CN112391789A - Multi-barrel fixed connection structure and clothes treatment device - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of clothes treatment, and particularly discloses a multi-barrel fixed connection structure and a clothes treatment device. The multi-barrel fixed connection structure and the clothes treatment device have the advantages of capability of realizing large-span connection of a plurality of clothes treatment barrels, high connection stability and good connection stability.

Description

Multi-barrel fixed connection structure and clothes treatment device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of clothes treatment, in particular to a multi-barrel fixed connection structure and a clothes treatment device.

Background

At present, most of the conventional drum washing machines in the laundry processing device have only one washing drum, and as the health consciousness of people is strengthened, more and more users need to classify and wash different types of clothes or wash a small amount of clothes in time, so that the users have not satisfied the conventional drum washing machine of "one tub washing", and have proposed a healthier washing requirement: the existing clothes processing device provides a compound multi-barrel washing machine, because two or more washing barrels are simultaneously accommodated in one box body, the connection and fixation between every two adjacent washing barrels is the key for the stable operation of the whole machine, the existing two-barrel connection mode adopts threads as the connection and the balance weight between the barrels, but the connection mode has the problems that large-span connection cannot be realized, the connection stability is not high and the connection stability is not good.

Disclosure of Invention

Based on this, aiming at the prior art, the technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a multi-barrel fixed connection structure and a clothes treatment device, which can realize large-span connection of two clothes treatment barrels, and have high connection stability and good connection stability.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:

in one aspect, the present invention provides a multi-tub fixing and connecting structure capable of mounting a plurality of laundry treating tubs in a large span, including: the connecting frames are arranged oppositely at intervals, each connecting frame comprises two first beams extending along the vertical direction in the height direction of the connecting frame, and a first multifunctional connecting piece with a first connecting part and a second multifunctional connecting piece with a second connecting part which are oppositely arranged at two ends of the two first beams, wherein the first connecting parts and the second connecting parts form a clothes treating barrel mounting position respectively, the first mounting positions of the first connecting parts are upwards fixedly connected with two ends of a clothes treating barrel, and the second mounting positions of the second connecting parts are downwards fixedly connected with two ends of another clothes treating barrel; and at least two second beams respectively connected at a middle upper position between the first beams of the two connection frames arranged at an interval relatively.

In one embodiment, the first connection part includes a first opening having a first curved surface, the second connection part includes a second opening having a second curved surface, and each of the laundry treating tubs is fixed to the first multifunctional connector and the second multifunctional connector by a plurality of fixing members, respectively.

In one technical scheme, the first curved surface is a first curved surface with a first curvature as a whole, the second curved surface comprises a central concave surface and second curved surfaces which are positioned on two sides of the central concave surface and are symmetrical and have a second curvature, each first curved surface is adaptive to support the arc periphery of one clothes treatment barrel, and each central concave surface and each second curved surface are adaptive to correspondingly support the convex periphery and the arc periphery of another clothes treatment barrel.

In one technical scheme, the second multifunctional connecting piece further comprises a reinforcing connecting piece which is arranged opposite to the second opening, and two ends of the reinforcing connecting piece are respectively connected with the first beam.

In a technical scheme, the fixing component is a taper bolt component, the taper bolt component comprises a taper bolt and a fixing nut, a plurality of pairs of taper holes and through holes which are respectively used for the taper bolt to pass are correspondingly arranged on the clothes processing barrel, the first multifunctional connecting piece and the second multifunctional connecting piece, the thread end of each taper bolt is screwed with the fixing nut, a nut with a notch is arranged at one end, opposite to the thread end, of each taper bolt, and a boss which is abutted to the notch is arranged on the clothes processing barrel.

In one technical scheme, each through hole is arranged at equal intervals in the horizontal direction, and a through hole is arranged at the tail end of each first beam, which is adjacent to the corresponding second multifunctional connecting piece.

In one embodiment, the multi-tub fixed connection structure further includes at least a plurality of reinforcing connection beam assemblies, each of which is disposed in parallel with the second beam between the first beams of the plurality of connection frames disposed at opposite intervals, respectively.

