Towel maintenance device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11647873-B2
Application number	US-201817277470-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2018
Priority date	Sep 29, 2017
Publication date	May 16, 2023
Grant date	May 16, 2023

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a towel maintenance device for storing and keeping a towel and for heating and drying the towel stored and kept therein. The towel maintenance device —provides a structure in which heated air flows in a first staying space formed in a heat transfer plate and heats the heat transfer plate, thereby allowing a textile product such as a towel and the like in contact with the heat transfer plate to be heated based on thermal conduction, and the heated air discharged through a communicating hole of the heat transfer plate is discharged while passing through the textile product such as a towel and the like or flows around the textile product such as a towel and the like, thereby allowing the product to be dried to be heated based on convection. The towel maintenance device according to the present disclosure enables entire objects to be dried to be rapidly heated and dried.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A towel maintenance device, comprising:
a heat transfer plate allowing a textile product to be held and installed vertically;
a sliding body onto which the heat transfer plate is mounted and which is provided with an inlet connected to a first staying space in the heat transfer plate;
a cover body providing a second staying space allowing heated air discharged from the first staying space to stay around the heat transfer plate and a textile product held on the heat transfer plate;
a base body which is disposed under the cover body and to which the sliding body is coupled in a way that the sliding body is put into and withdrawn from the base body;
an air blower disposed in the base body and configured to supply air to the first staying space;
a heater configured to heat air supplied through the air blower; and
a communicating hole formed on the heat transfer plate and providing a route on which heated air supplied to the first staying space is discharged.

2. The towel maintenance device of claim 1 , wherein the cover body and the base body are built into bathroom furniture.

3. The towel maintenance device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a supply path disposed in the base body and configured to guide a route of air supplied to the air blower; and
an inlet disposed in the sliding body and communicating with the supply path in a state in which the sliding body is stored in the cover body.

4. The towel maintenance device of claim 1 , wherein the towel maintenance device further comprises an exhaust port disposed in the sliding body and providing a route on which air in the second staying space is discharged outside.

5. The towel maintenance device of claim 1 , wherein the communicating hole is disposed at a front end or a rear end of the heat transfer plate in an up-down direction.

6. The towel maintenance device of claim 5 , wherein the communicating hole is slit open in a “[” shape and is concave inward.

7. The towel maintenance device of claim 1 , wherein the heat transfer plate further comprises a micro hole formed on a surface of the heat transfer plate, on which a textile product is held.

8. A towel maintenance device, comprising:
a heat transfer plate allowing a textile product to be held and installed vertically;
a sliding body onto which the heat transfer plate is mounted and which is provided with an inlet connected to a first staying space in the heat transfer plate;
a cover body providing a second staying space allowing heated air discharged from the first staying space to stay around the heat transfer plate and a textile product held on the heat transfer plate;
a base body which is disposed under the cover body and to which the sliding body is coupled in a way that the sliding body is put into and withdrawn from the base body;
an air blower disposed in the base body and configured to supply air to the first staying space;
a heater configured to heat air supplied through the air blower;
a communicating hole formed on the heat transfer plate and providing a route on which heated air supplied to the first staying space is discharged;
a supply path provided in the base body and configured to guide a route of air supplied to the air blower;
an inlet disposed in the sliding body and communicating with the supply path in a state in which the sliding body is stored in the cover body;
a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the heat transfer plate;
a stopping device configured to operate to selectively stop the sliding body from being withdrawn; and
a controller configured to control the stopping device such that the stopping device stops the sliding body from being withdrawn when a temperature of the heat transfer plate measured by the temperature sensor is a predetermined safety temperature or greater.

9. The towel maintenance device of claim 8 , wherein the stopping device is disposed to allow the sliding body to stop at a position where the sliding body is withdrawn by a predetermined distance, and
the sliding body is provided with a cool air inlet allowing the supply path and the first staying space to communicate with each other at a position where the sliding body is stopped by the stopping device.

10. The towel maintenance device of claim 9 , wherein the inlet and the cool air inlet are provided with an air damper that is opened and closed by pressure of air supplied through the supply path.

11. The towel maintenance device of claim 8 , wherein the sliding body is provided with an inner plate connected to an inner end of the heat transfer plate, and
the stopping device is disposed to interfere with a route of movement of the inner plate.

12. The towel maintenance device of claim 8 , wherein the sliding body or the cover body are provided with a discharge path providing a route on which air in the second staying space is discharged outward.

13. The towel maintenance device of claim 12 , wherein the discharge path is disposed below the second staying space.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Jong Seok
• Yang Inhyung
• Jeon Jin Hyeon

Classifications

• F26B21/35

  Temperature; Pressure · CPC title

• F26B21/50

  Ducting arrangements from the source of air or other gases to the materials or objects being dried · CPC title

• A47K10/10

  characterised by being mounted on cabinets, walls, doors, or the like · CPC title

• F26B9/003

  Small self-contained devices, e.g. portable · CPC title

• F26B3/02

  by convection, i.e. heat being conveyed from a heat source to the materials or objects to be dried by a gas or vapour, e.g. air {(F26B3/283 and F26B3/343 take precedence)} · CPC title