JPH0638893U - Clothes dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] It is possible to easily develop and reduce each clothes-drying section and maintain the state thereof, and to hang laundry etc. on the developed clothes-drying section and efficiently dry it. [Structure] Inside the annular upper surface portion of the cylindrical base portion 102, a clockwise central angle of about 32 from the diameter of the clothes drying arm 104 on the axis.
The notch 112 is provided in the range of 10 degrees in the counterclockwise central angle. Approximately 1 at the central portion in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral wall of the notch 112
A protrusion with a central angle of 0 degrees is provided. On the inner peripheral portion of the annular lower surface of the cylindrical base portion 102, about 1 is centered on the diameter on the axis of the support arm 32.
Protrusions 116 having a central angle of 0 degrees are provided. The plurality of clothesline members 100 are continuously arranged on the fixed annular member 118, and the column 1
It is fitted in a state in which it can rotate with respect to 0. If the protrusion 116 fitted in the notch 112 is located at the position A, the upper and lower clothes hanging arms 1
04 are aligned on the same radius. When the protrusion 116 is located at the position B, the clothes drying arm 104 is rotated by a center angle of about 22.5 degrees clockwise relative to the clothes drying arm 104 below.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to a clothes dryer having a plurality of clothes dryers, which can be easily deployed and contracted.

[0002]

[Prior Art and Problems to be Solved]

 A large number of rod-shaped clothesline parts are arranged radially or in parallel on the same horizontal plane so that laundry can be hung on each clothesline to be dried, and those clothesline parts can be folded to make it compact. Conventionally, various types of clothes dryers configured so that they can be used are commercially available.

However, in the conventional clothes-drying machine of this type, the adjacent laundry hung on the clothes-drying part completely overlaps each other, and there is room for improvement in terms of drying efficiency.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems existing in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to easily expand and contract each clothesline and maintain its state. Another object of the present invention is to provide a clothes-dryer that can be dried and can be efficiently dried by hanging laundry on the clothes-drying section.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a clothes dryer according to the present invention is a clothes dryer having a plurality of clothes arranged vertically so as to be rotatable about a fixed rotation axis. One of the laundry sections is provided with a protrusion that projects toward the other laundry section, and the other laundry section is provided with a projection that can be overridden in the circumferential direction by elastic deformation. At the same time, the first abutment portion and the second abutment portion capable of holding the protrusions are provided between the protrusions on both sides in the circumferential direction of the protrusions. The clothesline is connected to the former so that the former can rotate in a certain direction between approximately 0 degrees and an arbitrary angle. Part relative to the clothesline at the bottom By rotating in the fixed direction, these continuous clothes-drying parts are spirally developed, and by rotating the clothes-drying part at the upper end in the opposite direction relative to the clothes-drying part at the lower end, those clothes-drying parts are rotated. Are arranged almost linearly.

[0006]

[Action]

 Each of the plurality of clothes liners arranged vertically can rotate around a constant rotation axis. The protrusion provided on one of the vertically adjacent arbitrary clothes hanging portions is held between one of the first contact portion and the second contact portion provided on the other clothes drying portion and the protrusion. In this state, the angle formed by the upper and lower clothes sections is almost 0 degree. From that state, by rotating one clothesline relative to the other clothesline in a fixed direction, the protrusions circumferentially surpass the protrusions due to elastic deformation, and the other contact part and the protrusions. It is possible to keep the projections between and and form a certain angle in a certain direction. Therefore, the angle formed by any clothesline and the adjacent clothesline below it is approximately 0 degrees, or the former takes an arbitrary angle in a certain direction with respect to the latter.

Therefore, when a clothesline is rotated in the predetermined direction, the angle between the clothesline adjacent to the clothesline is first expanded to a certain angle and the angle is maintained. When the rotation is continued thereafter, the angle between the clothesline on the lower side and the clothesline adjacent to the lower side of the clothesline expands to a certain angle while maintaining the angle. If the rotation is further continued, the angle between each clothesline and the adjacent clothesline below the clothesline gradually expands to the set angle. Therefore, by rotating the uppermost clothesline of the arbitrary number of clothesline continuously in the vertical direction relative to the lowermost clothesline, the continuous clothesline can be unfolded in a spiral shape. Therefore, it is possible to maintain it, and thereby, it is possible to hang clothes and the like on the clothes-drying parts which are displaced from each other in the circumferential direction and the up-down direction.

[0008] Further, when one of the clothesline parts that has been spirally developed as described above is rotated in the opposite direction to the above-mentioned clothesline part, the clothesline parts are successively adjacent to the clothesline parts and the lower part thereof. The angle to the clothesline is maintained at approximately 0 degrees. Therefore, by rotating the clothesline at the upper end, which is spirally expanded, in the opposite direction to the clothesline at the lower end, the clothesline is vertically aligned in a substantially straight line and maintained. can do.

