JP3161270U - Hook mobile clothes drying equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a clothes drying apparatus in which a hook for hanging a hanger or the like is smoothly moved by a small force in the longitudinal direction, and can be easily attached to and detached from an existing clothes rack or the like with one touch. A casing comprising an inner rod, a casing cover, a top roller, a suspending roller, and a hanging hook. A space is formed between the upper and lower ends and both ends of the inner rod, and a plurality of substantially cylindrical top rollers 4 and hanging rollers 5 are arranged in the space, and the laundry is suspended on the hanging rollers 5. By connecting a hanging hook 6 for lowering, the hanging hook can be moved in the longitudinal direction. [Selection] Figure 7

Description

  The present invention relates to a clothes-drying device used by being attached to a clothes-drying basket or the like, wherein a plurality of suspension hooks move freely in the longitudinal direction.

When hanging laundry, it is common to hang the hangers one by one on a clothes rack after hanging the laundry one by one on a hanger. However, since the hanging basket is long in the horizontal direction, it was necessary to shift the position of hanging while moving from side to side and hanger.
This work while moving to the left and right is particularly burdensome for elderly people with disabilities and disabled persons.
In view of this, a technique has been developed in which the user can hang the laundry evenly on the clothesline while staying in one place by sequentially moving the part itself for hanging the hanger or the like in the longitudinal direction. (For example, actual climbing 3133241).

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  However, the clothes drying apparatus according to Document 1 is of a type that mainly uses a plurality of pulleys and strings. When the hook is moved by such a method, problems such as entanglement between the hook and the string, or the strings tend to occur, or the string comes off the pulley. Moreover, since several ropes hang down, it looks bad. Furthermore, when attaching the apparatus to the clothes rack, it is necessary to attach the apparatus to the basket with screws or the like, and it is very difficult to attach or detach the apparatus.

  The present invention allows hooks to hang hangers, etc. to move smoothly with little force in the longitudinal direction, and can be easily attached to and detached from an existing clothes rack with one touch without being detached from the main body no matter what force is applied to the hook. It is an object of the present invention to provide a hook-moving clothes-drying device that can be used.

  In order to solve the above problems, a hook-moving clothes drying apparatus according to the present invention is a clothes drying apparatus comprising an inner rod, a casing cover, a top roller, a hanging roller, and a hanging hook, and is a substantially rectangular parallelepiped elongated inner rod. Is sandwiched between casing covers, a space is formed above and / or below the inner rod, and a plurality of substantially cylindrical piece rollers and hanging rollers are arranged in the space, and laundry is placed on the hanging rollers. The gist of the present invention is that a suspension hook for hanging the suspension hook is connected, and the suspension hook can be moved in the longitudinal direction.

  Further, the hook-moving clothes drying apparatus according to the present invention has the above-described configuration, and further, both end portions of the inner rod are curved outward, the casing cover is substantially U-shaped in cross section, and the length in the longitudinal direction is the length of the inner rod. It is slightly longer than the length in the longitudinal direction, and both end portions are curved so as to correspond to both end portions of the inner rod. By sandwiching two opposing surfaces of the inner rod with the casing cover, A space corresponding to the height at which the top roller and the suspension roller can rotate is formed, and a space that connects the upper and lower spaces along the curve is formed at both ends of the inner rod, and the top roller and the suspension roller are formed in the space. The gist is to spread as much as possible so that there is no gap, and when one roller moves, the other rollers also move.

  Further, in the above configuration, the hook moving type clothes drying apparatus according to the present invention further includes a hanging hook formed in the upper surface and / or the lower surface of the casing cover with a narrow groove-like gap in the longitudinal direction and connected to the hanging roller from the gap. The gist of this is to protrude outside.

  Moreover, the hook movement type clothes drying apparatus according to the present invention further includes an attachment member for attaching the clothes drying apparatus to a support such as a clothes rack, and the lower side of the attachment member is connected to the outer surface of the casing cover. The gist is that the upper side of the mounting member is formed to be detachable from the support.