In one technical scheme, the reinforced connecting beam assembly comprises a reinforced connecting beam body, angle codes, a switching screw rod, a first switching nut, a second switching nut, a fastening bolt and a fastening nut, wherein the two ends of the reinforced connecting beam body are respectively fixed with the first switching nut, the two ends of the switching screw rod are respectively provided with a screw thread, one end of the switching screw rod is screwed with the first switching nut, the other end of the switching screw rod passes through a through hole arranged on a first beam and is screwed with the second switching nut, the two ends of the reinforced connecting beam body are respectively fixedly connected with the first beam and are provided with at least one angle code, each angle code is respectively and oppositely arranged at the two sides of the two ends of the reinforced connecting beam body, for each angle code, the fastening bolt sequentially passes through the angle codes and the first beam and is connected with the fastening nut, the first connecting end surface of the angle code is fixedly connected with the first beam, the fastening bolt sequentially passes through the angle codes and the reinforced connecting beam body and is screwed with the, the second connection end face of the corner connector is fixedly connected with the reinforced connection beam body.

In a technical scheme, both ends at the reinforced connecting beam body are provided with limiting grooves, and a first transfer nut is fixed in each limiting groove in a welding mode.

In one embodiment, each connecting frame is integrally formed with each second beam from a rigid material.

In one aspect, the first mounting location and the second mounting location are spaced apart by a distance of 370mm to 1182 mm.

In one technical scheme, the angle yards are arranged in two pairs, and each pair of angle yards is respectively and oppositely arranged on two sides of two ends of the reinforcing beam body.

In one technical scheme, a pair of corner connectors located on the same side of the reinforcing beam sequentially penetrate through one corner connector, the reinforcing beam body and the other corner connector through a fastening bolt and then are screwed with a fastening nut.

In another aspect, the present invention provides a laundry treating apparatus, which includes three upper, middle and lower laundry treating tubs sequentially disposed up and down and any one of the above multiple tubs of fixed connection structure, wherein the upper laundry treating tub and the lower laundry treating tub are connected by the multiple tubs of fixed connection structure, wherein the upper laundry treating tub is fixedly connected to a pair of first connection parts, and the lower laundry treating tub is fixedly connected to a pair of second connection parts.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that: the multi-barrel fixed connection structure and the clothes treatment device respectively fix the clothes treatment barrels through the pair of first connection parts and the pair of second connection parts at the two ends of the pair of connection frames in the height direction, and can realize the fixed connection of the plurality of clothes treatment barrels with large span, high stability and good stability.

Drawings

In order that the present disclosure may be more readily and clearly understood, the following detailed description of the present disclosure is provided in connection with specific embodiments thereof, which are included in the accompanying drawings, and the description of which is intended to illustrate and not limit the present disclosure, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of a multi-tub fixed connection structure of the present invention fixedly connected to two laundry treating tubs (omitting a reinforcing connection beam assembly);

FIG. 2 is a schematic view illustrating an internal assembly structure of the laundry treating apparatus according to the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a partial schematic structural view of a multi-barrel fixed connection structure (the reinforced connecting beam assembly is omitted) according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a front view of a tapered bolt of the multi-barrel secure coupling of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the assembled structure of the taper bolt assembly shown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 is a schematic view of a portion of a reinforcing beam assembly of the multi-barrel fastening arrangement of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a partial schematic view of an assembly structure of a reinforcing beam assembly and a pair of first beams of the multi-tub fixed joint structure of the present invention;

the reference numbers in the figures denote:

10-a connection frame; 11-a first beam; 12-a second beam, 13-a first multifunctional connector; 13A-a first opening; 13a1 — first arc; 14-a second multifunctional connector; 14A-a second opening; 14a 1-central concave surface; 14a2 — second arc; 15-a through hole; 16-a reinforcing connector;

20-a laundry treating tub; 21-a tapered hole; 22-a boss;

30-taper bolt assembly; 31-taper bolt; 32-a threaded end; 33-a screw cap; 34-a notch; 35-a fixing nut; 36-a spring pad;

40-reinforcing the tie beam assembly; 41-reinforcing the connecting beam body; 42-corner connector; 43-a switching screw; 44-a first transition nut; 45-a second adapter nut; 46-a fastening bolt; 47-a fastening nut; 48-a limit groove;

50-a support frame.

Detailed Description

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.

