EP1206596B1 - Improvements relating to clothes driers - Google Patents
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- EP1206596B1 EP1206596B1 EP00954762A EP00954762A EP1206596B1 EP 1206596 B1 EP1206596 B1 EP 1206596B1 EP 00954762 A EP00954762 A EP 00954762A EP 00954762 A EP00954762 A EP 00954762A EP 1206596 B1 EP1206596 B1 EP 1206596B1
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
- D06F57/00—Supporting means, other than simple clothes-lines, for linen or garments to be dried or aired
- D06F57/02—Supporting means, other than simple clothes-lines, for linen or garments to be dried or aired mounted on pillars, e.g. rotatably
- D06F57/04—Supporting means, other than simple clothes-lines, for linen or garments to be dried or aired mounted on pillars, e.g. rotatably and having radial arms, e.g. collapsible
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- This invention relates to clothes driers.
- rotary devices which have an upright column with arms hinged to a sleeve slidable up the column to cause the arms, coupled by stays to the top of the column, to spread.
- Lines extend between the arms and form a set of polygons around the column. Articles are hung out to dry on these lines, which are taut when the arms are spread.
- EP-B-0 113 788 It has been proposed, for example in EP-B-0 113 788, to pull the lines into the arms as they are folded, keeping them tidy and making a fabric cover unnecessary.
- EP-B-0 514 561 does away with those cords and relies on weights acting on or being provided by the sliders to pull the lines into the arms.
- EP 882883 describes a rotary drier formed of an expanding frame mounted as an upright post.
- the line is formed of closed string polygons held on the frame with each arm having an element for drawing in the lines.
- each arm has a separate element, the process for drawing in the lines is complicated and can increase the risk of the lines not being drawn in uniformity.
- each arm has a main arm member and a guide element carried thereby and shiftable longitudinally thereof, both having a set of registering apertures through which adjacent sections of each polygon enter the associated arm.
- the apertures may be configured so that, in one position of the guide element each pair of registering apertures creates two separate holes, each for a respective one said adjacent section, and in another position of the guide element each pair of registering apertures creates a single hole. This other position allows the junctions between lines and strops to be pulled out clear of the arm for adjustment or when replacing lines, for example.
- the apertures in the main arm members will be in sides thereof that face upwardly when the arms are spread and towards the column when the arms are folded.
- the guide element of each arm extends over said side and has divergent flanges along opposite edges.
- the lines will run over these flanges when the arms are spread, and the flanges of all the arms will co-operate to enclose the column when the arms are folded. Thus not even short horizontal lengths of line between adjacent arms will be visible.
- the yoke is a plastics moulding providing smooth surfaces under which the strops run and configured to keep the strops separate and balanced in relation to the attachment point of the moving means.
- the moving means may be a spring within each arm, and preferably a constant force coil spring. This can be positioned at the root of the associated arm and have a straight line connection to the yoke.
- the moving means is a manually operable slider movable lengthwise of each arm.
- These sliders can have projections such as knobs or finger rings which are proud of the outer/under sides of the arms, in which case a main member of each arm is conveniently a generally channel shaped extrusion with the associated slider guided by formations at the mouth of the channel and with its projection extending outwardly beyond that mouth.
- the sliders may be elongate to provide covers over the inner/lower ends of the channels when the arms are retracted, while the outer/upper end of each channel may have a permanent cap behind which most of the slider will move when the arms are extended to the in-use position.
- a rotary drier having a column, arms pivoted to a sleeve slidable up and down the column to cause the arms collectively to move between a retracted position alongside the column and a raised in-use position radiating outwardly and upwardly from near the top of the column, lines between adjacent arms that come taut when the arms are raised, wedge elements on the sides of the arms facing the column, a collar, also slidable up and down the column, above the sleeve, and means for drawing the collar and sleeve together, wherein the collar co-operates with the wedge elements so that, when the sleeve is raised from its lowermost position where the arms are retracted and the collar is drawn towards the sleeve, the wedge elements cause the arms to pivot away from that retracted position.
