CN109594313B

CN109594313B - Drying rack

Info

Publication number: CN109594313B
Application number: CN201811337953.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘建伟
Original assignee: Wuxi Little Swan Electric Co Ltd
Current assignee: Wuxi Little Swan Electric Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-11-12
Filing date: 2018-11-12
Publication date: 2021-02-26
Anticipated expiration: 2038-11-12
Also published as: CN109594313A

Abstract

The invention provides a drying rack and a clothes dryer with the same, wherein the drying rack comprises a rack body, a rack body and a rack body, wherein the rack body is suitable for placing or hanging objects to be dried; the support part is arranged on one side of the frame body and is connected with one end of the frame body, a containing cavity is formed in the support part, and the frame body is suitable for being contained in the containing cavity; the supporting portion is detachably connected to a fixing portion for supporting the supporting portion. The drying rack is detachably arranged in the clothes dryer, has small volume and convenient storage, and effectively solves the problems that when the dried clothes contain more water, the content of the lifter is easy to seep water, the drying rack stored in the lifter is corroded and polluted, and is easy to rust and damage, and meanwhile, the drying rack and the lifter are integrated, so that the drying rack has a more complex structure and high production and maintenance costs.

Description

Drying rack

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of washing machines, in particular to a drying rack and a clothes dryer.

Background

With the popularization of clothes dryers in the market, people increasingly use clothes dryers, and have higher requirements on use convenience, clothes care and the like, and the use of a drying rack for drying special clothes and shoes is common.

In order to better realize accomodating of drying frame, set up in the riser on clothes dryer cylinder inner peripheral surface among the prior art and can accomodate the mechanism and the space of drying frame, when the user need use the drying frame, take out the drying frame support body and erect in the inner tube for place the clothing or the shoes of waiting to wash and dry, when need not using, in the effect of mechanism is dried the frame and is accomodate to the riser in, the volume is less, need not deposit alone, is convenient for accomodate. However, under some circumstances, if the clothes to be dried contain more water, the lifter is easy to be penetrated, the drying rack stored in the lifter can be corroded and polluted, and is easy to rust and damage, and meanwhile, the drying rack and the lifter are integrated, so that the structure is complex, and the production and maintenance costs are high.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention has been made to solve at least one of the problems occurring in the prior art or the related art

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a drying rack, which can freely extend or retract the rack body according to the needs of a user, and can be detached and placed by the user when a dryer dries clothes with high humidity, thereby preventing the drying rack from being affected with moisture and corrosion.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a dryer having the above drying rack.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a drying rack, including:

the rack body is suitable for placing or hanging the object to be dried;

the support part is arranged on one side of the frame body and is connected with one end of the frame body, a containing cavity is formed in the support part, and the frame body is suitable for being contained in the containing cavity;

the supporting portion is detachably connected to a fixing portion for supporting the supporting portion. Supporting part detachably is connected with the fixed part for the user can install or dismantle the frame of drying as required, avoids under the condition that need not use the frame of drying, and when the great clothing of wet degree was done in the dryer stoving, the frame of drying was wet, is corroded, has strengthened the life of frame of drying.

Further, the fixed part is provided with a limiting mechanism, the supporting part comprises a locking mechanism, and the locking mechanism is suitable for being matched with the limiting mechanism to fix the supporting part to the fixed part.

Furthermore, locking mechanical system includes locking cooperation portion and presses the splenium, it drives to press the splenium to construct to receive external force extrusion the locking cooperation portion with stop gear breaks away from to press the splenium to remove external force extrusion when driving the locking cooperation portion with stop gear keeps the cooperation. The user only need exert and remove external force for pressing the splenium, and locking cooperation portion can realize locking cooperation portion and stop gear's effective cooperation under pressing the drive of splenium, and connection structure is simple, and it is very convenient that the frame is dried in installation, dismantlement, and user experience feels good.

