KR20120078278A - Laundry treating apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A clothing processing apparatus capable of reducing the power consumption is provided to easily dry and deodorize clothes, and to remove wrinkles from the clothes. CONSTITUTION: A clothing processing apparatus comprises the following: a clothing storage unit(1) for storing clothes; a supply device unit supplying air or the moisture into the clothing storage unit; a hanger bar(93) installed inside the clothing storage unit; and a clothing fixing member fixing one side of the clothes supported by the hanger bar.

Description

Clothing Treatment Device {Laundry Treating Apparatus}

The present invention relates to a laundry treatment apparatus capable of drying, deodorizing, removing wrinkles, and sterilizing clothes.

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.

On the other hand, the laundry treatment apparatus has been developed to solve the washing, drying, deodorization and wrinkle removal of clothing with a single device. However, since the clothes treating apparatus uses a drum in which clothes are accommodated and a driving device for rotating the drum, there is a lack of deodorization or wrinkle removal of clothes.

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 problem to provide a clothing treatment apparatus that is easy to dry, deodorization, wrinkle removal (wrinkle) and sterilization of clothing.

In addition, the present invention is to solve the problem to provide a clothes handling apparatus that can prevent damage to clothes and reduce the amount of power consumption.

In addition, the present invention is to solve the problem to provide a clothes treatment apparatus provided with a clothes fixing member for fixing the clothes so that wrinkles (crease) formed on the clothes are not wrinkled.

The present invention, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a clothing accommodating part accommodates clothing, a supply unit for supplying at least one of air or moisture to the clothing accommodating part, a hanger bar provided in the clothing accommodating part, the hanger And a garment fixing member for fixing one end of the garment supported by the bar, wherein the garment fixing member comprises: a first frame made of a stretchable material, a second frame hinged to the first frame, and the first frame hinged; And provided to open the second frame provides a clothes treatment apparatus comprising at least two pressing parts spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance.

In this case, the second frame may be made of a stretchable material.

In addition, the present invention clothes processing apparatus further includes a hanger that is supported by the hanger bar, the clothes are mounted, the clothes fixing member may be provided to be detachable to the hanger.

In addition, the present invention clothes handling apparatus further includes a hanger that is supported by the hanger bar, the clothes are mounted, the clothes fixing member may be provided to be detachable to the clothes mounted on the hanger.

In this case, at least two clothing fixing members may be provided.

In addition, the at least two clothing fixing member may be connected to each other by a frame connecting member.

In addition, the at least two clothing fixing member may be coupled to the frame connecting member to adjust the distance between one clothing fixing member and the other clothing fixing member.

In addition, the frame connecting member may further include a slot having a predetermined length at both ends, and the at least two clothes fixing members may each have a slot insertion protrusion inserted into the slot.

In addition, the frame connecting member is provided with a rotation bar provided in each of the at least two clothing fixing member, the rotating bar receiving groove provided in the other clothing fixing member so that the rotating bar provided in any one clothing fixing member is fixed. Can be.

On the other hand, the present invention clothes processing apparatus may further include a drive unit for reciprocating the hanger bar in the clothes accommodating portion.

The present invention can achieve the effect of providing a laundry treatment apparatus that is easy to dry, deodorize, remove wrinkles and sterilize clothes.

In addition, the present invention can achieve the effect of providing a clothes treatment apparatus that can prevent damage to clothes and reduce the amount of power consumption.

In addition, the present invention can achieve the effect of providing a clothes processing apparatus having a clothes fixing member for fixing the clothes so that wrinkles (crease) formed on the clothes are not wrinkled.

1 is a perspective view of a laundry treatment apparatus according to the present invention.
2 is a conceptual diagram of a moving hanger provided in the clothes treating apparatus.
3 is a perspective view of a garment fixing member provided in the present invention.
4 is a view showing a coupling structure of the clothes fixing member and the hanger.
5 is a view illustrating a case where two clothing fixing parts are coupled through a frame connecting member.
Figure 6 shows another embodiment of the clothing fixing member.

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

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.

In the present specification, a refresher for drying and refreshing clothes as an example of a clothes treating apparatus will be described.

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 refers to a garment treatment process that performs deodorizing, sanitizing, and preventing static electricity.

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 require washing.

1 is a laundry treatment apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The clothes treating apparatus 100 according to the present invention includes a clothes accommodating part 1 accommodating clothes, and includes a supply device part 3 provided with a device for supplying air or moisture into the clothes accommodating part. can do. Furthermore, the clothes treating apparatus may further include a door 5 provided to open and close the clothes accommodating part.

