JPH0542990U - Umbrella dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] A person who wants to install the equipment at the entrance of a facility such as a hotel or station, and who wants to enter with wetness in case of rain can operate this device for a short time. , The purpose is to dry the bulk so that drops do not drip, and to prevent the floor and other people's clothes from being soiled even if they are brought into the facility. [Structure] A cylinder 1 capable of accommodating a cap 10 therein and having a cap insertion port 21, and a nozzle 5 for blowing air to the wet surface of the cap 10 inserted from the cap insertion port 21 into the cylinder 1 are provided. Bulk dryer 20.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to a device for removing raindrops and other deposits from a umbrella in a short time when bringing a wet umbrella into a room due to rainfall or other phenomena such as rain and snow.

[0002]

[Prior Art]

 Conventionally, when carrying a umbrella that may cause drops to be dropped into a facility where it is not desirable for people to carry it, it should be stored in a tubular bag or placed outside the facility. It is customary to enter.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 By the way, when accommodating a cap in a tubular bag, the insertion of the cap into the bag is troublesome, and even if it is inserted, the bag will be torn by the stone protrusions, water will leak from the broken part, and the actual bag will There are often cases where you don't. In addition, in transportation systems such as trains that do not prepare such bags, the dripping umbrellas are brought into the vehicle, which causes annoying situations such as wetting passengers' clothing.

The present invention is intended to eliminate the above-mentioned daily inconvenience, and is installed at an entrance of a facility such as a hotel or a train station so that the user can get wet with wet weather when entering the facility. By operating this device for a short period of time, the person who dries it will dry the bulk to the extent that drops do not drip, and even if it is brought into the facility, there is no risk of soiling the floor or the clothes of others.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a bulk container that can accommodate a bulk and has a bulk insertion port, and an air is provided on the wet surface of the bulk inserted from the insertion port to the interior of the bulk container. An air blower for blowing air is provided.

[0006]

[Action]

 According to the umbrella dryer of the present invention, the wet umbrella folded and inserted into the container is dried to the extent that at least the droplets do not drip with the air blown from the air blowing device for the required time. ..

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to specific examples shown in the drawings. This will clarify the above and other ideas. The present invention is not limited to these specific examples.

[0008]

【Concrete example】

 1 to 3, a bulk dryer 20 of this specific example includes a bottomed cylinder 1, a discharge port 2, a membrane 3, a tube 4, a nozzle 5, and a valve 6, and the valve 6 supplies a compressed air source through a tube 7 ( Connected (not shown). The number of tubes 4 and nozzles 5 does not matter. The cylinder 1 as a bulk container has a discharge port 2 provided with a mist blowout prevention net in the lower part, and a bulk can be inserted, but a compressed air and a film 3 for preventing drops from blowing upward are provided. Prepare for the upper cap insertion port 21. The membrane 3 allows the air and the droplets blown into the tube 1 to be blown out from the outlet 2 without being blown out from the bulk insert port 21 in the upper part of the tube 1.

The membrane 3 is, for example, a flexible membrane as shown in FIG. 2, which is provided with radial tear holes 11 from the central portion, and a folded umbrella can be easily inserted and pulled out, but almost all air and drops pass through. It is a structure that does not allow.

A tube 4 having a nozzle 5 for discharging compressed air in the direction of an axis 8 is attached to the cylinder 1. The pipe 4 is connected to the valve 6 via a collecting pipe 9. By opening and closing the valve 6, compressed air can be blown out from the nozzle 5 or stopped. In this example, the air blowing device for blowing air from the umbrella insertion port 21 onto the wet surface of the bulk is a pipe 4, a nozzle 5, a collecting pipe 9, a valve 6, a pipe 7 and a compression not shown. It is formed by an air source.

In the bulk dryer 20 of the present embodiment formed as described above, as shown in FIG. 4, the umbrella 10 wet with raindrops is folded and inserted into the cylinder 1, and the valve 6 is opened manually or automatically. When opened by (not shown), compressed air is blown onto the cap surface in the tube 1 and the drops are guided to the outlet 2 together with the air. At this time, the membrane 3 pushes the wetting surface of the cap 10 in the direction of the axis 8 by its elasticity, so that air is prevented from blowing upward. After keeping this state for an appropriate time, the cap 10 is pulled out from the tube 1 to obtain the cap 10 without drops.

The bulk dryer 20 of the present specific example can be applied only to the bulk of the structure in which the wet surface is the outer side when folded, but the bulk of this structure is the most common bulk. Therefore, this limitation does not significantly reduce the practicality of this example.

By the way, as an example of opening the valve 6 by an automatic opening / closing device using a solenoid valve as the valve 6, the following may be performed. That is, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the light source 42 and the optical sensor 43 are mounted on the inner surface of the tube 1 at positions symmetrical with respect to the axis 8 of the tube 1, and the light 44 emitted from the light source 42 is emitted. A signal indicating whether or not the optical sensor 43 receives the light 44 is transmitted to the electric circuit 46 through the electric wire 45, and the electric circuit 46 is detected by the signal indicating whether or not the optical sensor 43 receives the light. The valve may be electrically operated to transmit a valve opening / closing signal from the electric circuit 46 to the solenoid valve 47 through the electric wire 48. The nozzle 5 is also connected to a compressed air source (not shown) via the pipe 4, the collecting pipe 9, the solenoid valve 47, and the pipe 7 again.

