JPH1142400A - Tunnel finisher - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To finish clothing beautifully without creases by blowing the steam of high humidity for finishing the drying of clothing due to a tunnel finisher. SOLUTION: The tunnel finisher is partitioned into a steam chamber 2 and a hot air chamber 3, supplied steam is sent through a 1st solenoid valve 11 to a heater 12, the wet steam, which drops a temperature there and increase humidity, is sent to a steam separator 13 and blown out of a steam blowing pipe 16 through a pressure reduction valve 14 and a 2nd solenoid valve 15, its outer periphery is surrounded with a resistor 20, bedewing is generated in the resistor by the blown steam, afterwards, steam wet with steam is prepared and that wet steam is blown over the clothing passing inside the steam chamber 2 so that the clothing can be finished beautifully by removing creases with the steam of high humidity.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION A tunnel finisher is provided by connecting a steam chamber and a hot air chamber in series, attaching hanger hooks at predetermined intervals to a chain conveyor provided in the upper part of both chambers, and suspending the hanger hook. Clothes are put on the hanger and passed through a steam chamber and a hot air chamber, and the clothes are dried and finished with steam and hot air.

Such a tunnel finisher is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.
No. 127593, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 1-131499,
Various types are proposed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 2-82295 and the like. The tunnel finisher according to each publication is the same in the basic configuration. For example, in the first publication, an opening / closing door is provided at the entrance of the steam chamber by dividing the opening and closing into a plurality of upper and lower sheets and a plurality of doors corresponding to the divided doors. A suitable amount of steam is provided by opening and closing the door according to the size of the garment and blowing out the steam from the nozzle by connecting the nozzle corresponding to each door and operating the nozzle corresponding to each door It is trying to make it.

[0003]

By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional tunnel finisher, as shown in FIG.
The supplied steam passes through a first solenoid valve 11 through a supply path branched in the middle of the supply path, and a heater 12 (heat exchanger) for heating the hot air chamber 3 and a steam for blowing steam from the steam chamber 2. The water is branched and sent to a separator 13, and the steam from the separator 13 is sent to a steam blow-out pipe 16 via a pressure reducing valve 14 and an electromagnetic valve 15. The solenoid valve 1
Although 1 is shown in the hot air chamber 3, it may be provided in the steam chamber 2.

[0004] However, depending on the type of boiler and the installation location, dry steam may be sent depending on the type of boiler and installation location, depending on the cleaning factory where the tunnel finisher is installed. For this reason, the steam blown out from the steam blow-out pipe will be the dry steam blown out as it is, and therefore the dry steam with little moisture is directly blown to the steam blown to the clothes, so that the wrinkles of the clothes do not grow much. There are inconveniences.

In view of the above-mentioned problems of the conventional tunnel finisher, the present invention adds a simple component to the conventional apparatus to create a wet steam and blow it to the garment to sufficiently reduce the wrinkles of the garment. It is an object to provide a finisher.

Further, in addition to the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a tunnel finisher capable of producing steam having a higher degree of wetness by spraying the garment by devising the piping path to more effectively and sufficiently expand the wrinkles of the garment. Is another issue.

[0007]

According to the present invention, as a means for solving the above-mentioned problems, a hanger is provided on a chain conveyor provided with a steam chamber and a hot air chamber connected in series, and provided at an upper portion of each chamber. In a tunnel finisher in which a hanger is attached at a predetermined interval and a hanger is hung on the hanger hanger, clothes are put on the hanger, and the clothes pass through each room and are dried and finished, steam supplied is supplied through a pipe line. The steam finisher is sent to a steam blower tube in a steam chamber and blown out, and a resistor is put on the outer periphery of the steam blower tube, and the steam passing through the resistor is blown to clothing, thereby providing a tunnel finisher. It is.

According to the tunnel finisher of the present invention having such a configuration, a beautiful finish is performed by effectively removing wrinkles of clothing as described below. As the steam to be supplied to the tunnel finisher, for example, when it is very close to the steam discharge part of the boiler due to the equipment in the cleaning plant to be installed, hot dry steam may be directly supplied to the tunnel finisher.

In such a case, since the steam is dry steam, even if the steam is blown out from the steam blow-out pipe and applied to the clothes, the wetness is small and the wrinkles of the clothes cannot be stretched. When the steam is blown out from the steam blow-out pipe, the steam hits a resistor surrounding the steam and condenses there, so that the subsequent steam is humid and is blown out from the resistor.