The supply unit 3 may include an air supply unit (not shown) for supplying air or hot air into the clothing accommodating unit or a water supply unit (not shown) for supplying moisture, mist, or steam. It provides a space provided.

In this case, the air supply device supplies air or hot air through the air inlet 13 provided in the clothing accommodating part, and the moisture supply device is a mist through the water inlet part 11 provided in the clothes accommodating part. Or it may be provided to supply steam.

On the other hand, when the air supply device is provided to supply hot air, the air supply device heats the outside air of the clothes processing apparatus 100 to supply the air in the exhaust type or the clothes accommodating part to supply to the clothes accommodating part (1) It may be provided with a circulation type to circulate but dehumidifying and thermal bridge in the process.

In the case of the exhaust type, the clothes receiving unit is further provided with a duct (not shown) for communicating the inside of the clothes receiving unit and the outside of the clothes processing apparatus, the air supply device is a duct (not shown) to communicate the inside and outside of the clothes processing apparatus. It will include a heater (not shown) for heat exchange.

In the case of the circulation type, the air supply device is a duct (not shown) for supplying air to the air inlet 13 by sucking the air inside the clothes receiving unit through the air suction unit 15 provided in the clothing receiving unit. It will be provided, the inside of the duct should be provided with heat exchange means for dehumidification and heating of air.

A heat pump (not shown) may be provided for dehumidifying and heating the air in the circulating air supply device. The heat pump may include an evaporator (not shown), a compressor (not shown), a condenser (not shown) through which refrigerant is circulated. And an expansion valve (not shown), thereby dehumidifying and heating the air.

That is, since the evaporator absorbs latent heat of ambient air and the refrigerant evaporates, the air in contact with the evaporator is cooled, and the moisture contained in the air is removed from the air while the air is cooled. In addition, since the compressor is configured to compress the refrigerant to release the latent heat of the refrigerant to the surrounding air, the air dehumidified in the evaporator may be heated to pass through the condenser and then 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 to mean that the temperature is relatively low compared to the air heated by an electric heater or the like).

When performing a process such as refreshing or drying the clothes using low temperature dry air, it is possible to prevent deformation or damage to the clothes due to the high temperature and to supply the dehumidified air without a separate dehumidifier. It would be possible to easily dry and refresh.

On the other hand, the water supply device may be an example of a steam generator for supplying steam by heating the water, in this case, the steam generator (not shown) is a storage means for storing water and a heater for heating the stored water ( Not shown) is preferably provided.

However, if it is not necessary to process clothes by using high temperature steam (when supply only mist), it is also possible to supply the mist to the clothes receiving unit through the ultrasonic vibration means (not shown).

The clothes receiving unit 1 may further include a shelf 7 for mounting the clothes.

The shelf 7 allows the clothes to be refreshed by hot air or steam supplied from the air supply device and the water supply device while the clothes are not moved.

In this case, the shelf (7) is provided in the form of an open top and bottom surface frame can be passed through the air hot air or steam introduced through the air inlet 13 or the water inlet (11), etc. It is preferred to be provided to. This is to facilitate the supply of hot air or 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, as shown in FIG. 1, the shelf 7 may be provided in plural to distinguish the space provided by the garment accommodating part 1, and one shelf may be provided within the garment accommodating part 1. It may be provided to be movable.

Furthermore, the present invention clothes processing apparatus 100 may further include a moving hanger 9 for reciprocating the clothes inside the clothes accommodating part when hot air or steam is supplied to the clothes accommodating part 1.

The moving hanger (9) is to shake the clothes stored in the clothing receiving portion, but do not tangled with the clothes there is an effect of improving the drying, deodorization, wrinkle removal and sterilization efficiency of the clothes.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of a moving hanger provided in a clothes treating apparatus. Hereinafter, a detailed structure of the moving hanger will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

The moving hanger 9 has a support frame 91 provided on the outer side of the upper end 17 of the garment accommodating part 1 (outside the garment accommodating part), and is provided inside the garment accommodating part 1 so that the hanger 200 is provided. The hanger bar 93 is supported, and the hanger bar support part 95 provided so as to support both ends of the hanger bar 93 is included.

One end of the hanger bar support part 95 is coupled to the support frame 91 and the other end is coupled to the hanger bar 93, and preferably provided to penetrate the upper end 17 of the garment accommodating part 1. .

However, a gasket (G) is provided at the upper end 17 of the garment accommodating part through which the hanger support 95 passes, to prevent leakage of hot air or steam provided from the supply device part 3.

