KR19990017473A - Water Purifier with Water Supply to Refrigerator - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a water purifier, and more particularly, to a water purifier capable of supplying water to a beverage supply device or an ice maker of a refrigerator.

The present invention is installed in the case, the case and is in communication with a water source (water source) to filter the water, one side protrudes to the outside of the case is installed to guide the water passing through the filter is supplied to the outside of the case In the water purifier provided with a tube,

A three-way valve is provided between the filter and the guide tube, and the three-way valve is configured to selectively open or close water passing through the filter to the guide tube and the refrigerator while being opened and closed by a switching lever projecting out of the case. .

Description

Water Purifier with Water Supply to Refrigerator

The present invention relates to a water purifier, and more particularly, to a water purifier capable of supplying water to a beverage supply device or an ice maker of a refrigerator.

Today, a large refrigerator equipped with a beverage supply or an ice maker is generally used. A conventional method of supplying water to a beverage supply device or an ice maker of the refrigerator will be described with reference to FIGS.

The method of supplying water to the beverage supply device 11 of the refrigerator 10 is to open the door 12 as shown in Figure 1 and fill the water in the beverage container (not shown) installed on the back of the door and a predetermined time has elapsed When the water was cold, the water was drunk through the drink feeding device.

As shown in FIG. 2, in the method of supplying water to the ice maker 15 of the refrigerator 10, a supply pipe 16 communicating with the ice maker 15 side is provided on the back of the refrigerator and the supply pipe 16 is connected. Water was supplied in communication with a water source such as a water supply 30.

As such, the conventional method of supplying water to a beverage supply device or an ice maker of a refrigerator provides water by directly supplying water to a beverage container or directly connecting an unpurified water source to a refrigerator, which is inconvenient to use and unsanitary. There was a downside.

The present invention has been made to solve the above disadvantages, an object of the present invention is to provide a water purifier that can supply water to a convenient and hygienic refrigerator to directly supply water to the refrigerator in the water purifier. .

1,2 is a perspective view of a refrigerator for explaining a conventional method of supplying water to the refrigerator,

3 is a perspective view showing that the refrigerator and the water purifier according to the present invention are in communication;

Figure 4 is a front view showing the internal configuration of the water purifier according to the present invention,

5 is a front view of a three-way valve installed in the water purifier according to the present invention;

6A, 6B and 6C are cross-sectional views of the ball for explaining that water is supplied by the rotation of the ball installed in the water purifier according to the present invention.

Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings

100: water purifier, 110: case, 120: filter,

130: 3-way valve, 132: ball.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a case, a filter installed inside the case and communicating with a water source (water source) to purify the water, one side protrudes to the outside of the case and the water passing through the filter outside the case In the water purifier having a guide tube for guiding the supply to

A three-way valve is provided between the filter and the guide tube, and the three-way valve is configured to selectively open or close water passing through the filter to the guide tube and the refrigerator while being opened and closed by a switching lever projecting out of the case. .

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of a water purifier capable of supplying water to a refrigerator according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in FIG. 3, the water purifier 100 according to the present invention communicates with the refrigerator so that water may be supplied to the beverage supply device or the ice maker side of the refrigerator 10. That is, the above-described supply pipe 16 is provided on the back of the refrigerator, and one side of the supply pipe 16 is in communication with the beverage supply device and the ice maker side. And the water purifier according to the present invention is configured to supply water to the supply pipe 16, which will be described with reference to Figs.

Figure 4 is a front view showing the internal configuration of the water purifier according to the present invention, Figure 5 is a front view of a three-way valve installed in the water purifier according to the present invention.

To explain this, a plurality of filters 120 are installed inside the case 110 forming the exterior of the water purifier. The filter 120 is a composite filter 121 and the hollow fiber membrane filter 122 and receives water from a water source such as tap water to purify the water. The purified water from the filter 120 is introduced into the three-way valve 130, the three-way valve 130 to supply the purified water to the user side or the refrigerator side or block the purified water.

The three-way valve 130 is provided with first, second, and third flow paths 131a, 131b, and 131c at an angle of 90 °. The first passage 131a communicates with the filter 120 side, the second passage 131b communicates with the guide tube 140 provided above the case 100, and the third passage 131c communicates with the refrigerator 10. Communicating with the side. The guide tube 140 and the second flow passage 131b communicate with each other by a cap 141, and the cap 141 is rotated 360 °. That is, the guide tube 140 is rotated 360 °.

In addition, a ball 132 (see FIG. 6) in which the U-shaped flow path 132a is formed is built in the three-way valve 130, and the ball 132 is a switching lever 145 installed at the front of the case 100. (See FIG. 3). Reference numeral 115 is a fixture for fixing the filter.

As the switching lever 145 is rotated 90 ° water is supplied and blocked, which will be described with reference to FIG. 6A, 6B, 6C, and 6D are cross-sectional views of the ball showing that water is supplied by the rotation of the ball installed in the water purifier according to the present invention.

In the state as shown in FIG. 6A, since the first flow path 131a and the second flow path 131b communicate with each other by the U-shaped flow path 132a formed in the ball, the purified water passing through the filter is supplied to the guide tube 140. The user can then drink the integer directly.

When the switching lever 145 is rotated 90 degrees clockwise in the state of FIG. 6A, it is as shown in FIG. 6B. In this case, none of the first, second and third flow paths is in communication with each other. Therefore, the purified water passed through the filter is not supplied anywhere.

In the state of FIG. 6B, when the switching lever 145 is rotated 90 degrees clockwise, it becomes as in FIG. 6C, which is also the same as in FIG. 6B.

In the state of FIG. 6C, when the switching lever 145 is rotated 90 ° clockwise, as shown in FIG. 6D, in this case, the first flow path 131a and the third flow path 131b have a U-shaped flow path of the ball 132. 132a), the purified water passing through the filter is supplied to the refrigerator side.

In this way, when the switching lever is rotated, the ball 132 is rotated so that the first, second, and third flow paths communicate with each other, and thus the purified water passing through the filter is selectively supplied to or blocked by the guide tube 140 or the refrigerator 10. .

As described above, the water purifier capable of supplying water to the refrigerator according to the present invention has a very convenient feature because it can supply water from the water purifier to the refrigerator without a separate medium.

In addition, since the purified water can be supplied to the refrigerator to drink through a drink supply device or ice-making in an ice maker, there is a very hygienic feature.

Claims (2)

A case, a filter installed inside the case and communicating with a water source to purify water, and having one side protruding outward from the case, and having a guide tube for guiding water passing through the filter to the outside of the case. In the water purifier, a three-way valve is provided between the filter and the guide tube, and the three-way valve is opened and closed by a switching lever protruding out of the case to selectively supply water passing through the filter to the guide tube and the refrigerator side. Water purifier capable of supplying water to the refrigerator, characterized in that the cut off. According to claim 1, wherein the three-way valve is provided with a ball is formed with a U-shaped flow path is possible to supply water to the refrigerator, characterized in that for opening and closing the flow path of the three-way valve while rotating by 90 ° by the rotation of the switching lever water purifier.