CN217869599U - Footing component and washing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses a footing subassembly and washing machine belongs to domestic appliance technical field. This footing subassembly includes fixed footing and base, and the fixed footing includes main part, rake and the grafting portion that connects gradually along the primary axis, and rake and grafting portion are the ring plate structure, are provided with annular slot on the base, and the top of the interior anchor ring of annular slot is equipped with the slope ring limit, and grafting portion can be pegged graft with annular slot and cooperate, and the contact of the interior anchor ring limit with the interior anchor ring face of rake. This footing subassembly has realized the grafting of footing and base through the cooperation that utilizes grafting portion and annular slot, and through setting up the contact area when rake and slope ring limit have increased footing and base and have pegged graft to increased joint strength, improved connection stability.

Description

Footing component and washing machine

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of household appliances, especially, relate to a footing subassembly and washing machine.

Background

Due to the different quality of building construction, the floor often appears the phenomenon of unevenness. Because the vibrations that washing machine during operation produced are great, when the unevenness phenomenon appeared in place washing machine's floor, washing machine can take place to remove at the course of the work, not only can aggravate washing machine's vibrations and noise, and the security is very poor, and washing machine also very easily takes place the damage because of colliding other article. And, because washing machine's organism is heavier, is difficult to move, and washing machine's organism is direct and floor contact in addition to lead to the slit between washing machine organism and the floor very little, very easily hide dirty dirt, breed the mould in the slit, the degree of difficulty that the user cleared up this slit is great.

In order to improve the support stability of the washing machine and to facilitate the cleaning of dirt between the washing machine and the floor, feet for supporting the washing machine and for adjusting the height of the washing machine are generally provided at the bottom of the washing machine. When current footing is being connected with washing machine, generally all be connected through footing and the base that sets up in washing machine bottom and realize, but current footing and base have the relatively poor problem of connection stability when connecting.

Therefore, how to provide a foot assembly with high connection stability is a technical problem to be solved.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

A first object of the utility model is to provide a footing subassembly, this footing subassembly location degree of difficulty when connecting is little, and it is high to connect back stability.

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

a foot assembly, comprising: the fixing foot comprises a main body part, an inclined part and an inserting part which are sequentially connected along a first axis, and the inclined part and the inserting part are of annular plate structures; the base, be provided with annular slot on the base, the top of the interior anchor ring of annular slot is equipped with the slope ring limit, grafting portion can with the annular slot cooperation of pegging graft, just the slope ring limit with the interior anchor ring face of slope face contact.

Preferably, an installation cavity is arranged in the main body part along the first axial direction, a positioning hole is further formed in the base, and the annular slot is arranged around the positioning hole; the foot component further comprises an inserting support, the inserting support comprises a connecting seat and a positioning column, the connecting seat is arranged in the mounting cavity in a limiting mode, and the positioning column protrudes out of the inserting portion and is matched with the positioning hole in an inserting mode.

Preferably, a connecting column is arranged in the mounting cavity, and a first connecting hole is formed in the connecting column; the connecting seat comprises a bottom plate, the positioning column is vertically and convexly arranged on the bottom plate, a second connecting hole is formed in the bottom plate, and a first connecting piece penetrates through the first connecting hole and the second connecting hole.

Preferably, one of the inner wall surface of the installation cavity and the bottom plate is provided with a limiting groove, the other one of the inner wall surface of the installation cavity and the bottom plate is convexly provided with a limiting plate, and the limiting plate is in plug-in fit with the limiting groove so as to limit the plug-in bracket to rotate around the first axis in the installation cavity.

Preferably, the connecting seat further comprises a plurality of positioning plates, the positioning plates are vertically convexly arranged on the bottom plate and surround the circumferential direction of the positioning columns, the positioning plates are close to the end portions of the base and are provided with first step faces, the opening of the positioning holes are provided with second step faces, and the first step faces are attached to the second step faces when the positioning columns are inserted into the positioning holes.

Preferably, the first step surface and the second step surface are both multi-stage step surfaces.

Preferably, a threaded hole is formed in an end of the main body portion away from the inclined portion; the footing component further comprises an adjusting bolt and an adjusting nut, a threaded rod of the adjusting bolt is in threaded connection with the threaded hole, and the adjusting nut is in threaded connection with the threaded rod and located between a nut of the adjusting bolt and the main body portion.

Preferably, the foot assembly further comprises a fixing foot, and the fixing foot is connected to the nut.

