JPH0464305A - Hair dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the usefulness of the dryer by rotatably fixing the main body of the dryer on the support base both in vertical and horizontal directions so that it can be moved in both directions, up and down and right and left to increase the variable directions of the blow-out port. CONSTITUTION:On the inside of a blow-out port 11 on the front end of the main body 1 of a dryer a square-cylinder shaped front piece 19 is internally fit to rotatably support the louver 20 around the axis projecting in one body from both ends inside of the front piece. The rotation of a knob 23 causes the axis 21 to revolve to change the direction of the wind blow. A support base 2 is formed by mating the plasticmade thin upper and lower cases 26a, 26b to connect into one body with a screw P. The main body of the dryer has a horizontal cylinder shape hinge provided at the back end. This is closely fixed by inserting into a recessed portion between the joint at the back end of the upper case 26a so that the main body 1 of the dryer can rotate in both vertical and horizontal directions through the hinge 25.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a so-called stationary type hair dryer.

[Conventional technology]

As this type of hair dryer, there is a stand type hair dryer that is placed on a tabletop, a makeup shelf, etc. (for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 104195/1983).

According to this, when drying or setting hair, both hands are free and can be used in a comfortable posture, which is convenient.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, in the hair dryer mentioned above, the angle of the air outlet can only be changed in the vertical direction, and it is not easy to use. Especially for women's long hair, when setting and drying the hair by spreading the hair from side to side with a hairbrush, or when drying in a relaxed position on the side without facing the front of the air outlet, the angle of the air outlet is particularly important. can only be changed in the vertical direction, so
This is disadvantageous and inconvenient because it is often necessary to change the posture according to the direction of the air outlet, making it difficult to perform centrifugation and drying satisfactorily.

It is an object of the present invention to solve these problems and improve the usability of a stationary type hair dryer as described above by increasing the range of direction of the air outlet.

[Means to solve the problem]

The hair dryer of the present invention includes a dryer main body 1 and a support base 2, as shown in FIG. 1, for example.

The dryer main body 1 includes a heater 4 and a blower device 7, and has an air outlet 11 at the front end and an intake port 16 at the rear end. This dryer main body 1 is
In order to be able to vary the angle of the air outlet 11 up and down and left and right, there is a vertical direction A around the horizontal axis 29 on the support base 2.
Further, they are each pivotably mounted in the horizontal direction B around the vertical axis 3o.

[Effect]

On the support stand 2, the dryer main body 1 can change the angle of the air outlet 11 not only in the vertical direction but also in the horizontal direction, so that the angle of the air outlet 11 can be changed arbitrarily to suit the user's comfortable posture. can.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of the hair dryer according to the present invention will be described based on FIGS. 1 to 14.

In FIGS. 3 to 6, 1 is a dryer main body, and 2 is a support stand that supports the dryer main body 1. In FIGS.

The dryer main body I is made of plastic upper and lower cases 3a.
A heater 4, a blower device 7 consisting of a fan 5 and its drive motor 6 are installed in the main body case 3, which has a flat rectangular cylinder shape and is long in the front and back direction, and is integrally connected with screws P by abutting the heaters 4 and 3b together with screws P. It is placed and stored. The heater 4 is covered with a heat shield cylinder 8.

The above-mentioned fan 5 and motor 6 are relatively large ones that exhibit high air blowing capacity, but in order to secure enough installation volume, the upper surface of the main body case 3 on the rear end side where the fan 5 is housed is placed on the upper outside. The bulges 9 and 10 having a convex curved cross section are formed vertically symmetrically by bulging out convexly and the lower surface bulging downwardly and outwardly. The other portions of the main body case 3 that surround the heater 4 and the front end portion 12 where the air outlet 11 is located are formed into a flat rectangular cylindrical shape so that the vertical width thereof is as thin as possible.

The motor 6 and a fan 5 fixed on a shaft 13 protruding from the upper end surface of the motor 6 and surrounding the outer periphery of the motor 6 are disposed between the bulges 9 and 10 in the main body case 3. Motor case 1 fixed on the inner surface of side bulge 10
4. Intake ports 16 are opened in the bulges 9 and 10 on the upper and lower surfaces of the dryer main body 1, respectively.