- the means for drawing the collar and sleeve together preferably include a draw cord or line attached to one of the collar and the sleeve, and led through a fairlead on the other of the collar and the sleeve.
- a rotary clothes drier has an upright column 1 of metal tubing, generally aluminium.
- a sleeve 2 conveniently of moulded plastics material, is slidable up and down the column and the inner ends of equi-spaced arms 3 are pivoted to it.
- a cap 4 at the top of the column has three stays 5 pivoted to it and these couple to respective arms at about their mid points.
- each arm 3 has within it a set of couplers 8 to which the lines 7 are attached.
- Two lines enter the arm from corresponding positions on adjacent arms via respective apertures and are attached or linked to an associated coupler 8.
- there may be just one line with intermediate points being fastened or belayed to three of the couplers and the ends of the line separately attached to the fourth coupler.
- the couplers are small rings, as shown, a single line made into a loop can pass through them. The line could then be pulled round occasionally, thus not subjecting the same portions to wear all the time.
- each arm 3 the coupler 8 for innermost line 7a is linked by a strop 9 to the coupler for the outermost line 7h.
- the second innermost line 7b is linked to the second outermost line 7g by another strop 10.
- the bight of each strop passes through an eye on a yoke 13 which can move freely along the arm and which by spring means pulls all the lines into the arm as that is shifted to the vertical.
- spring means and a preferred yoke are described below.
- the couplers may conveniently be snap hooks fastened to the ends of the strops.
- the lines would pass through the closed eyes formed by the hooks and their keeps.
- each arm 3 is an assembly of extrusions, the main one 14 preferably being of aluminium and the subsidiary ones 15 and 16 of plastics material.
- the main extrusion 14 is of generally U-section, open outwardly when the arms 3 are folded upright and downwardly when the arms are spread.
- Its base 17 has apertures 18 at regularly spaced intervals and at the root of each side 19, on the outside, there is a smoothly contoured channel 20.
- the sides 19 have inwardly projecting flanges 21 at their free edges and internal ribs 22 and 23 of lesser extent, one pair 22 near the flanges 21 and the other pair 23 at the junctions of the channels 20 and the flat portions of the sides 19.
- the ribs 22 and 23 and the sides 19 guide the yoke 13.
- the subsidiary extrusion 15 is for closing the mouth of the extrusion 14. It is a strip of arcuate cross-section with two barbed legs 24 on the concave side which engage behind the flanges 21 while the edges of the strip bear on the outside of those flanges.
- the extrusion 16 is for guiding the lines 7 and providing a neat finish when the arms 3 are folded against the column. It is generally H-shaped in cross-section, but with the sides flared. The sides comprise small but thick flanges 25, shaped to engage the channels 20 and hold the extrusion 16 with its web 26 close against the base 17 of the extrusion 14, and larger flanges or wings 27 which sweep in outward curves to terminate with outside beads 28. These beads meet when the arms are folded, to enclose the column, and the lines 7 run over them when the arms are spread.
- the web 26 has apertures 29 formed at intervals to register with the apertures 18, these apertures combining to allow the lines 7 to enter the arm.
- Figure 2 the lines 7 are shown diagrammatically entering an arm at opposite sides, but it is also known to have two adjacent sections of line entering through a common aperture as in Figure 3. Both have their advantages: with two separate apertures there is less risk of entanglement, while with one it is easier to effect adjustments.
- Figures 4 and 5 show how there can be two apertures for normal use and one for adjustment.
- Each aperture 18 in the base 17 of the extrusion 14 (shown in full lines) is of wide U-shape, the limbs of each U pointing down the arm and forming a tongue 30 extending into the aperture to about its mid-height (measured lengthwise of the arm).
