KR20030049860A - clothes dryer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A clothes drier is provided to improve energy efficiency, to reduce drying hours and to decrease power consumption by separating the specific clothes and drying additionally with using hot blast. CONSTITUTION: A clothes drier comprises a drying drum(30) installed in a body; a hot blast supply passage(10) connected to the drying drum to guide hot blast into the drying drum; a hot blast discharge passage(80) guiding air from the drying drum out of the body; and an auxiliary drier(200) receiving hot blast discharged out of the body through the hot blast discharge passage for drying. Energy is used efficiently by sorting the specific laundry from the clothes and drying with using hot blast. Power consumption is reduced by decreasing drying hours.

Description

Clothes dryer

The present invention relates to a clothes dryer, and more particularly, a drying object that needs to be dried and separated from general clothes by utilizing hot air discharged to the outside after performing a drying function primarily while passing through an inside of a drying drum. It relates to a clothes dryer provided with an auxiliary dryer that can be separated and dried separately.

In general, a clothes dryer is a device for automatically drying a dry object (clothing) in a wet state in which washing is completed. A conventional configuration of such a clothes dryer is as follows.

1 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view schematically showing a clothes dryer according to the prior art, the conventional clothes dryer, the main body 100 is formed with an inlet (100a) in the front, and the inner peripheral surface rotatably installed in the main body 100 A drying drum 30 having a plurality of stirring pieces 30a integrally formed therein, a door 40 for selectively opening and closing the inlet 100a, and a motor fixed inside the main body 100 to generate driving force ( 60, a drying drum rotating belt 70 which transfers the driving force generated by the motor 60 to the drying drum 30, and a hot air supply device for supplying hot hot air into the drying drum 30. It is composed.

The hot air supply device is connected to one side of the rear side of the drying drum 30, the heater 20 is installed inside the heater to heat the air introduced from the outside of the main body 100 to a high temperature state into the drying drum (30) Hot air supply passage 10 for guiding, hot air discharge passage 80 for guiding the air inside the drying drum 30 to the outside of the main body 100, and external air through the hot air supply passage 10 It is composed of an exhaust fan 50 for generating a forced blowing force to be discharged to the outside of the main body 100 through the hot air discharge passage (80).

Referring to the drying operation according to the conventional clothes dryer having such a configuration as follows.

First, after the drying object is put into the drying drum 30, the door 40 is closed and the drying stroke is performed. The heater 20 and the motor 60 are operated.

Then, as the exhaust fan 50 is operated, the hot air generated by the high temperature of the external air introduced into the hot air supply passage 10 through the heater 20 is heated through the hot air supply passage 10 and the drying drum 30. Forced inward.

Subsequently, the hot air introduced into the drying drum 30 is discharged to the outside of the main body 100 through the hot air discharge passage 80 while evaporating the moisture of the dry object in the wet state by the suction blowing force of the exhaust fan 50. In this case, the drying drum 30 receives the driving force of the motor 60 by the belt 70 and is rotated at a low speed to lift and drop the drying object therein. Drying will take place.

However, such a conventional clothes dryer has a structure in which hot air, which primarily performs a drying function of the drying object while passing through the drying drum 30, is discharged as it is to the outside of the main body 100 through the hot air discharge passage 80. In this case, the hot air discharged to the outside of the main body 100 performs a drying function primarily, but has a temperature condition and a humidity condition to perform an additional drying function, and the hot air is discharged to the outside as it is. This results in a reversal of the current trend towards efficient use.

In addition, the conventional clothes dryer has a structure in which the drying drum 30 is rotated to prevent tangling of clothes or to improve drying performance. Such a structure is applied to a drying object such as shoes or dolls that are difficult to dry in a rotary drying method. There was this inappropriate problem.

In addition, there was a problem that is inappropriate to dry the drying object that needs to be separated and dried separately from the general clothing.

The present invention has been made to solve the conventional problems as described above, the present invention by performing the drying function primarily while passing through the drying drum to take advantage of the hot air discharged to the outside again, separated from the general clothing to dry An object of the present invention is to provide a clothes dryer for separately drying a desired object to be dried.

1 is a longitudinal sectional view schematically showing a clothes dryer according to the prior art,

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view schematically showing a clothes dryer according to the present invention,

Figure 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing the flow path connecting means and hot air distribution port shown in FIG.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

10 ... hot air supply, 30 ... drying drum,

80 ... hot air exhaust euro, 100 ...

200..conditioners, 201 .... drying rooms,

210 ... hot air inlet duct, 290 hot air discharge duct.

