RU2555676C1 - Method of drying of clothes, footwear and clothes elements and device for its implementation - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: heating, drying.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to satisfaction of human vital needs. The device for drying of clothes and footwear contains the chamber for placement of clothes elements to be dried where the circulation of drying air flow is arranged at the expense of air intake from the outside of the chamber and its supply by the air injector into the chamber for heating and the subsequent removal of the humidified air flow from the chamber into environment. The chamber is implemented as a cabinet with elements for hanging of clothes subjects and placement of footwear to be dried. In the top part of the cabinet the exhaust fans are mounted. The thermal unit comprising the air heater for heating of air supplied from outside of the chamber and the heated air injector for heated air injection into the chamber is fixed in the lower part of the cabinet. The device is fitted with an electronic control system for controlling the circulation of drying air flow which comprises the control panel with elements of manual setting of values of humidity, temperature and time of drying, air temperature and humidity sensors inside the chamber and executive elements for switching on and off of heating elements of the thermal unit and fans.

EFFECT: design improvement.

5 cl, 4 dwg

Description

The invention relates to the satisfaction of human needs, in particular for drying clothes and shoes, namely, it is intended for automatic drying of clothes and shoes in various climatic conditions using drying systems equipped with blowing their internal space, heated air currents, and subsequent removal of heated air outside , as well as the treatment of dried clothes and shoes with a quartz bactericidal irradiator to disinfect the dried surface and an ionizer for removal and prevented I'm unwanted electrostatic charges.

Known drum dryer, which contains a closed air circuit, made with the possibility of circulating the drying air in the oven with clothes placed in it, to be dried, freshened and / or smoothed (RU No. 2455409, D06F 59/02, D06F 58/10, publ. 10.07.2012). Adopted as a prototype for the claimed device.

The drum dryer of this patent comprises a closed air circuit configured to circulate drying air through a rotating drum and including a drum, a pumping means, an air condenser configured to remove moisture from the drying air saturated with moisture coming out of the drum, and located below the flow relative to the air condenser means for heating the drying air, again sent to the drum, and an open loop of cooling air is made with the possibility of ensuring the passage through the air condenser of the flow of cooling air taken from the external medium for cooling the condenser, and the release of the flow of cooling air again into the external environment. The drum dryer also includes an oven for accommodating clothes to be dried, freshened and / or smoothed, fluidly coupled to the closed loop of the drying air, so that the closed loop has the ability to allow at least part of the drying air to move from the closed loop section of the dryer air downstream of the heating means and upstream of the drum into the oven, passing through the oven, leaving the oven and returning about in a drum, or in an air condenser. Provides a reduction in humidity.

The disadvantage of this device is that its design features are aimed only at organizing the circulation of heated air inside the drum chamber. At the same time, the parameters of this air flow are defined as constant and are not regulated depending on the structure of the fabric or the type of clothes to be dried. Thus, the operation of the drum in the drying mode is determined only by the time that is set in automatic mode. Drying stops after the end of the set time, this leads to the fact that when drying products from different materials, some of the products can be dried before other products are reached at this stage. This leads to deterioration of the material and a decrease in the service life of the clothes. In addition, shoes or other products other than the type of clothing may not be dried in such a drum.

Known section for storage with a double built-in closet and hanging clothes and with a shoe rack (RU No. 2245093, A47B 61/00, A47B 45/00, publ. 01.27.2005).

A known method of obtaining a one-piece part from felt, in which drying of the canvas from felt is used (RU No. 2457764, A41D 31/02, A42B 1/00, B44C 5/00, A43B 1/00, published on 08/10/2012). However, the known method is not intended for use when drying clothes and shoes placed in ovens.

A known method of controlling fog in a clothes dryer is to spray fog into a drum to remove wrinkles from clothes, and according to the method, fog is sprayed in such a way that the garment reaches an amount of fog equal to twice the standard amount of absorbed water per unit weight of clothing, and then drying clothes at a temperature of repositioning of the fiber to remove wrinkles from the clothes (Publ. application RU No. 20100144458, D06F 58/00, publ. 05/10/2012).

However, the known method is not intended for use in an oven with clothes hanging, and it is not intended for simultaneous drying of the spaced shoes.

