JP2011078688A - Clothes drying apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a clothes drying apparatus from giving a visually complicated impression by reducing the downward projection of a fixture from the ceiling surface. <P>SOLUTION: The outside surface of a storage portion 222 of a holding member 22 rotatably supported at a regulating member 23 in a casing 21 is provided with a fixing member 24 applying a pressing force for regulating the rotation of the holding member 22. The fixing member 24 is arranged overlapping the holding member 22 in the vertical direction. There is therefore no need to arrange the holding member 22 and the fixing member 24 in the vertical direction, and the fixture does not project greatly downward from the ceiling surface. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a clothes-drying device in which an upper end portion of a column that holds a clothes-holding basket at a lower portion is detachably attached to a fixture fixed to a top surface.

  2. Description of the Related Art As a clothes drying apparatus used when drying laundry indoors, there is an apparatus for holding a clothes-drying basket in a horizontal state at a lower part of a support suspended from the top surface (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

The support column is detachably attached to a fixture whose upper end is fixed to the ceiling surface. The strut is suspended from the ceiling surface by attaching the upper end to the fixture only when using a clothes rack. When the clothes rack is not used, the column is removed from the fixture so that the indoor space can be used effectively.

The fixture needs to be configured so that the column can be easily attached and detached, and the attached state of the column is not easily released.

For this reason, some conventional clothes drying apparatuses include a holding member, a regulating member, and a fixing member inside the fixture. The holding member is rotatably held between the attaching / detaching position and the fixing position around the vertical axis inside the fixture, and receives the upper end portion of the column from the lower surface or the side surface at the attaching / detaching position. The restriction member prohibits the separation of the upper end portion of the support from the holding member at the fixed position. The fixing member generates a regulating force against rotation of the holding member at the fixing position to the attachment / detachment position.

After inserting the upper end of the column into the fixture, rotate the column by a predetermined amount around the long axis to maintain the state where the upper end of the column is fixed inside the fixture and move the column in the opposite direction. The fixed state of the upper end portion of the support column inside the fixture is released by rotating it to the right.

JP 2004-222841 A

However, the conventional clothes drying apparatus fixture has a holding member, a regulating member, and a fixing member that are arranged along the rotation axis (vertical axis) of the holding member, so that it becomes longer in the vertical direction and greatly downward from the ceiling surface. There is a problem of protruding and giving a visually complicated impression.

An object of the present invention is to provide a clothes drying apparatus capable of reducing the downward projecting amount of the fixture from the ceiling surface.

The clothes drying apparatus of this invention is provided with the support | pillar and the fixture. The support column includes a locking portion including an extending piece extending in the radial direction at the upper end portion, and a holding portion that holds a clothes-drying basket at the lower end portion. The fixture includes a housing, a holding member, a regulating member, and a fixing member, and is fixed to the ceiling surface. The housing houses a holding member, a regulating member, and a fixing member inside. The holding member is rotatably supported between the attachment / detachment position and the fixing position, and a storage portion is formed in which a bottom surface that substantially coincides with the horizontal sectional shape of the portion including the extending piece of the locking portion is opened. . The restricting member opens the bottom surface of the storage portion to the lower side of the housing at the attachment / detachment position, and covers the bottom surface side of the storage portion of the extension piece in the storage portion at the fixed position. The fixing member applies a horizontal pressing force to the side surface of the holding member at least at the fixing position.

When the holding member is in the attachment / detachment position, the entire bottom surface of the storage portion is opened below the housing, and the locking portion of the support column can be inserted into and removed from the storage portion from below the housing. Since the horizontal cross-sectional shape of the storage portion substantially matches the horizontal cross-sectional shape of the portion including the extended piece of the locking portion, when the support column with the locking portion inserted into the storage portion is rotated around the axis, The holding member rotates. When the holding member rotates from the attachment / detachment position to the fixed position, the bottom surface side of the storage portion of the extension piece in the storage portion is covered with the regulating member, and the locking portion stored in the storage portion cannot be detached from the storage portion. The pressing force of the fixing member acts on the side surface of the holding member at the fixing position. When the holding member is rotated from the fixed position to the attachment / detachment position, it is necessary to apply a rotational force against the pressing force of the fixing member to the support column. Since the fixing member applies a pressing force in the horizontal direction to the side surface of the storage portion of the holding member, the fixing member is disposed on the side of the storage portion, and does not need to be disposed at the vertical position of the holding member in the vertical direction.

In this configuration, the fixing member is preferably an elastic member disposed on the side of the storage portion of the holding member. In particular, it is more preferable to use an elastic wire disposed with two side surfaces facing each other in the storage unit. The fixing member can have a simple configuration.

  According to the present invention, the fixing member that restricts the movement of the holding member from the fixing position to the attaching / detaching position can be arranged on the side of the holding portion of the holding member, and the holding member and the fixing member need to be arranged vertically. The vertical length of the fixture can be shortened. As a result, it is possible to reduce the amount of downward protrusion of the fixture from the ceiling surface, and it is possible to prevent visually complicated impressions.