According to the hook-moving clothes drying apparatus according to the present invention, mainly composed of an inner rod, a casing cover, a top roller, a hanging roller, and a hanging hook, the opposing two surfaces of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped elongated inner rod are sandwiched between casing covers, A space is formed above, below, and at both ends of the inner rod, and a plurality of generally cylindrical piece rollers and suspension rollers are arranged in the space, and a suspension hook for hanging laundry etc. on the suspension roller is provided. By connecting, the hanging hook can be moved in the longitudinal direction, so that the user can evenly dry the laundry between both ends without moving from any one point of the clothes drying device. .
In addition, the weight of the device itself is light, and the hook can be moved smoothly with little force. Furthermore, by using an attachment member, it can be easily attached to and detached from an existing laundry basket with one touch. Even those with weak power such as can be easily handled.
In addition, since no pulleys or ropes are used, the hanging hooks and rollers do not come off, and it looks neat and clean.
Moreover, since the structure is very simple, it is easy to make parts common or mass-produced. Then, by appropriately changing the sizes of the parts (casing cover and inner rod), it is possible to easily produce products of different sizes.

(A) Side surface sectional drawing of the clothes drying apparatus which concerns on an Example, (b) Front sectional drawing of the clothes drying apparatus which concerns on an Example. It is an enlarged view of the side sectional view of the clothes drying apparatus according to the embodiment. (A) It is a front view of the hanging hook which concerns on an Example, (b) It is side surface sectional drawing of the hanging hook which concerns on an Example. It is side surface sectional drawing of the hanging roller and hanging hook which concern on an Example. (A) It is sectional drawing of the top roller which concerns on an Example, (b) The reference perspective view of the top roller which concerns on an Example. It is front sectional drawing of the whole clothes drying apparatus which concerns on an Example. It is a reference disassembled perspective view of the clothes drying apparatus concerning an example.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

  The hook-moving clothes drying apparatus (1) according to the present invention mainly includes an inner rod (2), a casing cover (3), a top roller (4), a hanging roller (5), a hanging hook (6), and an attachment member ( 7).

As shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 7, the inner rod (2) is an elongated, substantially rectangular parallelepiped member, and the end surface (8) is curved outward. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the inner rod is formed so that the depth width of the inner rod is substantially equal to the lateral width of the top roller (4) and the suspension roller (5).
The inner rod is not deformed even when a force is applied to support the load of the top roller, the hanging hook, the laundry suspended by the hanging hook, etc., and a material that is strong to some extent is used. In order to reduce the weight of the entire apparatus, a material that is as light and strong as possible is preferable. For example, aluminum, stainless steel, and engineering plastic are preferable. However, it is not limited to these materials.

The casing cover (3) surrounds the periphery of the inner rod and plays a role of forming a space in which the top roller (4) and the suspension roller (5) can move on the upper and lower sides and both ends of the inner rod (2). In the hook-moving clothes drying apparatus (1) according to this embodiment, two parts of the casing cover are used. As shown in FIGS. 1, 2, and 7, the casing cover is an elongated plate-like member having a substantially U-shaped cross-sectional view, and is formed so that the length in the longitudinal direction is slightly longer than the length of the inner rod. . The casing cover end surface (9) is curved in accordance with the curved surface of the inner rod end portion (8). In addition, when the inner rod is arranged in the center as shown in FIG. 2, it is necessary to form a space for passing the top roller (4) up and down, and the height width up and down by the height of the top roller (4). Need to take.
Since the casing cover also supports the load of the top roller, laundry, etc., like the inner rod, a material that is somewhat strong and light is preferable. For example, aluminum, stainless steel, and engineering plastic are preferable, but not limited thereto.

  As shown in FIGS. 5 (a) and 5 (b), the top roller (4) is a substantially cylindrical member having an outer peripheral surface cut out by a certain thickness so that the cross-sectional view is H-shaped. The outer peripheral surface (30) rolls in contact with the inner rod and the cover in the casing cover. The top roller may be formed of aluminum having strength and lightness, but a material that does not have such a strong strength as general-purpose plastics may be used because nothing is suspended and no load is applied.

As shown in FIGS. 3 (a) and 3 (b), the hanging hook (6) mainly includes a ring-shaped member A (11) and a ring-shaped member B (12), and each ring member is a part of the circumference. Are connected by a connecting portion (13) having a substantially rectangular shape (which may be a columnar shape or the like). Moreover, as shown in FIG.3 (b), the direction and thickness of the ring members A and B are substantially equal.
The ring member A (11) having the hollow portion (14) is for connecting the suspension hook to a suspension roller (5) described later. The ring member B (12) having the hollow portion (15) is for jumping out of the casing cover (3) and hanging a hanger or the like. The shape of the ring member B (12) is not limited to a ring shape, and may be any shape as long as a hanger or the like can be hung. For example, it may be a hook shape.
Since the hanging hook is mainly loaded with one hanger and laundry, any material that can withstand these loads may be used. For example, aluminum, stainless steel, and engineering plastic are preferable.

