KR101020418B1 - Clothes treating apparatus with fluid suppy - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a clothes treating apparatus having a liquid supply apparatus, comprising: a main body; A drum accommodated inside the main body; A steam generator communicating with the drum to inject steam into the drum; A reservoir for storing liquid to be supplied to the steam generator and having a discharge hole having a valve; A pump receiving liquid from the reservoir and pumping the liquid to the steam generator; And a reservoir installation part provided to have an opening at one surface of the main body, the reservoir being detachably accommodated therein and having a discharge port connected to allow the discharge hole and the fluid to flow therein, wherein the discharge hole and the discharge port are the reservoir. There is provided a clothes processing apparatus connected by inserting the into the reservoir installation portion.

Dryer, steam, cartridge, reservoir.

Description

Clothing processing apparatus having a liquid supply device {CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS WITH FLUID SUPPY}

The present invention relates to a clothes treating apparatus having a liquid supply apparatus, and more particularly, to a clothes treating apparatus used to wash or dry clothes, such as a clothes dryer, and a clothes treating apparatus having a device capable of spraying liquid therein during a clothes treating process. It is about.

Clothing processing apparatuses such as a clothes dryer or a washing machine having a drying function accommodate clothes in a drum installed inside the main body, and then supply hot air into the drum to dry the clothes. In this process, since the dehydrated clothes are placed in the drum as they are, the hot hot air removes the moisture of the clothes. Therefore, the clothes tangled with each other are dried and wrinkles are generated.

In order to solve this problem, there has been proposed a type of dryer which can eliminate wrinkles by supplying steam to clothes after drying is completed. According to the dryer having such a steam supply device, the steam may be supplied during drying so that the clothes may contain an appropriate amount of moisture so that the excessively caught wrinkles may be removed, and the clothes taken out of the dryer may be in a state suitable for ironing. Can be.

The steam supply apparatus of the dryer of this type includes a steam generator having a heater therein, a pump for supplying water into the steam generator, a storage tank for storing water to be supplied to the steam generator, and the like. On the other hand, the steam generator includes a high water level sensor and a low water level sensor for detecting the water level of the supplied water, and operates the pump through a control unit according to the water level detected by the sensors to adjust the water level in the steam generator in an appropriate range. Keep it inside

The reservoir is provided in the form of a cartridge, and when mounted in a drawer drawer drawn out from the front of the dryer, the drawer is pushed in, and the outlet of the reservoir is combined with the check valve to which the pump is connected to supply liquid. At this time, the check valve is installed in the draw-out and draw-in direction of the drawer, that is, the direction horizontal to the ground.

According to the prior art, in order to supply water to the cartridge, it is cumbersome because two operations of pushing the drawer after inserting the cartridge filled with water into the drawer in the vertical direction are performed. In addition, if the drawer is drawn out and the cartridge becomes heavy due to water, excessive moment is applied to the area connecting the drawer and the main body. have.

In addition, some water remains in the process of separating and combining the outlet of the reservoir and the check valve, and some of the water leaks to the outside of the check valve to contaminate or corrode adjacent parts.

The present invention has been made to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art as described above, it is a technical object of the present invention to provide a clothes handling apparatus having a liquid supply device that can resupply liquid into the reservoir more conveniently.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a clothes treating apparatus having a liquid supply device in which liquid remaining in the check valve does not leak to the outside.

According to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem, the main body; A drum accommodated inside the main body; A steam generator communicating with the drum to inject steam into the drum; A reservoir for storing liquid to be supplied to the steam generator and having a discharge hole having a valve; A pump receiving liquid from the reservoir and pumping the liquid to the steam generator; And a reservoir installation part provided to have an opening at one surface of the main body, the reservoir being detachably accommodated therein and having a discharge port connected to allow the discharge hole and the fluid to flow therein, wherein the discharge hole and the discharge port are the reservoir. There is provided a clothes processing apparatus connected by inserting the into the reservoir installation portion.

The one side of the present invention is to provide a fixed installation of the reservoir having an opening toward the surface of the main body, rather than being opened while moving as a drawer, thereby increasing the durability. In addition, the storage tank and the pump side is connected to the storage tank installation only by mounting the storage tank in the side, so that the convenience of use can be increased.

Preferably, the outlet may be formed on the bottom surface of the reservoir installation portion. As a result, even when some liquid leaks, the liquid leaked by gravity is discharged to the outside along the discharge port.

As an example, the reservoir installation part may be formed to have an opening in the top plate of the clothes treating apparatus, and the reservoir may be mounted in the reservoir installation part downwardly from the top of the top plate. That is, the mounting direction of the reservoir can be made vertical.