It is a figure which shows the use condition of the clothesline leaving concerning the embodiment of this invention. (A) And (B) is the assembly drawing and perspective view of the fixture of the same thing drying apparatus. It is a figure explaining the attachment operation | work of the support | pillar with respect to the fixture in the said clothes drying apparatus. (A) And (B) is sectional drawing of the same fixture in the state where the support | pillar is not attached, and is sectional drawing of the XX part and YY part in FIG. 2 (B). (A) And (B) is sectional drawing of the fixture which shows the state by which the latching | locking part of the support | pillar was inserted in the accommodating part of the holding member located in an attachment / detachment position, and is XX in FIG. 2 (B). It is sectional drawing of a part and a YY part. (A) And (B) is sectional drawing of the same fixture which shows the state by which the latching | locking part of the support | pillar was inserted in the accommodating part of the holding member located in a fixed position, and is XX in FIG. 2 (B). It is sectional drawing of a part and a YY part.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a clothes drying apparatus 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes two support columns 1 and 1 and two attachments 2 and 2. The two fixtures 2 and 2 are fixed to the ceiling surface 200 with a predetermined interval.

The support column 1 includes an engaging portion 11 at the upper end portion and a holding portion 12 at the lower end portion. The locking part 11 is inserted into the attachment 2 from below. The holding | maintenance part 12 exhibits a cyclic | annular form as an example, and hold | maintains the edge part of the laundry basket 100. The support column 1 is configured such that the outer cylinder 13 and the inner cylinder 14 are nested and can be expanded and contracted, and the height of the clothes rack 100 can be adjusted according to the ceiling height. However, the support column 1 is not necessarily configured to be extendable and contractible. The locking part 11 is attached to the upper end of the outer cylinder 1 via a coil spring 15. The coil spring 15 allows an angle change due to the swinging of the support column 1 in a state of being attached to the fixture 2.

As shown in FIG. 2, the fixture 2 includes a housing 21, a holding member 22, a regulating member 23, and a fixing member 24. The housing 21 has an opening 211 at the center of the bottom surface and an open top surface, and houses the holding member 22, the regulating member 23, and the fixing member 24 inside.

The regulating member 23 is formed with concentric upper and lower concave portions 236 and 237, and a long hole 232 is formed at the center of the lower concave portion 237. The holding member 22 is housed from above in the recess 236 on the upper side of the regulating member 23. The regulating member 23 holds the holding member 22 in the recess 236 so as to be rotatable in a horizontal plane. In the recess 236 of the restricting member 23, horizontal holes 234 and 235 are formed.

The holding member 22 includes a storage portion 222 that protrudes upward at the center of the disc-shaped main body 221. The storage portion 222 has a regular quadrangular shape with corners formed by arcs, and the inside has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped hollow shape with an open bottom surface. Arc holes 223 and 223 are formed in the main body 221 at two locations. The circular arc hole 223 passes through the main body 221 within a rotation angle range of 90 degrees. A pin (not shown) is inserted into the arc hole 223 from above. The pin fits into a hole 238 formed in the recess 236 of the restriction member 23. Due to the contact between the pin and both ends of the circular hole 223 in the circumferential direction, the holding member 22 can freely rotate in a 90-degree angle range in the horizontal plane between the attaching / detaching position and the fixing position in the recess 236 of the regulating member 23. Has been.

  For example, the fixing member 24 is formed by bending an elastic wire at two bent portions, and the space between the two bent portions is inserted into the hole portion 234 in the horizontal direction, and the two open ends are formed at the hole portion 235. Inserted horizontally. The fixing member 24 presses the side surface of the storage portion 222 in the horizontal direction between the open end and the bent portion.

The regulating member 23 is fixed to the ceiling surface via an attachment screw that penetrates the attachment hole 231 from below with the holding member 22 and the fixing member 24 housed in the upper recess. Step portions 233 are formed at two locations on the outer peripheral portion of the regulating member 23. The housing 21 is attached to the outside of the restricting member 23 by rotating and engaging the protrusion 212 with the stepped portion 233.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the assembled fixture 2, the lower part of the recess 237 of the regulating member 23 is exposed below the housing 21 from the opening 211 of the housing 21. A partially cylindrical boss 224 extends on the bottom surface of the main body 221 of the holding member 22. In a state where the main body 221 of the holding member 22 is housed in the recess 236, the boss 224 is positioned in the recess 237. The holding member 22 is rotatably supported in the regulating member 23 by the contact between the outer peripheral portion of the boss portion 224 and the inner peripheral surface of the concave portion 237.

When the holding member 22 is in the attaching / detaching position, the fixing member 24 is pressed against the two parallel side surfaces of the outer side of the storage portion 222 from two opposite directions, and a pressing force is applied from the fixing member 24. This pressing force restricts the free rotation of the holding member 22 in the recess 236, and in order to rotate the holding member 22, it is necessary to apply an external force that resists the pressing force of the fixing member 24.

The planar shape of the long hole 232 of the restricting member 23 substantially matches the planar shape of the inside of the storage portion 222 of the holding member 22. When the rotation position of the holding member 22 is the attachment / detachment position shown in FIG. 3, the bottom surface inside the storage portion 222 opens below the housing 21 through the long hole 232 over the entire surface.

