CN218987310U - Universal instrument storage box - Google Patents
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The embodiment of the utility model relates to the technical field of instruments, in particular to a universal instrument storage box. The utility model provides a universal instrument containing box includes box and bag body, the box includes box body and apron, the box body is connected through a plurality of hinge with the apron, the apron inboard is provided with the anticollision pad, be provided with the baffle in the box body, the baffle is cut apart the box body into first cavity and second cavity, first cavity is enclosed by the curb plate and the baffle of box body and closes and form, be provided with four slots on the curb plate of box body and the baffle altogether, be provided with the slider in four slots, first cavity bottom is provided with scalable back cushion, a plurality of bags have been placed in the second cavity, the bag body includes bag body portion, be connected with the plug-in components corresponding with the slot around the bag body portion respectively. Through the mode, the utility model discloses a box can be realized accomodating multiple type instrument.
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Technical Field
The embodiment of the utility model relates to the technical field of instruments, in particular to a universal instrument storage box.
Background
In recent years, the market scale of instruments and meters in China is rapidly expanded. The requirements of industries such as quality inspection, environmental protection, sanitation, agriculture and the like on instruments and equipment are greatly increased, and a huge market is provided for the development of the instruments and meters industry in China.
The instruments in the current stage are various, the instruments are sometimes required to be customized according to actual conditions in the actual use process, the appearance sizes of the instruments are also greatly different, corresponding storage devices are required to be customized according to the instruments in each type, and the storage of other instruments cannot be well completed by different instrument storage devices, so that great trouble is caused in the actual production process.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, embodiments of the present utility model provide a universal meter storage box. The problem of current instrument storage device need customize according to different instrument sizes and different instrument storage device can not be fine completion to the accomodating of other instruments is solved.
According to one aspect of the embodiment of the utility model, a universal instrument storage box is shown, the universal instrument storage box comprises a box body and a bag body, the box body and the cover plate are connected through a plurality of hinge shafts, an anti-collision pad is arranged on the inner side of the cover plate, a partition plate is arranged in the box body, the box body is divided into a first cavity and a second cavity by the partition plate, the first cavity is formed by enclosing a side plate of the box body and the partition plate, four slots are formed in the side plate of the box body and the partition plate, sliding blocks are arranged in the four slots, a telescopic supporting pad is arranged at the bottom of the first cavity, a plurality of bags are placed in the second cavity, the bags comprise bag body parts, and plug-ins corresponding to the slots are respectively connected to the peripheries of the bag body parts.
In this application embodiment, through setting up the second cavity in order to hold the bag body at the box body, set up first cavity and set up slot and slider around first cavity for the instrument is after getting into the bag body, can fix between slot and slider through the plug-in components on the bag body portion, because the instrument containing box of traditional plastic film form is no longer used in this application but the receipts to the instrument is realized to the bag body that changes, so through the universal instrument containing box that shows through this application, various different sizes' instruments can be accomodate to a box, and this application is in suspended state through setting up slot and slider with the inside of bag body fixation at first cavity, will avoid the instrument to bump, in addition this application embodiment is through setting up the bag body and is removed the instrument of putting, can be with the inside air discharge of bag body, form the vacuum state, can effectively avoid the instrument ageing.
In some embodiments, the telescopic support pad includes a pad body, the holding groove that corresponds with the pad body is seted up to the bottom of first cavity, the pad body is located the holding groove, the bottom of pad body is provided with first bracing piece and second bracing piece, be X shape after the middle part of first bracing piece and second bracing piece articulates mutually, but the top of first bracing piece articulates in the bottom of pad body, but the bottom sliding connection of first bracing piece is in the diapire of holding groove, but the top sliding connection of second bracing piece is in the bottom of pad body, but the bottom swivelling joint of second bracing piece is on the diapire of holding groove, the bottom of first bracing piece is connected with the threaded rod, the other end of threaded rod extends to the direction of second bracing piece bottom and runs through to be connected with the thread bush outside the box body.
