JPH0344158Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a clothes dryer that is suitable for both horizontal and vertical installations.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems] Conventionally, dryers that have a rotating drum as a drying chamber and that obtains a drying effect by supplying hot air into this rotating drum have a structure that allows them to be installed vertically or horizontally. Although it can be used in any position, it is not possible to use the door for opening and closing the clothing entrance and the operation panel in the same way due to operational reasons.

For this reason, conventionally, the front frame that is provided on the front of the dryer body and supports the door and operation panel has a different configuration for vertical and horizontal types.
Therefore, there was a drawback that the number of types of parts increased and productivity and serviceability decreased. [Purpose of the invention] The purpose of the invention is to provide a front frame that supports the door and the operation panel in either a vertical or horizontal configuration. Another object of the present invention is to provide a dryer that can be used commonly.

[Summary of the invention] The dryer according to the invention has a first door support part and a second door support part on the front frame in order to selectively attach the door to a first door arrangement position and a second door arrangement position shifted by 90 degrees. The door support part is formed with a 90 degree offset, and the operation panel is selectively attached to a first operation panel placement position and a second operation panel placement position shifted by 90 degrees while maintaining an adjacent relationship with the door. At least three operation panel support parts are formed on the frame so that one of the operation panel support parts is arranged in a manner that the other support parts are shifted by 90 degrees,
By configuring one of these operation panel support parts in the middle to be used in common at the first operation panel placement position and the second operation panel placement position, the front frame can be placed vertically or horizontally. It can be used in both shapes, and there is no need to change the arrangement positions of the door and the operation panel, and furthermore, the installation configuration of the operation panel can be simplified.

[Embodiment of the invention] A first embodiment of the invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

Reference numeral 1 denotes a vertically long outer box for a dryer, and inside thereof, as is well known, there is a rotating drum 2 for storing clothes, a motor 3 for rotating this rotating drum 2, and a hot air generator (not shown). It is set up. A front frame, for example, a front plate 4 for closing the front frame is attached to the front opening of the outer box 1 with screws 5. This front plate 4 has a rectangular shape in which the horizontal dimension A and the vertical dimension B (A<B) are different due to the vertically elongated shape of the outer box 1, and in the center thereof there is a long piece of the door 9 whose side dimensions will be described later. A square recess 4a slightly larger than dimension a, and this recess 4
There is a clothing entrance/exit 6 in a position slightly offset from the center in a.
and a circumferential wall 6 of this clothing entrance 6.
The front side of the rotary drum 2 is rotatably supported by the seal member 7 via the seal member 7. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, in the front part of the front plate 4,
The periphery of the recess 4a forms a bank 8 that projects in an inclined manner. 9 is a door that opens and closes the clothing entrance 6;
It has a window 10 through which the inside of the rotating drum 2 can be seen, and 11 is an operation panel. The door 9 has a rectangular shape with a long side dimension a and a short side dimension b, and hinge shafts 12 and 13 projecting parallel to the long sides at one end of both short sides.
The hinge shafts 12 and 13 are made elastically deformable in the axial direction by forming slits 14 around their bases. The operation panel 11 includes a timer 15, a switch 16, and a display 17.
The long side is set to a dimension a, and the short side is set to a dimension c except for the mounting piece 11a that overlaps with the door 9, and the relationship a=b+c is established.

As shown in FIG. 1, screw insertion holes 23a, 23a are formed at both ends of the mounting piece 11a, respectively. Here, FIG. 3 shows a state in which the door 9 is in the first door arrangement position and the operation panel 11 is in the first operation panel arrangement position, and FIG. Operation panel 1 at the door location
1 indicates the state where the operation panel is located at the second operation panel arrangement position.

In the peripheral wall of the recess 4a of the front plate 4, for example, the first
The first hinge holes 18a, 19a into which the hinge shafts 12, 13 of the door 9 are inserted, respectively, are located near the left end of two parallel sides in the horizontal direction in the figure, and the position is shifted by 90 degrees from these, that is, in this example, the Second hinge holes 18b and 19b are formed near the upper ends of two parallel sides in the vertical direction in FIG.

