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Granted Patent B2
US 11,793,366 · App. 17/277,510 · Granted Oct 24, 2023

Towel maintenance device

Inventors: Jong Seok Kim (Seoul, KR); Daeyun Park (Seoul, KR); Inhyung Yang (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
A47K10/06A47K10/10F26B3/06F26B3/20F26B21/10
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Patent No.
US 11,793,366
App. No.
17/277,510
Granted
Oct 24, 2023
Kind
B2
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.

Claims (39)

1. A towel maintenance device, comprising:

a base body installed on a bottom surface or a wall;

a heat transfer plate vertically disposed in the base body and serving as a holder allowing a textile product to be held;

a staying space formed in the heat transfer plate;

an air blower configured to supply air to the 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 staying space is discharged,

wherein

the air blower is arranged at a position lower than the heat transfer plate, and

the heated air from the heater is supplied to the staying space to heat the heat transfer plate and then discharged to the outside of the heat transfer plate through the communicating hole.

2. The towel maintenance device of claim 1 , wherein the heater is disposed in a path case configured to guide a route of air supplied by the air blower.

3. The towel maintenance device of claim 1 , wherein the heater is disposed in the staying space.

4. A towel maintenance device, comprising:

a base body installed on a bottom surface or a wall;

a heat transfer plate vertically disposed in the base body and serving as a holder allowing a textile product to be held;

a first staying space formed in the heat transfer plate;

an air blower 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 out of the first staying space; and

a cover body disposed on the base body, accommodating the heat transfer plate and a textile product held on the heat transfer plate, and providing a second staying space allowing air discharged from the first staying space to stay.

5. The towel maintenance device of claim 4 , wherein the cover body is provided with a door that is opened and closed.

6. The towel maintenance device of claim 4 , wherein the cover body is provided with an exhaust port providing a route on which air in the second staying space is discharged outward.

7. The towel maintenance device of claim 5 , wherein the door is opened and closed in a sliding manner.

8. The towel maintenance device of claim 4 , wherein the cover body is provided with a sight glass made of a transparent material or a translucent material allowing an inside of the cover body to be seen.

9. A towel maintenance device, comprising:

a base body installed on a bottom surface or a wall;

a sliding body coupled to the base body in a way that the sliding body is withdrawn from the based body in a sliding manner;

a heat transfer plate vertically disposed in the sliding body and serving as a holder allowing a textile product to be held;

a first staying space formed in the heat transfer plate;

an air blower 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 out of the first staying space; and

a cover body disposed on the base body, accommodating the heat transfer plate and a textile product held on the heat transfer plate, and providing a second staying space allowing air discharged from the first staying space to stay.

10. The towel maintenance device of claim 9 , wherein the cover body is provided with an opening-closing door fixed to the sliding body and moving along with the sliding body.

11. The towel maintenance device of claim 9 , wherein the cover body or the sliding body is provided with an exhaust port providing a route on which air in the second staying space is discharged outward.

12. The towel maintenance device of claim 9 , wherein the heater is disposed in a path case configured to guide a route of air supplied by the air blower.

13. The towel maintenance device of claim 9 , wherein the heater is disposed in the first staying space.

14. The towel maintenance device of claim 9 , wherein the heat transfer plate is formed into plates comprising two lateral surfaces and an upper surface connecting the two lateral surfaces and is provided with a first staying space therein.

15. The towel maintenance device of claim 14 , wherein the heat transfer plate has a tapered cross section in which a gap between two lateral surface is widened toward a lower portion.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 18, 2021
From: KIM, JONG SEOK; PARK, DAEYUN; YANG, INHYUNG
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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Priority Claims (5)
KR 10-2017-0128277 · Sep 29, 2017 · national
KR 10-2017-0144282 · Oct 31, 2017 · national
KR 10-2017-0144967 · Nov 1, 2017 · national
KR 10-2017-0153363 · Nov 16, 2017 · national
KR 10-2018-0110540 · Sep 14, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220031127A1 · Feb 3, 2022
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