Centrifugally rotating type clothes drying hanger structure

A centrifugally rotating clothes hanger includes a motor for rotating the hanger, the centrifugal force resulting from rotation of the hanger being used to swing water off the clothes and assist in drying the clothes due to the wind-drying effect caused by rotation-induced airflow.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
 1. Field of the Invention
 The centrifugally rotating type dress drying hanger structure of the
 invention is a clothes hanger that includes a motor for rotating the
 hanger. The motor causes the hanger to make unidirectional or to make
 bi-directional periodic positive-negative rotations. The rotational
 centrifugal force is particularly utilized to swing water off the clothes
 due to the wind-drying effect caused by the air flow and centrifugal
 force.
 2. Description of the Prior Art
 Washed and spun-dry clothes are usually hung for sun-drying or wind-drying
 or dried by an electric clothes dryer. The natural wind or sun drying
 takes a longer time and is more troublesome if the weather condition
 varies, and the electric type clothes dryer is also disadvantageous due to
 its large power consumption, the tendency to more easily harm the clothes,
 and difficulty in removing water in highly humid air.
 SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
 The main purpose of the invention is to provide a centrifugally rotating
 type clothes drying hanger structure. The circular edge of the motor
 driven rotor is installed with hanging holes, slots, hooks, elastic
 clamps, rings, support frames, or other mechanisms to allow for directly
 hanging clothes or indirectly coupling with clothes frames for holding
 clothes, and which are arranged to swing the directly held or hanging
 clothes, or the indirectly hanging clothes frames for a wind-drying
 effect. As a result, the drying hanger structure of the invention can
 substitute for the unpredictable natural wind-drying or the traditional
 electric heated air drying to wind-dry the clothes, saving not only
 electric power but also leaving the clothes unharmed.
 The further design of the invention is that a ring shape or cone shape
 water-proof cover can be installed on the motor stator, motor hanging
 device, or fixing body for installing the hanging device, or the
 water-proof cover can be a self-standing structure installed integrally
 with the driving motor, rotational output device, motor control device,
 etc., the water-proof cover preventing water spattering when rotating the
 clothes or providing a water collecting function, and the water-proof
 cover can be further provided with vent holes or installed with an
 operable window type cover to provide a venting effect for the water-proof
 cover and to allow for convenient clothes intake and removal.
 A still further design of the invention is that an auxiliary electric
 heater device or an ultraviolet lamp can be installed to simulate the sun
 sterilization effect, to thereby let the clothes obtain the double effect
 of wind-drying and warm drying simultaneously.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
 FIG. 1 is a basic schematic diagram of the invention illustrating the basic
 structural principles of a centrifugally rotating type clothes drying
 hanger structure, in which the circular edge of the motor driven rotor is
 installed with hanging holes, slots, hooks, elastic clamps, rings, support
 frames, or other mechanisms to allow for directly hanging clothes or for
 indirectly coupling with clothes frames arranged to hold clothes, in order
 to swing the directly held or hanging clothes, or the indirectly hanging
 clothes frames, to achieve a wind-drying effect. The clothes hanging dryer
 structure of this embodiment includes the following elements:
 A driving motor 30 of the internal rotor type or external rotor type and
 constituted by AC, DC, or combined AC and DC motors to provide a
 rotational output directly or through reducing devices such as gears,
 friction wheels, or belts and pulleys;
 One or more than one rotational output device 40, either directly
 constituted by the motor rotor or constituted by a rotational output
 device driven by the motor rotor after speed reduction (as shown in FIGS.
 2 to 4), and installed with hanger holes 41, slots, hanging hooks, elastic
 clamps 42, rings, or support frames, etc. to directly hang the clothes or
 indirectly hang clothes frames;
 A motor control device 100 installed on the motor body or the hanger
 structure, or separately installed, and constituted by a manual control
 device or remote control device, the control device 100 being installed
 between the power source and the driving motor to control the motor in one
 or more than one of the following functions: On/Off, positive/negative
 rotation, periodic positive-negative rotation and length of period,
 rotating speed setting, driving motor operation time setting, etc.;
 whereof since the technical background of this control device is the same
 as the one used in the market product of a ceiling fan, it is not repeated
 herein;
 A support structure including a hanger fixing body 10 such as a ceiling,
 wall, beam, column, support frame, etc., or other fixing body which can be
 hung four coupling with the motor hanging device 20 to provide hanging of
 the driving motor; or an integrated casing structure for installing the
 aforesaid driving motor 30, the output device 40, and the motor control
 device 100, etc. wherein the casing is provided with support points or
 base frames to appear as an integral self-standing structure.
