JPS59115020A - Dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a dryer installed in a kitchen or the like to dry tableware and the like.

Conventional configurations and their problems If we consider a conventional dish dryer, for example, the amount of tableware used at home is generally greater at night and less in the morning and afternoon. Since the amount of washed dishes to be dried in the morning and afternoon is smaller than that at night, the dryer is usually fully loaded with dishes at night, but in the morning and lunch a small amount of dishes are often dried.

Generally, dish dryers blow warm air into the chamber to dry the dishes, but even when there are only a few dishes to dry, if you want to dry them, Drying had to be done by blowing hot air throughout the interior of the dryer.

In other words, this means that the entire interior space and the entire dryer body are heated and dried, so the energy required to dry a single piece of tableware9 is greater when drying a small amount than when drying a large amount. , energy efficiency was poor.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks, and aims to reduce the energy consumption when drying a small amount of tableware.

Structure of the Invention In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has two storage parts for a dryer.
A shielding plate that is divided and rotates once blocks the air sent into the storage by the air blower, and by separating it, the volume of air being blown can be varied, and this allows it to correspond to the amount of items to be dried. It is possible to create a dryer with less energy loss.

Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

In Figures 1 and 2, 1 is the dryer main body, and J
A storage 2 is provided in the second part, and a blower device 3 is provided in the lower part. A door 4 that can be opened and closed is attached to the front of the storage 2. Inside the storage cabinet 2, a shielding plate 6 that rotates around a vertical axis of rotation 5 and divides the inside of the cabinet into two parts is vertically installed. A rotating shelf 7 rotates as a center, and a water tray 8 is provided below the rotating shelf 7. The blower device 3 is composed of a fan motor 9, a heating element 10, and a duct 11, and an air intake hole 12 and a switch 1 are provided at the lower front of the dryer main body 1.
3 is provided. At t=ts of the storage 2, air outlets 14 and 16 are provided, and exhaust holes 16 and 7 are provided on the top surface. 18 is a rotation bearing, and 19 is a door hinge.

The operation of the above configuration will be explained below.

Wash the tableware used at the dining table, etc., open the door 4, and put it on the rotating shelf 7.
Store it in. When switch 12 is turned on, fan motor 9
rotates, air is sucked in through the intake port 12, and the heating element 10
The hot air flows through the duct 11 and reaches the outlet 14.
Air is blown from 15 to the storage 2.

The blown warm air circulates inside the refrigerator to dry the dishes, and then is discharged from the exhaust holes 16 and 17.

Next, referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, the rotary shelf 7 is rotated, and the shielding plate 6 is moved to the position shown in FIG.
When the blower device 3 is stopped and operated in the vertical direction (hereinafter referred to as the vertical direction), the warm air blown in from the outlet 14 is blocked by the board 6, The warm air circulates through the chamber 20 and is discharged from the exhaust port 16, while the warm air is sent in from the blowout port 15 and circulates through the B chamber 21 and is discharged from the exhaust port 1.

Next, the rotating shelf 7 is rotated, the shielding plates are stopped at the position shown in FIG. 4 (hereinafter referred to as the lateral direction), and the blower device 3 is operated. Of the two rooms divided by the shielding plate 6, the wind circulates through the C room 22 and is discharged from the exhaust holes 16,1.

Since the opposite chamber 23 is shielded by the shielding plate 6, the warm air sent out from the air outlet 14, 15 does not enter.

Therefore, as shown in the conventional example, if there are a lot of dishes to be dried now, the shielding plate 6 should be oriented vertically as shown in FIG. When tableware is stored on the rotating shelves 7 on both sides of the B room 21 and the blower is operated, the warm air flows into the A room 20. Since the dishes are fed in both directions of the B chamber 21, dishes stored on both sides can be dried together.

If there are only a small number of dishes to be dried, as shown in Fig. 4, store the shield plate 6 horizontally only on the side of the rotating shelf 7 that is in the C chamber 22, and operate the blower. The warm air is sent only to one side, which is the C room 22, and the dishes stored in the C room can be dried. In other words, in this case, the hot air is blocked by the shielding plate 6 and does not enter the D room 23, so there is no need to heat the room 23, which is redundant for drying, and the hot air is effective in drying the dishes in the C room 22. Because it is used
Drying can be done using less energy than conventional methods.

In the above embodiment, the air outlet is divided into two parts, but if the air outlet 24 is made longer than the thickness of the shielding plate 25 as shown in FIG. 5, the air can be divided at the shielding plate 25. Therefore, a single location configuration is also possible.

As described above, according to this embodiment, by selectively using storage and drying when the amount of dishes to be dried is large or small, drying can be performed with less power consumption.

In the above embodiment, the planar shape of the storage 2 is approximately square; however, the planar shape is not limited to this, and as shown in FIGS. 2
The present invention may be achieved by providing a. At this time, it is a matter of course that a stopper is provided to make the protruding piece 2a and the shielding plate 6 face each other. Further, in the above embodiment, a blower was used as the drying means, but as described above, the present invention has the effect of the natural convection method having only a heater.
The storage room can be changed centrally, which is effective in terms of energy saving.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a dryer according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG.
'/'i A-AffI plane view of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a plan sectional view of Fig. 1, Fig. 4 is its action view, Figs. 5 and 6.
7 are plan views of other embodiments of the present invention. 2--・Storage, 3--・Blower, 5--
Rotating shaft 6...-Temporary shielding, 7-...Rotating shelf. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and 1 other person
1 Figure 7 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 24 Figure 6 Figure 7

Claims (1)

[Claims] A drying means is provided in the storage, and the storage is divided into two. and a rotary shelf that rotates around the same rotation axis as the shielding plate and is arranged on both sides of the shielding plate, and by rotating the shielding plate, each side of the shielding plate can be rotated. A dryer configured to perform drying in only one chamber and drying in both chambers.