EP2196575A1 - Sèche-linge domestique - Google Patents

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EP2196575A1
EP2196575A1 EP08171493A EP08171493A EP2196575A1 EP 2196575 A1 EP2196575 A1 EP 2196575A1 EP 08171493 A EP08171493 A EP 08171493A EP 08171493 A EP08171493 A EP 08171493A EP 2196575 A1 EP2196575 A1 EP 2196575A1
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Luciano Sartor
Massimo Castiglione
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Electrolux Home Products Corp NV
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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
    • D06F58/00—Domestic laundry dryers
    • D06F58/20—General details of domestic laundry dryers 
    • 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 
    • D06F57/12—Supporting means, other than simple clothes-lines, for linen or garments to be dried or aired  specially adapted for attachment to walls, ceilings, stoves, or other structures or objects

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  • the present invention generally relates to the field of household appliances, particularly to appliances for treating clothes and garments, and even more particularly to dryers and/or washer/dryers.
  • Condenser-type tumble dryers are known in the art to comprise a closed-loop drying air circuit, adapted to cause heated drying air to circulate through a rotating drum, an air-cooled condenser, i . e . an air/air heat exchanger, adapted to remove moisture from the hot moisture-laden drying air exiting said drum, and an open-loop cooling air circuit adapted to circulate through the air-cooled condenser a stream of cooling air taken in from the outside ambient to cool said condenser, and to let out said stream of cooling air again into the outside ambient.
  • a closed-loop drying air circuit adapted to cause heated drying air to circulate through a rotating drum
  • an air-cooled condenser i . e . an air/air heat exchanger, adapted to remove moisture from the hot moisture-laden drying air exiting said drum
  • an open-loop cooling air circuit adapted to circulate through the air-cooled condenser a stream of cooling air taken in from the outside ambient to cool said condens
  • the hot and moisture-laden drying air is caused to leave the rotating drum and is conveyed towards the air-cooled condenser; then, the dehydrated drying air exiting the condenser is sent back into the drum, upon having been heated up again by heating means provided downstream of the air-cooled condenser, so as to remove additional moisture from the clothes being tumbled in the drum.
  • the air-cooled condenser comprises a plurality of fluid passageways, along which the clothes drying air is able to flow for having the moisture condensed and removed therefrom, and these fluid passageways are exposed to the flow of cooling air flowing in the open-loop cooling air circuit.
  • the cooling air passes through the condenser, the drying air temperature is lowered and heat is transferred to the cooling air; thus, the cooling air which is released into the ambient is warm.
  • a clothes dryer whose cabinet comprises a top portion in which there is slidably inserted a hanging rack for hanging clothes, able to assume an idle configuration in which it is inserted in the cabinet top portion, and an active configuration in which at least a portion thereof is pulled out from the cabinet so that hanged clothes come to be adjacent to the outlet opening provided in the cabinet for the exit of the warm air.
  • the Applicant has tackled the problem of how to exploit the warm air released in the ambient by a dryer in a way that is simple from the dryer construction viewpoint and that can be used even when space constraints exist.
  • a clothes dryer comprising a cabinet housing a drum for clothes to be dried, a clothes drying air circuit including an air-cooled condenser, and a condenser cooling air circuit comprising an air outlet provided in a wall of the cabinet.
  • Clothes hanging means are associated to said wall of the cabinet in a position above said air outlet, the clothes hanging means being adapted to hang clothes in such a way that the latter are hit by the condenser cooling air exiting from the air outlet.
  • the clothes hanging means may take the form of at least one clothes hanger.
  • the at least one clothes hanger may comprise at least one bracket, attached to the appliance at one or two ends.
  • Said wall may in particular be the front wall of the cabinet, wherein a door openable to allow access to the drum is provided.
  • the clothes hanger may be associated to the door.
  • the clothes hanger may form a handle for the operations of opening and closing the door by a user.
  • An air deflector may be associated to said air outlet for promoting the flow of the condenser cooling air exiting from the air outlet towards clothes hanging from the clothes hanger.
  • a clothes and garments dryer 100 comprises a cabinet 105, within which a drum for the clothes and garments to be dried is rotatably mounted.
  • a closed-loop drying-air circuit is also accommodated within the cabinet 105, adapted to heat and circulate drying air through the drum, and an air-cooled condenser is provided, adapted to remove moisture from the moisture-laden air exiting the drum; the condenser is inserted in an open-loop cooling-air circuit adapted to circulate over and through the condenser a stream of cooling air taken in from the outside ambient to cool the condenser, and then to release said stream of cooling air into the ambient, through a grid 110 provided in a wall of the cabinet 105, for example, albeit not limitatively, a front wall of panel 115 of the cabinet 105, in lower position close to the bottom thereof.
  • the details of the internal structure of the dryer 100 are not shown because they are per-se known.
  • the cabinet 105 conventionally comprises, essentially in the top region of the front panel 115 (or possibly in different positions), a man-machine interface denoted globally with 120 comprising indicators, pushbuttons, rotary selectors and so on.
  • the front panel 115 is also provided with an aperture for allowing access to the drum, with which a door 125 is associated, being for example hinged to the front panel 115 and pivotable around a horizontal axis A. None prevents however that the door 125 is hinged to the front panel 115 so as to be pivotable around a vertical axis.
  • the door 125 comprises grip means for facilitating a user in the operation of opening and closing the door.
  • the grip means comprise a handle having the shape of an elongated U-shaped bracket 130, like a shackle or clevis, which is attached at its two ends to the door 125, for example by means of bolts or pins (not shown in the drawings) and which extends in horizontal direction transversally to the door 125.
  • the shackle 130 frontally projects from the door 125, a passageway being defined between the shackle 130 and the door 125.
  • the shackle 130 in addition to offering to the user a grip means for opening and closing the door 125, is thus also exploitable as a clothes hanging rack for hanging clothes, such as for example one or more towels 305.
  • the solution according to the present invention is constructively very simple, nevertheless very easy to use, and does not pose problems of space, because even if the dryer 100 is located in small rooms, the front thereof is always freely accessible.
  • the clothes hanging rack may take different shapes; for example, Figure 4 , which is similar to Figure 2 , depicts a clothes hanging rack taking the form of a shackle 430 defining a double clothes hanging portion, for example for hanging multiple towels in different spaced-apart positions with respect to the surface of the wall 125.
  • conventional grips means for the door opening and closing may be provided which are distinct from the clothes hanging rack.
  • Multiple clothes hanging racks may also be provided, for example vertically spaced apart, and preferably protruding to a different extent from the door 125, as for example depicted in Figure 5 , where two shackles 530-1 and 530-2 are shown, or two or more shackles of reduced length may be attached to the door 125 in horizontally aligned but spaced-apart positions.
  • the cabinet wall to which the clothes hanging rack or racks according to the present invention is or are attached and where the grid for the exit of the condenser cooling air is not necessarily the front panel of the appliance cabinet, where the door is present: for example, it may be a cabinet lateral wall.