There is a method of industrial ironing and drying of wet clothes, in particular, bathrobes, jackets and similar products, including a loading step, on which clothes are put on the corresponding mannequin of the loading station, a step, where the clothes worn on the mannequin are moved, from the loading station to the hot station pressing, in which the pressing step is performed, which consists in hot pressing the clothes worn on the mannequin, and at least an unloading step, in which the ironed and dried clothes are removed from the unloading station, in which at least selectively blowing superheated air through clothing worn on the mannequin, both at least in the static state of the mannequin, at least in the loading step, in the pressing step and in the unloading step, and in the dynamic state of the mannequin, at least during its passage between the loading station, the hot pressing station and the unloading station (publ. application RU No. 2011126080, D06F 61/00, publ. 10.01.2013). Adopted as a prototype for the claimed method.

However, the known method is quite time-consuming when used in various climatic conditions, requires expensive equipment and specialists serving it. In addition, it is not intended for the simultaneous drying of clothes and shoes.

The present invention aims to achieve a technical result, which consists in providing the possibility of automatic simultaneous drying of clothes, shoes, hats, personal protective equipment and other items of clothing in various climatic conditions, thereby increasing the wear resistance of clothes due to high-quality and gentle automatic drying and, as a result , increases its service life. And also there is the opportunity to reduce the cost of electricity and storage of dried clothes.

The specified technical result for the device is achieved by the fact that in the device for drying clothes and shoes and wardrobe items containing a chamber for placement of items to be dried therein, circulation of the drying air flow is organized in the chamber due to intake of air from the environment and its supply by means of air blowing into the chamber through the block for heating and subsequent removal of the humidified air stream from the chamber to the external environment, the camera is made in a cabinet in which the elements for hanging are placed drying clothes and placing shoes and wardrobe items, exhaust fans are mounted in the upper part of the cabinet to divert the humidified air flow from the chamber to the external environment, and a thermal block is fixed in the lower part of the cabinet, which includes heating means for incoming air from the outside of the chamber and a means for pumping heated air inside the chamber, while the device is equipped with an electronic control system, which includes a control panel with organs for manually setting the values of humidity and temperature, temperature and moisture sensors of air, located inside the chamber, executive units for controlling the on and off heating elements of the heating means in the heat block, exhaust fans and a fan of the air injection means, as well as a controller electrically connected to the nodes by an electronic control system and configured to turn off the heating elements and the indicated fans when reaching the humidity values of the air flow inside the chamber or after a specified time by the manual installation on the control panel.

The specified technical result for the method is achieved by the fact that in the method of drying clothes and shoes and wardrobe items, which consists in placing clothes and shoes and wardrobe items in a chamber made in the form of a cabinet, forcing air flow into the chamber due to air intake from the environment, heating this stream to a predetermined temperature, circulating the heated air stream in the chamber and subsequently diverting the humidified air stream from the chamber to the external environment, additionally determine wet be circulating in the chamber and the heated air flow at a set value of moisture carried off means carrying air intake and the heating and removal of air flow from the chamber.

These features are significant and are interconnected with the formation of a stable set of essential features sufficient to obtain the desired technical result.

The present invention is illustrated by a specific example of execution, which, however, is not the only possible, but clearly demonstrates the possibility of achieving the desired technical result.

Figure 1 - General view of a device for drying clothes and shoes;

figure 2 is the same as in figure 1, side view;

figure 3 - shows the movement of air flows inside the device in the view of figure 1;

figure 4 - shows the movement of air flow inside the device in the view of figure 2.

According to the present invention, there is considered a design of a device for drying clothes and shoes of wardrobe items, allowing automatic simultaneous drying of clothes, shoes, hats, personal protective equipment and other items of clothing in various climatic conditions. This functional feature of the device allows to increase the wear resistance of clothes due to high-quality and gentle automatic drying and, as a result, increase its service life. And also there is an opportunity to reduce the cost of electricity and storage of dried clothes.

This device contains a chamber for placing the objects to be dried in it, while the drying air flow is circulated in the chamber by taking air from the environment and supplying it with air injection means to the chamber through the unit for heating and subsequent removal of the humidified air stream from the chamber to the external Wednesday The camera is made in a cabinet in which there are elements for hanging clothes to be dried and placing shoes and wardrobe items. Exhaust fans are mounted in the upper part of the cabinet to divert the humidified air flow from the chamber to the external environment, and in the lower part of the cabinet there is a heat block, which includes means for heating the air coming from the outside of the chamber and a means for forcing heated air into the chamber.

The device is equipped with an electronic control system, which includes a control panel with manual settings for humidity, temperature and time, temperature and humidity sensors located inside the chamber, executive units for controlling the on and off heating elements of the heating means in the heat block, exhaust fans and fan means air injection, as well as a controller electrically connected to the nodes of the electronic control system and made with the function of turning off grevatelnyh elements and said fan when the air flow within the chamber humidity values exhibited bodies manually set on the control panel.

