KR20230048901A - Golf club ultrasonic washing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an ultrasonic golf club washing machine which comprises: a main body unit which has a space unit with an open front surface; an ultrasonic cleaning unit in which washing water is received in the lower part of the main body unit; and a front door which opens and closes the open space unit. The main body unit includes: a lifting member which moves vertically up and down by the operation of an actuator; a golf club holder which is attached to the lifting member to allow a golf club to be mounted thereon; and a holder which can hold golf gloves or golf shoes. An LED lamp that emits light is installed inside the main body unit.

Description

Golf club ultrasonic washing machine {Golf club ultrasonic washing machine}

The present invention relates to an ultrasonic cleaning machine for golf clubs, and more particularly, can clean dirt contaminated with a golf club head using ultrasonic waves, as well as various items such as grip parts held by hands, golf gloves, and golf shoes with ultraviolet rays. It relates to an ultrasonic cleaner for golf clubs that can be sterilized.

In general, when practicing or playing golf, dirt, dust, and residues of the ball often get dirty on the head part that hits the golf ball, and also rubber or sponge when practicing or playing in summer or indoors Because the grip part of the material gets wet with sweat, rain, or water, there are problems in hygiene due to stickiness and bacteria.

Conventionally, in order to remove foreign substances or contaminants from the golf club, soapy water or washing liquid must be manually wiped off using a scrubber or brush, which is laborious and time-consuming.

To solve this problem, there is a partial automatic washing method. It is configured to wash only the head of the golf club by simply rotating the brush with a motor, and various golf items such as the grip of the golf club, golf gloves, and golf shoes can be sterilized together. There is an inconvenient problem that there is no function that can be used.

Therefore, there is a need for a golf club washer equipped with a means for sterilizing various golf articles such as golf gloves and golf shoes as well as washing golf clubs.

Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1635705 has been registered.

The present invention has been devised to solve all the problems of the prior art as described above, and the purpose of the technical configuration of the present invention is to clean dirt contaminated on the golf club head using ultrasonic waves, as well as to hold it by hand It is to provide a golf club ultrasonic cleaner capable of sterilizing various items such as grip parts, golf gloves, and golf shoes with ultraviolet rays.

The present invention for achieving the above technical problem is a golf club ultrasonic cleaner capable of cleaning dirt contaminated on a golf club head as well as sterilizing various items such as grip parts and golf gloves held by hand with ultraviolet rays. It is composed of a front door, a central body part, and a lower cleaning part, and a plurality of transparent windows are formed on the front door to visually check the inside of the body part, and a control unit for ultrasonic cleaning operation and stop operation. , A golf club ultrasonic cleaner that can be equipped with a display unit for displaying the operation time is proposed.

In the present invention, the central body portion is provided with a space having an open front, and the space includes a first lifting member, a second lifting member, a third lifting member, a supporting plate, an upper golf club holder, a lower golf club holder, and a golf glove holder. , A golf shoe holder may be provided.

In the present invention, the lower washing part has an inner space with an open upper part to accommodate the washing water, and the golf club head mounted on the upper and lower fixing members of the golf club is immersed in the washing water and washed,

The lower cleaning unit includes a circular opening through which the installed golf club ascends and descends, an ultrasonic generator that generates ultrasonic waves in the washing water, a heater unit that controls the temperature of the washing water, and a guide member.

1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of an ultrasonic golf club cleaner according to the present invention.
Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the internal structure of the golf club ultrasonic cleaner according to the present invention.
Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the internal structure of the ultrasonic cleaning unit according to the present invention.
4 and 5 are perspective and cross-sectional views showing the coupling structure of the lifting member according to the present invention
Figure 6 is a perspective view showing a golf club mounted on the elevating member
7 and 8 are perspective views showing the operation of the golf club ultrasonic cleaner according to the present invention

Since the present invention can make various changes and have various embodiments, specific embodiments are illustrated in the drawings and described in the detailed description.

However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, and should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention. Like reference numerals have been used for like elements throughout the description of each figure.

