JPS6238952Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention provides a packaging buffer device for a washing machine that holds a laundry basket that is stored upside down during packaging inside a tank equipped with an agitator. Regarding.

[Technical background of the invention]

Generally, when packaging washing machines,
The laundry basket is housed in the tub, but in recent washing machines that have an agitator installed in the tub, the agitator has a raised part raised up from the base. Because of the shape of the laundry basket, even if you try to store the laundry basket with the opening facing upward, the raised part of the agitator will get in the way and you will not be able to do so. It is common practice to store them in a tank with the surface facing downward. In this case, a lower cushioning body is arranged between the agitator and the opening of the laundry basket to prevent the base of the agitator from being damaged by the opening of the laundry basket, and the laundry basket is An upper cushioning body that presses down from above and holds the laundry basket in a cushioning manner is attached to the opening of the tub.

[Problems with background technology]

However, in the above case, since the lower buffer body and the upper buffer body are manufactured separately, there is a problem that the number of manufacturing steps is large and the manufacturing cost rises.

[Purpose of invention]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a shock absorbing device for packaging a washing machine that can reduce the number of manufacturing steps.

[Summary of the idea]

The present invention includes an upper cushion that is attached to the opening of the tub and covers the upper part of the laundry basket, an upper cushioning body that has a relief part that comes off from the upper part of the laundry basket, and an upper cushion that fits into the relief part of the upper cushioning body. a lower buffer body having a bottom part, integrally molded so as to be separable from the upper buffer body through a thin wall part, separated by the thin wall part, and disposed between the laundry basket and the base part of the agitator; With this, it is possible to obtain the upper and lower shock absorbers, which are separate bodies, by integral molding, and in addition, by incorporating the lower shock absorber into the upper shock absorber, both shock absorbers can be formed. The feature is that the body can be molded as one piece.

[Example of idea]

Below, Figures 1 to 9 are related to the first embodiment of the present invention.
This will be explained with reference to the figures. First, to describe the general structure of the washing machine in FIG. 1, 1 is an outer box, 2 is a water tank elastically suspended inside the box, and 3 is a balance ring 3a disposed inside this water tank 2 and attached to the upper opening. The rotating tank 4 is an agitator disposed at the inner bottom of the rotating tank 3, and the agitator 4 has a base 5 with a protrusion 6 erected thereon. On the other hand, 7 is a cover attached to the upper end of the outer box 1, 8 is a laundry entrance/exit formed in this cover 7, 9 is a lid for opening/closing this laundry entrance/exit 8, 10 is an operation box,
Further, 11 is a water tank cover disposed at the upper end of the water tank 2. In FIG. 2, 12 is a laundry basket, which has a rectangular shape long in the left-right direction, and the size of the opening 12a is the same as that of the bottom 12.
Both the vertical and horizontal widths are set to be slightly larger than those of b.

Now, in Figures 1, 3, and 4, 1
Reference numeral 4 denotes an upper cushioning body, which alone has a shape as shown in FIG. 3, but for the sake of convenience, the structure of the upper cushioning body 14 will be explained in connection with the laundry basket 12. That is, the laundry basket 12 is placed on the bottom 12b (upper part) of the laundry basket 12 which is turned upside down as shown in FIG. forms a hollow part 15 that is circular and opens vertically, and by forming the circular hollow part 15 in this way, the upper part (bottom part 12b) of the rectangular laundry basket 12 is Section 16 and laundry basket 1
Relief part 17 that comes off from the top of 2 (Figs. 3 and 4)
The shaded areas in the figure correspond to them).
Further, concave relief portions 18, 18 extending in the vertical direction are formed separately from the relief portion 17 at opposing portions of the inner surface of the upper buffer body 14, and the outer peripheral surface of the upper buffer body 14 is circular. A stepped portion 14b having a slightly smaller diameter than the upper portion is formed at the lower portion thereof. On the other hand, the reference numeral 19 shown in FIG. 5 is a lower cushioning body, which has an annular circular base portion 19a and lower padding portions 20, 20 (the shaded portion corresponds to this), and a lower padding portion protruding from the outer edge of the base portion 19a. 21, 21
As shown in FIGS. 6 to 8, the lower cushioning body 19 has the lower pads 20, 20 inserted into the relief portions 17, 17 of the upper cushioning body 14, and the relief portion 18. , 18 so that the lower pads 21, 21 fit into the upper buffer body 14 and the thin wall portion 22 so that they can be separated from each other.

Here, the upper buffer body 14 and the lower buffer body 19
In this case, the lower buffer body 19 is separated by a thin wall portion 22 and each is used for packaging. That is, FIG. 1 shows the packaging state of the washing machine, and as shown in the figure, the laundry basket 12 is housed in the rotating tub 3 in an upside-down state, and at this time, the lower cushioning member is 19
is placed between the opening 12a of the laundry basket 12 and the base 5 of the agitator 4, and the upper buffer 14 is fitted from the laundry opening 8 to the inner circumference of the balance ring 3a which is the opening of the rotating tub 3. Attach it together. In this case, as shown in FIG. is placed over the upper part of the laundry basket 12 as shown in FIG.