In this example, when the cap 10 is not inserted in the cylinder 1, the light 44 reaches the optical sensor 43, the electric circuit 46 closes the electromagnetic valve 47, and the nozzle 5 is closed as shown in FIG. On the other hand, when the cap 10 is inserted into the tube 1 while preventing the compressed air from being emitted, the light 44 emitted from the light source 42 is blocked by the cap 10 and reaches the optical sensor 43 as shown in FIG. Since it does not, the optical sensor 43 transmits a signal indicating that it does not receive light to the electric circuit 46. The electric circuit 46 operates by this signal, and opens the solenoid valve 47 to discharge the compressed air from the nozzle 5.

By doing so, the person using the bulk dryer can automatically release the compressed air from the nozzle 5 by simply inserting the folded bulkhead 10 into the tube 1. Become.

On the other hand, in the bulk dryer of the present invention, compressed air may be freely blown out from the nozzle by a user's foot operation to remove the bulk drop. That is, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the inlet side of the valve 51 is connected to the pipe 7 connected to the compressed air source, the outlet side is connected to the collecting pipe 9 connected to the nozzle 5, and the plate 54 is connected. A member 58 attached to the yoke 56 is linked via a shaft 59 so that the plate 54 moves up and down against the force of the spring 57 by the pressure from above, and the spindle of the valve 51 connected to the plate 54. 55, one end of which is fixed to the upper portion of the yoke 56 of the valve 51, and the other end of which is lifted up by a spring 57 which is crimped to the plate 54. As shown in FIG. 7, the spindle 55 is lifted up. In the stationary state, the inner valve (not shown) of the valve 51 connected to the spindle 55 is closed so that the compressed air supplied to the pipe 7 is not supplied to the collecting pipe 9. As shown in FIG. 8, when a person who intends to use a bulk dryer presses the plate 54 with the foot 501, the plate 54 pushes the spring 57 downward while compressing the spring 57 by the pressure of the foot, thereby causing the spindle 55 to move to the spindle 55. The connected inner valve may be opened so that the compressed air supplied to the pipe 7 passes through the valve 51 and is supplied to the collecting pipe 9.

In the above example, the tube 1 of the bulk dryer may be installed so as to be fixed upright or fixed at an inclination, but instead of this, the tube 1 may be adjustable to an arbitrary angle. .. 9 to 12, when the angle setting rod 63 is removed, the cylinder 1 is provided with the shaft 65 and the angle setting plate 66 so that the shaft 1 can freely change the angle with respect to the stand 62. It is attached to the stand 62 via the. The angle setting plate 66 is fixed to the stand 62 and has several angle setting holes 67. In FIGS. 9 and 10, the angle setting rod 63 is inserted into the uppermost hole of the angle setting hole 67 and is connected to the hole of the member 68 attached to the tube 1 to fix the tube 1 in a vertical posture. is doing. 11 and 12, by inserting the angle setting rod 63 into the second hole from the bottom of the angle setting hole 67 and connecting it with the hole of the member 68 of the cylinder 1, the cylinder 1 is set at about 60 degrees from the vertical. The posture is fixed. When the installation angle of the cylinder 1 can be arbitrarily changed as in this example, it is preferable that the pipe 4 and the like be flexible and extendable.

In this example, since the mounting angle of the cylinder 1 can be changed and the cylinder 1 can be adjusted to the most convenient posture, it is possible to facilitate the drying operation of the user's bulk.

Although various specific examples of the present invention have been described in detail above, the present invention is not limited to these specific examples. For example, compressed air to be supplied may be heated to a temperature higher than room temperature after being compressed. Then, the heat-compressed air may be blown out from the nozzle 5. In this case, the air has a low humidity, so that the bulk can be dried in a short time. Further, when the nozzle 5 is blown obliquely downward, the droplets separated from the bulk flow downward together with the air, so that it is possible to prevent the discharged air from being blown upward without attaching the membrane 3 to the cylinder 1. It can effectively remove raindrops and the like adhering to the cover. On the other hand, in the above example, the compressed air is blown as the air blowing device, but instead of this, the air inside the tube 1 is sucked from the bottom of the tube 1 and the air flow generated in the tube 1 causes air to flow. May be sprayed on the wet surface of the umbrella. Further, as an outlet for the removed water droplets, instead of being provided on the side surface of the cylinder 1, it may be provided at the bottom portion of the cylinder 1. By doing so, the removed droplets can be easily discharged. In addition, the bulk container is not limited to the cylinder 1, and may be, for example, a square cylinder, an elliptic cylinder, or a box-shaped body. It may be capable of accommodating Sasa at once.

[0020]

[Effect of the device]

 As described above, according to the bulk dryer according to the present invention, if the bulk dryer is provided at the entrance of the facility, a person with wet bulk can use the bulk dryer for a short time to easily obtain the drip resistance. The field of application is extremely wide because it is possible.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a film used in the specific example shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the specific example shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a state where the bulk dryer shown in FIG. 1 is used.

FIG. 5 is a side view of another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a side view of the concrete example shown in FIG. 5 with a cap inserted.

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a structure of a valve installed in a part of a bulk dryer of the present invention, that is, a pipe for supplying compressed air to a nozzle.

8 is an explanatory view of the operation of the valve shown in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a side view of another preferred embodiment of the present invention.

10 is a front view of the specific example shown in FIG. 9. FIG.

FIG. 11 is an operation explanatory diagram of the specific example shown in FIG. 9;

FIG. 12 is a front view of the operation shown in FIG. 11.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 tube 4 tube 5 nozzle 6 valve 7 tube 20 bulk dryer

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A bulk container that can contain a bulk and has a bulk insertion port, and an air blowing device that blows air onto the wet surface of the bulk inserted from the bulk insertion port to the inside of the bulk container. Bulk dryer.