JPS58173596A - Rotary drum for garment dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a rotating drum for a clothes dryer, which has a substantially cylindrical shape, has a central axis of rotation in a substantially horizontal direction, and has a baffle on an inner circumferential wall that is long in the direction of the central axis of rotation. The purpose is to prevent long parts of clothing, such as sleeves, or large items of clothing from getting entangled or entangled, and to obtain a quick and even drying effect.

Generally, when clothes are dried in a rotating drum while being lifted by a tuffle, the clothes are likely to get caught in the drum as they are rotated, especially long parts such as sleeves and obi. Because things get wrapped up, they have to be unraveled later, and due to the wrapping, the inside of the clothes and the tangled parts are difficult to dry, resulting in uneven drying. In addition, relatively large items of clothing such as sheets should be rolled up.
It becomes dumpling-shaped and does not dry easily. This phenomenon does not occur with small items such as socks or underwear.

The present invention solves the above conventional problems by improving the baffle, and examples thereof will be described below.

In the figure, a rotating drum 4 having a central axis of rotation in a substantially horizontal direction, which is rotated by a motor 2 via a belt 3, is provided in the main body 1, and a clothing input slot 6 and its opening/closing opening are provided on the front side of the main body 1. A lid 6 is provided for use. Further, a heater 8 is attached near the clothes input port 6 and on the front side of the rotating drum 4 via a heater attachment 7. An air supply hole 9 is formed in the main body 1 near the heater 8, and a hot air hole 10 is formed in the front side of the drum 4 near the heater 8. Further, on the rear side of the rotating drum, air is supplied by the motor 7 via a belt 11. A rotating exhaust fan/12 is provided. And the exhaust hole 13 of the rotating drum
．． The warm air generated by the heater 8 through the net 16 of the filter 14 is exhausted through the exhaust port 16.

Open the lid 6 and put the clothes into the rotating drum 4 from the clothes inlet 6.
When the motor 2 is driven, the rotary drum 4 rotates via the belt 3, and the exhaust fan 12 rotates via the belt 11. Air supply hole 9 from outside the main body 1. Heater 8
The hot air is sucked through the hot air hole 1o and supplied into the rotating drum 4 through the hot air hole 1o.

Next, the specific structure of the rotating drum 4 will be explained. Rotating drum 4
has an inner peripheral wall 16 to lift the clothing upward during rotation.
The baffle 17 has a long baffle 17 in the direction of the rotation center axis, and this baffle 17 includes a front baffle 18 located at the front end side, which is one end side of the rotating drum 4, and a rear baffle 18 located at the rear end side, which is the other end side of the rotating drum 4. The baffles 1819 do not correspond to each other in the direction of the rotation center axis.

Further, both baffles 18 and 19 overlap at the middle portion of the rotating drum in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of the central axis of rotation, thereby providing an overramp portion 2o. The baffle 17 may be formed integrally with the rotating drum 4, or may be formed separately and fixed.

According to the above configuration, the baffle 17 is connected to the front
8 and the rear baffle 19 are arranged so that they do not correspond to each other in the direction of the center axis of rotation, and are arranged alternately in the same direction as shown in the figure. Unlike the one provided with the front baffle 1, when the clothes are picked up, the clothes inside the rotating drum 4 are
Although the clothes are lifted at section 8, the lifting of the clothes is delayed at section 19 of the rear baffle, so that the clothes straddling the front and rear baffles 18 and 19 tend to be pulled apart, rather than being rolled up or wrapped around each other. On the contrary, it has the effect of making clothes come apart.

Moreover, the front baffle 18 prevents the clothes from being pulled in only to the front, and the next rear baffle 19 allows
The entire garment rotates entirely within the rotating drum 4. Therefore, there is no uneven drying.

In the automatic wrap portion 20 of the baffle 17, the pitch of the flaps 17 in the circumferential direction of the rotating drum 4 is small, but the front and rear flaps 18° 19 prevent the clothes from being pulled apart. When doing so, the buckle pitch of only the front flap 18 or the rear flap fillet other than the overlap portion 2o is large, and the force for separating it is also large.

Therefore, the pitch of the wrap portion 2o is reduced to support the garment, and conversely to prevent the garment from stretching excessively when it is pulled apart.

According to the present invention, as shown in (H) above, by improving the baffle shape provided on the inner circumferential wall of the rotating drum, it is possible to prevent clothes from being caught in or wrapped around them, and at the same time, it is possible to dry clothes quickly with no uneven drying. be able to.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view of a general clothes dryer, FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view of a rotating drum in an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
It is a sectional view taken along the line XX in FIG. 4... Rotating drum, 17... Baffle, 18... Front buckle, 19... Rear baffle, 2o... Overlap section. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and 1 other person
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Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) The baffles, which are approximately cylindrical in shape and have a rotation center axis that is long in the horizontal direction, are provided on the inner circumferential walls at both ends in the direction of the rotation center axis, and are located at positions that are not corresponding to each other in the rotation center axis direction. Rotating drum for clothes dryer. (2) The rotating drum for a clothes dryer according to claim 1, wherein the baffles provided on the inner circumferential walls at both ends in the direction of the center axis of rotation overlap in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction of the center axis of rotation.