JPS58109097A - Garment dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a clothes dryer that is combined with an electric current drier to form a so-called home laundry.
This is intended to improve installation ease.

Conventional clothes dryers have a deep main body, and power is distributed above the washing machine, resulting in poor installation and operability when used as a so-called home laundry. This is because the fan for blowing air and the motor that serves as the rotational drive source for the drum are arranged so as to overlap the drum in the front-rear direction, which limits the ability to make it thinner. Therefore, a configuration has been proposed in which the fan and motor are disposed in the outer frame so that they do not overlap with the drum in the front-rear direction. With this configuration, there is a method in which a heat source is placed at the rear, heated air is blown into the drum under pressure, and exhausted from the front of the dome. This caused some discomfort, and since the exhaust port was located in the door at the front of the drum, there were disadvantages such as complicating the piping of the exhaust duct when exhausting to the outdoors. In addition, in the above configuration, a method of exhausting air from the rear of the drum is also conceivable, but even if this drum rear exhaust method is used, depending on the installation location, the exhaust port of the clothes dryer may not be used due to the relationship with the wall of the house. In many cases, the exhaust duct that connects the exhaust outlet provided on the wall of the house has to be bent in an awkward direction, making installation difficult.

The purpose of the present invention is to eliminate the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art, and to simplify the piping of the exhaust duct in a clothes dryer with a thinner configuration in which the fan and motor are arranged so as not to overlap the drum in the longitudinal direction. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a clothes dryer that is easy to install and can be installed easily.

A feature of the present invention is that, in order to achieve the above object, an exhaust passage for guiding the exhaust gas after passing through the drum is formed in an airtight manner at the rear of the drum toward a 1 m angle of the outer frame of the dryer. Exhaust pipe insertion holes are provided in the lower and side surfaces of the outer frame at the corner, respectively, and the exhaust pipe inserted through any one of the holes is connected to the exhaust passage in a switchable and connectable manner.

The present invention will be explained below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a developed view,
Figure 3 is a partially enlarged view of Figure 1.

In the drawings, 1 is the outer frame of the dryer, which is shaped like a hexahedral box, 2 is a drum for storing the items to be dried, and 3 is a lid for stirring the clothes in the drum. Reference numeral 4 denotes a front bearing that rotatably supports the front part of the drum 2, and is arranged on the outer periphery of the drum cover 5 fixed to the front surface of the outer frame 1, and comes into sliding contact with the drum front plate 2a. So drum 2t-
The trap is designed to support rotation freely. drum cover 5
A μ door packing 6 is attached to the inner circumferential side of the drum 2 to form a clothing inlet into the drum 2. A door 7 is attached to the front l of the outer frame 1 so as to be freely openable and closable so as to cover the clothes slot. A heater 8 that serves as a heat source is provided in the space between the drum cover 5 and the outer frame 1, and the drum cover 5 facing the heater 8 has a heater 8 that serves as a hot air passage that is blown into the drum 2. A wind blowing port 9 is provided.

Reference numeral 10 denotes a motor, and a drum driving pulley 12 is attached to the shaft 1-1 of the motor 10.
A drum driving belt 14 is hung through 3'. A round pressurizing fan 15 that pressurizes the inside of the outer frame 1 and sends heated air into the drum 2 is provided at the tip of the shaft 11, and an air inlet is provided in the outer frame 1 opposite to this pressurizing fan 15. 16 is provided, and an air intake filter 17 for allowing dust to enter the outer frame 1 connects to the air inlet 16.

