KR101410982B1 - Folding clothes drying rack with multi-functions - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a multifunctional folding laundry drying rack that can reduce time for drying laundry and can sterilize laundry and bedclothes. The laundry drying rack according to the present invention comprises: a platform part including a pair of platforms arranged horizontally on the ground at predetermined intervals; vertical supports combined vertically upward to the center of each of the platforms and having an upper end and a lower end blocked airtightly; horizontal supports with conduits installed on each of the vertical supports in a legnthwise direction at predetermined intervals, mounted between a folding position and an unfolding position to be able to rotate, and having an end combined with the vertical support to communicate fluid to the vertical supports when at the unfolding position, and having the other end blocked; a laundry hanger that is combined between the pair of the vertical supports at the same height to communicate fluid to the conduits of the horizontal supports, and is a pipe having a plurality of holes formed thereon at predetermined intervals; and a blower arranged at the side of the platform part and connected to each of the vertical supports to communicate fluid, wherein air is discharged from the holes on the laundry hanger during the operation of the blower.

Description

{FOLDING CLOTHES DRYING RACK WITH MULTI-FUNCTIONS}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a laundry hanger, and more particularly, to a foldable laundry hanger capable of shortening a drying time of a laundry and sterilizing laundry and bedding.

The laundry hanger is widely used at home because it can dry a lot of clothes with a small space occupation rate and can dry a lot. Generally, the laundry hanger is divided into a folding laundry hanger that can be opened when it is used and folded when it is stored, and a fixed laundry hanger installed on the ceiling of a veranda of a house. In any case, since the laundry hanger is usually used in a room with low air flow, if the air around the laundry hanger is artificially flowed, the humidity around the laundry can be lowered and the laundry can be dried faster.

For example, Korean Utility Model No. 288370 discloses that a ventilation fan is installed in a main body case to shorten the drying time of laundry in a ceiling-mounted type laundry hanger so as to blow air to the laundry hanger below the ventilation fan. However, this can be used in a fixed laundry hanger, and it is difficult to apply it to a portable laundry hanger which is widely used at home.

Korean Patent No. 1090023 discloses that a holder and a mounting plate are provided on a hanger of a folding laundry hanger, an air blowing unit having a heater and a blowing fan are mounted on a mounting plate, and the entire clothes hanger is wrapped around a skirt. This has the advantage of being able to be installed on a conventional folding laundry hanger as needed, but there is the inconvenience that the user has to install the blowing unit and skirt after the laundry on the laundry hanger and disassemble them after the laundry is dried.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2008-0082416 discloses that an air blowing fan and an anion generating device are installed on the side of a side of a side of a normal laundry drying drum and a discharge hole is formed in a side column to discharge wind through a discharge hole. Although this structure may help dry the laundry near the side pillars, the laundry in the rest of the laundry room is blocked by the laundry near the side pillars, It is difficult to do.

Korean Utility Model Registration No. 453203 discloses that a plurality of air holes are drilled in a laundry hanger portion of a portable laundry hanger and a blower is connected to a laundry hanger portion so that the wind of the blower is discharged through the air blow hole of the hanger portion. According to this utility model, since the wind will come out through all the hanging clothes in the laundry hanger, it is possible to supply the uniform air to all the clothes to be dried, and it is evaluated as a step further than the above-mentioned open patent which can supply only some clothes . However, this laundry hanger is inconvenienced when the laundry hanger is exposed to the outside due to the wind tunnel which is exposed to the outside to connect the blower and the laundry hanger, and the laundry hangs out. In addition, since this utility model has a structure suitable for application to a small Y-type laundry hanger, it is difficult to apply to a relatively large multi-fold folding laundry hanger which can hold more clothes.

An object of the present invention is to provide a laundry hanger which can reduce the drying time of laundry by discharging wind through a hanger of a laundry hanger, in particular, a multi-stage folding laundry hanger.

It is also an object of the present invention to provide a laundry hanger having a structure capable of sterilizing laundry placed on the outside of a clothes dryer as well as sterilizing clothes laid on the laundry hanger.

Preferably, the multi-stage folding laundry hanger according to the present invention includes: a supporting unit including a pair of pedestals horizontally arranged at a predetermined interval on the ground; A vertical support vertically upwardly coupled to the center of each of the supports, the upper and lower ends of which are hermetically sealed pipes; A conduit having one end in fluid communication with the vertical support and the other end being clogged when in an unfolded position; Formed horizontal supports; A laundry hanger coupled between the pair of horizontal supports at the same height in fluid communication with the conduits, the hanger being a pipe having a plurality of holes at predetermined intervals; And a blower disposed on the side of the receiving unit, the blower being connected in fluid communication with the respective vertical supports.

