KR101128812B1 - Laundry treating apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a clothes handling unit including a clothes accommodating unit forming a space in which clothes are accommodated, a supply unit unit selectively supplying steam or hot air to the clothes accommodating unit, and a shelf detachable from the clothes accommodating unit. The shelf has a body frame having an upper surface and a lower surface formed therein, a support bar on which both ends of the body frame face each other, and on which clothing is mounted, and a reinforcing frame provided on the body frame. do.

Clothes processing equipment, steam supply, hot air supply, shelf, strength reinforcement, frame

Description

Clothing treating apparatus {Laundry treating apparatus}

The present invention relates to a laundry treatment apparatus. In more detail, the present invention relates to a laundry treatment apparatus that is easy to deodorize and refresh.

 BACKGROUND ART Generally, a laundry treatment apparatus is a device for processing various kinds of work related to clothes, such as a washing machine for washing clothes, a drying device for drying wet clothes, and a refresher for removing odors or wrinkles on clothes. It is a concept to include.

The recent clothing treatment apparatus is a trend that is developed to solve the washing, drying, deodorization and wrinkle removal of clothing with a single device. However, the recent clothing treatment apparatus uses a drum that accommodates clothing and a driving device for rotating the drum, which is insufficient in deodorization or wrinkle removal of clothing.

That is, the conventional clothing treatment apparatus is generally deodorizing or wrinkle removal during the rotation of the drum, the clothes put in the drum is not a straight state, but wrinkled because there is a limit to wrinkle or deodorization.

The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the present invention is to solve the problem to provide a clothes handling apparatus that is easy to dry, deodorize, sterilize and remove wrinkles of the clothes.

The present invention, in order to solve the above problems, the clothing receiving portion for forming a space in which the clothing is accommodated; Supply unit for selectively supplying steam or hot air to the clothes receiving portion; A body frame having an exterior and having an open top and bottom surfaces, a support bar supported by both ends of the body frame facing the clothes, and a reinforcing frame provided on the body frame, and detachable from the clothes accommodating part Provides a laundry treatment apparatus comprising a shelf.

In this case, the reinforcing frame may be provided at both ends of the body frame on which the support bar is supported.

In addition, the body frame may further include a receiving groove at both ends of the support bar is supported, the reinforcing frame may be provided in the receiving groove.

In addition, the support bar may be provided to have a cross section that does not rotate while being supported at both ends of the body frame.

In addition, the cross section of the support bar may be provided in an elliptical shape.

In addition, the support bar may be provided to have a circular cross section, and a cutting surface may be formed on an outer circumferential surface of the support bar.

The apparatus may further include a cover provided in the receiving groove to cover the reinforcing frame.

In addition, any one of the cover and the reinforcing frame may be provided with a hook, and the other may include a hook hole for accommodating the hook.

The cover may further include a coupling rib provided at a position contacting the accommodation groove, and the accommodation groove may further include a rib accommodation groove in which the coupling rib is accommodated.

On the other hand, the body frame may be provided to include a hollow hollow of the center of the frame.

In this case, the hollow part may be provided at a portion except for both ends of the support bar.

The clothing accommodating part may further include a shelf support part supporting the shelf on an inner circumferential surface thereof, and the hollow part may further include a support part accommodating groove in which the shelf support part is accommodated.

According to the clothes treating apparatus according to the present invention, it is possible to achieve the effect of providing a clothes treating apparatus which is easy to dry, deodorize and remove wrinkles of clothes.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms herein are the same as the general meaning of the term as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, and if the terms used herein conflict with the general meaning of the term Are as defined herein.

On the other hand, the configuration or control method of the device to be described below is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, but to describe the embodiment of the present invention, the same reference numerals are used throughout the specification the same components Indicates.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a front view showing a state in which the door is opened in the clothes treatment apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The present specification describes a refresher for refreshing clothes as a clothes treating apparatus and supplying hot air, but is not limited thereto. Can be.

In this case, the term "refresh" refers to air, heated air, water, mist, steam, etc. toward the garment, thereby removing wrinkles of the garment, It may mean a process of performing deodorizing, sanitizing, preventing static electricity, or warming.

In addition, the clothes referred to in the present specification, as well as clothes (clothes), apparel (apparel), as well as objects that can be worn by people such as shoes, socks, gloves, hats, shawls, etc. Includes objects to be used and includes all objects that can be washed.