 As shown in FIG. 5, the surface of the aforesaid rotational output device
 40 can be further punched to install plural numbers of blade structures 43
 (or otherwise further installed with auxiliary blades) to produce
 auxiliary air flow during rotation, to thereby strengthen the wind-drying
 effect and remove moisture.
 The aforesaid centrifugally rotating type clothes drying hanger structure
 can be further installed with a water-proof cover 50, with FIGS. 6 through
 8 respectively illustrating the embodiment of a ring shape water-proof
 cover 50, although those skilled in the art will appreciate that the
 actual shape of the water-proof cover 50 need not actually be fixed and
 can also take the form of the cone shape water-proof cover 50A shown in
 FIGS. 9 and 10 so long as water spattering during rotation of the clothes
 is prevented through the water-proof cover 50 or 50A. Further, the design
 of the said water-proof cover 50 need not be limited to hanging structures
 but can similarly also be designed to include self-standing types (as
 shown in FIGS. 7 and 10), all such variations being intended to be
 included within the scope of the invention.
 The water-proof cover 50 or 50A can be further installed at its lower part
 with inward or outward bent ring shape banks 51 or 51 A, drain holes 52 or
 52A, and drain plugs 521 or 521A, or it can be installed in a drain faucet
 to thereby provide water collection and draining functions in case of
 water spattering at initial clothes wetting. The water collecting
 functioning structure can be further installed at the lower part of the
 cone shape water-proof cover with a collector cup 53 or a water outlet for
 placing water collector devices such as buckets. Further, the water-proof
 cover 50 or 50A can be further installed with a vent port 54 or 54A or an
 operable window type cover 55 or 55A to provide the water-proof cover 50
 or 50A with a venting effect, and the window type cover 55 or 55A can be
 opened for easy clothes intake and removal.
 In addition, an auxiliary electric heater device 60 can be installed at one
 end or any randomly selected location of the output device of the
 invention as shown in FIGS. 11 and 12. The electric heater device 60 can
 be an electric power heater (as shown in FIG. 11) or an additionally
 installed ultraviolet lamp to simulate the sunshine sterilization effect
 (as shown in FIG. 12), and its outer edge may be covered by a protection
 cover 61 or 61A for producing a slight amount of warm air during clothes
 rotation to assist the double wind-drying effect.
 In addition, in further examples of the preferred embodiments, a removable
 hanger ball 25 can be installed between the motor hanging device 20 and
 the driving motor 30, or the driving motor 30 can also be directly
 combined with the motor hanging device 20 (as shown in FIG. 13), wherein
 the driving motor 30 can directly drive the output device 40 for
 rotational driving, to thereby swing moisture off the hanged clothes
 through centrifugal force thus to obtain a wind-drying effect. Further, as
 shown in FIG. 14, the shape of the protective cover 61B of the invention
 located under the center of the output device 40 can also be properly
 extended to appear as a cylindrical separator, and the separator can also
 be provided with radial type separator fins in the axial direction, to
 thereby let the ring shape-distributed hanged clothes obtain adequate
 separation during rotation and prevent the clothes from twisting together,
 thus ensuring that the clothes will not interfere with one another.
 Still further, as shown in FIGS. 15 and 16, the said protective covers 61C
 and 61D can be designed to have the separator fins in a triangular column
 or quadruple columns or other shapes that provide a separator for hanged
 clothes, ensuring that the clothes will not be twisted with each other.
 Finally, the casing can be constituted by the bottom frame 70 and the
 support bars 71 as the aforesaid supporting structure for attachment to
 the driving motor 30 and the rotational output device 40 to appear as an
 integrated standalone combination structure, wherein the number of said
 support bars or tubular structure 71 is at least three (as shown in FIG.
 19), four (as shown in FIGS. 17 and 18), or more.
 Based on the same design spirit of the invention, if necessary the driving
 motor 30 can be upside down combined as shown in FIG. 20, so that the said
 motor 30 can be installed at the bottom of the casing frame 70 and the
 motor transmission rod 301 can be adequately extended to install the
 output device 40, while the protective covers 61, 61A, 61C or 61D are
 still installed between the output device 40 and the driving motor 30 for
 separation.
 As summarized from the above description, the centrifugally rotating type
 clothes drying hanger structure design is based on a clothes wind-drying
 principle through motor rotation to swing the clothes for achieving a
 natural wind-drying effect while substituting for unpredictable natural
 wind as well as the expensive and high power consuming electric warm air
 dryer, thereby to save power consumption without harming the clothes, and
 therefore this invention is innovative and is practically useful with
 definite functions.