The technology for drying clothes and shoes consists of placing wardrobe items in the chamber of the drying cabinet, equipped with an automatic, electronic control system for blowing and heating the air circulating inside the chamber, which is then forcibly removed using exhaust fans located at the top of the drying system. The electronic system of the drying cabinet independently determines the optimal operating parameters on the basis of continuously received data from humidity and temperature sensors and, in an autonomous, automatic mode, produces gentle and high-quality drying, in addition, the system disinfects and ionizes the drying cabinet chamber.

Below is an example of a specific implementation of the device.

The drying device (FIGS. 1 and 2) is a metal cabinet 1, for the execution of which metal sheets were used, for example, with a thickness of 0.8-1.2 mm, grade 08 PS. Surfaces are painted with powder polymer dyes. The cavity inside the cabinet forms a chamber for drying special clothes, shoes and hats. The camera is used for convenient not only storing work clothes and shoes, but also for drying them. This camera is also used for drying and other items (sports equipment, gear, equipment, etc.).

The camera inside the cabinet 1 is equipped with reflective thermal insulation elements, shelves, rungs, hinges, hooks for placing clothes and shoes or other drying items in it. These features are not considered in detail.

In the lower part of the drying chamber, a thermal unit 2 is attached to its base, consisting of heating elements, in particular electric finned stainless steel heating elements, with a maximum power consumption of 1.5 kW (the thermal unit installed in the lower part of the cabinet can be equipped with not only ribbed heating elements, but also with other types of heaters), and a fan that creates a uniform directed flow of heated air. Cold air 3 or ambient temperature is taken from the outside and enters the thermal unit 2, where it is heated to a predetermined temperature (Figs. 3 and 4). For air intake 3, couplings can be used to communicate the intake channel with the air injection system or for direct air intake outside the room. Heated air 4 from the heat block 2 enters the chamber of the drying cabinet 1. The latter is equipped with an electronic system of blowing the heated air circulating inside the chamber 5. The temperature inside the cabinet was controlled by the temperature sensor 6, and the temperature inside the chamber is displayed on the digital display of the digital control panel 7 located on the closet. The heating temperature was set from + 30 ° C to + 60 ° C depending on the humidity of the drying items. The control panel has the ability to flexibly program the temperature regime, thereby providing the ability to dry various fabrics in different climatic conditions.

As a result of drying, when the temperature set by the electronic system inside the chamber of the drying cabinet, moisture evaporates from the surface of the drying items.

Humidity inside the camera is controlled by a humidity sensor 8, the readings of which are also displayed on the digital display of the digital control panel 7.

To remove moist air 9 from the chamber of the drying cabinet, as well as unpleasant odors in its upper part, exhaust fans 10 and couplings (not shown) are used. The couplings are used to connect the blowing channels of the exhaust fans 9 of the drying cabinet with a public ventilation system (not shown) or to divert humidified air outside the room where the drying cabinet equipped with an electronic system is installed.

To conduct disinfection of air and the surface of the dried items, which are placed in an oven equipped with an electronic system, a quartz bactericidal irradiator / Li 11 (quartz lamp) is used. And to neutralize static electricity from drying items, to clean the air from pollution, use the built-in ionizer 12.

The use of an electronic meter-controller (a controller electrically connected to the nodes of the electronic control system) during the drying process made it possible to set the required parameters of the electronic system in automatic mode for drying clothes, shoes and other items that are to be dried. Upon reaching the specified parameters for the degree of humidity inside the chamber of the drying cabinet set by the manual installation on the control panel, the meter-controller automatically turns off the operation of the heating elements of the heat unit and fans, thereby saving energy costs.

The method of drying clothes and shoes and wardrobe items in this device consists in placing clothes and shoes and wardrobe items in the cabinet chamber and forcing the air flow into the chamber due to air intake from the environment. Then this air stream is heated to a predetermined temperature and the heated air stream is circulated in the chamber, then this moistened air stream is diverted from the chamber to the external environment. At the same time, during the circulation and removal of the humidified air stream, the humidity of the heated air stream circulating in the chamber is additionally determined, and when the set humidity value is reached, the means for taking the air and heating it and the air stream are removed from the chamber are turned off.

For example, contaminated and wet clothes, shoes, hats and personal protective equipment are placed in the chamber of the drying cabinet. Then the electronic system of the drying cabinet is activated by pressing a button on the digital control panel 7. Next, the system independently determines the optimal drying mode based on continuously received data from humidity and air temperature sensors. After their determination, the electronic system for blowing and heating the air is placed in the chamber of the drying system. The humidity and temperature inside the cabinet are continuously monitored by sensors 6 and 8, the readings of which are displayed on the digital display of the drying cabinet cyclically throughout the entire drying process.

