CN210796972U

CN210796972U - Clothes treatment equipment and spraying assembly thereof

Info

Publication number: CN210796972U
Application number: CN201921133166.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘晓春; 张华成; 卢金波; 张志强
Original assignee: Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co Ltd; Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Current assignee: Qingdao Haier Washing Machine Co Ltd; Haier Smart Home Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-07-18
Filing date: 2019-07-18
Publication date: 2020-06-19
Anticipated expiration: 2029-07-18

Abstract

The utility model belongs to the technical field of the clothing treatment facility, specifically provide a clothing treatment facility and spray assembly thereof. The utility model discloses aim at solving the problem that the annular spray set on the current drum type washing machine is not convenient for install and dismantle, for this reason the utility model discloses a spray assembly includes a plurality of tee bend structures and many water pipes along the circumferencial direction distribution, a plurality of tee bend structures with many water pipes are connected to together with interval arrangement ground, detachably each other, and are a plurality of among the tee bend structure is into water tee bend structure, and is a plurality of among the tee bend structure other the tee bend structure is out water tee bend structure. The utility model discloses the spray assembly who has above-mentioned structure still makes things convenient for spray assembly's installation and dismantlement under can satisfying the condition that sprays.

Description

Clothes treatment equipment and spraying assembly thereof

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of the clothing treatment facility, specifically provide a clothing treatment facility and spray assembly thereof.

Background

The drum washing machine mainly comprises a box body, an outer barrel and an inner barrel which are sequentially arranged from outside to inside, and a sealing window gasket is arranged between an opening of the outer barrel and an opening of the box body in order to prevent washing water from overflowing from the outer barrel to a position between the box body and the outer barrel.

In order to optimize the washing effect of the drum washing machine, many manufacturers may provide a spray device at the front end of the drum washing machine, and pump the washing water in the outer tub to the spray device through a circulation pump, so that the spray device sprays the washing water onto the laundry in the inner tub. A drum washing machine having a ring-shaped shower device is disclosed in korean patent application laid-open No. KR 1020180131893A. However, the annular spraying device adopts an integrally-made form, so that the annular spraying device is very unfavorable for installation and disassembly, and needs to be integrally replaced when being damaged, and the maintenance cost is higher.

Accordingly, there is a need in the art for a new laundry treating apparatus and a shower assembly thereof to solve the above-mentioned problems.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem among the prior art, be for solving the problem that the annular spray set on the current drum type washing machine is not convenient for install and dismantle, the utility model provides a clothing treatment facility's spray set, spray set be used for to spray the washing water in the clothing treatment facility, spray set includes a plurality of tee bend structures and many water pipes along the circumferencial direction distribution, a plurality of tee bend structures with many water pipes are connected to together, and are a plurality of tee bend structure among the tee bend structure is for intaking tee bend structure, and is a plurality of other tee bend structures among the tee bend structure are for going out water tee bend structure.

In the preferable technical scheme of the spraying assembly, the tee joint structures are arranged in a T shape, the transverse parts of the T shapes of all the tee joint structures are connected with at least one water pipe, the vertical part of the T shape of the water inlet tee joint structure is used as a water inlet pipe, and the vertical part of the T shape of the water outlet tee joint structure is used as a water outlet pipe.

In a preferred embodiment of the spray assembly, the water pipe and the tee structure are detachably connected together.

In a preferred technical scheme of the spray assembly, the water pipe is a rubber hose.

In the preferable technical scheme of the spraying assembly, the plurality of tee structures and the plurality of water pipes are sequentially connected end to form an annular water path.

In the preferable technical scheme of the spraying assembly, one of the two water outlet tee joint structures adjacent to the water inlet tee joint structure is communicated with the water inlet tee joint structure, and the other one of the two water outlet tee joint structures is not communicated with the water inlet tee joint structure.

In a preferred technical solution of the above spray assembly, the spray assembly further includes a sealing window gasket, the sealing window gasket is provided with a plurality of injection channels, and each of the water outlet three-way structures is inserted into one of the injection channels, respectively.

