JPS5982824A - Dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to a dryer for drying washed dishes and the like.

Conventional dish dryers have a structure in which hot air generated by generating heat from a planar heater, a nichrome heater, etc. is circulated through a dish basket by natural convection to perform drying.

However, this conventional structure of the dish dryer requires a long time for drying, and has the disadvantage that the degree of dryness is relatively poor. Moreover, since it is a natural convection type and the heater section is placed below the corner of the tableware, it has the disadvantage of being relatively large.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a dryer which eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional dryer and which makes it possible to dry tableware and the like easily and uniformly.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a main body formed into a substantially L-shape with a vertical portion 2 at one end and a horizontal other end 3. The other end portion 3 extends continuously from the vertical portion 2 in the form of a flat plate. This other end 3
From there, hot air is discharged upward, so the upper side of the other end 3 serves as a hot air exhaust path 4.

5 in the box 3 is a hot air outlet that guides the hot air from the vertical portion 2 to the air exhaust path 4. The exhaust passage 4 has a structure in which its cross-sectional area gradually decreases as it moves away from the vertical part 2.
For this purpose, in this embodiment, the other end 3 is inclined forward as shown in FIG.

In addition, in this embodiment, in order to further improve thermal efficiency by circulating hot air, a one-direction peripheral wall part is integrally extended around the peripheral part of the main body 1, and these main body 1 and the peripheral wall part can be used to create tableware as described below. This shows a case where a container body 6 for storing a basket is formed, and a vertical part 2 is formed.
is equipped with a warm air circulation lower.

A hot air generating device 8 is provided in a round part at one end of the main body 1 and in a vertical part 2. The hot air generator 8 includes a fan 9 such as a turbo fan, a motor 10 that drives the fan 9,
It is equipped with a heater 11 made of a positive temperature coefficient thermistor or the like, and a timer and other electrical components (not shown).

Note that this embodiment shows a case in which a hot air generating device 8 is unitized in order to use oil for washing the main body 1, and this device 8 is configured to be detachably attached to the vertical portion 2. Further, in the figure, 13 is a timer knob, 13 is a fan casing for heat radiation, 14 is an intake port, 15 is a hot air outlet, 16 is a hot air suction port, and 2a and 8a are overlapping protrusions for maintaining airtightness.

The hot air outlet 15 is communicated with the hot air outlet 5, and the wet air suction port 16 is communicated with the hot air circulation port 7.

A tableware basket 17 for storing tableware (not shown) is removably placed on the other horizontal end portion 3. Furthermore, a drain hole 18 is formed in the bottom surface of the front side of the main body l. Water dripping from the drain hole of the tableware cup 17 is guided to the drain hole 18 by the inclined surface of the other end 3. In addition, on one side of the front part of the main body 1, a dish 19 is provided as a water receptacle for receiving the water flowing out from the drain hole 18.
is attached removably.

In the figure, 20 is a lid that is detachably provided to cover the top surface of the tableware basket 17, and 21 is an exhaust port.

In the above dryer, the approximately L-shaped main body 1 has a -
A hot air generating device 8 is installed in the inner part of the main body 1, and the hot air is passed to the other end 3 of the main body 1 and discharged upward from there, so that it becomes a hot air source. Since the tableware basket 17 and the like to be dried are placed on the flat plate-like other end 3, the tableware basket 17 and the like can be easily attached and detached. By the way, to dry the washed dishes, etc., place the dish basket 17 containing the dishes on the other end 3 of the main body 1 and generate warm air; good. Then, the hot air generated by the hot air generator 8 is transferred to the hot air outlet 15.
The warm air is blown out through the hot air outlet 5 into the air exhaust passage 4 on the other end 3, and then discharged upward from the air exhaust passage 4, passing through the drain hole 17 on the tableware tray, and leaving the dishwasher in the basket. Dry the top of 17 and dry dishes etc. in this case,
Due to the change in the cross-sectional area of the discharge barrel and the passage 4, hot air is blown out into a large cross-sectional area immediately after the hot air outlet 5 where the hot air velocity is high.
As the wind speed gradually decreases from now on, the cross-sectional area of the air exhaust passage 4 acts so that the cross-sectional area becomes smaller and the wind speed increases. Therefore, the hot air is discharged upward from the entire area of the air exhaust passage 4 on the other end 3 toward the tableware cup 17 at a relatively uniform wind speed and temperature.

Therefore, dishes etc. are dried evenly regardless of their position. A portion of the moist warm air that has been used for drying is exhausted and exhausted to the outside via the port 2), but a commensurate amount of air flows from the air intake port 14 to the point shown by the dotted line arrow in the middle of Figure 3. As shown in , it is sucked in and distributed as warm air to the tableware 17.

In addition, in the case of this embodiment, as shown by the solid line arrow in FIG. , good thermal efficiency. At the same time, water droplets dripping from the tableware basket 17 to the other end 3 of the main body 1 are quickly guided by the slope of the other end 3 and drained from the drain hole 18 into the water tray 19. Good thermal efficiency.

Although the above-mentioned embodiment is constructed as described above, in carrying out the present invention, unless it is contrary to the spirit of the invention, the other end of the main body 2, the hot air generator, the air exhaust path, etc. It goes without saying that the specific structure, shape, position, etc., etc., are not limited to the one embodiment described above, and can be configured and implemented in various ways.

The gist of the present invention described above is the structure described in the claims above. Therefore, according to the present invention, hot air (,
Since the structure is such that dry items such as tableware are dried in a shorter time than with the conventional natural convection type, it is possible to dry them reliably in a shorter time than with the conventional natural convection type. So (at 7,
Since the structure is such that the material to be dried is placed on the fl: end of the main body that is extended horizontally from one end 7ii (in a series of horizontal directions) of the main body in which the hot air generator is installed, the height is It is possible to achieve compactness, such as by lowering the Furthermore, due to the cross-sectional structure of the air exhaust passage provided at the other end of the main body, the entire area of the air exhaust passage acts on the material to be dried on the other end, allowing the entire area of the air exhaust passage to act on the material to be dried. It has the effect of drying dried food perfectly and evenly by stirring it for 3 minutes.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a perspective view, FIG. 2 is a vertical side view taken along line 11-IT in FIG.
The figure is a vertical side view 1 of the hot air generator. l...Main body, 2...One end of the main body (vertical part), 3...
・Other end of main body, 4...Air exhaust path, 5...Warm air blower 1-
1j mouth, 8... Kaede wind generator, I7... tableware. Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue 1 figure, 2 figures, 3 figures

Claims (1)

[Claims] A hot air generator is installed inside one end of the wooden body, and an air exhaust path for discharging hot air is formed at the other end that extends horizontally.The cross-sectional area of this air exhaust path is A dryer characterized in that the temperature decreases as it moves away from a hot air generator.