JPH02102653A - Sauna device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To uniformly heat the inside of a room in a short time by providing a void in an interval with a floor body for the said floor body of a box to form the steam room, arranging a perforated cover plate and opening a hot water supplying pipe, through which hot water is passed, and a steam pipe, through which the steam of a steam generator is passed, in the void. CONSTITUTION:A sauna device 1 can pass the hot water, which is sent with pressure from a hot water supplying boiler B, through a hot supplying stopcock 62 and feed the hot water through a receiving tray part 63 and a hot water supplying pipe 80 to the upper surface of a floor body 22. While the hot water to be fed and supplied is guided by a guided groove 15, meandered and exhausted over the whole upper surface of the floor body 22, a lower direction in a steam room 2 to include the floor body 22 is heated by the hot water. A steam tube 91 is connected to a steam generator 9. Then, for this steam tube 91, one end is conductive to a taking-out 94 and another end 91a to finely pass though a perpendicular piece 32 of a chair-shaped part 6 and to be extended is opened downward in a void (d). The steam room 2 is heated and humidified by the steam which is exhausted from an opening part 91A of the other end 91a and rises up through a hole 19. In order to uniformly exhaust the steam into the steam room 2, an edge metal fitting 14 is fitted to the other end 91a.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a sauna device that can heat a steam room uniformly and in a short time, improve the comfort of use, and shorten the start-up time.

[Conventional technology]

In recent years, sauna baths have become popular as second baths in homes, and conventionally, sauna baths have been used as a sauna by filling the room with steam supplied from a steam generator to heat and humidify the room. There is.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, due to the specific gravity, such heating and humidification
As a result of the steam rising toward the top of the room, the lower part of the room, especially near the floor surface, is heated, making it uncomfortable to use, especially in the winter, as it makes the feet feel uncomfortable.

Furthermore, since steam has a low specific heat, it takes a long time for the indoor temperature to reach a desired temperature, making it inconvenient to use.

The present invention is based on opening a hot water pipe and a steam pipe into the gap between the floor body and the floor plate, and can uniformly and quickly heat the inside of the steam room without causing burns. The object of the present invention is to provide a sauna device that can solve the above problems.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the sauna device of the present invention has a box-like floor body forming a steam room, in which a perforated floor plate is arranged with a gap between the floor body and the floor body, and a hot water supply through which hot water passes. A pipe and a steam pipe through which steam from a steam generator passes are opened into the gap.

[Effect]

The sauna device configured in this way can heat the lower part of the steam chamber in particular by dissipating heat from the hot water fed into the gap from the hot water supply pipe, and the rise of the steam fed from the steam pipe is prevented. This can compensate for the unevenness of the room temperature. In addition, since hot water has a higher specific heat than steam, it has a high heating effect and can significantly shorten the rise time to reach the desired temperature. It is possible to prevent the occurrence of accidents such as this, and improve safety.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

In the figure, the sauna equipment 21 includes a floor plate 22 of a box 7 that forms a steam room 2, and a perforated floor plate with a gap d between the floor plate 22 and the hot water supply pipe. 80 and a steam pipe 91 are opened into the gap d.

The box body 7 is in the shape of a vertically long rectangular parallelepiped, as shown in FIG. The steam chamber 2 is formed inside by connecting them by a peripheral wall 3 consisting of a front wall 3a, a left side wall 3b, a rear wall 3c, and a right side wall 3d.

The box body 7 can be separated into an upper frame 7a and a lower frame 7b at approximately the center axis in the horizontal direction, and flanges 24 and 25 disposed on the core and along the separation line of the lower frames 7a and 7b are brought into contact with each other. Moreover, by joining both flanges 24 and 25 with bolts or using adhesive, an integrated box body 7 can be formed. A door body 29 is attached to an entrance A that is formed to allow entry and exit. Furthermore, the above frame? The as lower frame 7b is, for example, F
It is formed by molding using a synthetic resin material such as RB.

In addition, the box body 7 has a right side wall 3 by bending the right side wall 3d near the rear wall 3c horizontally toward the inside of the steam chamber 2.
A horizontal piece 31 extending from d is formed, and a hanging piece 32 connecting the horizontal piece 31 and the floor body 22 is formed by further bending the protruding end of the horizontal piece 31 downward toward the floor body 22.
is formed.

