KR101456441B1 - Home Sterilization Drier - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a household sterilizing dryer for drying foods of agricultural and marine products in small quantities in a home or a small restaurant, and sterilizing kitchen appliances or baby goods. The present invention relates to a household sterilizing dryer for improving the hot air circulation structure, There is provided a household sterilizing dryer capable of sterilizing kitchen appliances and baby goods used in a kitchen, which is a place where a dryer is installed, without having a separate sterilizer. The household sterilizing and drying machine according to the present invention comprises a drying chamber provided with a support guide on which a tray for storing articles to be dried is placed; A display unit having a drying / sterilization mode selection button, a temperature setting button, and a time setting button on the outside of the door for opening and closing the drying chamber; And a heating fan for supplying heated air to the drying chamber and an electric heater, the household food dryer comprising: a plurality of support guides formed on upper and lower inner walls of left and right inner walls of the drying chamber; A heating duct having a blowing fan and an electrothermal heater formed in the upper chamber of the drying chamber; The air heated by the electrothermal heater in the heating duct is supplied to the air supply duct formed along both outer side walls of the drying chamber; An air supply hole communicating with the air supply duct formed in the left / right inner wall of the drying chamber to supply heated air; A support guide which surrounds the air supply hole and has a discharge port for blowing the heated air to the drying chamber; A wet steam discharge pipe for drying the dried material to discharge wet steam having a high humidity; A grill for controlling supply of outside air to the apparatus chamber; an outside air control door for controlling opening and closing of the grill; An ultraviolet lamp for irradiating an upper part of the drying chamber with ultraviolet rays for sterilizing the drying chamber; .

Description

{Home Sterilization Drier}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a household sterilizing dryer having a sterilizing function, and more particularly, to a household sterilizing dryer for drying foods of agricultural and marine products at home, a small-sized restaurant or farming and fishing village, And more particularly to a household sterilizing dryer capable of sterilizing a kitchen appliance and a baby appliance used in a kitchen, which is a place where the household sterilizing dryer is installed, without having a separate sterilizer.

In order to store agricultural and fishery products produced in agriculture / fishing villages for a long period of time and to prevent deterioration and deterioration, a large dryer having a large heater and a blower is generally used in agriculture / fishing village and utilized. This example is disclosed in Registration No. 0422189, The above-mentioned prior art is characterized in that an inner space and a drying chamber of a size capable of stacking a large number of trays loaded with agricultural and marine products are constituted, and a blower and a heater Thereby circulating the heated air through the air supply space. Since the conventional technology is large, it consumes a large cost and a high energy, so that it can not be used at home or a small restaurant.

A household food drier that improves the above problems is disclosed as a utility model No. 1995-0009777 "Food dryer" and a registered utility model No. 034535 "a food drier." In the food dryer, And the air heated by the hot wire is supplied to the blowing fan to dry the laundry. However, in the food dryer, the heated air can not be used to dry the laundry stored in the tray, but is rapidly increased to the top and discharged through the discharge hole of the lid, so that the drying effect is very small and the amount of the heated air circulated to the tray is relatively small It is disadvantageous in that the drying of the drying object is not uniform and the deviation is large, so that the user often needs to change the position of the drying object or replace the tray frequently.

A small dryer having the above problems is developed by the present applicant and patented Patent Application No. 10-2012-0000360 (filed on Jan. 13, 2012) "Household food dryer" A blowing fan for supplying air heated by the heater to the drying chamber, an air circulating duct for circulating air between the drying chamber outer wall and the inner wall, And the heated air is discharged to the bottom of the tray by efficiently discharging the heated air to the laundry so that the laundry is uniformly dried and the vertical deviation of the drying room is reduced, There is an advantage that it can be used simply in a home or a small restaurant.

However, it is necessary to sterilize the kitchen utensils that are always used in the kitchen space, or it is necessary to sterilize the infant utensils in a home where a child is present. However, The household food drier is not provided with a sterilizing function so that a sterilizer is separately installed, but it is difficult to separately install a sterilizer for kitchen appliances in a narrow kitchen space.

