JPH0241124A - Dish drier - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce a production cost of a metal mold and to prevent enough drying from being not applied because of blocked exhaust ports by providing the exhaust ports in the form of cutting on the periphery part where a front cover is in contact with a main body. CONSTITUTION:When a front cover 10 is closed, the periphery of the front cover 10 contacts with a main body 5, and cut-parts 12 of the front cover 10 form exhaust ports 13. A hot current of air is blown off out of a blowoff part 6 by a hot-air generator 1 within the main body 5 and exhausted out of the exhaust ports 13 after drying dishes 9 in a dish-cage 8. Since the cut-parts 12 are on the periphery of the front cover 10, they form the exhaust ports 13 in form of slit only when the front cover 10 closed, and they are in form of their side being opened when opened. In this reason, since not only a metal mold is easily made in comparison, also the exhaust ports 13 are not covered by burs in forming, it is possible to prevent such a bad state as enough drying is not applied. When the exhaust ports 13 get dirty, furthermore, the cover is easily cleaned after being opened. It is thus possible to offer a dish drier having the cover which is cheaper and easier to make the metal mold.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] Industrial applications The present invention relates to a dish dryer.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In recent years, dish dryers have been widely used to shorten the drying time after washing dishes.

Conventionally, this type of dish dryer has a structure as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. That is, the main body 101 has a built-in hot air generating device 102, and a hot air generating bag [102 is a motor 103, a blade 104, a ventilation passage 105, and a heating element 106].
It is made up of.

A warm air outlet 108 is provided in a part of the water receiving plate 107, and a tableware cup 109 is placed on the water receiving plate 107. The hot air blown out from the hot air outlet 108 dries the tableware 110t stored in the tableware container 109 and the front lid 1.
The air is discharged from an exhaust hole 112 provided on the top surface of 11. The exhaust port 112 has a small slit shape and is formed on the top surface of the front lid 111.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention In such a conventional configuration, the exhaust port 112 of the front cover 111 made of synthetic resin has a very small slit to prevent insects from entering from the outside, but the slit width is narrow. Therefore, if the molding conditions are different, clogging tends to occur, and in that case, the exhaust volume decreases, resulting in poor drying. Furthermore, since the mold configuration is complicated, there are problems in that it is disadvantageous in terms of mold cost, mold maintenance cost, and mold life.

The present invention is intended to solve these problems, and aims to reduce mold costs by providing an exhaust port with a simplified mold configuration, and to eliminate drying defects due to blockage of the exhaust port. It is.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the problems, the present invention provides a hot air generating device comprising an electric motor, blades, and a heating element, a main body in which the hot air generating device is built in the bottom, and a hot air generating device including the hot air generating device. The device includes a water receiving plate placed on the top of the device, a dish basket placed on the water receiving plate, and a front lid and a rear lid that cover the top of the main body, and the front lid comes into contact with the main body. It has a configuration in which a notch-shaped exhaust port is fully utilized on the peripheral edge.

Function: With this configuration, the notch on the periphery of the front lid, which is a synthetic resin molded product, serves as the exhaust port, so there is no clogging of the exhaust port due to poor molding, and the structure of the mold is simple.

EXAMPLE An example of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. As shown in the figure, the hot air generator 1 has an electric motor 2
It is composed of a blade 3 and a heating element 4. The main body 6 has a built-in hot air generator 1tl, and a water receiving plate 7 having a hot air outlet 6 is attached to the upper part of the main body 6 with its surroundings fitted. Tableware 8 is placed on the top.

A tableware 9 is stored within this tableware cup 8. A hemispherical front lid 1o and rear lid 11 are placed on the top of the main body 6 to cover and house the tableware 9 and the tableware cup 8. Further, a plurality of concave notches 12 are provided on the peripheral edge of the front cover 10 that is in contact with the main body 6, and an exhaust port 13 is formed in the notch.

In the above configuration, when the front lid 1o is closed, the front lid 100
The peripheral edge abuts the main body 6, and the notch 12 of the front cover 1o forms an exhaust port 13. Warm air is blown out from the air outlet 6 by the hot air generator 1 in the main body 6, dries the tableware 9 in the tableware cup 8, and then is discharged from the exhaust port 13.

Since the notch 12 is located on the peripheral end surface of the front cover 10,
The slit-shaped exhaust port 13 is formed only after the front cover 1o is closed, but since it is usually in the shape of a notch 12 with one side open, it not only makes mold production relatively easy, but also reduces parity during molding. This eliminates the collapse of the exhaust port 13 and eliminates problems such as poor drying. Furthermore, even when the exhaust port 13 becomes dirty, it can be easily cleaned and removed by opening the lid.

This makes it possible to provide a dish dryer with a lid that is inexpensive and easy to mold.

Although the location of the exhaust port 13 has been changed to the peripheral edge of the front lid 10 compared to the conventional example, the drying efficiency is almost the same as that of the conventional example.

Effects of the Invention As is clear from the description of the embodiments above, according to the present invention, since the front cover has an exhaust port at the peripheral edge, the mold structure is not only simplified and manufactured at a relatively low cost, but also It is possible to realize an excellent dish dryer that can reduce problems such as poor drying due to blockage of the exhaust port.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a dish dryer according to an embodiment of the present invention;
The figure is a perspective view of the dish dryer, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a conventional dish dryer, and FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the same dish dryer. 1... Warm air generator, 2... Electric motor,
3...Blade, 4...Heating element, 5...
...Body, 7...Water receiving plate, 8...Dish basket, 1o...Front lid, 11...Rear lid, 13... ···exhaust port.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A hot air generating device consisting of an electric motor, blades, and a heating element, a main body that houses the hot air generating device in the bottom, a water receiving plate placed on the top of the hot air generating device, and a water receiving plate placed on the water receiving plate. What is claimed is: 1. A dish dryer comprising: a dish basket; a front lid and a rear lid that cover the upper part of the main body; and a cutout-shaped exhaust port is formed in the peripheral edge of the front lid that comes into contact with the main body.