CN214458957U

CN214458957U - Door seals structure and clothing treatment facility

Info

Publication number: CN214458957U
Application number: CN202022945174.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘梦瑜; 宋三力; 汪坤; 宁喆
Original assignee: Wuxi Little Swan Electric Co Ltd
Current assignee: Wuxi Little Swan Electric Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-10
Filing date: 2020-12-10
Publication date: 2021-10-22
Anticipated expiration: 2030-12-10

Abstract

The utility model belongs to the technical field of household appliances, in particular to a door seal structure and a clothes treatment device, wherein the door seal structure comprises a door seal main body, a plurality of water spray ports and a plurality of clothes blocking ribs, and the door seal main body is connected with a barrel mouth of an outer barrel of the clothes treatment device; the water spray nozzle is arranged on the inner circumferential surface of the door seal main body; the clothes blocking ribs extend inwards from the inner peripheral surface of the door seal main body along the radial direction of the door seal main body, and the clothes blocking ribs are positioned on the outer side of the water spraying port along the axial direction of the door seal main body. The utility model provides a keep off the clothing muscle in the door seals the structure and both can realize preventing that the clothing from falling into the effect between inner tube and the glass door, can also regard as the face that sprays to realize spraying, utilizes to keep off the clothing muscle and does the preparation that the face that sprays was not only convenient for the door seals the structure, has saved the space of door seals the structure moreover, has solved and has sprayed the face and keep off the problem of clothing muscle interference each other in the current clothing treatment facility.

Description

Door seals structure and clothing treatment facility

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of domestic appliance, concretely relates to door seals structure and clothing treatment facility.

Background

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

A laundry treating apparatus, which is one of home appliances commonly used in daily life, generally includes a washing apparatus, a drying apparatus, and a washing and drying integrated apparatus, wherein the washing apparatus generally includes a pulsator type laundry treating apparatus and a drum type laundry treating apparatus.

Drum-type clothing treatment facility is usually including sealing, glass door and inner tube, and drum-type clothing treatment facility on the current market is provided with the spray set who is used for to inner tube injected water usually, and in order to improve the effect of spraying, spray set is including the face that sprays that is used for scattering rivers, but because clothing treatment facility's fender clothing muscle has taken up great space on sealing at the door, leads to spraying the face and keeps off clothing muscle mutual interference, influences the effect of spraying.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims at least solving the problem that the spraying surface of the existing clothes treatment equipment interferes with the clothes blocking rib. The purpose is realized by the following technical scheme:

the utility model discloses the first aspect provides a door seal structure, include:

a door seal body connected with a drum opening of an outer drum of the laundry treating apparatus;

the water spray opening is arranged on the inner circumferential surface of the door seal main body;

the clothes blocking ribs extend inwards from the inner peripheral surface of the door seal main body along the radial direction of the door seal main body, and the clothes blocking ribs are located on the outer side of the water spraying port along the axial direction of the door seal main body.

According to the utility model discloses door seals structure, through setting up at the inner peripheral surface of door seal main part and keeping off clothing muscle and water jet, utilize and keep off the clothing muscle with water jet spun water reflection to clothes treatment facility's inner tube in, from this, need not to set up alone in the door seal structure that this embodiment provided and spray the face, it both can realize preventing that the clothing from falling into the effect between inner tube and the glass door to keep off the clothing muscle, can also assist the water jet to realize spraying, consequently, the mode that utilizes to keep off the clothing muscle to do the face that sprays is not only convenient for the preparation of door seal structure, and the space of door seal structure has been saved, the problem of spraying the face and keeping off clothing muscle mutual interference in the current clothes treatment facility has been solved.

In addition, according to the utility model discloses a door seals structure can also have following technical characterstic:

in some embodiments of the present invention, a side of the clothes blocking rib facing the outer cylinder is provided with at least one groove for reflecting water flow ejected from the water jet into the inner cylinder of the clothes treatment device.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the number of the grooves is two, and the projection of the water jet on the clothes blocking rib is located between the grooves.

In some embodiments of the present invention, a side of the groove facing the inner circumferential surface of the door seal main body is provided as an arc-shaped surface.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the clothes blocking ribs are provided with two, and the water spraying ports are provided with two.

In some embodiments of the present invention, two of the clothes-blocking ribs are close to the top of the door seal main body and are axisymmetric with respect to the diameter of the vertical direction of the door seal main body.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the door seal structure further includes a water supply pipe, the water supply pipe is provided with a water inlet end and a water outlet end, the water inlet end is communicated with the circulating water pump of the clothes treatment device, and the water outlet end is communicated with the water jet.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the inside of the door seal main body is provided with a cavity, and the water supply pipe is arranged in the cavity along the circumferential direction of the door seal main body.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the water supply pipe is an arc-shaped water supply pipe.