Terms including ordinal numbers such as second and first may be used to describe various components, but the components are not limited by the terms.

Terms used herein are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, a second element may be termed a first element, and similarly, a first element may be termed a second element, without departing from the scope of the present invention. The terms and/or include any combination of a plurality of related recited items or any of a plurality of related recited items.

It is understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected or connected to the other element, but other elements may exist in the middle. It should be. On the other hand, when an element is referred to as “directly connected” or “directly connected” to another element, it should be understood that no other element exists in the middle.

Terms used in this application are only used to describe specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In this application, the terms "include" or "have" are intended to designate that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, but one or more other features It should be understood that the presence or addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof is not precluded.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the related art, and unless explicitly defined in the present application, they should not be interpreted in an ideal or excessively formal meaning. don't

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

1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of an ultrasonic golf club cleaner according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a perspective view showing the internal structure of the golf club ultrasonic cleaner according to the present invention.

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, the golf club ultrasonic cleaner of the present invention will be described.

The present invention relates to a golf club ultrasonic cleaner capable of cleaning dirt contaminated with a golf club head as well as sterilizing various items such as a grip part held by hand and golf gloves with ultraviolet rays, It consists of a door 100, a central body part 200 and a lower washing part 300.

The front door 100 may be formed with a plurality of transparent windows through which the inside of the main body 200 can be visually checked, and may be provided with a control unit for ultrasonic cleaning operation and stop operation, and a display unit for displaying the operating time ( drawings not shown).

The central body portion 200 disclosed in FIGS. 2 and 4 is provided with an open front space, and the first lifting member 210, the second lifting member 220, and the third lifting member 230 are provided in the space. , A support plate 240, a golf club upper holder 250, a golf club lower holder 260, a golf glove holder 270, and a golf shoe holder 280 may be provided.

The lower washing unit 300 disclosed in FIGS. 2 and 3 has an inner space with an open top to accommodate washing water, and the golf club heads mounted on the upper and lower golf club holders 250 and 260 are submerged in the washing water and washed. It is a space for

The lower washing part 300 includes a circular opening 310, which is a passage through which the mounted golf club can ascend and descend, an ultrasonic generator 320 that generates ultrasonic waves in the washing water, and a heater part 330 that controls the temperature of the washing water. And a guide member 340 to be described later is provided.

The central body portion 200 is provided with a front door 100, and one end of the front door 100 is rotatably coupled to the front surface of the body portion 200 by a hinge member such as a hinge.

The central body part 200 is made of a dual structure of an outer surface and an inner surface of a metal plate material, the outer surface is in the form of a rectangular box, and the inner surface has two left and right curved surfaces 290 between the rectangular metal plates. It is inserted into a hexagonal shape including the front door 100.

The curved surface 290 curves around the left and right corners of the metal plate between the left and right sides and the back, so that the lifting mechanism on which the golf club is mounted surrounds the circular opening 310 through which the cleaning unit 300 enters and exits. forming an enclosing inner surface structure.

The lower washing unit 300 includes a plurality of ultrasonic generators 320 that apply ultrasonic waves to the washing water supplied to the inside of the hollow, a heater 330 that heats the washing water, and a support plate 240 that moves up and down. It is manufactured by including a plurality of guide members 340 that prevent it from happening and induce it to go up and down in a straight line.

As shown in FIG. 4, the first to third elevating members are vertically disposed in the inner space of the main body 200 and support the golf club to be lowered to the washing unit to wash the golf club.

A support plate 240 supporting the head of the golf club;

A first lifting member 210, one end of which is fixedly coupled to the upper center of the support plate 240 and disposed vertically, and the other end is coupled to an actuator (not shown) on the upper part of the main body to move up and down in the longitudinal direction, A second elevating member 220 wrapped around the outside of the first elevating member 210 and fixedly coupled to the upper portion of the main body, and a golf club holder 250, 260 surrounding the outside of the first elevating member 210, A third lifting member 230 rotatably coupled to the upper surface of the support plate 240 is provided.

