阅读说明：本技术 运动鞋仿形刷洗脱水机及洗鞋方法 (Sports shoe profiling scrubbing and dewatering machine and shoe washing method ) 是由 孔祥次 刘彤 胡元波 刘鹏华 覃明抗 于 2019-10-24 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种运动鞋仿形刷洗脱水机及洗鞋方法,属于洗鞋装置技术领域。包括机体与机盖,机盖铰链设置在机体一侧,机盖翻转时将机体顶部密封；还包括设置在机体内的鞋体固定组件、仿形刷洗组件、动力供给装置和给排水装置；鞋子安装在鞋体固定组件上,并由动力供给装置驱动鞋体固定组件旋转,仿形刷洗组件围绕鞋体固定组件设置。本发明的有益效果在于,不仅能实现有序刷鞋,像人工一样往复刷洗鞋子,解决无序洗鞋伤鞋、洗不干净的缺点；而且能实现鞋子的脱水,解决鞋子清洗后,含水量高不容易干的缺点。(The invention relates to a profiling shoe brushing and dehydrating machine for sports shoes and a shoe washing method, belonging to the technical field of shoe washing devices. The device comprises a machine body and a machine cover, wherein the machine cover is hinged to one side of the machine body, and the top of the machine body is sealed when the machine cover is turned over; the shoe body fixing component, the profiling brushing component, the power supply device and the water supply and drainage device are arranged in the machine body; the shoes are installed on the fixed subassembly of shoes body to by the rotatory fixed subassembly of power supply unit drive shoes body, the profile modeling subassembly of scrubbing sets up around the fixed subassembly of shoes body. The shoe brush has the advantages that ordered shoe brushing can be realized, shoes can be brushed in a reciprocating manner like manual brushing, and the defects that shoes are damaged and cannot be washed cleanly when shoes are washed in an unordered manner are overcome; but also can realize the dehydration of the shoes, and solve the defect that the shoes are not easy to dry due to high water content after being cleaned.)

1. Sports shoes profile modeling scrubbing hydroextractor, characterized by: the device comprises a machine body (10) and a machine cover (11), wherein the machine cover (11) is hinged on one side of the machine body (10), and the top of the machine body (10) is sealed when the machine cover (11) is turned over; the shoe body fixing component (20), the profiling brushing component (30), the power supply device (40) and the water supply and drainage device (50) are arranged in the machine body (10); the shoe (60) is arranged on the shoe body fixing component (20), the power supply device (40) drives the shoe body fixing component (20) to rotate, and the profiling brushing component (30) is arranged around the shoe body fixing component (20).

2. The profiling scrubbing and dewatering machine for sports shoes according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the machine body (10) is cylindrical, and further comprises a partition plate (12) transversely arranged in the machine body (10), wherein a through hole (121) is formed in the center of the partition plate (12), and screw holes (122) are uniformly distributed around the through hole; the partition plate (12) divides the machine body (10) into an upper functional cavity (101) and a lower auxiliary cavity (102); the shoe body fixing component (20) and the profiling brushing component (30) are arranged in the upper functional cavity (101); the power supply device (40) and the water supply and drainage device (50) are arranged in the lower auxiliary chamber (102).

3. A profiling scrubbing extractor for sports shoes according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that:

the shoe body fixing component (20) consists of a support frame (21) and a shoe body fixing device (22), and the shoe body fixing device (22) is arranged on the support frame (21);

the support frame (21) is T-shaped, a rectangular hole (211) is formed upwards from the bottom of a vertical rod body, and bolt holes (212) are formed in two ends of the top of the T-shaped support frame;

the shoe body fixing device (22) comprises an arch support (221), a fixing bottom plate (222), a shoe body support (223), a shoe body pressing rod (224) and a heel tensioning support (225);

the shoe body bracket (223) and the heel tensioning support (225) are arranged on the fixed bottom plate (222); the contour of the fixed bottom plate (222) is similar to that of a sole; the shoe body bracket (223) is designed to imitate the inner cavity of the shoe body and is arranged at the front end shoe palm of the fixed bottom plate (222); the heel tensioning support (225) is arranged at the heel at the rear end of the fixed base plate (222), and the connecting section of the heel tensioning support (225) is a zigzag spring;

the two arched supports (221) are oppositely arranged at the T-shaped top of the support frame (21), the middle parts of the arched supports (221) are fixed in bolt holes (212) at the top of the support frame (21) through support bolts (2211), and two ends of each arched support (221) are respectively provided with a support eccentric lock catch (2212); the shoe body pressing rod (224) is buckled on the arched bracket (222) through a bracket eccentric lock catch (2212); the shoe body pressing rod (224) is vertically arranged at the joint of the shoe palm and the shoe heel.