In a preferred embodiment of the spray assembly, a groove is formed in a circumferential surface of the sealing window gasket, and at least a portion of each of the three-way structures and at least a portion of each of the water pipes are embedded in the groove.

Furthermore, the utility model also provides a clothing treatment facility, clothing treatment facility includes the spray assembly of any one of above-mentioned preferred technical scheme.

In a preferred technical solution of the above laundry treating apparatus, the laundry treating apparatus is a washing machine or a washing and drying all-in-one machine.

It can be understood by those skilled in the art that in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a plurality of tee structures and a plurality of water pipes are connected to each other at intervals, and one of the tee structures is used as a water inlet tee structure, and the other tee structures are used as water outlet tee structures, so that the spray assembly of the present invention facilitates the installation and disassembly of the spray assembly under the condition that the spray condition can be satisfied. And, when a certain tee bend structure or a certain water pipe take place to damage, only need with should damage the piece replacement can, and need not replace whole spray assembly, practiced thrift cost of maintenance.

Preferably, the water pipe and the tee structure are plugged together in an interference fit manner so as to enable the water pipe and the tee structure to be quickly assembled together and quickly disassembled.

Drawings

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with a drum washing machine, wherein:

FIG. 1 is an axial side view of the sealing window gasket and outer barrel of the present invention in an assembled condition;

FIG. 2 is an isometric view of the sealed window gasket of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a side view of the sealed window gasket of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along A-A of FIG. 3;

fig. 5 is a schematic plan view of the annular waterway of the present invention (first embodiment);

fig. 6 is a schematic plan view of the annular waterway according to the present invention (second embodiment).

List of reference numerals:

1. an outer cylinder; 2. sealing the window gasket; 21. an injection channel; 22. a groove; 3. a three-way structure; 31. a water inlet tee joint structure; 32. a water outlet tee joint structure; 4. a water pipe.

Detailed Description

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the embodiments in this section are only for explaining the technical principle of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. For example, although the laundry treating apparatus of the present invention is described by taking a drum washing machine as an example, the laundry treating apparatus of the present invention may be a pulsator washing machine or a drum washing and drying machine. Those skilled in the art can make modifications as needed to suit a particular application, and such modifications will still fall within the scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that in the description of the present invention, the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc. indicating the directions or positional relationships are based on the directions or positional relationships shown in the drawings, which are only for convenience of description, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element 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 "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Furthermore, it should be noted that, in the description of the present invention, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally 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 by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

Although not explicitly shown in the drawings, the drum washing machine of the present invention mainly includes a cabinet, an outer tub 1 (shown in fig. 1) fixedly disposed in the cabinet, and an inner tub rotatably disposed in the outer tub 1 from outside to inside. Further, the drum washing machine of the present invention further includes a box opening disposed on the front panel of the box, a cover for sealing the box opening, and a sealing window gasket 2 (as shown in fig. 1) disposed between the box opening and the outer tub opening (not shown) in a sealing manner.

It should be noted that, since the other parts of the drum washing machine, such as the box body, the outer tub 1, the inner tub, etc., except the sealing window gasket 2 are well known to those skilled in the art, and there is no direct connection with the technical solution to be protected by the present invention, the description thereof will not be made herein.

As shown in fig. 1, the sealing window gasket 2 is provided at the front end of the outer cylindrical opening of the outer cylinder 2.

As shown in fig. 2 to 4, the sealing window gasket 2 of the present invention is provided with a plurality of injection channels 21 uniformly along the circumferential direction, and the injection channels 21 are used for communicating the inner side and the outer side of the sealing window gasket 2. As can be seen from fig. 2, the inner side ports of the spray channels 21 are directed toward the drum, so that the spray channels 21 can spray the received washing water into the drum to spray the laundry in the drum. Preferably, the inner side end opening of the spray channel 21 is provided as a flat opening, so that the washing water sprayed from the spray channel 21 can form a fan-shaped or waterfall-shaped water flow under the action of the flat opening, covering as much as possible all areas in the inner tub, and spraying all parts of the laundry in the inner tub.

