EP2604747A1 - Machine à laver et sécher le linge domestique - Google Patents

Machine à laver et sécher le linge domestique Download PDF

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EP2604747A1
EP2604747A1 EP11193953.4A EP11193953A EP2604747A1 EP 2604747 A1 EP2604747 A1 EP 2604747A1 EP 11193953 A EP11193953 A EP 11193953A EP 2604747 A1 EP2604747 A1 EP 2604747A1
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drying machine
laundry washing
sealing gasket
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Stefano De Paoli
Roberto Mazzocco
Alessandro Bruna
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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 
    • D06F58/26—Heating arrangements, e.g. gas heating equipment

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  • the present invention relates to a household laundry washing and drying machine.
  • today's front-loading laundry washing and drying machines generally comprise: a substantially parallelepiped-shaped outer boxlike casing structured for resting on the floor; a substantially bell-shaped washing tub which is generally suspended in floating manner inside the casing via a number of coil springs and shock-absorbers, with the front opening/mouth directly facing a laundry loading/unloading pass-through opening provided in the front wall of the casing; a substantially cylindrical elastically-deformable bellows which connects in watertight manner the front mouth/opening of the bell-shaped washing tub to the laundry loading/unloading opening on front wall of the casing; and a porthole door which is hinged to the front wall of the casing to rotate to and from a closing position in which the door rests on the front face of the casing to close the laundry loading/unloading on the front wall and substantially watertight seal the washing tub.
  • the front-loading laundry washing and drying machines of the above type furthermore comprise: a substantially bell-shaped, cylindrical revolving drum which is structured for housing the laundry to be washed and/or dried, and is housed in axially rotating manner inside the washing tub for rotating about its longitudinal reference axis; an electric motor assembly which is located outside of the washing tub, and is structured for driving into rotation the revolving drum about its longitudinal reference axis inside the washing tub; and a, preferably closed-circuit, air duct assembly which is structured to circulate inside the washing tub a stream of hot air having a low moisture content, and which flows through the revolving drum and over the laundry inside the drum to dry the laundry.
  • the air duct assembly is structured for gradually drawing air from the washing tub; cooling down the air arriving from the washing tub so to extract and retain the surplus moisture in the air; heating the dehumidified air to a predetermined temperature, normally higher than the temperature of the air arriving from the washing tub; and feeding the heated, dehumidified air back into the washing tub, where it flows over the laundry stored inside the revolving drum to rapidly dry the laundry.
  • the cooling down and dehumidification of the air drawn from the washing tub is performed inside a cold-water condenser which is attached/ integrated to/on the back of the washing tub, obviously inside the boxlike casing, and which uses the cold tap water of the water mains as refrigerant.
  • the heating up of the dehumidified air coming out of the cold-water condenser is performed inside an hot air duct which is rigidly attached to the top of the washing tub so as to have a first end in direct communication with the cold-water condenser and a second end in direct communication with the washing tub close to the front mouth of the latter, and which internally houses the electric centrifugal fan that circulates the air across the washing tub and the resistor that heats up the dehumidified air directed back into the washing tub.
  • WO2010/100114 discloses a hot air duct of the type referred above.
  • washing and drying machines Since in above described known washing and drying machines the washing tub (and therefore the hot air duct rigidly attached to the latter) is suspended in floating manner inside the boxlike casing, and it shakes/jerks very hardly inside the casing, in particular at the beginning of the spinning phase of the washing cycle, there is the risk that the hot air duct violently bumps (collides, impacts) against the hard walls of the casing, which may damage both the hot air duct and the casing.
  • some known washing and drying machines are provided with several shock-absorbing pads conveniently attached on the lateral walls of the casing to prevent the hot air duct from violently bumping against the hard walls of the casing.
  • Aim of the present invention is to ensure that the hot air duct of a washing and drying machine is not damaged because of the shaking of the tub to which the hot air duct is attached, without increasing the complexity and the production costs of the machine.
  • Another object of the present inventions is simplifying and speeding up the assembly of the washing and drying machine.