In some embodiments, the side of slot is provided with T shape recess, is provided with the T shape insert portion that corresponds with T shape recess on the slider respectively near the both sides of slot, through setting up T shape recess, is convenient for fix the slider inside the slot, restricts the slider and can not influence the slider in the slip of vertical direction in the removal of slot horizontal direction.
In some embodiments, the material of the pouch is plastic. The bag body is made of plastic materials, so that air in the bag body can be conveniently pumped out. A state close to vacuum is formed.
In some embodiments, the case body and the cover plate are provided with a locking member and a locking groove, respectively, and the case body is provided with a back strap.
Through setting up latch fitting and locked groove, the latch fitting inserts the locked groove and can realize the hasp to the box, through setting up the braces, portable.
In some embodiments, the insert extends away from one end of the bag body to form a clamping plate, and the bottom of the slot is provided with a clamping groove corresponding to the clamping plate.
Through set up the cardboard on the plug-in components to set up the draw-in groove corresponding with the cardboard in the bottom of slot, can effectively avoid the plug-in components to drop from the slot, further guarantee that the instrument in the bag body portion can be in unsettled state in first cavity.
In some embodiments, a case is configured with a plurality of bags, the bag portions of the plurality of bags having different sizes. Through the mode, the universal instrument storage box that this application presented can realize the accomodating to multiple different size instruments.
The foregoing description is only an overview of the present utility model, and is intended to be implemented in accordance with the teachings of the present utility model in order that the same may be more clearly understood and to make the same and other objects, features and advantages of the present utility model more readily apparent.
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Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the utility model. Also, like reference numerals are used to designate like parts throughout the figures. In the drawings:
fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of a universal meter storage box according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a three-dimensional structure of a box according to an embodiment of the present application;
fig. 3 is a schematic view of a three-dimensional structure of a bag according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a telescopic support pad according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a telescopic support pad according to another embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a connection between a card slot and a card board according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;
fig. 7 is an enlarged view of fig. 2 at a.
Reference numerals in the specific embodiments are as follows: the universal meter storage box 1000, the box body 100, the box body 110, the slot 111, the T-shaped groove 111a, the clamping groove 111b, the sliding block 112, the T-shaped insertion part 112a, the partition plate 113, the first chamber 114, the accommodating groove 114a, the second chamber 115, the telescopic supporting pad 116, the pad body 116a, the first supporting rod 116b, the second supporting rod 116c, the threaded rod 116d, the threaded sleeve 116e, the cover plate 120, the bag body 200, the bag body base 210, the plug-in 220, the clamping plate 221, the locking piece 300 and the locking groove 400.
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Embodiments of the technical solutions of the present application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following examples are only for more clearly illustrating the technical solutions of the present application, and thus are only examples, and are not intended to limit the scope of protection of the present application.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs; the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the application; the terms "comprising" and "having" and any variations thereof in the description and claims of the present application and in the description of the figures above are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusions.
At present, the instrument market is fire-exploded, and the scale of the instrument market in China is rapidly expanded. The requirements of industries such as quality inspection, environmental protection, sanitation, agriculture and the like on instruments and equipment are greatly increased, and a huge market is provided for the development of the instruments and meters industry in China.
Most instruments are relatively precise devices, when the instruments collide, damage or precision value reduction of the instruments are extremely easy to cause, so that the instruments are stored in the instruments, however, the instruments are stored in the instrument storage device at present, most of the instruments are respectively molded by using flexible materials such as plastic foam and the like, a groove conforming to the size and the shape of the instruments is molded on a plastic foam board, and the instruments are stored in the groove, so that the instruments are stored. However, in the prior art, each instrument storage device corresponds to the instrument, that is, the instrument can not use other instrument storage devices except the instrument storage device specially made by the user, if the specially made instrument storage box is lost, the instrument storage device matched with the instrument storage device needs to be produced again, and obviously, the prior instrument storage device is inconvenient to use.