In FIGS. 6 and 12, inside the air outlet 11 on the front end side of the dryer main body 1 is a square cylindrical front piece 19 made of a material with higher heat resistance than the material of the main body case 3, such as FR-PET. A looper 20 is supported inside the front piece 19 so as to be rotatable around a shaft 21 integrally projecting from both left and right ends of the front piece 19.

A rotary arm 22 is provided protruding at right angles from a shaft 21 at one end of the looper 20, and an eccentric pin 24 provided on a circular knob 23 is engaged with a recess 22a provided at the tip of the arm 22.
By rotating the knob 23, the looper 20
can be rotated around the shaft 21 to change the direction of wind blowing.

The knob 23 is arranged between the abutting surfaces of the upper and lower cases 3a and 3b.

In FIGS. 3 and 5, the support base 2 is formed by abutting thin upper and lower plastic cases 26a and 26b and integrally connecting them with screws P.

The dryer main body 1 has a horizontal cylinder-shaped hinge portion 2 at its rear end.
5 is attached, and this hinge part 25 is attached to the upper case 2 of the support stand 2.
By fitting into the recessed part between the joints 31 at the rear end of the dryer 6a and pivotally connecting the dryer body 1, the dryer main body 1 can be rotated in the vertical direction up and down and in the horizontal direction in the left and right directions via the hinge part 25.

First, regarding the vertical rotation mechanism of the dryer main body 1, the horizontal shaft 29 is passed through the joint 31 of the support base 2 and the hinge part 25, which is connected to the lower surface side of the dryer main body 1 with a vertical axis of 3 degrees. By rotating the main body 1 on the support base 2 in the vertical direction A about the horizontal axis 29, the angle of the air outlet 11 can be changed in the vertical direction. As shown in FIG. 10, the hinge portion 25 is formed by integrally joining a vertical and horizontal bearing portion 25a and a lead wire lead-out portion 25b with screws 70.

The dryer main body 1 has a moderating means 32 between it and the support base 2 so that the angle of the air outlet 11 can be stopped and maintained at any position in the vertical direction. 7 and 10, the moderation means 32 has left and right shaft holes 33 through which the horizontal shafts 29 of the vertical and horizontal bearings 25a of the hinge section 25 are passed, and the moderation means 32 has left and right shaft holes 33 through which the horizontal shafts 29 of the vertical and horizontal bearings 25a of the hinge section 25 are passed. A series of chevron-shaped moderation projections 34 are arranged around the circumference.

On the other hand, the horizontal shaft 29 is inserted through the joint 31 of the support base 2 through the moderation shaft cylinder 36 in a non-rotating manner, and the moderation projection 3
By inserting an elastically deformable moderation piece 35 having a moderation protrusion 35a that can be freely engaged and detached into the moderation shaft cylinder 36 into the moderation shaft cylinder 36 in a non-rotating manner, these horizontal shaft 29, moderation shaft cylinder 36, and moderation piece 35 The three members are fixed to the support stand 2 side in a rotation-stopping manner. In this case, as the dryer main body 1 vertically rotates, the hinge portion 25 rotates together with the dryer main body 1, and the moderation projection 35a provided on the outer periphery of the moderation piece 35 is elastically deformed. 34 are engaged one after another, and the air outlet 11 of the dryer main body 1 is stopped and held at an arbitrary angle in the vertical direction. In the illustrated example, the rotation angle of the dryer main body 1 can be changed upward in four steps of 22 degrees each.

Next, regarding the horizontal rotation mechanism of the dryer main body 1, the third
As shown in FIG. 5 and FIG.
The lower case 3b of the dryer main body 1 is pivotally attached with a vertical shaft 30. In such a case, by rotating the dryer main body 1 in the left and right horizontal direction B around the vertical axis 30, the air outlet 11 can be opened.
The angle can be changed to the left or right.