4. A profiling scrubbing extractor for sports shoes according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that:

the profiling brushing assembly (30) consists of a vamp brushing device (31) and a heel brushing device (32);

the vamp brushing device (31) is a horn-shaped rubber cavity with an oval opening, a conical inner cavity and bristles fully distributed on the surface of the inner cavity, the conical degree of the conical surface of the cavity is designed according to the conical degree of the vamp of most sports shoes, the conical tip is downward, and the conical tip of the cavity is arranged in a screw hole (122) of the partition plate (12) through a fixing screw (311);

the heel brushing device (32) comprises a heel positioning rod (321) and a heel limiting brush (322); the surface of the heel limiting brush (322) is a concave arc-shaped rubber brush, and the surface of the heel limiting brush is fully distributed with brush hairs and is fixed at the bottom end of the square heel positioning rod (321);

the center of the cover (11) is also provided with a rectangular hole (111), and the top of the heel positioning rod (321) passes through the rectangular hole (111) of the cover (11) to be installed and is fixed through an eccentric lock catch (112) arranged above the rectangular hole (111).

5. A profiling scrubbing extractor for sports shoes according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that:

the power supply device (40) comprises a speed reduction clutch (41), a motor (42), a rotating shaft (43) and a rectangular spring (44);

a motor (42) of the power supply device (40) is connected with a rotating shaft (43) through a speed reduction clutch (41) and drives the shoe body fixing component (20) to rotate.

6. A profiling, brushing and dewatering machine for sports shoes according to claim 5, characterized in that:

a main shaft at the bottom of the rotating shaft (43) is a round shaft (431), and a rectangular shaft shoulder (432) is arranged at the top of the round shaft (431) to form a stepped shaft with a lower circle being flat;

the circular shaft (431) penetrates through a through hole (121) in the middle of a partition plate (12) of the machine body (10) from top to bottom and is connected with a speed reduction clutch (41) in the lower auxiliary cavity (102), and a sealing gasket is arranged between the through hole and the circular shaft to prevent water leakage;

the shaft shoulder (432) is inserted into a rectangular hole (211) in the bottom of the support frame (21), a rectangular spring (44) with a cross section larger than the rectangular hole (211) but smaller than the circumference of the support frame (21) is used for supporting and limiting between the shaft shoulder (432) and the support frame (21), and the rectangular spring (44) is sleeved at the bottom of the shaft shoulder (432).

7. The profiling scrubbing and dewatering machine for sports shoes according to claim 1, characterized in that:

one end of a water inlet pipe of the water supply and drainage device (50) is arranged at the upper part of the vamp brushing sleeve, and the other end of the water inlet pipe leads in a water source; one end of the water drainage pipe is arranged at the bottom of the vamp brushing sleeve, and the other end of the water drainage pipe is guided out of the machine body (10).

8. A method of washing shoes with a profiling washer extractor for sports shoes according to claims 1 to 7, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:

step 1, mounting, opening a cover (11), lifting a shoe body fixing component (20) upwards, moving a support frame (21) upwards along a rotating shaft (43), enabling a shoe (60) to penetrate through an arch-shaped support (221), sleeving a toe cap on a shoe body support (223), supporting a heel by a heel tensioning support (225), vertically pressing a shoe body pressing rod (224) downwards to the joint of a shoe palm and the heel, fastening an eccentric lock catch (2212) of the support, fixing the shoe body pressing rod (224), fixing the shoe (60) and placing the shoe body fixing component (20) downwards;

step 2, soaking, namely injecting water through a water supply and drainage device (50) to enable the water surface to submerge the heel, adding washing powder, properly soaking and then draining;