On the other hand, the support frame 91 has a hanger bar 93 is a movement inside the clothing accommodating part 1 (left and right reciprocating motion on the drawing, forward and backward reciprocating motion on the drawing or a combination of reciprocating motion and rotational motion, etc.) It is preferable to further include a drive unit that provides power.

The driving unit includes a motor 96, a power converter 98 for converting the rotational motion provided from the motor into a reciprocating motion of the hanger bar 93, and the power provided from the motor 96 to the power converter 98. It may include a power transmission unit 97 for transmitting.

Power transmission unit 97 is a driving pulley (971) provided in the motor 96, driven pulley (973) connected to the main pulley and the belt 975, the rotating shaft (977) coupled to the center of the driven pulley It may be provided.

In this case, the power converter 98 is a slot insertion portion 985 to be inserted into the slot 991 to be described later, the shaft coupling portion 981, the slot insertion portion and the shaft coupled to the rotation shaft 997 of the power transmission portion It is preferably provided to include a rotary arm (983) connecting the coupling portion.

The slot 991 is provided in the hanger bar 93 through the slot housing 91 and accommodates the slot insertion portion 985 of the power converter 98.

The slot 991 may be provided to be orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the hanger bar 93, or may be provided to be parallel to the longitudinal direction of the hanger bar, Figure 2 (b) is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the hanger bar The hanger bar provided in one direction is shown.

On the other hand, a bearing housing (B) for supporting the rotation of the rotary shaft between the shaft coupling portion and the driven pulley may be further provided, the converter cover to prevent the power converter is exposed to the outside for aesthetics (not shown) May further include).

In the moving hanger including the above-described configuration, when the motor 96 rotates, the driven pulley 973 rotates by the belt, so that the rotating shaft 997 coupled to the driven pulley also rotates. Therefore, the slot insertion portion 985 will draw a circular trajectory C having a predetermined diameter.

In this case, the slot 991 provided in the hanger bar (93) is provided to be orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the hanger bar (93), because its length is provided to be longer than the diameter of the rotation path of the slot inserting portion (95) The slot 991 will perform a horizontal linear reciprocating motion (see arrow) even if the slot insertion portion 985 makes a circular motion. Therefore, the hanger bar 93 to which the slot 991 is fixed also moves the clothes through the horizontal reciprocating motion in the interior of the clothes accommodating part 1.

However, when the slot 911 is provided in a direction parallel to the hanger bar 93, the hanger bar 93 will reciprocate in the front-rear direction on the drawing, and the length of the slot 911 is the length of the slot insertion part 985. If the smaller than the diameter of the rotation trajectory hanger bar 91 will be a reciprocating motion combined with the linear motion and rotational motion.

Hereinafter, with reference to Figure 3 looks at the clothing fixing member (8) provided in the laundry treatment apparatus of the present invention.

The clothing fixing part 8 provided in the clothes treating apparatus of the present invention includes a first frame 81 and a second frame 83 hinged in a configuration for fixing creases held on clothes such as pants. do.

The first frame 81 is provided in the elastic body 811 made of an elastic material, the first pressing portion 813 provided in the elastic body, the elastic body is provided at a predetermined distance from the first pressing portion It includes a second pressing portion 815.

The second frame 83 is hinged (not shown) with the first frame and may be provided in a shape corresponding to the first frame 81.

That is, the second frame 83 is also provided in the elastic body 821 and the elastic body 821, the first pressure is provided in the position corresponding to the first pressing portion, the second pressing portion of the first frame, respectively The unit 823 and the second pressing unit 825 may be included.

The first frame 81 and the second frame 82 are hinged so that the user can engage the first pressing unit 813 of the first frame, the first pressing unit 823 of the second frame, and the first frame of the first frame. The second pressing part 815 and the second pressing part 825 of the second frame may be used as a handle to open one side of the first frame and the second frame.

In this case, the hinge combining the first frame and the second frame is preferably provided to provide a restoring force when the first frame and the second frame are opened.

The first frame and the second frame are each provided with elastic bodies 811 and 821, and at least two pressing parts provided at predetermined intervals on each elastic body have an effect of easily fixing the wrinkles provided by the user. .

That is, the garment fixing member 8 provided in the present invention is an elastic body 811 of the pressed portion when the user presses only one of the first pressing portion 811, 821 or the second pressing portion 813, 823. Only 821 can be opened.

FIG. 3 (c) illustrates a case in which the first pressing units 813 and 823 positioned on the upper portions of the elastic bodies 811 and 821 are pressed. In this case, the garment fixing member 8 has an opening portion A at the top thereof. Is formed and the junction (B) is formed at the bottom.

On the other hand, since the wrinkles provided in the garment, such as pants is formed long along the length of the pants in the case of the conventional clothing fixing member having a certain length was often damaged in the process of fixing along the wrinkles.