It should be noted that the following detailed description is exemplary and is intended to provide further explanation of the disclosure. Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs.

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. The following description of at least one exemplary embodiment is merely illustrative in nature and is in no way intended to limit the invention, its application, or uses. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1 to 8, an embodiment of the present invention provides a multi-tub fixed connection structure capable of installing a plurality of laundry treatment tubs in a large span, where the span refers to an installation distance between the plurality of tubs, and is specifically reflected in a span between a first installation location and a second installation location, and a preferred span capable of reflecting a better technical effect is 370mm to 1182mm, and a specific value of the span is obtained through multiple experiments by the present inventors.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the multi-tub fixing and connecting structure includes a pair of connecting frames 10 disposed at an interval, each connecting frame 10 includes two first beams 11 extending in parallel to each other in a height direction thereof, and a first multifunctional connecting member 13 having a first connecting portion and a second multifunctional connecting member 14 having a second connecting portion are oppositely disposed at both ends of the two first beams 11, the first multifunctional connecting member 13 and the second multifunctional connecting member 14 are preferably formed in a plate shape, the pair of first connecting portions and the pair of second connecting portions respectively form a laundry treating tub mounting position, wherein the first mounting positions of the pair of first connecting portions are fixedly connected to both ends of one laundry treating tub 20 upward, the second mounting positions of the pair of second connecting portions are fixedly connected to both ends of the other laundry treating tub 20 downward, the two laundry treating tubs 20 may respectively have a washing function and a drying function or both of the laundry treating and drying functions, as for the laundry treating tub 20 having a washing function, it includes an inner tub for containing laundry and an outer tub for containing washing water. The multi-tub fixed connection structure is further provided with at least two second beams 12 respectively connected between the middle upper portions of the first beams 11 of the two connection frames 10 disposed at opposite intervals, and by disposing the second beams between the middle upper portions of the first beams 11, the stability of installing the laundry treating tub on the connection frames in a large span is further improved. Each connecting frame 10 and each second beam 12 of the multi-barrel fixed connecting structure are made of rigid materials such as stainless steel, aluminum alloy and the like, and have high rigidity, so that the rigidity of each clothes processing barrel 20 in operation is improved, the supporting strength and the stability of the multi-barrel fixed connecting structure are high, and the vibration of the clothes processing barrel 20 far away from the horizontal supporting surface of the clothes processing device in operation is reasonably transited because the first mounting position and the second mounting position are respectively and fixedly connected with the clothes processing barrel 20 at the upper position and the lower position of the pair of connecting frames by the interval span, so that the two clothes processing barrels 20 can be fixedly connected with each other in a large span, the vibration energy is downwards moved through the connecting frame 10, the left-right vibration amplitude of each clothes processing barrel 20 in operation is reduced, and the clothes processing device is beneficial to stable operation, Reducing vibration and noise. In addition, when three laundry treating tubs 20 need to be fixedly connected, only a pair of connecting frames 10, at least two second beams and their corresponding structures need to be added with reference to the above description.

Referring with emphasis to fig. 3, in an embodiment, the first connection part includes a first opening 13A having a first curved surface, the second connection part includes a second opening 14A having a second curved surface, each laundry treating tub 20 is fixed to the first and second multifunctional links 13 and 14, respectively, by a plurality of fixing members, and each laundry treating tub 20 is fixedly connected to the corresponding multifunctional link with high stability. Because first opening 13A and second opening 14A have different curved surfaces, therefore, even two clothings are handled bucket 20 during operation and are applyed the moment of torsion respectively to many buckets fixed connection structure through two multi-functional connecting pieces, but two different curved surfaces can play the regional phase separation of the effect with two moments of torsion, thereby avoid many buckets fixed connection structure's same position to receive the effort of two moments of torsion simultaneously, thereby the support intensity of many buckets fixed connection structure has been strengthened, and, because two multi-functional connecting pieces's thickness, thereby the shape can carry out the differentiation setting and play and carry out the effect of counter weight to whole many buckets fixed connection structure.

