JP3165326B2 - Clothes dryer - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drying apparatus for hanging laundry and the like for drying.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a clothesline 5 is hung up and down on a ceiling in a room so that laundry can be hung on the clothesline 5 to dry laundry in the room. An apparatus is provided. As shown in FIG. 8, the clothesline 5 is connected to and fixed to a vertically movable pole holder 3 using a pole fixing U-band 30 as shown in FIG. 8. As shown in FIG. 9 (a), first, the hanging portion 31 at the end of the U-band 30 for fixing the rod is attached to the rod receiving member 3.
9 is hooked and locked in a long hole 32 provided in
(B) As shown in (c), the end of the clothes-line 5 is engaged with the U-band 30 for fixing the rod, and the U-band 30 for fixing the rod is lifted upward so that the end of the U-band 30 is fixed. The rod holder 3 is attached to the rod receiver 3 by screws using a fixing member 33 such as a tapping screw.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, a fixing member 33 such as a tapping screw is used.
In order to attach by screwing using a screw, it is necessary to perform screw alignment and screw tightening work, and there is a problem that installation work is troublesome. In addition, when hanging laundry on a clothesline or taking in laundry, it is convenient if the clothesline 5 can be easily removed from the rod holder 3, but it is screwed. Therefore, when removing the clothesline 5, it is necessary to remove the fixing tool 33 and the rod-fixing U-band 30 using a tool such as a screwdriver, so that the clothesline 5 can be easily attached to and detached from the rod holder 3. There was a problem that it was not possible. In other words, when the laundry is hung on the clothesline or when the laundry is taken in, the laundry cannot be hung on the clothesline 5 with one end of the clothesline 5 removed from the rod holder, and cannot be removed from the clothesline 5. Met.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a clothes-drying apparatus which can easily attach and detach a clothes-line.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a substantially horizontal state is provided at a lower end of a support arm 2 which is suspended from a ceiling 1 so as to be able to freely move up and down. In this manner, the rod receiver 3 is provided, and caps 5b are detachably attached to both ends of the drying rod main body 5a to form the drying rod 5, and the drying rod 5 is disposed between the adjacent rod receivers 3, Cap 5b attached to the end of the clothesline body 5a
And a pole 5 for holding the pole 3.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a protrusion 6 having an outer diameter larger than the outer diameter of the clothesline main body 5a is provided at an end of the clothesline main body 5a in the first aspect, and protrudes outward from the protrusion 6. A connecting projection 7 having a male screw portion 7a provided on the outer peripheral surface thereof is provided so that the female screw portion 8a is provided on the inner surface and the outer diameter is larger than the inner diameter of the connecting hole 4 provided in the rod receiving member. Is provided at the end of the cap 5b, and the holding projection 8 is screwed into the connecting projection 7 inserted into the connecting hole 4 of the rod receiving member 3, and the connecting projection 7 and the holding projection are formed. 8, the opening edge of the connection hole 4 is sandwiched.

[0007]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the hanging pole 5 is held between the cap 5b attached to the end of the hanging pole main body 5a and the hanging pole main body 5a so that the hanging pole 5 is attached to the pole receiving body 3a. Can be mounted on Moreover, the cap 5b is detached from the end of the clothes-line main body 5a, and the cap 5b and the clothes-line main body 5a remove the holding of the rod receiver 3, so that the clothes-line 5 can be easily removed from the rod receiver 3.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the female screw portion 8a is screwed into the male screw portion 7a of the connecting protrusion 7 in a state where the connecting protrusion 7 is inserted into the connecting hole 4 provided in the rod receiving member 3. And the holding projection 8 of the cap 5b is connected to the
The drying pole 5 is attached to the rod receiving member 3 by sandwiching the opening edge of the connection hole 4 between the projection 6 provided on the a and the holding projection 8 provided on the cap 5b. In addition, the cap 5b is removed from the end of the clothesline main body 5a, and the rod receiving device 3 includes the holding projection 8 of the cap 5b and the protrusion 6 of the clothesline main body 5a.
The clothesline 5 can be easily removed from the rod holder 3 by removing the pinch.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the illustrated embodiments. The clothes-drying apparatus according to the present invention is mainly installed indoors, and as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, a clothes-drying pole 5 for hanging wet laundry and the like, and the clothes-drying pole 5 is installed on the ceiling 1. The hanging arm 5 is lifted together with the support arm 2 suspended and held below the storage box 11 and the rod holder 3.
The main body is constituted by the elevating means 12 for moving down.

