JP2012165827A - Clothes-drying device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a convenient clothes-drying device that may be hung from a long substance such as a laundry pole as well as may be easily hung from a top face of an opened door or a towel bar provided on a wall of a bathroom.SOLUTION: At least one hook B out of at least two hooks 2 of a clothes-drying device used for hanging a clothes-drying frame A from a long substance is constructed to be changeable in position between a first hooking position to be hung from a long substance and a second hooking position to be hooked on an engagement part provided on an attached surface. The clothes-drying device further comprises: a position keeping mechanism for keeping a position of the movable hook B with respect to the clothes-drying frame A with the movable hook B placed in the second hooking position to be hooked on the engagement part; and a contact part 12 brought into contact with the attached surface for keeping the clothes-drying frame A in a use position.

Description

  The present invention comprises a clothesline frame in which a plurality of suspending tools for suspending and supporting a dried article is detachably provided, and at least two hooks for hanging the clothesline frame to a long body, The present invention relates to a clothes dryer configured such that the clothes frame is suspended and held along the elongated body by engaging the two hooks with the elongated body.

  Conventionally, as such a clothes dryer, two hooks are provided on a clothesline frame in which a plurality of hanging tools (clothespins) are suspended, and the two hooks face the same direction. There is known a structure in which a clothes frame is suspended and held along a long body by being fixed to the clothes frame and engaging a long body such as a clothes basket ( For example, see Patent Document 1).

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-235085

  However, in the clothes drying machine described in the above publication, since the two hooks are fixed to the clothes drying frame, it is possible to engage with a long body such as a clothes rack and suspend and hold it. However, for example, in a room, it engages with the upper edge or handle of an open door, or engages with a towel rack provided on the wall surface of the bathroom, etc. There was room for improvement in this regard.

  The present invention pays attention to such conventional problems, and its purpose is to open and hold a long body such as a drying basket while it is a single clothes dryer. It is an object of the present invention to provide a convenient clothes dryer that can be easily suspended and used on the upper edge of a door or a towel rack on a bathroom wall.

  A first characteristic configuration of the present invention includes a clothes-drying frame body in which a plurality of suspending tools for suspending and supporting a dried article are detachably supported, and at least two pieces for suspending the clothes-line frame body on a long body A clothes dryer configured to suspend and hold the clothesline frame along the elongated body by engaging the two hooks with the elongated body, At least one of the two hooks is freely changeable in posture between a first engagement posture that engages with the elongated body and a second engagement posture that engages with an engaged portion of the attached surface. A posture maintaining mechanism is provided that maintains the posture of the movable hook with respect to the clothesline frame in a state in which the movable hook that is configured and freely changeable in posture is in the second engagement posture that engages with the engaged portion. The clothes frame is held in a use posture by contacting the surface to be mounted. There is where the part is provided.

According to the above configuration, since at least two hooks for suspending the clothesline frame from the long body are provided, a plurality of hanging tools such as laundry are provided in the same manner as the clothesliner described in the above publication. A dried article can be suspended and held on a long body such as a clothesline.
Since at least one of the movable hooks is configured as a movable hook, the posture of the movable hook is changed to the second engagement posture that engages the engaged portion of the mounted surface, and the posture with respect to the clothesline frame is changed by the posture maintenance mechanism. For example, by engaging with an upper edge of an open door or a towel hook on the bathroom wall surface, the contact portion comes into contact with the door surface or bathroom wall surface as a mounting surface, and the clothes frame Can be suspended in a use posture.
Therefore, for example, when a laundry such as a laundry is hung on an outdoor laundry basket and it suddenly starts raining, it can be brought into the room as it is and the dryer is easily placed on the top edge of a door or a bathroom towel rack. It can be hung in a use posture, and can be used very conveniently in actual use.

  According to a second characteristic configuration of the present invention, the posture maintaining mechanism includes an elongated locking member provided on one of the clothesline frame and the movable hook, and the locking member provided on the other. It exists in the place comprised by the to-be-latched part to engage.

  According to the above configuration, the posture of the movable hook with respect to the clothesline frame can be maintained simply by engaging the long locking member with the locked portion. Compared with the case where it comprises, etc., the attitude | position maintenance operation of a movable hook can be performed easily and rapidly.

  According to a third characteristic configuration of the present invention, the locking member includes a rod-shaped body having a locking portion at a free end portion thereof, and a base end portion of which is rotatably connected to the clothes drying frame body. The locked portion is formed by a locked groove formed in the movable hook so as to be engaged with the locking portion.

  According to the above-described configuration, the rod-shaped body as the locking member is rotated with respect to the clothes frame, and the locking portion of the free end is engaged with the locked groove as the locked portion. Since the posture of the movable hook with respect to the clothesline frame can be maintained, the posture maintaining operation of the movable hook can be performed more easily and quickly.