Furthermore, press the splenium including button and connecting rod, the one end of connecting rod with the button is connected, the other end of connecting rod with the locking cooperation portion is connected, the button is suitable for the drive when being pressed the connecting rod is in order to drive the motion of locking cooperation portion.

Further, the supporting portion further comprises a shell, the middle portion of the connecting rod is connected with the shell in a rotatable mode, and when the button is pressed, the connecting rod drives the locking matching portion to move upwards.

Further, a support extending downwards is arranged on the inner side of the upper portion of the shell, and the position close to the middle of the connecting rod is hinged to the support.

Further, the locking matching part is formed into a cylindrical protrusion, and the limiting mechanism is formed into a limiting hole matched with the cylindrical protrusion. The cooperation mode in cylinder arch and spacing hole is convenient for the user to use the installation location when drying the frame, and the accuracy is high, simple swift to the processing technology in cylinder arch and spacing hole is simple, low in manufacturing cost is honest and clean.

Further, the cylindrical protrusion is integrally formed with the connecting rod.

Furthermore, the pressing portion further comprises a reset piece, the reset piece is arranged below the button and is in direct or indirect contact with the lower end of the button, and the reset piece is suitable for driving the button to move upwards to reset.

Further, the piece that resets is the spring, the vertical setting of spring, the lower extreme of spring is fixed in and is located the brace table of casing lower part, the upper end of spring with the lower extreme butt of button. Set up the spring in button below, the button receives external force extrusion spring after, and the button drives the protruding upward movement of cylinder, and when external force was relieved, the button received the elastic restoring force of spring to drive the protruding downward movement of cylinder and with spacing hole cooperation, make drying rack and dryer be connected inseparabler.

Further, the housing is formed to be closed to open at a side close to the frame body, and the fixing portion is adapted to be inserted into the housing from the open side; the part of the inner part of the shell, which is close to the closed side, forms the containing cavity. The fixed part is inserted by the open one side of casing and is fixed on the fixed part with drying the frame, make full use of the inside space of casing, simultaneously, the inside part that is close to closed one side of casing forms accomodates the chamber, for drying the frame support body and providing the storage space, when need not use drying the frame, with the support body shrink to accomodating the intracavity, the effectual whole volume that reduces drying the frame makes drying the frame be convenient for accomodate.

Further, the support body includes first support body and second support body, first support body is located the outside of second support body and the second support body is surrounded by first support body, first support body with under the equal circumstances of launching of second support body, the support body is whole roughly to form "returning" font structure.

Further, the first rack and the second rack are configured to be drawn out to different lengths so as to be suitable for placing objects to be baked with different sizes.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a dryer, including: a housing; the inner peripheral surface of barrel is formed with the promotion muscle to and preceding stoving frame, promote the muscle and form the fixed part. The clothes dryer provided by the embodiment of the invention has the advantages that the telescopic and detachable drying rack is arranged, so that a user can install or detach the drying rack as required to dry shoes or clothes with rare and easily wrinkled materials, the drying function meets the diversified requirements of the user, and meanwhile, the drying rack is prevented from being damped and corroded when the clothes dryer dries clothes with larger humidity without using the drying rack.

All the features and advantages of the drying rack described above are applicable to the dryer according to the embodiment of the present invention, and are not described in detail herein.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

The above and/or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a dryer drum in a first state according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of the dryer drum of the present invention in a second state;

FIG. 3 shows a schematic view of a drying rack according to the invention;

FIG. 4 shows a schematic view of the support portion of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 shows an enlarged schematic view of the structure at A in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view illustrating a fixing portion of a drying rack according to the present invention;

fig. 7 shows a schematic view of a drying rack body according to the present invention;

wherein, the correspondence between the reference numbers and the part names in fig. 1 to 7 is:

1 support body, 1-1 first support body, 1-2 second support body, 2 supporting parts, 3 ends, 4 lifting ribs, 5 limiting holes, 6 cylindrical protrusions, 7 buttons, 8 connecting rods, 9 shells, 10 springs, 11 supporting tables, 12 cylinders, 13 supports, 14 vertical rods, 15 cross rods, 16 matching parts, 17 holding parts, 18 holes and 19 concave parts

Detailed Description

In order that the above objects, features and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood, a more particular description of the invention will be rendered by reference to the appended drawings. It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments of the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms than those herein described and it is therefore not intended that the scope of the invention be limited to the specific embodiments disclosed below.