step 3, washing, covering a machine cover (11), pressing a heel positioning rod (321) to enable a heel washing device (32) to tightly press a heel and a heel tensioning support (225), fastening an eccentric lock catch (112), starting a motor (42) to enable the vamp and the heel of the shoe (60) to rotate back and forth between the vamp washing device (31) and the heel washing device (32), washing, injecting water for washing after proper washing, repeatedly washing and washing, closing the motor (42) and draining;

and 4, dehydrating, namely loosening the eccentric lock catch (112), lifting the heel positioning rod (321) upwards to a proper position to enable the vamp to be separated from the brush inside the vamp brushing sleeve 3 and to rotate freely and circularly, starting the motor (42) again to drive the shoe body fixing component (20) to rotate at a high speed, and centrifugally dehydrating the shoe (60).

Technical Field

The invention relates to a profiling shoe brushing and dehydrating machine for sports shoes and a shoe washing method, belonging to the technical field of shoe washing devices.

Background

The washing machine has gone into family house, has effectively solved the vexation that people washed clothes by hand for a long time, and shoes are the daily life necessity of people like the clothes, and shoes are dirty more easily with ground contact compared with the clothes, and people's demand to the nice life constantly improves, want to wash shoes with the hand more and more few, want to wear more and more of clean shoes going out, according to knowing, people almost do not know the machine that has washed shoes, only have several on the net and sell, the sales is few, mostly is in trial production stage, the market prospect of shoe washing machine is wide.

There are two types of shoe washing machines, one is ultrasonic wave type shoe washing machine based on ultrasonic wave technology, for example, chinese patent publication No. cn201720888672.x, the utility model patent of publication day 8 month 17 of 2018 discloses a shoe washing machine, including shoes support frame, ultrasonic wave generating device, shoe washing container, utilize static micro-impact and high power pulse ion oxygen technology to generate high energy bidirectional wave, impact the dirt on the shoes, reach the purpose of wasing shoes, this kind of shoe washing machine's main shortcoming is that the cleaning performance is poor. The other is a mechanical shoe washing machine, for example, chinese patent publication No. CN201840452U, publication date is 2011, 5, 25, the utility model discloses a shoe washing machine, including outer bucket, interior bucket, impeller and drive arrangement, during washing, the rotation direction of interior bucket and impeller is opposite, still including setting up interior bucket brush on interior bucket and setting up the impeller brush on the impeller, interior bucket brush sets up on the inner chamber wall of interior bucket, and the brush hair is arranged along the radial of interior bucket, and the impeller brush sets up on the impeller surface, and the brush hair is arranged along the axial of interior bucket. The main disadvantages of the shoe washing machine are that the structure is complex, shoes are damaged by disordered washing, and the washing is not thorough enough.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide an imitation-form shoe washing machine with a dehydration function and a shoe washing method, so that the defects in the prior art are overcome.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention is that the device comprises a machine body and a machine cover, wherein the machine cover is hinged on one side of the machine body, and the top of the machine body is sealed when the machine cover is turned over; the shoe body fixing component, the profiling brushing component, the power supply device and the water supply and drainage device are arranged in the machine body; the shoes are installed on the fixed subassembly of shoes body to by the rotatory fixed subassembly of power supply unit drive shoes body, the profile modeling subassembly of scrubbing sets up around the fixed subassembly of shoes body.

The machine body is cylindrical, and the machine body also comprises a partition board transversely arranged in the machine body, wherein a through hole is formed in the center of the partition board, and screw holes are uniformly distributed around the through hole; the machine body is divided into an upper functional cavity and a lower auxiliary cavity by the partition board; the shoe body fixing component and the profiling brushing component are arranged in the upper functional cavity; the power supply device and the water supply and drainage device are arranged in the lower auxiliary cavity.