In addition, an air disinfection of the drying chamber with articles of clothing, shoes and hats placed therein is carried out using a bactericidal quartz lamp. To neutralize static electricity from drying items, to clean the air from pollution, use the built-in ionizer. A quartz lamp is located at the top of the cabinet, and an ionizer at the bottom (near the heat block). They also shut down along with shutting down the system. The system is completely de-energized. And the ionizer and the quartz lamp themselves work from the beginning of the drying process to its end.

Exhausted and humid air with unpleasant odors is removed from the chamber using exhaust fans and couplings that connect the drying system to the public ventilation system, or humidified air is removed outside the room where the drying chamber is installed.

Upon reaching the specified parameters in time or in the degree of humidity inside the chamber of the drying cabinet, the electronic system is automatically turned off. The electronic control system is also configured to realize the function of stopping the drying process after a specified time or when a predetermined level of air humidity inside the chamber is reached.

The device has a cyclical process of heating and extracting air, until the specified percentage of humidity is reached (i.e. heating-extracting, heating-extracting, heating-extracting), until the humidity measurement sensor displays a pre-programmed value and then the system shuts down completely , together with an ionizer and a quartz lamp.

It is carried out as follows. The operator sets on the control panel the maximum temperature for heating the air in the chamber, for example 42 ° C, the drop temperature due to the removal of air flow from the chamber through the exhaust fans, for example - 12 ° C, the humidity value is 10% and the time on the timer is 6 hours. After the initiation of the drying process, the air circulating in the chamber is heated, and the humidity is about 90%. When the air temperature reaches 42 ° C, the exhaust fans turn on and the heat block turns off, the temperature drops to 30 ° C, humidity - up to 80%. After which the heat block is turned on again, air is heated. When the temperature reaches 42 ° C, the exhaust fans are switched on and the heat unit is turned off. Temperature drops to 30 ° C, humidity - up to 80%. The heating-hood process is repeated many times and the operation of the device ends when the humidity sensor shows 10% or after 6 hours, whichever comes first.

The proposed method allows not only to store, but also to carry out high-quality and gentle drying of clothes, shoes, hats and other items in various climatic conditions in a fully automatic mode.

In addition, the proposed method increases the wear resistance of special clothes due to high-quality drying. Using the proposed method allows to reduce the cost of the purchase of special clothing, shoes and personal protective equipment of the employee and extend their service life. And also to reduce the cost of electricity associated with drying clothes, and at the same time reduce the risk of fire in the room where the drying system is installed.

Claims (5)

1. A device for drying clothes and shoes and wardrobe items, comprising a chamber for placement of objects to be dried therein, while the drying air stream is circulated in the chamber by taking air from the environment and supplying it with an air blower to the chamber through a heating unit and the subsequent removal of the humidified air stream from the chamber into the external environment, characterized in that the chamber is made in a cabinet in which there are elements for hanging clothes to be dried and placing shoes, etc. items of clothing, in the upper part of the cabinet there are mounted exhaust fans to divert the humidified air flow from the chamber to the external environment, and in the lower part of the cabinet there is a heat block, which includes means for heating the air coming from the outside of the chamber and a means of forcing heated air into the chamber, while the device equipped with an electronic control system, including a control panel with bodies for manually setting the values of humidity and temperature, temperature and humidity sensors located inside the amers, executive units for controlling the on and off heating elements of the heating means in the heat block, exhaust fans and a fan of the air injection means, as well as a controller electrically connected to the nodes of the electronic control system and configured to turn off the heating elements and these fans when the humidity values are reached air flow inside the chamber or the expiration of the set time set by the manual installation on the control panel. 2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that a quartz lamp and an ionizer are installed inside the chamber. 3. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the quartz lamp and ionizer are configured to manually turn on and off or are electrically connected to the controller to turn them on when the heating elements and fans are turned off. 4. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that it is equipped with couplings or sleeves for venting humidified air outside the room where the cabinet is installed. 5. The method of drying clothes and shoes and wardrobe items, which consists in placing clothes and shoes and wardrobe items in a chamber made in the form of a cabinet, forcing the air stream into the chamber by taking air from the environment, heating this stream to a predetermined temperature, ensuring circulation of the heated air flow in the chamber and in the subsequent removal of the humidified air flow from the chamber to the external environment, characterized in that it further determines the humidity of the heated air circulating in the chamber th stream, and when a predetermined value of humidity is carried off means performing the air intake, its heating and removal of air flow from the chamber.

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