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] Accordingly, the present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a household sterilizing and drying apparatus for drying foods of agricultural and marine products in a small- The present invention also provides a household sterilizing dryer capable of reducing a drying deviation of a laundry to be dried and sterilizing kitchen appliances and baby products used in a kitchen, which is a place where the household sterilizing dryer is installed, without having a separate sterilizer.

The household sterilizing and drying machine according to the present invention comprises a drying chamber provided with a support guide on which a tray for storing articles to be dried is placed; A display unit having a drying / sterilization mode selection button, a temperature setting button, and a time setting button on the outside of the door for opening and closing the drying chamber; And a heating fan for supplying heated air to the drying chamber and an electric heater, the household food dryer comprising: a plurality of support guides formed on upper and lower inner walls of left and right inner walls of the drying chamber; A heating duct having a blowing fan and an electrothermal heater formed in the upper chamber of the drying chamber; The air heated by the electrothermal heater in the heating duct is supplied to the air supply duct formed along both outer side walls of the drying chamber; An air supply hole communicating with the air supply duct formed in the left / right inner wall of the drying chamber to supply heated air; A support guide which surrounds the air supply hole and has a discharge port for blowing the heated air to the drying chamber; A wet steam discharge pipe for drying the dried material to discharge wet steam having a high humidity; A grill for controlling supply of outside air to the apparatus chamber; an outside air control door for controlling opening and closing of the grill; An ultraviolet lamp for irradiating an upper part of the drying chamber with ultraviolet rays for sterilizing the drying chamber; .

The heating air circulated to the air supply duct 40 is supplied into the support guide 12 on which the trays 20 in the drying chamber 10 are placed and the plurality of discharge openings 11 formed in the support guide 12 The heated air is supplied to the lower portion of the sorter 20.

Preferably, the drying chamber inner wall surface is formed of a polished stainless steel sheet of stainless steel 304 to reflect light irradiated from an ultraviolet lamp.

Preferably, a shelf 70 for storing sterilizing kitchenware or baby goods is placed on the drying chamber support guide, and the shelf is formed with a frame, and the frame is provided with a cloth hanger, a cutlery, a cutlery, A multipurpose pedestal and the like, on which the lamps and the like are placed.

Preferably, an air cleaning sterilizing kit (SPI) comprising a circulating air inlet, an ultraviolet lamp, a photocatalytic chip and a purifying air outlet is connected to the air circulation control chamber of the upper wall of the drying chamber in place of the ultraviolet lamp of the drying chamber .

Preferably, a filter that is tightly coupled with the grill is added.

The household sterilizer dryer having the above-described characteristics is a household sterilizer dryer for drying a small amount of foods such as agricultural and marine products in a home or a small-sized restaurant, and sterilizing kitchen appliances or infant products. Thereby reducing the drying deviation of the object to be dried and sterilizing the kitchenware and the baby goods used in the kitchen, which are installed positions, with the irradiation light of the ultraviolet lamp in the dryer without having a separate sterilizer.

