CN109159615B - Drawing tool box - Google Patents

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CN109159615B
CN109159615B CN201811299490.4A CN201811299490A CN109159615B CN 109159615 B CN109159615 B CN 109159615B CN 201811299490 A CN201811299490 A CN 201811299490A CN 109159615 B CN109159615 B CN 109159615B
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The invention discloses a drawing tool box, which relates to the technical field of drawing tools and comprises a box body and a fixing part arranged at the rear side of the box body, wherein the fixing part is provided with two grooves penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part, the two grooves are symmetrically arranged in the width direction of the fixing part, the distance between the two grooves on the upper surface of the fixing part is smaller than that between the two grooves on the lower surface of the fixing part, the grooves comprise a passing groove and a fixing groove, the inlet end and the outlet end of the passing groove are communicated with the rear side surface of the fixing part, the connecting end of the passing groove is communicated with the connecting end of the fixing groove, and the distance between the blind ends of the two fixing grooves is larger than that between the connecting ends of the two fixing grooves. The drawing tool box provided by the invention is detachably fixed on the easel through the grooves, is convenient to mount and dismount, has higher connection stability, reduces dependence on foot frames, and avoids the drawing tool box from being supported by additional foot frames.

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Drawing tool box
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of painting tools, in particular to a drawing tool box.
Background
The painting is a kind of shaping art, and the painting is a kind of drawing figures on paper, cloth, wall or other plane with colors and lines, can be used for the treatment of intelligence exercises and exercise personality, and the painting includes many types such as powder painting (color powder painting), oil painting, watercolor painting, waterpowder painting, etc., both can go out the painting, also can draw in the house. Along with the development of society, pursuit of people on life is higher and higher, and painting becomes an effective method for enriching the amateur life of partial population. Need use easel, drawing board, drawing instrument case during the drawing, the easel is mostly the tripod, mainly uses aluminum alloy or iron and steel as the material, and the drawing board sets up at the top of easel, and the very firm support of easel has played the drawing board, and the drawing instrument case is put aside, and the drawing instrument is put in the drawing instrument incasement. In order to facilitate the drawing tool in the drawing tool box, the existing drawing tool box is generally provided with a foot rest at the bottom, and the foot rest is composed of wood or metal and is fixed at the bottom of the drawing tool box through screws.
When the user goes out for painting, the user needs to carry an easel, a drawing board and a drawing tool box, and the user does not need to find a table top suitable for placing the drawing tool box to conveniently take the drawing tool, however, the user usually cannot find a suitable table top outdoors, and only places the drawing tool box on the ground, so that the user cannot conveniently take the drawing tool from the drawing tool box; the drawing tool box that also has is from taking the foot rest, and the foot rest comprises timber or metal, fixes in the bottom half through the screw, and the foot rest is heavy not only to increase the burden when going out to write, moreover the joint strength between box and the foot rest is not high, fixed unstable, is insufficient to bear the operation that some in the process of painting from life have strength, easily causes the phenomenon that certain one side or a certain foot rest was pulled up by the root, makes the drawing tool box warp, leads to unable use the drawing tool.
Disclosure of Invention
The embodiment of the invention aims to provide a drawing tool box which is fixed with an easel and is used for solving the problems that an additional foot rest is needed for supporting and the fixing is unstable in the existing drawing tool box.
In order to achieve the above object, the embodiment of the invention provides a drawing tool box, which comprises a box body and a fixing part arranged at the rear side of the box body, wherein the fixing part is provided with two grooves penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part, the two grooves are symmetrically arranged in the width direction of the fixing part, the distance between the two grooves on the upper surface of the fixing part is smaller than the distance between the two grooves on the lower surface of the fixing part, the grooves comprise a passing groove and a fixing groove, the inlet and outlet ends of the passing groove are communicated with the rear side surface of the fixing part, the connecting ends of the passing groove are communicated with the connecting ends of the fixing groove, and the distance between the blind ends of the two fixing grooves is larger than the distance between the connecting ends of the two fixing grooves.
In an alternative scheme, a process groove is formed in the rear side face of the fixing portion, the process groove is located in the middle of the thickness direction of the fixing portion, two process grooves are formed, the two process grooves correspond to the two forming grooves respectively, the width of the process groove is larger than that of the forming groove, and the depth of the process groove is larger than that of the forming groove.