Referring to Figure 1, the clothing treatment apparatus 100 according to the present invention includes a clothes receiving unit 1 for providing a space for accommodating clothes, an air supply device for supplying air or hot air to the clothes receiving unit (1); The supply device unit 3 is provided with a steam generator for supplying moisture, mist or steam, a door 5 for opening and closing the clothes accommodating part 1, and clothing inside the clothes accommodating part. And supports 71 and 9 for mounting.

The clothing accommodating part 1 is provided with an air inlet part 13 and a filter part (not shown) in communication with the air supply device 31 (refer to FIG. 4), and the steam repellent device (refer to Fig. 4). It is preferred that the steam inlet 11 is provided in communication with the. In addition, a shelf support portion 17 for supporting the shelf 9 to be described later is provided on the inner circumferential surface of the clothing accommodating portion.

The shelf support 17 may be provided in plural on the inner circumferential surface of the clothing receiving unit 1 as needed, in this case, the user can arbitrarily adjust the height of the shelf 9 to improve user convenience.

2 is a perspective view schematically showing the configuration of the supply apparatus 3. In FIG. 2, only the main components including the air supply device 31 and the steam generator 33 are illustrated for convenience of description, and the pipes connecting the components are not shown.

Referring to FIG. 2, an air supply device 31 for supplying air or hot air to the clothing accommodating part 1 is positioned inside the supply device part 3.

The air supply device of the present invention is the suction portion 311 is connected to the filter unit (not shown) provided in the clothing receiving portion 1, the discharge portion connected to the air inlet portion 13 of the clothing receiving portion (1) ( 315) and a heat exchanger 313 provided between the suction unit and the discharge unit.

The heat exchanger 313 may be provided as a heat pump, and the heat pump includes an evaporator 3131, a compressor 3133, a condenser 3135, and an expansion valve (not shown) through which refrigerant is circulated. This dehumidifies and heats the air.

That is, the refrigerant evaporates in the evaporator 3131 to absorb latent heat of ambient air, thereby cooling the air to condense and remove moisture in the air. In addition, when the refrigerant is condensed in the condenser 3135 via the compressor 3133, the latent heat is released toward the surrounding air to heat the surrounding air. Therefore, the evaporator and the condenser function as a heat exchanger, and the air introduced into the air supply device 31 is dehumidified and heated through the evaporator 3131 and the condenser 3135 and supplied to the clothes accommodating part 1.

As such, the air heated by the heat pump may be slightly lower than the air heated by using a conventional electric heater or the like, but the air can be dehumidified without using a separate dehumidifier. Therefore, the air supplied back to the receiving space by the heat pump corresponds to a relatively 'low temperature dry air' (wherein 'low temperature' does not mean that the temperature is absolutely low, but corresponds to heated air but conventionally It is used in the sense that the temperature is relatively low compared to the heating air of). Clothing processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention by supplying the low-temperature drying air, it is possible to prevent the deformation or damage to the clothing due to the high temperature when performing a process such as refreshing or drying the clothing. As a result, the air supplied by the heat pump in the clothes treating apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention has a lower temperature than the hot air of the conventional clothes treating apparatus, but supplies the dehumidified air without a separate dehumidifying apparatus. It is possible to easily dry and refresh.

The suction part 311 is provided to correspond to a filter part (not shown) of the clothing accommodating part, which cleans only foreign air by filtering foreign substances that may be included in the air flowing into the air supply device 31 from the clothing accommodating part 1. This is to supply to clothing receiving department.

The discharge part 315 may further include a discharge fan 317 connected to the air inlet part 13 of the clothes accommodating part to facilitate the flow of air to flow the heated air through the heat exchange to the clothes accommodating part.

On the other hand, the supply unit 3 is provided with a steam generator 33 for selectively supplying steam to the clothes receiving unit (1).

The steam generator 33 has a heater (not shown) for heating water therein and generates steam by heating the water. In addition, the steam generator 33 generates mist through ultrasonic vibration means (not shown).

As a water supply source for supplying water to the steam generator 33, an external faucet or the like may be used, or a container type water supply source provided on one side of the supply unit 3 may be used.

The container type water supply source may be provided in the device unit door 35 detachably installed at one side of the supply unit 3, the water supply source is provided to be detachable to the device unit door 35. Can be. Therefore, it is possible for the user to separate the water supply source from the supply unit 3 to fill the water and reinstall it.

