JPH0675Y2 - Dry cleaning machine - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial field of application] This invention relates to a dry cleaning machine.
The present invention relates to a dry cleaning machine that simplifies and automates the collection and disposal of foreign matters such as buttons and lint contained in a solvent or solvent gas.

[Conventional technology]

The dry cleaning machine performs a drying operation by circulating a solvent, a solvent circulation circuit that circulates the solvent through a basket, a button trap, and a pump, and air containing solvent gas in the basket from a basket through a lint filter and a fan. A filter plate equipped with a solvent gas circulation circuit and provided with foreign substances such as buttons contained in the solvent inside the button trap, so that lint particles contained in the solvent gas can be collected by the lint filter. There is.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

By the way, in the conventional dry cleaning machine, since the button trap and the lint filter are separately provided according to each circulation circuit, when the button trap and the lint filter are full, they are separately deposited manually. It is necessary to take out buttons and thread waste,
There is a problem that the work is troublesome. Further, when a chemical solvent is used for the cleaning work, there is a risk that the hand is soaked in the solvent during the work for removing the foreign matter from the button trap, which makes the removal work difficult.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide a dry cleaning machine that integrates a button trap and a lint filter and automatically discharges foreign matter from the button trap. There is.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a button trap and a lint filter adjacent to each other in the same container through a partition wall, and a connection port with a basket provided in the container,
The button trap and the lint filter can be selectively communicated with each other through a switching valve, the partition wall is provided with an opening opened and closed by a damper driven by a driving machine, and one end of the filter plate is exposed to the opening, and In the button trap, there is provided a scooping plate which is driven by a driving machine and moves on the filter plate in association with the damper to scrape the button and the like from the opening into the filter of the lint filter.

[Action]

In the dry cleaning machine configured as described above, the basket and the button trap are communicated with each other by the switching valve during the cleaning process, while the basket and the lint filter are communicated with each other by switching the switching valve during the drying process. The buttons and the like collected on the filter plate in the above washing process are collected in the filter of the lint filter together with the thread waste in the drying process by the operation of the scraping plate. Therefore, the foreign matters such as buttons and lint can be discharged only by replacing the filter.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in the figure, the inside of the container 1 is partitioned into two chambers by a partition wall 2, one of which is provided with a button trap 3 and the other of which is provided with a lint filter 4.

An opening 5 is provided above the partition wall 2, while a damper 7 that reciprocates toward the opening 5 by driving a cylinder 6 is attached above the lint filter 4.
The damper 5 opens and closes the opening 5.

The lint filter 4 is provided with a filter attachment portion 9 on the lower portion of which the cloth filter 8 is detachably attached with the opening facing upward, and a gas outlet pipe 10 connected to the solvent gas circulation circuit on the lower surface. A door 11 for replacing the cloth filter 8 is attached to a side portion of the attachment portion 9.

On the other hand, the button trap 3 is provided at its side with a basket connection port 12 with one end connected to a basket (not shown), and a discharge port 13 connected to the solvent circulation circuit at the bottom. Is installed. Discharge pipe 1 above
An opening / closing valve 14 is provided at 3 to open and close the conduction inside the discharge pipe 13.

Inside the button trap 3, a filter plate 15 having one end facing the opening 5 is attached, and a guide 16 provided along the filter plate 15 is attached to the raking plate 1.
7 is movably mounted. This lifting plate 17
Is composed of a guide plate 17a guided by the guide 16 and a scraper 17b attached to the lower part of the guide plate 17a and scraping up the upper surface of the filter plate 15. The cylinder 18 provided on the side of the button trap 3 Move
Buttons, lint, etc. on the filter plate 15 are scraped up toward the opening 5.

The lifting plate cylinder 18, the damper cylinder 6, and the opening / closing valve 14 are used for cleaning the dry cleaning machine.
It is connected to a control unit that controls the drying operation and is controlled to operate in conjunction with each other. This interlocking relationship will be described in the following operation.

