Cloth drying machine

• US 5,152,077 A
• Filed: 08/16/1991
• Issued: 10/06/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chao-Jung Liang
• Original Assignee: Chao-Jung Liang
• Inventors: Liang, Chao-Jung
• Primary Examiner(s): Bennet, Henry A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ESQUIVEL, DENISE LYNNE
• Application Number:
  US07/745,802
• Time in Patent Office: 417 Days
• Field of Search: 34/225, 34/201, 34/202, 34/218, 34/219, 34/76, 34/77, 34/233, 34/151, 34/44, 34/48, 34/53, 34/54, 34/55, 34/196
• US Class Current: 34/77
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 58/10 Drying cabinets or drying chambers having heating or ventilating means
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 21/086 by condensing the moisture in the drying medium, which may be recycled, e.g. using a heat pump cycle
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 25/06 Chambers, containers, or receptacles large containers having means for heating, cooling, aerating or other conditioning of contents B65D88/74
• CPC Class Codes: F26B 9/06 in stationary drums or chambers

Abstract

A clothes drying machine comprising a housing having a drying chamber at the top thereof for drying the clothes hung therein, and an installation chamber at the bottom into which two air fans and a compressor-operated heat exchanger circulation coil are installed to produce heated convection currents circulating through said drying chamber and said installation chamber to an exhaust wherein moisture is carried out of the housing of the machine and thereby permitting dry, hot air currents to be continuously delivered into said drying chamber to dry clothes hung therein.

Claims

1. A clothes drying machine comprising:

a hollow housing having double swinging doors on the front face thereof for access to the interior thereof, an air intake at one side, and an exhaust port at another side, a division plate therein forming a drying chamber at the top thereof for drying clothes hung therein and an installation chamber at the bottom thereof, said division plate having an opening at one end and a vertical board attached thereto at an opposite end, said vertical board having a plurality of openings thereon and defining with the housing a narrow air passage way therebetween, a plurality of division boards disposed in said installation chamber dividing it into a condensing compartment and an evaporating compartment at one side and a re-heating compartment at an opposite side;

a compressor mounted in said heat releasing compartment;

a condensing coil mounted in said condensing compartment, said condensing coil having an input port connected to said compressor and an output port at an opposite end inserted into said evaporating compartment;

a basin disposed in said condensing compartment below said condensing coil to collect condensed water drops;

a water container fastened in said evaporating compartment to collect water from said basin through a guide tube connected therebetween;

a heat releasing coil disposed in said evaporating compartment to release heat for evaporating the water gathered in said water container, said heat releasing coil having one end connected to said condensing coil and an opposite end inserted into said re-heating compartment;

a radiating coil disposed in said re-heating compartment, said radiating coil having one end connected to said air compressor and an opposite end connected to said heat releasing coil to incorporate said heat releasing coil and said condensing coil into a heat exchange circulation coil;

a first air fan means mounted in said air intake in said housing for bringing in outside air;

a second air fan means mounted between said condensing compartment and said re-heating compartment for conveying air currents from said condensing compartment into said re-heating compartment;

an electric heater mounted in said re-heating compartment;

a thermostat disposed below said electric heater;

timer means mounted on said housing at the front face thereof for automatically starting and stopping the operation of said compressor and said first and second air fan means at predetermined times;

a first control switch means mounted on said housing at the front face thereof for controlling the operation of said electric heater; and

a second control switch means mounted on said housing at the front face thereof for regulating the setting of said thermostat.

2. The clothes drying machine of claim 1, further comprising an ultra violet lamp mounted in said drying chamber and third control switch means mounted on said housing at the front face thereof controlling said lamp for sterilizing the clothes hung in said drying chamber.

3. The drying machine of claim 1, wherein said compressor and said first and second air fan means are operable to cause convection currents of air to circulate through said drying chamber and said installation chamber permitting moisture to be carried from said drying chamber into said evaporating compartment for evaporation and also into said re-heating compartment for drying so that dry hot air is continuously delivered into said drying chamber to dry the clothes hung therein.