In addition, the steam generated by the steam generator 33 is supplied into the clothes receiving unit through the injection nozzle (not shown) provided in the steam inlet portion 11, the steam generator 33 and the injection nozzle ( Not shown) is connected via a pipe (not shown).

A cooling fan 37 may be provided at the rear portion of the supply device 3. The cooling fan 37 introduces air from the outside of the supply unit 3 to the inside, and the temperature inside the supply unit 3 is excessively increased by the air supply unit 31 and the steam generator 33. Will be prevented.

The support may be fixed to the clothes receiving unit so that the clothes are refreshed by hot air or steam supplied from the air supply device or the steam generator in a state where the clothes are not moved.

That is, the support may be provided with a shelf 9 fixed to the inner circumferential surface of the clothing accommodating part and a hanger bar 71 fixed to the upper part of the clothing accommodating part. In this case, the shelf (4) is preferably provided in a frame shape in which the upper surface and the lower surface is open so that the hot air or steam supplied from the supply device 3 can pass through the shelf. This is to facilitate the supply of hot air and heated steam to the clothes mounted on the shelf.

Therefore, the clothes put into the clothes treating apparatus of the present invention are not entangled like the clothes put into the conventional drum type clothes treating apparatus, so that the effect of deodorization and wrinkle removal as well as drying of clothes can be expected.

However, the hanger bar 71 provided on the upper portion of the garment accommodating part 1 may be provided in the form of a moving hanger 7 that can shake the garment in a horizontal direction (left, right, front and rear directions). . In this case, the moving hanger shakes the clothes while the hot air or steam is supplied to the clothes accommodating part 1, but prevents the clothes from being tangled, thereby further improving drying, deodorization, wrinkle removal and sterilization efficiency of the clothes. .

In other words, it is expected that the refresh performance of the garment is increased.

Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the moving hanger, Figure 4 is an exploded perspective view of the moving hanger. Hereinafter, the moving hanger will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

The moving hanger 7 includes a hanger bar 71 for supporting the clothes mounted on the hanger 200, and a support 73 supporting both ends of the hanger bar 71. The support portion 73 may be provided at the upper portion of the clothing accommodating portion 1, and the hanger bar 71 may have both ends connected to the support portion 73.

Therefore, the clothes treating apparatus according to the present invention is expected to be superior to the conventional clothes handling apparatus in terms of the drying efficiency of the clothes as well as the refreshing because the clothes are stored on the hanger.

On the other hand, the moving hanger 7 is a motor 75, in the power conversion unit 79, the motor 75 for converting the rotational movement provided by the motor 75 into a horizontal linear motion of the hanger bar 71 It includes a power transmission unit 77 for transmitting the provided power to the power conversion unit 79 and a frame 72 provided on the outer peripheral surface of the upper end of the clothing receiving portion to support each of the above-described components.

The power transmission unit 77 includes a driving pulley 771 provided at the motor 75, a driven pulley 773 connected to the driving pulley and the belt 775, and a rotation shaft 777 coupled to the center of the driven pulley. It may be provided to include. Hanger bar 71 is preferably provided to further include a slot 711 orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. In addition, the power conversion unit 79 is a slot insertion unit 795 is inserted into the slot 711, the shaft coupling portion 791 to be coupled to the rotary shaft 777, the rotary arm 793 connecting the slot insertion portion and the shaft coupling portion. It may be provided to include.

In this case, a bearing housing 78 may be further provided between the shaft coupling portion and the driven pulley to support the rotation of the rotation shaft, and the converter cover prevents the power converter from being exposed to the outside for aesthetics. 713 may be further included.

In the above configuration, when the motor 75 rotates, the driven pulley 773 rotates, so that the rotating shaft 777 coupled to the driven pulley also rotates, and the slot inserting portion 795 has a circular motion having a predetermined diameter. Will do.

On the other hand, the slot 711 provided in the hanger bar 71 is provided to be orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the hanger bar, and further provided so that its length is longer than the diameter of the rotational track of the slot inserting portion (795). Therefore, the slot 711 will be a linear movement in the horizontal direction even if the slot insertion portion 795 is a circular motion.

Therefore, the hanger bar 71 coupled to the slot 711 is in a horizontal linear motion.