  According to a fourth characteristic configuration of the present invention, the locked groove is formed in an inclined linear part continuously provided on the base end side of the bent engagement part in the movable hook.

  According to the said structure, engaging the latching | locking site | part provided in the free end part of the rod-shaped body mentioned above to the to-be-latched groove formed in the inclination linear part of a movable hook, and maintaining the attitude | position of a movable hook. Therefore, the posture of the movable hook with respect to the drying frame can be maintained more reliably, and the drying frame can be reliably held in a desired use posture.

  According to a fifth characteristic configuration of the present invention, a plurality of the locked grooves are provided along the inclined linear portions of the movable hook, and the locking portions are alternatively selected with respect to the plurality of locked grooves. By being engaged, the posture maintaining angle with respect to the movable hook of the clothesline frame is changed.

  According to the above configuration, the posture maintaining angle with respect to the movable hook of the drying frame can be changed by selectively engaging the locking portion of the rod-shaped body free end with the plurality of locked grooves. Therefore, for example, when hanging on an indoor door upper edge or bathroom towel rack, etc., by changing the posture maintenance angle in consideration of the relationship with the door surface or bathroom wall surface, for example, the clothesline frame is optimally It becomes possible to hold in a horizontal posture, and even in a narrow space, the clothes-drying frame can be suspended in an inclined posture.

  According to a sixth characteristic configuration of the present invention, the clothes-drying frame is formed in a substantially rectangular shape in plan view, and the hooks are connected to both end portions on the long side of the rectangular clothes-drying frame. Is configured as the movable hook, and the abutting portion is provided on a continuous abutting member that is rotatable at an end portion on the long side where the movable hook is located in the clothesline frame. By the way.

According to the above configuration, since the hooks are connected to both ends of the long side of the substantially rectangular clothes-line frame, when hanging on a long body such as a clothesline, the substantially rectangular clothes-line frame is stable. Can be hung well.
And, since one of them is configured as a movable hook, when hanging on the door upper edge or towel rack, etc., the substantially rectangular clothesline frame has its long side protruding from the door surface or wall surface, The abutting portion provided on the abutting member connected to the end on the long side abuts against the door surface or wall surface, and the dried items such as laundry are well ventilated away from the door surface or wall surface. Since the abutting member having the abutting portion is configured to be rotatable, the abutting portion is as desired with respect to the door surface and wall surface regardless of the posture of the clothesline frame. The clothes-drying frame body is held in the use posture.

  According to a seventh characteristic configuration of the present invention, the contact member is constituted by a flexible contact member that can be elastically deformed, and the contact portion is provided at a free end portion of the flexible contact member. It is in place.

  According to the above configuration, the abutting portion that abuts on the door surface or wall surface is provided at the free end portion of the flexible abutting member that can be elastically deformed. The load acting on the door is relaxed, and damage to the door surface and the wall surface can be prevented.

Perspective view of clothes dryer Side view of clothes dryer Front view of clothes dryer Partially cutaway perspective view showing the main part of the clothes dryer Side view of movable hook Front view of a clothes dryer showing the hanger in the stowed position Side view showing the state of use of the clothes dryer Side view showing the state of use of the clothes dryer

An embodiment of a clothes dryer according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the clothes hanger of the present invention is a clothes hanger in which a plurality of (in this embodiment, six) hanging hangers 1 for hanging and supporting clothes such as laundry are suspended. A frame A and two hooks 2 for hanging the clothesline frame A are provided. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, the two hooks 2 are engaged with a clothesline S as a long body. Thus, the clothes-drying frame A is configured to be suspended and held along the clothes-drying basket S.
Then, as shown in FIG. 8, one of the two hooks 2 is engaged with the clothes rack S as shown in FIG. 8, and as shown in FIG. The engaging portion K, specifically, a movable hook B whose posture can be freely changed to a second engaging posture that engages with an upper edge of an open door, a towel rack provided on a wall surface of a bathroom, a furniture handle, and the like. It is configured.

The clothes-drying frame body A includes a pair of left and right main body frames 3, hook attachment frames 4 provided at ends of both main body frames 3, and a plurality of connection frames 5 that connect the pair of left and right main body frames 3. The frames 3, 4 and 5 are integrally formed of synthetic resin, and are formed in a relatively long and substantially rectangular shape in plan view, and each hanger 1 extends between the pair of left and right main body frames 3. 3 is attached so as to be rotatable around a horizontal axis L1 (see FIG. 2) that is substantially orthogonal to 3.
In the pair of left and right main body frames 3, the hook support frame 6 rotates around the horizontal axis L <b> 2 substantially orthogonal to the main body frame 3 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 between the hook mounting frames 4 facing each other. Further, each hook 2 is attached to the hook support frame 6 so as to be rotatable around a vertical axis L3 perpendicular to the horizontal axis L2.