In an alternative scheme, the drawing tool box further comprises four reinforcing plates, the four reinforcing plates are respectively fixed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part, which are provided with the shaped grooves, and reinforcing grooves which are the same as the shaped grooves are formed in positions, corresponding to the shaped grooves, of the reinforcing plates.
In an alternative scheme, a fixing hole for penetrating the bolt is formed in the reinforcing plate, and the reinforcing plate is fixed to the fixing portion through a fastening bolt.
In one alternative, the reinforcement plate is a metal plate.
The embodiment of the invention also provides another drawing tool box, which comprises a box body, a fixing part and four positioning plates, wherein the fixing part is arranged at the rear side of the box body, two grooves penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part are symmetrically arranged at the rear part of the fixing part in the width direction of the fixing part, L-shaped grooves penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the positioning plate are arranged on the positioning plates, the in-out ends of the L-shaped grooves are communicated with the rear side surface of the positioning plate, the four positioning plates are respectively fixed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part, which are provided with the grooves, the in-out ends of the two L-shaped grooves are positioned at the upper surface of the fixing part, the distance between the in-out ends of the two L-shaped grooves positioned at the lower surface of the fixing part is smaller than the distance between the in-out ends of the two L-shaped grooves positioned at the width direction of the fixing part, and the distance between the blind ends of the two L-shaped grooves positioned at the two blind ends of the fixing part is larger than the distance between the two blind ends positioned at the two L-shaped grooves.
In an alternative scheme, the edge of the locating plate is provided with a through hole for penetrating the bolt, and the locating plate is fixed on the fixing part through a fastening bolt.
In one alternative, the through hole is a waist-shaped hole, and the length direction of the waist-shaped hole is along the length direction of the drawing tool box.
In one alternative, the positioning plate is a metal plate.
The embodiment of the invention has the following advantages:
The drawing tool box provided by the embodiment of the invention is detachably fixed on the easel through the groove or the L-shaped groove, is convenient to mount and detach, has higher connection stability, reduces dependence on foot frames, avoids the drawing tool box from being supported by an additional foot frame, is inconvenient to carry the foot frames if the foot frames are utilized to support the drawing tool box, and has low stability when the foot frames support the drawing tool box.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a drawing tool box provided in embodiment 1 of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram (top view) of the drawing tool box provided in embodiment 1 of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a drawing tool box according to embodiment 2 of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a drawing tool box provided in embodiment 3 of the present invention.
In the figure: 1-box, 2-fixed part, 21-type groove, 211-passing groove, 212-fixed groove, 22-process groove, 23-reinforcing plate, 24-locating plate, 241-L-shaped groove, 25-groove and 3-supporting leg.
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Further advantages and effects of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the disclosure of the present invention, which is described by the following specific examples.
It should be understood that the structures, proportions, sizes, etc. shown in the drawings are for illustration purposes only and should not be construed as limiting the invention to the extent that it can be practiced, since modifications, changes in the proportions, or otherwise, used in the practice of the invention, are not intended to be critical to the essential characteristics of the invention, but are intended to fall within the spirit and scope of the invention. Also, the terms such as "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "middle", etc. are used herein for descriptive purposes only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention for which the invention may be practiced or for which the relative relationships may be altered or modified without materially altering the technical context.
In the specification, the case body of the drawing tool case is used as the front, the fixing part of the drawing tool case is used as the rear, the front-back direction of the drawing tool case is used as the length direction, the left-right direction of the drawing tool case is used as the width direction, and the direction or the direction reference is used as the azimuth.
Example 1
Embodiment 1 provides a drawing tool case, which is fixed on two legs 3 of a triangular easel, so as to solve the problem that the existing drawing tool case needs an additional foot stand for supporting and fixing.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the drawing tool box comprises a box body 1 and a fixing part 2 arranged at the rear side of the box body 1, the fixing part 2 is provided with two type grooves 21 penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part 2, the two type grooves 21 are symmetrically arranged in the width direction of the fixing part 2, the distance between the two type grooves 21 and the upper surface of the fixing part 2 is smaller than the distance between the lower surface of the fixing part 2, namely, the type grooves 21 are obliquely arranged, because the supporting legs 3 of the type grooves 21 are obliquely arranged and can be better fixed with the supporting legs 3, the inclination angle of the type grooves 21 is the same as the inclination angle of the supporting legs 3 of the drawing tool, the inclination angle of the supporting legs 3 is different due to different types of drawing tools, the type grooves 21 are not limited, the type grooves 21 comprise a passing groove 211 and a fixing groove 212, the distance between the two type grooves 211 and the upper surface of the fixing part is approximately along the front and rear direction, the passing groove 211 is not required to be smaller than the distance between the passing groove 211 and the lower surface of the fixing part 2, namely, the left side surface and the right side surface of the fixing part 212 is connected with the blind end 212 is in parallel to the front surface of the blind end 212, the blind end is connected with the blind end 212, and the blind end is fixedly connected with the blind end 212 is fixedly arranged at the left end of the blind end 212, and the blind end is connected with the blind end is fixed with the blind end 212.
