JPH034201Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a dish dryer that dries dishes using thermal convection generated by heat from a heater.

[Prior art] When putting dishes in and out of a dish basket with an open top, there is no need to attach or remove the lid, and the dish dryer can be used by opening the lid rotatably attached to the dish basket. The one described in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 56-85663 is known. The dish dryer described in this publication has a lid body that opens and closes an opening for putting in and taking out dishes in a dish basket as an integral structure, and this lid body is rotatably attached to the dish basket via a pivot shaft. By rotating the lid around the center, the lid can be moved between a position that closes the opening and a position that overlaps the outer surface of the rear wall of the tableware basket.

In addition, as shown in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 53-95357, guide pins are provided protruding from the outer surfaces of the upper edges of the left and right walls of the main body supporting the tableware basket to open and close the top opening of the tableware basket. A guide groove extending in the front-rear direction is formed on the inner surface of the left and right side walls of the lid body, and the rear lower side of this groove is opened, and the guide groove is engaged with the guide pin, so that the lid body can be attached to the guide pin. There is also a known dish dryer that can rotate around the tableware basket.[Problem to be solved by the invention] However, in the dish dryer described in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 56-85663, the lid body is attached to the dish basket. On the other hand, since it cannot be attached or removed, when cleaning the lid, it cannot be washed alone at once, and cleaning performance is not good.

Furthermore, the lid of a dish dryer described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 53-95357 is lifted diagonally upward and pushed backwards, and after the front end of the guide groove hits the guide pin, the lid is dropped by its own weight. It opens when it is propped up against the back of the main unit. Therefore, it is inconvenient to open the lid with one hand, and when pushing the lid backward while lifting it diagonally upward,
There is a high possibility that the lid will hit the dishes in the dish basket due to slight differences in the degree of opening of the lid, which is inconvenient in use. Moreover, the rear lower surface of the guide groove is open, and the guide pin faces this open part when the lid is closed, so if the lid is accidentally lifted in the closed state, the lid may be removed carelessly. Therefore, it is difficult to take measures against erroneous operation.

The purpose of the present invention is to improve the cleaning efficiency of the lid, to allow the lid to be opened easily without the risk of hitting dishes, and to prevent the lid from being accidentally removed when the lid is closed. To provide a dish dryer which can prevent a lid from coming off when the lid is held in a closed state and the whole is pulled toward the front.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, in the dish dryer of the present invention, a main body with a built-in heater supports a dish basket into which dishes are placed and taken out, and an opening on the top of the dish dryer is provided. a wide edge located at the front of the tableware basket, and a basket-side stopper consisting of a stepped portion formed between the wide edge and the rear end of the wide edge, and connected to the rear end of the tableware basket. A lid body for opening and closing the top opening of the tableware basket is made into a single structure, and an edge of the bottom opening of the lid body is formed with a narrow edge portion located at the front part of the lid body. a contact edge that is positioned and overlaps the upper surface of the wide edge; and a non-contact edge that is continuous with the rear end of the contact edge and is located at the rear of the lid and does not contact the narrow edge. The lid body is rotatably attached to the dish basket by a pivot mechanism, and the pivot mechanism adjusts the width of the left and right side walls of the dish basket at a position spaced apart near the rear of the basket side stopper. Approximately U-shaped bearing grooves each having a pivot shaft protruding outward from a narrow edge portion and an open portion that opens toward the rear of the lid when the lid is closed are installed on both left and right walls of the lid. The shaft-engaging protrusion is formed between the lower edge and the lower edge of the right and left walls of the lid, and is removably engaged with the pivot through the opening, and the lid is in a closed state. A lid body side stopper is provided on the lid body, which is disposed opposite to the car side stopper and close to the rear of this stopper, and this lid body side stopper is connected to the above-mentioned approximately U in the shaft engaging protrusion.
The root portion located on the opposite side of the open portion of the letter-shaped bearing groove also serves as the base portion.