Along with this, there are a mounting screw hole 20a in the recess 4a of the front plate 4, a mounting screw hole 20b for supporting the operation panel 11 on the lower side, and a mounting screw hole 20c shared for supporting on both the upper and lower sides. is formed. As can be seen from FIG. 1, each of these mounting screw holes 20a, 20b, 20c is arranged in such a way that the other mounting screw holes 20a, 20b are shifted by 90 degrees with respect to the middle one of them, the mounting screw hole 20c. It is formed to be. Furthermore, as will be understood later, a lead wire outlet 22 for passing the lead wire 21 led out from the operation panel 11 is formed in one corner that is the confluence area of the right side and the lower side. Here, regarding the attachment of the door 9 and the operation panel 11, the first hinge holes 18a and 19a correspond to the first door support part, and the second hinge holes 18b and 19b correspond to the second door support part. do. Also,
The mounting screw holes 20a, 20b and 20c correspond to an operation panel support section.

In the above configuration, when obtaining a vertical dryer as shown in FIG. Insert into 18a and 19a,
In order to arrange the operation panel 11 adjacent to one side of the door 9 installed as described above, for example, the side opposite to the hinge, it is housed on the right side in FIG. Using 20c,
Each is supported by a screw 23 passed through a screw insertion hole 23a, and the lead wire 21 is led into the outer box 1 through a lead wire outlet 22.

In contrast to the above, when obtaining a horizontal dryer as shown in FIG. 4, the hinge shafts 12 and 13 of the door 9 are
are inserted into the second hinge holes 18b and 19b of the front plate 4, and the operation panel 11 is placed in the lower side of the recess 4 in FIG.
Supported by In this case as well, the lead wire 21 is passed through the lead wire outlet 22 which is present in the common portion of both the long side and short side of the operation panel 11.

In this way, both vertical and horizontal dryers use the same front plate 4 to connect the door 9 and operation panel 1.
1 and 2 can be configured so that they are adjacent to each other in the same direction and can be laterally opened in the same direction.
In particular, in the above embodiment, the lead wire outlet 22
Since the lead wires are formed in a common part of the operation panel 11 at both positions separated by 90 degrees, the lead wire lead-in position in the outer box 1 is constant, and the wiring work mode can be made common. In this embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, a special outer box is used so that the motor 3 is located at the bottom in both vertical and horizontal installations.

Here, the first hinge holes 18a, 19a
is the first door for supporting the door 9 in the first door arrangement position.
The second hinge hole 18 acts as a door support part.
b, 19b act as a second door support part for supporting the door 9 in the second door arrangement position. and,
The mounting screw holes 20a, 20c function as operation panel supports for supporting the operation panel 11 in the first operation panel arrangement position while maintaining the adjacent relationship with the door 9. The operation panel 11 is placed in the second position while maintaining the adjacent relationship with the door 9.
In particular, the mounting screw hole 20c is used in common for the operation panel 11 at the first and second operation panel placement positions. It is. It is understood that these are primarily used selectively by manufacturers.

According to this embodiment, the front plate 4 serving as the front frame
a first hinge hole 18 as a first door support part;
a, 19a and the second hinge holes 18b, 19b as the second door support part are formed to be shifted by 90 degrees, and the front frame 4 is provided with three mounting screw holes 20a, 20b and 20c as the operation panel support part. , the other mounting screw holes 20a and 20b are arranged 90 degrees apart from the intermediate mounting screw hole 20c, so that the door 9 and the operation panel 11 are arranged adjacent to each other by 90 degrees. Since the front plate 4 can be selectively attached to an offset position, the front plate 4 can be used in both vertical and horizontal configurations. Furthermore, since the arrangement of the door 9 and the operation panel 11 does not change in either the vertical or horizontal configuration, the operability of the door 9 and the operation panel 11 can be maintained well.

By the way, if the operation panel is installed in two places, for example, and you try to install the operation panel at positions 90 degrees apart, normally two pieces will be installed at each position.
A total of four operation panel supports are required, but in this example, as described above, two intermediate mounting screw holes are required.
The other mounting screw holes 20a and 20b are 90mm relative to 0c.
Since the mounting screw holes 20c in the middle are used in common at the first operation panel arrangement position and the second operation panel arrangement position, the operation panel is supported. It is possible to reduce the number of mounting screw holes, which are the parts, making it easy to manufacture the handle, and simplifying the mounting configuration of the operation panel 11.

On the other hand, if water were to splash onto the outer box 1, the embankment 8 formed around the recess 4a would spill over the inner peripheral surface of the recess 4a and the outer peripheral surfaces of the door 9 and the operation panel 11. This is designed to prevent as much as possible from entering through the gaps in the pipe, and is provided as necessary.