The utility model discloses the second aspect provides a clothing treatment facility, clothing treatment facility includes according to above-mentioned embodiment the door seals the structure.

The clothes treatment equipment provided by the embodiment of the utility model has the same advantages as the door seal structure in the embodiment, and is not repeated herein.

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 structural view of a door seal structure according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the dock seal configuration of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a side view of the dock seal structure of FIG. 1;

fig. 4 is a sectional view of the dock seal structure a-a of fig. 3.

The reference symbols in the drawings denote the following:

100. a door seal structure;

10. a dock seal body;

20. a water supply pipe; 21. a water inlet end; 22. a water outlet end;

30. a water jet;

40. a clothes blocking rib; 41. and (4) a groove.

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 "below … …" can include both an orientation of above and below. 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 to 4, an embodiment of the first aspect of the present invention provides a door seal structure 100 for a laundry processing apparatus, which may be applied in a drum washing machine. The door seal structure 100 comprises a door seal main body 10, a water spray opening 30 and a clothes blocking rib 40, wherein the door seal main body 10 is connected with a cylinder opening of an outer cylinder of the clothes treatment equipment; the water jet 30 is provided on the inner circumferential surface of the dock seal body 10; the coating blocking rib 40 extends inward from the inner peripheral surface of the dock seal body 10 in the radial direction of the dock seal body 10, and the coating blocking rib 40 is located outside the water jet 30 in the axial direction of the dock seal body 10.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a door seals structure 100, through setting up the clothing muscle 40 and the water jet 30 of keeping off at the inner peripheral surface of door seal main part 10, utilize and keep off clothing muscle 40 and reflect the inner tube of clothing processing equipment with water jet 30 spun water, from this, the utility model provides an in the door seals structure 100 that provides need not to set up alone and spray the face, keep off clothing muscle 40 and both can realize preventing that the clothing from falling into the effect between inner tube and the glass door, can also assist water jet 30 to realize spraying, consequently utilize to keep off clothing muscle 40 and do the mode that sprays the face and not only be convenient for the preparation of door seals structure 100, saved door seals structure 100's space moreover, solved and sprayed the face and keep off clothing muscle 40 mutual interference's problem in the current clothing processing equipment.

It should be noted that, when the door seal structure 100 provided in this embodiment is installed in a clothes processing apparatus, the door seal main body 10 is sleeved on a mouth of an outer cylinder of the clothes processing apparatus, the inner cylinder is disposed in the outer cylinder, in the orientation shown in fig. 1, a front side of the door seal main body 10 is a side where a glass door (not shown in the figure) of the clothes processing apparatus is located, a rear side of the door seal main body 10 is a side where the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder (not shown in the figure) are located, in the operation process of the clothes processing apparatus, the clothes blocking ribs 40 in the door seal structure 100 are used for blocking clothes in the inner cylinder and preventing the clothes from falling between the inner cylinder and the glass door to cause damage to the clothes, and the water spray openings 30 in the door seal structure 100 are used for continuously spraying water into the inner cylinder to realize circular spraying of the clothes.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the sectional shape of the dock seal body 10 is a circular ring, the inner circumferential surface of the dock seal body 10 is provided with a water jet 30 and a clothes-blocking rib 40, the water jet 30 is disposed corresponding to the clothes-blocking rib 40, for example, the water jet 30 may be inclined at a certain angle, so that water sprayed from the water jet 30 can fall on the clothes-blocking rib 40. Further, the number of the clothes-blocking ribs 40 may be equal to the number of the water-spraying openings 30, the number of the water-spraying openings 30 may be plural, for example, two, three, four, etc., and correspondingly, the number of the clothes-blocking ribs 40 may also be two, three, four, etc. Further, the clothes rib 40 may be provided in a flat plate shape, an arc plate shape, or other irregular shapes, and the shape of the clothes rib 40 is not particularly limited in this embodiment.

The plurality of water spraying ports 30 may be arranged along the circumference of the dock seal body 10, and each water spraying port 30 corresponds to one clothes blocking rib 40, so that water may be sprayed onto the clothes blocking rib 40, and after falling onto the clothes blocking rib 40, the water is reflected and sprayed into the inner cylinder by being blocked by the clothes blocking rib 40. Illustratively, the water spray 30 is provided as a through hole opened on the inner circumferential surface of the dock seal body 10, and communicates with the water supply pipe 20 located inside the dock seal body 10.