For this reason, in the tunnel finisher of the present invention, since the humid steam is contained in the clothes, wrinkles are naturally removed, and a beautiful finish is obtained.

In the above invention, the piping system for supplying steam is assumed to be a conventional one. However, the steam supplied to the piping system is sent to the heater of the hot air chamber through a piping line, where it is cooled and the humidity increases. A steam path may be provided so that steam is blown out from a steam blowing pipe of a steam chamber. As described above, according to the piping system and the action of the resistor, the wetness is further increased, and the wrinkles are sufficiently extended by the humid steam.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 are schematic diagrams of a configuration of a tunnel finisher according to the embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the inside of the finisher main body 1 is divided into a steam chamber 2 and a hot air chamber 3. An endless chain conveyor 4 is provided at the upper part of the main body 1 and passes around the outside of the main body 1 through the upper part in each of the chambers 2 and 3.

The chain conveyor 4 is horizontally extended by a sprocket 5 disposed around the main body 1 and is rotated by a motor 6 connected to the sprocket 5. Also, chain conveyor 4
Are provided with a plurality of hanger hooks 7 at predetermined intervals in the length direction, and the intervals are set such that at least one or more hanger hooks 7 are located in each of the steam chamber 2 and the hot air chamber 3. The clothes X suspended from the hanger rack 7 via the hanger 8 move in the center of each of the rooms 2 and 3 by the chain conveyor 4.

As will be described later, the steam chamber 2 is provided with a plurality of U-shaped steam outlet pipes along both sides of the inside thereof, and this steam outlet pipe is provided in FIG. Steam is supplied by the piping system shown. That is, the steam supply port 1
The steam sent from 0 is mainly sent to the heater 12 (heat exchanger) via the first solenoid valve 11.

[0015] A heating pipe is actually provided alongside the steam blowing pipe, and a resistor 20 surrounding the steam blowing pipe and the heating pipe is provided on the outer periphery. The heating tube does not necessarily have to be surrounded by the resistor. The resistor 20 is made of, for example, felt as a material. The resistor 20 temporarily receives the steam blown out from the steam blow-out tube, and passes through the steam to be sprayed on the clothing.

On the other hand, the steam that has passed through the heater 12 is fed from the end of a heating pipe system for heating pipes (copper pipes) for heating necessary portions of the steam pipe system, rails, the bottom of the steam chamber 2 and the like. Combined with the sent steam, steam separator 1
Sent to 3. Then, the drain is separated therefrom and sent to the steam blowing pipe 16 through the pressure reducing valve 14 and the second solenoid valve 15. The steam outlet pipe 16 has a number of steam outlets 1.
6a is provided, and steam is blown out from the steam outlet 16a. The end of the steam discharge pipe 16 is an end 16x
Is closed by. P _G is a pressure gauge.

The above is the main steam piping system. As shown in the drawing, the piping from the steam supply port 10 to the first solenoid valve 11 is branched on the way, and the third solenoid valve 17 provided on the branch pipe is provided.
There is also provided a line that connects to the steam separator 13 via.

[0018] In the tunnel finisher of the embodiment having a piping system in which a resistor is attached to the steam blow-out pipe as described above and steam is supplied to the resistor, clothes are finished as follows.

As described above, since the steam blow-out tube is surrounded by the resistor, the steam discharged from the steam blow-out tube is condensed inside the resistor, even if it is dry steam (moisture adheres inside the felt). ). After that, the steam coming out of the steam blow-off pipe becomes cooled and wet when passing through the inside of the resistor, so that when the clothes pass, the wet steam is applied to the clothes and is extended.

In the above-described processing of the steam by the resistor 20, whether the steam supplied to the steam blow-out pipe 16 is dry steam or wet steam, the steam flows out of the resistor by the cooling action of the dew condensation water. When the resistor 20 is provided, whatever the piping system that supplies steam to the steam blow-out pipe performs steam processing, the wet steam can act on the clothing. .

However, according to the piping system described above, the resistor 2
Since not only the action by 0 but also the processing action in the middle of the piping system is different from the conventional one, the steam having a high degree of wetness is more efficiently blown out to act on the clothes. That is, the steam supplied from the steam supply port 10 is first sent to the heater 12 via the first solenoid valve 11. At this time, generally, the third solenoid valve 17 is closed. Even if the steam sent to the heater 12 is a high-temperature dry steam, heat exchange is performed by heating and drying the clothing passing through the heating chamber 3 there, and the temperature drops to become a humid steam.