The ring member A (11) of the hanging hook (6) is loosely attached to the hanging roller (5) as shown in FIG.
The suspension roller (5) mainly comprises a roller member a (16), a roller member b (17), and a screw (18). The roller member a is a columnar member having a substantially convex cross section, and an insertion port (20) for inserting a screw is formed in a columnar portion (projection (22)) having a small diameter. The roller member b is a columnar member in which a hollow portion (21) for inserting a screw is formed. A concave portion (33) is provided on the inner surface of the roller member b so that the protruding portion end portion (32) of the roller member a is fitted.
By fitting the protrusion (22) of the roller member a into the recess (33) of the roller member b and inserting a screw, both are connected to form a hanging roller. The suspension roller and the top roller (4) are substantially equal in size and shape.

As shown in FIG. 4, the hollow portion (14) of the ring member A of the hanging hook (6) is passed through the protrusion (22) of the roller member a (16), and the protrusion is inserted into the roller member b (17). The roller member ab is fixed by fitting into the recess (33) and inserting the screw (18) from the outside. Since the diameter of the hollow part of the ring member A is set to be slightly larger than the diameter of the protruding part of the roller member a, the hanging roller rotates even when the hanging hook (6) is fixed. Further, by providing the roller member b with the concave portion (33) and fitting the end portion of the roller member a, the concern that the roller member b is wobbled or the axis of the screw is displaced due to a rotating operation or the like is eliminated.
In addition, although it is preferable to form the suspension roller from scratch separately from the top roller, it is conceivable to form the top roller by cutting, processing, or the like, and the manufacturing method thereof is arbitrary.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 7, the two casing covers (3) sandwich the inner rod (2) with the cover upper and lower surfaces (28) and (29) facing inward, and connect the connecting screws (10 ) At fixed intervals. At this time, as shown in FIG. 1, the suspension roller (5) to which the top roller (4) and the suspension hook (6) are attached in advance is placed in the space above and below the inner rod in the casing cover and at both ends. The hanging rollers are arranged at regular intervals, and the top rollers are inserted so that there is no gap between them.
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 7, the upper surface (28) and the lower surface (29) of the casing covers on both sides are not completely closed, and a gap (23) is formed in a groove shape in the longitudinal direction. Therefore, the connecting portion (13) of the hanging hook (6) moves in the longitudinal direction along this gap.

A mounting member (7) is used so that the clothes drying device (1) according to the present embodiment can be easily attached to and detached from a support (24) such as a hook installed on a clothes drying basket or a veranda of an apartment. The shape or the like of the attachment member is arbitrary as long as the clothes drying device can be attached to a clothes basket or the like. For example, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a mechanism may be considered in which a circular opening (27) is formed on the upper side, and the opening is opened around the fulcrum (26) by applying a force to the handle (25). The fulcrum is provided with a spring, and when the handle is loosened, the opening is preferably closed by the spring.
Further, it is conceivable that the lower side of the attachment member can be fixed to any place outside the casing cover by means such as a screw. As shown in FIG. 2, when the casing cover (3) is sandwiched between the attachment members (7) from both sides, the clothes drying apparatus is stabilized horizontally. However, since the suspension hook (31) passes above the upper surface (28) of the casing cover, it is necessary to secure a space through which the hook can pass.
In FIGS. 1 and 2, the attachment member (7) and the casing cover (3) are both fixed to the inner rod (2) using a connection screw (10). In addition, a screw for attaching the casing cover to the inner rod and a screw for attaching the attachment member to the casing cover may be provided separately. By doing so, when only the position of the attachment member is changed in the longitudinal direction, the change can be easily made by attaching and detaching a screw fixing the attachment member and the casing cover. The casing cover may be provided with a plurality of insertion openings for inserting screws in the longitudinal direction.
In addition, when attaching a clothes-drying apparatus to a clothes-drying basket, it is preferable to attach the apparatus so that the apparatus comes out from the tip of the clothes-drying basket because the risk of piercing eyes at the edge of the clothes-drying basket during use is reduced.