The storage box 11 is formed in a box shape whose lower surface is open, and is installed on the ceiling 1 so that the lower surface opening 11 is substantially flush with the ceiling surface 1a. A plurality of laundry poles 5 are arranged so as to be adjacent to each other, and each laundry pole 5 is bridged between the adjacent rod receivers 3 so that both ends are connected and fixed to the adjacent rod receivers 3. The rod holder 3 for holding the clothesline 5 has a connecting piece 3d projecting downward from a lower end edge of a rod receiver main body 3c formed of a vertical piece 3a and a horizontal piece 3b and having a substantially L-shaped cross section. The connecting piece 3d is provided with connecting holes 4 into which the ends of the clothesline 5 are inserted at predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction. In the illustrated embodiment, the number of connection holes 4 is three, but may be three or more or three or less.

On both sides of the vertical piece 3a, connection holes 13 to which the lower ends of the support arms 2 are connected are provided. One of the connection holes 13 is a through hole 13 a so that the lower end of the support arm 2 can be rotatably supported.
A long hole 13b is provided so that the lower end of the support arm 2 can be slidably and rotatably supported. Side piece 3b
A connecting piece 14 is projected upward from the center of the connecting piece 14 so as to be orthogonal to the horizontal piece 3b.
Are drilled. A through hole 18 is formed in the vertical piece 3a so as to correspond to the position of the through hole 14a.
A connecting pin 15 to which a lifting cord 12a as a lifting means 12 to be described later is connected is inserted and locked between 4a and 18.

The support arm 2 is constituted by a pantograph-type telescopic arm 2b formed by pivotally connecting a plurality of connecting arms 2a so as to intersect with each other. The clothesline 5 can be moved up and down together with the receiver 3. The lower end of one connecting arm 2a forming the telescopic arm 2b is rotatably mounted on the through hole 13a, and the lower end of the other connecting arm 2a is slidably and rotatably mounted on the elongated hole 13b. Have been. An elevating cord 12a as elevating means 12 formed by a wire or the like is hung down from both ends of the storage box 11, and the lower end of the elevating cord 12a is connected and fixed to a connecting pin 15 of the rod holder 3. . The lifting cord 12a is wound around a rotating drum 16 by a driving device, and is lowered or raised by the rotation of the drum 16, whereby the clothesline 5 is moved up and down together with the rod receiver 3. At this time, the clothesline 5 is moved up and down by raising and lowering the lifting cord 12a.
By being guided by b, the clothesline 5 can be stably moved up and down without greatly shaking.

As shown in FIG. 1, the main part of the clothespin 5 attached to the pole holder 3 is a clothespin main body 5a and a cap 5b attached to an end of the clothespin main body 5a. The laundry rod main body 5a has a projection 6 having an outer diameter larger than the outer diameter of the laundry rod main body 5a at both ends. From the projection 6, a connecting projection 7 provided with an external thread portion 7a on the outer peripheral surface is provided. It is protruding. The outer diameter of the connection protrusion 7 is smaller than the inner diameter of the connection hole 4, and the outer diameter of the protrusion 6 is larger than the inner diameter of the connection hole 4. The cap 5b is formed by providing a cylindrical holding projection 8 at the other end of a main body 20 having a cover 19 attached at one end, and an internal thread of the holding projection 8 which is screwed into the male screw portion 7a. A portion 8a is provided. The outer diameter of the holding projection 8 is larger than the inner diameter of the connection hole 4.

However, when hanging wet laundry on the clothesline 5 and hanging it down, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the clothesline 5 is lowered and the clothesline 5 is set at an accessible height. The laundry is hung on the clothesline 5. When the laundry is hung on the clothesline 5 and is hung near the ceiling surface 1a, or when the clothesline 5 is not used, the clothesline 5 is raised and the clothesline 5 is arranged close to the ceiling 1. Is what you do.