The shoe body fixing component consists of a support frame and a shoe body fixing device, and the shoe body fixing device is arranged on the support frame;

the support frame is T-shaped, a rectangular hole is formed upwards from the bottom of the vertical rod body, and bolt holes are formed in two ends of the top of the T-shaped support frame;

the shoe body fixing device comprises an arch support, a fixing bottom plate, a shoe body support, a shoe body pressing rod and a heel tensioning support;

the shoe body bracket, the shoe body pressing rod and the heel tensioning support are arranged on the fixed bottom plate; the outline of the fixed bottom plate is similar to that of the sole; the shoe body bracket is designed by imitating the inner cavity of the shoe body and is arranged at the shoe palm at the front end of the fixed bottom plate; the heel tensioning support is arranged at the heel at the rear end of the fixed base plate, the connecting section of the heel tensioning support is a zigzag spring, and the shoe body pressing rod is vertically arranged at the joint of the shoe palm and the heel;

the two arched supports are oppositely arranged at the T-shaped top of the support frame, the left and right arched handles of the arched supports are fixed in bolt holes at the T-shaped top of the support frame through support bolts, and a pair of support eccentric lock catches are arranged at the end parts of the arched supports; the shoe body pressing rod is buckled on the middle shaft of the arch support through the eccentric lock catch of the support.

The profiling brushing assembly consists of a vamp brushing device and a heel brushing device;

the shoe upper brushing device is a horn-shaped rubber cavity with an oval opening, a conical inner cavity and bristles fully distributed on the surface of the inner cavity, the conical degree of the conical surface of the cavity is designed according to the conical degree of the shoe upper of most sports shoes, the conical tip of the cavity faces downwards, and the conical tip of the cavity is arranged in a screw hole of the partition plate through a fixing screw;

the heel brushing device comprises a heel positioning rod and a heel limiting brush; the heel limiting brush is a rubber brush with a concave arc-shaped surface and brush hairs distributed on the surface, and is fixed at the bottom end of the square heel positioning rod; through pushing down the shoes heel, the rectangle spring between pre-compaction shoes body support frame bottom plate lower extreme and the flat axle of pivot upper portion prescribes a limit to the heel height, and the clearance between adjustment vamp and the vamp brushing cover is scrubbed to the height of shoes in the vamp brushing cover promptly to carry out the manual washing of parcel formula emulation to the heel.

The cover center still sets up the rectangular hole, and the rectangular hole installation of cover is passed at the top of heel locating lever to it is fixed through the eccentric hasp that the rectangular hole top set up.

The power supply device comprises a speed reduction clutch, a motor, a rotating shaft and a rectangular spring;

the motor of the power supply device is connected with the rotating shaft through a speed reduction clutch to drive the shoe body fixing assembly to rotate.

The bottom main shaft of the rotating shaft is a round shaft, and a rectangular shaft shoulder is arranged at the top of the round shaft to form a stepped shaft with a flat lower circle; the circular shaft penetrates through a through hole in the middle of a partition plate of the machine body from top to bottom and is connected with the speed reduction clutch in the lower auxiliary cavity, and a sealing gasket is arranged between the through hole and the circular shaft to prevent water leakage;

the shaft shoulder is inserted into the rectangular hole in the bottom of the support frame, the shaft shoulder and the support frame are supported and limited by a rectangular spring with a cross section larger than the rectangular hole but smaller than the circumference of the support frame, and the rectangular spring is sleeved at the bottom of the shaft shoulder.

One end of a water inlet pipe of the water supply and drainage device is arranged at the upper part of the vamp brushing sleeve, and the other end of the water inlet pipe is led into a water source; one end of the water drain pipe is arranged at the bottom of the vamp brushing sleeve, and the other end of the water drain pipe leads out of the machine body.

The shoe brush has the advantages that ordered shoe brushing can be realized, shoes can be brushed in a reciprocating manner like manual brushing, and the defects that shoes are damaged and cannot be washed cleanly when shoes are washed in an unordered manner are overcome; but also can realize the dehydration of the shoes, and solve the defect that the shoes are not easy to dry due to high water content after being cleaned.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the structure of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view.

Fig. 3 is a schematic view of the internal structure of the machine body.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a shoe body fixing assembly.

Fig. 5 is a second schematic view of the shoe body fixing component.

FIG. 6 is a third schematic view of the shoe body fixing assembly.

Fig. 7 is a top view of an arch support structure.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged view of the joint of the rotating shaft.

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the spindle.

Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of a pre-use state.

Fig. 11 is a schematic view of a use state.