Figure 1A is a perspective view of a prior art dryer door in an open state;
Fig. 1B is a perspective view showing a configuration of a dryer apparatus room of the prior art; Fig.
1C is a plan view showing a state of a dryer apparatus room of the prior art.
1D is a side cross-sectional view of a prior art drier dryer.
1e is a front cross-sectional view of a dryer drier of the prior art;
2 is a perspective view of the sterilizing / drying device door of the present invention in an opened state;
3 is a shelf perspective view showing a sterilized article of the present invention.
4 is a perspective view of the sterilization kit for air purification according to the present invention.
5 is a control block diagram of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS [0029] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in Figs. 1A to 1E, a storage space is formed in which the support guide 12, which is covered with the heat insulating material 19 in the outer case 13 and in which the tongue 20 for storing the laundry is supported, And a display unit 14 including a button for setting a sterilization mode, a temperature and a time of the sterilizing and drying unit, and a display unit, and the opening and closing door 15 is configured to open and close the drying chamber 10, The drying chamber 10 is provided with a blowing fan 31 driven by a motor for supplying air to the drying chamber 10 and an electrothermal heater 32 to supply heated air to the drying chamber 10, The blower fan 31 is driven by a motor and the electric heater 32 for heating the air blown from the blower fan 31 is built in the apparatus room 30 to form a blowing fan 31 ), A heating duct (33) connected to the heating duct (33) and an electric heater An air circulation duct 40 connected to the heating duct 33 so as to circulate the heated air into the drying chamber 10 and to be fastened along both outer walls of the drying chamber 10, An air supply hole 41 for supplying heated air to the drying chamber 10 to the support guide 12 on which the jam 20 is placed on the inner wall of the drying chamber 10 and an air supply hole 41 A plurality of discharge ports 11 for discharging heated air circulated inward into the drying chamber 10 so as to surround the drying chamber 10 and a drying chamber 10 A shutter 51 for controlling intake of circulating air in the drying chamber 10 and an apparatus chamber 30 for supplying outside air to the air circulation control chamber 50; And the outer case injection hole 52 connected to the outer case 52 and the outer case 53, And an exhaust pipe 54 for discharging the humidified air generated by the drying is fastened to the outside of the apparatus room 30 so as to control the outside air supplied to the outside air inflow hole 52. [ A grill 55 having a plurality of slots formed in its front surface and an outer air control door 56 for controlling the opening and closing of the grill 55 and a filter 57 tightly coupled to the grill 55 So that contaminants in the outside air flowing from the outside air can be filtered.

The outer air control door 56 is fitted into a rail hole 58 formed inside the grill 55 and is slidably fitted into the rail hole 58 to easily control the opening and closing of the door 56. The filter 57 is connected to the body portion forming the grill 55, Or the main body portion formed on the outside of the grill 55 so that the user can easily detach and clean the main body.

The above-mentioned "household food drier" is used as a kitchen space. It is necessary to store or sterilize the kitchen utensils that are always used in the kitchen space, and it is necessary to sterilize the infant utensils in a home where a child is present. A sterilizer having a sterilizing function must be installed separately.

In order to solve the above-described drawbacks, the present invention provides an ultraviolet lamp 59 capable of sterilizing kitchen utensils such as cloths, knives, chopping boards, cutlery, etc. and baby articles such as soda bottles, And has a control section that can change the driving time of the ultraviolet lamp 59 according to the object to be sterilized.

The inner wall surface of the drying chamber 10 forms a wall surface with a reflective surface so that the light emitted from the ultraviolet lamp 59 can be reflected from the inner wall surface of the drying chamber 10. The material having a high reflectance is preferably made of a stainless steel 304 polished stainless steel plate. In addition to the stainless steel sheet, a material having a smooth surface and a predetermined strength may be used as the inner wall of the drying chamber 10.

It is preferable that the shelf 70 for containing the object to be sterilized is contained in the drying chamber 10 so as to be placed on the receiving guide 12. The shelf 70 includes a frame 71 having a rectangular shape and a multipurpose pedestal 74 in which a cloth hanging table 72, a cutlery 73, a spoon, a milk croissant, 75). In addition, it is of course possible to add a hanger for a necessary use depending on the shape and size of the article. The shelf 70 can be increased or decreased in accordance with the number of the support guides 12 in the drying chamber 10.

An air cleaning sterilization kit (SPI) 80 for sterilizing air in the drying room 10 is provided in the drying chamber 10 in place of an ultraviolet lamp 59 for directly irradiating ultraviolet rays to sterilize the surface of the object. .

The air cleaning sterilization kit (SPI) 80 is formed by coupling with a coupling protrusion provided on a shutter 51 communicated with an air circulation control room 50 located above the drying chamber 10.

The air purifying sterilizing kit (SPI) 80 comprises an inlet 81, an ultraviolet lamp 82, a photocatalytic chip 83, a discharge port 84, and a coupling ring 85. Circulating air passes through the inlet Is decomposed by the ultraviolet lamp 82 and reacts with light irradiated from the ultraviolet lamp to decompose harmful substances in the air, and then moves to the air circulation control room 50 on the upper part of the shutter 51 through the discharge port.