During the use, will be located the left and right sides of fixed part 2 rear side pass the entering and exiting end of groove 211 aim at two landing legs 3 of easel, promote forward the drawing instrument case for landing leg 3 moves backward for the drawing instrument case, after landing leg 3 reached the link of passing groove 211, moves down the drawing instrument case, landing leg 3 for the drawing instrument case upwards moves, because have the contained angle between two landing legs 3, the distance between two landing legs 3 is bigger down more, when two legs reach the blind end of two fixed slots 212 respectively, stops moving the drawing instrument case, accomplishes the fixing of drawing instrument case on the easel. The easel has high strength and possesses high stability, is fixed in the easel with the drawing instrument case through its type groove 21 detachable, and the installation is dismantled conveniently, not only has higher stability, has reduced the dependence to the foot rest moreover, avoids the drawing instrument case to rely on extra foot rest to support, if utilize the foot rest to support the drawing instrument case, neither conveniently carries the foot rest, and the foot rest supports the stability of drawing instrument case simultaneously and also is not high, adopts the drawing instrument case that this embodiment provided, can guarantee that the drawing instrument case is fixed stable, can avoid the drawing instrument case to rely on extra foot rest again.
Example 2
As shown in fig. 3, the drawing tool box provided in embodiment 2 has a structure substantially the same as that of embodiment 1, and is different in that a process groove is provided on the rear side of the fixing portion 2, the process groove is located in the middle of the thickness direction of the fixing portion 2, two process grooves are provided, two process grooves correspond to two molding grooves 21 respectively, the width of the process groove is greater than the width of the molding groove 21, and the depth of the process groove is greater than the length of the molding groove 21. Because the profile groove 21 is inclined, errors are easy to generate when mechanical processing is utilized, the profile groove 21 is not beneficial to being attached to the supporting leg 3, and the design of the process groove is that after the process groove is processed, only the profile groove 21 with shallower upper and lower surfaces of the fixing part 2 is processed, and even the vertical profile groove 21 can be adopted.
The process groove solves the problem of processing technology, but reduces the strength of the connecting groove 21 and the supporting leg 3, so that the painting tool box is also required to be provided with four reinforcing plates 23 to strengthen the strength of the connecting position of the fixing part 2, the reinforcing plates 23 are metal plates, specifically, four reinforcing plates 23 are respectively fixed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part 2, which are provided with the forming groove 21, reinforcing grooves with the same shape as the forming groove 21 are arranged at the positions of the reinforcing plates 23 corresponding to the forming groove 21, and in an optional fixing mode of the reinforcing plates and the fixing part 2, fixing holes (not shown in the figure) for penetrating bolts are arranged on the reinforcing plates 23, and the reinforcing plates 23 are fixed on the fixing part 2 through fastening bolts.
Example 3
As shown in fig. 4, embodiment 3 provides another drawing tool case having a structure substantially the same as that of embodiment 1 or 2, except that the drawing tool case provided in embodiment 3 does not have the groove 21 at the position of the fixing portion 2, and instead uses the positioning plate 24 with the L-shaped groove 241 to form a structural groove for fixing an easel, so as to solve the problems of unstable fixation and need for an additional stand for supporting the existing drawing tool case.
The drawing tool box comprises a box body 1, a fixing part 2 and four locating plates 24, wherein the fixing part 2 is arranged on the rear side of the box body 1, two grooves 25 penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part 2 are formed in the rear part of the fixing part 2, the two grooves 25 are symmetrically arranged in the width direction of the fixing part 2, L-shaped grooves 241 penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the locating plate 24 are formed in the locating plates 24, the inlet and outlet ends of the L-shaped grooves 241 are communicated with the rear side surface of the locating plates 24, the four locating plates 24 are respectively fixed on the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part 2, the distance between the inlet and outlet ends of the two L-shaped grooves 241 on the upper surface of the fixing part 2 is smaller than the distance between the inlet and outlet ends of the two L-shaped grooves 241 on the lower surface of the fixing part 2, the two L-shaped grooves 241 are symmetrically arranged in the width direction of the fixing part 2, the inlet and outlet ends of the two L-shaped grooves 241 are larger than the distance between the inlet and outlet ends of the blind grooves 241 on the upper surface of the fixing part 2, and the distance between the two blind grooves are larger than the distance between the two blind grooves are arranged on the two surfaces of the blind grooves 2.
