JPH10309399A - Clothing drying machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent clothing from being twisted in a clothing drying machine equipped with a drying rack inside a door. SOLUTION: The inside of door 2 for opening/closing a clothing inserting port 20 is formed into the projecting plane, a drying rack 21 protruded into a drum 3 is provided so as to be housed in the inner surface or the drying rack 21 protruded into the drum 3 in the case of use is provided so as to be protruded in the shape of the projecting plane at the time of housing into the inner surface of the door and when not using the drying rack 21, clothing is prevented from being twisted or entangled but when using the drying rack, clothing or the like is dried while placing objects to be dried on the drying rack 21.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a clothes dryer,
In particular, the present invention relates to a clothes dryer for drying clothes by supplying warm air into the rotating drum while rotating the rotating drum containing clothes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Clothes dryers that dry warm clothing by supplying warm air into the rotating drum while rotating the rotating drum containing the clothing, the clothing rolls or falls on the rotating drum during drying. And will be stirred.

In such clothes dryers, there are not only clothes dryers that roll and dry clothes, but also clothes that are desirably dried quietly. Therefore, a drying shelf is provided inside the door, the door is closed with clothes placed on the drying shelf, and the drying shelf is protruded into the rotating drum with the clothes etc. placed thereon and dried. It has been known. When not in use, the drying shelf is mounted so as to be folded down along the inside of the door and stored, or when used, for example, hooked on a hook and removed after use.

[0004]

Incidentally, in such a clothes dryer, the inside of a door for installing a drying shelf is formed flat, and an annular clothes inlet opened and closed by the door is a rotary drum. This forms a stationary clothing input space connected to the opening side of the rotary drying chamber formed therein. Then, when a part of the garment rolling by the rotating drum enters the garment charging space formed in this way, a force acting to stop the garment part that has entered acts,
The clothes are twisted or entangled by the torsional force. Also, when removing dried clothes after drying, small items such as socks and underwear on the front side of the drying room are difficult to see from the outside, so it is easy to forget to remove them, and if you store the drying shelf inside the door, Since the folded drying shelf protrudes from the inside of the door, it is also conceivable that clothes and the like in the drying room become more difficult to see.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a clothes dryer having a drying shelf inside a door and capable of preventing twisting and entanglement of clothes.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a clothes dryer in which a relatively large drying shelf can be compactly stored inside a door.

[0007] It is still another object of the present invention to provide a clothes dryer in which the state of the inside of a drying room can be surely recognized even in a clothes dryer provided with a drying shelf.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, a drying shelf is provided inside a door for opening and closing a clothes input port, and the drying shelf protrudes into a clothes input space formed inside the door so as to be inserted into the space. A convex-shaped protrusion is formed inside the door so as to prevent invasion of clothing, and the drying shelf can be stored along the inner surface.

In this case, instead of making the inside of the door protrude into the clothes input space, the drying shelf is formed in a shape that protrudes in a convex shape when the drying shelf is stored in the inner surface of the door. It can also be configured to prevent entanglement and twisting of clothing.

When the inner surface of the door is formed in a convex shape, it is preferable to provide a reflective surface on the convex portion of the projecting portion so that the inside of the drying chamber can be visually recognized.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional side view showing an embodiment of a clothes dryer according to the present invention.