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a drying drum provided inside the main body, a hot air supply passage connected to the drying drum to guide hot air into the drying drum, and guides the air inside the drying drum to the outside of the main body. In the clothes dryer comprising a hot air discharge passage, the clothes dryer further comprises an auxiliary dryer for performing a drying function by receiving hot air discharged to the outside of the main body through the hot air discharge passage. do.

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

In the following description, the same members among the main components of the clothes dryer according to the present invention will be given the same reference numbers with reference to the above-mentioned prior art according to FIG. 1, and the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

2 is a longitudinal sectional view schematically showing a clothes dryer according to the present invention.

The clothes dryer according to the present invention may perform a drying function again by using hot air discharged from the drying drum 30 to the outside of the main body 100 after first performing a drying function while passing through the drying drum 30. The auxiliary dryer 200 is further provided.

The auxiliary dryer 200 has a housing 200a forming an external appearance, a hot air inlet duct 210 for guiding hot air discharged from the main body 100 to the auxiliary dryer 200, and the hot air inlet duct 210. It consists of a flow path connecting means 220 for communicating the hot air discharge passage 80 installed inside the main body 100, and a hot air discharge duct 290 for discharging the air in the auxiliary dryer 200 to the outside.

This will be described in more detail as follows.

The housing 200a constituting the clothes dryer of the present invention has a drying chamber 201 having a predetermined space therein to accommodate a drying object therein, and on one side of the housing 200a toward the drying chamber 201. Inlet (not shown) is formed to be opened and closed by a door means (not shown) to insert or withdraw the object to be dried, it is configured to form the appearance of the auxiliary dryer (200).

The hot air inlet duct 210 constituting the clothes dryer of the present invention is connected to the air discharge side end of the hot air discharge passage 80, one end of which is installed inside the main body 100, the other end is connected to the drying chamber 201 It is configured to serve to guide the air flow so that the hot air, which performs the drying function primarily, may be introduced into the drying chamber 201 while passing through the drying drum 30 inside the main body 100.

The hot air discharge duct 290 constituting the clothes dryer of the present invention is installed so that one end thereof is in communication with the drying chamber 201 and the other end is in communication with the outside of the housing 200a to house the air inside the drying chamber 201. 200a is configured to serve to guide the air flow so as to be discharged outward.

In this case, a blowing force for forcibly feeding hot air into the drying chamber 201 through the hot air inflow duct 210 and a blowing force for forcibly discharging air inside the drying chamber 201 through the hot wind discharge duct 290 to the outside. Is due to the operation of the exhaust fan 50 according to the operation of the motor 60 installed inside the main body 100.

Therefore, there is no need to provide a separate blowing means for supplying hot air into the drying chamber 201 or discharging hot air to the drying chamber 201.

On the other hand, Figure 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing the flow path connecting means and the hot air distribution port shown in Figure 2, the flow path connecting means 220 constituting the clothes dryer of the present invention is the air discharge of the hot air discharge passage (80) A male screw portion 221 formed on an outer circumferential surface of the side end portion and a female screw portion 222 that can be fastened in correspondence with the male screw portion 221 are formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof to be rotatable at one end of the hot air inflow duct 210. It consists of a connection nut 223 is installed so that the hot air inlet duct 210 and the hot air discharge passage 80 is configured to selectively connect according to the user's needs.

That is, when the user intends to use the auxiliary dryer 200, the main body 100 and the auxiliary dryer are formed by communicating the hot air inflow duct 210 and the hot air discharge passage 80 with each other using the flow path connecting unit 220. (200) can be used at the same time, on the other hand, if the user wants to perform the drying function only by the main body 100, by releasing the coupling of the connection using the flow path connecting means 220 so that only the main body 100 can be used. do.

On the other hand, according to the clothes dryer of the present invention, it is preferable to install the drying shelf 240 inside the drying chamber 201 of the auxiliary dryer 200, so that the drying object is stored in multiple stages to be dried.

In this case, one end is connected to the air inlet side end portion of the hot air inlet duct 210 inside the drying chamber 201, and a plurality of branch pipes branched toward the respective parts of the drying shelf 240 separated at multiple stages. By installing the hot air distribution port 230 is formed 230a, 230b, 230c, it is possible to evenly discharge the hot air introduced into the drying chamber 201 toward each part of the drying shelf 240, drying efficiency It is preferable to configure so as to further increase.

The operation and effects of the clothes dryer according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention having the above-described configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 as follows.

