JP2654036B2 - Clothes dryer - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a clothes dryer.

(B) Conventional technology For example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. Sho 56-41671 and Japanese Utility Model Publication No. Sho 52-21641 disclose a hot air covered with a filter device having a drum opening at a front portion facing a clothing input port of a main body frame. A clothes dryer with a rotating drum with an outlet on the rear bottom surface is shown. According to this prior art, the filter device is opposed to the clothing slot, so that the filter device can be easily attached and detached from the clothing slot, but a so-called top-loading type clothing in which a drum opening is formed in the body of the rotating drum. In the dryer, the direction of insertion of fingers into the rotating drum and the direction of mounting and removing the filter device are orthogonal to each other. If force is applied during removal, the back of the hand will be hit by the front wall of the rotating drum, and further attached when mounted There are drawbacks such as difficulty in visually confirming the position, making it impossible to confirm the mounting position, and making it difficult to mount.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention The present invention is intended to make it possible to easily attach and detach a filter device in a clothes dryer provided with a rotating drum having a drum opening in a body.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention relates to a main body frame having a clothing input port on an upper surface, a rotating drum housed in the main body frame, and an inner lid provided on a body of the rotating drum. A drum opening that is opened and closed and faces the clothes input port when the rotating drum is stopped, and a hot air outlet provided on a side surface of the rotating drum,
A filter device that covers the hot air outlet in the rotary drum, wherein the filter device includes a filter cover that is inserted into a detachable portion provided on a side surface of the rotary drum and covers the filter. On the outer peripheral side wall of the filter cover, a positioning portion that is fitted into the attaching / detaching portion when the filter cover is attached to the attaching / detaching portion, and is manually operated after the positioning portion is fitted, and is engaged with the engaging portion of the attaching / detaching portion. And a locking portion of the attaching / detaching portion is provided on the drum opening side, and the locking member is moved outward of the rotating drum to lock the locking member. And the latch is released by being locked by the rotating portion and moving toward the center of the rotary drum.

(E) Operation When the inner lid of the rotating drum is opened to clean the filter device and the drum opening is opened in the state where the drum opening is opened in order to clean the filter device, the locking member of the filter cover is positioned at the drum opening side, and the positioning portion is positioned. Can be seen on the back side, and the attaching / detaching operation of the engaging body with respect to the engaging portion can be easily performed. Further, the filter cover can be easily attached by simply storing the filter cover in the rotary drum through the drum opening, first positioning the filter cover in the positioning portion on the back side, and then locking the locking body to the locking portion.

In addition, even if the agitated garment falls down and hits the locking body when the locking body is located at the lower part of the drum during rotation of the drum, a force is applied outward of the drum at this time. Since the direction is opposite to the release direction of the locking body, the locking body does not come off the locking portion.

(F) Embodiment 1 is a main body frame of a clothes dryer, which includes a bottom plate 2 and the bottom plate 2.
And a top surface plate 4 fixed to the upper end of the side surface tube 3. The upper surface plate 4 is provided with a clothing inlet 6 that can be opened and closed by a door body 5. . Reference numeral 7 denotes a partition plate for partitioning the inside of the main body frame 1 to form a drum chamber 8, reference numeral 9 denotes a spindle inserted through and fixed to the partition plate 7, and reference numeral 10 denotes a drum support plate.

Reference numeral 11 denotes a rotary drum housed in the drum chamber 8, rotatably inserted into the support shaft 9 via a bearing 13 fixed to the center of the bottom surface 12, and supported by bolts and washers to prevent it from coming off. An annular drum cover 14 is rotatably fitted to the outer peripheral edge of the drum support board 10. Reference numeral 15 denotes a hot air inlet formed in the lower portion of the drum support board 10, 16 denotes a hot air outlet formed in the center of the rear surface of the rotary drum 11, and 17 denotes a vent formed in the partition plate 7.

Reference numeral 18 denotes an L-shaped circulation duct which communicates with the hot air inlet 15 and to which the drum support plate 10 is fixed, and has a positive temperature coefficient thermistor heater 19 facing the hot air inlet 15; A cylindrical circulating casing formed on the rear surface thereof so as to communicate with the ventilation port 17 and communicates with the circulation duct 18 to form a circulation air passage.

Reference numeral 21 denotes a cooling casing having substantially the same shape formed so as to be continuous with the circulation casing 20, and has a cooling air inlet 22 and an exhaust port 23 to form a cooling air passage.

24 is a communication port 25 between the circulation casing 20 and the cooling casing 21
A heat exchange type double-sided fan disposed over the portion, rotatably supported on the support shaft 9, and a blower of the circulating air in the circulating air passage and the cooling air in the cooling air passage; Replace simultaneously.

A motor 26 rotates the rotating drum 11 at low speed by a drum belt 27 and a two-sided fan 24 by a fan belt 28.
To rotate at high speed.

Reference numeral 29 denotes a drum opening formed in the body 30 of the rotary drum 11, and reference numeral 31 denotes a sliding inner lid which covers the drum opening 29 so as to be openable and slidable in the circumferential direction.

The rotation of the rotary drum 11 is controlled so that the drum opening 29 is always at the upper position in the stopped state, and the drum opening 29 is opposed to the clothing slot 6 in the stopped state. .