When the ultraviolet ray is irradiated from the ultraviolet lamp 82, the photocatalytic chip 83 is coated with nano silver and photocatalyst TiO 2 or ZnO so that the harmful substances in the air are decomposed by the photocatalytic reaction, They are laminated with either one. That is, the photocatalyst is preferably formed by immersing the photocatalyst solution about 1-5 times and then firing the photocatalyst at room temperature or 80-100 ° C for 1-5 times. The photocatalyst may be formed by spraying, impregnation, dip coating (DIP-coating) It can be processed in various ways.

In the drying chamber 10, an ultraviolet lamp 59 and the air purifying sterilizing kit (SPI) 80 are installed together to sterilize the object to be sterilized by irradiating ultraviolet rays directly to the sterilizing object while circulating the sterilization kit (SPI) It is possible to sterilize harmful substances in the air.

In addition, a charcoal or smoke flavor or the like is added to the filter 57 so that the fragrance can be felt in the dried product, thereby obtaining a dried product having taste and aroma. The outer surface of the front side of the dryer, on which the upper side grill 55 is formed, is maintained at a predetermined distance from the opening / closing door 15 in order to supply outside air to the grill 55, so that the outside air can easily flow into the grill 55 .

A hooking bar 21 supported by the support guide 12 and a hooking member 22 having a plurality of hooking hooks 22 for hooking hanging downward objects on the hooking bar 21, So that it is possible to easily dry or sterilize elongated objects to be dried together with the tray 20.

The present invention relates to a method for drying and sterilizing domestic food products which dry food of agricultural and marine products in a small amount while sterilizing kitchenware or infant products, And has a control section that can control.

This control unit controls the time and temperature for drying or sterilizing by operating the buttons of the display unit 14 formed on the opening and closing door 15 after closing the opening and closing door 15 after the drying object to be dried is loaded on the drying chamber 10, And so on.

When the moisture contained in the drying object is removed, the drying operation is performed in a mode of discharging the moisture vapor generated from the drying room 10. When the humid air is reduced, the discharge port is closed and the discharge port is periodically opened while air in the drying chamber 10 is circulated. When the humidity of the drying object reaches about 15%, the drying is terminated.

When the kitchen appliance or the infant appliance is to be sterilized, the button of the display unit is operated to select the sterilization mode and set the time. In addition, when it is desired to dry and sterilize simultaneously, it is effective to move to a sterilization mode after drying. It is preferable to proceed with drying first because moisture may remain in the object and bacteria may reproduce.

The heated air is connected to the heating duct 33 and is supplied to an air circulation duct 40 constituted by both sides of the outer wall of the drying chamber 10. The supplied heat is supplied to the drying chamber 10 through the air circulation duct 40, Is supplied to a plurality of support guides 12 mounted in the drying chamber 10 through a plurality of air supply holes 41 penetrated through the drying chamber 10 through the plurality of air supply holes 41, 10).

The heated air supplied to the drying chamber 10 is dried in the drying chamber 10 in the air circulating duct 40 by drying the dry substance contained in the drum 20 placed on the support guide 12 in the drying chamber 10. [ A plurality of air supply holes 41 opened in the wall are drilled in corresponding numbers to a plurality of support guides 12 mounted in the drying chamber 10 to supply heat into the respective support guides 12, 12 are uniformly supplied to the respective trays 20 stacked up and down through the discharge port 11 so that the drying object is uniformly dried and the discharge port 11 is formed as a small hole so that the jet air reaches far away 20) By reaching to the central part drying object, even drying and quick drying effect can be obtained.

The support guide 12 is provided with a discharge port 11 between the upper and lower transporters 20 which are loaded with the transporter 20 to supply the heat to the article to be dried in the transporter 20 It is possible to omit the operation of replacing or mixing the teat 20 as in the prior art because it satisfies the even drying conditions by the even heat and there is a possibility that the taste, Minimized.

