, it is to 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 or a removable connection; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

Example one

The present embodiment provides a laundry drying apparatus which can be used to dry wet laundry. The clothes drying apparatus in this embodiment may be a clothes dryer.

As shown in fig. 3, the laundry drying apparatus includes a casing 1, a drum 2 disposed in the casing 1, a circulation duct, and a heating assembly 7. The circulation duct is generally located below the drum 2, and both ends of the circulation duct extend upward to communicate with the front and rear sides of the drum 2, respectively, to form a circulation duct. The air in the circulating air duct is heated by the heating component 7, enters the drum 2 to dry wet clothes therein, and then returns to the air duct via the other end of the drum 2 to be heated again. Wherein the front side of the drum 2 is the side of the laundry drying apparatus facing the user when in use, i.e. the left side in fig. 3, and correspondingly the rear side of the drum 2 is the side of the laundry drying apparatus facing away from the user when in use, i.e. the right side in fig. 3.

In this embodiment, the circulating air duct includes a front air duct 31 communicating with the bottom of the front side of the drum 2, and the front air duct 31 extends from below the drum 2 and communicates with a rear air duct 32. The rear duct 32 is located at the rear side of the drum 2 and extends vertically, and the upper end of the rear duct 32 communicates with the drum 2 so that air circulates. The air flowing out of the roller 2 carries impurities such as thread scraps and the like, and after entering the circulating air duct, the air is accumulated at the bottom side of the circulating air duct under the action of gravity, and does not or rarely flow back into the roller 2.

The heating component 7 can be arranged at a position close to the roller 2 in the rear air duct 32, so that air passing through the heating component 7 directly enters the roller 2, the loss of heat in the circulating air duct is reduced, and the drying efficiency is improved. The circulating air duct may further include a heat exchange mechanism therein to cool the hot and humid air flowing out of the drum 2 to remove moisture therein. The heat exchange mechanism can be arranged in an air duct at the bottom of the roller 2.

When the clothes drying equipment is used, wet clothes are placed in the roller 2, air in the circulating air channel is heated by the heating component 7 to form high-temperature gas, the high-temperature gas enters the roller 2 to be contacted with the wet clothes to absorb moisture in the wet clothes to form damp and hot air, the damp and hot air enters the air channel to be cooled by the heat exchange mechanism to form dry air, the dry air enters the roller 2 after passing through the heating component 7 again, and the purpose of drying the clothes is achieved through the circulating flow of the air. The heating assembly 7 may be a structure that is heated by an electric heating wire or a thermistor, and the electric heating wire or the thermistor generates heat after being electrified, and the heat is dissipated to the surrounding air to heat the air. The heat exchange mechanism can comprise a condenser, the damp and hot air enters the condenser through the front air duct 31, the damp and hot air is subjected to heat exchange with a refrigerant in the condenser, the temperature of the damp and hot air is reduced, and water vapor is condensed into water to achieve the purpose of drying the air. Alternatively, the refrigerant in the condenser may be cool air, which may come directly from the outside of the laundry drying apparatus. For example, the casing 1 is further provided with a cooling air inlet and a cooling air outlet, both of which are communicated with a cooling air passage in the condenser. After entering the cooling air path, the air outside the clothes drying apparatus exchanges heat with the hot and humid air, absorbs the heat of the hot and humid air, and is discharged outside the casing 1 through the cooling air outlet.

In order to realize the circular flow of the air in the circulating air duct and the roller 2, a fan can be arranged in the circulating air duct, and the fan does work to drive the circular flow of the air in the circulating air duct and the roller 2, thereby realizing the purpose of drying clothes. In this embodiment, the fan may be disposed between the rear air duct 32 and the condenser. In other embodiments, the fan may be disposed at other positions, and the air circulating flow in the drum 2 and the air duct may be achieved.

The clothes drying device further comprises an operation panel 4 arranged at the top of the shell 1, and a user can realize the operations of starting, stopping, running programs and the like of the clothes drying device through control keys or a touch screen on the operation panel 4.

In order to save the space occupied by the laundry drying apparatus, the laundry drying apparatus is generally stacked on top of the washing machine or mounted on a wall by a specific bracket. In order to reduce the height between the operation panel 4 and the ground, and facilitate the user to touch the operation panel 4, the clothes drying apparatus is generally inverted, so that the operation panel 4 is located at the bottom, the distance between the operation panel 4 and the ground is reduced, and the clothes drying apparatus is convenient for the user to use.