[Function] The dish dryer of the present invention has a lid made of a single structure removably attached to the dish basket.
This lid can be removed and washed at once. Further, the dish dryer of the present invention has a pivot mechanism that is provided at the upper edge of the right and left walls of the dish basket, respectively, protruding outwardly, and the lid body opens toward the rear when the lid is closed. A substantially U-shaped bearing groove having an open portion is formed between the lower edges of the left and right side walls of the lid body, and the bearing groove is provided at the lower edge of the left and right side walls of the lid body, and the bearing groove is formed through the opening portion. It is formed from a shaft engaging protrusion that detachably engages with the pivot shaft. Therefore, when attaching or detaching the cover, by pushing the cover into and pulling it out from the pivot while the cover is opened at a certain angle or more, the bearing groove can be attached to and detached from the pivot through the opening. , the lid body can be easily attached to and detached from the dish basket. Furthermore, in the closed state where the bearing groove is fitted to the pivot, the shaft engaging protrusion engages the pivot from below, so even if you try to lift the lid upward, the lid can be prevented from being removed carelessly. Furthermore, when opening the lid made of a single structure using the pivot mechanism, it is sufficient to simply rotate the lid, and the lid can be opened from a certain open state without dropping it. Moreover, when the lid is closed, the lid side stopper, which is the base of the shaft-engaging protrusion of the lid, is located in front of the pivot and becomes the basket-side stopper, which is a step formed at the top opening edge of the dish basket. Because they face each other in close proximity, the lid body can be easily removed using the pivot mechanism described above. However, when the lid body is held in the closed state and the entire body is pulled toward the front, the lid side stopper does not come into contact with the car side stopper. This prevents the pivot mechanism from disassembling.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5.

In FIGS. 1 to 3, reference numeral 11 denotes a main body with an open top surface, and a plurality of intake holes 12 are formed in the bottom wall of the main body 11. Inside the main body 11, a heater storage box 13 is housed, and a hot plate 14 is housed while being supported by the upper opening edge of the box 13. Further, a water receiving cup 15 is attached to the main body 11 so as to be freely removable and removable, and this cup 15 is positioned opposite to a drainage hole 16 formed in the hot plate 14 when the cup 15 is stored. A heater 17 is housed within the heater storage box 13.

The bottom of a tableware basket 18 is removably fitted onto the upper surface of the main body 11 and supported. Tableware basket 18
is an integrally molded product made of synthetic resin, for example, and has an opening at the top, through which tableware can be taken in and taken out.

The edge of the top opening of this tableware basket 18 is formed by a wide edge 18A and a narrow edge 18B.
The wide edge 18A is the front part of the dish basket 18 (that is, the upper edge of the front wall 18b of the dish basket 18 and the left and right side walls 18c of the dish basket 18 that are connected to the front wall 18b).
It is located at the front upper edge of the Also,
The narrow edge portion 18B is connected to the rear end of the wide edge portion 18A by forming a basket-side stopper 28 consisting of a stepped portion as shown in FIG. Rear wall 1 of tableware basket 18
Tableware basket 1 connected to the upper edge of 8a and this rear wall 18a
8) is located at the rear upper edge of both left and right side walls 18c of 8.

A large number of ventilation holes 19 are formed in the bottom wall of the tableware basket 18, and a large number of protrusions 20 protrude upward for supporting the tableware in a predetermined posture such as leaning the tableware. The rear wall 18a of the tableware basket 18 is the front wall 1
It is formed to stand up higher than 8b. A wall 30 that is continuous with the end of the raised rear wall 18a is formed on the rear wall 18a side of the left and right side walls 18c that connect the rear wall 18a and the front wall 18b of the tableware basket 18. This wall 30 has a wall structure that gradually rises toward the rear wall 18a.
It is seamlessly connected to a.
Formation of this wall 30 improves the strength of the rear wall 18a.