Here, the reservoir is formed so as to protrude from the bottom of the discharge hole to accommodate the valve therein and includes a valve installation portion, the valve installation portion in the interior of the discharge port in the state that the reservoir is mounted to the reservoir installation portion Can be inserted. This allows the liquid flowing out of the valve to stay inside the outlet.

Here, the valve installed in the valve mounting portion is a valve body which is installed to be reciprocating in the valve installation portion; And elastic means positioned between the valve body and the bottom surface of the discharge hole.

In addition, a cover for opening and closing the opening may be additionally included, and the cover may be installed in the reservoir installation unit or the reservoir.

In addition, when the bottom surface of the reservoir installation portion is formed to be inclined downward toward the discharge port to leak to the bottom surface of the reservoir installation portion may be discharged through the discharge port.

According to aspects of the present invention having the configuration as described above, even if the liquid leaks in the process of desorption to replenish the liquid in the reservoir, it is possible to prevent damage due to leakage because it stays in the valve or flows back into the pump. In addition, it is possible to improve the ease of use by the combination of the valve and the pump at the same time just by mounting the reservoir.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail an embodiment of a clothes processing apparatus according to the present invention.

1 is a perspective view schematically showing an embodiment of a clothes treating apparatus according to the present invention, which embodiment applies the clothes treating apparatus according to the present invention to a clothes dryer 100 having a steam spraying function. Of course, the present invention is not limited to the clothes dryer, it is also applicable to a washing machine having a clothes drying function.

1 and 2, the dryer 100 includes a front plate 102 forming a front surface of the dryer, a top plate 104 forming an upper surface of the dryer, and a rear plate 106 forming a rear surface of the dryer. And a body composed of a side plate or the like forming a side surface. However, for clarity, the side plate is omitted.

A circular door 108 is installed at the center of the front plate 104, and the user can access the drum (not shown) that is rotatably installed inside the main body through the door 108. . Specifically, the drum serves to receive clothes, and is installed in the tub 110 installed concentrically on the outside of the drum.

In addition, the dryer 100 forms a flow path of hot air supplied to the inside of the drum and is installed in the rear plate side, and a hot air supply path is installed inside the hot air supply path to form hot air. And a blower fan for transferring hot air from the inside of the hot air supply passage, so that hot air is supplied from the rear side of the drum to the front side during drying. However, these may employ a conventionally known form, so detailed description and illustration thereof will be omitted.

The rear panel of the top plate 104, the operation panel 120 is formed to protrude from the surface of the top plate 104, the surface of the operation panel 120 is a variety of switches for controlling the operation of the dryer ( 122, a display window 124 and the like.

A steam generator 130 is installed on the bottom of the top plate 104. The steam generator 130 includes a container that forms a space for storing water to be heated therein, and a heater that is installed adjacent to the bottom of the container and heats the stored water, wherein the water is supplied from a reservoir to be described later. After being stored therein, it is heated through the heater to generate steam and then sprayed into the drum.

Meanwhile, a reservoir installation unit 140 is formed at the front of the steam generator 130 among the bottom surfaces of the top plate 104. The reservoir installation unit 140 is for fixing a reservoir 150 for storing water to be supplied to the steam generator 130, and is recessed to have a shape corresponding to the reservoir 150 on the top plate 104. Is set to

In addition, the cover 142 for opening and closing the upper surface of the reservoir installation unit 140 is rotatably mounted on the upper surface of the reservoir installation unit 140, thereby the reservoir 150 is exposed to the outside. You can prevent it. The outlet 144 is formed on the bottom surface of the reservoir installation unit 140 to be connected to the inlet side of the pump (not shown), and the water stored in the reservoir is introduced into the pump, and the pump pumps the water introduced from the reservoir. It pumps to the steam generator 130 mentioned above.

The water inlet 152 of the rectangular shape extending to one side is formed on the surface of the reservoir 150, the foreign matter mixed in the water injected by the filter 154 is mounted in the water inlet 152 reservoir ( 150) Blocks the inflow inside.

With reference to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the detail of the said reservoir installation part 140 and the reservoir 150 is demonstrated. 2 is a cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which the storage tank 150 is mounted on the storage tank mounting unit 140 illustrated in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 illustrates a state in which the storage tank 150 is mounted on the storage tank mounting unit 140. It is sectional drawing.

Referring to FIG. 2, the outlet 144 described above is formed at the center of the bottom surface of the reservoir mounting part 140 installed on the top plate 104, and the discharge hole 144 is a lower portion of the reservoir mounting part 140. Extends to form a predetermined space. The space functions as a space into which the valve to be described later is inserted, and a discharge pipe 146 connected to the pump side is located at the bottom of the space. In addition, on the discharge pipe 146 is located a locking plate 148 is formed a plurality of through holes 149.