Furthermore, the plurality of injection channels 21 may be arranged in a non-uniform distribution on the sealing gasket 2, according to the actual needs, as well. Further, the inner side port of the injection channel 21 may be configured in any other feasible form, such as a bell mouth, a circular port, a triangular port, etc., according to actual needs.

As shown in fig. 3 and 4, a groove 22 is provided on the circumferential surface of the sealing gasket 2, and preferably, the groove 22 is formed on the circumferential surface of the outside of the sealing gasket 2 in order to facilitate the installation of the tee structure 3 (shown in fig. 5) and the water pipe 4 (shown in fig. 5). And the outer side port of each injection passage 21 communicates with the groove 22. As can be seen in fig. 4, the recess 22 is an annular recess.

Further, the groove 22 may be provided on the circumferential surface of the inner side of the sealing gasket 2 as needed by those skilled in the art.

Further, the drum washing machine of the present invention further comprises a spraying assembly, which comprises the above-mentioned sealing window gasket 2, and the three-way structure 3 and the water pipe 4 shown in fig. 5-6.

As shown in fig. 5 and 6, the present invention provides two embodiments for the combination of the three-way structure 3 and the water pipe 4, specifically as follows:

as shown in fig. 5, in the first embodiment of the present invention, the spray assembly includes a plurality of tee structures 3 and a plurality of water pipes 4, and the plurality of tee structures 3 and the plurality of water pipes 4 are connected to each other at intervals, and thus form an annular water path (a circular structure formed in fig. 5). Wherein, each tee structure 3 and adjacent water pipe 4 all adopt detachable mode to be connected together, adopt interference fit's mode to peg graft together specifically. Furthermore, the person skilled in the art can connect the three-way structure 3 and the adjacent water pipe 4 together by any other feasible connection means, such as clamping, hooping, screwing and the like, as required.

Wherein the water pipe 4 is preferably a rubber hose for easy assembly, installation and disassembly. Alternatively, the water pipe 4 may be provided as a hard water pipe, such as a plastic water pipe, as required by those skilled in the art.

As shown in fig. 5, each tee structure 3 is arranged in a "T" shape to facilitate production, assembly, installation and disassembly of the tee structure 3.

With continued reference to fig. 5, the plurality of tee structures 3 includes a water inlet tee structure 31 and a plurality of water outlet tee structures 32. The water inlet tee structure 31 is the lowest tee structure 3 in fig. 5, and the other tee structures 3 in fig. 5 are all water outlet tee structures 32. As can be seen from fig. 5, the free end of the inlet tee structure 31 (the end not connected with the water pipe 4) points to the outside of the annular waterway, and the free end of each outlet tee structure 32 (the end not connected with the water pipe 4) points to the inside of the annular waterway. Each tee structure 3 is connected to the water pipe 4 by its "T" -shaped transverse portion, the "T" -shaped vertical portion of the inlet tee structure 31 serves as a water inlet pipe, and the "T" -shaped vertical portion of each outlet tee structure 32 serves as a water outlet pipe. The free end of the water inlet three-way structure 31 is formed on the vertical part of the T shape of the water inlet three-way structure 31, and the free end of the water outlet three-way structure 32 is formed on the vertical part of the T shape of the water outlet three-way structure 32.

Although not shown in the drawings, in the installed state, the plurality of tee structures 3 and the plurality of water pipes 4 are all inserted into the grooves 22 so as to fix and hide the tee structures 3 and the plurality of water pipes 4, and the free end of each water outlet tee structure 32 is inserted into one of the injection channels 21 in an interference fit manner. The free end of the water inlet three-way structure 31 is communicated with a water outlet pump port of a circulating water pump of the drum washing machine through a circulating water pipe, and a water inlet pump port of the circulating water pump is communicated with the outer barrel 1 through a water pipe or directly.