Preferably, the height d of the foot member in the direction of the first axis varies in the range of 0cm to 20cm.

Preferably, the main body part is in a cone-shaped cylinder shape, the inclined part is arranged at a large-size end of the main body part, an included angle between the inclined part and the first axis is an acute angle, and the insertion part extends in a direction parallel to the first axis.

A second object of the utility model is to provide a washing machine, this washing machine's footing subassembly location degree of difficulty is little when connecting, and it is high to connect back stability.

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

a washing machine comprises a washing machine body and the foot component, wherein the base is fixedly connected to the bottom of the washing machine body.

The utility model has the advantages that:

the utility model provides a footing subassembly, this footing subassembly include fixed footing and base, and fixed footing includes main part, rake and grafting portion that connects gradually along the primary axis, and rake and grafting portion are the loop plate structure, are provided with annular slot on the base, and the top of annular slot's interior anchor ring is equipped with the slope annular rim, and grafting portion can be pegged graft with annular slot and cooperate, and the interior anchor ring face contact of slope annular rim and rake. This footing subassembly has realized the grafting of fixed footing and base through the cooperation that utilizes grafting portion and annular slot, and has increased the area of contact when fixed footing and base are pegged graft through setting up rake and slope ring limit to joint strength has been increased, connection stability has been improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a footing assembly provided in an embodiment of the present invention, except for a base;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the structure shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural view of a fixing foot of a foot assembly according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of a plugging bracket of a foot component provided by an embodiment of the invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an adjusting bolt, an adjusting nut and a fixing leg of a footing assembly provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a top view of a base provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 isbase:Sub>A sectional view taken along the line A-A in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is an enlarged view of a portion of the structure of FIG. 7;

fig. 9 is an assembly view of a foot assembly provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is an enlarged view of a portion B in fig. 9.

In the figure:

1. fixing bottom feet; 101. a main body part; 102. an inclined portion; 103. a plug-in part; 104. a mounting cavity; 105. connecting columns; 1051. a first connection hole; 106. a connecting portion; 1061. a third connection hole; 107. a limiting plate;

2. inserting a bracket; 201. a positioning column; 202. a base plate; 2021. a second connection hole; 2022. a limiting groove; 203. positioning a plate; 2031. a first step surface;

3. adjusting the bolt; 301. a threaded rod; 302. a nut; 303. a slot member;

4. adjusting the nut; 401. clamping convex;

5. a fixing leg;

6. a second connecting member;

7. a base; 701. an annular slot; 702. inclining the annular edge; 703. and (6) positioning the holes.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions of the present invention will be described more clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it should be understood that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

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 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 as a specific case by those skilled in the art.

As shown in fig. 1 to 10, the present embodiment provides a foot assembly that can be used at the bottom of a home appliance such as a washing machine to function as a support and adjustment of an appliance body. Of course, other devices requiring support and height adjustment of the support, other than appliances, can also use the foot assembly. In the present embodiment, a washing machine is used as an object of the foot assembly.

Specifically, the foot assembly includes a securing foot 1 and a base 7. The base 7 may be a structure integrally formed on the washing machine main body, or the base 7 may also be an independent structure independent from the washing machine main body, and the independent structure is connected and mounted with the washing machine main body through a connecting piece or other connecting methods. As shown in fig. 6 to 8, the base 7 is provided with an annular slot 701, the annular slot 701 includes an inner annular surface and an outer annular surface that are concentrically arranged, the inner annular surface is sleeved in the outer annular surface, the top of the inner annular surface is provided with an inclined annular edge 702, and the inclined annular edge 702 is arranged to gradually increase the opening of the annular slot 701. As shown in fig. 1 to 5, the fixing foot 1 includes a main body portion 101, an inclined portion 102 and a socket portion 103 connected in sequence along a first axis (a vertical central axis of the fixing foot 1), and the inclined portion 102 and the socket portion 103 are both ring plate structures. When the fixing foot 1 and the base 7 are assembled, the plugging portion 103 of the fixing foot 1 can be in plugging fit with the annular slot 701 of the base 7, and the inclined annular edge 702 is in surface contact with the inner annular surface of the inclined portion 102 after plugging is completed.