The horizontal piece 31 and the hanging piece 32
1 forms a chair-shaped part 6 that constitutes a seating part 4 on which a person entering the room can sit, while a space 5 for storing a steam generator is formed below the horizontal piece 31, that is, below the seating part 4. A hakama part 50 is provided between the chair-like part 6 and the front wall 3a.

Note that the chair-like portion 6 has a backrest portion 3 along the right side wall 3d.
3 is attached.

The hakama part 50 is attached to the right side wall 3 in the same way as the chair-shaped part 6.
a horizontal piece 51 that is formed by bending d and extends horizontally from the right side wall 3d at a higher location than the seating portion 4;
The box body 7 hangs down from the side edge of the indoor side of the horizontal piece 5.
and a vertical piece 52 that forms a downward wall by being connected to the floor body 22. In addition, the hakama part 50 has a horizontal piece 51.
A collar portion 53 is provided to cover a stepped portion formed between the seat portion 4 and the seat portion 4 . Therefore, below the horizontal piece 51 of the hakama part 50, the seating part 4
A void 55 of the hakama portion 50 is formed which is continuous with the void 5 below.

The box body 7 also has a floor body 22 that is surrounded by the vertical piece 52 of the hakama part 50, the hanging piece 32 of the chair-like part 6, the front wall 3a, the left side wall 3b, and the rear wall 3C. A guide groove 15 meandering from the piece 52 toward the left side wall 3b and having a drainage lower part for discharging the waste water in the steam chamber 2 to the outside @ 15a is recessed at a small depth, and a guide groove 15 is recessed at a small depth on the upper surface of the floor body 22. , flooring 1
6 is laid over almost the entire surface. In addition, ceiling board 21
A lighting fixture 77 and an exhaust duct 79 in which a ventilation fan F is interposed are attached.

The floor material 16 is placed on the floor body 22 with S! It comprises a leg piece 17 to be placed, and a bottom plate 18 installed between the upper ends of the leg piece 17, so that the bottom plate 1
8 is arranged with a gap Hd between it and the floor body 22 by the height of the leg F, and the bottom plate 18 has a plurality of holes 19 communicating from the gap d into the steam chamber 2 above. -・- are shown transparently. In addition, the 1st floor plate may be formed into a screen shape in which strip-shaped flat plate pieces are arranged at intervals (in such a case,
A hole 19 is formed by the interval.

Further, the hakama part 50 has a long neck part 61B on the horizontal piece 51.
A hot water faucet 62 that smells the oscillating faucet 61 having a downward discharge port at the tip thereof, and a container-shaped saucer part 63 that can receive hot water discharged from the oscillating faucet 61 are provided. The oscillating faucet 61 has a neck portion 61B that can pivot in a substantially horizontal plane, and due to the pivoting, the outlet port is located above the saucer portion, as shown by the dashed line in FIG. 1, and vertically, as shown by the solid line in FIG. It is possible to move between the pieces 52 and the position beyond the outside.

As shown in FIG. 4, the hot water tap 62 includes a hot water pipe 65 that can supply hot water from the hot water boiler B, and a water pipe 66 that leads to city water.
Hot water at an appropriate temperature can be discharged from the oscillating faucet 61. Further, a shower tool 67 is connected to the hot water tap 62, and hot water and cold water can be spouted from the shower tool 67 by a switching operation.

The saucer portion 63 has a hole 69 formed in its bottom plate, and is provided with a lid 70 that opens upward and can cover the opening. The lid body 70 is hinged at one end and normally closes the opening of the saucer portion 63, but can be opened by external force such as manual operation.

Further, the vertical piece 52 of the hakama part 50 is inserted into the hole 69 of the saucer part 63.
The upper end of the hot water supply pipe 80 is connected via the valve body V, the lower end 80a of which penetrates closely through the gap d and opens above the guide groove 15. Therefore, the sauna device 1 can supply hot water under pressure from the hot water boiler B to the upper surface of the floor body 22 through the hot water tap 62 and through the saucer portion 63 and the hot water pipe 80. is guided by the guide groove 15,
While water is meanderingly drained over almost the entire upper surface of the floor body 22, the lower part of the steam chamber 2 including the floor body 22 is heated by the hot water. In this example, the valve body V is a three-boat electromagnetic valve that can be operated remotely, and the other end of the hot water pipe 8'1 is connected to the remaining boats of the valve body V, one end of which is connected to the steam generation H9. do.

