JP4712432B2 - Water use equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to water-using devices such as ice machines and dishwashers.

  In the ice making machine, as shown in Patent Document 1, ice water is made using tap water, and overflow or water remaining after ice making is discharged into a drainage ditch or the like. For this reason, water supply pipes such as water supply pipes for connection to water pipes and drainage pipes for draining into drainage grooves are drawn out from the equipment body of the ice making machine.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 7-77373 (paragraph numbers 0013-0017, FIG. 1) Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-294078 (paragraph number 0023, FIG. 1) JP 7-294080 A (paragraph number 0011, FIG. 1)

  An ice making machine is generally installed along a wall surface of a kitchen or the like, and there are often no gaps between the rear surface of the ice making machine main body and the wall surface. Therefore, it is difficult to pull out the water conduit from the rear side of the ice making machine main body. For this reason, the outlet of the water conduit is provided on the left and right side surfaces of the ice making machine main body, and the water supply pipe and the drain pipe are drawn out from the outlet.

  Even after installing the ice making machine, there are cases where it is desired to change the direction of the water supply pipe or drain pipe to be reversed left and right by changing the pipe of the water pipe. In this case, because the rear wall of the ice machine is covered with a panel, remove the rear panel, change the direction of the water supply and drain pipes, pull out, and then attach the rear panel to the ice machine body again. It will be.

  Therefore, there is a problem in that it takes time to make the change for the work of attaching and detaching the rear panel. Although it is conceivable to omit the rear panel, in this case, the inside of the ice maker body is exposed to the outside, and it is impossible to prevent the intrusion of the haze and the like.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a water-utilizing device that can easily change the direction in which a water supply pipe and a drain pipe are drawn from the rear side of the device main body.

The water utilization device according to the present invention has a rear-facing opening, and a recessed space 15 formed in a lower end portion of the rear wall of the device body 1 so as to be recessed between the left and right sides, and left and right side walls 16 of the device body 1. An opening 26 facing the recessed space 15, an outlet panel 27 detachably attached to the lateral side wall 16 of the device body 1 so as to close the opening 26, and the inside of the device body 1 And a drain pipe 12 for draining from the device main body 1, and the water feed pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 are led out from the inside of the device main body 1 to the recessed space 15. After that, the two water outlets 31 and 31 provided in the outlet panel 27 are drawn out to the outside of the apparatus main body 1, and the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 are recessed from the apparatus main body 1. First pipe led out into the entrance space 15 A T-shaped joint 33 connected to the first pipe and having a pair of left and right outlets; and a second pipe connected to one outlet of the T-shaped joint 33 and extending in the left-right direction. Two pipes and the second pipe of the drainage pipe 12 are arranged in the vertical direction in the recessed space 15, and the outlet panel 27 is a plate formed in a square shape, The outlet panel 27 is provided with two circular outlets 31 and 31 through which the water supply pipe 11 and the second pipe of the drain pipe 12 are passed. Are set to the same size, and both outlets 31 and 31 are provided at a portion deviated from the center position of the rectangular outlet panel 27, and both outlets 31 and 31 constitute the outer edge of the outlet panel 27. The drawer is provided along one of the four sides of the rectangle The distance from the center position of the outlet panel 27 of the outlet 31, which is defined by the center position of the panel 27 and the circle center of the outlet 31, is set to the same distance at both outlets 31 and 31. In addition, at the four corners of the quadrangle of the outlet panel 27, screw through holes for allowing the screws 29 to be inserted are provided, and screw holes are provided at the periphery of the window 26 corresponding to the respective through holes. The outlet panel 27 is configured to be attachable in an arbitrary posture rotated by 180 degrees with respect to the lateral side wall 16 of the device main body 1, and the outlet panel 27 is rotated by 180 degrees. Thus, the double pulling outlets 31 and 31 are arranged at any one position selected from two positions, that is, a position where the double pulling outlets 31 and 31 are lined up and down in the rear and a position where the double pulling outlets 31 and 31 are lined up and down in the front. Change the opening position of outlet 31 It is comprised so that it can be performed .

  According to the present invention, a recessed space 15 that opens rearward is formed on the rear wall of the device body 1 across the left and right sides, and the water guide pipe led out to the recessed space 15 is connected to the recessed space 15 and then to the left and right sides. The type which pulls it out to the laterally outer side of the apparatus main body 1 is taken. Therefore, to change the pull-out direction of the water conduit to the left and right, after separating the device main body 1 from the wall surface of the building, turn to the rear side of the device main body 1 and change the horizontal direction of the water conduit to the other side. What is necessary is just to pull out a water conduit from the outlet 31 to the lateral outer side of the apparatus main body 1. That is, it is not necessary to attach and detach the rear panel 15a of the device main body 1 at the time of the change operation, and the change operation of the direction of drawing out the water conduit can be easily performed.