[0009]

【Example】

 Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 9 relate to a clothes dryer according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a clothesline member in a deployed state, and FIGS. 2 to 8 relate to a clothesline member. is there. 2 is a plan view thereof, FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG. 2, FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line XIX-XIX of FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a front view thereof, FIG. 6 is a bottom view thereof, and FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a main part of line XXII-XXII in FIG. 2, and FIG. 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of line XXIII-XXIII in FIG. FIG. 9 is a plan view of the fixed annular member.

A lower connecting rod 12 is connected to the lower ends of a pair of columns 10 facing each other in parallel so as to be orthogonal to both columns 10. At the upper end of each column 10, a pair of overhanging arms 94 are rotatable about 90 degrees between the two sides overhanging state and the vertical standing state (not shown) as indicated by the arrow. Supported by the state. An upper connecting pipe 96 is installed between the opposing tip ends of the overhanging arms 94, and a hanger 98 is hung on each upper connecting pipe 96. A base frame F is configured by the support columns 10, the lower connecting rods 12, the protruding arms 94, and the upper connecting pipes 96.

A pair of leg members 16 are provided at the lower ends of the columns 10, respectively. Each leg member 16 is shown in a solid line when it is closed and folded along the lower connecting rod 12 as shown by a two-dot chain line by the ring-shaped leg member base 16a being externally fitted to the column 10. And a state in which the lower connecting rod 12 is expanded to form a T-shape orthogonally to the lower connecting rod 12, and is further rotated outward as indicated by a two-dot chain line to form a pair of leg members 16 and the lower connecting rod 12 Is configured to be rotatable about 100 degrees with respect to the Y-shaped state. In any state, the leg member 16 can be fixed by tightening the leg member base 16a with the lower end member 20 by the tightening member 18, and by releasing the tightening of the tightening member 18, the leg member 16 Can be unlocked. By fixing all the leg members 16 in the expanded state, the base frame F is erected and supported in a state where the support column 10 is vertical to the mounting surface. In particular, if the pair of leg members 16 and the lower connecting rod 12 are fixed so as to form a Y-shape, the fall can be effectively prevented not only in both sides but also in the front-back direction.

By fixing both ends of the supporting body 26 to the vertical middle position of both supporting columns 10, the supporting body 26 is installed so as to be orthogonal to both supporting columns 10. The bases of the eight cantilever arms 28 are supported at regular intervals in the axial direction of the support 26. The cantilever arm 28 has a horizontal state (solid line) extending to the left side in FIG. 1 so as to be orthogonal to the axis of the support body 26 around the base thereof, and a vertical standing state (2 It is provided so as to be rotatable between the dotted line).

Arm support members 30 are fixed to both columns 10 at upper stages of both ends of the support body 26. Each arm support member 30 has a holding portion 30a that rotatably holds the base portion of the support arm 32 on the right side of each column 10 in FIG. The base portion of the support arm 32 is rotatably held in the holding portion 30a, so that the support arm 32 is positioned between the horizontal state in which it extends to the right side in FIG. 1 and the vertical standing state along both columns 10. It can be rotated with. Between the support arms 32, four horizontal bars 36, which are substantially parallel to the support body 26, are supported in parallel at regular intervals in the axial direction of the support arms 32.

When the support arm 32 is horizontally extended as shown by the solid line in FIG. 1, the lower surface of the base portion of the support arm 32 is supported by the horizontal support portion 30b of the arm support member 30, and two points are shown in FIG. When the support arm 32 is in the vertical standing state as shown by the chain line, the upper surface of the base portion of the support arm 32 shown by the solid line in FIG. 1 is supported by the vertical support portion 30c of the arm support member 30.

Each cantilever arm 28 extends to the left side in FIG. 1 so as to be orthogonal to the axis of the support body 26 in the horizontally extended state, and each horizontal bar 36 supports when the support arm 32 is horizontally extended. The arms 32 are substantially parallel to the support 26 at regular intervals in the axial direction. Since each cantilever arm 28 and each horizontal bar 36 are orthogonal to each other, when an article to be dried such as laundry is hung on the cantilever arm 28 and the horizontal bar 36, the ventilation of the article to be dried is improved as a whole, and the drying efficiency is improved. Is good.