In the operation of the blower, wind generated by the blower flows to each of the laundry hanger through the vertical support and the horizontal support, and is eventually discharged to the outside of the laundry drying room through a plurality of holes formed in the laundry hanger. Because each laundry hanger has a laundry to be dried, the wind coming out of the hole of the laundry hanger can directly affect the laundry and improve the drying speed of the laundry.

In the present invention, preferably, the horizontal support base is mounted through a coupling member coupled to the vertical support, the coupling portion of the horizontal support is rotatably coupled to the fixing pin of the coupling member, The end portion of the horizontal support on the side of the coupling portion is prevented from being rotated by the engagement portion of the connection member to maintain the extended position.

In the present invention, preferably, the laundry drying rack further comprises an ultraviolet lamp attached to a horizontal bar provided between the upper ends of the vertical supports, wherein one end of the horizontal bar rotates horizontally And the other end of the horizontal bar may be releasably coupled to the top of another vertical support.

Preferably, in the present invention, the blower has a structure in which the upper end is clogged by a lid having two holes, through two connecting pipes in fluid communication with the respective holes and the vertical support, To the wind. The two connection pipes may be coupled to a pipe coupling unit integrally formed with a connection member for connecting the vertical support and the horizontal support, or may be coupled to a pipe coupling unit disposed adjacent to the lower side of the connection member.

The laundry hanger of the present invention can supply wind to the laundry side through all of the laundry hanger of a relatively large multi-stage folding laundry hanger, thus making it possible to dry many clothes quickly and evenly.

In addition, the ultraviolet lamp rotatably mounted on the upper part can sterilize laundry hanging on the laundry hanger, and can sterilize objects that can not be placed in the laundry drying rack such as a bed when the ultraviolet lamp is rotated away from the laundry drying hob have.

In addition, the clothes hanger of the present invention provides an advantageous effect recognized throughout the specification.

1 is a perspective view of a multi-stage folding laundry hanger in an open state according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the laundry hanger of Fig. 1 in a folded state. Fig.
3 is a bottom view of the laundry hanger of FIG. 1 in an unfolded state;

Additional aspects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following description of exemplary embodiments, which should be understood in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. To facilitate a clear understanding of the present invention, some of the elements in the figures may be exaggerated, omitted, or schematically illustrated. Also, the size of each component does not entirely reflect the actual size.

FIGS. 1 to 3 show a clothes dryer to which a blowing mechanism and a sterilizing means according to the present invention are applied, including many configurations similar to those of a multi-stage folding laundry drying machine used in the home. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the clothes dryer in an unfolded state, Fig. 2 is a perspective view thereof in a folded state, and Fig. 3 is a bottom view thereof in an unfolded state.

The clothes drying bases are basically constructed such that vertical supports 20a and 20b are coupled in parallel to each other in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the two pedestals 10a and 10b and the first height of each of the vertical supports 20a and 20b A structure in which horizontal supports 31a, 32a, 31b, and 32b are mounted as if they were bird's wings and a plurality of laundry hinges are coupled between a corresponding pair of horizontal supports 31a, 31b, 32a and 32b, The horizontal supports 33a, 34a, 33b and 34b are likewise mounted at the second heights of the vertical supports 20a and 20b and a plurality of laundry hangers are provided between the corresponding pair of horizontal supports 33a, 33b, 34a and 34b And have a combined structure. In the clothes drying rack, coupling pipes 70a and 70b coupled to the blower 60 mounted on the lower part of the laundry drying room are coupled to the vertical supports 20a and 20b, respectively, And a horizontal bar 80 on which an ultraviolet lamp 90 is mounted is coupled to the upper ends of the upper and lower walls 20a and 20b.

The pedestals 10a and 10b serve to support the clothes rack so that the clothes rack 10 can be maintained in an upright state without falling over. The pedestals 10a and 10b can be fixed to the clothes rack 10, And can be connected to each other. Although not shown in the drawings, the pedestal can be attached to the lower portion of the caster, for example, two to each pedestal for easy movement of the laundry hanger.

The vertical supports 20a and 20b are made of hollow pipes having substantially the same structure and are vertically coupled to the centers of the pedestals 10a and 10b. Each of the vertical supports 20a and 20b is closed so that the upper and lower ends are prevented from escaping from the wind, but a hole penetrating in the lateral direction at the first and second heights to which the horizontal supports are engaged is opened, So that the wind entering the support can enter the horizontal support through the hole. Below the first height, there is a hole through which the wind from the blower 60 can enter, so that each of the vertical supports may have five holes. The hole associated with the blower may be located slightly below the hole associated with the horizontal support and at an angle of about 90 degrees horizontally and associated with the horizontal support.