The steam generator 9 has a container-shaped case body 8 with a front opening.
A boiler body 85 for steam generation is housed inside an outer box 83 whose opening part 1 is covered with a face plate 82.
It is mounted in the empty space 5 using a letter-shaped mounting bracket 86 and with the face plate 82 facing the hanging piece 32.

Note that the hanging piece 32 is provided with a hole that is opened and closed by a working lid, and the steam generator 9 is inspected, and the size of the hole is made larger than the face plate 82 of the steam generator 9. Particularly, one end of the hot water pipe 81 is connected to the boiler body 85 at its side wall via a check valve v1.

Therefore, hot water passing through the hot water tap 62 can be fed into the boiler body 85 via the saucer portion 63, the valve body V, and the hot water pipe 8r1. The boiler body 85 also includes an electric heater 92 located below to further heat the hot water stored inside the boiler body 85 and generate steam, an outlet 94 for extracting steam from above, and an electric heater 94 located near the bottom of the electric heater 92 to further heat the hot water stored inside the boiler body 85 and generate steam. A hot water outlet 93 is provided for discharging the waste hot water after use.

The steam generator 9 has a steam generator having one end connected to the outlet 94 and extending tightly through the hanging piece 32 of the chair-shaped portion 6, and the other end 91a opening downward in the gap d. The pipe 91 is connected to the opening 91 at the other end 91a.
The steam chamber 2 can be heated and humidified by the steam discharged from A and rising through the hole 19. In this example, in order to diffuse the high-temperature and high-density steam discharged from the opening 91A, and to prevent accidents such as burns, and to uniformly blow out the steam into the steam chamber 2, the other end 91a is provided with a The end fitting 14 is attached.

The end fitting 14 is connected to the steam pipe 9 as shown in FIG.
A nozzle piece 97 is provided at the front end of the straight pipe part 95 which is freely fitted onto the steam pipe 91 and has a cone part 96 extending therein, which has a nozzle hole 96A that communicates with the opening 91A of the steam pipe 91 and expands in diameter toward the front. Further, the nozzle piece 97 has the straight pipe portion 96
The nozzle hole 96A is provided at the front end of a holding arm 99 that protrudes outward from the outer cylinder 98 and extends forward beyond the nozzle piece 97.
A disk-shaped deflection plate 13 is provided directly facing the opening 96A1 with a gap therebetween.

The end fitting 14 also includes a side wall of the straight pipe part 96.
6, a transparent engagement groove 100 is provided, one end of which is open, the other end extending forward is folded back into a substantially U-shape, and
A locking pin 101 that engages with an engagement groove 100 protrudes from the steam pipe 91 at a small height.

Therefore, the end fitting 14 is connected to the open end 100A of the engagement groove 100.
steam pipe 9 at a position facing locking pin 101
A locking pin 101 that can be fitted onto the outside of the connector 1 and extends along the engagement groove 100 engages with the 0-shaped portion 100B at the other end, thereby preventing removal and being retained.

In this example, the boiler body 85 is equipped with a hot water amount detection sensor S that can detect the amount of hot water and take out the detection as an electrical output.
The electric power sent to the electric heater 92 is received through a controller C provided in the outer box 83.

The controller C has a built-in changeover switch that can change the output of the electric heater 92 into three stages, and receives the detection outputs of the hot water amount detection sensor S regarding the low water level, standard water level, and full water level.