As shown in fig. 9 and 10, the base assembly realizes the insertion of the fixing base 1 and the base 7 by the cooperation of the insertion portion 103 and the annular insertion groove 701, and since the inclined portion 102 is provided on the fixing base 1, the inclined annular edge 702 is provided at the opening of the annular insertion groove 701 of the base 7, the inclination direction and the inclination of the inner annular surface of the inclined portion 102 and the inclined annular edge 702 are respectively set to be the same, so that the contact area when the fixing base 1 and the base 7 are inserted is increased, the connection strength of the fixing base 1 and the base 7 is increased, and the connection stability of the fixing base 1 and the base 7 is improved.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, in the present embodiment, the main body 101 of the fixing foot 1 has a tapered cylindrical shape. A mounting cavity 104 is formed in the fixing foot 1, the mounting cavity 104 extends along the first axial direction, and the mounting cavity 104 is communicated with a space surrounded by the inner annular surface of the inclined portion 102. The inclined portion 102 is disposed at the large-sized end of the main body portion 101, and an included angle between the inclined portion 102 and the first axis is an acute angle, and in the present embodiment, a specific value of the acute angle is not limited, and the setting is flexible according to a requirement. The plug part 103 extends in a direction parallel to the first axis, so that the plug part 103 can be inserted into the annular slot 701 more easily.

Alternatively, as shown with continued reference to fig. 1 and 3, the main body 101 is provided with a connecting portion 106 along its circumferential direction. Specifically, the connecting portion 106 is an arc-shaped plate or a ring plate, the connecting portion 106 is provided with a third connecting hole 1061, and after the insertion portion 103 and the annular slot 701 are inserted and matched, a connecting member passes through the third connecting hole 1061 and a fixing hole on the base 7, so as to lock the fixing foot 1 on the base 7. Further optionally, the number of the third connection holes 1061 may be multiple according to requirements, multiple third connection holes 1061 are arranged at intervals on the connection portion 106, and multiple connection pieces penetrate through at least part of the third connection holes 1061 in a one-to-one correspondence manner.

Further, in order to facilitate positioning when assembling the fixing foot 1 and the base 7, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the foot assembly further includes a plug support 2, the plug support 2 includes a connecting base and a positioning column 201, the connecting base is disposed and limited in the mounting cavity 104, and the positioning column 201 protrudes from the plug portion 103. Moreover, a positioning hole 703 is further formed in the base 7, the annular slot 701 is arranged around the positioning hole 703, and the positioning hole 703 and the positioning column 201 can be matched in an inserted manner. When the fixing foot 1 and the base 7 are assembled, the positioning column 201 of the plugging support 2 is firstly placed in the positioning hole 703 to realize initial positioning of the fixing foot 1 and the base 7, and then a force is applied in a direction that the connecting base and the positioning column 201 are close to each other, so that the plugging portion 103 can be smoothly inserted into the annular slot 701. The positioning difficulty in the assembling process of the fixing bottom foot 1 and the base 7 is reduced by the matching of the positioning hole 703 of the positioning column 201, and the assembling efficiency is improved.

With continued reference to fig. 2 and 4, the connector block includes a base plate 202 and a plurality of positioning plates 203. The bottom plate 202 is a circular plate, and the positioning column 201 is vertically protruded at the center of the bottom plate 202. A plurality of locating plates 203 are all connected perpendicularly on bottom plate 202, and a plurality of locating plates 203 encircle the circumference setting of reference column 201, and each locating plate 203 all includes two right-angle sides, and one of them right-angle side and bottom plate 202 fixed connection, another right-angle side is connected with the outer wall of reference column 201. Of course, the positioning column 201, the bottom plate 202 and the positioning plate 203 may be integrally formed or may be separate structures, and then are connected together by welding or other connection methods.

In order to prevent the plugging bracket 2 from rotating in the mounting cavity 104 of the fixing foot 1, as shown in fig. 3 and 4, a limiting plate 107 is convexly disposed on an inner wall surface of the mounting cavity 104, the limiting plate 107 extends in a direction parallel to the first axis, a limiting groove 2022 is disposed on an outer annular surface of the bottom plate 202, and the limiting plate 107 and the limiting groove 2022 can be in plugging fit to limit the plugging bracket 2 from rotating around the first axis in the mounting cavity 104. When assembling the plug-in bracket 2, the limiting groove 2022 is aligned with the limiting plate 107, and then the plug-in bracket 2 is moved towards the inside of the mounting cavity 104, so that the limiting plate 107 is placed in the limiting groove 2022.