This wet steam is sent to the steam separator 13,
The drain component contained in the wet steam is removed and the pressure reducing valve 14,
The air is sent to the steam blow-out pipe 16 through the second solenoid valve 15 and blown out from the outlet 16a to the clothes. Because of the high humidity of the steam, the wrinkles of the clothes grow well and a beautiful finish can be obtained. The garment blown with steam containing a large amount of moisture is sent to the heating chamber 3 in a state where the wrinkles are completely extended, where it is dried by the heater 12 and taken out.

The heating temperature of the steam sent to the heater 12 is checked by a temperature sensor (not shown). For example, when the temperature of the heater exceeds 105 ° C., the supply of steam is performed by the first solenoid valve. It is set so as to shut off and pass steam at 105 ° C. or lower.

Although the third solenoid valve 17 is unnecessary in principle, when the steam is blown out from the steam blow-out pipe 16, the steam pressure in the heater 12 decreases, and the heater 1
2, the heat temperature becomes lower. For this reason, in order to prevent the steam pressure from the heater 12 from lowering, when the pressure becomes equal to or lower than a certain pressure (for example, 1 atm), the third solenoid valve 17 is opened, and the steam from the steam supply port 10 can be passed directly to the steam separator 13. It is provided for the purpose.

Further, the second solenoid valve 15 is used to
In order to supply steam only when passing through, a valve (not shown) for detecting passage of clothing is provided so as to be opened by a signal. This prevents the steam from being wasted.

FIG. 4 is a detailed view of the tunnel finisher according to the above-described embodiment. FIG. 4 is a front view of the entire configuration of the tunnel finisher. FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of a main part (left half), FIG. 6 is a side view, and FIG. The detailed diagram will be described focusing on a steam piping system as one example. Vapor entering from the steam supply ports 10 provided above the steam chamber 2 is fed to the first solenoid valve 11 via a T-tube T _1, subsequently split into two another T-shaped pipe T ₂ You.

The two branched pipes L ₁ and L ₂ are connected to two heaters 12 a and 12 b, and their discharge pipes L ₃ and L ₄ are connected via T-shaped pipes T ₃ and T _4. L ₅ , L
₆ guide the steam to, these conduits are connected to a steam separator 13 through a T-tube T _5. As shown in the figure, the hot air chamber 3 is separated into a first hot air chamber 3a and a second hot air chamber 3b, the first hot air chamber 3a has two blowers Fa, and the second hot air chamber 3b has one blower. Fb.

[0028] sent to the steam separator 13 vapor, where the conduit L ₇ are connected to separate drain above the separator 13 and into the pressure reducing valve 14, which is further connected via an elbow E ₁ reaches the second electromagnetic valve 15 is branched therefrom into two conduit L ₈ are as T-tube T _6, one of which to one of the two pressure gauges P _G, the other of another through the conduit L ₉ T Pipe T
Is branched into two at ₇ (see also FIG. 7). The pressure of the steam separator 13 is changed to another pressure section P _G via a conduit Lp.
As shown.

[0029] are respectively connected branched conduit into two by the T ₇ is branched into two further respectively to the upper end of the steam outlet pipe 16. As shown in FIG. 7, the steam blow-out pipe 16 includes a plurality of pairs (two in the illustrated example) of a pair of vertical blow-out pipes that are opposed to each other across a path through which the clothes X covered by the hanger passes.
Pair) provided. Heating pipes L ₁₁ and L ′ ₁₁ described later are provided along the steam blowing pipe 16.

Further, as described above, the steam blowing pipe 16 is connected to the resistor 20 together with the heating pipes L ₁₁ and L ₁₁ ′ described later.
The outline is shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, and the cross-sectional shape is shown in FIG. 8 as a cross-sectional view taken along the line VIII-VIII in FIG.

In this sectional view, in order to clearly show a state in which the steam blow-out pipe 16 and the heating pipes L ₁₁ and L ₁₁ ′ are surrounded by the resistor 20, other peripheral components are largely omitted from illustration. I have.

A steam trap 17a and a check valve 17b are connected to a lower portion of the above-mentioned steam separator 13, and a lower end thereof is connected to a plug 18 so that the accumulated drain is discharged through the plug 18. I have to.