Further, the controller C is an operating tool 10 installed in the steam chamber 2.
2 by a cable wire 102a that transmits the instruction to switch the strength of the electric heater 92 and the water level display of the hot water N, so that the heating adjustment of the steam generator 9 and the confirmation of the amount of hot water can be performed from inside the steam chamber 2. be able to.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the operating tools 102 include a power switch 103, a hot water level display lamp 104, an on/off switch 105 for the electric heater 92, and a switch 106 for changing the input strength of the electric heater 92 into three stages. , a lamp 107 that indicates the switching, and a switch 108 that switches the valve body (2) and selectively supplies hot water from the hot water tap 62 to the hot water pipe 80 or the hot water pipe 8q. The controller C has a safety reminder that stops power transmission to the electric heater 92 when the hot water level is low, below the standard value, but when the hot water level inside the boiler body 85 is high enough to exceed the standard value. When the water level rises, a buzzer 109 provided on the operating tool 102 is configured to issue an alarm.

By using a low-voltage control line of 25 V or less as the cable line 102a connecting the operating tool 102 and the controller 101, danger to the human body in the event of electrical leakage can be eliminated. In addition, the power is automatically cut off after one hour of continuous operation to prevent forgetting to turn off the power, and the electric heater 92 is automatically turned on 10 minutes after water vapor is generated in cooperation with the temperature sensor 110. This prevents overheating in the steam chamber 2 due to continuous discharge of water vapor.

As described above, in this embodiment, the steam generator 9 is provided with various safety devices.

By opening the lid 70 of the saucer section 63 and opening the hot water faucet 62, and by rotating the neck section 61B of the oscillating faucet 61 to position its discharge port above the saucer section 63, the hot water from the hot water boiler B is poured into the saucer section 63. In addition, by electromagnetic operation of the valve body V, the hot water in the saucer portion 63 is stored inside the boiler body 85 of the steam generator 9 through the hot water supply pipe 8'l. Boiler body 85
The amount of hot water injected into the steam chamber 2 is detected by a hot water amount detection sensor S, and can be confirmed inside the steam chamber 2 by blinking the hot water level display lamp 104 of the operating tool 102 based on the detection output. After confirming that the standard amount of hot water is stored in the boiler body 85, the hot water tap 62 is closed. Note that if hot water is supplied in excess of the standard amount, a warning sound from the buzzer 109 will notify you.

Note that city water may be directly injected into the boiler body 85 from the hot water tap 62.

Thereafter, by operating the source switch 103 and the important switch 105 to energize the electric heater 92, the hot water in the boiler body 85 is heated and steam is generated. Switching between high and low power to the electric heater 92 is appropriately selected depending on the seasons and the temperature of the hot water.

The steam generated from the steam generator 9 is guided from the outlet 94 through the steam pipe 91 to the gap d, and is diffused by the end fitting 14 while being discharged from the hole 19 into the steam chamber 2, filling the steam chamber 2 with steam. .

On the other hand, the valve body V is switched by operating the switch 108, and hot water from the hot water tap 62 is introduced into the gap d through the hot water pipe 80. The hot water flows down almost the entire upper surface of the floor body 22 through the guide groove 15, and as it flows down, it can heat the floor body 22 and also heat the lower part of the steam chamber 2 by its own heat radiation. Therefore, it is possible to compensate for the temperature drop in the lower part of the steam chamber 2 due to the rising characteristics of the steam, and it is possible to measure the uniformity of the room temperature and greatly improve the comfort of use. Also, since hot water has a higher specific heat than steam, the time it takes to rise to the desired room temperature can be significantly shortened, making it easier to use.

Note that the hot water may be stored and used within the gap d,
In such a case, a lid body is provided on the drainage lower area.

C Effects of the Invention] As described above, the sauna device of the present invention has the hot water supply pipe and the steam pipe opened in the gap between the floor body and the floor plate, so that the heat dissipation of the hot water supplied from the hot water supply pipe is improved. This allows heating to be concentrated in the lower part of the steam room, making the room temperature more uniform and greatly improving the comfort of use. This hot water can also have many effects, such as helping to shorten the rise time.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2(a)
2 is a front view showing the steam chamber, FIG. 2(b) is a right side view thereof, FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the end fitting, and FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing the piping state. 2- Steam room, 7- Box body, 9- Steam generator, 18- Floor plate, 22- Floor body,
8o-...Hot water pipe, 91-...Steam pipe, d
・-Void.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 A perforated floor plate is arranged on the floor of the box forming the steam room with a gap between it and the floor, and a hot water supply pipe through which hot water passes and a steam pipe through which steam from a steam generator passes. and a sauna device which opens into the gap.