The operation of this embodiment will be described below. In the washing and dehydrating process, the cylinder 6 is extended, the damper 7 closes the opening 5, and the opening / closing valve 14 of the discharge pipe 13 is opened, and the solvent is discharged from the basket through the connection port 12 and the discharge pipe 13 Circulate or collect in solvent tank. At this time, the buttons, lint, etc. contained in the solvent are filtered by the filter plate 15 and collected on the filter plate 15.

When the washing and draining process is completed, the opening / closing valve 14 is closed, the cylinder 6 is contracted, the damper 7 is retracted, and the opening 5 is opened.
Open and close. Then, the cylinder 18 extends and the scraping plate 17 rises to scrape up the buttons, lint and the like collected on the filter plate 15 and scrape them into the lint filter 4 through the opening 5.

Next, in the drying step, the cylinder 18 contracts, the scraping plate 17 retracts to the position shown by the solid line in the figure, and the air in the basket is introduced into the container 1 through the connection port 12.
In this case, since the on-off valve 14 is closed, the air passes through the opening 5, passes through the cloth filter 8 and passes through the gas outlet pipe 10, and circulates in the solvent gas circulation circuit. At this time, thread wastes contained in the solvent gas are collected by the cloth filter 8 and accumulated in the cloth filter 8.

When the cloth filter 8 is filled with buttons, thread wastes, etc. by repeating the above steps, the take-out door 11 is opened and the cloth filter 8 is replaced.

In this embodiment, the switching valve for the connecting port 12 between the basket and the container 1 in the scope of utility model registration is composed of the opening / closing valve 14 and the damper 7.
May be provided so as to extend over the upper part of the partition wall 2, a two-way valve is connected to the connection port, and the outflow direction of the solvent and the solvent gas may be switched by the operation of the two-way valve.

Further, the cylinders 6 and 18 for driving the damper 7 and the lifting plate 17 can be replaced by another driving machine such as a screw jack or a hydraulic motor.

Further, although the cloth filter is used as the lint filter, a filter made of another material such as a sponge filter may be used instead.

[Effect of device]

This device is configured as described above, and the buttons, thread wastes, etc. contained in the solvent and solvent gas are collectively collected in the cloth filter of the lint filter, which facilitates the discharging work and improves the work efficiency. Can be improved.

In addition, the buttons in the button trap are automatically scraped into the cloth filter by the lifting plate driven by the driving machine, so the work inside the button trap is not necessary, so your hands etc. It is not soaked and you can work safely.

Furthermore, if foreign matter such as buttons in the button trap is scraped out after each cleaning operation, the solvent can be drained in a short time, which has the effect of improving work efficiency.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side sectional view of an embodiment according to the present invention. 1 ... container, 2 ... bulkhead, 3 ... button trap, 4 ...
... Lint filter, 5 ... Aperture, 6 ... Cylinder, 7 ...
… Damper, 8 …… Cloth filter, 12 …… Connection port, 14…
… Open / close valve, 15 …… filter plate, 17 …… raising plate,
18 ... Cylinder.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A solvent circulation circuit for circulating a basket, a button trap, and a pump, a basket, a lint filter,
In a dry cleaning machine that includes a solvent gas circulation circuit that circulates a fan, a button included in the solvent with a filter plate provided in the button trap, and a lint filter filter that collects thread waste in the solvent gas, A button trap and a lint filter are provided adjacent to each other in the same container through a partition wall, and a connection port with a basket provided in the container can be selectively communicated with the button trap and the lint filter through a switching valve, The partition wall is provided with an opening that is opened and closed by a damper driven by a driving machine, one end of the filter plate is exposed through the opening, and the button trap is driven by the driving machine and interlocked with the damper. Then, a scraping plate is installed to move the filter plate and scrape the buttons and the like from the opening into the filter of the lint filter. Dry cleaning machine and said.