After finding the above problems, the inventor decides to develop a universal instrument storage device to meet the requirement that the device can accommodate most types of instruments, and in the development process, the inventor designs according to the characteristics of the instruments, on one hand, the vibration resistance of instrument equipment needs to be considered, and on the other hand, the repeated use of the instrument storage device needs to be considered. The inventor considers that the main reason why the instrument device can only use the special instrument storage device is that the instrument storage device is manufactured by plastic films according to the appearance of each instrument in the manufacturing process, and the molded model can only naturally store the instrument, while other instrument storage devices cannot store other instruments because the appearance size is different from the appearance size.
Specifically, please refer to fig. 1, fig. 2 and fig. 3, fig. 1 is a schematic overall structure diagram of a universal instrument storage box provided in an embodiment of the present application, fig. 2 is a schematic box three-dimensional structure diagram provided in an embodiment of the present application, and fig. 3 is a schematic bag three-dimensional structure diagram provided in an embodiment of the present application. The embodiment of the application shows a universal instrument storage box 1000, including box 100 and bag body 200, box 100 includes box body 110 and apron 120, box body 110 is connected through a plurality of hinge with apron 120, the apron 120 inboard is provided with the anticollision pad, be provided with baffle 113 in box body 110, baffle 113 is cut apart box body 110 into first cavity 114 and second cavity 115, first cavity 114 is enclosed by box body 110's curb plate and baffle 113 and is formed, be provided with four slots 111 on box body 110's the curb plate and the baffle 113 altogether, be provided with slider 112 in four slots 111, first cavity 114 bottom is provided with scalable back up pad 116, a plurality of bags 200 have been placed in the second cavity 115, bag body 200 includes bag body portion 210, bag body portion 210's periphery is connected with the plug-in components 220 corresponding with slot 111 respectively.
In the working process, according to the external dimension of the instrument, the bag body 200 matched with the external dimension of the instrument is selected from the second cavity 115, an opening can be arranged on the bag body 200, the instrument is placed in the bag body 200 through the opening, then the bag body 200 is closed, the bag body 200 is placed in the first cavity 114, the telescopic supporting pad 116 is adjusted to a proper height, four plug-in pieces 220 on the bag body 200 are respectively placed between the corresponding four slots 111 and the sliding blocks 112, the sliding blocks 112 are pressed downwards so that the sliding blocks 112 are pressed on the plug-in pieces 220, the plug-in pieces 220 are prevented from falling off from the slots 111, the cover plate 120 is covered, the cover plate 120 is pressed on the sliding blocks 112, the plug-in pieces 220 are further prevented from falling off from the slots 111, finally the telescopic supporting pad 116 can be adjusted to shrink, and the contact between the telescopic supporting pad 116 and the bag body 200 is broken.
In this embodiment, the retractable support pad 116 is implemented in multiple ways, such as inflatable, the surface of the retractable support pad 116 should have a sufficient area and have a certain softness and elasticity, preferably, the ratio of the area of the retractable support pad 116 to the area of the first chamber 114 is 0.7:1, the retractable support pad 116 can prevent the instrument from vibrating in the first chamber 114, and can prevent the insert 220 on the bag 200 from falling off from the slot 111 due to gravity in the process of inserting the insert 220 into the slot 111, the cover plate 120 is pressed between the sliding blocks 112 after the instrument is completely accommodated, so that the sliding blocks 112 are pressed by the cover plate 120, the cover plate 120 is further pressed on the insert 220, so that the insert 220 cannot easily fall off from the slot 111, the support pad needs to be contracted, and the support pad is disconnected from the bag 200, so that the instrument is suspended in the first chamber 114 similarly to avoid the instrument from colliding.
In this embodiment of the present application, the bag body 200 may be made of a plastic product, which should have a certain thickness, tensile strength and deformation resistance, and an opening is provided on the bag body 200, and after the instrument is put into the bag body 200 from the opening, the gas inside the bag body 200 may be exhausted through extrusion or the like, so that the bag body 200 and the instrument may be tightly attached to each other, and in this way, the instrument may be effectively prevented from sliding inside the bag body 200.