- Each aperture 29 in the web 26 of the extrusion 16 (shown in broken lines) is rectangular, extending transversely of the web 26, and registers with an associated aperture 18. But while the apertures 29 are of substantially the same width (across the arm), they are only half the height (lengthwise of the arm).
- the mutual engagement of the extrusions 14 and 16 is such that the extrusion 16 can slide longitudinally between a raised position where each aperture 29 registers with the upper half of its associated aperture 18 and a lowered position where it registers with the lower half. But the existence of the tongue 30 means that there are then two separate holes.
- the raised position enables lines 7 entering the arm in close proximity to be pulled out together to expose the associated coupler 8. Then adjustments can be made, for example to tauten the lines, before the coupler is dropped back in again. Then shifting the extrusion 16 to the lowered position provides for the separation of the lines 7 as they enter the arm.
- Each stay 5 from the top of the column 1 has a pivotal coupling 31 to a plastics moulding 32 that fits around the arm 3 as a fixed collar, being secured by a rivet 33 and providing a clevis to receive the end of the stay 5.
- the strip 15 is actually two separate strips, one above and one below the collar 32.
- the winged extrusion 16 is unitary, with the collar 32 projecting through a slot 34 in its web 26 and the legs 25. This slot is longer in the lengthwise direction of the arm than the width of the collar 32 in that direction.
- the arm is assembled by first combining the collar 32 and extrusion 16, and then sliding both down the extrusion 14 until the collar registers with the point at which it is riveted in place.
- the extreme lower end of the arm is pivoted between two lugs 35 (see Figures 19 and 20) projecting from the sliding sleeve 2.
- the shape of the arm means that it is not necessary to crop external ribs and smooth the sides in order that its lower end should fit snugly between the lugs 35, or to have the lugs 35 wider apart to clear uncropped ribs and accommodate packing washers.
- the pivot axis indicated by a chain-dotted line in Figure 3, traverses the channels 20 so that there is no obstruction by a pivot pin to the insertion of a preferred yoke retraction device to be described below.
- the base of the yoke 13 is attached to an elastic cord or band 36 which leads towards the root of the arm, underneath a fixed pulley 37, back up the arm to its outer end, round another fixed pulley 38, and then down the arm to a fixed point 39 at the root.
- the cord 36 is slightly tensioned in the retracted position of Figure 7, but as the arms are spread each yoke 13 is pulled up its arm by the lines 7 being drawn out of the arms.
- the cord stretches and increases in tension, but its purchase-like configuration means that its extension proportional to its original length is not excessive and therefore it does not stretch beyond its elastic limit.
- each cord 36 contracts to pull its associated yoke 13 back down the arm, drawing in the lines.
- the base of the yoke 13 is attached to a plain cord or line 40 which leads towards the root of the arm, underneath a fixed pulley 41 and back up the arm to an elongate helical spring 42. The upper end of this is fixed at 43 at the outer end of the arm.
- the base of the yoke is attached to a plain cord 44 which leads towards the root of the arm, underneath a fixed pulley 45, back up the arm to a movable pulley 46, and then down the arm to a fixed point 47.
- the pulley 46 is carried by the free end of a constant force coil spring 48 mounted within the arm at its outer extremity. It resembles the spring to be found in a retractable tape measure, for example.
- a coil spring is fitted within the root of the arm with a straight line attachment directly to the yoke, thereby dispensing with pulleys, in an arrangement as shown in Figures 13 and 14.
- a reel 49 wound by a coil spring 50 is in tandem with a bobbin 51, the spring 50 being closest to the lower, inner end of the arm.
- the bobbin 51 is in two axially separated parts, the part 52 being aligned with and substantially matching the size of the reel 49, while the other part 53 is narrower and has a line 54 wound on it. The free end of this line is connected to the yoke 13.
- the spring 50 leads from the reel 49 diagonally across the arm, as shown in Figure 14, to wind on to the part 52 in a manner such that the reel 49 and bobbin 51 will counter-rotate.
