JPH11179096A - Clothing dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the depth arrangement space by half and to make a dryer settable even in a narrow place by constituting the door of a thrown-in port where an object to be dried is thrown-in to a containing chamber so as to have a slide structure where the door is slid to the right and left and the thrown-in port is opened/closed. SOLUTION: The inside of a drum 4 provided in an outer frame 1 is adopted as a drying chamber where the object to be dried such as clothing, etc., is thrown-in from a clothing throw-in port 3 provided with the door 2 which is constituted so as to be slid in the vertical direction, for example, and to be opening/closing possible. When the door 2 is made to be the sliding type one, the depth arrangement space in the dryer is reduced by half. Driving power is transmitted from a motor-driven machine 10 arranged in a rear part with a drum belt 9 in the drum 4 so as to be rotated and driven. A blow fan 6 is also rotated and driven with a fan belt 14. Then, air taken-in from the intake port 12a of an intake duct 12 is heated by a heater 7, generated hot blow is guided to the drum 4 by the blow fan 6 and, then, the object to be dried is dried.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drum-type clothes dryer, and more particularly to a main body structure for minimizing a space for installing clothes.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a clothes dryer has a front open type as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 in which a clothes inlet is provided on a front surface, and a door of the clothes inlet is a rigid body and is pulled forward. Open. In the case of a dry capacity of 5 kg, the outer frame has a depth of 500 mm and the inlet is φ350 mm. Therefore, a total of 950 mm or more of the outer frame depth and the door width is required as a dryer depth installation space. Therefore, it cannot be installed in a narrow place, and it is not only difficult to install the clothes dryer because it is limited to the longitudinal installation in a slender place, etc. There are many cases.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a clothes dryer which can be installed in a narrow place where there is not enough space as much as possible without any restrictions on installation in order to solve the above-mentioned problems. Is to provide.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a door constructed of a single rigid body is provided with a hinge on one of the right and left sides and used as a fulcrum, and the other side is opened by pulling the other side forward. This is achieved by providing a sliding door that slides left and right or up and down in a groove to open and close.

That is, the conventional clothes dryer requires a further door width space in the depth of the dryer due to the door being opened by pulling forward. However, according to the present invention, the door slides left and right or up and down. In addition, it is not necessary to consider the door for the depth installation.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a clothes dryer main body according to an embodiment of the present invention. The drum 4 provided in the outer frame 1 has a function of a clothes drying room, and clothes are fed through a clothes inlet 3 from a door 2 which is slidably opened and closed. Here, the door 2 which opens and closes in the vertical direction is shown, but the same effect can be obtained by opening and closing in the horizontal direction. The front side of the drum 4 is supported by a drum support 5 provided on the front inner surface of the outer frame 1, and the rear side is rotatably supported by a fan casing 8 having a function of holding a blower fan 6.

Power is transmitted to the drum 4 via a drum belt 9 from a motor 10 disposed on the lower left rear side as viewed from the front door 2 side, and is driven to rotate. Similarly, power is transmitted from the electric motor 10 via the fan belt 14 to the blower fan 6 to rotate the blower fan 6.

An air passage for drying the object to be dried takes in air from a lower surface of the outer frame 1 through an air inlet 12a of an air inlet duct 12 and generates heat generated by a heater 7 arranged on a front surface of the drum 4. The air is blown to the drum 4 by the blower fan 6 as hot air, and the clothes to be dried are heated to evaporate moisture. Here, the moisture evaporated from the clothes passes through the lint collecting device 11 together with the blowing of the arrow, and flows into the fan casing 8 through the drum exhaust port 4 a on the rear wall of the drum 4.
The inflowing air is exhausted from an exhaust port 8a of the fan casing 8.

The above-described electric motor 10 and heater 7
Is driven and controlled by a controller 16 composed of a microcomputer, and operation is controlled by an operation control unit 17.

[0011]

According to the invention described above, it is possible to provide a clothes dryer in which the depth installation space can be reduced by half compared to the conventional one-piece front opening door and can be installed even in a narrow place.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a clothes dryer according to one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a top view showing a conventional veranda installation in the longitudinal direction.

FIG. 5 is a top view showing a conventional veranda installed in the lateral direction.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Outer frame, 1a ... Outer frame cover, 2 ... Door, 2a ... Door guide, 3 ... Clothing inlet, 4 ... Drum.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Hideaki Munegata 1-1-1, Higashitaga-cho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki Pref.

Claims (2)

[Claims] In a clothes dryer provided with a storage room in which clothes are stored, a heater for supplying warm air to the storage room, and a blower fan, doors for inputting a material to be dried into the storage room are moved right and left. A clothes dryer characterized by a sliding door that slides open and close. 2. The clothes dryer according to claim 1, wherein a door of an input port for inputting an object to be dried into a storage chamber is a sliding door that is opened and closed by sliding up and down.