Then, the connecting protrusion 7 provided at the end of the clothesline 5a is inserted into the connecting hole 4, and the female screw 8a is screwed into the male screw 7a of the connecting protrusion 7 protruding from the connecting hole 4. As described above, the holding projection 8 of the cap 5b is screwed to the connection projection 7, and the holding projection 8 is tightened to connect the holding projection 8 and the projection 6 to each other as shown in FIGS. By holding the opening edge of the connection hole 4 provided in 3d, the rod receiver 3 and the clothesline 5 are connected to each other, and the clothesline 5 is attached to the rod receiver 3. Also, cap 5
By rotating b, the holding projection 8 screwed to the connection projection 7 is removed from the connection projection 7, so that the holding piece 8 and the projection 6 can be removed from holding the connecting piece 3d. By removing the connecting protrusion 7 from the connecting hole 4 after removing the 5b, the hanging pole 5 can be easily removed from the rod holder 3, and the attaching / detaching of the hanging pole 5 can be easily performed without trouble. When the laundry is hung or taken in, one end of the drying rod 5 is detached from the rod holder 3 and the laundry is hung on the drying rod 5 when the laundry is dried or taken in. Or clothesline 5
The work of removing the laundry can be performed more, and the usability of the user is greatly improved. Further, the connecting protrusion 7 is inserted into the connecting hole 4 in either case of attaching the drying rod body 5a to the rod receiving member 3 or removing the drying rod main body 5a from the rod receiving member 3. As a result, the hanging pole body 5a can be temporarily supported by the pole holder 3, and the hanging pole body 5a can be prevented from dropping at the same time as the cap 5b is removed, and can be safely placed on the hanging pole. The main body 5a can be removed. In addition, even in the case of mounting, the cap 5b can be tightened in a state where the connecting protrusion 7 is inserted into the connecting hole 4 and temporarily supported, so that the clothesline main body 5a is held by hand at the mounting position. The mounting work can be performed easily without maintaining the height.

[0016]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a rod receiving device is provided at a lower end of a support arm suspended from a ceiling so as to be adjacent to the ceiling so as to be substantially horizontal. Caps are detachably attached to form a clothesline,
The hanging pole is placed between adjacent pole holders, and the pole holder is held between the cap attached to the end of the pole and the pole. The clothespin can be attached to the pole holder by sandwiching the pole holder between the worn cap and the clothespin body, and the cap is removed from the end of the clothespin body and the cap and the clothespin body are used. By removing the holding of the rod receiver, the clothesline can be easily removed from the rod receiver. Therefore, it is possible to easily install the clothespin without taking time and also to remove the clothespin from the rod holder when hanging laundry on the clothespin or taking in laundry. And
This improves user convenience.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, a projection having an outer diameter larger than the outer diameter of the laundry rod main body is provided at an end of the laundry rod main body, and the outer periphery is projected outward from the projection. A connecting projection with an external thread is provided on the surface, a female projection is provided on the inner surface, and the outer diameter is larger than the inner diameter of the coupling hole provided in the rod holder. The holding projection is screwed into the connection projection inserted into the connection hole of the rod receiver, and the opening edge of the connection hole is sandwiched between the connection projection and the holding projection. With the protrusion inserted into the connection hole provided in the rod holder, the female protrusion is screwed onto the male screw of the connection protrusion, and the holding protrusion of the cap is connected. By holding the opening edge of the connection hole, the clothesline can be attached to the rod holder, and the cap can be Those that can be removed easily from the removed from the end portion of the rod body rod receptacle to laundry pole by removing the clamping of the rod receptacle by the projection of the holding projection and laundry pole body of the cap. In addition, even if the cap is removed by inserting the connecting protrusion into the connecting hole, the laundry rod body is temporarily supported by the rod holder, and the cap is removed when the laundry rod body is removed. At times, the cap can be easily attached and detached with the clothespin body temporarily supported by the pole holder.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially omitted perspective view showing a rod receiver and a clothesline according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a partially omitted perspective view showing an attached state of a clothesline.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of the same.

FIG. 4 is a side view of the rod receiver.

FIG. 5 is a partially omitted plan view showing an attached state of a clothesline.

FIG. 6 is a front sectional view showing a lowered use state.

FIG. 7 is a side sectional view of the same.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a conventional example viewed from below.

FIGS. 9A, 9B, and 9C are explanatory views illustrating the mounting procedure of the above.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Ceiling part 2 Support arm 3 Rod holder 4 Connecting hole 5 Drying pole 5a Drying rod main body 5b Cap 6 Projection 7 Connection projection 7a Male thread 8 Holding projection 8a Female thread

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A rod receiving device is provided at a lower end of a support arm suspended from a ceiling so as to be able to move up and down so as to be adjacent to each other, and caps are detachably attached to both ends of a clothesline body. A laundry rod, and arranging the laundry rod between adjacent rod receivers, and sandwiching the rod receiver with a cap attached to an end of the laundry rod body and the laundry rod. Characteristic drying equipment. 2. A connection in which a protrusion having an outer diameter larger than the outer diameter of the clothesline body is provided at an end of the clothesline body, and a male screw portion is provided on an outer peripheral surface so as to protrude outward from the protrusion. A protrusion is provided at the end of the cap, and a female protrusion is provided on the inner surface, and a holding protrusion having an outer diameter larger than the inner diameter of the connection hole provided in the rod receiver is provided at the end of the cap. 2. The clothes-drying device according to claim 1, wherein the holding projection is screwed to the connection projection inserted into the connection hole, and the opening edge of the connection hole is sandwiched between the connection projection and the holding projection. .