In the present invention, the length in the longitudinal direction of the hook-moving clothes drying apparatus, the number of the hanging hooks (6), the width between the hanging hooks, and the like can be appropriately changed.
In the clothes drying apparatus (1) of the present embodiment, the number of hanging hooks is 34 as shown in FIG. In addition, the maximum diameter per top roller and suspension roller is about 12 mm, and five top rollers are sandwiched between the suspension rollers to which the suspension hooks are connected, so the width between the suspension hooks is about 72 mm. Become.

A usage example of the clothes drying apparatus (1) according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 6, a support tool (24) such as a clothes-drying basket and an attachment member (7) for attaching the clothes-drying device to the support tool are omitted.
First, the user attaches the clothes drying apparatus to a support such as a clothes rack. The user then positions at one end of the clothes drying device. Here, it is assumed that it is positioned below β in FIG. The user hangs the laundry (L) on a hanger or the like, and then hangs the hanger on the hanging hook (6) at the position of β. Subsequently, by pushing the hanger in the γ direction, the hanging hook on which the hanger is hung is moved in the γ direction. Since the top roller (4) and the suspension roller (5) are laid on the top and bottom of the casing cover, each roller rotates as much as the suspension roller connected to the hook on which the hanger is hung is moved. Will move.
With this mechanism, the hanging hook and the hanging roller at the position of α move to the position of β along the curvature of the end portion of the casing cover. The user puts a hanger on the hanging hook that has come to the position β, and similarly moves the hook in the γ direction.
This operation is performed until the first hanging hook with the hanger comes to the opposite end, that is, the position of γ. Thereby, the user can finally dry the laundry at intervals of about 7 cm on the 17 hanging hooks on the lower side of the clothes drying apparatus without moving from the position of β.
When taking in the laundry, the same procedure may be performed in the reverse flow. That is, the hanger or the laundry is removed from the hanging hook at the position β, and the hook is raised to the position α. By repeating this operation, the user can take in all the laundry without moving from the position of β.

In addition, when a support such as a clothes rack is at a low position, it is possible to work while sitting on a chair by installing a clothes drying device on the support. Since the user can work while sitting down without moving in the longitudinal direction, the work can be easily performed especially for elderly people and persons with disabilities.
Furthermore, even when the clothes drying device is attached to a support tool at a high position by increasing the height width from the upper opening (27) of the attachment member (7) to the connection portion with the casing cover in FIG. The clothes-drying device itself can work in a sitting position because it is in a low position.
In addition, by preparing a plurality of attachment members having different height widths, the distance from the support to the clothes drying apparatus can be freely changed by appropriately replacing the attachment members according to the user's preference. A mechanism that can freely adjust the height width may be provided in the mounting member itself.

In addition, in the clothes drying apparatus (1) which concerns on a present Example, the hanging hook (6) is attached to the apparatus upper side and lower side with the predetermined space | interval. In this way, even if the hanging hook moves due to some factors when not in use, one of the hooks will always be located at both ends of the device, so that it is time-consuming to check the position of the hook every time it is used. It can be omitted.
On the other hand, you may attach a hanging hook only to the surrounding half of the clothes-drying apparatus, ie, only the upper side or the lower side. In this case, at the start of use, it must be ensured that the first hook is at the end of the device (eg β in FIG. 6), but the first hook is at the opposite end (eg in FIG. 6). Once γ) is reached, it is possible to provide a stopper so as not to proceed further. The stopper, for example, closes the gap (23) between the casing covers at the end (γ in FIG. 6) so that the connecting portion (13) for connecting the suspension roller and the suspension hook does not advance beyond the end. The idea to make is possible. By doing this, the first hook that dries the laundry does not move forward from the opposite end, and even if a force is applied in the longitudinal direction, the hook moves to the upper surface and the laundry falls. Can be avoided.

Since the clothes drying apparatus (1) according to the present embodiment has a simple structure, it is easily possible to perform maintenance inside the apparatus. First, lay the device on the ground with one casing cover facing up. Next, remove the screws that secure the casing cover and inner rod. And the internal maintenance can be performed by removing the upper casing cover. For example, if the top roller breaks, it can be replaced with a new top roller, and even if lint or dust enters, it can be easily removed.
In addition, if there are extra frame rollers, hanging rollers, etc., the number of the hanging rollers and the hanging hooks and the distance between the hanging hooks can be freely changed by exchanging with the rollers inside.
In addition, when actually selling the clothes drying apparatus as a product, a top roller, a hanging roller, a hanging hook, or the like may be put in a bag and sold separately.