That is, the two hooks 2 are connected to both end portions on the long side of the clothes drying frame A formed in a substantially rectangular shape, and rotate around the horizontal axis L2, for example, orthogonal to the main body frame 3. A posture in which the posture can be freely changed over a standing posture and a folding posture along the upper surface of the main body frame 3, and by turning around the vertical axis L <b> 3, a posture facing the direction orthogonal to the main body frame 3, and the main body frame 3 is configured such that the posture can be freely changed to a posture in the direction along the direction 3.
Of the two hooks 2, the movable hook B is provided with a posture maintaining mechanism C that maintains the posture of the movable hook B with respect to the clothes frame A in the second engagement posture. It is comprised by the elongate locking member 7 provided in the clothesline frame A side, and the to-be-latched part 9 provided in the movable hook B side.

As shown in FIG. 4, the latching member 7 on the clothesline frame A side is specifically constituted by a metal rod-like body 8 bent in a loop shape, and its base end portion is a clothesline frame. The body A is rotatably connected around a horizontal axis L4 (see FIG. 2) parallel to the horizontal axes L1 and L2, and its free end is engaged with a locked portion 9 on the movable hook B side. It forms in the latching part 8a to match.
On the other hand, the locked portion 9 includes a plurality of locked grooves 10 formed on the proximal end side of the movable hook B. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, the movable hook B includes a curved engagement portion 2a located on the free end side, and an inclined linear portion 2b continuously provided on the proximal end side of the curved engagement portion 2a. A plurality of locked grooves 10 are formed along the inclined straight part 2b, and each locked groove 10 has an opening at the entrance of the locking part 8a in order to prevent the locked locking part 8a from coming out. It is configured to be slightly smaller than the thickness.
Then, by selectively engaging the locking portions 8a of the locking member 7 with the plurality of locked grooves 10, the posture maintaining angle α of the clothesline frame A with respect to the movable hook B (see FIGS. 2 and 2). 7) can be changed.

In the clothes-drying frame A, an elastically deformable synthetic resin contact member 11 extends in the lateral direction at the end on the side where the movable hook B is located, and the horizontal axes L1, L2, L4 and Around the parallel horizontal axis L7 (see FIG. 2), it is continuously connected so as to be able to rotate within a predetermined range in the vertical direction, and contact portions 12 made of a relatively soft material are provided at both ends of the contact member 11. Is installed.
As shown in FIG. 7, when the movable hook B engages with the engaged portion K of the attached surface M in the second engagement posture, the abutting portion 12 comes into contact with the attached surface M and the clothes drying frame. It functions to hold the body A in a desired use posture, and is provided at the end of the elastically deformable contact member 11 in order to relieve the load acting on the mounted surface M in the use posture. Furthermore, the contact member 11 itself is also formed in a shape that is slightly bent outward so that the load can be easily relaxed.
Since the abutting member 11 having the abutting portion 12 is connected continuously around the horizontal axis L7, the abutting portion 12 corresponds to the change in the attitude maintaining angle α described above. Always contacts the mounted surface M in a desired posture.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 6, the hanger 1 is entirely made of a synthetic resin, and as shown in FIGS. A connecting member 14 for connecting the end member 13 and both base end members 13 is provided, and a shoulder member 15a for hooking clothes or the like and a rod-like member 15b for hooking trousers or the like are integrated at the ends of the pair of left and right base end members 13 The hook members 15 provided are respectively connected to be rotatable around a horizontal axis L5 parallel to the main body frame 3, and the free ends of both hook members 15 are parallel to the horizontal axis L5. It is rotatably connected around a horizontal axis L6.
A pinching member 16 is integrally formed on the shoulder member 15a and the rod-like member 15b of each hook member 15, and a cover member 17 constructed separately is shown on each shoulder member 15a as shown in FIG. Thus, it is fitted around the shoulder member 15a so as to be movable and fixed.

Therefore, each cover member 17 is changed into a storage posture moved to the base end member 13 side as shown by a solid line in FIG. 3 and a use posture pulled out as shown by a dotted line in FIG. It is configured freely.
Further, since the connecting member 14 of the hanger 1 has a recessed portion 14a in which the central portion is recessed, as shown in FIG. 6, the hooking member positioned on the left and right with each cover member 17 in the retracted position. By pushing up the 15 rod-shaped members 15b upward, the free end portions (lateral axis L6 side) of both the rod-shaped members 15b are lifted upward in a state where they are located in the recessed portions 14a, and both shoulder members 15a and the cover member The housing 17 is configured to be folded inward.