The outer frame 1 has therein a rotary drum 3 forming a rotary drying chamber for accommodating clothes to be dried. The rotating drum 3 has a motor base 4-
The front side of the outer frame body 1 is rotated so as to be driven and rotated via a drum driving pulley 4-2 by a motor 4 attached via the first and a drum belt 15 tensioned by a tension applying pulley 13. A drum bearing is supported on a drum shaft 9-1 which is rotatably supported by a drum support 17 attached to the frame front plate 1-1 and whose rear side is fixed to a drum / fan support plate 9 attached behind the outer frame 1. It is rotatably supported and installed via 3-1.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a door which opens and closes when clothes are taken in and out of the rotary drum 3. The door 2 is supported by the outer frame front plate 1-1 and is closed by the outer frame front plate 1-1 when closed. It is installed in such a manner that it comes into contact with the outer end of the attached annular clothing inlet 20 and keeps it airtight. The inner end of the clothes inlet 20 forms a clothes inlet space 20-1 that communicates with the opening side of the rotary drying chamber formed in the rotary drum 3. The inner cover 2-1 of the door 2 allows the clothes stirred in the rotary drying chamber to enter the clothes input space 20-1 formed in the clothes input port 20. Is formed in a convex shape protruding in a conical shape in the clothing input space 20-1 so as to prevent the garment from entering.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, both ends of the horizontal frame 21-1 on the near side are covered with the inner cover 2 of the door 2 so that the drying shelf 21 can be raised and protruded.
-1 so that the inner cover 2-1 is swollen along the convex surface of the inner cover 2-1 when retracted and stored. When the drying shelf 21 is raised and protruded, the vertical frames 21-2 and 21-3 are supported by the support links 21-4 and 21-5 so as to be hung on the inner cover 2-1 to be horizontal. Hold. In addition, both vertical frames 21-2 and 21-3 of the drying shelf 21 are telescopically configured to be expandable and contractable, and when used, are stretched as shown in FIG. At the time of use, it is shrunk as shown in FIG. 3 so that it can be stored compactly. When the drying shelf 21 is stored, the inner cover 2-
In order to make the drying shelf 21 bulge along the line 1, the drying shelf 21 may be configured to be bent or may be formed in a bulging shape in advance. Furthermore, if the drying shelf 21 is configured to have the function of the convex surface of the inner cover 2-1 alone in the housed state, the inner cover 2-1 can be formed flat. In addition, when the drying shelf 21 is folded and stored on the convex surface of the inner cover 2-1 and a groove into which each part of the drying shelf 21 fits is formed, the drying shelf 21 is placed on the inner surface of the inner cover 2-1 during storage. Therefore, the unevenness of the surface of the inner cover 2-1 is suppressed, and the rolling state of the garment can be favorably maintained.

A fan casing 8 and a fan 6 housed in the fan casing 8 are installed behind the drum exhaust port 3-2 of the rotary drum 3. The fan casing 8 is fixed to the drum / fan support plate 9, and the fan 6 is rotatably supported on a fan shaft 9-2 fixed to the drum / fan support plate 9. The fan 6 is driven and rotated by the motor 4 via a fan driving pulley (not shown) attached to the motor 4 and a fan belt 10.
Here, the fan 6 divides the fan casing 8 in cooperation with the partition plate 7 to form a circulation side flow path A and a cooling side flow path B on the front and back surfaces thereof. In the cooling-side flow path B, intake / exhaust of outside air is performed through a back plate intake port 14-1 and a back plate exhaust port 14-2 provided on a back plate 14 covering the rear surface of the outer frame 1. To form a so-called heat exchanger of the front and back two-sided type.

5 is a heating element for supplying warm air,
Drum intake port 1 located below the drum support 17
Install immediately before 7-1. Reference numeral 16 denotes a lint collecting device that collects dust such as lint generated from clothes in the rotating drum 3, and includes a dust collecting filter 16-1 and a nonwoven fabric filter 16-2. It is detachably attached to the filter support base 19 having the collection net 19-1 installed immediately before the port 3-2.

The casing discharge port 8 of the fan casing 8
-1 and the drum intake 17-1
-1 are connected while maintaining airtightness by a circulation duct 11 provided with -1 and a circulation duct front portion 12. Thus, the air in the rotating drum 3 is changed from the rotating drum 3 to the lint collecting device 16 to the drum exhaust port 3-2 to the fan casing 8 (circulation side flow path A).
→ Case discharge port 8-1 → circulation duct 11 → circulation duct front part 12 → heating element 5 → drum intake port 17-1 (hot air outlet) → circulate through circulation air path of rotary drum 3.

Reference numeral 18 denotes a control device for controlling the operation of the motor 4 and the heating element 5 and the like, which is mounted on the outer frame front plate 1-1 via a panel 18-1.

The part of the partition plate 7 will be described in detail.
A so-called labyrinth seal in which the ribs having a comb-shaped cross-section integrally provided on the outer periphery of the fan 6 and the ribs having the same cross-section provided on the partition plate 7 are engaged and depressed in a non-contact state with each other. Is configured.

In the clothes dryer according to one embodiment of the present invention, the motor 4 and the heating element 5 are energized and the rotation of the motor 4 is started. Are rotated, the heating element 5 generates heat and hot air is supplied into the rotating drum 3, and the clothes stored in the rotating drum 3 are dried while stirring.

The moisture evaporated from the clothes passes through the lint collecting device 16 together with the circulating wind, and flows into the circulation side flow path A of the fan casing 8 through the drum exhaust port 3-2. Then, outside air flows into the cooling-side flow path B of the fan casing 8 from the back plate intake port 14-1 of the back plate 14, and the back plate exhaust port 14-1.
Exhausted from 2 The outer peripheral portion of the fan 6 is partitioned by the labyrinth seal portion with the partition plate 7 without circulating air and cooling air flowing in and out. Heat is exchanged with the cooling-side flow path B, and the moisture contained in the circulating air is condensed to become water, which flows down from the casing discharge port 8-1 of the fan casing 8 to the circulation duct 11, and is discharged.
-1 is discharged outside the machine. Thus, the drying operation of the clothes dryer is continued.