  • an hot air duct comprising a tubular body structured for being crossed by an airflow, and provided with at least one elastic protrusion/projection protruding from the tubular body in such a way to locally protect the latter from the bumps, it is possibly to protect the hot air duct from the bumps, in particular against the casing of the machine, in an easy but effective way, and without increasing the complexity and the production costs of the machine.
  • the latter is effectively protected from bumps (or shocks), without the need of providing shock-absorbing pads attached on the lateral walls of the casing.
  • a laundry washing and drying machine comprising: an outer casing; a hollow washing tub suspended in floating manner inside the casing; a hot air duct attached onto the washing tub and comprising a tubular body structured for being crossed by an airflow, and an air-heating device.
  • the hot air duct is provided with at least one elastic protrusion/projection protruding from the tubular body in such a way to locally protect the tubular body from the bumps (or shocks).
  • the tubular body comprises at least two hemi-shells, reciprocally coupled to compose/form the tubular body, and an intermediate sealing gasket interposed between the at least two hemi-shells to seal the hemi-shells one another;
  • the intermediate sealing gasket comprises a main body interposed between the two or more hemi-shells when the hemi-shells are coupled one another.
  • Tee intermediate sealing gasket comprises the at least one elastic protrusion/projection protruding from the main body and from the tubular body in such a way to locally protect the tubular body from the bumps.
  • the main body of the intermediate sealing gasket is made of an elastomeric material.
  • At least one protrusion/projection of the intermediate sealing gasket is made of the same material of the main body.
  • the peripheral edge of at least one of the hemi-shells is provided with a longitudinal grove or seat, and the main body of the sealing gasket is shaped/dimensioned so as to be at least partly recessed into the longitudinal grove or seat.
  • the grove or seat is preferably provided, in correspondence of one or more of the protrusion/projections, with a slot through which the respective protrusion/projections can protrude externally from the grove or seat, and therefore from the tubular body.
  • the protrusion/projection of the intermediate sealing gasket is substantially L-shaped so as to bend sideways, when out of the tubular body, and extends locally substantially tangent or close to the outer surface of the tubular body, so as to form a corresponding outer shock-absorbing pad onto the outer surface of tubular body.
  • the main body of the intermediate sealing gasket is substantially annular in shape.
  • the main body of the intermediate sealing gasket is open in shape.
  • a plurality of protrusions/projections is spaced along the main body.
  • the at least one protrusion/projection is over-molded on the external surface of the tubular body.
  • At least one protrusion/projection is arranged in such a way that it is positioned between the tubular body and the outer casing, so as to locally protect the tubular body from the bumps against the outer casing, and vice versa.
  • reference number 1 indicates as a whole a laundry washing and drying machine 1 that comprises:
  • washing tub 3 is advantageously suspended in floating manner inside casing 2 via a suspension system preferably comprising a number of coil springs (not shown) and vibration dampers (not shown); and the front opening/mouth of washing tub 3 is preferably connected in watertight manner to the laundry loading/unloading opening on front wall 2a via a substantially cylindrical, elastically-deformable bellows (not shown).
  • the revolving drum is preferably arranged inside washing tub 3 so that the drum front opening is directly faced/aligned to the laundry loading/unloading opening on front wall 2a, and so that the rotation axis of the drum is preferably locally substantially coincident with the substantially horizontally-oriented, longitudinal reference axis L of washing tub 3.
  • the front-loading laundry washing and drying machine 1 preferably furthermore comprises:
  • the laundry washing machine 1 is provided with a, preferably closed-circuit, air duct assembly 5 which is structured to circulate inside the washing tub 3 a stream of hot air having a low moisture content, and which flows through the revolving drum and over the laundry located inside the drum to rapidly dry the laundry.
  • a, preferably closed-circuit, air duct assembly 5 which is structured to circulate inside the washing tub 3 a stream of hot air having a low moisture content, and which flows through the revolving drum and over the laundry located inside the drum to rapidly dry the laundry.