Of course, in other embodiments, the positions of the limiting groove 2022 and the limiting plate 107 may be interchanged, that is, the limiting groove 2022 is disposed on the inner wall surface of the mounting cavity 104, and at this time, the limiting groove 2022 may be formed by a portion of the inner wall surface of the mounting cavity 104 being recessed in a direction away from the first axis, or may be formed by a space between two convex plates convexly disposed on the inner wall surface of the mounting cavity 104. Correspondingly, the limiting plate 107 is disposed on the bottom plate 202, and at this time, the limiting plate 107 and the bottom plate 202 may be integrally formed, or may be connected together by independent pieces.

Further, in order to improve the stability of the plug-in bracket 2 in the mounting cavity 104 of the fixing foot 1, as shown in fig. 2 to 4, a connecting column 105 is disposed in the mounting cavity 104, a first connecting hole 1051 is disposed on the connecting column 105, a second connecting hole 2021 is disposed on the bottom plate 202, and the first connecting piece is inserted into the first connecting hole 1051 and the second connecting hole 2021. After the inserting support 2 moves in place in the installation cavity 104, the first connecting piece sequentially penetrates through the first connecting hole 1051 and the second connecting hole 2021 to achieve relative fixing of the inserting support 2 and the connecting column 105, so that the fixed connection of the inserting support 2 and the fixing bottom foot 1 can be achieved, and the phenomenon that the inserting support 2 moves towards the direction far away from the base 7 when the positioning column 201 is matched with the positioning hole 703 in an inserting mode is avoided.

Optionally, the connecting columns 105 may be provided in a plurality according to requirements, the connecting columns 105 are uniformly distributed along the circumferential direction of the first axis, correspondingly, the bottom plate 202 is provided with a plurality of second connecting holes 2021, and the plurality of second connecting holes 2021 and the first connecting holes 1051 of the connecting columns 105 are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence manner.

Further, as shown in fig. 4, a first step surface 2031 is disposed on an end of the positioning plate 203 close to the base 7, a second step surface is disposed at an opening of the positioning hole 703, and the first step surface 2031 and the second step surface are attached to each other when the positioning column 201 is inserted into the positioning hole 703. Therefore, the positioning effect of the inserting support 2 and the base 7 can be further improved.

Optionally, the first step surface 2031 and the second step surface are both multi-stage step surfaces, so as to further improve the positioning effect of the plug-in bracket 2 and the base 7. In this embodiment, the first step surface 2031 and the second step surface are both three-level step surfaces.

With continued reference to fig. 1, 2 and 5, the foot assembly further includes an adjusting bolt 3 and an adjusting nut 4, a threaded hole is provided on an end portion of the main body portion 101 away from the inclined portion 102, a threaded rod 301 of the adjusting bolt 3 is threadedly coupled in the threaded hole, and the adjusting nut 4 is threadedly coupled to the threaded rod 301 and is located between a nut 302 of the adjusting bolt 3 and the main body portion 101. The supporting height of the footing can be flexibly adjusted by utilizing the adjusting bolt 3 and the adjusting nut 4, and the use experience of a user is high.

Optionally, the threaded hole provided in the main body 101 and the mounting cavity 104 may or may not be communicated with each other, and may be selected according to the requirement. In this embodiment, the threaded hole communicates with the mounting cavity 104, so that the mounting cavity 104 can provide a partial space for the movement of the screw, thereby reducing the requirement for the overall height of the fixing foot 1.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 5, a slot member 303 is disposed on the adjusting bolt 3, and a locking protrusion 401 is disposed on the adjusting nut 4, wherein the locking protrusion 401 can be locked in a slot formed by the slot member 303.

Further, with continued reference to fig. 5, the foot assembly further includes a securing foot 5, the securing foot 5 being attached to the nut 302. The fixing foot 5 is made of wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials, such as rubber, so that the wear resistance and corrosion resistance of the foot component in contact with the ground for a long time are improved, and the wear speed and replacement frequency of the foot component are reduced.

With continued reference to fig. 2, the foot assembly further comprises a second connecting member 6, the second connecting member 6 being arranged through the fixing foot 5 and the nut 302, thereby enabling the connection of the fixing foot 5 to the adjusting bolt 3. Optionally, the second connector 6 is a screw.