In one embodiment, the first curved surface is a first curved surface 13a1 having a first curvature as a whole, the second curved surface includes a central concave surface 14a1 and second curved surfaces 14a2 symmetrically disposed at both sides of the central concave surface 14a1 and having a second curvature, each of the first curved surfaces 13a1 adaptively supports an arc-shaped outer circumference (not shown) of the laundry treating tub 20 located above the height direction, and each of the central concave surfaces 14a1 and each of the second curved surfaces 14a2 adaptively supports a convex outer circumference (not shown) and an arc-shaped outer circumference (not shown) of another laundry treating tub 20 located below the height direction. Therefore, by providing the second curved surface with a central concave surface, the central concave surface is abutted against the convex periphery of the lower laundry treating tub 20, so that the laundry treating tub 20 can be further prevented from being displaced in the circumferential direction, and the torque generated by the lower laundry treating tub 20 can be further dispersed, thereby preventing the stress concentration generated by the torque from lowering the stability of the multi-tub fixed connection structure.

In one embodiment, each of the first and second multi-function connectors 13 and 14 is provided to have a larger area than the other second beams 12, and thus each multi-function connector can further enhance the rigidity of each connection frame 10, and also increase the flexibility of the balance weight by providing each multi-function connector with a different relative area.

In one embodiment, the second multifunctional connecting member 14 further comprises a reinforcing connecting member 16 disposed opposite to the second opening 14A and connected to the first beam 11 at two ends, respectively, and the reinforcing connecting member 16 is preferably a rod member, thereby increasing the stability of the large-span installation of the plurality of laundry treating tubs.

Referring to fig. 2 and 4 to 6, in an embodiment, the fixing member is a taper bolt assembly 30, the taper bolt assembly 30 includes a taper bolt 31 and a fixing nut 35, the laundry treating tub 20, the first multifunctional connector 13, and the second multifunctional connector 14 are correspondingly provided with a plurality of pairs of taper holes 21 and through holes 15 for passing a taper bolt 31, respectively, and the threaded end 32 of each taper bolt 31 is screwed with a fixing nut 35, so that the contact area between the taper bolt 31 and the laundry treating tub 20 is increased and the surface stress at the fixed connection position of the taper bolt 31 and the laundry treating tub 20 is reduced by the mutual matching of the taper surfaces of the taper bolt 31 and the taper hole 21. Moreover, the end of the taper bolt 31 opposite to the thread end 32 is provided with a nut 33 with a notch 34, and the clothes processing barrel 20 is provided with a boss 22 abutting against the notch 34, so that the notch 34 of the nut 33 is matched with the boss 22 of the clothes processing barrel 20, when the taper bolt 31 is screwed, the notch 34 and the boss 22 are mutually limited in the process of screwing the nut by adopting a sleeve, the taper bolt 31 is prevented from rotating in the screwing process, and the assembly difficulty is reduced. In addition, the elastic pad 36 may be disposed between the fixing nut 35 and the first multifunctional connector 13 or the second multifunctional connector 14, so that the fixing nut 35 may be prevented from being deformed by the first multifunctional connector 13 or the second multifunctional connector 14 in a tightened state, thereby improving the fastening effect.

Referring to fig. 3, in an embodiment, the through holes 15 are disposed at equal intervals in the horizontal direction, that is, the through holes 15 in the same vertical plane are located on the same straight line in the horizontal direction, and the adjacent distances between two through holes 15 are equal, so that the fixing acting force applied to the laundry treating tub 20 is uniform, and a through hole 15 is disposed at the end of each first beam 11 adjacent to the corresponding second multifunctional connecting member 14, so that the supporting force of each first beam to the upper laundry treating tub 20 is improved, and the vibration of the upper laundry treating tub 20 to the lower laundry treating tub 20 is reduced.

Referring with emphasis to fig. 2 and 3, in one embodiment, the multi-tub fixed connection structure further includes at least two reinforcing connecting beam assemblies 40, each reinforcing connecting beam assembly 40 being disposed in parallel with the second beam 12 between the first beams 11 of the two connection frames 10 disposed at opposite intervals, respectively. Therefore, the fixed connection of the pair of connection frames 11 can be reinforced by providing the respective reinforcing connection beam assemblies 40 so as to improve the overall stability and rigidity of the multi-tub fixed connection structure.