This tableware basket 18 is covered with a lid 21 that opens and closes the top opening. This lid body 21 is a single structure integrally molded from a synthetic resin having elasticity such as polypropylene. The lid 21 has a lower opening shaped to approximately match the upper opening of the tableware basket 18 . The edge of this bottom opening is located at the front of the lid 21 and has the wide edge 1.
A contact edge 21A that overlaps the upper surface of the contact edge 8A, and a contact edge 21A that is connected to the rear end of the contact edge 21A and that is connected to the lid body 21.
and a non-contacting edge 21B that is located at the rear of the frame and does not abut the narrow edge 18B. A large number of exhaust holes 22 are formed in the ceiling wall of the lid 21. The lid body 21 has a pivot mechanism 23
to the tableware basket 18 through the rear wall 18a
It is rotatably attached to the side and covers the opening edge of the tableware basket 18 when the lid is closed.

The pivot mechanism 23 is provided on the side of the raised rear wall 18a and is spaced forward from the rear wall 18a.
As shown in the drawings and FIG. 5, it is formed from a pivot shaft 24 and a shaft engaging protrusion 25.

Specifically, the pivot 24 is connected to the car side stopper 2.
8 and protrudes outward from the narrow edges 18B of the left and right side walls 18c of the tableware basket 18. This pivot 24 is formed from a cylindrical portion facing the car-side stopper 28, and a head portion formed at the tip of the cylindrical portion and having a larger diameter than the cylindrical portion.

The shaft engaging protrusion 25 is located at the rear end of the abutting edge 21A on both left and right walls of the lid body 21 (this rear end comes off from the rear end of the wide edge 18A when the lid is closed, as shown in FIG. 5). ) is integrally provided on the bottom surface. The shaft engaging protrusion 25 is elastically deformable and has an open part 26 through which the cylindrical part of the pivot shaft 24 passes through with the elastic deformation. A substantially U-shaped bearing groove 25a (see FIG. 4) is formed between the lower surface of the rear end of the contact edge 21A. The opening portion 26 opens toward the rear of the lid 21 when the lid is closed, as shown in FIG. The bearing groove 25a and the pivot shaft 24 are fitted together to assemble the pivot mechanism 23. In addition, 27 in FIGS. 4 and 5 is a protrusion for preventing the shaft from coming off, which is provided on the inner surface of the tip end of the shaft engaging protrusion 25 so as to narrow the open part 26, if necessary.

A lid-side stopper 29 is provided at the lower edge of the left and right side walls of the lid 21, which faces the car-side stopper 28 in close proximity to the car-side stopper 28 when the lid is closed. This stopper 29 is formed by a part of the shaft engaging protrusion 25, that is, a root portion of the shaft engaging protrusion 25 located on the opposite side of the open portion 26 of the substantially U-shaped bearing groove 25a. The separation distance between these stoppers 28 and 29 in the closed state is determined to be smaller than a dimension sufficient to remove the shaft engaging protrusion 25 from the pivot shaft 24.

In addition, in the above structure, the rear end portion 2 of the lid body 21
1a, the pivot 24 and the rear wall 18 as shown in FIG.
It is configured to draw a rotational trajectory C that may or may not be in sliding contact with an imaginary trajectory B whose radius A is a straight line connecting the upper end of the rotation axis A.

In the dish dryer having the above configuration, by storing the dishes in the dish basket 18 and heating the hot plate 14 by energizing the heater 17, thermal convection is generated as shown by the arrow in FIG. This hot air can dry the dishes in the dish basket 18.

In order to take out and put dishes into and out of the tableware basket 18, it is sufficient to open the lid 21 by rotating it, and the rotation of the lid 21 is made around a pivot 24. This rotation is caused by the fact that the edges of the top opening of the tableware basket 18 have a wide edge 18A at the front and a narrow edge 18B at the rear.
At the same time, the edge of the lower opening of the lid body 21 is formed of a front contact edge 21A and a rear non-contact edge 21B, and the non-contact edge of the lid body 21 This is possible because the side 21B does not touch the narrow edge 18B side of the tableware basket 18.