In this way, according to this embodiment, the upper buffer body 14 and the lower buffer body 19 are integrally molded so as to be separable via the thin wall portion 22, so both the buffer bodies 14 and 19 can be obtained at the same time. Reduces manufacturing man-hours,
The production cost can be reduced, and both buffer bodies 14,
Since the parts 19 can be handled as one piece, parts management can be made easier.

By the way, when the lower cushioning body 19 is incorporated into the upper cushioning body 14 and molded, if the lower cushioning body 19 is simply set in a rectangular shape substantially similar to the laundry basket 12 and integrally molded with the upper cushioning body 14, the upper cushioning body 19 is assembled and molded. The inner surface shape of the body 14 is also rectangular, and since the laundry basket 12 is tapered upside down, one of the buffer bodies 14 and 19 no longer covers the laundry basket 12. A problem occurs when the product is closed. In this respect, according to this embodiment, the laundry basket 12 is attached to the upper buffer body 14.
After forming the upper part 16 that extends over the upper part of the laundry basket 12, relief parts 17 and 18 that come off from the upper part of the laundry basket 12 are formed, and the relief parts 17 and 18 are formed on the lower cushioning body 19.
Since the lower pads 20 and 21 are formed to fit into the laundry basket 18, both the upper buffer 14 and the lower buffer 19 can be placed over the laundry basket 12. Although both of these buffer bodies 14 are assembled and integrally molded,
19 can reliably support the laundry basket 12, thereby reliably preventing damage to the agitator 4 and rotating tub 3. In addition, in this way, the bottom parts 20 and 21 of the lower buffer body 19 are connected to the relief parts 17 and 18 of the upper buffer body 14.
Because it is integrally molded in a form that allows the upper cushioning body 14 to be molded, unlike the case where both the buffer bodies 14 and 19 are integrally molded in a juxtaposed state, the mold only needs to be the size necessary to mold the upper cushioning body 14. Costs can be kept low.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above and shown in the drawings; for example, the shapes of the hollow part of the upper shock absorber and the lower shock absorber are similar to those of the upper shock absorber 23 shown in FIG. 10 as a second embodiment of the present invention. The shape of the laundry basket may be square like the lower cushioning body 24, and the shape of the laundry basket is similar to that of the laundry basket 25 shown in FIG. 11 as a third embodiment of the present invention.
It may be approximately cylindrical as shown in FIG. Further, in each of the above embodiments, the thin portions 22 are formed intermittently, but they may be formed continuously.

In addition, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above and shown in the drawings, but can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the gist.

[Effect of idea]

As explained above, the present invention is a packaging for a washing machine that holds a laundry basket that is stored upside down during packaging inside a tub that is equipped with an agitator made of a raised part on the base. an upper cushioning body that is attached to an opening of a tub and has an upper part that extends over the upper part of the laundry basket and a relief part that comes off from the upper part of the laundry basket; The upper buffer body has a bottom part that enters into the upper buffer body, and is separably molded integrally with the upper buffer body through a thin wall part, and is separated by the thin wall part and disposed between the laundry basket and the base part of the agitator. It is characterized by being equipped with a lower shock absorber, which can reduce the number of manufacturing steps and greatly contribute to lower manufacturing costs, and furthermore, the lower shock absorber is incorporated into the upper shock absorber. Although it is configured to be integrally molded in a round shape, it can reliably support an upside-down laundry basket, and when molding both cushions, the mold can be made smaller. be effective.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figures 1 to 9 show a first embodiment of the present invention, with Figure 1 being a longitudinal sectional front view showing the packaging state of the washing machine, Figure 2 being a perspective view of the laundry basket alone, and Figure 3 being the upper part. A perspective view of the shock absorber alone, Figure 4 is a plan view of the upper shock absorber stacked on the laundry basket, Figure 5 is a perspective view of the lower shock absorber alone, and Figure 6 shows the separation of both the upper and lower shock absorbers. FIG. 7 is a broken perspective view of the same, FIG. 8 is a longitudinal front view of the same, FIG. 9 is a plan view of the state in which the laundry basket is placed on the lower cushioning body, and FIG. 10 and 11 are views corresponding to FIG. 6 showing a second embodiment and a third embodiment of the present invention, respectively. In the figure, 3 is a rotating tank (tank), 4 is an agitator, and 6
is a raised part, 12 is a laundry basket, 14 is an upper buffer body,
16 is an upper part, 17 and 18 are escape parts, 19 is a lower buffer, 20 and 21 are lower parts, 22 is a thin part, 23 is an upper buffer, 24 is a lower buffer, 25
is a laundry basket.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] This device holds a laundry basket that is stored with the opening facing downward during packaging inside a tub that is equipped with an agitator made of a raised part on the base, and is attached to the opening of the tub. The upper cushioning body includes an upper part that hangs over the upper part of the laundry basket, an upper cushioning body formed with a relief part that comes off from the upper part of the laundry basket, and a lower part that fits into the relief part of the upper cushioning body. A packaging cushion for a washing machine, comprising a lower cushioning body integrally molded so as to be separable through a thin walled portion, separated by the thin walled portion, and disposed between the laundry basket and the base portion of the agitator. Device.