The embodiment also provides a washing machine, which comprises a washing machine body and the foot component, wherein the base 7 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the washing machine body, and the fixing foot 5 of the foot component is in contact with the ground. The washing machine can not only stably support the washing machine main body, flexibly adjust the height of the washing machine main body, but also has high stability and high assembly efficiency in the assembly process by using the bottom foot component.

It should be noted that, since the height d of the foot assembly in the first axial direction is varied in a range of 0cm to 20cm, the height of the gap between the washing machine main body and the ground is in a range of 0cm to 20cm by using the foot assembly. The use of this footing subassembly has improved washing machine's job stabilization nature to a very big degree to and reduced the clearance degree of difficulty of the gap between washing machine main part and the ground, solved the problem that easily hide dirty and dirty, the easy moldy problem in the gap between washing machine main part and the ground.

It is obvious that the above embodiments of the present invention are only examples for clearly illustrating the present invention, and are not intended to limit the embodiments of the present invention. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims (11)

1. A foot assembly, comprising:

the fixing foot (1) comprises a main body part (101), an inclined part (102) and an inserting part (103) which are sequentially connected along a first axis, wherein the inclined part (102) and the inserting part (103) are both of a ring plate structure;

the base (7), be provided with annular slot (701) on base (7), the top of the interior annular face of annular slot (701) is equipped with slope annular rim (702), grafting portion (103) can with annular slot (701) grafting cooperation, just slope annular rim (702) with the interior annular face surface contact of slope portion (102).

2. A foot assembly according to claim 1,

an installation cavity (104) is formed in the main body part (101) along the first axial direction, a positioning hole (703) is further formed in the base (7), and the annular slot (701) is arranged around the positioning hole (703);

the foot component further comprises an inserting support (2), the inserting support (2) comprises a connecting seat and a positioning column (201), the connecting seat is arranged in the mounting cavity (104) in a limiting mode, and the positioning column (201) protrudes out of the inserting portion (103) and is matched with the positioning hole (703) in an inserting mode.

3. A foot assembly according to claim 2,

a connecting column (105) is arranged in the mounting cavity (104), and a first connecting hole (1051) is formed in the connecting column (105);

the connecting seat comprises a bottom plate (202), the positioning column (201) is vertically arranged on the bottom plate (202) in a protruding mode, a second connecting hole (2021) is formed in the bottom plate (202), and a first connecting piece penetrates through the first connecting hole (1051) and the second connecting hole (2021).

4. A foot assembly according to claim 3,

one of the inner wall surface of the installation cavity (104) and the bottom plate (202) is provided with a limiting groove (2022), the other one is convexly provided with a limiting plate (107), and the limiting plate (107) is in plug-in fit with the limiting groove (2022) to limit the plug-in bracket (2) to rotate around the first axis in the installation cavity (104).

5. A foot assembly according to claim 3,

the connecting seat still includes a plurality of locating plates (203), and is a plurality of locating plate (203) are protruding to be established perpendicularly on bottom plate (202) and encircle the circumference setting of reference column (201), locating plate (203) are close to be provided with first step face (2031) on the tip of base (7), the opening part of locating hole (703) is provided with the second step face, reference column (201) insert when locating hole (703) first step face (2031) with the laminating of second step face.

6. A foot assembly according to claim 5,

the first step surface (2031) and the second step surface are both multi-stage step surfaces.

7. A foot assembly according to claim 1,

a threaded hole is formed in the end, far away from the inclined part (102), of the main body part (101);

the footing assembly further comprises an adjusting bolt (3) and an adjusting nut (4), wherein a threaded rod (301) of the adjusting bolt (3) is in threaded connection in the threaded hole, and the adjusting nut (4) is in threaded connection on the threaded rod (301) and located between a nut (302) of the adjusting bolt (3) and the main body part (101).

8. A foot assembly according to claim 7,

the foot assembly further comprises a fixing foot (5), and the fixing foot (5) is connected to the nut (302).

9. A foot assembly according to claim 7,

the height d of the foot assembly in the direction of the first axis may vary from 0cm to 20cm.

10. A foot assembly according to any one of claims 1-9,

the main body part (101) is in a cone cylinder shape, the inclined part (102) is arranged at the large-size end of the main body part (101), the included angle between the inclined part (102) and the first axis is an acute angle, and the inserting part (103) extends in the direction parallel to the first axis.

11. A washing machine, characterized in that it comprises a washing machine body and a foot assembly according to any one of claims 1-10, said foot (7) being fixedly attached to the bottom of said washing machine body.

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