Since the support arm 32 and the horizontal bar 36 are located above the cantilever arm 28, the cantilever arm 28 has a relatively short length of material to be dried, such as an ordinary towel, in the extended state. On the other hand, the horizontal bar 36 can be dried by hanging a relatively long object to be dried, such as a bath towel, and the object to be dried hung on each of them can be better ventilated. Further, since the tip end side of the cantilever arm 28 is a free end, it is easier to attach / detach the material to be dried, and the horizontal bar 36 is relatively long because the both ends thereof are supported by the support arms 32. It is possible to more reliably support a relatively heavy object to be dried such as a thing.

A plurality of hangers 98 hung on the upper connection pipe 96 on the right side in FIG. 1 are hung by hanging an object to be dried up to the horizontal bar 36 supported by the supporting arm 32 in the extended state. be able to. Further, the hanger 98 hung on the upper connecting pipe 96 on the left side in FIG. 1 can be hung by hanging an object to be dried up to the length of the cantilever arm 28 in the extended state.

The clothes-drying member 100 mainly includes a cylindrical base portion 102 and a clothes-drying arm 104 that protrudes slightly outward in the radial direction from the side surface of the cylindrical base portion 102.

As shown in FIG. 8, the clothes-drying arm 104 is in the form of a bar having a substantially T-shaped cross section in which the upper plate 106 is curved in a convex shape. Slightly forward of the base end of the clothes-drying arm 104, a forward-facing tongue 108 is provided for elastically pinching and holding an object to be dried or the like between the clothes-drying arm 104 and the upper surface of the upper plate 106. At the tip of the clothes-drying arm 104, a tongue piece 110 facing backward is also provided for elastically pinching and holding an object to be dried or the like between the clothes-drying arm 104 and the upper surface of the upper plate 106.

Inside the annular upper surface of the cylindrical base 102, a central angle of about 32 degrees clockwise (in FIG. 17) and a central angle of about 10 degrees counterclockwise from a diameter that coincides with the axis of the support arm 32. A pair of cutouts 112 are provided over the range. A protrusion 114 having a central angle of about 10 degrees is provided at the central portion in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral wall of each notch portion 112. Further, on the inner peripheral portion of the annular lower surface of the cylindrical base portion 102, there is provided a protruding portion 116 having a center angle of about 10 degrees centered on a diameter coinciding with the axis of the clothes drying arm 104.

A fixed annular member 118 is externally fitted and fixed above the arm support member 30 of each column 10. Inside the upper surface of the fixed annular member 118, there are a pair of notches extending clockwise (when viewed from above) from two positions on the diameter corresponding to the straight line connecting the struts 10 and about 105 degrees. An arc portion 120 is provided. Then, at both ends in the circumferential direction of the outer peripheral wall of each notched arc portion 120, a protrusion 126 having a center angle of about 10 degrees is formed with a center angle of about 16 degrees between the side walls 122 and 124 (abutting portions).・ 128 is provided.

Eight identical clothes-drying members 100 are rotatably fitted onto the column 10 in a state of being vertically connected to the upper side of the fixed annular member 118. Each clothesline member 100 is in a state in which the protrusion 116 below the cylindrical base portion 102 is fitted into the notch 112 in the upper portion of the cylindrical base portion 102 of the clothesline member 100 below or the notch arc portion 120 of the fixed annular member 118. ing.

The position of the protrusion 116 fitted in the notch 112 is the position on either the left or right side of the protrusion of the notch 112. When the protrusion 116 is located at the position A (FIG. 3) that intersects the axis of the clothes drying arm 104, the clothes drying arms 104 of the upper and lower clothes drying members 100 are aligned on the same radius centered on the cylindrical base 102. When the protruding portion 116 is in the other position B (FIG. 3), the upper clothesline 104 is rotated clockwise relative to the lower clothesarm 104, as shown by the chain double-dashed line in FIG. It takes a position rotated by 22.5 degrees.

In addition, the position taken by the protruding portion 116 of the clothesline member 100 at the bottom in the state of being fitted in the notched arc portion 120 is both positions held between the protruding portion 116 and the side walls 122 and 124. Or the position between the both protrusions 126 and 128.

To align the whole clothes-drying member 100 in the contracted state as shown by the chain double-dashed line from the spiral expanded state shown by the solid line in FIG.

When the uppermost clothesline member 100u is rotated counterclockwise (when viewed from above) with respect to the lowermost clothesline member 100b, the protrusion 116 of any upper clothesline member 100 is placed below it. While pushing the protrusion of the clothesline member 100 counterclockwise, or the protrusion 116 passes over the protrusion 114 and pushes the side wall 130 in the notch 112 counterclockwise, all the clothesline members 100 are pushed from above. Rotate counterclockwise in order. The lowermost clothesline member 100b starts to rotate 90 degrees when the protrusion 116 gets over the protrusion 128, and when the protrusion 116 gets over the other protrusion 126, the clothesline 104 is shown by a two-dot chain line. In the state where the position shown is reached, the protrusion 116 abuts on the other side wall 122 of the notched arc portion 120, and the clothesline member 100 at the bottom stops further rotation, and is between the protrusion 126 and the side wall 122. Held in.