The drum rear plate 2bK has a filter 18 that collects lint from the material to be dried in the drum z, and a filter guard 19K.
It is attached to and detached from the filter mounting shaft 20 while being attached to the filter mounting shaft 20. 21 is a drum shaft attached to the drum rear plate 2bK, and is supported by a rear bearing 23. Further, a drum support member 24 is fixed to the rear part of the drum 2 using the outer periphery of the rear surface of the outer frame 1, and a round opening 82B is provided in the center 11 of the drum support member 24 for discharging exhaust gas from the drum 2. At the same time, an airtight □-shaped exhaust passage 27 is provided in the bottom 26 of the outer frame 1 and the drum support member 24 toward the corner of the outer frame. Reference numeral 28 denotes a connection port forming the terminal +2i portion of the exhaust passage 27, and exhaust pipe insertion holes 30 and 30' provided in the exhaust passage 27 and the lower and side surfaces of the corner □ portion of the outer frame 1, respectively.
(30 is provided on the bottom surface, 30' is provided on the side surface not visible in the figure), and has the function of connecting the exhaust pipe inserted through the outer frame L by switching the insertion hole. It is arranged at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the corner of. That is,
By making the angle 45[, the direction of the exhaust pipe 29, which is installed to exhaust air downward through the exhaust pipe insertion hole 30 on the lower surface of the outer frame in FIGS. 1 to 3, can be changed by a right angle. This makes it possible to exhaust air in the side direction through the exhaust pipe insertion hole 30' on the side surface of the outer frame. Since the inside of the outer frame 1 is pressurized by the pressurizing fan 15, in order to prevent air leakage to the outside of the outer frame, the exhaust pipe insertion hole (30' in the illustrated embodiment) is inserted into the unused exhaust pipe insertion hole. direction)
The exhaust pipe insertion hole 7 is attached to the holder 31 to hold the pipe airtight inside the outer frame 1.

In addition, the dryer usage form IIIK on the side of the user of the clothes dryer
Therefore, it may be convenient to exhaust the air from the rear side of the dryer, and in this case, the 9 crafter exhaust holes 32 may be installed at any position of the rafter 26 in the part forming the exhaust passage 27.
By removing the exhaust hole cover 33 blocking the dryer, and using the removed exhaust hole cover 33 as it is, attaching it to the exhaust pipe 29 on the bottom side and blocking the exhaust pipe 29t, the exhaust can be exhausted from the rear of the dryer. It's something that gets cloudy. Note that 34 is a timer that controls the drying time.

In the above configuration, when the material to be dried is put into the drum 2, the door 7 is closed and the tie f34 is set, the motor 10 rotates, and the drum 2 and the pressurizing fan 15 rotate. By rotating the pressurizing fan 150 times, the air passes through the air filter 171 outside the dryer and is ridged into the outer frame 1 from the air inlet 16.

Since the inside of the outer frame 1 has an airtight structure, the whole inside of the outer frame 1 is pressurized by the sucked air, and the pressurized air passes through the heater 8 and is heated and becomes warm air. Hot air is blown into the drum 2 from the inlet 9, dries the material to be dried, passes through the filter 18, passes through the exhaust passage 27 from the rear of the drum 2, and is connected to the connection port 2 at the end of the exhaust passage 27.
When the exhaust pipe 29, which is connected to the insertion hole switchable in the insertion hole 8, is connected to the connection port 28 through the exhaust pipe insertion hole 30 in the downward direction of the outer frame, exhaust is exhausted from the lower surface of the outer frame, and the exhaust pipe 29 is When connected to the connection port 28 through the exhaust pipe insertion hole 30' on the side surface of the outer frame, the air is exhausted from the side surface of the outer frame.

According to the present invention, by selecting and inserting any one of the exhaust pipe insertion holes provided on the lower surface and side surface of the outer frame 1 of the exhaust pipe 291-1, and connecting to the connection port 2B of the exhaust passage 27, The exhaust direction can be easily switched between the bottom side and the side of the outer frame, making the clothes dryer easy to install. It is possible to install a removable exhaust hole cover, which can be used in common with the exhaust pipe 29, to the upholstery by drilling two round exhaust holes in advance in the upholstery, which further improves the ease of installation. be able to.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a front view thereof, and FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 1.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A draught that is rotatably supported around a horizontal axis within a hexahedral box-shaped outer frame introduces outside air and blows it into the drum through a heat source to heat the material to be dried in the drum. It is equipped with a pressurizing fan that discharges IIK outside after replacement, and the pressurizing fan and the motor that is the drive source for the drum are placed outside the drum inside the outer frame so that they do not overlap with the drum in the front-rear direction. In this clothes dryer, an exhaust passage for guiding exhaust air from the rear of the drum is formed in an airtight manner from the rear of the drum toward the outer frame corner IIK, and nine exhaust pipe insertion holes are formed on the bottom and side surfaces of the outer frame corner. A clothes dryer in which an exhaust pipe inserted through any one of the upper and lower air passages is switchably connected to the upper and lower air passages. 2-The exhaust path is an exhaust passage formed by the drum supporting member supporting the drum 5*St and the bottom of the outer frame. clothes dryer.