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CN108625131A (zh) * 2018-06-19 2018-10-09 无锡小天鹅股份有限公司 干衣设备
CN110104578A (zh) * 2019-05-27 2019-08-09 惠州市奥科伟业精密电机有限公司 晾衣组件及系统

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US2983050A (en) * 1957-11-01 1961-05-09 Whirlpool Co Combined room warmer and clothes drier
JP2001239096A (ja) * 2000-03-01 2001-09-04 Hitachi Ltd 衣類乾燥機
EP1146161A1 (fr) * 2000-04-10 2001-10-17 Whirlpool Corporation Accessoire pour sèche-linge à tambour
EP1431442A1 (fr) * 2002-12-18 2004-06-23 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Dispositif pour le séchage et pour le conditionnement de linge en liason avec un sèche-linge domestique
EP1857585A1 (fr) 2006-05-19 2007-11-21 Whirlpool Corporation Sécheur

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2983050A (en) * 1957-11-01 1961-05-09 Whirlpool Co Combined room warmer and clothes drier
JP2001239096A (ja) * 2000-03-01 2001-09-04 Hitachi Ltd 衣類乾燥機
EP1146161A1 (fr) * 2000-04-10 2001-10-17 Whirlpool Corporation Accessoire pour sèche-linge à tambour
EP1431442A1 (fr) * 2002-12-18 2004-06-23 BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH Dispositif pour le séchage et pour le conditionnement de linge en liason avec un sèche-linge domestique
EP1857585A1 (fr) 2006-05-19 2007-11-21 Whirlpool Corporation Sécheur

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN108625131A (zh) * 2018-06-19 2018-10-09 无锡小天鹅股份有限公司 干衣设备
CN110104578A (zh) * 2019-05-27 2019-08-09 惠州市奥科伟业精密电机有限公司 晾衣组件及系统
CN110104578B (zh) * 2019-05-27 2024-05-10 惠州市奥科伟业精密电机有限公司 晾衣组件及系统

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