A dryer having a drying rack according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to fig. 1 to 5; it is emphasized that the drying rack of the present invention can be used not only in a dryer, but also in other devices, such as a washing and drying machine, etc.

The dryer of the present invention may be a direct-exhaust type dryer, or a heat pump or condensation type dryer, and the present invention is not limited thereto. For the structures known to those skilled in the art in the dryer, such as the dryer housing, the heating device, etc., not shown in the present embodiment.

As shown in fig. 1 and 2, in the embodiment of the present invention, the clothes dryer includes a drum 12, a fixing portion is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the drum 12, in the embodiment, the fixing portion is the lifting rib 4, in the embodiment, the drying rack is engaged with the lifting rib 4, so that the drying rack is installed and fixed to a surface of the lifting rib 4. Specifically, fig. 1 shows that the drying rack is in a first state in which objects to be dried can be placed, and a user can directly place objects to be dried, such as shoes, on the surface of the drying rack, in this embodiment, two drying racks are provided, and the rack body 1 is telescopically drawn relative to the drying racks, and the rack body 1 of the two drying racks is drawn out, so that a larger drying plane can be formed, and the user can place the objects to be dried on the drying plane, of course, when the objects to be dried are fewer, the user can select to draw out only one side, such as the rack body 1 on the left side, for drying; specifically, a frame body 1 of the drying frame is formed into a first frame body (1-1) and a second frame body (1-2) which are the same in shape and different in size, the first frame body (1-1) is arranged on the outer side of the second frame body (1-2), the second frame body (1-2) is surrounded by the first frame body (1-1), and under the condition that the first frame body (1-1) and the second frame body (1-2) are unfolded, the frame body 1 is approximately formed into a structure in a shape like a Chinese character 'hui'; the first frame body (1-1) and the second frame body (1-2) can stretch out and draw back to different degrees according to needs, when dried articles are small, a user can select to draw out the first frame body (1-1) and the second frame body (1-2), and the positions of the second frame body (1-2) and the first frame body (1-1) can be adjusted to form a dense drying plane, so that articles are prevented from leaking out of the open space of the frame body 1; when the object to be dried is large, the user may choose to draw out only the first shelf (1-1) because the large-sized object is not easily leaked out of the open space of the first shelf (1-1), and the detailed structure of the shelf 1 will be described later.

The embodiment further provides a hanging drying mode, as shown in fig. 2, which shows that the drying rack is in a second state capable of hanging the object to be dried, and the user can hang the object to be dried, such as a shirt, to the drying rack, at this time, the user only needs to pull out the first rack body (1-1) and directly hang the shirt and the like to the first rack body (1-1).

In order to facilitate the convenient disassembly and assembly of the drying rack, the invention designs a quick installation mode, and the following parts are described in detail:

specifically, as shown in fig. 2 to 6, in an embodiment of the present invention, the drying rack further includes a support 2 provided at one side of the rack body 1 and connected to one end of the rack body 1, the support 2 having a housing 9, one side of the housing 9 adjacent to the rack body 1 being closed, and the other side being formed as an opening in conformity with the shape of the lifting rib 4, so that the lifting rib 4 can be inserted into the housing 9 from the opened side to detachably fit the support 2 to the lifting rib 4; further, the supporting portion 2 includes a locking mechanism, please refer to fig. 5, in this embodiment, the locking mechanism includes a locking mating portion and a pressing portion, specifically, the pressing portion includes a button 7 and a connecting rod 8, in some alternative embodiments of the present invention, the pressing portion may also be configured as the entire upper surface of the supporting portion 2, and the detachment and installation are realized by directly pressing the upper surface of the supporting portion 2; in this embodiment, two connecting rods 8 are symmetrically arranged on two sides of the button 7, wherein the connecting rods 8 are made of a rigid material, and one end of each connecting rod 8 is flexibly connected with the button 7, for example, through a soft material; the locking matching part is specifically a cylindrical bulge 6 arranged at the other end of the connecting rod 8, the pressing part further comprises a reset piece which is arranged below the button 7 and is abutted against the button 7, and the reset piece is specifically a spring 10 or other elastic components such as a rubber pad and the like; the upper end of the spring 10 is abutted against the lower surface of the button 7, and the lower end of the spring 10 is installed on a support platform 11 on the inner lower surface of the shell 9; further, a support 13 is arranged on the upper surface of the inner side of the shell 9, and the middle part of the connecting rod 8 is rotatably connected to the support 13; that is, the connecting rod 8 is rotatably connected to the upper surface of the inner side of the housing 9 near the middle thereof, so that when the button 7 is pressed, the connecting rod 8 moves upward at the end where the cylindrical protrusion 6 is located under the supporting and limiting effect of the support 13, and after the pressing effect is released, the button 7 is reset upward under the effect of the spring 10, so that the end where the cylindrical protrusion 6 is located falls; correspondingly, be equipped with stop gear on the promotion muscle 4, in this embodiment, stop gear is spacing hole 5, thereby the protruding 6 of cylinder is suitable for the card to go into spacing downthehole 5 and realizes supporting part 2 and the mutual fastening of promotion muscle 4, thereby, the user is when needs are installed, press button 7, and with the frame of drying towards promotion muscle 4 motion, make promotion muscle 4 insert in casing 9 from open one side of supporting part 2, the assembly back that targets in place, loosen button 7, under the effect of spring 10, protruding 6 of cylinder falls into spacing hole 5, supporting part 2 and the completion of promotion muscle 4 fastening assembly this moment, when needs are dismantled, press button 7, protruding 6 of cylinder upwards shifts out spacing hole 5, spacing portion and promotion muscle 4 release the fastening this moment, the user removes the frame of drying from promotion muscle 4 again and can accomplish the dismantlement process, and convenience and high speed.

Further, in this embodiment, in order to ensure that the connection between the supporting portion 2 and the lifting rib 4 is tighter and the appearance is more complete and beautiful, the size of the opening of the casing 9 is greater than or equal to the size of the lifting rib 4 in the radial direction, so that when the casing 9 is completely inserted into the lifting rib 4, the end portions of the two sides of the casing 9 can be in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder 12, thereby avoiding a gap from being formed between the casing 9 and the inner wall of the cylinder 12, and further avoiding the abrasion effect on the clothes in the rotating process.

In order to facilitate the extension and retraction of the frame body 1, in this embodiment, a containing cavity is further provided, specifically, the containing cavity includes a portion located on one side of the casing 9 close to the frame body 1, and when the user does not need to use the frame body 1, the frame body 1 can be compressed toward the supporting portion 2, as shown in fig. 3, the tail end 3 of the frame body 1 enters the inside of the casing 9 under the action of pressure, so that the frame body 1 is hidden in the supporting portion 2; in some alternative embodiments of the present invention, since the first frame body (1-1) and the second frame body (1-2) have a larger size, an opening 18 is formed at an end of the lifting rib 4 facing the supporting portion 2, so that the frame body 1 can be partially received in the space inside the lifting rib 4 through the opening 18 during the compression process, thereby enabling the complete contraction of the frame body 1.