  • the air duct assembly 5 is structured for:
  • the air duct assembly 5 is housed inside the boxlike casing 2 and advantageously comprises:
  • the air cooling device 6 preferably comprises a cold-water condenser which is attached/integrated to/on the back of washing tub 3, and which uses a rain/shower of cold water arriving from the water mains to cool down the moist air that arrives from washing tub 3 and flows upwards on the back of washing tub 3 up to the top of the later.
  • the air heating device 7 advantageously comprises a hot air duct 7 which is rigidly attached preferably to the top of washing tub 3, and preferably comprises one or more of the following components:
  • the air-heating device 13 is preferably rigidly fixed in a suspended manner to a mid section of tubular body 12 via a metal supporting bracket 16 which in turn rests, and is rigidly fixed to, the inner surface of tubular body 12.
  • Centrifugal fan 14 is preferably recessed on a portion of tubular body 12 suitably shaped to form the outer volute or impeller hosing of centrifugal fan 14.
  • the hot air duct 7 furthermore comprises one or more temperature sensors 17 which are located inside, or faced to the inside of, tubular body 12 and are structured for measuring the temperature of the air flowing inside tubular body 12, preferably close to the second opening or mouth 12b of the tubular body 12.
  • tubular body 12 preferably, but not necessarily, comprises at least two complementary hemi-shells 21 and 22 having their peripheral edges 21a and 22a structured for being reciprocally coupled to compose/form the tubular body 12, and an intermediate sealing gasket 23 which is structured for being interposed between the peripheral edges 21a and 22a of hemi-shells 21 and 22 to seal in substantially airtight manner the hemi-shells 21 and 22 to one another.
  • At least one of the hemi-shells 21, 22 is furthermore preferably structured for being rigidly fixed to the washing tub 3.
  • the intermediate sealing gasket 23 comprises a flexible main body 23a, preferably substantially cable-shaped, which is made of an elastomeric material and is bended/profiled so as to match with the shape of the peripheral edges 21a and 22a of hemi-shells 21 and 22, so to be interposed between and compressed by the peripheral edges 21a, 22a of the two hemi-shells 21 and 22 when the hemi-shells 21 and 22 are coupled to one another.
  • the cross-section of the cable-shaped main body 23a is preferably substantially circular in shape.
  • the main body 23a of the sealing gasket 23 can be closed (i.e. having a closed/annular perimeter or profile), as in the embodiment illustrated in enclosed figures, such that if forms a sealing ring; in another embodiment, not illustrated, the main body 23a of the sealing gasket 23 can be open (i.e. having an open perimeter or profile).
  • the intermediate sealing gasket 23 is furthermore provided with one or more elastic protrusions (or projections) 23b which are conveniently spaced along the main body 23a, and each of which is made of an elastic material and protrudes from the main body 23a so as to jut out of the tubular body 12.
  • one or more elastic protrusions may be fixed to the tubular body 12 in other possible ways, for example they may be over-molded (over-injected) on the external surface of the tubular body 12, so as to locally protect the tubular body 12 from the bumps (collisions, impacts); in this advantageous embodiment the tubular body 12 may comprise the above described hemi shells and gasket (with or without further elastic protrusions or projections projecting form the gasket), or not (i.e. the tubular body may have a different structure).
  • each protrusion is preferably, though not necessarily, made of the same elastomeric material of the cable-shaped main body 23a.
  • the one or more protrusions/projections 23b are arranged in such a way that they are positioned between the tubular body 12 and the outer casing 2, so as to locally protect the tubular body 12 from the bumps (collisions, impacts) against the outer casing 2 (and clearly also to locally protect the outer casing 2 from the bumps of the tubular body 12).
  • the peripheral edge 21a, 22a of at least one of the two hemi-shells 21 and 22 is furthermore preferably provided with a longitudinal grove (or seat) 25, and the cable-shaped main body 23a of gasket 23 is preferably shaped/dimensioned so as to be at least partly recessed inside the longitudinal grove/seat 25 and preferably also compressed/ deformed so as to substantially fill up the longitudinal grove/seat 25.
  • each protrusion (or projections) 23b is shaped to protrude from the cable-shaped main body 23a so as to come out of the longitudinal grove 25 and then jut out of the outer surface of tubular body 12, to form a corresponding outer shock-absorbing protrusion 23b of tubular body 12.