As the lid body 21 rotates, the shaft engaging protrusion 25
is rotated along the circumferential surface of the cylindrical part of the pivot 24, and the rear end 21a of the lid 21
is located around the outer surface side of the rear wall 18a,
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the lid 21 is opened and held in a substantially vertical position.

In such an open state, the pivot mechanism 23
Since the lid body 21 is provided on the rear wall 18a side and spaced apart from the rear wall 18a, the lid body 21 is provided so as to overlap the rear outer surface of the side wall 18c of the tableware basket 18, as shown in FIG. is no longer placed behind the rear wall 18a of the tableware basket 18, and the width D of the lid body 21 relative to the rear wall 18a is reduced.
can be made smaller.

By opening the lid 21 substantially vertically as described above, the opening angle of the lid 21 in the open state can be increased, and since the lid 21 is a single structure, the third As shown in the figure, a large angle α for loading and unloading tableware can be ensured. Moreover, together with the fact that the rear wall 18a of the tableware basket 18 was raised,
A straight line connecting the rear end portion 21a of the lid body 21 with the pivot 24 of the pivot mechanism 23 and the upper end of the rear wall 18a is defined as a radius A.
By configuring the configuration to draw a rotational trajectory C that may or may not be in sliding contact with the virtual trajectory B, the height E between the top opening of the tableware basket 18 and the upper edge of the opened lid body 21 can be increased. Can be secured.

Therefore, it becomes easy to put in and take out tableware, etc., and the possibility that the tableware, etc. hits the lid 21 when taking out and putting in is also reduced.

Further, in order to remove the lid 21 from the tableware basket 18 during cleaning or the like, the lid 21 is first rotated to the position shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. 5, that is, by more than a predetermined angle shown by θ. As a result, the lid side stopper 29 is placed above the car side stopper 28,
These no longer face each other in the front-back direction. After this, the lid body 21 is pulled out diagonally forward or directly upward. Then, since the drawing of the lid body 21 at this time is not obstructed by the car-side stopper 28, the fitting of the bearing groove 25a to the pivot shaft 24 is disengaged, and at the same time, the shaft engagement projection for the pivot shaft 24 is removed. 25 is also disengaged. Therefore, the lid body 2
1 can be easily removed from the tableware basket 18.

The lid 21 can be attached to the tableware basket 18 by following the removal procedure described above in the reverse order, so when fitting the bearing groove 25a to the pivot shaft 24, the lid 21 is simply pressed. Just enter it. In the closed state where the bearing groove 25a is fitted into the pivot 24, the shaft engaging protrusion 25 is closed as shown by the solid line in FIG.
is engaged with the pivot 24 from below, so even if you try to lift the lid 21 upward,
This can prevent the lid 21 from being removed carelessly.

Furthermore, when the lid 21 is closed, a lid-side stopper 29 is positioned close to and opposite to the car-side stopper 28, as shown by the solid line in FIG.
Therefore, hold the lid 21 and pull the entire dryer toward you (note that the arrow in Figure 5 indicates the pulling direction).
When the pivot mechanism 23 is moved, the lid-side stopper 29 immediately comes into contact with the car-side stopper 28, thereby preventing the pivot mechanism 23 from disassembling. Therefore, the lid 21 does not come off, and the entire dryer can be moved forward by holding the lid 21.