By the way, it is necessary to keep the temperature of each of the above-mentioned conduits, the chain conveyor, and the bottom of the steam chamber high, and therefore, a heating line for heating each part is provided. This heating line is located below the T-tube T ₁ near the steam supply port 10.
Reaches the shaped tube T ₁₀ conduit L ₁₀ and into the vertical heat pipe L _11,
The heat pipe L ₁₁ is connected from one side opposite to the heating pipe L _'11.

Furthermore, the upper end of the heat pipe L _'11 is connected to the heating line L ₁₂ for heating the chain conveyor, Fig. 7
Heating line L ₁₂ trumpet-shaped as shown in also the terminal is connected to a heating line for heating the steam outlet pipe 16, 16 similar to FIG. 8, not shown, the end portion is connected to the conduit L ₁₃ shown in FIG. 7, further This follows the conduit L _14, it is connected to the vapor separator 13 via line L ₁₅ through a T-tube T _11.

As can be seen from the above detailed description, the steam blow-out pipe 16 is surrounded by the resistor 20 so that the steam is applied to the clothes as wet steam, and the steam is heated to further increase the wetness of the steam. The discharge side of the heater 12,
And all the steam on the return side from the heating line for heating the steam blowing pipe 16 and the chain conveyor is sent to the steam separator 13, where the drain is separated and blown out from the steam blowing pipe 16 to inject steam into the clothes X. It is supposed to.

Heat exchange is performed in the above-described heater 12 and the heating line. Therefore, even when high-temperature dry steam is supplied from the steam supply port, the steam is cooled by the heater 12 or the heating line and becomes wet steam. The steam is blown out from a steam blow-out pipe 16 sent to the steam separator 13. For this reason, the humid steam comes into contact with the clothes X due to the action of the resistor and the device in the piping system, and the wrinkles of the clothes X can be effectively extended and removed. In addition, Fx in FIGS.
Is a blower for discharging the air after ejecting steam to the outside.

In the above-described embodiment, an example in which the resistor 20 is provided and the piping system is devised is shown. However, the piping system may be left as it is in the conventional example of FIG. It goes without saying that wet steam can act on clothing.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 8, the steam blow-out pipe 16 and the heating pipes L ₁₁ and L ₁₁ ′ are formed by a resistor having an elliptical cross section, and the outer circumference thereof is surrounded along the longitudinal direction. FIG. 9 shows a modification. As shown in the figure, the steam blow-out pipe 16 is surrounded by a half-half box 21 made of iron, a resistor 20 is provided in a half of the garment on the side of the passage, and a box is formed by both halves, and the steam blow-out pipe is housed therein. You may make it.

[0039]

As described in detail above, the tunnel finisher of the present invention cools the supplied steam through the resistor so that the steam whose humidity is increased touches the clothes conveyed by the chain conveyor. Cooling and finishing the clothes with humid steam has a remarkable effect that the wrinkles are sufficiently extended and then dried in a drying room to give a beautiful finish.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a tunnel finisher.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the above.

FIG. 3 is a diagram of a steam piping system

FIG. 4 is a detailed explanatory view of a tunnel finisher.

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged view of the above.

FIG. 6 is a side view of the above.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the above.

FIG. 8 is an enlarged sectional view of a resistor and a steam blow-out tube.

FIG. 9 is a sectional view of a main part of another embodiment in which a resistor is provided.

FIG. 10 is a diagram of a conventional steam piping system.

FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view of a conventional steam blowing pipe and a heating pipe.

[Description of Signs] 1 Finisher body 2 Steam chamber 3 Hot air chamber 4 Chain conveyor 5 Sprocket 6 Motor 7 Hanger hook 8 Hanger 10 Steam supply port 11, 15, 17 Solenoid valve 12 Heater 13 Steam separator 14 Pressure reducing valve 16 Steam blowing Tube 20 Resistor X Clothing

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A steam chamber and a hot air chamber are connected in series and provided.
Hangers are attached at predetermined intervals to a chain conveyor provided so as to pass through the upper part of each room, hangers are hung on the hanger, clothes are put on the hanger, and the clothes are passed through each room and dried. In the tunnel finisher, the supplied steam is sent to a steam blow-out pipe in a steam chamber through a pipe line and blown out, and a resistor is put on the outer periphery of the steam blow-out pipe, and the steam that has passed through the resistor is passed through. A tunnel finisher characterized by spraying on clothing. 2. A steam path is provided such that the supplied steam is sent to a heater of a hot air chamber through a pipe line, and the steam cooled and increased in humidity is blown out from a steam blowing pipe of the steam chamber. The tunnel finisher according to claim 1.