As disclosed in FIG. 5, the first lifting member 210, the second lifting member 220, and the third lifting member 230 have a hollow cylindrical shape, and the first lifting member 210 is a second lifting member ( 220) and the third elevating member 230, so that the second elevating member 220 and the third elevating member 230 have to be larger than the diameter of the first elevating member 210. And, the diameters of the second elevating member 220 and the third elevating member 230 are the same.

Finishing members 220' and 230' are respectively inserted at the contact part between the second lifting member 220 and the third lifting member 230 and at the contact part between the third lifting member and the support plate, so that the second lifting member 220 ) and the cylindrical edge of the third elevating member 230, and at the same time, the first elevating member 210 through the circular opening formed in the center of the finishing members 220', 230'. ') to be coupled vertically.

The circular opening formed in the center of the finishing members 220' and 230' should be larger than the outer diameter of the first lifting member 210 so as not to be hindered when the first lifting member 210 moves up and down.

The first elevating member 210 vertically moves up and down by the operation of an actuator (not shown) provided on the upper part of the body portion 200, and the second elevating member 220 is It is fixedly coupled to the inner upper surface, surrounds the first elevating member 210, and performs a function of suppressing the movement of the first elevating member 210 from side to side.

The actuator is provided on the upper part of the above-described main body part 200 to move the first elevating member 210 up and down, and a cylinder part provided in the upper center of the main body part 200 and one end of the cylinder part It is composed of a rod part which is drawn in and out and whose other end is fixed to the first lifting member 210 (not shown).

The lower portion of the first elevating member 210 is fixedly coupled to the supporting plate 240, and the third elevating member 230 is rotatably mounted on the upper surface of the supporting plate 240, so that the golf clubs are placed on the holders 250 and 260. When fixing or detaching, the golf clubs are attached to or detached from the cradle one by one while rotating the third elevating member 230 left and right.

The finishing member 230' is also inserted at the lower end of the lower surface of the third lifting member 230 so that the third lifting member 230 and the supporting plate 240 do not wear due to friction between the upper surface of the supporting plate 240 allowing it to rotate freely.

The support plate 240 is made in the form of a plate plate, and a plurality of perforated holes are formed in a circumferential direction. By minimizing the contact area with the lower surface of the golf club head supported on the upper surface of the support plate 240, the ultrasonic wave generated from the ultrasonic generator 320 directly contacts the golf club head. It is to make it bearable.

The golf club is configured to attach and detach the shaft between the club head and the rubber grip of the golf club to the golf club upper holder 250 and the lower holder 260 attached to the third elevating member 230 (see FIG. 6).

The upper cradle 250 and the lower cradle 260 have a plurality of grooves sized to fit the shaft of a golf club along a circular edge.

The cleaning unit 300 located below the body unit 200 has a circular opening 310 formed thereon, and through the circular opening 310, the third lifting member 230 and the support plate 240 are Descend inside. An ultrasonic generator 320 and a heater 330 for adjusting the temperature of the washing water are provided at the bottom of the washing unit 300 .

On the other hand, if the support plate 240 moves up and down through the circular opening 310 and the club head is submerged in the washing water and left and right flow occurs in the support plate during ultrasonic cleaning, the golf club may be damaged.

When the support plate 240 rises again after the ultrasonic cleaning, there is a concern that it may not rise due to being caught in the lower part of the circular opening 310 .

In the present invention, by providing and attaching a guide member 340 extending from the circular opening 310 of the cleaning unit 300 to the bottom surface, the support plate 240 fixedly coupled to the first elevating member 210 can be moved downwards and upwards. to make it happen smoothly.

A golf glove cradle 270 and a golf shoe cradle 280 are attached to the left and right surfaces of the inner space of the main body, so that ultraviolet sterilization and disinfection can be performed by a UV ray generator (not shown).

As disclosed in FIGS. 7 and 8 , a plurality of LED lamps 400 emitting light may be provided in the inner space of the main body 200 so as to be used even at night.

Preferably, a plurality of LED lamps may be attached at regular intervals from top to bottom on left and right corner slopes.