  • the grove or seat 25 is preferably provided, in correspondence of one or more of the protrusion/projections 23b, with a slot 26 through which the protrusion/projections 23b can protrude externally from the grove or seat, and therefore from the tubular body 12.
  • protrusions /or projections 23b and the corresponding slots 26 provided in the grove/seat may serve, during the assembly of the hot air duct 7, as centering elements for the correct reciprocal positioning of the sealing element and of the tubular body 12, thus also greatly simplifying the assembly of the air duct assembly 5.
  • the tubular body 12 is preferably composed by a substantially basin-shaped, lower hemi-shell 21 which is structured for being rigidly fixed to the top of the washing tub 3 preferably via a number of anchoring screws 18, and by a substantially lid-shaped, upper hemi-shell 22 which is shaped/dimensioned to rest in abutment on the annular upper rim 21a of hemi-shell 21 to completely close the basin-shaped lower hemi-shell 21.
  • the basin-shaped lower hemi-shell 21 is furthermore preferably provided with two coupling collars/manifolds which protrude downwards from the bottom of the hemi-shell 21 and are shaped/dimensioned to fit/couple in substantially airtight manner respectively with the air escape mouth of the air cooling device 6 and with an auxiliary pass-through opening provided either on the cylindrical bellows connecting washing tub 3 to the laundry loading/unloading opening on front wall 2a, or directly on the body of washing tub 3.
  • the substantially basin-shaped, lower hemi-shell 21 is furthermore shaped/dimensioned so to directly house the air-heating device 13, and the metal supporting bracket 16 that supports air-heating device 13 is preferably rigidly fixed to the bottom of the hemi-shell 21, preferably between the two coupling collars/manifolds that protrude downwards from the bottom of hemi-shell 21.
  • the substantially lid-shaped, upper hemi-shell 22, is preferably, though not necessarily, structured/shaped to directly support the temperature sensors 17 preferably aligned immediately above the coupling collar/manifold that connects the hemi-shell 21 directly or indirectly to the inside of washing tub 3.
  • a first portion of the outer volute of centrifugal fan 14 is furthermore preferably, though not necessarily, provided directly on the substantially basin-shaped, lower hemi-shell 21 locally substantially coaxial to the coupling collar/manifold structured to be fitted/coupled to the air escape mouth of the air cooling device 6, whereas a second complementary portion of the outer volute of centrifugal fan 14 is provided on the lid-shaped upper hemi-shell 22, so that the complete outer volute of centrifugal fan 14 is composed when the upper and lower hemi-shells 21 and 22 are couplet to one another.
  • both upper and lower hemi-shells 21 and 22 are preferably made of a metal (preferably aluminum).
  • the cable-shaped main body 23a of sealing gasket 23 is preferably substantially annular in shape (i.e. it is a sealing ring); preferably the main body 23a of the sealing gasket 23 is so shaped and arrange to exactly match with the annular upper rim 21a of the lower hemi-shell 21.
  • One or more of the protrusions (or projections) 23b of sealing gasket 23 are furthermore preferably substantially L-shaped so as to bend (or curve) sideways, when out of tubular body 12, and extends locally substantially tangent or close to the outer surface of tubular body 12 to form corresponding outer shock-absorbing pads 23b onto the outer surface of tubular body 12.
  • the intermediate sealing gasket 23 is preferably made of an elastomeric plastic material and is made in one piece via an injection molding process.
  • the hot air duct is effectively protected from the bumps due to the shaking of the tub to which the hot air duct is attached, without increasing the complexity and the production costs of the machine.
  • the cable-shaped main body 23a of the intermediate sealing gasket 23 may be bended so as to match with the shape of only a limited section of the peripheral edges 21a, 22a of the hemi-shells 21 and 22, an the one or more protrusions (or projections) 23b protrude from the main body 23a so as to jut out of the longitudinal slit delimited, on the outer surface of tubular body 12, by this limited section of the peripheral edges 21a and 22a of the two hemi-shells 21 and 22.

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