However, since the clothing fixing member 8 provided in the present invention is provided with elastic bodies 811 and 821, the other end can be bonded (B) even if one end is opened (A) to fix the wrinkles of the clothes. Very easy.

That is, when fixing the pleats of the pants, the user can secure one end of the garment fixing member to the garment and then fix the other end of the garment fixing member to the garment while arranging the wrinkles of the trousers, so that the garment fixing member 8 Damage can be minimized.

Although the above-described garment fixing member 8 has described the case in which both the first frame and the second frame include elastic bodies, only one of the first frame and the second frame includes the elastic body and the other is made of an elastic material. Even if it is provided to include the provided body, the above-described effects can be expected.

In addition, the first frame and the second frame may be provided on the elastic body (811, 821), respectively, the mark preventing member (sponge, etc.) to prevent the marks of the clothing fixing member remains on the garment.

Hereinafter, the positional relationship between the garment fixing member 8 and the hanger bar 93 will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

The present invention can be implemented in the form of fixing only one end of the pants through one clothing fixing member 8, but as shown in Figure 4 two clothing fixing members (8) to fix both ends of the pants wrinkles It will be more effective to fix the wrinkles of clothing.

As shown in FIG. 2, when the hanger bar 93 is capable of reciprocating in the clothes accommodating part 1 by the driving part, the clothes fixing member 8 includes the first frame 81 and the second frame 82. ) May further include a hanger 84 for fixing the hanger bar 93.

In this case, the hanger 84 is provided with a first mounting portion 841 for supporting clothes, a hook 843 provided at the first mounting portion and detachable from the groove 931 of the hanger bar, and both ends of the first mounting portion. It may include a horizontal bar 845 for connecting.

If the clothing to be mounted (C) is a pants, the user mounts the pants on the horizontal bar 845, and in the case of other clothes, the user will mount the clothes on the hanger through the first mounting portion 841.

On the other hand, when the pants are mounted on the horizontal bar 845 can be inconvenient to fix the wrinkles through the garment fixing member 8 because the pants are mounted folded with respect to the horizontal bar.

Therefore, the hanger 84 may further include a fastener 847 provided on the horizontal bar 845 so that the pants can be mounted on the hanger while the pants are fully extended in the longitudinal direction.

In addition, the clothing fixing member 8 may further include a detachable member 85 to allow the first frame and the second frame to be attached to and detached from the hanger 84. Since the detachable member 847 may be provided in any structure as long as the first frame and the second frame of the clothing fixing member 8 can be attached to or detached from the clothes hanger 84, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

On the other hand, if the hanger bar 93 provided in the present invention clothes handling apparatus does not exercise inside the clothes accommodating portion, the above-described hanger 84 does not necessarily have to be provided.

That is, the hanger bar 93 fixed to the clothing accommodating part 1 may play the same role as the horizontal bar 845 of the hanger 84 because the configuration of the power conversion unit 98 is not required. Accordingly, the user may be able to fix the wrinkles of the clothing by fixing the clothing fixing means 8 to the clothing mounted on the hanger bar 93 while being folded.

Hereinafter, the coupling relationship between the clothing fixing members will be described with reference to FIG. 5.

5 shows a case in which two garment fixing members are connected to each other, but may be applied to a coupling structure between two or more garment fixing members.

As described above, since clothing such as pants is provided with wrinkles at both ends, it is more effective to fix the wrinkles by using two clothing fixing members than using one clothing fixing member.

If two clothing fixing members are used, as shown in FIG. 5 (a), when the clothing fixing members are provided separately from each other, difficulty in fixing the clothing fixing members to the wrinkles of the pants may occur.

Therefore, the clothing fixing member 8 provided in the present invention is preferably provided to further include a frame connecting member for coupling one clothing fixing member and the other clothing fixing member.

Figure 5 (b) shows a case where the frame connecting member is provided with a rotating bar receiving groove (H) for fixing the rotating bar 861 and the rotating bar 861.

The rotation bar 861 may be provided to be rotatable in any one of the first frame or the second frame provided in each garment fixing member 8, the rotation bar receiving groove (not shown) is the rotation bar is It is provided on the provided frame may be provided in the form that the end of the rotation bar is fixed.

Therefore, when connecting one clothing fixing member (first clothing fixing member) and another clothing fixing member (second clothing fixing member), the user rotates the pivoting bar of the first clothing fixing member to the first clothing fixing member. After separating from the bar receiving groove, the rotating bar of the first clothing fixing member is fixed to the rotating bar receiving groove of the second clothing fixing member, and the rotating bar of the second clothing fixing member is fixed to the rotating bar receiving groove of the first clothing fixing member. By doing so, two clothing fixing members can be combined.