Further, in some embodiments of the present invention, the clothes blocking rib 40 is fixedly connected to the inner circumferential surface of the door seal main body 10, specifically, the clothes blocking rib 40 and the inner circumferential surface of the door seal main body 10 may be integrally formed, and such an arrangement is convenient for manufacturing; or, the clothes blocking ribs 40 can be separately arranged, and the clothes blocking ribs 40 are bonded on the inner peripheral surface of the door seal main body 10 through an adhesive; the clothing barrier rib 40 may be connected to the inner circumferential surface of the dock seal body 10 by a bolt or a screw.

Specifically, the clothes blocking rib 40 extends inward from the inner circumferential surface of the dock seal body 10 in the radial direction of the dock seal body 10, and it should be noted that, in this embodiment, the clothes blocking rib 40 extends inward means that the clothes blocking rib 40 extends toward the center of the dock seal body 10 to form a spraying surface for reflecting water flow. On the basis, the clothes-blocking ribs 40 are positioned at the outer side of the water jet 30, namely, the side of the water jet 30 departing from the inner cylinder, so that the water sprayed from the water jet 30 can be reflected to the position of the inner cylinder.

Further, in some embodiments of the present invention, at least one groove 41 is disposed on one side of the clothes blocking rib 40 facing the outer cylinder, and understandably, the water flow sprayed from the water spraying opening 30 can fall on one side of the clothes blocking rib 40 facing the outer cylinder, and the groove 41 is disposed on the side, so as to further improve the spraying area after the reflection of the water flow, thereby improving the spraying effect.

Specifically, in the present embodiment, the groove 41 is recessed outward from the side of the clothing blocking rib 40 facing the outer cylinder, the groove 41 may be formed by injection molding, and for example, the bottom of the groove 41 may be set as a plane or a concave arc surface; the side wall of the groove 41 may be a flat surface or a concave arc surface. The number of the grooves 41 on each clothing rib 40 can be set to one or two.

Preferably, as shown in fig. 2 and 4, in some embodiments of the present invention, the number of the grooves 41 disposed on each clothes-blocking rib 40 is two, and the projection of the water-spraying opening 30 on the clothes-blocking rib 40 is located between the two grooves 41, further, the water-spraying opening 30 is aligned with the middle position of the two grooves 41, therefore, the water sprayed from the water-spraying opening 30 can be reflected by the grooves 41 on both sides respectively, and is sprayed into the inner cylinder in a two-piece waterfall shape, so as to further improve the spraying effect.

Further, in some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, the groove 41 has two sides, wherein the side facing the inner peripheral surface of the door seal main body 10 is an arc-shaped surface, which can better reflect water flow and increase the contact area between the water flow and the clothes when the water flow is sprayed on the clothes. On the basis of the above embodiment, the number of the grooves 41 provided on each clothing rib 40 is two, and the two grooves 41 are adjacently provided.

Illustratively, a protruding strip is arranged between the two grooves 41 to separate the two grooves, and on the basis of the protruding strip, the projection of the water jet 30 on the clothes blocking rib 40 falls on the protruding strip, so that the water sprayed from the water jet 30 falls on the protruding strip and is divided into the two grooves 41, and the water is reflected and sprayed into the inner cylinder after being blocked by the grooves 41.

The utility model discloses a some embodiments, keep off clothing muscle 40 and be provided with two, correspondingly, water jet 30 also is provided with two, and one water jet 30 and one keep off clothing muscle 40 and correspond the setting, and further, keep off clothing muscle 40 and can set up in the position that is close to the top of door seal main part 10, also can set up in the position of the both sides along the horizontal direction of door seal main part 10, can also set up in the position that is close to the bottom of door seal main part 10.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 1, two clothes blocking ribs 40 are disposed at positions close to the top of the dock seal body 10, the two clothes blocking ribs 40 are axisymmetric about the diameter of the dock seal body 10 in the vertical direction, and the number of the grooves 41 disposed on each clothes blocking rib 40 is two, so that, on the basis of the above embodiment, water ejected from the two water outlets 30 can form four sheet-like water flows to be sprayed into the inner cylinder after being reflected by the two clothes blocking ribs 40, and the spraying effect of the water outlets 30 is further improved.

In addition to the above embodiments, the dock seal 100 further includes a water supply pipe 20, the water supply pipe 20 is disposed in the dock seal body 10 and is used for supplying water to the water spraying opening 30, for example, as shown in fig. 4, a cavity is disposed in the dock seal body 10, and the water supply pipe 20 is disposed in the cavity along the circumferential direction of the dock seal body 10 and is communicated with the water spraying opening 30 on the dock seal body 10. Further, a coupling assembly may be provided in the cavity and couple the water supply pipe 20 in the cavity through the coupling assembly, preventing the water supply pipe 20 from sliding, thereby securing stability of the water supply pipe 20. For example, the connection assembly may include a snap ring and a bolt, and after the snap ring clamps the water supply pipe 20, the snap ring is connected to the inner wall of the cavity by the bolt, so that the water supply pipe 20 is connected to the cavity of the door seal through the snap ring and the bolt. As another example, the water supply tube 20 may be connected within the cavity by a snap fit.