  Moreover, you may provide a thin slit in a longitudinal direction in the casing cover front surface. By doing so, the inside of the cover can be touched without opening the casing cover. For example, even when lint or dust enters between the rollers, it can be taken out from the outside through the slit.

According to the hook-moving clothes drying apparatus (1) according to the present embodiment, the main body itself is composed of an inner rod and two casing covers, and the structure is very simple, so that parts can be easily shared and mass-produced. By appropriately changing the size of the parts, it is possible to easily produce products of different sizes.
In addition, since each member is made of aluminum, stainless steel, engineering plastic, resin, or the like, the weight of the device itself is very light (can be produced at about 1 kg per meter) and has high strength. In addition, the hanging hook for hanging laundry etc. is moved by rollers laid in the space inside the device, so the hook can be moved smoothly with little force, and it can be handled easily even by those with weak power. Can do.
In addition, a space in which the roller moves is provided as one passage inside the apparatus, and the roller is not detached from the apparatus and is not easily damaged. In addition, the appearance can be shaped like a box with the same width as the diameter of the clothesline, and it looks neat and clean.
In addition, the casing cover is easy to attach and detach, and the top roller, hanging roller, and hanging hook can be easily replaced / changed, so the user can open the cover with their own hands and use the hanging hook as desired. The number and the interval between hooks can be changed. In addition, it is possible to easily perform maintenance work for removing lint and dust that has entered the inside and replacing broken rollers.
In addition, by using a material such as aluminum, stainless steel, or plastic, the main body is hardly rusted and dirty, so that rust and dirt can be prevented from adhering to the laundry.
In addition, since no power is used, it is environmentally friendly.

  In addition, the description of the said embodiment does not limit this invention to this, A various design change etc. are possible in the range which does not deviate from the summary of this invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Hook mobile-type drying apparatus 2 Inner rod 3 Casing cover 4 Top roller 5 Hanging roller 6 Hanging hook 7 Mounting member 8 Inner rod end part 9 Casing cover end part 10 Connection screw 11 Ring member A
12 Ring member B
13 connecting part 14 hollow part 15 hollow part 16 roller member a
17 Roller member b
18 Screw 20 Insertion port 21 Hollow part 22 Projection part 23 Gap 24 Support tool 25 Handle 26 Support point 27 Opening part 28 Casing cover upper surface 29 Casing cover lower surface 30 Top roller outer peripheral surface 31 Hanging hook 32 End portion 33 Concave L Laundry

Claims (4)

A clothes drying device comprising an inner rod, a casing cover, a top roller, a hanging roller and a hanging hook,
Sandwiching two opposing surfaces of a substantially rectangular parallelepiped elongated inner rod with a casing cover, forming a space above and / or below the inner rod;
Arranging a plurality of substantially cylindrical top rollers and suspension rollers in the space,
A hanging hook for hanging laundry etc. is connected to the hanging roller,
A hook-moving clothes drying apparatus characterized in that the hanging hook is movable in the longitudinal direction. Both ends of the inner rod are curved outward,
The casing cover has a substantially U-shaped cross section, the length in the longitudinal direction is slightly longer than the length in the longitudinal direction of the inner rod, and both ends are curved so as to correspond to both ends of the inner rod,
By sandwiching the two opposing surfaces of the inner rod with the casing cover, a space is formed above and below the inner rod so that the top roller and the suspension roller can rotate, and at both ends of the inner rod Form a space that connects the upper and lower spaces along the curve,
Spread the top roller and the hanging roller in the space so that there is as little gap as possible,
The hook-moving clothes drying apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when one roller moves, the other rollers also move in conjunction with each other. Form a narrow groove-like gap in the longitudinal direction on the upper surface and / or lower surface of the casing cover,
The hook-moving clothes drying apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a hanging hook connected to a hanging roller is protruded from the gap to the outside. In the above-described configuration, an attachment member for attaching the clothes drying device to a support such as a clothes basket is provided.
The lower side of the mounting member is connected to the outer surface of the casing cover,
The hook moving type clothes drying apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein an upper side of the attachment member is formed to be detachable from a support.

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