JPH0310957Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] This invention relates to a tunnel finisher used for drying and finishing clothes.

[Conventional technology]

Clothes can be ironed to a very beautiful finish if the wrinkles on the surface of the fabric are thoroughly smoothed out before the ironing process, so in conventional cleaning operations, the clothes are dried using a tunnel finisher after washing. However, the wrinkles on the surface are smoothed out.

A conventional tunnel finisher has a steam chamber and a hot air chamber that are connected in series, with a
It has a structure with a chain conveyor with hangers attached at predetermined intervals.The clothes are hung from the hangers through the hangers and passed through a steam room and a hot air chamber, giving them an uneven finish with steam and a dry finish. It has come to be done in succession.

[The problem that the idea aims to solve]

By the way, the surface of clothing finished by passing through a steam chamber and a hot air chamber as described above becomes extremely hot, but depending on the type of clothing, if it is left in a high temperature state, it may be stretched once. This may cause the wrinkles to come back and the finish on the surface of the clothing may deteriorate significantly. In order to prevent such wrinkle return phenomenon, it is necessary to forcibly cool down the highly heated clothing.

In addition, in the case of thick clothing, it takes a long time to dry the clothes that have been moistened with steam in a steam room and then dried in a hot air room.
Since the work cycle of the tunnel finisher is determined according to the longest drying process, there is a problem that the work time becomes longer.Furthermore, it is not possible to increase the work efficiency by increasing the conveyance speed of the chain conveyor than before. For this reason, there is a demand for improved drying capacity in hot air chambers.

This idea was made in view of the above problems, and aims to provide a tunnel finisher that can select the most suitable drying method depending on the type of clothing, as well as improve drying capacity and cope with the increased speed of chain conveyors. That is.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to solve the above problems, this invention forms a processing chamber next to the steam chamber and the hot air chamber, and provides a hot air supply means for supplying and circulating hot air to this processing chamber, and a cold air supply means for supplying and circulating cold air. and switching means for switching the operation of both supply means to the operation of supplying hot air to the hot air chamber.

[Effect]

In the tunnel finisher having the above structure, if the clothes are of a type that wrinkles back, the cold air supply means in the processing chamber is activated, and the clothes that have been dried with hot air in the hot air chamber are forcibly cooled and finished with cold air in the processing chamber. .

On the other hand, when increasing the conveyance speed of thick clothes or a chain conveyor, the hot air supply means in the processing chamber is activated, and the clothes are dried with hot air continuously in the hot air chamber and the processing chamber to increase the drying capacity.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, embodiments of this invention will be described based on the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a passage A through which clothing can pass is provided inside the processing box 1 of the tunnel finisher. 4 are connected in series.

In addition, each chamber 2,
An endless chain conveyor 5 is provided that passes through the upper portions of the interiors of the processing boxes 3 and 4 and goes around the outside of the processing box 1. This chain conveyor 5 is horizontally extended by a sprocket 6 and a pulley 7 arranged around the processing box 1, and is rotated by the drive of an electric motor 8 connected to the sprocket 6.

Further, a plurality of hangers 9 are attached to the chain conveyor 5 at predetermined intervals in the length direction.
The intervals between the hangers 9 are set so that at least one hanger 9 is located in each of the steam chamber 2, hot air 3, and processing chamber 4, as shown in FIG. The clothes hung via the hanger 10 are moved through the center of each chamber 2, 3, 4 by the movement of the chain conveyor 5.

A rotary door 11 is attached to the entrance of the steam chamber 2 to close the entrance. At the top of this door 11, a chain conveyor 5 and a chain conveyor 5' are installed.
A groove is provided through which the chain conveyor 5 is inserted, so that the chain conveyor 5 can freely rotate regardless of whether the door 11 is opened or closed.

As shown in FIG. 1, the steam chamber 2 is provided with steam pipes 17 on both sides of the interior, and the steam pipes 17 include
A number of spray nozzles are provided which direct the garment through the center of the chamber. The operation of the steam chamber 2 is such that steam is blown out when the hanger 9 on which clothes are hung comes to a predetermined position in each chamber 2, 3, 4.