As shown in fig. 4, when the clothes drying apparatus is turned upside down, the lint may enter the drum 2 by gravity, causing secondary pollution to the clothes. In order to prevent the lint entering the rear air duct 32 from returning to the drum 2 again under the action of gravity and air flow, in the present embodiment, the first lint filter 5 is disposed in the rear air duct 32. First line bits filter 5 can collect the line bits that get into in the air duct 32 behind, not only can avoid the line bits to pile up the gas flow who influences the air duct in air duct 32 behind to guarantee clothing drying equipment's drying efficiency, but also can avoid the line bits to get into in cylinder 2 once more, thereby prevent line bits secondary pollution clothing, guarantee that the clothing is clean, improve user's use and experience.

In this embodiment, the heating element 7 may be disposed between the first lint filter 5 and the rear side of the drum 2, so that the airflow in the rear air duct 32 may be heated by the heating element 7 after being filtered by the first lint filter 5, and finally enters the drum 2. Through the position of injecing first thread scraps filter 5 and heating element 7, can avoid the thread scraps to get into in heating element 7, avoid the thread scraps to pile up on heating element 7 to guarantee heating element 7's heating efficiency, prevent because of the thread scraps piles up the potential safety hazard that causes.

In addition, among the prior art, the accumulated thread scraps, especially tiny thread scraps in the wind channel easily generate burnt flavor under heating element's effect, lead to the clothing to have the peculiar smell, influence the user and use experience. The air current filters the back through first thread scraps filter 5 earlier, is passing through heating element 7, can avoid the thread scraps to be close to or pile up on heating element 7 to prevent that the thread scraps from being burnt, avoid the clothing to be infected with the peculiar smell.

In order to avoid the accumulation of thread scraps in the circulating air duct or the heat exchange mechanism to affect the normal operation of the clothes drying equipment, a second thread scrap filter 6 can be further arranged in the front air duct 31. The second thread scrap filter 6 can be arranged at the connecting position of the front air duct 31 and the front side of the roller 2 or at the position close to the front side of the roller 2 in the front air duct 31, so that airflow in the roller 2 is firstly filtered through the second thread scrap filter 6 and then sequentially passes through the front air duct 31, the heat exchange mechanism and the rear air duct 32, and the air flow of the circulating air duct and the heat exchange effect of the heat exchange mechanism are ensured.

Alternatively, the first lint filter 5 and the second lint filter 6 may be filter nets, or may be other structures having a lint filtering function.

Optionally, first bits filter 5 can be dismantled with shell 1 and be connected, and the normal work of clothing drying equipment is guaranteed to the convenient first bits filter 5 of in time clearing up.

Example two

The present embodiment provides a clothes drying apparatus, as shown in fig. 5 and 6, which is different from the first embodiment in that a housing 1 may include a box 11 and a guard plate 12 fastened to a rear side of the box 11, the box 11 is detachably connected to the guard plate 12, a rear air duct 32 is formed between the box 11 and the guard plate 12, a through hole 111 is formed in the box 11 so that the rear air duct 32 communicates with a drum 2, and a first lint filter 5 is detachably connected to the box 11 or the guard plate 12. When first bits filter 5 is cleared up to needs, can only pull down the back with backplate 12, can dismantle first bits filter 5, the spare part of dismantlement is less, improves first bits filter 5's dismouting efficiency, reduces user's the clearance degree of difficulty to improve user's use and experience.

Optionally, the guard plate 12 and the box 11 may be connected by a snap-fit or a fastener such as a screw, and the first lint filter 5 and the box 11 or the guard plate 12 may also be connected by a snap-fit or a detachable connection by a fastener such as a screw.

In this embodiment, backplate 12 can be dismantled with box 11 and be connected, can also conveniently clear up back wind channel 32 and carry out dismouting, maintenance to heating element 7, piles up impurity such as thread scraps in avoiding back wind channel 32.

EXAMPLE III

The embodiment provides a clothes drying equipment, and the place different with embodiment one and embodiment two lies in, first bits of thread filter 5 can be installed to back wind channel 32 by the outside of shell 1 in, when dismouting first bits of thread filter 5, need not dismantle other structures, is favorable to improving cleaning efficiency, further reduces the washing degree of difficulty of first bits of thread filter 5.

As shown in fig. 7 and 8, the guard plate 12 is provided with an installation opening 121, and the first lint filter 5 is installed in the rear air duct 32 through the installation opening 121 or removed from the rear air duct 32, so that the guard plate 12 does not need to be disassembled and assembled, and the cleaning step is further simplified.