When the drum washing machine performs a spraying operation, the washing water in the outer tub 1 is pumped by the circulating water pump to the water inlet tee structure 31, then flows to each water outlet tee structure 32 through the plurality of water pipes 4, further enters each spraying channel 21, and finally is sprayed to the clothes in the inner tub by the spraying channels 21.

As shown in fig. 6, in the second embodiment of the present invention, different from the first embodiment shown in fig. 5, one of two water outlet tee structures 32 adjacent to the water inlet tee structure 31 is communicated with the water inlet tee structure 31, and the other is not communicated with the water inlet tee structure 31. Specifically, the number of the three-way structures 3 is one more than that of the water pipes 4, the water outlet three-way structure 32 and the water inlet three-way structure 31 at the lower left in fig. 6 cannot be communicated through the water pipes 4, and the water outlet three-way structure 32 and the water inlet three-way structure 31 at the lower right in fig. 6 are communicated through the water pipes 4. Furthermore, the right end of the water outlet tee structure 32 at the lower left in fig. 6 is closed by a plug, and the left end of the water inlet tee structure 31 in fig. 6 is also closed by a plug, so as to prevent the washing water from flowing out. Alternatively, the person skilled in the art can also set the water inlet tee structure 31 and the water outlet tee structure 32 at the lower left in fig. 6 to be a two-way structure according to the requirement.

Based on the above description, those skilled in the art can understand that the utility model discloses a spray assembly, especially the water route of constituteing by tee bend structure 3 and water pipe 4 all is more convenient when equipment, installation and dismantlement, and when one of them part takes place to damage, only need with this one part replace can, and need not change whole water route, practiced thrift cost of maintenance.

So far, the technical solution of the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments shown in the drawings, but it is easily understood by those skilled in the art that the scope of the present invention is obviously not limited to these specific embodiments. Without departing from the principle of the present invention, a person skilled in the art can make equivalent changes or substitutions to the related technical features, and the technical solutions after these changes or substitutions will fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A spray assembly of a laundry treating apparatus for spraying washing water into the laundry treating apparatus, the spray assembly comprising a plurality of tee structures and a plurality of water pipes distributed in a circumferential direction, the plurality of tee structures and the plurality of water pipes being connected to each other at intervals,

one tee joint structure in a plurality of tee joint structures is a water inlet tee joint structure, and other tee joint structures in the plurality of tee joint structures are water outlet tee joint structures.

2. The spray assembly of claim 1, wherein said tee structures are arranged in a T-shape, the lateral portion of the T-shape of all tee structures being connected to at least one of said water pipes, the vertical portion of the T-shape of said inlet tee structure serving as an inlet pipe, and the vertical portion of the T-shape of said outlet tee structure serving as an outlet pipe.

3. The spray assembly of claim 1 wherein said water tube and said tee structure are removably connected together.

4. The spray assembly of claim 1 wherein said water conduit is a rubber hose.

5. The spray assembly of any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein said plurality of tee structures and said plurality of water tubes are connected end to end in sequence and form an annular waterway.

6. The spray assembly of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein one of two said outlet tee structures adjacent to said inlet tee structure is in communication with said inlet tee structure and the other is not in communication with said inlet tee structure.

7. The spray assembly of any one of claims 1 to 4 further comprising a sealing window gasket, wherein a plurality of spray channels are disposed on the sealing window gasket, and each of the outlet tee structures is inserted into one of the spray channels.

8. The spray assembly of claim 7 wherein said gasket has a groove disposed on a circumferential surface thereof, at least a portion of each of said tee structures and at least a portion of each of said water tubes being embedded in said groove.

9. A laundry treating apparatus, characterized in that the laundry treating apparatus comprises the spray assembly of any one of claims 1 to 8.

10. The laundry processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the laundry processing apparatus is a washing machine or a laundry dryer.