The hot air chamber 3 is provided with a duct 3b for air circulation on the side of the drying chamber B which is continuous to the processing chamber 4, with upper and lower ends communicating with each other, and a heating heater 18 is installed in this duct 3b.
A fan motor 19 is provided, and when the hanger 9 comes to a predetermined position in the drying chamber B, hot air is blown out to finish drying the clothes.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, the processing chamber 4 includes a drying chamber B through which the clothes pass, and an air circulation duct 4b adjacent to the side thereof and communicating with the drying chamber B at its upper and lower ends.
A fan motor 20 is installed in the duct 4b.
And a heating heater 21 is attached. Further, a cooling cooler 22 is attached to the upper side of the drying chamber B, and an air inhaler 23 is attached to the top of the drying chamber B.
is installed.

The above heating heater 21 and cooling cooler 22
is connected to a control circuit (not shown) that controls the finishing process of the tunnel finisher. The operation circuit of the hot air chamber 3 and the heater 2 are connected.
1 or the cooler 22.

The embodiment of this invention has the above configuration,
Next, the action will be explained.

If the clothing is of a type that wrinkles back, heater 2
1 circuit is cut off, fan motor 20 and cooler 2
The circuit No. 2 is connected to the operating circuits of the steam chamber 2 and the hot air chamber 3.

In this state, the clothes are automatically or manually suspended from the hangers 9 outside the processing box 1 via the hangers 10, and the chain conveyor 5 is rotated to convey the clothes. When the hanger 9 on which the clothes are hung comes to the predetermined position (center position) of each chamber 2, 3, 4, the finishing process starts, and in the steam chamber 2, steam is blown out to remove wrinkles from the clothing fabric. In the hot air chamber 3, hot air is blown out to dry the clothes.

Further, in the processing chamber 4, a fan motor 20 and a cooler 22 are operated, and as shown in FIG.
The spray is applied to the clothes hanging from the hanger 9 in the drying room B. As a result, the clothes that have been dried to a high temperature in the hot air chamber 3 are forcibly cooled down, and wrinkles are prevented from occurring.

When the above-mentioned finishing process is completed, the chain conveyor 5 is moved to carry out the finished garment, carry the next garment into the processing box 1, and repeat the same finishing process as above. Also,
While finishing in processing box 1,
The next item of clothing is hung on the hanger 9 outside the processing box 1.

On the other hand, if the clothing is thick or if the conveyance speed of the chain conveyor 5 is to be increased, the processing chamber 4
The operating circuit of the cooler 22 is cut off, and the operating circuits of the fan motor 20 and the heater 21 are connected to the operating circuits of the steam chamber 2 and the hot air chamber 3.

Thereby, the air circulated by the fan motor 20 is heated by the heater 21 and becomes hot air, which dries the clothes in the drying chamber B. Therefore, the clothes dried in the hot air chamber 3 are continuously dried in the processing chamber 4, and the drying capacity is greatly improved, making it possible to sufficiently dry even thick clothes in a short period of time. .

Furthermore, by increasing the drying capacity, the chain conveyor can be used at a higher conveyance speed.

The above-mentioned finishing process may be carried out automatically by starting each process sequentially, or may be manually operated one cycle at a time.

[Effect of idea]

As explained above, this invention connects a processing chamber to a steam chamber and a hot air chamber, and allows the processing chamber to perform cold air cooling or hot air drying in a switchable manner. The optimal drying process can be selected depending on the type of clothing to be finished, such as thick clothing, and a good finish can always be obtained.

In addition, by performing hot air drying in the processing chamber,
Drying with hot air can be performed continuously in the hot air chamber and processing chamber, increasing drying capacity.
The conveyance speed of the chain conveyor can be increased.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional plan view showing a tunnel finisher according to an embodiment of this invention, FIG. 2 is a front view of the same, and FIG. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional side view showing the inside of a processing chamber. 1... Processing box, 2... Steam room, 3... Hot air room, 4... Processing room, 5... Chain conveyor,
9... Hanger, 10... Hanger, 20... Fan motor, 21... Heater, 22... Cooling cooler, A... Passage, B... Drying room.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A steam chamber equipped with a steam blowing means in a passage through which clothing can pass in the processing box; a hot air chamber equipped with a hot air supply means for supplying and circulating hot air;
Processing chambers equipped with hot air supply means for supplying and circulating hot air and cold air supply means for supplying and circulating cold air are formed in that order, and hangers are attached at predetermined intervals to a chain conveyor inserted through the upper part of each chamber. At the same time, a drive machine is connected to the chain conveyor to pass the clothes hung on hangers to each chamber, and the operation of the hot air supply means and the cold air supply means of the processing chamber is the same as the operation of the hot air supply means of the hot air room. A tunnel finisher equipped with a switching means for switching between the two.