  Since the water conduit is accommodated in the recessed space 15, it does not protrude rearward from the device main body 1. Since the recessed space 15 is partitioned from the inside of the device main body 1, it is possible to prevent a bag or the like from entering the device main body 1.

  The drawings show an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to an ice making machine. 4 and 5, a rectangular parallelepiped device main body 1 is arranged in an ice making chamber 2 having an open front surface, a machine room 3 provided below the ice making chamber 2, and an upper space in the ice making chamber 2. And an ice making unit 5. The ice making chamber 2 is surrounded by a heat insulating wall, and the ice generated by the ice making unit 5 is stored in the lower part of the ice making chamber 2. An open / close door 6 is provided in front of the opening of the ice making chamber 2.

  In FIG. 5, the ice making unit 5 includes a water supply tank 7 that stores tap water for generating ice, an ice making unit 9 that generates a large number of ices at once, and a water supply pump 10 that supplies water in the water supply tank 7 to the ice making unit 9. And a water supply pipe 11 for taking tap water into the water supply tank 7, and a drain pan 13 for guiding the tap water remaining in the water supply tank 7 after ice making to the drain pipe 12. As the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12, flexible pipes having flexibility were used.

  The water supply tank 7 swings in an inclined posture shown by an imaginary line in FIG. 5 after ice making, thereby discharging tap water remaining in the tank to the drain pan 13. The tap water in the drain pan 13 is discharged out of the device body 1 through the drain pipe 12.

  As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, a recessed space 15 that is partitioned from the inside of the device main body 1 and opens rearward is formed in the lower part of the rear wall of the device main body 1 so as to be recessed from left to right. The recessed space 15 in the figure is formed by bending a rear panel 15a constituting the rear wall of the device body 1 into a U-shaped cross section.

  In FIG. 3, the upper wall 19 of the recessed space 15 is provided with outlets 20 and 21 near the left and right ends, respectively, and the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 are connected from the inside of the apparatus body 1. It is led out into the recessed space 15 through the outlets 20 and 21.

  An amount of tap water required for one ice making is supplied to the water supply tank 7 through the water supply pipe 11 and stored. As shown in FIG. 5, a cooling device 22 for cooling the ice making and the ice making chamber 2 is disposed in the machine room 3. The ice making chamber 2 is provided with a heat exchanger 23 for ice making and cooling of the ice making chamber 2, and the cooling device 22 is connected to the heat exchanger 23. The cooling device 22 includes a compressor 24, a condenser 25, an expansion valve, and the like.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 6, the left and right lateral side walls 16, 16 of the device main body 1 have openings 26, 26 respectively facing the left and right ends of the recessed space 15. The left and right ends of the recessed space 15 may be opened as the corresponding openings 26 and 26 as they are. A square outlet panel 27 that covers the outside of each opening 26 is screwed to each of the left and right lateral side walls 16 so as to be detachable.

  In each outlet panel 27, a pair of outlets 31 and 31 are provided in a vertically penetrating manner at a position biased to the rear side.

  Since the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 are flexible pipes, the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 can be bent so as to face in either the left or right direction inside the recessed space 15. Accordingly, the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 led out from the inside of the apparatus main body 1 to the recessed space 15 are laterally outward of the apparatus main body 1 through one of the outlets 31 and 31 of the one outlet panel 27. It will be pulled out. The drawn water supply pipe 11 is connected to a water pipe, and the drawn drain pipe 12 is led to a drainage groove or the like.

  When the outlet panel 27 is turned upside down and attached to the lateral side walls 16 and 16 of the device body 1, the upper and lower outlets 31 and 31 are biased to the front side (left side in FIG. 7) as shown in FIG. line up. Each outlet panel 27 is formed such that both the outlets 31 and 31 face the opening 26 even when the upper and lower sides are reversed.

  In other words, when the refrigerator legs 32 and the like installed next to the ice making machine face the rear end of the lateral side walls 16 and 16 of the device body 1 and the both outlets 31 and 31 are in the position of FIG. The water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 drawn out from the both outlets 31 and 31 interfere with the legs 32 of the refrigerator. In this case, by simply turning the outlet panel 27 upside down, the outlets 31 and 31 are positioned on the front side, and the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 can be pulled out without being disturbed by the legs 32 of the refrigerator. it can.