The supply unit 3 is an air supply unit 31 for supplying air or hot air to the clothes receiving unit 1, a steam generator for supplying water, mist or steam (hereinafter, steam) to the clothes receiving unit ( 33), but preferably provided in the lower portion of the clothing receiving portion. As such, the reason why the supply device 3 is located below the clothes accommodating part 1 is that hot air and heated steam supplied to the clothes accommodating part have a property to rise.

That is, as long as the supply device 3 is provided to supply hot air or steam from the lower part of the clothing accommodating part 1, steam or hot air can be uniformly supplied into the clothing accommodating part without a separate circulation device.

The shelf (9) is unlike the moving hanger (7) is preferably provided on the lower side of the garment receiving portion in a configuration for mounting a garment that does not need to be mounted on a hanger.

Referring to FIG. 5, the shelf 9 will be described. A body frame 91 forming an appearance of the shelf 9, a support bar 93 supported by the body frame 91, and the shelf It may include a reinforcing frame 95 for reinforcing the strength of (9) and a cover (97) covering the reinforcing frame (95).

The body frame 91 may be provided as a substantially rectangular frame having an open top and bottom surfaces. The upper and lower surfaces are provided in an open form so that the hot air and steam supplied from the air inlet 13 or the steam inlet 11 provided at the lower part of the clothing accommodating part 1 are the body frame 91. To penetrate).

That is, in order to enable deodorization or drying through hot air or steam supplied to the air inlet 13 or the steam inlet 11 even when the clothes are loaded or mounted on the body frame 91. . However, the body frame 91 disclosed in FIG. 5 is provided in a quadrangular shape but may be changed into various shapes to provide a shape or aesthetics of the clothing accommodating part 1.

The body frame 91 accommodates ribs in which a receiving groove 911 in which a reinforcing frame 95 to be described later is accommodated, a hollow hollow 913, and a coupling rib 933 in a cover 97 to be described later are accommodated. It may include a groove 915.

The receiving groove 911 may be provided at one end or opposite ends of the body frame 91, but is provided with a reinforcing frame 95 to be described later to support the strength of the shelf 9 and the support bar 93. It is preferable to be provided at both ends of the body frame 91 in that it is possible. Furthermore, the receiving groove 911 may further include a support rib 9111 for supporting the reinforcing frame 95 to be described later.

The support rib 9111 may be provided to protrude from the receiving groove 911 to support the reinforcing frame 95, but may have a shape in which an outer circumferential surface of the reinforcing frame may be seated.

6 is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 5 to show the hollow part 913.

The hollow part 913 may be provided at opposite ends of the body frame 91 in which the receiving groove 911 is not formed in order to improve the strength of the shelf 9.

On the other hand, the outer circumferential surface of the hollow portion 913 further includes a support portion accommodating groove (9151) in which the shelf support portion 17 can be accommodated so that the body frame 91 is detachable to the garment accommodating portion (1). It is desirable to have.

The support bar 93 is provided to be supported at both ends of the body frame 91 provided with the receiving groove 911 to support the garment. That is, since the upper surface and the lower surface of the body frame 91 is open to allow steam or hot air to flow, the support bar 93 is provided across the open surface of the body frame 91 so that clothing can be provided. I can support it.

The support bar 93 is supported at both ends of the body frame 91 through support holes 9113 provided in the receiving groove 911 of the body frame 91. However, the support bar 93 coupled to the body frame 91 through the support hole 9113 is preferably provided in a cross section to prevent rotation. If the support bar 93 is rotated while being provided at both ends of the body frame 91, not only may cause unnecessary noise, but also may cause a problem of lowering the user's trust in the clothes treatment apparatus.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the support bar 93 and taken along line B-B of FIG. 5.

The cross section of the support bar 93 according to the present invention is preferably provided to have an elliptical shape or a circular cross section, but with a cut surface 933 on its outer circumferential surface. Therefore, the support bar 93 supported at both ends of the body frame 91 by being inserted into the support hole 9113 can be prevented from rotating without a separate fastening member.

However, as shown in FIG. 7, the center of the support bar 93 does not exclude the provision of a fastening hole 931 to which a fastening member such as a screw is coupled. In this case, the reinforcing frame 95 to be described later should be provided to include a fixing hole 953 into which a fastening member such as a screw is inserted at a position corresponding to the fastening hole 931.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the reinforcing frame, wherein the reinforcing frame 95 is inserted into the receiving groove 911 and seated on the support rib 9111 to reinforce the strength of the shelf 9. The support bar 93 can be fixed.