Further, in this embodiment, casing 9 is formed with depressed part 19 towards one side of support body 1, and is concrete, and the orientation that keeps away from support body 1 is at near the middle part of casing 9 towards one side of support body 1 is concave in order to form this depressed part 19 to when this support body 1 is accomodate to accomodating the chamber, support body 1 is formed with the gripping space with depressed part 19, thereby when support body 1 shrink state, the user can stretch into this gripping space with the hand, and then conveniently pulls out support body 1.

The structure of the frame body 1 will be described in detail as follows: referring to fig. 1, fig. 3 and fig. 7, the first frame (1-1) includes a vertical rod 14 and two upper and lower cross rods 15, the two cross rods 15 are formed at two ends of the vertical rod 14, so that the first frame (1-1) is formed into a [ -shape, an upper and lower through hole (not shown in the figure) is formed on the end surface of the housing 9 facing the frame 1, and the upper and lower cross rods extend into the housing 9 through the through hole; further, in this embodiment, in order to ensure the stability of the frame body 1, the upper and lower through holes are provided with the clamping portions, the upper and lower cross rods are provided with the corresponding matching portions 16, specifically, the matching portions 16 are provided at intervals in the telescopic direction of the upper and lower cross rods, and more specifically, in this embodiment, the matching portions 16 are clamping grooves provided on the cross rods 15, the clamping portions can be protruding portions provided at the through holes, and the protruding portions can be clamped into the clamping grooves to position the cross rods 15, so that a user can freely select the extending length of the first frame body (1-1) as required, and the frame body 1 is positioned at a specific position, that is, the position of the matching portions 16, to the through holes, so as to form drying planes with different areas to meet different drying requirements of the user, and avoid the first frame body (1-1) from shaking; further, in the present embodiment, the grip portion 17 is disposed on the vertical rod 14, so that the user can push and pull the frame body 1 more conveniently and quickly; in this embodiment, the first frame (1-1) and the second frame (1-2) have the same structure, and are not described herein again. Further, in this embodiment, the button 7 is provided with a protrusion, and due to poor light in the barrel of the clothes dryer, the protrusion is convenient for a user to determine the position of the button 7 by touching, so that the operation efficiency is improved.

The operation of the dryer of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to fig. 1 to 7 as follows:

when a user needs to dry shoes, a corresponding drying program of a clothes dryer is selected, the barrel 12 is controlled to operate by the program, the barrel 12 moves until the pair of opposite lifting ribs 4 of the barrel 12 are positioned at a horizontal position, a door body is opened, the drying rack shell 9 is held by hand and the button 7 is pressed, the cylindrical protrusion 6 is tilted upwards under the action of the button 7, the opened side of the shell 9 is aligned with the lifting ribs 4 and inserted, the force pressing on the button 7 is released, the cylindrical protrusion 6 moves downwards under the action of the spring 10 and then falls into the limiting hole 5, and therefore the rack body 1 is fixed to the lifting ribs 4; a user pulls out the first frame body (1-1) and the second frame body (1-2) according to the requirement to form a sufficient drying plane, and drying objects such as shoes and the like can be placed on the drying plane; when the drying rack is not needed, a user can push the rack body 1 towards one side of the lifting rib 4, so that the rack body 1 is contracted into the shell 9 and the lifting rib 4, and normal clothes drying operation is not affected; when the humidity of the dried clothes is high, the user can press the button 7 again, so that the drying rack can be quickly taken down, and the corrosion and rusting of the rack body 1 are avoided.

When a user needs to dry clothes such as silk and the like which are easy to wrinkle, a drying program corresponding to the clothes dryer is selected, the program controls the operation of the cylinder 12, the cylinder 12 moves to a position right above any lifting rib 4 in the cylinder 12, the door body is opened, the drying rack shell 9 is held in hand and the button 7 is pressed, the opened side of the shell 9 is aligned to the lifting rib 4 and inserted, the force pressing the button 7 is released, the drying rack is fixed on the lifting rib 4, and the rack body 1 accommodated in the shell 9 and the lifting rib 4 is pulled out to be used for hanging a shirt to wait for drying.

