JP2007029330A - Clothes finishing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain shortening of finishing time, improvement of a work efficiency and reduction of an operation cost by raising the rate of steam remaining on the fabric of clothes and wetting the fabric even when steam spray time is short. <P>SOLUTION: The machine is constituted by providing a human body stand 2 for putting on the clothes 1 and a steam jet part 4for spraying steam on the clothes 1 from the inside of this human body stand 2. A heat exchange part 6 for lowering steam temperature is disposed on a steam supply passage 5 connected to the steam jet part 4. The steam of which the temperature is lowered is formed to be supplied to the steam jet part 4 via this heat exchange part 6. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a garment finishing machine, and more particularly, to a garment finishing machine of a type that wears clothes such as shirts on a human body and sprays steam (water vapor) from the human body onto the garment to remove wrinkles on the garment. .

  Conventionally, this type of garment finishing machine includes, for example, a human body type on which a garment is to be worn and a steam spraying portion that sprays steam onto the garment from the inside of the human body type (for example, see Patent Document 1, 2).

By the way, this type of finishing machine stretches clothes with steam and finishes the clothes smoothly with hot air or press. Therefore, this type of finishing machine is formed so that the steam can easily penetrate into the cloth of the clothes as much as possible. Is desirable.
However, the conventional machine has a structure in which high-temperature steam is sprayed on the clothes from the steam jetting portion, and then wrinkles are removed with hot air or the like. Therefore, in the case of the conventional machine, steam does not sufficiently wet the fabric, and the rate of spreading through clothes is high.
Therefore, in the past, it was necessary to spray steam for a long time (about 15 seconds), and according to the conventional machine, it took time to steam the clothes and stretch the bag, which was inefficient and expensive to operate. There was a point.
JP-A-9-122395 JP-A-9-173699

The present invention has been proposed in view of such problems of the prior art.
Therefore, the technical problem to be solved by the present invention is that even if the spraying time of steam is short, the ratio of steam staying on the cloth of the clothes and moistening the cloth becomes high, shortening the finishing time, and improving the work efficiency. It is an object of the present invention to provide a garment finishing machine formed so as to improve the operation cost.

The present invention employs the following technical means in order to solve the above problems.
That is, as shown in FIG. 1 and the like, the present invention has a garment finish formed by including a human body shape 2 on which a garment 1 is worn and a steam jetting portion 4 for spraying steam onto the garment 1 from inside the human body shape 2 The steam supply path 5 connected to the steam jetting unit 4 is provided with a heat exchanging unit 6 for lowering the temperature of the steam, and the steam having the temperature lowered through the heat exchanging unit 6 Is formed so as to be able to be supplied to the steam ejection portion 4 (Claim 1).

In the case of the present invention, the steam ejection portion 4 may be provided, for example, below the human body shape 2, at the center of the human body shape 2, or around the body surface of the human body shape 2, and the arrangement location thereof is arbitrary. .
Thus, it is preferable that the steam ejection portion 4 is formed of a porous material that mists steam.

  This is because according to this, the water droplets of the steam can be made fine and sprayed on the garment 1 in the form of mist (mist), and the ratio of the steam soaking into the fabric can be further increased. Further, in this case, for example, noise such as wind noise when steam is ejected can be suppressed as compared with a case where there is one ejection hole. Here, examples of the porous material include ceramics and metal sintered materials.

  In the case of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 4, the heat exchanging unit 6 may be constituted by a hot tack for a sleeve tack press that presses the sleeve tip of the garment 1, for example. However, the present invention is not limited to the case where the supply path 5 is provided as a dedicated product.

  When the heat exchanging part 6 is configured with hot water in this way, the exhaust steam after pressing the tack can be used effectively and efficiently, and energy saving can be achieved. Moreover, according to this, since it is sufficient to pipe the hot metal and the steam jetting part 4 in communication, there is an advantage that the parts cost and the manufacturing cost can be reduced.

In the garment finishing machine of the present invention, the steam supply path connected to the steam jetting part is provided with a heat exchanging part that lowers the temperature of the steam. Instead, the heat exchange part is formed so as to be sprayed on clothes after being converted to a low temperature that can avoid draining.
Therefore, in the case of the present invention, the size of the water droplets of steam is larger than that of steam in a high temperature state. Can do. Therefore, according to this, even if the spraying time of steam is short, the clothes can be moistened and the heel can be stretched, so that the finishing time can be shortened and the operation cost can be reduced.

Hereinafter, the best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described.
As shown in FIG. 1 and the like, the present invention includes a human body shape 2 on which a garment 1 is to be worn, and steam is blown from the inside of the human body shape 2 to the garment 1 to stretch the heel. It is a garment finishing machine that finishes with hot air or press punches. Reference numeral 3 denotes a vertically long inflatable bag disposed on both sides of the human body 2. Both sides of the garment 1 worn on the human body 2 are finished with tension by the expansion bag 3 being inflated with hot air.

  4 is a steam ejection part. In this embodiment, the steam jetting portions 4 are disposed in a pair of left and right sides below the human body 2 so as to wet the left and right sides of the clothing 1 with good balance. Has been. In addition, in this embodiment, the ejection portion 4 is formed of ceramics as a porous material that mists (mists) steam, and is formed so that mist-like steam can be ejected upward.