Detailed Description

The following describes a specific embodiment with reference to fig. 1 to 11, including a machine body 10 and a machine cover 11, the machine cover 11 is hinged on one side of the machine body 10, and the top of the machine body 10 is sealed when the machine cover 11 is turned over; also comprises a shoe body fixing component 20, a profiling brushing component 30, a power supply device 40 and a water supply and drainage device 50 which are arranged in the machine body 10; the shoe 60 is mounted on the shoe body fixing assembly 20 and the power supply device 40 drives the shoe body fixing assembly 20 to rotate, and the copying and brushing assembly 30 is arranged around the shoe body fixing assembly 20.

The machine body 10 is cylindrical, and further comprises a partition plate 12 transversely arranged in the machine body 10, wherein a through hole 121 is formed in the center of the partition plate 12, and screw holes 122 are uniformly distributed around the through hole; the partition 12 divides the body 10 into an upper functional chamber 101 and a lower auxiliary chamber 102; the shoe body fixing component 20 and the profiling brushing component 30 are arranged in the upper functional cavity 101; the power supply device 40 and the water supply and drainage device 50 are disposed in the lower auxiliary chamber 102.

The shoe body fixing component 20 consists of a support frame 21 and a shoe body fixing device 22, and the shoe body fixing device 22 is arranged on the support frame 21;

the support frame 21 is T-shaped, a rectangular hole 211 is formed upwards from the bottom of a vertical rod body, and bolt holes 212 are formed in two ends of the top of the T-shaped;

the shoe body fixing device 22 comprises an arch bracket 221, a fixing bottom plate 222, a shoe body bracket 223, a shoe body pressing rod 224 and a heel tensioning support 225;

the shoe body bracket 223, the shoe body pressing rod 224 and the heel tensioning support 225 are arranged on the fixed bottom plate 222; the contour of the fixed base plate 222 approximates a sole; the shoe body bracket 223 is designed to imitate the inner cavity of the shoe body and is arranged at the front end sole of the fixed bottom plate 222; the heel tension support 225 is arranged at the heel at the rear end of the fixed base plate 222, the connecting section of the heel tension support 225 is a zigzag spring, and the shoe body pressing rod 224 is vertically arranged at the joint of the shoe palm and the heel;

the two arched brackets 221 are oppositely arranged at the T-shaped top of the support frame 21, the left and right arched handles of the arched brackets 221 are fixed in the bolt holes 212 at the T-shaped top of the support frame 21 through bracket bolts 2211, and a pair of bracket eccentric lock catches 2212 are arranged at the end parts of the arched brackets 221; the shoe press bar 224 is fastened to the central axis of the arch support 222 by a support eccentric fastener 2212.

The profiling brushing assembly 30 consists of a vamp brushing device 31 and a heel brushing device 32;

the shoe upper brushing device 31 is a horn-shaped rubber cavity with an oval opening, a conical inner cavity and bristles fully distributed on the surface of the inner cavity, the conical degree of the conical surface of the cavity is designed according to the conical degree of the shoe upper of most sports shoes, the conical tip of the cavity faces downwards, and the conical tip of the cavity is arranged in a screw hole 122 of the partition plate 12 through a fixing screw 311;

the heel brushing device 32 comprises a heel positioning rod 321 and a heel limiting brush 322; the heel limiting brush 322 is a rubber brush with a concave arc surface and brush bristles fully distributed on the surface and is fixed at the bottom end of the square heel positioning rod 321; the heel height, namely the height of the shoe 60 in the shoe upper brushing device 31, is limited by pressing the heel of the shoe 60 downwards and prepressing the rectangular spring 44 between the lower end of the support frame 21 and the upper shaft shoulder 432 of the rotating shaft 43, adjusting the gap between the shoe upper and the shoe upper brushing device 31, and performing wrapping type imitation manual brushing on the heel.

The cover 11 is also provided with a rectangular hole 111 in the center, and the top of the heel positioning rod 321 is installed through the rectangular hole 111 of the cover 11 and fixed by an eccentric lock catch 112 arranged above the rectangular hole 111.

The power supply device 40 comprises a speed reduction clutch 41, a motor 42, a rotating shaft 43 and a rectangular spring 44;

the motor 42 of the power supply device 40 is connected to the rotation shaft 43 through the reduction clutch 41 to rotate the shoe body fixing unit 20.

