JPH0615569Y2 - Towel dryer - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of use] The present invention relates to a towel dryer, and more specifically, a towel for drying a wet towel, and optionally heating and retaining the dried towel. Regarding the dryer.

[Problems to be Solved by Conventional Techniques and Inventions] Conventionally, a towel dryer in which a hanger is fixed to a holding member has been used. For this towel dryer, (1)
A heater is not built in the hanger or holding member, and drying, heating and heat retention of the towel are performed by another heater provided outside, (2) the holding member and the hanger are hollow bodies, and this hollow portion There are those which circulate a heating medium such as oil heated to the above, and those which (3) allow warm gas to pass through a hanger of a hollow body.

The towel dryer of (1) has a simple structure, but the heat efficiency is poor, and there is a risk of fire depending on the type of heater, and since the heater and hanger are installed separately, a large installation area is required. There are drawbacks such as the need.

The towel dryer of (2) has no risk of fire and better thermal efficiency than the former, but since it is indirect heating, it does not have a sufficiently high temperature. It is necessary to use a large heater. In addition, high confidentiality is required to prevent the heat medium from leaking,
Therefore, there are drawbacks such that the structure is complicated and the mounting and movement are not easy.

The towel dryer of (3) tends to increase in size, such as requiring a fan to pass warmed gas through the hanger.

The present inventor has solved the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional towel dryer, has high heat efficiency, high safety, does not require high airtightness, has a simple structure, and is easy to install and move. As a result of intensive research to develop a towel dryer that can be easily carried out, the towel dryer of the present invention was finally devised.

[Means and Actions for Solving Problems] The present invention is a towel dryer characterized in that one end of a tubular hanger having a tubular electric heater built therein is fixed to a holding member.

The outer shape of the holding member is not particularly limited, but usually,
A rectangular shape, a rectangular shape whose short side is an arc, a circular arc shape, a plate shape such as a corrugated shape, and a columnar shape such as a square pole, a cylinder, a semicylindrical cylinder, and a semielliptic cylinder.

The material of the holding member is not particularly limited, and generally, metal and synthetic resin are used, but metal is preferable.

The material of the holding member may be hollow or solid, but the former is preferable. In the case of a hollow shape, the hollow shape is substantially similar to the cross-sectional shape of the holding member, but may have a different shape.

One or a plurality of hangers are fixedly attached to the holding member.

The means for fixing the hanger to the holding member is not particularly limited, but usually, for example, any method of welding, adhesion, soldering, tacking and screwing is adopted.

One end of the hanger (in the case of a hanger having a rising portion, the end of the rising portion) is fixed to an arbitrary surface of the holding member. Generally, when the holding member has a flat surface and a non-planar surface, the end of the hanger is fixed to the non-planar surface of the holding member, and when the holding member has only a flat surface, it is sufficient to fix the end of the hanger. As long as it has an area, it is fixed on any flat surface.

At least one end of the hanger can be bent at an arbitrary angle (usually a substantially right angle) to form a rising portion and a straight portion. The shape of the straight part of the hanger is usually a straight line, but it does not prevent a gentle curved line.

When there are a plurality of hangers, these hangers are usually arranged substantially parallel to each other. The lengths of the plurality of hangers may be equal to or different from each other. Further, in the plurality of hangers, the rising portions and the straight portions may be the same or different from each other.

The cross-sectional shape of the hanger material (the shape of the surface perpendicular to the long axis of the hanger) is not particularly limited, but is usually a circle,
An ellipse and a quadrangle are suitable, and are hollow. The hollow shape is substantially similar to the cross-sectional shape of the hanger material, but may be different. When both the material of the hanger and the material of the holding member are hollow, it is preferable that both hollow portions are continuous with each other.

The material of the hanger is generally metal or synthetic resin, but metal is preferable. The material of the hanger and the material of the holding member may be the same or different, but are preferably the same.

The cylindrical electric heater built in the hanger is preferably a cylinder, an elliptic cylinder or a square cylinder that follows the shape of the inner wall of the hanger.

Examples of the tubular electric heater include the following.

That is, (a) a coil-shaped metal heating wire (for example, a nichrome wire, a copper-nickel wire, an iron-chromium wire, etc.) is bonded to the outside of the synthetic resin pipe and the metal pipe (pipe for the base material) whose surface is insulated. Or an electric heater that is fixed with insulating tape into a cylindrical shape.

(B) A cylindrical electric heater in which a cord heater is wrapped around the outside of a synthetic resin pipe and a metal pipe (pipe for a base material) and fixed with an adhesive or the like.

(C) Carbon black and vinyl-based monomer were mixed and polymerized, and a cross-linking agent was added to this to form a paint. This paint was impregnated into glass cloth, and after heat treatment was applied, the electrode was fixed. Grafted carbon (registered trademark: manufactured by Ryoyu Kogyo Co., Ltd.) heater, or a cylindrical electric heater formed by rolling a planar heating element whose surface is covered with an insulating material such as an etching heater and a printing heater. However, in order to round the planar heating element, for example, there is a method in which opposite sides of a rectangle are butted against each other, and a method in which slender parallelogrammatic slender sides are brought into contact with each other to be slanted round.

It is preferable that the outer surface of each of these cylindrical electric heaters is mounted so as to be substantially in close contact with the inner wall of the hanger. In this case, when the material of the hanger is metal,
It is necessary to interpose an insulating layer between the outer surface of the electric heater and the inner wall surface of the hanger. To do that, for example,
In the cylindrical electric heaters (a) and (c), the outer surface of these electric heaters is covered with a synthetic resin pipe and / or an insulating tape, or
Apply synthetic resin to the surface of these tubular electric heaters,
An insulating layer can be interposed by curing and providing a resin layer.