In the sterilization mode, the objects to be sterilized are housed in a shelf, placed on a support guide 12, and the ultraviolet lamp 59 is driven to irradiate ultraviolet rays. Even though some ultraviolet rays directly irradiated to the subject to be sterilized are irradiated with ultraviolet rays through the wall surface having a high reflectance even though the ultraviolet ray is not directly irradiated, the ultraviolet lamps 59 and the storage positions of the objects to be sterilized are not placed in equilibrium, . It is effective to arrange the light to be perpendicular to the light source because of the characteristic that the light to be irradiated is irradiated in all directions without being irradiated in one direction. Ultraviolet ray of 253.7nm which is excellent in sterilization effect is applied to the ultraviolet wavelength band to be irradiated

The control unit controls the on / off operation of the heater, the blowing fan, the ultraviolet lamp, and the air cleaning sterilization kit, and the driving time and the driving sequence in accordance with the drying mode and sterilization mode selection and the air volume, time, . It is of course possible to carry out drying and sterilization operations in various ways depending on the object

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention but to limit the scope of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

10: drying chamber 11: discharge port 12:
13: outer case 14: display part 15: opening / closing door
19: Insulation 20: Tape 21: Hanging rods
22: a hook ring 30: an apparatus chamber 31: a blowing fan
32: electric heater 33: heating duct 40: air circulation duct
41: heating air supply hole 50: air circulation control chamber 51: shutter
52: outside air injection hole 53: exhaust hole 54:
55: Grill 56: Outdoor control door 57: Filter
58: rail 59: ultraviolet lamp 60:
70: shelf 80: sterilization kit for air purification

Claims (6)

An outer case 13; A drying chamber (10) provided with a support guide (12) on which a pot (20) for containing the object to be dried is placed; A display unit 14 provided outside the door 15 for opening and closing the drying chamber 10 and having a drying / sterilization mode selection button, a temperature setting button, and a time setting button; And a blowing fan (31) for supplying air heated by the drying chamber (10) and an electric heater (32)
A heating duct 33 provided in the upper apparatus chamber 30 of the drying chamber 10 and having the blowing fan 31 and the electrothermal heater 32 installed therein; A wet steam discharge pipe (54) for drying the dried material to discharge wet steam having a high humidity; A grill 55 for controlling supply of outside air to the apparatus room 30, and an outside air adjusting door 56 for controlling opening and closing of the grill 55; And an ultraviolet lamp (59) for irradiating ultraviolet rays to an upper part of the drying chamber (10)
A plurality of support guides 12 formed on the left and right inner walls of the drying chamber 10;
An air supply duct 40 formed along both outer sides of the drying chamber 10 and guiding the air heated by the electrothermal heater 32 inside the heating duct 33 toward the drying chamber 10;
An air supply hole (41) communicating with the air supply duct (40) to supply heated air to the inside of the support guide (12);
And a plurality of discharge ports (11) formed in the support guide (12) for supplying heated air into the drying chamber (10)
The heated air introduced along the air supply duct 40 is supplied to the inside of the support guide 12 on which the sorter 20 is placed and the heated air is supplied through the plurality of outlets 11 formed in the support guide 12 Is sprayed to the lower portion of the teaspoon (20) inside the drying chamber (10). delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the inner wall surface of the drying chamber (10) is made of a polished stainless steel sheet of stainless steel 304 to reflect the light irradiated from the ultraviolet lamp (59) The method according to claim 1,
A shelf 70 for storing a sterilizing kitchenware or a baby article is placed on the support guide 12 in the drying chamber 10 and the shelf 70 is formed with a frame 71, , A multipurpose pedestal (74) on which a cutlery (73), a cutlery, a milk croissant, a syrup bottle and the like are placed, and a handle (75) The method according to claim 1,
An air cleaning sterilizing kit (SPI) 80 composed of a circulating air inlet port 81, an ultraviolet lamp 82, a photocatalytic chip 83, and a purifying air outlet 84 is provided in place of the ultraviolet lamp 59 in the drying chamber 10, Is communicated with the air circulation control chamber (50) of the upper wall in the drying chamber (10) The method according to claim 1,
An air purifying sterilizing kit (SPI) 80 composed of a circulating air inlet port 81, an ultraviolet lamp 82, a photocatalytic chip 83 and a purifying air outlet 84 in the drying chamber 10 is connected to the inside of the drying chamber 10 And is configured to communicate with the air circulation control chamber (50) of the wall.

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