If the protrusion 116 rides over the lower protrusion 114, the clothesline member 100 above it is aligned without further rotation, and the protrusion 116 is located at the position A in each notch 112. Once in position, its alignment is maintained. If the protrusion 116 does not ride over the protrusion 114 of the lower clothesline member 100, the protrusions 116 of the lower clothesline member 100 sequentially pass over the protrusion 114, and finally all the clothesline members 100 are substantially the same. Align on a radius (approximately linearly).

Conversely, when the uppermost clothesline member 100u is rotated clockwise with respect to the lowermost clothesline member 100b from the aligned state shown by the two-dot chain line in FIG. 1, each clothesline member other than the lowermost clothesline member 100u is rotated. Each of the protrusions 116 of the 100 gets over the protrusion 114 and pushes the side wall 132, and the clothes-drying arm 104 rotates clockwise about 22.5 degrees with respect to the clothes-drying arm 104 of the clothes-drying member 100 adjacent to the lower side thereof. It unfolds spirally in a moving state. Then, in the state where the protrusion 116 is located at the position B of each notch 112, its spiral expansion is maintained.

The protrusion 116 of the lowermost clothesline member 100b is rotated 90 degrees to get over both protrusions 126 and 128 of the notched arc portion 120, and is projected to the right side of the column 10 in FIG. It is held between the protrusion 128 and the side wall 124.

When the clothes-drying arms 104 are in the unfolded state, it is possible to hang laundry or the like on the clothes-drying arms 104 that are displaced from each other in the circumferential direction and the up-down direction and efficiently dry them.

When not in use, the clothes drying arms 104 are aligned, the cantilever arms 28 and the support arms 32 are vertically erected, and all the leg members 16 are closed and fixed in a folded state, thereby making the whole thin. It can be made compact and ready for storage.

In this example, the clothes-drying member is shown as a clothes-dryer that is combined with a cantilever arm, a horizontal bar, or the like. For example, a plurality of clothes-drying members are spirally deployed on a single column supported by legs. It is also possible to make a clothes-dryer that is fitted on the outside in an alignable state.

[0033]

[Effect of device]

 In the clothes dryer of the present invention, among the arbitrary number of clothes sewn vertically, the clothes hang at the upper end is rotated in a fixed direction relative to the clothes hang at the lower end to easily expand them in a spiral shape. Therefore, it can be maintained, and clothes can be efficiently hung by hanging laundry on those clotheslines that are offset from each other in the circumferential and vertical directions. Then, by rotating the clothesline at the upper end, which has been developed in a spiral shape, in the direction opposite to that of the clothesline at the lower end, the clothesline is vertically and substantially linearly aligned to easily and compactly. You can shrink and keep it.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a clothes dryer.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a clothesline member.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG.

4 is a sectional view taken along line XIX-XIX in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a front view of the clothesline member.

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of the clothesline member.

FIG. 7 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a main part taken along line XXII-XXII in FIG.

8 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line XXIII-XXIII in FIG.

FIG. 9 is a plan view of a fixed annular member.

[Explanation of sign]

 10 Struts 32 Supporting Arms 100 Clothes Drying Members 102 Cylindrical Bases 102 Cylindrical Bases 104 Clothes Drying Arms 112 Notches 116 Protrusions 118 Fixed Annular Members

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A clothes-drying machine having a plurality of clothes-drying parts arranged vertically so as to be rotatable about a fixed rotation axis, wherein one of the clothes-drying parts vertically adjacent to each other and the other Is provided with a protrusion projecting toward the clothesline, and the other clothesline is provided with a protrusion capable of overcoming the protrusion in the circumferential direction by elastic deformation, and on both sides in the circumferential direction of the protrusion. By providing the first contact portion and the second contact portion capable of holding the protrusion between the protrusion and the protrusion,
An arbitrary clothes section and an adjacent clothes section below the clothes section are linked so that the former can rotate in a fixed direction with respect to the latter between approximately 0 degrees and an arbitrary angle, and any clothes that are vertically continuous. By rotating the upper laundry section of the number of laundry sections in the predetermined direction relative to the lower laundry section, the continuous laundry sections are spirally developed, and the upper laundry section is A clothes dryer, characterized in that the clothes parts are aligned in a substantially straight line by rotating the clothes parts at the lower end relatively in the opposite direction.