Further, the tubular electric heater may be provided over the entire length of the hanger or may be provided on a part of the hanger. In the latter case, it is preferably at least 50% or more of the length of the hanger.

Further, usually, the tubular electric heater is built in all the hangers arranged, but the tubular electric heater can be built in only a part of the hangers. That is, the upper electric hanger does not have the tubular electric heater built therein, but only the lower portion of the hanger has the tubular electric heater built in, and the convection of the lower heater can efficiently heat and dry the hanger.

The heat generation amounts of the tubular electric heaters to be arranged are usually the same, but can be different. That is,
The heat generation amount of the upper hanger can be made smaller than that of the lower hanger, and the heat generated by the convection of the lower heater can be used for efficient drying.

This towel dryer has a hanger side to the side (horizontal ~ 45 °)
You can also use it as a vertical, vertical (the angle with the horizontal is 45
The angle may be set to about −90 °).

When using a plurality of tubular electric heaters, these tubular electric heaters are electrically connected in parallel or in series, but parallel connection is preferred.

By energizing the tubular electric heater, the tubular electric heater generates heat, and the generated heat heats the hanger and the holding member. Further, when the hollow part of the hanger and the hollow part of the holding member are continuous with each other, the air in the hollow part is also heated, and the temperature rising rate of the atmosphere of the hanger and the holding member increases.

EXAMPLE A typical example of the towel dryer of the present invention will be described more specifically with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view of the towel dryer of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 and 3 are a front view and a bottom view of the towel dryer shown in FIG. 1, respectively. That is, this towel dryer has a holding member 1 and four hangers 2,
It has two, two, and two. The holding member has a surface 11
The back surface 12 and the back surface 12 each have a rectangular shape whose short side is an arc, and the shape of the front surface 11 is smaller than that of the back surface 12. The holding member 1 has a trapezoidal cross section and is hollow (not shown in the drawing). The lead wires 4 and 4 are housed in this hollow portion.

On the other hand, the hanger has a rising portion 21 and a straight portion 22 which are bent at a right angle near one end thereof. The rising portions 21 and the lengths 22 of the straight portions of the four hangers 2, 2, 2, 2 are substantially equal to each other. The free end of the rising portion 21 is fixed to the surface 11 of the holding member 1. The hanger has a circular cross section and is hollow. A cylindrical electric heater is built in this hollow portion.

The four hangers 2, 2, 2 and 2 are arranged so that the long axis of the linear portion 22 and the long axis of the holding member 1 are substantially orthogonal to each other.
Further, the hanger 2, 2, 2, 2 is fixed to the holding member 1 so that the fixing portion is placed on the surface 11 of the holding member substantially on the long axis.

In this towel dryer, the back surface 12 is fixed to the wall surface so that the long axis of the holding member 1 is substantially vertical.

FIG. 4 shows the towel dryer shown in FIGS.
It is a bottom view of the towel dryer which is different in that the lengths of the linear portions 22 of the respective hangers 2, 2, 2, 2 of the book are substantially equal to each other but the lengths of the rising portions 21 are different from each other.

5 and 6, the holding member 1 has a rectangular shape with four rounded corners, and the holding member 1 has a semicircular cross section (that is, a semicylindrical shape). The towel drying shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 is different except that the ends of the hangers 2, 2, 2 and 2 are fixed to the curved surface and the mounting portions 5 and 5 are provided on the flat surface which is the back surface. It is a front view and a bottom view of a towel dryer similar to the container. Then, the towel dryer is fixed to the wall surface by the mounting portions 5 and 5, for example. FIG. 7 and FIG. 8 are front views of a towel dryer similar to the towel dryer shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 except that the linear parts of the four hangers 2, 2, 2, 2 are different from each other. Is.

In the towel dryer shown in FIG. 7, the angle between the long axis of the holding member 1 and the long axes of the hangers 2, 2, 2, 2 is not a right angle, and the non-fixed end of the hanger is Almost on the same straight line. The towel dryer shown in FIG.
The shape of the holding member 1 is an arc-shaped plate, and the non-fixed ends of the hangers 2, 2, 2, 2 are on substantially the same arc.

FIG. 9 and FIG. 10 are a front view and a perspective view of a towel dryer having only the straight portion 22 without the rising portion 21 of the hanger 2.

In FIG. 9, the towel dryer has a rectangular plate-shaped holding member 1 having a surface 11 on which the four hangers 2, 2, 2, 2 are substantially perpendicular to the surface 11. It is a fixed towel dryer.

The towel dryer shown in FIG. 10 has a holding member 1 in the shape of a rectangular quadrangular prism, has a large thickness, and has four hangers 2, 2 which are substantially perpendicular to a side surface 13.
2 and 2 are fixed towel dryers.

Towel dryers other than those shown in FIGS.
In both cases, the back surface 12 of the holding member 1 is fixedly installed on, for example, a wall surface.

[Advantages of the Invention] The present invention has high thermal efficiency, and thus can significantly reduce power consumption, has high safety, does not require high confidentiality, has a simple structure, and can be easily mounted and moved. A towel dryer can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

The drawings show a typical example of the towel dryer of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view, FIG. 2, FIG. 4, FIG. 5 and FIG.
9 is a front view, FIG. 3 and FIG. 6 are bottom views and 10
The figure is a perspective view. In the drawings, 1 ... Holding member, 11 ... Front surface, 12 ... Back surface, 13 ...
… Side surface 2 …… Hanger, 21 …… Standing part, 22 …… Straight part 3 …… Cylindrical electric heater 4 …… Lead wire 5 …… Mounting part

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A towel dryer characterized in that one end of a tubular hanger containing a tubular electric heater is fixed to a holding member.