  The opening 26 of the lateral side wall 16 of the device body 1 allows the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 to be connected to the opening 26 and the outlet 31 through both the outlets 31 and 31 located at the front side and the rear side. It has a size that can be pulled out. By forming the outlet panel 27 in a square shape and attaching it to the lateral side walls 16 and 16 of the device main body 1 in the horizontal direction, both the outlets 31 and 31 are biased upward or downward and forward and backward. It may be arranged in the direction.

  The water supply pipe 11 may be drawn from the outlet 31 of the left or right outlet panel 27, and the drain pipe 12 may be drawn from the outlet 31 of the other outlet panel 27. Depending on the installation location of the apparatus main body 1, the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 may be pulled out directly behind the recessed space 15. When the water supply pipe 11 and the drain pipe 12 are drawn from both the outlets 31 and 31 of either the left or right outlet panel 27, the other outlet panel 27 is a blind plate in which the outlets 31 and 31 are omitted. It may be in a shape. Since the outlet panel 27 itself is for cosmetic use, it can be omitted if necessary.

FIG. 8 shows another embodiment of the present invention, in which a second water supply pipe 11b is connected to a first water supply pipe 11a led out from the inside of the apparatus body 1 into the recessed space 15 via a T-shaped joint 33. Are connected to be pulled out to the left or right. The second water supply pipe 11b is connected to one outlet of the joint 33, and the other outlet of the joint 33 is closed with a cap nut or the like. This also makes it possible to draw out and change the water supply pipe 11 in either the left or right direction using the joint 33. Ru may take the same form even in the drainage pipe 12.

Longitudinal profile side view Perspective view of main parts Longitudinal rear view around the recessed space Perspective view of the ice machine from the front Ice machine vertical front view Side view showing an installation example of the outlet panel Side view showing another installation example of the outlet panel Longitudinal rear view showing another embodiment of the present invention

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1 Equipment body 11 Water supply pipe 12 Drain pipe 15 Recessed space 16 Left and right lateral side walls 31

Claims (1)

A recessed space (15) having a rear-facing opening and recessed at the lower end of the rear wall of the device body (1) across the left and right;
An opening (26) opened in each of the left and right lateral side walls (16) of the device body (1) and facing the recessed space (15);
An outlet panel (27) removably attached to the lateral wall (16) of the device body (1) so as to close the opening (26) ;
A water supply pipe (11) for taking water into the device body (1), and a drain pipe (12) for draining from the device body (1),
The two outlets provided in the outlet panel (27) after the water supply pipe (11) and the drain pipe (12) are led out from the inside of the device body (1) to the recessed space (15). (31, 31) is pulled out of the device body (1),
The water supply pipe (11) and the drain pipe (12) have a first pipe led out from the device body (1) to the recessed space (15) and a pair of left and right outlets connected to the first pipe. A character joint (33) and a second pipe connected to one outlet of the T-shaped joint (33) and extending in the left-right direction;
The second pipe of the water supply pipe (11) and the second pipe of the drain pipe (12) are arranged in the vertical direction in the recessed space (15),
The outlet panel (27) is a plate formed in a rectangular shape, and the outlet pipe (27) passes the second pipe of the water supply pipe (11) and the drain pipe (12). Two circular outlets (31, 31) are opened, and the diameters of both outlets (31, 31) are set to the same dimension.
Both outlets (31, 31) are provided at a portion deviated from the center position of the rectangular outlet panel (27),
The both outlets (31, 31) are provided along one side of the four sides of the quadrangle that constitutes the outer edge of the outlet panel (27),
The distance from the center position of the outlet panel (27) of the outlet (31), which is defined by the center position of the outlet panel (27) and the circle center of the outlet (31), It is set at the same distance at the exit (31, 31),
At the four corners of the quadrangle of the outlet panel (27), screw holes for allowing the screws (29) to be inserted are provided, and screw holes are provided on the periphery of the window (26) corresponding to the respective holes. A hole is provided, and the outlet panel (27) is configured to be attachable in an arbitrary posture rotated by 180 degrees with respect to the lateral side wall (16) of the device body (1).
By rotating the outlet panel (27) by 180 degrees, both the outlets (31, 31) are arranged in the rear upper and lower positions, and the both outlets (31, 31) are arranged in the front upper and lower positions, A water-utilizing device configured to be able to change the opening position of both outlets (31, 31) to any one position selected from two positions .

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