- the reel 49 and bobbin 51 are mounted within a box 55 with a flange 56 at the reel end. This will be a firm fit in the end of the arm 3, the flange 56 matching its outer profile both to locate the box and to provide a neat end closure for the extrusion.
- the preferred yoke is shown in Figures 15 to 18. This takes the form of a rectangular box-like structure 57, whose side walls will be parallel to the sides of the drier arm in which it is confined.
- the two shorter walls 58 are spanned by a U-section channel 59 symmetrical to the longitudinal centre line and between the outsides of this channel 59 and the longer side walls 60 there are six webs 61, three each side and in a symmetrical arrangement.
- the under edges of the four outer webs 61 have enlarged and rounded beads 62 and the base of the channel 59 has a central, downwardly projecting loop 63.
- the strops 9 to 12 are led down through the yoke, under the beads 62 and then up again through the yoke, each passing through a separate aperture in the grid formed by the webs 61.
- the line 54 from the coil spring assembly will be attached to the loop 63.
- the present drier should have an intermediate or maintenance position about half way between these two basic position. This is simply provided by a detent in the column 1 to which the sleeve 2 can lock at an intermediate position up the column.
- the arms 3 will then be half spread and extend up at an acute angle to the column, preferably somewhere between 30° and 45°. But they will be held firmly in this attitude and it allows, in particular, defective lines to be changed using the access arrangement described above.
- the couplers 8 between the drying lines and the strops can be pulled out clear of the arm through the temporarily single holes and then disconnected.
- Figures 19 and 20 show an arrangement for providing this.
- the sleeve has a fairlead 64 for a cord 65 whose upper end is attached to a sliding collar 66 with an inverted generally frusto-conical portion 67.
- the lower end of the cord has a pull handle 68.
- the arms 3 At their lower ends, clear of the extrusions 16 (not shown in these Figures), the arms 3 each have a wedge element 69 on their inner/upper sides and these elements co-operate with the portion 67.
- the collar 66 can be left to its own devices.
- the geometry of the portion 67 and the elements 69 is such that the collar will be squeezed back into the Figure 19 position as the arms close around the column.
- cord 65 may be doubled to make a purchase, being attached to the sleeve 2, passing up and over a pulley on the collar 66, and then down through the fairlead 64.
- the extrusion 16 does not of course extend over the full length of the arm; it stops short before the wedge element 69.
- the lines 7 are coupled in pairs as in Figure 2 by strops 9 to 12 which lead around a common yoke 70 substantially the same as the yoke 13. However, it is pivoted at 71 to a bracket 72 fixed to one end of an extrusion 73.
- the cross-section of this extrusion is generally ⁇ shaped, but Figure 23 is somewhat diagrammatic. In practice, each flange 74 will be cranked in cross-section as shown in Figure 24.
- the projection 72 extends out from within the channel formed by the extrusion, and on the opposite side, and at the same end, there is a projecting knob 75.
- the bracket 72 and knob 75 may be an integral moulding with a slot that is entered by a cutaway central end portion of the extrusion 73.
- Each extrusion 73 is a slider which can move lengthwise of the associated arm 3 as described below.
- the flanges 74 of the slider 73 are a loose fit in the grooves formed by the flanges 21 and ribs 22.
- the extrusion 15 extends over the outer part only of the respective arm, beyond the collar 32. But it will be seen that the crank in the flanges 74 allows for the snap fitting of the extrusion 15 where there is an overlap with the slider 73, and the barbed legs 24 will hold the flanges 74 against the ribs 22.
- the sliders 73 are fitted so that the knobs 75 are at the inner end, towards the sleeve 2. When the arms are spread, as in Figure 21, 22, the sliders 73 are almost entirely hidden with the knobs 75 adjacent the collars 32. The channels of the arms will be open below that.
- the sliders 73 close off the channels of the arms up to the collars 32, but there will still be a substantial overlap with the extrusions 15 beyond the collars so that the sliders 73 are kept with their flanges 74 bearing against the ribs 22.