  Reference numeral 5 denotes a steam supply path connected to the steam ejection section 4. In the present invention, a heat exchanging portion 6 for reducing the temperature of the steam is provided in the middle of the steam supply path 5, and the steam whose temperature has been lowered can be supplied to the steam ejecting portion 4 via the heat exchanging portion 6. Is formed. In this embodiment, the heat exchanging unit 6 is configured by a radiator, and the radiator as the heat exchanging unit 6 is housed in a storage case 7 having an upper surface opened and provided below the human body 2.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the steam supply path 5 includes an upper path 5 a connected to the inlet side of the heat exchange unit 6, and a lower path 5 b connected to the outlet side of the heat exchange unit 6. The side path 5c for guiding the steam from the steam header 8 at the end of the lower path 5b to the steam ejection part 4 is formed. The steam flows through the upper path 5a and enters the radiator as the heat exchanging section 6. After the heat is radiated by the radiator and the temperature is lowered, the steam flows through the lower path 5b and enters the steam header 8 for brackish water separation. Then, the steam flows from the steam header 8 through the side path 5c, and is jetted upward from the steam jetting part 4 disposed in an upright manner on the upper surface of the radiator as the heat exchange part 6. The drain liquefied in the steam header 8 is drained from a drainage section 9 provided at the lower part of the steam header 8.

Next, the operation of the garment finishing machine of the present invention will be described.
First, as shown by an arrow in FIG. 2, steam at a high temperature state of several hundreds of degrees enters a radiator as a heat exchange section 6 through an upper path 5 a as a steam supply path 5. Then, this steam is dissipated by the radiator and falls to a temperature around 95 ° C. Next, the steam enters the steam header 8 through the lower path 5 b as the steam supply path 5. Then, the steam that has been steam-separated by the steam header 8 is ejected upward from the steam ejection part 4 via the side path 5c, and the clothes 1 attached to the human body 2 are steamed.

  In the case of the present invention according to this embodiment, the steam sprayed on the garment 1 is set to be lowered by about 10 ° C. in the heat exchanging unit 6 compared to the initial temperature. Accordingly, in the present invention, the size of the water droplets of the steam is larger than that of the steam in a high temperature state, so that the steam is likely to stay on the cloth of the garment 1 for a short time (for example, 3 seconds). The clothes 1 can be moistened even by spraying.

  Moreover, in this embodiment, since the steam ejection part 4 is formed of a porous material, the water particles of the steam are refined to, for example, about 10 to 20 μm and sprayed in a mist form at the ejection part 4. . Therefore, in the case of the present invention, the steam is more likely to penetrate into the fabric, and the fabric wrinkles are easily removed. In the experiment, under the same conditions of the form of the steam ejection part 4 and the amount of steam sprayed, the state where steam was sprayed for 3 seconds with the machine of the present invention was the same as the state where steam was sprayed for 15 seconds with the conventional machine. It was.

  In the above place, as shown in FIG. 4, the present invention is configured such that the heat exchanging portion 6 is a hot spring for a sleeve tack press provided in a pair of left and right sides on the side of the human body 2, for example. It is also good. In this case, the dedicated heat exchanging unit 6 can be omitted, and the hot metal and the steam jetting unit 4 need only be piped, so that the parts cost and manufacturing cost can be reduced. Reference numeral 10 denotes a steam generation unit. The steam generating unit 10 and the hot metal as the heat exchanging unit 6 are connected by a pipe line 5d, and the hot metal as the heat exchanging part 6 and the steam jetting part 4 are connected by a pipe line 5e. . In the case of the present invention, the heat of the steam supplied from the steam generating unit 10 to the hot metal as the heat exchanging unit 6 is taken away by the hot metal sleeve tack press, and the temperature of the steam is reduced to about 10 ° C., for example. However, it is supplied to the steam ejection part 4 via the pipe line 5e, and is sprayed on the clothes 1 from this steam ejection part 4.

  In addition, in the case of the present invention, the steam jetting part 4 may be provided at the shoulder of the human body 2 so that steam can be sprayed into the sleeve of the garment 1, for example. The nozzle shape and the like are arbitrary.

  Further, in the present invention, when the steam ejection portion 4 is formed of a porous material as in the above example, it is preferable to expose the peripheral surface of the porous material as shown in FIG. In this case, mist-like steam can be sprayed over the clothing 1 not only from the upper surface of the ejection part 4 but also from the peripheral surface. For example, even the clothing 1 with a complicated design can wet the fabric in a short time. Because it can.

It is a principal part front view which shows suitable one Embodiment of the garment finishing machine of this invention. It is a principal part perspective view of a garment finishing machine same as the above. It is a disassembled perspective view of the principal part of a garment finishing machine same as the above. It is a principal part block diagram which shows other embodiment of a garment finishing machine same as the above. It is a principal part front view which shows other embodiment of a clothing finishing machine same as the above.

Explanation of symbols

1 Clothes 2 Human body type 4 Steam ejection part 5 Steam supply path 6 Heat exchange part

Claims (3)

  A steam finisher connected to the steam spraying unit, the garment finishing machine having a human body for wearing clothes and a steam spraying part for spraying steam on the clothes from the inside of the human body. And a heat exchanging section for lowering the temperature of the steam, and the steam finisher is formed so that steam having a lowered temperature can be supplied to the steam jetting section through the heat exchanging section.   2. The clothes finishing machine according to claim 1, wherein the steam jetting part is formed of a porous material that mists the steam.   The garment finishing machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the heat exchanging portions are hot tubs for sleeve tack presses provided on both sides of the human body mold.

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