The dryer main body 1 has a moderating means 37 between it and the hinge portion 25 so that the angle of the air outlet 11 can be stopped and held at any position in the left-right direction. As shown in FIGS. 8 and 10, the moderation means 37 is connected to the lower case 3b of the dryer main body l.
A moderation shaft cylinder 39 through which a vertical shaft 30 is passed is integrally protruded from the lower surface of the frame, and a moderation piece 40 having the same shape as the moderation piece 35 is fitted and fixed to this moderation shaft cylinder 39 in a non-rotating manner. A chevron-shaped moderation protrusion 42 is arranged in a row on the inner periphery of a recess 41 provided at the upper end of the hinge portion 25 so that the moderation piece 40 sinks and fits. In such a case, as the dryer main body 1 horizontally rotates, the moderation projection 40a provided on the outer periphery of the moderation piece 40 is elastically deformed and sequentially engages with the moderation projection 42, and the air outlet 11 is rotated from side to side. Can be stopped and held at any angle in the direction. In the illustrated example, the air outlet 11 can be swung left and right by 30 degrees.

In FIGS. 3 and 4, the upper surface 43 of the support base 2,
At a position corresponding to the bulge 10 on the lower surface side of the dryer main body 1, a recess 44 into which the bulge 10 fits is formed. The concave portion 44 is such that when the dryer main body is rotated around the horizontal axis 29 and folded in a substantially horizontal prone position on the upper surface 43 of the support base 2, the bulging portion 10 of the dryer main body 1 is formed as shown in FIG. A protrusion 45 (see FIGS. 3 and 11) is formed into a concave curved shape that fits in with a gap S that communicates with the left and right outer sides of the bulge 10. ).

When the recess 44 into which the protrusion 10 of the dryer main body 1 fits is formed on the upper surface 43 of the support base 2 in this way, it is possible to connect not only the air inlet 16 on the upper surface side but also the recess 44 of the support base 2 and the dryer main body 1. Air can also be taken into the intake port 16 on the lower surface side from the gap S between.

Further, if the portion of the lower surface of the dryer main body 1 having the intake port 16 is bulged to form a bulged portion 10, and this bulged portion 10 is fitted into the recess 44, the motor 6
Even when the fan 5 is made large, a sufficient storage space can be secured, and the dryer main body 1 can be folded onto the support stand 2 into a low and compact size.

In FIGS. 3 and 9, inside the support base 2, there is a switch 46 and a switch 300 that controls the energization of the heater 4 and the motor 6 and switches the operating state from OFF to weakly warm air and strong hot air. A temperature control switch 47 with a variable temperature of ~1200W is built-in. A bush type operation button 48 of the switch 46 and a dial type operation button 49 of the temperature control switch 47 are arranged side by side at a position forward of the recess 44 on the upper surface 43 of the support base 2. This circuit diagram is shown in FIG. In addition, these buttons 48・
49 prevents contact with the lower surface of the dryer main body 1 when the dryer main body 1 is folded.

In FIGS. 3 and 9, the lead wires 50 connected to the heater 4 and motor 6 in the dryer main body l are connected to switches 46 and 47 in the support base 2, but in this case,
In order to prevent the lead wire 50 from being tensed or tangled due to the rotation of the dryer main body 1, the lead wire 50 is connected from the hole 67 of the lower case 3b to the vertical and horizontal bearing portions 25a of the hinge portion 25. Lead 'f from the inlet 68
After being introduced into the IIA lead-out portion 25b, the lead wire is led out from the wiring hole 52 provided at the bottom of the lead wire lead-out portion 25b, and introduced into the support base 2.

Since the lead wire 50 is exposed to the outside from the time it is led out from the hinge portion 25 until it enters the inside of the support stand 2, the wire hole 52 is covered with a wire cover plate 53 to protect the exposed portion of the lead wire 50. Lead wire 5 from below and wiring hole 52
Cover the exposed part of 0.

The wiring cover board 53 covers the upper and lower cases 26a and 26 of the support stand 2.
It is disposed so as to protrude rearward from between the mating surfaces of the rear ends of the parts b, and is integrally connected to the upper case 26a with screws 63.

Further, the wiring cover plate 53 is connected to the hinge portion 25 of the dryer main body 1.
The grounding leg 54 is set at a lower position, and a grounding leg 54 is integrally provided on the lower surface thereof. A foot rubber 54a is attached to the lower surface of the grounding leg 54.