In some embodiments of the present invention, the cavity inside the door seal body 10 may be arranged in a ring shape or an arc shape along the axis of the door seal body 10, and accordingly, as shown in fig. 4, the water supply pipe 20 located in the cavity may be arranged as an arc-shaped water supply pipe 20, and the water supply pipe 20 is provided with a water outlet 22 for communicating with the water spraying port 30.

Specifically, take two water outlets 30 disposed on the door seal body 10 as an example, in some embodiments of the present invention, the water supply pipe 20 is provided with a water inlet end 21 and two water outlet ends 22, the water inlet end 21 is communicated with the circulating water pump of the clothes treatment device, the water outlet ends 22 are communicated with the water outlets 30, please continue to refer to fig. 4, when the water supply pipe 20 is set as the arc-shaped water supply pipe 20, the water inlet end 21 is disposed at one end of the water supply pipe 20, one of the water outlet ends 22 is disposed at the other end of the water supply pipe 20, and the other water outlet end 22 is disposed at the middle portion of the water supply pipe 20, so as to ensure that the water flow can reach the two water outlet ends 22 and can be sprayed out through the water outlets 30.

It will be appreciated that the number of outlet ends 22 is equal to the number of water jets 30, and that each outlet end 22 can be configured to extend beyond a head of the water supply pipe 20, with each head extending into one of the water jets 30, such that water from the water supply pipe 20 is emitted through the water jets 30.

Further, in some embodiments of the present invention, the cross-sectional area of the water outlet end 22 is smaller than or equal to the cross-sectional area of the water spraying opening 30, such arrangement facilitates the connection between the water outlet end 22 and the water spraying opening 30, on this basis, when the water outlet end 22 is configured as a pipe head, the pipe head of the water outlet end 22 can be screwed or plugged with the water spraying opening 30, and the pipe head of the water outlet end 22 can be in transition fit with the water spraying opening 30 to ensure the stability of the connection between the water outlet end 22 and the water spraying opening 30.

An embodiment of the second aspect of the present invention provides a clothes treating apparatus, which includes the door seal structure 100 according to the above embodiment.

Illustratively, the clothes treatment equipment in the embodiment is a drum washing machine, the drum washing machine comprises an outer drum, an inner drum and a glass door, the drum opening part of the outer drum is connected to the door seal body 10 of the door seal structure 100, in the door seal structure 100 proposed in the above embodiment, the water supply pipe 20 is arranged in the door seal body 10, and the water supply pipe 20 is communicated with a circulating water pump of the drum washing machine, so as to realize circulating spraying in combination with the clothes blocking rib 40 in the door seal structure 100.

The clothes treatment device of the embodiment of the present invention has the same advantages as the door seal structure 100 of the above embodiment, and is not repeated herein.

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 should be covered by the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A door seal structure for a laundry treating apparatus, comprising:

2. The dock seal of claim 1, wherein the side of the clothes-blocking rib facing the outer drum is provided with at least one groove for reflecting the water flow from the water jet into an inner drum of the clothes treating apparatus.

3. The dock seal of claim 2, wherein the number of the grooves is two, and the projection of the water jet on the clothes blocking rib is located between the two grooves.

4. The dock seal of claim 2, wherein a side of the recess facing the inner circumferential surface of the dock seal body is configured as an arcuate surface.

5. The dock seal of claim 1, wherein there are two of the clothing retaining ribs and two of the water jets.

6. The dock seal of claim 5, wherein the two barrier ribs are near a top of the dock seal body and are axisymmetric about a vertical diameter of the dock seal body.

7. The door seal structure according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising a water supply pipe, wherein the water supply pipe is provided with a water inlet end and a water outlet end, the water inlet end is communicated with a circulating water pump of the clothes treatment apparatus, and the water outlet end is communicated with the water spray opening.

8. The dock seal of claim 7, wherein the dock seal body is provided with a cavity therein, the water supply pipe being disposed within the cavity in a circumferential direction of the dock seal body.

9. The dock seal of claim 8, wherein the water supply pipe is provided as an arcuate water supply pipe.

10. A laundry treating apparatus, characterized by comprising the dock seal structure according to any one of claims 1 to 9.