Moreover, the pivot mechanism 23 is connected to the tableware basket 18 and the lid body 2.
1, and the closed state of the lid 21 is maintained by the contact between the abutting edge 21A of the lid 21 and the wide edge 18A of the tableware basket 18. Most of the opening edges of the tableware basket 18 and the lid 21 can be overlapped. Therefore, during drying, hot air generated by the heater 17 can be prevented from escaping to the outside from the joint between the tableware basket 18 and the lid 21. Therefore, drying efficiency can be improved, and
In the closed state, there is less risk of insects, dirt, etc. entering from the outside between the tableware basket 18 and the lid body 21.Although the above-mentioned embodiment is configured as described above, it is possible to reduce the risk of insects, dirt, etc. In this case, unless it goes against the gist of the invention, the main body, the heater, the tableware basket and its upper opening edge, the lid body and its lower opening edge, the pivot, the shaft engaging protrusion, the bearing groove, the opening, and the basket. The specific structure, shape, position, material, etc. of the side stopper, lid side stopper, etc. are not limited to the above embodiment.
Of course, it can be configured and implemented in various ways.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the dish dryer of the present invention described above, the lid made of a single structure can be removed from the dish basket and cleaned, so that the cleaning performance of the lid can be improved. The pivot mechanism is arranged in a substantially U-shape having pivots provided on the upper edges of the right and left walls of the tableware basket and projecting outward, respectively, and an opening that opens toward the rear of the lid when the lid is closed. A bearing groove is formed between the lower edges of the left and right side walls of the lid body, and a shaft is provided at the lower edge of the left and right side walls of the lid body, respectively, and removably engages with the pivot shaft through the opening portion. Since the lid is formed from an engaging protrusion, the lid can be easily attached to and removed from the tableware basket by pulling out and extending the lid with the lid opened at a predetermined angle or more. Furthermore, since the shaft engaging protrusion engages the pivot from below when the lid is closed, even if the lid is accidentally lifted while the lid is closed, this prevents the lid from being inadvertently removed. can. Furthermore, a basket-side stopper is provided on the upper edge of the left and right side walls of the tableware basket, consisting of a step formed using the opening edge of the basket, and a shaft-engaging portion is provided on the lower edge of the lid. Since the stopper on the lid body side consisting of two parts is provided so that these are arranged close to each other when the lid is closed, when the entire dryer is pulled forward by holding the lid body when the lid is closed, the lid body does not move. It prevents the dryer from being accidentally removed and allows the entire dryer to be moved without any trouble.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the entire structure with the lid open, Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional side view of the entire structure with the lid closed, and Figure 3 is a longitudinal side view of the entire structure with the lid open. A vertical side view, FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the pivot mechanism,
FIG. 5 is a longitudinal side view of the pivot mechanism. 11... Body, 17... Heater, 18... Tableware basket, 18A... Wide edge, 18B... Narrow edge, 18c... Side wall of tableware basket, 21... Lid,
21A...Abutting edge, 21B...Non-abutting edge, 2
3... Pivot mechanism, 24... Pivot, 25... Shaft engaging protrusion, 25a... Bearing groove, 26... Opening part, 2
8... Car side stopper, 29... Lid side stopper.

Claims (1)

[Claim for Utility Model Registration] A main body with a built-in heater supports a tableware basket into which tableware is placed and taken out, and the edge of the upper opening of the tableware basket is connected to the wide edge located at the front of the tableware basket. , a basket-side stopper consisting of a step is formed between the rear end of the wide edge and the narrow edge located at the rear of the dish basket, and an opening on the top surface of the dish basket; The lid body that opens and closes is made into a single structure, and the edge of the lower opening of the lid body is formed by an abutting edge located at the front of the lid body and overlapping the upper surface of the wide edge; and a non-contacting edge that is connected to the rear end of the abutting edge and is located at the rear of the lid and does not abut the narrow edge, and the lid is rotated to the dish basket by a pivot mechanism. The pivot mechanism is connected to a pivot that is provided at a position spaced apart from the basket-side stopper in the vicinity of the rear thereof and protrudes outward from the narrow edges of the right and left walls of the dish basket, and a closing shaft. A substantially U-shaped bearing groove having an open portion opening toward the rear of the lid in the lid state is formed between the lower edges of the left and right side walls of the lid, and shaft-engaging protrusions that are provided on the lower edges of the respective parts and removably engage with the pivot shaft through the opening part, and are located close to the rear of the stopper facing the car-side stopper when the lid is closed. A lid-side stopper to be disposed is provided on the lid, and the lid-side stopper also serves as a root portion of the shaft engaging protrusion located on the opposite side to the open portion of the substantially U-shaped bearing groove. Dish dryer.