Referring to fig. 2, 7 and 8, in an embodiment, the reinforced connecting beam assembly 40 includes a reinforced connecting beam body 41 and corner connectors 42, adapter screws 43, first adapter nuts 44, second adapter nuts 45, fastening bolts 46 and fastening nuts 47, wherein two ends of the reinforced connecting beam body 41 can be respectively fixed with a first adapter nut 44 by welding, screwing or the like, two ends of the adapter screws 43 are respectively provided with threads, one end of each adapter screw is screwed with the first adapter nut 44, the other end of each adapter screw passes through a through hole (not shown) formed in the first beam 11 and is screwed with the second adapter nut 45, so as to fasten the connecting frame 10 with the reinforced beam body 41, at least one corner connector 42 is arranged at the position where two ends of the reinforced connecting beam body 41 are respectively fixedly connected with one first beam 11, that is, a pair of adjacent vertically parallel first beams 11 are respectively fixed with at least one corner connector 42, the fixing manner for each corner brace 42 is as follows: pass angle sign indicating number 42 and first roof beam 11 in proper order and screw with fastening nut 47 mutually through fastening bolt 46, the first connection terminal surface and the first roof beam 11 fixed connection of angle sign indicating number 42, pass angle sign indicating number 42 and reinforced connection roof beam body 41 in proper order and screw with fastening nut 47 mutually through fastening bolt 46, the second connection terminal surface and the reinforced connection roof beam body 41 fixed connection of angle sign indicating number 42, above-mentioned fastening bolt 46 has played the effect of connecting angle sign indicating number 42 and first roof beam 11 and connecting angle sign indicating number 42 and reinforced connection roof beam body 41 respectively. As described above, the reinforcing connection beam assembly 40 is fixedly connected to the pair of connection frames 10, so that the torsion resistance of each connection frame 10 is improved when each laundry treating tub 20 is operated, the fastened fastening bolt 46 and the fastened adaptor screw 43 at the first end where the corner brace 42 is fixed can limit the assembling movement in the up-and-down direction between the connection frame 10 and the reinforcing connection beam body 41, the fastened fastening bolt 46 and the fastened adaptor screw 43 at the second end where the corner brace 42 is fixed can limit the assembling movement in the left-and-right direction between the connection frame 10 and the reinforcing connection beam body 41, and the rigidity of the multi-tub fixed connection structure is improved by the above two limiting effects in combination with the structural form of the corner brace 42.

In one embodiment, the two ends of the reinforced connecting beam body 41 are provided with the limiting grooves 48, and a first transfer nut 44 is fixed in each limiting groove 48 by welding, so that the limiting grooves 48 can limit the assembly precision of the first transfer nut 44, reduce the assembly error, and avoid the vibration of each connecting frame 10 caused by the assembly error.

Referring to fig. 1, the corner connectors 42 of the reinforced connecting beam assembly 40 are provided in two pairs, and for the case of the two pairs of corner connectors 42, the corner connectors 42 are respectively and oppositely disposed at two sides of two ends of the reinforced connecting beam body 41, that is, each corner connector 42 is disposed at a right angle position where the reinforced connecting beam body 41 is connected with each connecting frame 10 and is perpendicular to the reinforced connecting beam body, so that the overall rigidity of each connecting frame 10 can be enhanced, twisting of the clothes treating tub 20 in different directions to each connecting frame 10 during operation can be effectively prevented, the transmission of vibration energy can be greatly reduced and improved, and the operation of the whole clothes treating apparatus can be more stable. For a pair of corner connectors 42 located at the same end of the reinforced connecting beam body 41, a fastening bolt 46 sequentially penetrates through one corner connector 42, the reinforced connecting beam body 41 and the other corner connector 42 and then is screwed with a fastening nut 47, so that two second connecting end surfaces of the pair of corner connectors 42 are fixedly connected with the reinforced connecting beam body 41 through the same fastening bolt 46 and the same fastening nut 47, the assembling steps are simplified, and the time is saved.