The horizontal supports 31a, 32a, 31b and 32b are rotatably mounted to the first heights of the vertical supports 20a and 20b through the first connecting members 51a and 51b, Horizontal supports 33a, 34a, 33b, 34b are rotatably mounted through the members 52a, The first connecting members 51a and 51b are extruded so as to be in close contact with the vertical supports 20a and 20b and are perforated at positions corresponding to the holes formed at the first height of the vertical supports and are provided on both sides, And has a structure capable of rotatably coupling the horizontal supports 31a, 32a (31b, 32b). The first linking member can be fixed to the vertical support by fixing means such as rivets or bolts so that the first linking members 51a and 51b do not flow down from the vertical support rods 20a and 20b. The second connecting members 52a and 52b also have the same structure as the first connecting members 51a and 51b in coupling with the vertical supports 20a and 20b and the horizontal supports 33a and 34a and 33b and 34b, An example of which is shown in a partially enlarged view of FIG.

The rotation of the horizontal supports 31a, 32a, 33a, 34a, 31b, 32b, 33b, 34b may be designed to be possible between an unfolded position as shown in Fig. 1 and a folded position as shown in Fig. 2, the engaging portion of the horizontal support 33a is coupled to the fixing pin 521 of the second linking member 52a, and when the horizontal support 521 is unfolded, The end of the horizontal support 33a on the side of the engagement portion is blocked by the engagement portion 522 of the second connection member 52a so that the horizontal support 33a is no longer rotated downward It is possible to maintain the state of being substantially horizontally spread.

The horizontal supports 31a, 32a, 33a, 34a, 31b, 32b, 33b, and 34b are formed such that a conduit is formed inside the vertical supports 20a and 20b so that the wind, . The conduit of the horizontal support is open so that the side of the conduit associated with the hole formed at the first or second height of the vertical support can be engaged in fluid communication with the vertical support while the remaining portion is in fluid communication with the hanger The air is blocked so as not to pass.

The conduit of the horizontal support is opened in a state in which the conduit inlet 331 (341) is opened downward while the horizontal support 33a (34a) is folded, as shown in a partially enlarged view of FIG. 2, The conduit inlet 331 of the horizontal support 33a rotates about the fixing pin 521 of the second connection member 52a while the conduit inlet 331 is connected to the vertical support 20a And the conduit inlet 341 of the horizontal support 34a is hermetically coupled to the through hole 523 of the second connection member 52a formed at the same position as the hole formed at the second height, (Not shown) formed on the opposite side of the hole 523. As a result, the wind entering the vertical support 20a can enter the conduit of the horizontal supports 33a and 34a.

The above-described rotation of the horizontal support and the fluid communication between the vertical support and the horizontal support are the same for the remaining connection members 52b, 51a and 51b, although they have been described only in connection with the second connection member 52a.

A plurality of laundry hangers 40 are mounted in a lateral direction between a pair of horizontal supporting posts 31a, 31b; 32a, 32b; 33a, 33b; 34a, 34b facing each other. The laundry hanger 40 has a hollow pipe structure with both ends opened. As illustrated in the bottom view of FIG. 3, a hole 41 is formed at a predetermined interval in the lower portion of the laundry hanger 40 in a state in which the horizontal supports are spread . Each end of the laundry hanger 40 is coupled in fluid communication with the conduit of the horizontal support. For example, the laundry hanger 40 may be inserted into the groove of the horizontal support formed in fluid communication with the conduit of the horizontal support and having an inner diameter corresponding to the outer diameter of the laundry hanger. Further, after the laundry hanger is inserted into the groove of the horizontal support, the laundry hanger can be tightly coupled to the horizontal support by being tightened by screw fastening means. The wind that entered the vertical supports 20a, 20b enters the laundry hanger 40 through the conduit of the horizontal support and exits the laundry hanger through several holes 41 in the laundry hanger.