Alternatively, the first lint filter 5 may comprise a filter mesh and a handle, one end of the filter mesh being connected to the handle. When the first lint filter 5 is installed, a user can insert the filter screen into the rear air duct 32 through the installation opening 121 by holding the handle, and the handle is connected with the installation opening 121 in a sealing manner, so that the rear air duct 32 is sealed. Wherein, the shape of filter screen can be the same with the cross sectional shape that back wind channel 32 corresponds position department, and the size of filter screen can be equal with the size of the interface that back wind channel 32 corresponds position department to guarantee that the air current through back wind channel 32 all filters through the filter screen, improves the thread scraps filter effect. The shape of handle can be the same with the shape of installing port 121, and the size can be equal with installing port 121 for the handle can block off installing port 121 completely, avoids the gas in the back wind channel 32 to pass through installing port 121 and leaks outward.

Optionally, the box 11 may further have a slot at a position corresponding to the mounting opening 121, and after the filter screen is inserted into the air duct 32, the end of the filter screen may be inserted into the slot. The clamping groove and the handle support the filter screen together, so that the stability of the filter screen can be improved, and the filter screen is prevented from deforming under the action of air flow to influence the filtering effect.

In order to facilitate the detachment of the first lint filter 5, after the handle is engaged with the mounting opening 121, at least a portion of the handle protrudes from the guard plate 12, so that a user can conveniently hold the protruding portion to draw the first lint filter 5 out of the mounting opening 121.

Optionally, the handle can be a ladder structure, including connecting portion and location portion, the one end that the handle is connected with the filter screen is connecting portion, and the shape and the size of connecting portion can be the same with installing port 121, and the one end that the filter screen was kept away from to the handle is location portion, and location portion size is greater than installing port 121, avoids the handle to insert in installing port 121 entirely.

To further prevent the air in the rear air duct 32 from leaking out of the mounting opening 121, a sealing member, such as a sealing ring, may be disposed between the handle and the mounting opening 121 to seal the handle and the mounting opening 121. The sealing ring can be sleeved outside the connecting portion, and after the handle is installed on the installation opening 121, the sealing ring is extruded and deformed to seal the connecting portion and the installation opening 121. Specifically, the connecting portion outside can be provided with the draw-in groove, and in the sealing washer embedding draw-in groove, avoid sealing washer and handle to break away from.

In other embodiments, the handle may be completely inserted into the mounting opening 121, and correspondingly, the outer side surface of the handle is provided with a concave groove for facilitating the fingers to extend into the groove so as to draw out the handle.

The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, there are variations on the detailed description and the application scope according to the idea of the present invention, and the content of the description should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims

1. A clothes drying apparatus, comprising:

a drum (2) for containing wet laundry;

the circulating air duct comprises a front air duct (31) communicated with the air outlet of the roller (2) and a rear air duct (32) communicated with the air inlet of the roller (2);

the first line chip filter (5) is arranged in the rear air duct (32).

2. Laundry drying apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the first lint filter (5) and the heating assembly (7) are arranged in sequence in the direction of flow of the air in the rear air duct (32).

3. Laundry drying apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the first lint filter (5) is arranged at a position where the cross-sectional area in the rear air duct (32) is narrowed.

4. Laundry drying apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that a fan is provided within the circulating air duct, said fan being configured to drive the air circulating in the drum (2) and in the circulating air duct.

5. Laundry drying apparatus according to any of claims 1-4, characterized in that the laundry drying apparatus further comprises a cabinet (11) and a cover plate (12) detachably mounted to the outside of the cabinet (11), the cabinet (11) and the cover plate (12) forming the rear air duct (32) therebetween.

6. Laundry drying apparatus according to claim 5, characterized in that the first lint filter (5) is detachably connected to the cabinet (11) or the apron (12).

7. Laundry drying apparatus according to claim 6, characterized in that the apron (12) is provided with a mounting opening (121), the first lint filter (5) being mounted into the rear air duct (32) through the mounting opening (121).

8. The laundry drying apparatus according to claim 7, characterized in that the first lint filter (5) comprises a filter net and a handle connected with the filter net, the filter net is insertable into the rear air duct (32) from the mounting opening (121), and the handle is connected with the mounting opening (121) in a sealing manner when the filter net is inserted into the rear air duct (32) from the mounting opening (121).

9. Laundry drying apparatus according to claim 8, characterized in that a clamping groove is provided on the outside of the cabinet (11) at a position corresponding to the mounting opening (121), into which clamping groove the filter screen can be inserted.

10. Laundry drying apparatus according to any of claims 1-4, characterized in, that a second lint filter (6) is arranged in the front air duct (31).