In addition, the LED lamp may notify that the washing machine is operating, and may change the color of the lamp after the washing is finished to inform that the washing of the golf club is finished.

In addition, the body unit 200 may further include a controller (not shown) that automatically controls the process of cleaning and sterilizing the golf club.

Hereinafter, the use method and operation of the golf club ultrasonic cleaner of the present invention configured as described above will be described.

After opening the front door 100, the shafts of golf clubs are inserted into the club holders 250 and 260 provided on the third elevating member 230, respectively, so that the golf clubs are supported on the support plate 240 and fixed, After mounting golf equipment such as golf gloves and golf shoes, the front door 100 is closed and operated.

Then, the control unit displays the operating time on the display unit and operates the actuator so that the first elevating member 210 descends and the club head is submerged in the washing water as shown in FIG. 8 .

When the golf club head is submerged in the washing water, the control unit operates the ultrasonic generator 320 to ultrasonically clean the golf club head for a set time, and then when the cleaning is completed, the control unit operates the actuator to move the first elevating member 210 rise and return to the original position.

Meanwhile, the control unit activates the UV sterilization device to radiate ultraviolet rays to sterilize the grip portion of the golf club and the mounted golf equipment, thereby completing cleaning and sterilization.

Meanwhile, the controller may apply power to the LED lamp 400 while the washing machine is operating to indicate that the washing machine is operating.

As described above, the present invention not only can automatically perform the process of cleaning golf clubs and sterilizing golf equipment, but also provides a plurality of ultrasonic generators 320 to the washing part containing the washing water, thereby providing a golf club submerged in washing water. Dirt contaminated on the head can be washed cleanly.

In addition, by providing a cradle and a UV sterilizer in the main body 200, golf supplies such as gloves, shoes, hats, etc. are placed on the cradle, and then ultraviolet rays are emitted to UV sterilize the grip part of the golf club and golf supplies. As a result, it can be used hygienically by removing bacteria that are propagated by getting wet with sweat.

Claims (5)

In the golf club ultrasonic cleaner provided with a main body having a space with an open front, an ultrasonic cleaning unit for accommodating washing water in the lower part of the main body, and a front door for opening and closing the open space,
In the body part
an elevating member vertically moving up and down by the operation of an actuator;
a golf club cradle attached to the elevating member to hold a golf club;
A holder for holding golf gloves or golf shoes; including,
Golf club ultrasonic cleaner, characterized in that the LED lamp for emitting light is installed inside the body portion
According to claim 1,
Golf, characterized in that the ultrasonic cleaning unit has a circular opening formed at the top so that the lifting member can descend into the cleaning unit, and an ultrasonic generator and a heater unit for adjusting the temperature of the washing water are provided at the bottom of the cleaning unit. club ultrasonic cleaner
According to claim 1,
The ultrasonic cleaner further includes a guide member formed by being fixedly coupled from the circular opening formed at the top to the bottom surface, and the guide member moves the elevating member down and down smoothly.
According to claim 1,
The main body has a dual structure of an outer surface and an inner surface of a metal plate material,
The outer surface has a rectangular box shape, and the inner surface has a hexagonal shape including the front door by inserting two curved surfaces between rectangular metal plates,
The two curved surfaces are characterized by an inner surface structure formed so that the left and right corner metal plates between the left side, right side and back side are curved, and the lifting member on which the golf club is mounted surrounds the circular opening through which the golf club is placed. Golf Club Ultrasonic Cleaner
According to claim 1,
The lifting member is
Support plate supporting the head of the golf club;
A first elevating member having one end fixedly coupled to the upper center of the support plate and disposed vertically, and the other end coupled to an actuator on the upper portion of the main body to move up and down in the longitudinal direction;
a second lifting member fixedly coupled to an upper part of the main body part while surrounding the outside of the first lifting member;
A third lifting member wrapped around the outside of the first lifting member and attached to the golf club holder to be rotatably coupled to the upper surface of the support plate; Golf club ultrasonic cleaner comprising a

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