Next, second to fourth embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 to 7, in which the same parts as in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals. In the second embodiment shown in FIG. 5, the recess 24 formed in the front plate 4 is circular,
Accordingly, the door 25 and the operation panel 26 are each formed so that the shape of the door 25 and the operation panel 26 are circular when they are adjacent to each other.

In the third embodiment shown in FIG. 6, the recess 27 of the front plate 4 has a rectangular shape with each corner cut out, and the door 28 and the operation panel 29 have a shape in which they are adjacent to each other. Each of them is formed to match the shape of the recess 27.

In the fourth embodiment shown in FIG. 7, an opening 30a having a shape that matches the operation panel 31 is formed on the side opposite to the hinge of the door 30, and the operation panel 31 is positioned within this opening 30a. It is configured to be attached to the front plate 4.

In these second to fourth embodiments as well, first and second door support parts and an operation panel support part that support the door and the operation panel are provided on the front plate 4 in the same way as in the first embodiment. This makes it possible to maintain the same adjacency relationship and to make the adjacency direction and opening/closing direction relationship between the door and the operation panel the same in both vertical and horizontal installations.

Further, in each of the above embodiments, the configuration in which the operation panel is attached at two places is illustrated, but the number of attachment points may be more than this.In short, the operation panel must be attached at at least two places. It is sufficient that there are at least three operation panel support parts, and that the other support parts are arranged 90 degrees from the middle one of the support parts. In addition, the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and it goes without saying that the front frame forming the clothing opening may be separate from the front plate that closes the front opening of the outer box.

[Effects of the invention] As described above, the present invention includes a front frame provided at the front of an outer box for a dryer having a clothes entrance and exit, a door attached to the front frame to open and close the clothes entrance, and a door attached to the front frame to open and close the clothes entrance. an operation panel attached to the front frame in at least two places adjacent to the door, and for selectively attaching the door to a first door placement position and a second door placement position shifted by 90 degrees. A first operation panel arrangement in which a first door support part and a second door support part are formed on the front frame so as to be shifted by 90 degrees, and the operation panel is shifted by 90 degrees while maintaining an adjacent relationship with the door. At least three operation panel supports are formed on the front frame so that the other operation panel supports are shifted by 90 degrees from one in the middle so that the operation panel can be selectively attached to the position and the second operation panel arrangement position. death,
The present invention is characterized in that one of the intermediate operation panel support parts is used in common at the first operation panel arrangement position and the second operation panel arrangement position, and with this, The front frame can be used in both horizontal and vertical types, reducing the number of parts and improving productivity and serviceability. It is possible to maintain good operability without changing the arrangement, and furthermore, the number of operation panel support parts can be reduced, and the mounting structure of the operation panel can be simplified, which is an excellent effect.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 4 show a first embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view, FIG. 2 is a partially cutaway side view, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are respectively FIGS. 5, 6, and 7 are front views of the vertical type and horizontal type, and are front views showing the second, third, and fourth embodiments of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is the outer box, 2 is the rotating drum, 4 is the front plate (front frame), 6 is the clothing entrance, 9, 25, 28, 30
is the door, 11, 26, 29, 31 are the operation panels, 1
8a, 19a are first hinge holes (first door support part), 18b, 19b are second hinge holes (second door support part), 20a, 20b, 20c are mounting screw holes (operation panel support part). ), 22 is a lead wire outlet.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] 1. A front frame provided at the front of the outer box for a dryer having a clothes entrance, a door attached to the front frame to open and close the clothes entrance, and a door adjacent to the door. an operation panel that is attached to the front frame in at least two places, and the door is selectively attached to the front frame at a first door placement position and a second door placement position shifted by 90 degrees. A first door support part and a second door support part are formed to be shifted by 90 degrees, and the operation panel is arranged at a first operation panel arrangement position shifted by 90 degrees while maintaining an adjacent relationship with the door. At least three operation panel supports are formed on the front frame so that the other operation panel supports are shifted by 90 degrees from one in the middle in order to selectively attach the operation panel to the operation panel position. A dryer characterized in that an intermediate one of the panel support parts is used in common at a first operation panel arrangement position and a second operation panel arrangement position. 2. The dryer according to claim 1 of the utility model registration, characterized in that a lead wire outlet is formed in a common part of the operation panel in the front frame where both operation panels are disposed 90 degrees apart.