The reinforcing frame 95 has a hook hole 951 to which the fixing hole 953 corresponding to the fastening hole 931 of the support bar 93 and the hook 971 of the cover 97 to be described below are coupled to each other. It may include. Therefore, the reinforcing frame 95 may be coupled to the receiving groove 911 of the body frame 91 through a fastening member inserted into the fixing hole 953 and the fastening hole 931, and the hook ( The cover 97 to be described later is fixed by the 971 and the hook hole 951.

However, the coupling frame (not shown) is provided in the receiving groove 911 of the body frame 91, but the reinforcing frame 95 is provided with a hole (not shown) corresponding to the coupling boss for the reinforcing frame The combination of the 95 and the body frame 91 may be more firm.

9 is a perspective view of the cover, the cover 97 has an effect of providing an aesthetic effect by covering the receiving groove 911 and the reinforcing frame 95 of the body frame 91 so as not to be exposed to the outside. have.

10 is a cross section of the body frame 91, the reinforcing frame 95 and the cover 97, the cover 97 has a hook corresponding to the hook hole (951) of the reinforcing frame (95) 971 is provided. Accordingly, the cover 97 is coupled to the body frame 91 by being inserted into the hook hole 951 of the reinforcing frame 95.

FIG. 11 is an enlarged view of one end of the cover 97. Both ends of the cover 97 may further include coupling ribs 933 to facilitate coupling of the body frame 91 and the cover 97. Can be. In this case, the body frame 91 is preferably provided with a rib receiving groove 915 that can accommodate the coupling rib (973).

Accordingly, the cover 97 is not only coupled to the reinforcing frame 95 through the hook hole 951, but also coupled to both ends of the body frame 91 through the coupling rib 973. ) Can be prevented from floating in the body frame (91).

The present invention may be practiced in various forms and is not limited to the above-described embodiment. Therefore, if the modified embodiment includes the components of the claims of the present invention will be seen as belonging to the scope of the present invention.

1 is a front view of a clothes treating apparatus.

2 is a conceptual diagram of the supply unit.

3 is a perspective view of the combined hanger.

4 is an exploded perspective view of the moving hanger.

5 is an exploded perspective view of the shelf.

6 is a sectional view taken along the line A-A of FIG.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the support bar, taken along line B-B in FIG. 5.

8 is a perspective view of a reinforcing frame.

9 is a perspective view of the cover.

10 is a cross-sectional view of the body frame, the reinforcing frame and the cover combined.

11 is an enlarged view of one end of a cover.

Claims (12)

A clothing accommodating part forming a space in which the clothing is accommodated; Supply unit for selectively supplying steam or hot air to the clothes receiving portion; A body frame having an exterior and having an open top and bottom surfaces, a support bar supported by both ends of the body frame facing the clothes, and a reinforcing frame provided on the body frame, and detachable from the clothes accommodating part Clothing processing apparatus comprising a; shelf. The method of claim 1, The reinforcing frame is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that provided on both ends of the body frame that the support bar is supported. 3. The method of claim 2, The body frame further includes a receiving groove at both ends of the support bar is supported, the reinforcement frame is characterized in that the clothes processing apparatus is provided in the receiving groove. The method of claim 3, The support bar is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that it has a cross section that does not rotate in a state supported on both ends of the body frame. 5. The method of claim 4, Garment processing apparatus, characterized in that the cross section of the support bar is oval.  5. The method of claim 4, Wherein the support bar is provided with a circular cross-section, the outer peripheral surface of the support bar is characterized in that the clothing processing apparatus is formed. The method of claim 5, The clothes treating apparatus further comprises a cover provided in the receiving groove to cover the reinforcing frame. The method of claim 7, wherein At least one of the cover and the reinforcing frame is provided with a hook, and the other one of the clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that the hook hole is accommodated. The method of claim 8, The cover further comprises a coupling rib provided in a position in contact with the receiving groove, the receiving groove further comprises a rib receiving groove for receiving the coupling rib. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 9, The body frame is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that provided with a hollow hollow of the center of the frame. The method of claim 10, The hollow part is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that provided on the portion except for both ends of the support bar is supported. The method of claim 11, The clothing accommodating part further includes a shelf support part supporting the shelf on an inner circumferential surface, and the hollow part further comprises a support part accommodating groove accommodating the shelf support part.

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