Then, each hanger 1 is in a use posture, and the two hooks 2 are in a posture facing the direction orthogonal to the main body frame 3 of the clothes-drying frame body A. The body can be suspended and held.
Further, the posture of the movable hook B with respect to the clothesline frame A is maintained by the posture maintaining mechanism C by setting the movable hook B to a posture along the direction of the main body frame 3, and as shown in FIG. The hanging hook A can be engaged with the engaged portion K of the body and the clothes-drying frame A can be held in the use posture. In this case, the positional relationship between the engaged portion K and the mounting surface M is taken into consideration. By properly setting the posture maintenance angle α, the clothes-drying frame A can be held and hung horizontally in the optimum use posture.

[Another embodiment]
(1) In the above-described embodiment, the example in which the locking member 7 is configured by the loop-shaped metal rod-shaped body 8 having the locking portion 8a at the free end portion is shown. However, for example, instead of the loop-shaped rod-shaped body 8 Thus, the locking member 7 can be constituted by a single rod-shaped body having a hook-shaped hook at the free end or a flexible string-shaped body, and the locking member 7 and the locked portion 9, contrary to the above embodiment, the posture maintaining mechanism C can be configured by providing the locked portion 9 on the clothesline frame A side and providing the locking member 7 on the movable hook B side.
Further, a tightening release mechanism that uses bolts, nuts, and the like may be provided, and the posture maintaining mechanism C may be used.

(2) In the above embodiment, an example in which two hooks 2 are provided on the clothesline frame A and one of them is configured as a movable hook B is shown. However, all the two hooks are configured as a movable hook B. It is also possible to provide three or more hooks 2 for the clothesline frame A, and at least one of them can be a movable hook B.
In addition, the example in which the contact member 11 having the contact portion 12 is connected to the clothes drying frame A so as to be rotatable in the vertical direction around the horizontal axis L7 is shown. Depending on the configuration and shape of the part 12, for example, it is preferable to be configured to be rotatable in the horizontal direction in addition to the vertical direction.
And although the hanger 1 was shown as an example of the hanging tool hung on the clothes-line frame A, it replaces with the hanger 1 and can also hang a pinch (laundry scissors) and hung the hanger 1 and a pinch together. It can also be set up.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Hanging tool 2 Hook 2a Curved engagement part 2b Inclined linear part 7 Locking member 8 Rod-shaped body 8a Locking part 9 Locked part 10 Locked groove 11 Contacting member 12 Contacting part A Drying frame body B Movable Hook C Posture maintenance mechanism M Mounted surface K Engaged part S Long body α Posture maintenance angle

Claims (7)

A clothesline frame having a plurality of hanging tools for suspending and supporting the dried article in a detachable manner, and at least two hooks for suspending the clothesline frame from a long body, the two A clothes dryer configured to suspend and hold the clothes frame along the elongated body by engaging a hook with the elongated body,
At least one of the two hooks is freely changeable in posture between a first engagement posture that engages with the elongated body and a second engagement posture that engages with an engaged portion of the attached surface. A posture maintaining mechanism is provided that maintains the posture of the movable hook with respect to the clothesline frame in a state in which the movable hook that is configured and freely changeable in posture is in the second engagement posture that engages with the engaged portion. A clothes dryer provided with an abutting portion that abuts against the surface to be mounted and holds the clothes frame in a use posture.   The posture maintaining mechanism includes a long locking member provided on one of the clothes frame and the movable hook, and a locked portion that engages with the locking member provided on the other. The clothes-drying device according to claim 1.   The locking member has a locking portion at a free end thereof, and a base end portion of the locking member is rotatably connected to the clothes-drying frame body, and the locked portion is the engagement member. The clothes-drying device according to claim 2, which is configured by a locked groove formed in the movable hook so as to be engaged with a stop portion.   The clothes-drying device according to claim 3, wherein the locked groove is formed in an inclined linear portion continuously provided on a proximal end side of the bent engagement portion in the movable hook.   A plurality of the locking grooves are provided along the inclined linear portions of the movable hook, and the clothes hanging frame body is formed by selectively engaging the locking portions with the plurality of locking grooves. The clothes-drying device according to claim 4, configured to change a posture maintaining angle with respect to the movable hook.   The clothes-drying frame is formed in a substantially rectangular shape in plan view, and the hooks are connected to both ends of the rectangular clothes-drying frame on the long side, and one of the hooks is configured as the movable hook. In addition, the abutting portion is provided on an abutting member that is rotatably connected to an end portion on the long side where the movable hook in the clothes-drying frame body is located. The clothes dryer described in 1.   7. The clothesline according to claim 6, wherein the contact member is constituted by a flexible contact member that is elastically deformable, and the contact portion is provided at a free end portion of the flexible contact member. vessel.

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