In the reservoir 150 to be installed in the reservoir installation unit 140, a discharge hole 156 is formed at the center of the bottom surface, and a valve installation unit 158 is formed at the bottom of the discharge port 156. The valve installation unit 158 is formed to have a size that can be inserted into the outlet 144 of the reservoir installation unit, and has a space in which the valve body 160 is movable up and down.

The valve body 160 accommodated in the space is accommodated such that an end thereof protrudes out of the valve installation unit 158 in a state where the reservoir 150 is not installed in the reservoir installation unit 140. The flange 162 is formed on an upper portion of the 160 to prevent the valve body 160 from being separated from the valve installation unit 158. A coil spring 170 is positioned between an upper surface of the valve body 160 and a bottom surface of the discharge hole 156, and the coil spring 170 is positioned to apply downward elastic force to the valve body 160. . Therefore, since the end of the valve body 160 is protruded to the outside of the valve installation unit 158 unless an external force is applied, the water contained in the reservoir 150 is sealed to prevent leakage.

As shown in FIG. 3, in a state in which the reservoir 150 is mounted in the reservoir installation unit 140, the valve installation unit 158 is accommodated in the outlet 144, and the valve body 160 is disposed. The end of is pressed by the locking plate 148 to be retracted into the valve installation portion 158. As a result, the water in the reservoir 150 that is blocked from being discharged to the outside by the valve body 160 is discharged through the discharge hole 156 through the discharge hole 149 and the discharge pipe 146 of the reservoir installation part 140. Through the pump is introduced into the above-described pump.

Therefore, the process of replenishing the water is simplified since the mounting process of the storage tank 150 is completed by simply pushing the storage tank 150 into the storage tank installation unit 140 in the vertical direction, and the storage tank installation unit 140 is conventional. Unlike the drawer, since it is fixed to the top plate 104 of the main body, even long-term use does not affect durability.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and may be applied in various forms. For example, the bottom surface of the reservoir installation unit 140 is a plane horizontal to the ground in FIG. 1, but may be formed to be inclined toward the outlet 144. In this case, even if there is water leaked, because it moves to the outlet 144 by gravity, it is possible to further prevent the leaked water from causing a secondary problem.

In addition, in the embodiment shown in Figure 1 is provided with a cover for opening and closing the reservoir installation unit 140, the cover does not necessarily need to be located in the reservoir installation unit 140 may be installed in the reservoir 140, , May be omitted.

In addition, the reservoir installation portion may be formed on the side plate in addition to the top plate. In this case, the valve is formed on the side of the reservoir, the reservoir is inserted in a direction parallel to the ground rather than up and down direction, the outlet of the reservoir installation portion is formed on the surface facing the valve.

1 is a perspective view schematically showing an embodiment of a clothes treating apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view illustrating a positional relationship between a reservoir and a steam generator in FIG. 1.

3 is a cross-sectional view schematically illustrating a cross section corresponding to the side view shown in FIG. 2.

Claims (7)

main body; A drum accommodated inside the main body; A steam generator communicating with the drum to inject steam into the drum; A reservoir for storing liquid to be supplied to the steam generator and having a discharge hole having a valve; A pump receiving liquid from the reservoir and pumping the liquid to the steam generator; And It is installed to have an opening on one surface of the main body, and includes a reservoir installation portion having a discharge port that is detachably accommodated inside the reservoir, and connected to allow the discharge hole and the fluid flow, And the discharge hole and the discharge port are connected to each other by inserting the reservoir into the reservoir installation part. The method of claim 1, The clothes outlet is formed on the bottom surface of the reservoir installation unit. The method of claim 2, The reservoir is It is formed to protrude from the bottom of the discharge hole to accommodate the valve therein includes a valve installation portion, The valve installation unit is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that inserted into the discharge port in a state in which the reservoir is mounted on the reservoir installation unit. The method of claim 3, A valve body installed to reciprocate in the valve installation unit; And an elastic means positioned between the valve body and the bottom of the discharge hole. The method of claim 1, Clothing processing apparatus characterized in that it further comprises a cover for opening and closing the opening. The method of claim 1, Clothing storage device, characterized in that the bottom surface of the reservoir installation portion is inclined downward toward the discharge port. The method of claim 1, The reservoir installation unit is formed to have an opening in the top plate of the clothes processing apparatus, the reservoir is clothes processing apparatus characterized in that mounted in the reservoir installation portion downward from the top of the top plate.

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