The bottom main shaft of the rotating shaft 43 is a round shaft 431, and the top of the round shaft 431 is provided with a rectangular shaft shoulder 432 to form a stepped shaft with a flat lower circle;

the circular shaft 431 penetrates through the through hole 121 in the middle of the partition plate 12 of the machine body 10 from top to bottom and is connected with the speed reduction clutch 41 in the lower auxiliary cavity 102, and a sealing gasket is arranged between the through hole and the circular shaft to prevent water leakage;

the shaft shoulder 432 is inserted into the rectangular hole 211 at the bottom of the support frame 21, the shaft shoulder 432 and the support frame 21 are supported and limited by a rectangular spring 44 with a cross section larger than the rectangular hole 211 but smaller than the circumference of the support frame 21, and the rectangular spring 44 is sleeved at the bottom of the shaft shoulder 432.

One end of the water inlet pipe of the water supply and drainage device 50 is arranged at the upper part of the vamp brushing sleeve, and the other end is led in a water source; one end of the water drainage pipe is arranged at the bottom of the shoe upper brushing sleeve, and the other end of the water drainage pipe is guided out of the machine body 10. Since the water supply and drainage device 50 is a common device of a washing machine, those skilled in the art are familiar with the structure and installation of the water supply and drainage device, and therefore, the detailed description thereof is omitted.

The shoe washing method of the sports shoe profiling brushing dehydrator specifically comprises the following steps:

step 1, mounting, namely opening the cover 11, lifting the shoe body fixing component 20 upwards, moving the support frame 21 upwards along the rotating shaft 43, loosening the support frame eccentric lock 2212, and pulling the shoe body pressing rod 224 to the side to move the fixing bottom plate 222 to the side together; the shoe 60 passes through the arch support 221, the toe cap is sleeved on the shoe body support 223, the heel is supported by the heel tensioning support 225, the shoe body pressing rod 224 is vertically pressed down to the joint of the shoe palm and the heel, the support eccentric lock 2212 is fastened, the shoe body pressing rod 224 is fixed, and therefore the shoe 60 is fixed, and the shoe body fixing component 20 is well placed downwards;

step 2, soaking, namely injecting water through the water supply and drainage device 50 to enable the water surface to submerge the heel, adding washing powder, properly soaking and then draining;

step 3, washing, covering the machine cover 11, pressing the heel positioning rod 321 to enable the heel washing device 32 to tightly press the heel and the heel tensioning support 225, fastening the eccentric lock catch 112, starting the motor 42 to enable the vamp and the heel of the shoe 60 to rotate back and forth between the vamp washing device 31 and the heel washing device 32, washing, injecting water to wash after proper washing, repeatedly washing and washing, closing the motor 42 and draining;

and 4, dehydrating, namely loosening the eccentric lock catch 112, lifting the heel positioning rod 321 upwards to a proper position to enable the vamp to be separated from the brush inside the vamp brushing sleeve 3 and to freely rotate in a circular manner, starting the motor 42 again to drive the shoe body fixing component 20 to rotate at a high speed, and centrifugally dehydrating the shoe 60.

When the copying shoe washing dehydrator is used for washing shoes, after the shoes 60 are fixed on the shoe body fixing component 20, the descending height of the heel washing device 32 is adjusted through the eccentric lock catch 112, so that the height of the heel is adjusted, the height of the shoes 60 fixed on the support frame 21 in the vamp washing device 31 is adjusted, the gap between the vamp and the washing sleeve is kept, and the small-size shoes can lower the heel positioning rod 321, namely lower the height of the support frame 21; the large size shoe raises the heel securing lever 321, i.e., the height of the support frame 21. After the shoes are cleaned, the shoe heel positioning rod 321 is loosened, the rectangular spring 44 pre-pressed by the shoe heel positioning rod 321 is naturally opened, the supporting frame 21 is lifted, the shoes 60 are separated from the package of the vamp brushing device 31 and are separated from contact with the brush, the shoes 60 on the shoe body fixing device 22 are driven by the motor 42 to rotate at a high speed through the supporting frame 21, and centrifugal dehydration is performed. The shoe brush can not only realize orderly shoe brushing and shoe brushing in a reciprocating way like manual work, but also realize the dehydration of the shoes, and solves the defect that the shoes are not easy to dry due to high water content after being washed.