According to the clothes dryer of the present invention, by selectively connecting the auxiliary dryer 200 to the main body 100 according to a user's needs, the drying drum 30 in the main body 100 and the drying chamber 201 of the auxiliary dryer 200. At the same time bar to perform a drying function, in the following description will be described by taking an example in which the user performs a drying function by connecting the auxiliary dryer 200 to the main body 100.

First, the hot air discharge passage 80 of the main body 100 and the hot air of the auxiliary dryer 200 are fastened by fastening the connecting nut 223 to the male screw 221 formed at the air discharge side end of the hot air discharge passage 80. Connect the inlet duct 210.

Thereafter, the drying object 30 is introduced into the drying drum 30 inside the main body 100 and the drying chamber 201 of the auxiliary dryer 200, and the user has an auxiliary drying function provided on an operation panel (not shown). When the drying stroke is further selected, the heater 20 and the motor 60 inside the main body 100 are operated.

Then, as the exhaust fan 50 is operated, the hot air that has become hot as the outside air introduced into the hot air supply passage 10 passes through the heater 20 to the inside of the drying drum 30 through the hot air supply passage 10. Forced inflow.

Subsequently, the hot air introduced into the drying drum 30 primarily performs the drying function of the drying object accommodated inside the drying drum 30 while evaporating the moisture of the drying object in the wet state by the suction blowing force of the exhaust fan 50. Done.

In addition, the hot air that performs the primary drying function is discharged to the outside of the main body 100 through the hot air discharge passage 80, and at this time, the hot air discharged to the outside of the main body 100 through the hot air discharge passage 80 is a hot air inlet duct. Through the 210 is supplied into the drying chamber 201 of the auxiliary dryer (200).

The hot air supplied into the drying chamber 201 is supplied to each part of the drying shelf 240 through the plurality of distribution ports 230a, 230b and 230c through the hot air distribution port 230 and to the drying shelf 240. After evaporating the moisture of the received drying object, it is discharged to the outside of the drying chamber 201 through the hot air discharge duct 290.

While repeating the above-described operation, it is possible to simultaneously perform the drying function of the drying object accommodated in the drying drum 30 and the drying chamber 201.

On the other hand, the embodiment of the present invention as described above is configured to help the understanding of the present invention is not limited only to the above-described embodiment, various modifications are possible within the scope without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the clothes dryer has the following effects.

First, the clothes dryer according to the present invention, by guiding the hot air performing the drying function of the drying object primarily to the drying chamber of the auxiliary dryer while passing through the drying drum to perform an additional drying function, to promote the efficient use of energy One effect is to make it work.

Second, according to the present invention clothes dryer, by separating the drying object, such as shoes or dolls that are not suitable for the rotary drying method of performing a drying function while rotating the drying drum, by further drying the application of the object to be dried It has an enlarged effect.

Third, by allowing the drying object to be dried separately from the general clothing to be dried at the same time as the general clothing using the auxiliary dryer 200, there is an effect of reducing the time required to dry the drying object, The reduction of power consumption can be achieved by shortening the drying time.

Claims (5)

In the clothes dryer comprising a drying drum provided inside the main body, a hot air supply passage connected to the drying drum to guide the hot air into the drying drum, and a hot air discharge passage to guide the air inside the drying drum to the outside of the main body. , The clothes dryer further comprises an auxiliary dryer capable of supplying hot air discharged to the outside of the main body through the hot air discharge passage. The method of claim 1, The auxiliary dryer, A housing provided with an opening and closing opening and a drying chamber for inputting and receiving a drying object therein; A hot air inlet duct connected to the hot air discharge passage and the other end connected to the drying room so that hot air can be introduced into the drying chamber; Flow passage connecting means for communicating the hot air inlet duct and the hot air discharge passage; Clothes dryer characterized in that it comprises a hot air discharge duct for discharging the air inside the drying chamber to the outside of the housing. The method of claim 2, The flow path connecting means, A male screw portion formed on an outer circumferential surface of the end portion of the hot air discharge passage; And a connection nut formed on an inner circumferential surface of the female screw part to be fastened corresponding to the male screw part to be rotatably installed at one end of the hot air inlet duct. The method of claim 2, Clothing drying machine, characterized in that the receiving means is further provided inside the drying chamber to accommodate the drying object in multiple stages. The method of claim 4, wherein And a hot air distribution outlet branched into a plurality of branch pipes so as to separate and discharge the hot air introduced into the drying chamber toward each of the multi-stage separated portions of the storage means.