In such a case, rotate the dryer body 1 around the horizontal axis 29 to move the blowout loel l upward to a maximum of about 88 degrees, and even if the center of gravity of the dryer body 1 moves backward, The main body 1 is supported by the grounding legs 54 and is placed stably without falling backward.

In FIGS. 3 and 4, the upper and lower cases 2 of the support base 2
Upper and lower flanges 57 and 58 are provided on the outer periphery of the peripheral walls 55 and 56 of 6a and 26b, and a groove 59 is formed between both flanges 57 and 58. The power cord 61 connected to the switch 46 in the support base 2 is led out from a cord outlet 60 provided between the abutting surfaces at the rear ends of the upper and lower cases 26a and 26b, and is wound around the groove 59 when not in use. I have to.

As shown in FIG. 11, a grounding leg 62 is also attached to the lower surface of the front end side of the support base 2, and this grounding leg 62 and the foot rubber 54a of the grounding leg 54 make it comfortable to sit on a tabletop or the like. Furthermore, a grounding leg 69 extends left and right from the lower surface of the rear end side of the support base 2, and a foot rubber 69a is attached to the lower surface of the grounding leg 69.

As shown in FIG. 13, this hair dryer can be hung on a wall or the like. In other words, screw 7 against the wall.
By bending the left and right ends of this plate 64 into a U-shaped cross section, a pair of left and right concave grooves 65 are formed on the mounting plate 64 that is fixed to the mounting plate 64.
- 65 are formed to face each other so that the spacing between the grooves 65 becomes narrower toward the bottom, while the left and right ends of the lower flange 58 of the support base 2 are connected to the grooves 65 above This hair dryer can be attached to the wall by inserting it from the wall. Alternatively, for example, a wall mounting hole may be provided on the lower surface side of the support base 2 and the support base 2 may be hooked onto a hook or the like on the wall.

[Another example]

15 and 16 show another embodiment of the present invention, in which a rotation hinge 66 that is U-shaped in front view is provided on the upper surface side of the support base 2.
is mounted so as to be horizontally rotatable about the vertical shaft 30, and the rear end portion of the dryer main body 1 is supported by the rotary hinge 66 so as to be freely rotatable in the vertical direction about the horizontal shaft 29.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, since the angle of the air outlet 11 of the dryer main body 1 can be varied in the vertical and horizontal directions, there are restrictions on the posture and whereabouts with respect to the air outlet 11, compared to the conventional case where the angle can only be changed in the vertical direction. It is very easy to use and allows you to style and dry your hair in a comfortable position without getting wet.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 14 show an embodiment of the hair dryer according to the present invention, FIG. 1 is a perspective view, FIG. 2 is a front view, FIG. 3 is a longitudinal side view, and FIG. 4 is a longitudinal section. Front view, Figure 5 is a longitudinal rear view of the hinge part, Figure 6 is a cross-sectional plan view of the dryer main body, Figure 7 is a sectional view showing the moderation means of the horizontal shaft part, and Figure 8 is the moderation means of the vertical shaft part. FIG. 9 is an exploded perspective view of the whole, FIG. 10 is an exploded perspective view of the hinge portion, FIG. 11 is an exploded perspective view of the lead wire cover portion, FIG. 12 is an exploded perspective view of a portion of the louver, FIG. 13 is a perspective view showing an example of a wall-mounted device, and FIG. 14 is a circuit diagram. 15 and 16 show other embodiments of the present invention, with FIG. 15 being a side view and FIG. 16 being a front view. 1... Dryer main body, 2 ・ 4 ・ 5 ・ 7 ・ ■ 1 ・ 16 ・ 25 ・ 29 ・ 30 ・ ・Support stand, ・Heater, ・Fan, ・Blower device, ・Air outlet, ・Intake port, ・Hinge part, ・Horizontal axis, ・Vertical axis. Figure 3 (J

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A dryer main body (1) that includes a built-in heater (4) and a blower device (7), and has an air outlet (11) on the front end side and an intake port (16) on the rear end side. , a support stand (2), and the dryer main body (1) is connected to the air outlet (1) on the support stand (2).
1) A hair dryer characterized in that the hair dryer is pivotally mounted to be rotatable in the vertical direction (A) and the horizontal direction (B) so that the angle of the item 1) can be varied in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction.