EP2568074B1 - Trockner oder Waschmaschine / Trockner, mit einer Tür, die eine Einrichtung zur Erzeugung von Dampf für die Behandlung von Wäschestücken enthält - Google Patents

Trockner oder Waschmaschine / Trockner, mit einer Tür, die eine Einrichtung zur Erzeugung von Dampf für die Behandlung von Wäschestücken enthält Download PDF

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EP2568074B1
EP2568074B1 EP12182414.8A EP12182414A EP2568074B1 EP 2568074 B1 EP2568074 B1 EP 2568074B1 EP 12182414 A EP12182414 A EP 12182414A EP 2568074 B1 EP2568074 B1 EP 2568074B1
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Giuseppina Pia Potena
Nicola Colucci
Aldo Liberatore
Giovanni Bombardieri
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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
    • D06F39/00—Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00 
    • D06F39/40—Steam generating arrangements
    • 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 
    • D06F58/203—Laundry conditioning arrangements
    • 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
    • D06F39/00—Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00 
    • D06F39/12—Casings; Tubs
    • D06F39/14—Doors or covers; Securing means therefor
    • 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
    • D06F58/02—Domestic laundry dryers having dryer drums rotating about a horizontal axis
    • D06F58/04—Details 

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  • the present invention relates to a drying or washing/drying machine comprising means for generating steam for treating laundry items.
  • a steam treatment allows disinfecting the laundry items by reducing the bacterial charge thereof.
  • such a treatment allows stretching the fabrics, which would otherwise turn out wrinkled at the end of the process.
  • document EP 1975302 Al to FagorBrandt SAS describes a solution (shown in Fig. 1 of the present application) which allows positioning a reservoir for water to be vaporized inside a door of the drying or washing/drying machine, so as to make it more easily maintained and/or used; such a solution employs hydraulic connections, typically hoses, for putting the reservoir of the water to be vaporized in fluidic communication with vaporization means arranged within the machine cabinet.
  • a known problem caused by this solution is that the hydraulic connections might fail due to fatigue phenomena caused by the door opening/closing movement.
  • the present invention aims at solving this and other problems by providing a drying or washing/drying machine which comprises means for generating steam for treating laundry items, as set out in the appended claim 1.
  • the idea at the basis of the present invention is to associate steam generating means with a door of the machine, so as to limit the connections between the door and the cabinet to electric connections only, which are less subject to damage due to fatigue phenomena.
  • a drying or washing/drying machine (not shown in the drawings) comprises means for generating steam for treating laundry items, means for drying the laundry items, a tub for containing the laundry items (not shown in the drawings), preferably containing a rotary drum (not shown in the drawings), a door 2 for closing the tub, a reservoir 3 for a liquid to be vaporized, preferably water, positioned inside said door 2; said tub has an aperture (not shown in the drawings) for loading laundry items, preferably at the front, and can be sealingly closed by means of the door 2.
  • the tub is contained inside a cabinet (not shown in the drawings), preferably shaped like a parallelepipedon, which protects the components of the drying or washing/drying machine.
  • the door 2 is hinged to the tub or to the cabinet, so that it can be easily opened and reclosed.
  • the door 2 comprises steam generating means, preferably integral therewith and arranged therewithin.
  • the steam generating means comprise a pump 4, a steam generator 5 and a steam exhaust 22; wherein said exhaust 22 preferably comprises an aperture on a wall 23 of the door 2, which faces the inside of the tub.
  • the reservoir 3 comprises an inlet 31 and an outlet 32, respectively positioned at the top and bottom of said reservoir 3; said reservoir can be filled through an aperture 21, preferably located on a top wall 24 of the door 2, which aperture is in fluidic communication with the inlet 31 of the reservoir 3.
  • the pump 4 comprises an intake duct 41 and a delivery duct 42, and is preferably and advantageously arranged underneath the bottom of the reservoir 3.
  • the heater 5 comprises an inlet 51, an outlet 52 and heating means, preferably of the electric type, which can vaporize a water flow.
  • the outlet 32 of said reservoir 3 is in fluidic communication with the intake duct 41 of the pump 4 by means of a tube 61, preferably a flexible one, whereas the delivery duct 42 of the pump 4 is in fluidic communication with the inlet 51 through a tube 62 similar to the tube 61.
  • the outlet 52 of the heater 5 is in fluidic communication with the steam exhaust 22 of the door 2 through a steam duct 63, thus feeding steam into the tub.
  • the door 2 only requires power supply for the pump 4, the heater 5 and any control electronics; said power can be easily supplied through a hinge 7 that comprises a cavity in which one or more wire pairs 8 can be routed.
  • maintenance of the steam generating means can thus be carried out by simply acting upon the door 2, without having to open the machine cabinet.
  • this solution allows adding steam generating means to a drying or washing/drying machine lacking such means, without necessarily having to partially or totally re-design the whole machine.
  • the water preferably demineralized water and/or water containing an additive
  • the water poured into the reservoir 3 by the user is allowed to flow towards the pump 4 through the tube 61 and is then pumped into the heater 5, where it is vaporized and exits through the tube 62; finally, the steam is exhausted into the tub through the steam exhaust 22 by means of the steam duct 63.
  • FIG. 3 A first variant is shown in Fig. 3 ; for simplicity, the following description will only highlight those parts which make this and the next variant different from the above-described main embodiment; for the same reason, wherever possible the same reference numerals, with the addition of one or more apostrophes, will be used for indicating structurally or functionally equivalent elements.
  • the steam generating means of the drying/washing machine comprise nebulization/atomization means capable of nebulizing/atomizing the water coming from a reservoir 3', which is similar to the reservoir 3 of the previous example. Therefore, the water is nebulized directly inside the tub, where vaporization is caused by the heat generated by the drying means.
  • the nebulization/atomization means comprise a high-pressure pump 4' and at least one nebulization/atomization nozzle 9'.
  • the high-pressure pump 4' comprises an intake duct 41' and a delivery duct 42'; said pump 4' can generate a pressure in the range of 50 to 200 bar, preferably 100 to 150 bar, in the delivery duct.
  • the intake duct 41' is in fluidic communication with the reservoir 3' through a tube 61' similar to the tube 61 of the preceding variant, whereas the delivery duct 42' is in fluidic communication with the nozzle 9' through a high-pressure duct 64'.
  • the atomization means also comprise an air/water mixer (not shown in the drawings) arranged between the reservoir 3' and the intake duct 41' of the pump 4', if mist generation is required.
  • the nozzle 9' is in fluidic communication with the tub, and is preferably positioned with its axis substantially perpendicular to a wall 23' (similar to the wall 23 of the previously described variant) of the door 2 which faces the inside of the tub.
  • the water preferably demineralized water
  • the nebulized water or mist thus produced is vaporized inside the tub of the drying or washing/drying machine by the heat generated by the laundry drying means.

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  1. Trockner-Vorrichtung oder Wasch-Trockner-Vorrichtung, umfassend Mittel zum Erzeugen von Dampf zum Behandeln von Wäschestücken, Mittel zum Trocknen der Wäschestücke, einen Behälter zum Aufnehmen der Wäschestücke, eine Tür (2) zum Schließen des Behälters, einen Speicher für eine zu verdampfende Flüssigkeit (3, 3'), welcher der Tür zugeordnet ist,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Dampf-Erzeugungsmittel der Tür (2) zugeordnet sind, wodurch die Verwendung von flexiblen Hydraulik-Verbindungen zwischen den Dampf-Erzeugungsmitteln und dem Speicher (3, 3') vermieden wird.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Dampf-Erzeugungsmittel integral mit der Tür (2) sind.
  3. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 oder 2, wobei die Dampf-Erzeugungsmittel eine Pumpe (4, 4') umfassen, welcher eine Einlass-Leitung (41, 41') und eine Zufuhr-Leitung (42, 42') zugeordnet sind, und wobei die Einlass-Leitung (41, 41') in Fluid-Verbindung mit dem Speicher (3, 3') steht.
  4. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Pumpe (4, 4') unterhalb des Bodens des Speichers (3, 3') positioniert ist.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 3 oder 4, wobei die Dampf-Erzeugungsmittel einen Dampferzeuger (5) umfassen, und wobei die von dem Speicher (3) kommende Flüssigkeit von der Pumpe (4) in den Dampferzeuger (5) gepumpt wird, um in Dampf umgewandelt zu werden, und dann dem Behälter durch einen Dampf-Auslass (22) zugeführt wird, wobei letzterer in Fluid-Verbindung mit dem Behälter und dem Dampferzeuger (5) steht.
  6. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 5, wobei der Dampf-Auslass (22) eine an einer Wand (23) der Tür (2) angeordnete Öffnung umfasst, und wobei die Wand (23) zu der Innenseite des Behälters weist.
  7. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 3 oder 4, wobei die Dampf-Erzeugungsmittel Vernebelungs-/Zerstäubungsmittel umfassen, welche die Pumpe (4') und eine Düse (9') umfassen, und wobei die Zufuhr-Leitung (42') in Fluid-Verbindung mit der Düse (9') steht, welche wiederum in Fluid-Verbindung mit dem Behälter steht, wobei die Vernebelungs-/Zerstäubungsmittel in der Lage sind, das von dem Speicher (3') kommende Wasser innerhalb des Behälters zu vernebeln/zerstäuben, was dazu führt, dass das vernebelte/zerstäubte Wasser innerhalb des Behälters aufgrund der von den Trocknungsmitteln erzeugten Wärme verdampft wird.
  8. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 7, wobei die Düse (9') mit ihrer Achse im Wesentlichen senkrecht zu einer Wand (23') der Tür (2) positioniert ist, welche zu der Innenseite des Behälters weist.
  9. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 8, wobei die Pumpe (4') eine HochdruckPumpe ist und einen Druck zwischen 50 und 200 bar innerhalb der Zufuhr-Leitung (42') erzeugen kann.
  10. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 7 bis 9, wobei die Vernebelungs-/Zerstäubungsmittel ebenso einen Luft/Wasser-Mischer umfassen, welcher zwischen dem Speicher (3') und der Einlass-Leitung (41') der Pumpe (4') angeordnet ist, so dass stromabwärts der Düse (9') ein Nebel erzeugt werden kann.
  11. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei der Speicher (3, 3') durch eine Öffnung (21) befüllt wird.
  12. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 11, wobei die Öffnung (21) an einer oberen Wand (24) der Tür (2) positioniert ist.
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