A part of the clothes agitated in the rotating drum 3 during the drying operation tries to enter the clothes input space 20-1 formed in the clothes input port 20, but this clothes input space 20- 1, the inside cover 2-1 of the door 2 and the drying shelf 21 protrude, so that entry of clothing is prevented, and twisting and entanglement of clothing can be prevented.

When the clothes which are easily damaged or shrunk are gently dried, the drying shelf 21 is raised with the door 2 opened to protrude in a horizontal state, and clothes, shoes and the like are placed on the drying shelf 21. By closing door 2
The drying shelf 21 penetrates through the clothes inlet 20 and protrudes into the rotating drum 2 in a stationary state. By performing the drying operation in this state, the clothes and the like can be placed on the drying shelf 21 and dried in a stationary state.

[0025]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the inside of the door is formed in a convex shape so as to be allowed to advance into the clothes input space and to be able to protrude into the drum. Since the drying shelf is provided so as to be able to be stored along the convex surface of the door, it is possible to prevent clothing from entering the clothing input space, thereby suppressing twisting and entanglement of the clothing when the drying shelf is not used. When the drying shelf is used, it can be projected from the inside of the door to function as a normal drying shelf.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, a drying shelf which protrudes into the garment charging space at the time of storage and which protrudes into the drum at the time of use and is capable of mounting a material to be dried is provided at the door. Since it is provided on the inner surface, when the drying shelf is not used, it is possible to prevent the clothing from entering the clothing input space with this drying shelf, thereby suppressing twisting and entanglement of the clothing, and when using the drying shelf. It can function as a normal drying shelf by protruding from the inside of the door.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the drying shelf is configured to be expandable and contractable, the drying shelf can be extended and used so as to protrude largely into the drying chamber when used, and the usability is improved.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, since the drying rack is stored along the inside of the door in a contracted state, the drying rack can be stored compactly even in a small space such as the inside of the door. .

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, since the concave portion for storing the drying shelf is formed in the convex portion of the door, the unevenness of the inner surface of the door is suppressed when the drying shelf is stored, so that the clothes can be smooth. In this way, the garment moves along the inner surface of the door so that the garment can be rolled efficiently when the garment dries.

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, when the door is opened, the reflection surface on which the inside of the drum can be visually recognized by reflection is provided on the inner surface of the door. Is provided, it is possible to see the state of the object to be dried in the drum, whereby the possibility of leaving clothes in the drum after drying can be minimized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional side view showing an embodiment of a clothes dryer according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view illustrating a state where a drying shelf is raised and extended in the clothes dryer according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a state in which the drying rack is raised in a contracted state in the clothes dryer according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Outer frame body 2 Door 2-1 Inner cover 3 Rotary drum 20 Clothing inlet 20-1 Clothing loading space 21 Drying shelf 21-1 Horizontal frame 21-2,3 Vertical frame 21-4,5 Support link

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A rotatable drum, and a clothes input port forming a clothes input space communicating with an opening of the drum from a door side, supplying warm air to the rotating drum and inputting the hot air into a space inside the drum. In the clothes dryer for drying the garment, the inside of the door is formed into a convex shape and is advanced into the garment charging space, and a drying shelf protrudable into the drum is provided along the convex surface of the door. A clothes dryer provided so as to be stowable. 2. A rotatable drum, and a clothes input port forming a clothes input space communicating with an opening of the drum from a door side, supplying warm air to the rotating drum and inputting the hot air into a space inside the drum. A clothes dryer that dries the garment that has been put into the garment charging space at the time of storage, and a drying shelf that can protrude into the drum and place a material to be dried on the inner surface of the door during use. A clothes dryer characterized by being provided in a clothes dryer. 3. The clothes dryer according to claim 1, wherein the drying shelf is configured to be extendable and contractible. 4. The clothes dryer according to claim 3, wherein the drying shelf is stored along the inside of the door in a contracted state. 5. The door according to claim 1, wherein a concave portion for accommodating the drying shelf is formed in the convex shape portion of the door.
The clothes dryer as described. 6. The door according to claim 1, wherein when the door is opened, a reflection surface is provided on the inner surface of the door so that a state in the drum can be visually recognized by reflection.
A clothes dryer according to claim 1.