Referring to fig. 3, in an embodiment, each of the connection frames 10 and each of the second beams 12 of the multi-tub fixing connection structure are integrally formed of a rigid material such as stainless steel, aluminum alloy, etc. by means of stamping, die casting, etc., which reduces a single production cost and greatly improves production efficiency due to the integral formation, and even if the multi-tub fixing connection structure vibrates up and down due to the work of the laundry treating tub 20 thereon, the pair of connection frames 10 formed rigidly and integrally can reduce shearing load and bending load at the mutual fitting portion of the taper bolt 31 and the taper hole 21, which improves the safety factor of the taper bolt assembly 30 for fixing the laundry treating tub 20. In addition, since the pair of connection frames 10 and the second beams 12 fixedly connecting the connection frames 10 and the second beams are integrally formed by rigid materials, fastening methods such as bolts and welding are omitted between the first beams 11 and the second beams 12, and the risk that the fastening methods of the bolts and the welding are disabled due to vibration generated when the connection frames 10 are operated by the laundry treatment tub 20 is avoided.

In one embodiment, the interval span between the first installation position and the second installation position is 370mm to 1182mm, and the specific numerical range of the interval span not only meets the requirement of the large-span fixed connection, but also can ensure that the connection stability of the large-span fixed connection is high and the connection stability is good.

Referring to fig. 2, another embodiment of the present invention provides a clothes treating apparatus, which includes any one of the above-mentioned multiple-tub fixed connection structures, a support frame 50 disposed at an outer periphery of the multiple-tub fixed connection structure, and three upper, middle, and lower clothes treating tubs sequentially disposed up and down, wherein the upper and lower clothes treating tubs are respectively and fixedly connected to the pair of first connection parts and the pair of second connection parts, and the middle clothes treating tub is disposed in a gap between the pair of connection frames 10 and is fixedly connected to the support frame 50, so that not only is the structure compact for the connection and fixation of the three clothes treating tubs achieved, but also the middle clothes treating tub is relatively independently and fixedly connected to the support frame 50, thereby reducing mutual influence of the three clothes treating tubs during operation, and improving the operation stability of the clothes treating apparatus.

The relative arrangement of the components set forth in these embodiments does not limit the scope of the invention unless specifically stated otherwise. Meanwhile, it should be understood that the sizes of the respective portions shown in the drawings are not drawn in an actual proportional relationship for the convenience of description. Techniques, methods, and apparatus known to those of ordinary skill in the relevant art may not be discussed in detail but are intended to be part of the specification where appropriate. In all examples shown and discussed herein, any particular value should be construed as merely illustrative, and not limiting. Thus, other examples of the exemplary embodiments may have different values. It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, further discussion thereof is not required in subsequent figures.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the orientation or positional relationship indicated by the orientation words such as "front, rear, upper, lower, left, right", "lateral, vertical, horizontal" and "top, bottom", etc. are usually based on the orientation or positional relationship shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and in the case of not making a reverse description, these orientation words do not indicate and imply that the device or element being referred to must have a specific orientation or be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore, should not be considered as limiting the scope of the present invention; the terms "inner and outer" refer to the inner and outer relative to the profile of the respective component itself.

Spatially relative terms, such as "above … …," "above … …," "above … …," "above," and the like, may be used herein for ease of description to describe one device or feature's spatial relationship to another device or feature as illustrated in the figures. It will be understood that the spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use or operation in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if a device in the figures is turned over, devices described as "above" or "on" other devices or configurations would then be oriented "below" or "under" the other devices or configurations. Thus, the exemplary term "above … …" can include both an orientation of "above … …" and "below … …". The device may be otherwise variously oriented (rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

It is noted that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments according to the present application. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, and it should be understood that when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" are used in this specification, they specify the presence of stated features, steps, operations, devices, components, and/or combinations thereof, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by 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 (12)

1. A multi-tub fixed connection structure capable of installing a plurality of laundry treating tubs in a large span, comprising:

the connecting frames are oppositely arranged at intervals, each connecting frame comprises two first beams extending along the vertical direction in the height direction of the connecting frame, and a first multifunctional connecting piece with a first connecting part and a second multifunctional connecting piece with a second connecting part, which are oppositely arranged at two ends of the two first beams, wherein a pair of first connecting parts and a pair of second connecting parts respectively form a clothes processing barrel mounting position, the first mounting positions of the first connecting parts are upwards fixedly connected with two ends of one clothes processing barrel, and the second mounting positions of the second connecting parts are downwards fixedly connected with two ends of the other clothes processing barrel;

and at least two second beams respectively connected at the middle upper part between the first beams of the two connecting frames which are oppositely arranged at intervals.