However, unlike the above-described one clothing fixing member may be provided with two pivoting bars, and another clothing fixing member may be provided with two pivoting bar receiving grooves so that the two clothing fixing members may be combined.

Figure 5 (c) shows a case in which the frame connecting member is provided with a plate 863, Figure 5 (d) is a structure that can adjust the gap between the two clothing fixing members coupled to both ends of the plate 863 It is shown.

When the frame connecting member is provided with the plate 863, the first frame (or second frame) provided in one garment fixing member and the first frame (or second frame) provided in the other clothing fixing member are It is fixed to the plate 863.

On the other hand, the plate 863 may further include a slot 865 formed in the longitudinal direction of the plate, the clothing fixing member 8 further includes a slot coupling protrusion 817 inserted into the slot 865. can do.

Therefore, when fixing the wrinkles of the pants, the user can widen the interval between the clothing fixing member (8) by mounting the pants on the plate 863 to clean up the wrinkles, so that the clothing fixing member (8) can be fixed This will be easier.

6 illustrates another embodiment of the garment fixing member, and hereinafter, another embodiment of the garment fixing member will be described.

The garment fixing part 6 according to the present embodiment includes an elastic body 61 having a first frame 611 and a second frame 613, and a first fixing extending from the first frame to the inside of the elastic body. The surface 63 may include a second fixing surface 65 extending into the elastic body from the second frame.

Preferably, the first frame 611 and the second frame 613 are made of a stretchable material, and the first fixing surface 63 and the second fixing surface 65 are preferably provided to face each other. .

Therefore, the user inserts the pants between the first fixing surface and the second fixing surface to fix the wrinkles of the pants.

However, the elastic body 61 is a gap between the first fixed surface and the second fixed surface of the bottom of the elastic body 61 even if the user widens the distance between the first fixed surface and the second fixed surface of the top of the elastic body 61 Is preferably provided to have a sufficient length to be maintained.

This allows the user to fix the other end of the clothing fixing member to the clothing while fixing one end of the clothing fixing member 6 to the clothing, while arranging the wrinkles of the pants to minimize damage to the wrinkles by the clothing fixing member 6 It works.

On the other hand, the first fixing surface 63 and the second fixing surface 65 may be connected through the fixing surface connecting portion 67 to prevent damage to the clothing.

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.

100: clothing processing apparatus 1: clothing receiving unit 3: supply unit
5: door 7: shelf 9: moving hanger
91: support frame 93: hanger bar 95: hanger bar support
96: motor 97: power converter 98: power converter
99: slot housing 991: slot 8: clothing fixing member
81: first frame 82: second frame 84: hanger
85: detachable member 86: frame connecting member

Claims (10)

A clothing accommodating part in which clothing is accommodated;
A supply device for supplying at least one of air or moisture to the clothing accommodating part;
Hanger bar provided inside the clothing receiving portion;
And a clothing fixing member for fixing one end of the clothing supported by the hanger bar.
The clothing fixing member
At least two presses provided with a first frame, a second frame hinged to the first frame, the hinged first frame and the second frame are made of a stretchable material and are spaced a predetermined distance apart from each other. Clothing processing apparatus comprising a portion. The method of claim 1,
The second frame is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that provided with a stretchable material. The method of claim 1,
The hanger is supported by the hanger bar, but further includes a hanger is mounted clothes,
The clothes fixing member is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that detachable to the hanger. The method of claim 1,
The hanger is supported by the hanger bar, but further includes a hanger is mounted clothes,
The clothes fixing member is a clothes processing apparatus, characterized in that detachable to the clothes mounted on the hanger. The method of claim 4, wherein
At least two garment fixing members are provided. The method of claim 5,
The at least two garment fixing members are connected to each other by a frame connecting member. The method of claim 6,
The at least two clothing fixing member
Apparel processing apparatus, characterized in that coupled to the frame connecting member to adjust the distance between one clothing fixing member and the other clothing fixing member. The method of claim 7, wherein
The frame connecting member further includes a slot having a predetermined length at both ends,
The at least two clothes fixing members are each provided with a slot inserting projection inserted into the slot. The method of claim 6,
The frame connecting member
Rotating bar provided in each of the at least two clothing fixing member, clothes processing characterized in that it is provided with a rotating bar receiving groove provided in the other clothing fixing member to fix the rotating bar provided in any one clothing fixing member Device. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 9,
And a drive unit configured to reciprocate the hanger bar in the garment accommodating unit.

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