A filter device 32 is detachably mounted in the rotary drum 11 so as to cover the hot air outlet 16.
A first filter body 33, which covers the rotary drum 11 and is fixed to the rear surface 12 of the rotating drum 11 by a screw or the like, and a second filter body 34 are detachably fixed to the first filter body 33 (detachable portion). The filter cover 35 is freely attached.

As shown in FIG. 3, the first filter body 33 is composed of an annular frame body 37 having a window portion provided with a filter membrane 36 made of 225 mesh nylon net, and a peripheral cylindrical portion 38 of the frame body 37. A locking hole 39 is provided at an upper part of the drum, and a holding hole 40 is provided at a lower part thereof.
The rotary drum 11 is screwed and fixed to the center of the rear surface 12 of the rotary drum 11 in a state where the rotary drum 11 is positioned closest to the drum opening 29 so as to be closest to 29.

As shown in FIG. 4, the filter cover 35 is large enough to enter the peripheral cylindrical portion 38 of the first filter body 33, has countless air holes 41, and has a second filter body on the back surface.
An annular covering 43 with 34 latching pieces 42, and this covering 43
A positioning projection 45 projecting from a lower portion of the outer peripheral side wall 44 and fitted into the holding hole 40, and a positioning projection 47 disposed above the outer peripheral side wall 44, and a locking projection 47 is inserted into the locking hole 39 by a spring 46. And a locking body 49 provided with a knob 48 which is constantly urged upward.

Further, the second filter body 34 is provided with a filter membrane 50 made of a 225 mesh nylon net in a window portion.

Thus, in order to attach the filter cover 35 with the second filter body 34 attached to the first filter body 33, first, the positioning projection 45 is fitted into the holding hole 40 of the first filter body 33. Next, the locking body 49 is pressed toward the center of the rotary drum 11 to move against the urging force of the spring 46, and the locking projection 47 of the locking body 49 is moved to the locking hole 39 of the first filter body 33. To come under. Thereafter, the pressing of the locking body 49 is stopped, and the locking body 49 is moved outward of the rotary drum 11 by the urging force of the spring 46 so that the locking projection 47 enters the locking hole 39. Thus, the filter cover 35 is attached to the rear surface 12 of the rotating drum 11. Then, at the time of filter cleaning, when the inner lid 31 of the drum opening 29 is opened and the drum opening 29 is opened, the locking body 49 of the filter cover 35 can be seen, and the locking body 49 faces downward, that is, the center of the rotating drum 11. If you press in the direction, the locking body 49 easily comes off the locking hole 39,
The filter cover 35 can be easily removed. When mounting the filter cover 35, first, the positioning projection 45
Can be easily attached by fitting the locking projections 47 of the locking body 49 into the locking holes 39 after fitting them into the holding holes 40.

(G) Effects of the Invention According to the present invention, when the inner cover of the rotary drum is opened and the drum opening is opened, when the user looks through the drum opening, the locking body of the filter cover is seen toward the drum opening side, and the locking body is in front. It is easy to perform the attaching and detaching operation of the locking body because it is located at
When the filter cover is installed, it can be easily mounted simply by locking the locking body to the locking part after positioning with the positioning part on the back side, and attaching and detaching the filter device to and from the rotating drum with the drum opening in the body Is easy to do.

In addition, the locking body is locked to the locking portion by moving to the outside of the rotating drum, and is unlocked to the locking portion by moving to the center of the rotating drum. As a result, during the rotation of the drum, when the locked body is located at the lower part of the drum, even if the agitated garment falls and hits the locked body, the locked body does not come off from the locking portion. Therefore, it is possible to adopt a configuration in which the filter cover is not easily detached during the drying operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

All the drawings relate to an embodiment of the clothes dryer of the present invention, FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a filter device part, FIG. 2 is a sectional side view,
FIG. 3 is a view of the first filter body, (a) is a front view,
(B) is a sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG. 3 (a), FIG. 4 is a front view of the filter cover, FIG. 5 is an enlarged sectional view of the part B in FIG. 1, and FIG. It is an expanded sectional view of. 11 ... rotating drum, 29 ... drum opening, 32 ... filter device, 33 ... first filter body, 35 ... filter cover, 39 ... locking hole (locking part), 40 ... holding hole, 45 ……
Positioning protrusions (positioning parts), 49 ... locking bodies.

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Tamotsu Kawamura 2-18-18 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yoshiaki Aoki 2-18-18 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. Inside the company (72) Inventor Koichi Tanaka 2-18 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A main body frame having a clothes input port on an upper surface, a rotating drum housed in the main body frame, and provided on a body of the rotating drum, opened and closed by an inner lid, and when the rotating drum is stopped. A drum opening opposed to the clothes input port, and a hot air outlet provided on a side surface of the rotating drum,
A filter device for covering the hot air outlet in the rotary drum, wherein the filter device includes a filter cover for covering a filter mounted on a detachable portion provided on a side surface of the rotary drum, the filter comprising: On the outer peripheral side wall of the cover, a positioning portion which is fitted into the attaching / detaching portion when the filter cover is attached to the attaching / detaching portion, and is manually operated after the positioning portion is fitted, and is engaged with the engaging portion of the attaching / detaching portion. And a locking portion of the attaching / detaching portion is provided on the drum opening side, and further, the locking member is moved outward of the rotary drum to thereby stop the locking portion. The clothes dryer is characterized in that the clothes are locked by the rotating drum and moved toward the center of the rotating drum to release the locking to the locking portion.