2. The structure of claim 1, wherein the first connection part includes a first opening having a first curved surface, the second connection part includes a second opening having a second curved surface, and each of the laundry treating tubs is fixed to the first and second multi-function connectors by a plurality of fixing members.

3. The structure of claim 2, wherein the first curved surface is a first curved surface having a first curvature as a whole, and the second curved surface comprises a central concave surface and symmetrical second curved surfaces having a second curvature, each of the first curved surfaces is adapted to support the arc-shaped outer circumference of one of the laundry treating tubs, and each of the central concave surface and each of the second curved surfaces is adapted to support the convex outer circumference and the arc-shaped outer circumference of the other laundry treating tub.

4. The multi-barrel fixed connection structure of claim 2, wherein the second multifunctional connector further comprises a reinforcing connector disposed opposite to the second opening and having two ends respectively connected to the first beam.

5. The multi-barrel fixing and connecting structure according to claim 2, wherein the fixing component is a taper bolt component, the taper bolt component comprises a taper bolt and a fixing nut, the clothes processing barrel, the first multifunctional connecting piece and the second multifunctional connecting piece are correspondingly provided with a plurality of pairs of taper holes and through holes for respectively allowing a taper bolt to pass through, the threaded end of each taper bolt is screwed with one fixing nut, the end of the taper bolt opposite to the threaded end is provided with a nut with a notch, and the clothes processing barrel is provided with a boss abutting against the notch.

6. The structure of claim 5, wherein each of said through holes is disposed at equal intervals in a horizontal direction, and one of said through holes is disposed at an end of each of said first beams adjacent to the corresponding one of said second multi-function connectors.

7. The structure of claim 1, further comprising at least two reinforcing tie beam assemblies, each of said reinforcing tie beam assemblies being disposed parallel to said second beam between said first beams of said opposed spaced apart pairs of said tie frames.

8. The multi-barrel fixing and connecting structure as claimed in claim 7, wherein the reinforcing and connecting beam assembly comprises a reinforcing and connecting beam body, corner connectors, a switching screw, a first switching nut, a second switching nut, a fastening bolt and a fastening nut, wherein the first switching nut is fixed to each end of the reinforcing and connecting beam body, the first switching nut is fixed to each end of the switching screw, threads are arranged at each end of the switching screw, one end of each switching screw is screwed to the first switching nut, the other end of each switching screw penetrates through a through hole formed in the first beam and is screwed to the second switching nut, at least one corner connector is arranged at a position where each end of the reinforcing and connecting beam body is fixedly connected to one first beam, each pair of corner connectors are oppositely arranged on each side of each end of the reinforcing and connecting beam body, and for each corner connector, the fastening bolt penetrates through the corner connector and the first beam in sequence and is screwed to the fastening nut, the first connection terminal surface of angle sign indicating number with first roof beam fixed connection, through fastening bolt passes in proper order the angle sign indicating number with strengthen the tie-beam body and with fastening nut screws mutually, the second connection terminal surface of angle sign indicating number with strengthen tie-beam body fixed connection.

9. The multi-barrel fixed connection structure as claimed in claim 8, wherein two ends of the reinforced connection beam body are respectively provided with a limiting groove, and the first transfer nut is fixed in each limiting groove by welding.

10. A multi-barrel fixed connection according to any one of claims 1 to 9 wherein each said connection frame is integrally formed with each said second beam from a rigid material.

11. A multi-barrel secure connection according to any one of claims 1 to 9 wherein the spacing between the first and second mounting locations spans 370mm to 1182 mm.

12. A clothes treating apparatus comprising the multi-tub fixing and connecting structure according to any one of claims 1 to 11, a support frame provided at an outer periphery of the multi-tub fixing and connecting structure, and three upper, middle and lower clothes treating tubs sequentially provided one above the other, the upper clothes treating tub and the lower clothes treating tub being connected by the multi-tub fixing and connecting structure, wherein the upper clothes treating tub is fixedly connected to a pair of the first connecting portions, the lower clothes treating tub is fixedly connected to a pair of the second connecting portions, and the middle clothes treating tub is provided at a middle position of the pair of connecting frames and is fixedly connected to the support frame.

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