The blower 60 is for supplying the wind which is finally to be discharged through the hole 41 of the laundry hanger 40. The blower 60 is provided with two pedestals 10a, 10b. However, the present invention is not limited thereto. The blower 60 has, for example, a structure in which an electric motor and a fan are installed in a cylindrical body to blow upward, and a lid 61 having two holes is formed so that wind generated by the rotation of the fan can be collected without scattering Lt; / RTI >

The two holes in the lid 61 of the blower 60 are respectively coupled to one ends of the hollow connecting pipes 70a and 70b and the other ends of the connecting pipes are connected to the pipe connecting portions of the first connecting members 51a and 52b 511). The pipe coupling portion 511 is provided to be in fluid communication with the above-described holes which are slightly below the first height in the vertical supports 20a and 20b. This causes the wind generated by the blower 60 to be branched in two directions by the holes of the lid 61 and to enter the vertical supports 20a and 20b through the connecting pipes 70a and 70b, Enters the respective laundry hanger 40 through the conduits of the horizontal supports connected in fluid communication with the vertical supports and exits through the plurality of holes 41 of the laundry hanger.

The pipe coupling portion 511 may be integrally formed with the first connection members 51a and 51b or may be separately formed and mounted on the vertical supports 10a and 10b adjacent to and directly below the first connection member. In the latter case, the first connecting members 51a and 51b and the second connecting members 52a and 52b may be formed in the same manner.

An ultraviolet lamp 90 is installed at the top of the laundry drying basin to sterilize the laundry which is to be positioned below the laundry drying basin. A horizontal bar 80 for mounting the ultraviolet lamp 90 is coupled to the upper ends of the vertical supports 20a and 20b so that one end of the horizontal bar is rotatable horizontally at the upper end of the vertical support 20b And the other end of the horizontal bar is detachably coupled to the upper end of the vertical support 20a. The horizontal bar 80 can therefore be located outside the space defined by the two vertical supports 20a and 20b of the laundry hanger and can be moved away from the position coupled with the two vertical supports 20a and 20b, When the UV lamp 90 is rotated 180 degrees, the ultraviolet lamp 90 may be positioned substantially outside the clothes dryer so as to sterilize a bed or a closet.

A rotation coupling member 53b rotatably coupled to the vertical support 20b and fixedly coupled to one end of the horizontal bar 90 is provided at the upper end of the vertical support 20b for coupling the horizontal bar 90 A slide coupling member 53a fixedly coupled to the vertical support 20b at the upper end of the vertical support 20a and slidable in the horizontal direction so that the other end of the horizontal bar 90 can be slidably inserted and removed, May be provided.

An electric wire (not shown) for supplying power to the ultraviolet lamp 90 starts inside the blower 60 and is connected to the inside of the connecting pipe 70b and the inside of the vertical support 31b and the horizontal bar 80 And may be connected to the ultraviolet lamp 90 through the inside thereof.

The above-described embodiments are intended to illustrate the preferred embodiments of the present invention for those skilled in the art to understand and easily implement the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the present invention. It will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention and that the invention is entitled to the full scope of the appended claims.

A horizontal support 331, 341: a conduit inlet of the horizontal support 40: a laundry hanger 41: a hole 51a of the laundry hanger 41a: a hole of the laundry hanger 31a, 31b, 32a, 32b, 33a, 51b: first connecting member 511: pipe connecting portion of first connecting member 52a, 52b: second connecting member 521: fixing pin of second connecting member 522: engaging portion of second connecting member 523: The air blowing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the air blowing pipe

Claims (5)

A pedestal including a pair of pedestals arranged horizontally at predetermined intervals on the ground;
A vertical support vertically upwardly coupled to the center of each of the supports, the upper and lower ends of which are hermetically sealed pipes;
A conduit having one end in fluid communication with the vertical support and the other end being clogged when in an unfolded position; Formed horizontal supports;
A laundry hanger coupled between the pair of horizontal supports at the same height in fluid communication with the conduits, the hanger being a pipe having a plurality of holes at predetermined intervals; And
A blower disposed on the receiving portion side and connected to each of the vertical supports in fluid communication;
Wherein the blower has a structure in which the upper end is closed by a lid having two holes, and each of the holes and the vertical support are connected to each other by a fluid communication Wherein the vertical support is provided with two connecting pipes connecting the vertical supporting members. [2] The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the horizontal support is mounted through a coupling member coupled to the vertical support, the coupling portion of the horizontal support being rotatably coupled to the fixing pin of the coupling member, Wherein an end portion of the support portion on the coupling portion is prevented from being rotated by the engagement portion of the connection member, thereby maintaining the extended position. The washing machine according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the clothes rack further comprises an ultraviolet lamp attached to a horizontal bar coupled between upper ends of the vertical supports, wherein one end of the horizontal bar is horizontally And the other end of the horizontal bar is detachably coupled to the upper end of the other vertical support. delete [2] The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the two connection pipes are coupled to a pipe coupling unit integrally formed with a connection member for connecting the vertical support and the horizontal support, A folding clothes dryer.

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