- the polygons have to be equally spaced. That is likely to be the most common arrangement, but it is not necessary. As long as there is symmetry in spacing either side of the middle polygon (with an even number) or on either side of the middle pair of polygons (with an even number) this system of strops to a common yoke from corresponding inner and outer polygons will work without leaving lines slack.
- the spacing may have a pattern, for an eight polygon drier, a, b, a, c, a, b, a, where a, b and c are the distances between adjacent polygons.
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- A rotary drier having a column (1), arms (3) linked to the column to be movable collectively between a retracted position alongside the column (1) and a raised, in-use position radiating outwardly and upwardly from near the top of the column (1), lines (7) between adjacent arms (3) that come taut in a graduated set of 2n or 2n+1 polygons when the arms (3) are raised, characterised in that there is a yoke (13) movable lengthwise of each arm (3), and strops (9,10,11,12) coupling the corners of the polygons in pairs within the arms to each yoke (13), the rth outermost and the rth innermost polygon being linked by an rth strop that is rove around part of the yoke, and the central polygon, when there are 2n or 2n+1 polygons, being directly linked to the yoke (13), where r=1,2...n, and means for moving the yokes (13) towards the roots of their respective arms (3) to pull the lines (7) into the arms when the arms (3) are retracted.
- A rotary drier as claimed in Claim 1, wherein each arm (3) has a main arm member (14) and a guide element (16) carried thereby and shiftable longitudinally thereof, both having a set of registering apertures (18,29) through which adjacent sections of each polygon enter the associated arm (3), and wherein the apertures (18,29) are configured so that, in one position of the guide element (16) each pair of registering apertures (18,29) creates two separate holes, each for a respective one said adjacent section, and in another position of the guide element (16) each pair of registering apertures creates a single hole.
- A rotary drier as claimed in Claim 2, wherein the apertures in the main arm members (14) are in sides thereof that face upwardly when the arms are spread and towards the column when the arms are folded.
- A rotary drier as claimed in Claim 3, wherein the guide element (16) of each arm (3) extends over said side and has divergent flanges (27) along opposite edges, the lines (7) running over these flanges when the arms are spread, and the flanges of all the arms co-operating to enclose the column (1) when the arms (3) are folded.
- A rotary drier as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the yoke (13) is a plastics moulding providing smooth surfaces under which the strops (9,10,11,12) run and configured to keep the strops (9,10,11,12) separate and balanced in relation to the attachment point of the moving means.
- A rotary drier as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the moving means is a spring (48) within each arm (3).
- A rotary drier as claimed in Claim 6, wherein each spring (48) is a constant force coil spring.,
- A rotary drier as claimed in Claim 7, wherein each spring (48) is at the root of the associated arm (3) and has a straight line connection to the yoke (13).
- A rotary drier as claimed in any one of Claims 1 to 5, wherein the moving means is a manually operable slider (73) movable lengthwise of each arm (3).
- A rotary drier as claimed in Claim 9, wherein the sliders (73) have projections such as knobs (75) or finger rings which are proud of the outer/under sides of the arms (3).
- A rotary drier as claimed in Claim 10, wherein a main member (14) of each arm is a generally channel shaped extrusion with the associated slider (73) guided by formations at the mouth of the channel and with its projection (72) extending outwardly beyond that mouth.
- A rotary drier as claimed in Claim 11, wherein the sliders (73) are elongate to provide covers over the inner/lower ends of the channels when the arms (3) are retracted.
- A rotary drier as claimed in Claim 12, wherein the outer/upper end of each channel has a permanent cap behind which most of the slider (73) will move when the arms (3) are extended to the in-use position.
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GBGB9926577.9A GB9926577D0 (en) | 1999-11-11 | 1999-11-11 | Improvements relating to clothes driers |
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GB0003854A GB0003854D0 (en) | 2000-02-19 | 2000-02-19 | Improvements relating to clothes driers |
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