A pin is not inserted into one of the two arc holes 223, a coloring member is disposed on one end thereof, and the coloring member is attached via the hole 213 of the housing 21 and the hole 238 of the regulating member 23. By visually recognizing from below 2, it may be possible to confirm that the holding member 22 is in the attach / detach position or the fixed position.

As shown in FIG. 4, the locking portion 11 of the support column 1 includes extending portions 112 and 112 extending from the shaft portion 111 in the horizontal direction. The planar shape inside the storage portion 222 of the holding member 22 substantially matches the horizontal sectional shape of the portion including the extended piece 112 of the locking portion 11. In the state where the holding member 22 is located at the attachment / detachment position, the entire bottom surface of the storage portion 222 is opened to the lower side of the housing 21 via the long hole 232 of the restriction member 23, as shown in FIG. The locking portion 11 of the support column 1 can be inserted into and removed from the lower portion of the housing 1 with respect to the storage portion 222.

When the support column 1 is rotated 90 degrees around the vertical axis from the state shown in FIG. 5, the holding member 22 is brought into contact with the side surface of the extension piece 112 of the locking portion 11 and the side surface inside the storage portion 222 as shown in FIG. Rotate around the vertical axis from the attach / detach position shown in FIG. 6 to the fixed position shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 6, in the state where the holding member 22 is located at the fixed position, the bottom surface 237 </ b> A of the recess 237 of the restriction member 23 is positioned below the extension piece 112 of the locking portion 11 inserted into the storage portion 222. Is positioned, and the locking portion 11 cannot be extracted downward from the storage portion 222.

When the holding member 22 is in the fixed position, the fixing member 24 comes into pressure contact with two side surfaces parallel to each other, which are different from the attachment / detachment position on the outside of the storage portion 222, and the pressing force acts from the fixing member 24. Yes. This pressing force restricts the free rotation of the holding member 22 in the recess 236, and in order to rotate the holding member 22, it is necessary to apply an external force that resists the pressing force of the fixing member 24. The holding member 22 storing the locking portion 11 in the storage portion 222 can be prevented from easily rotating from the fixed position to the attaching / detaching position, and the support column 1 can be prevented from easily falling off from the fixture 2.

In addition, considering the planar shape outside the storage portion 222, the holding member 22 can be moved from the fixed member 24 to the outside of the storage portion 222 when rotating from the attachment / detachment position to the fixation position and when rotating from the fixation position to the attachment / detachment position. The pressing force acting on the side surface can be varied. In this case, the pressing force when rotating the holding member 22 from the fixed position to the attaching / detaching position is preferably larger than the pressing force when rotating the holding member 22 from the attaching / detaching position to the fixing position. The pressing force when rotating from the attach / detach position to the fixed position may be zero.

In addition, the fixing member 24 can be configured by other elastic members such as a coil spring and a leaf spring that apply a pressing force to the outer surface of the storage portion 222.

Furthermore, the support | pillar 1 does not necessarily need two or more, For example, it is provided with only one support | pillar 1 holding the center part of the longitudinal direction of the laundry basket 100 by considering the shape of the holding | maintenance part 12. FIG. You can also.

With the above configuration, the vertical position of the fixing member 24 that restricts the rotation of the holding member 22 overlaps the vertical position of the holding member 22, and the holding member 22 and the fixing member 24 are not arranged in the vertical direction. The vertical length of the fixture 2 can be reduced. The fixture 2 does not protrude greatly downward from the ceiling surface, and does not give a visually complicated impression.

Further, the structure can be simplified by configuring the fixing member 24 with an elastic wire bent at two places.

  The description of the above-described embodiment is an example in all respects and should be considered as not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is shown not by the above embodiments but by the claims. Furthermore, the scope of the present invention is intended to include all modifications within the meaning and scope equivalent to the scope of the claims.

1-post 2-attachment 10-drying device 11-locking part 21-housing 22-holding member 23-regulating member 24-fixing member 100-drying basket 112-extending piece 200-ceiling surface 222-storage part

Claims (3)

A strut having a locking portion including an extending piece extending in the radial direction at the upper end portion, and a holding portion for holding a hanging basket at the lower end portion;
A housing, a holding member, a regulating member, and a fixing member, and a fixture that is fixed to the ceiling surface and detachably holds the locking portion of the column.
The housing houses a holding member, a regulating member, and a fixing member inside,
The holding member is rotatably supported between the attachment / detachment position and the fixing position, and is a storage portion that substantially matches the horizontal cross-sectional shape of the portion including the extension piece in the locking portion, and the bottom surface is opened. Having a storage part,
The regulating member opens the bottom surface of the storage unit to the lower side of the housing at the attachment / detachment position, and covers the bottom side of the storage part of the extension piece in the storage unit at the fixed position,
The fixing member is a clothes drying device that applies a horizontal pressing force to the side surface of the holding member at least at a fixed position. The clothes drying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the fixing member is an elastic member disposed on a side of the storage portion of the holding member. The clothes drying apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the fixing member is an elastic wire disposed on a side of the storage portion of the holding member.

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