The clothes dryer provided by the embodiment of the invention meets diversified requirements of users by arranging the telescopic drying rack, and meanwhile, the drying rack is prevented from being affected with damp and corroded when the clothes dryer dries clothes with larger dry and wet degrees under the condition that the drying rack is not needed.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes will occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A drying rack, comprising:

the rack body (1) is suitable for placing or hanging an object to be dried;

the support part (2) is arranged on one side of the frame body (1) and connected with one end of the frame body (1), a containing cavity is formed in the support part (2), and the frame body (1) is suitable for being contained in the containing cavity;

the support part (2) is detachably connected to a lifting rib (4) for supporting the support part (2);

the lifting rib (4) is provided with a limiting mechanism, the supporting part (2) comprises a locking mechanism, and the locking mechanism is suitable for being matched with the limiting mechanism to fix the supporting part (2) to the lifting rib (4);

the locking mechanism comprises a locking matching part and a pressing part, the pressing part is constructed to drive the locking matching part to be separated from the limiting mechanism when being extruded by external force, and the pressing part drives the locking matching part to be kept matched with the limiting mechanism when releasing the extrusion of the external force.

2. Drying rack according to claim 1, characterized in that: the pressing portion comprises a button (7) and a connecting rod (8), one end of the connecting rod (8) is connected with the button (7), the other end of the connecting rod (8) is connected with the locking matching portion, and the button (7) is suitable for driving the connecting rod (8) to drive the locking matching portion to move when being pressed.

3. Drying rack according to claim 2, wherein the support part (2) further comprises a housing (9), wherein the connecting rod (8) is rotatably connected to the housing (9) near the middle of the connecting rod, and wherein the connecting rod (8) drives the latch engagement part to move upwards when the button (7) is pressed.

4. Drying rack according to claim 3, characterized in that: the inner side of the upper part of the shell (9) is provided with a support (13) extending downwards, and the middle part of the connecting rod (8) is hinged with the support (13).

5. Drying rack according to claim 4, wherein the locking engagement is formed as a cylindrical protrusion (6) and the limiting means is formed as a limiting hole (5) adapted to the cylindrical protrusion (6).

6. Drying rack according to claim 5, wherein the cylindrical protrusions (6) are integrally formed with the connecting rods (8).

7. Drying rack according to claim 6, characterized in that said pressing portion further comprises a reset element, said reset element being arranged below said button (7) and being in direct or indirect contact with the lower end of said button (7), said reset element being adapted to drive said button (7) to move upwards for resetting.

8. Drying rack according to claim 7, characterized in that the return element is a spring (10), the spring (10) is arranged vertically, the lower end of the spring (10) is fixed to a support platform (11) located at the lower part of the casing (9), and the upper end of the spring (10) abuts against the lower end of the button (7).

9. Drying rack according to claim 8, wherein the casing (9) is formed closed on the side close to the rack body (1) and open on the side remote from the rack body (1), the lifting rib (4) being adapted to be inserted into the casing (9) from the open side; the part of the inner part of the shell (9) close to the closed side forms at least part of the containing cavity.

10. Drying rack according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the rack (1) comprises a first rack (1-1) and a second rack (1-2), the first rack (1-1) is arranged outside the second rack (1-2) and the second rack (1-2) is surrounded by the first rack (1-1), and the rack (1) is formed into a substantially "zigzag" structure as a whole when the first rack (1-1) and the second rack (1-2) are both unfolded.

11. Drying rack according to claim 10, wherein the first rack body (1-1) and the second rack body (1-2) are configured to be extractable to different lengths to accommodate objects to be dried of different sizes.

12. A clothes dryer, characterized by comprising:

a housing;

drying rack according to any one of claims 1 to 11,

and a cylinder (12), wherein the lifting rib (4) is formed on the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder (12).