When the drawing tool box is used, the in-out ends of the L-shaped grooves 241 are aligned with the two supporting legs 3 of the easel, the drawing tool box is pushed forward, after the supporting legs 3 reach the corners of the L-shaped grooves 241, the drawing tool box is moved downwards, when the two legs reach the blind ends of the two L-shaped grooves 241, the drawing tool box is stopped moving, and the fixing of the drawing tool box on the easel is completed. The easel has high strength and possesses high stability, be fixed in the easel with the drawing instrument case through its locating plate 24L-shaped groove 241 detachable, the installation is dismantled conveniently, not only higher stability has, and the dependence to the foot rest has been reduced, avoid the drawing instrument case to rely on extra foot rest to support, utilize the foot rest to support the drawing instrument case, neither conveniently carry the foot rest, the foot rest supports the stability of drawing instrument case simultaneously also not high, adopt the drawing instrument case that this embodiment provided, can guarantee that the drawing instrument case is fixed stable, can avoid the drawing instrument case to rely on extra foot rest again, in addition, compare in the drawing instrument case that embodiment 1 provided, the drawing instrument case that embodiment 3 provided, because of the face of each groove and groove place is perpendicular relation, more do benefit to and adopt machining.
In an alternative of this embodiment, the edge of the positioning plate 24 is provided with a through hole (not shown) for penetrating a bolt, the positioning plate 24 is fixed to the fixing portion 2 by a fastening bolt, and in a preferred embodiment, the through hole is a waist-shaped hole, and the length direction of the waist-shaped hole is arranged along the length direction of the drawing tool box, so as to adjust the front-rear position of the positioning plate 24.
In order to ensure that the positioning plate 24 has sufficient supporting strength, the positioning plate 24 is a metal plate.
While the invention has been described in detail in the foregoing general description and specific examples, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications and improvements can be made thereto. Accordingly, such modifications or improvements may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention and are intended to be within the scope of the invention as claimed.

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1. The drawing tool box is characterized by comprising a box body (1) and a fixing part (2) arranged at the rear side of the box body (1), wherein the fixing part (2) is provided with two shaped grooves (21) penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface of the fixing part (2), the two shaped grooves (21) are symmetrically arranged in the width direction of the fixing part (2), the distance between the two shaped grooves (21) on the upper surface of the fixing part (2) is smaller than the distance between the two shaped grooves on the lower surface of the fixing part (2), the shaped grooves (21) comprise a passing groove (211) and a fixing groove (212), the inlet and outlet ends of the passing groove (211) are communicated with the rear side surface of the fixing part (2), the connecting ends of the passing groove (211) are communicated with the connecting ends of the fixing groove (212), and the distance between the blind ends of the two fixing grooves (212) is larger than the distance between the connecting ends of the two fixing grooves (212); the inclination angle of the profile groove (21) is the same as that of the easel support leg (3), and the passing groove (211) is arranged along the front-back direction and is provided with a deflection angle.
2. The drawing tool box according to claim 1, wherein a process groove (22) is formed in the rear side surface of the fixing portion (2), the process groove (22) is located in the middle of the thickness direction of the fixing portion (2), two process grooves (22) are formed, the two process grooves (22) correspond to the two forming grooves (21) respectively, the width of the process groove (22) is larger than the width of the forming grooves (21), and the depth of the process groove (22) is larger than the length of the forming grooves (21).
3. The drawing tool box according to claim 2, further comprising four reinforcing plates (23), wherein the four reinforcing plates (23) are respectively fixed to the upper and lower surfaces of the fixing portion (2) where the shaped groove (21) is provided, and reinforcing grooves having the same shape as the shaped groove (21) are provided at positions of the reinforcing plates (23) corresponding to the shaped groove (21).
4. A drawing tool box according to claim 3, wherein the reinforcing plate (23) is provided with a fixing hole for inserting a bolt, and the reinforcing plate (23) is fixed to the fixing portion (2) by a fastening bolt.
5. A painting tool box according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the strengthening plate (23) is a metal plate.
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