In this embodiment of the present application, the size of the slider 112 should be slightly larger than the size of the slot 111, so that the interference fit between the slot 111 and the slider 112 is not easy to fall off in the above manner, and on the other hand, after the cover 120 is closed, the extrusion force of the slider 112 to the insert 220 can be ensured due to the size of the slider 112 being large enough.
In this application embodiment, through set up the second cavity 115 in order to hold the bag body 200 in box body 110, set up slot 111 and slider 112 around setting up first cavity 114 for the instrument is after getting into bag body 200, can fix between slot 111 and slider 112 through the plug-in components 220 on the bag body portion 210, because the instrument containing box of traditional plastic film form is no longer used in this application but the realization of changing to the bag body 200 to put the instrument, so through the universal instrument containing box 1000 that uses this application to show, a box 100 can accomodate the instrument of various different sizes, and this application is fixed the inside at first cavity 114 through setting up slot 111 and slider 112, be in the unsettled state, will avoid the instrument to bump, in addition this application embodiment is through setting up the instrument of putting into the bag body 200, can utilize the vacuum ware to take out the inside air of bag body 200, form the vacuum state, can effectively avoid the instrument ageing.
In some embodiments, please refer to fig. 4 and fig. 5, fig. 4 is a schematic cross-sectional structure of the telescopic support pad in one state provided in the embodiments of the present application, and fig. 5 is a schematic cross-sectional structure of the telescopic support pad in another state provided in the embodiments of the present application. The telescopic support pad 116 comprises a pad body 116a, a containing groove 114a corresponding to the pad body 116a is formed in the bottom of the first chamber, the pad body 116a is located in the containing groove 114a, a first support rod 116b and a second support rod 116c are arranged at the bottom of the pad body 116a, the middle parts of the first support rod 116b and the second support rod 116c are hinged to each other to form an X shape, the top of the first support rod 116b is hinged to the bottom of the pad body 116a, the bottom of the first support rod 116b is slidably connected to the bottom wall of the containing groove 114a, the top of the second support rod 116c is slidably connected to the bottom of the pad body 116a, the bottom of the second support rod 116c is rotatably connected to the bottom wall of the containing groove 114a, the bottom of the first support rod 116b is connected with a threaded rod 116d, and the other end of the threaded rod 116d extends towards the bottom of the second support rod 116c and penetrates the outer side of the box body to be connected with a threaded sleeve 116e.
The embodiment of the present application provides a specific structure of a telescopic support pad 116, when the telescopic support pad 116 is required to be lifted, the threaded sleeve 116e is rotated to enable the threaded rod 116d to move to the right side (the right side is the direction in fig. 4 and 5), under the driving of the threaded rod 116d, the bottom of the first support rod 116b and the top of the second support rod 116c slide to the right side at the bottom wall of the accommodating cavity and the bottom of the pad body 116a respectively, and the horizontal included angle between the first support rod 116b and the second support rod 116c is increased and jack up the pad body 116a (the state is switched to the state of fig. 5 from the state of fig. 4). Conversely, when the retractable support rod is required to be lowered, the threaded sleeve 116e is rotated in the opposite direction.
In some embodiments, please continue to refer to fig. 2, further in conjunction with fig. 7, fig. 7 is an enlarged view of fig. 2 at a. The slot 111 is provided with a T-shaped groove 111a on a side thereof, and T-shaped insertion portions 112a corresponding to the T-shaped grooves 111a are respectively provided on both sides of the slider 112 near the slot 111.
By providing the T-shaped groove 111a, it is convenient to fix the slider 112 inside the slot 111, restrict the movement of the slider 112 in the horizontal direction within the slot 111 and not affect the sliding of the slider 112 in the vertical direction.
In some embodiments, please continue to refer to fig. 1, the lock 300 and the lock groove 400 are respectively provided on the case body 110 and the cover 120, and the back strap is provided on the case body 110.
Through set up latch 300 and locked groove 400 respectively on box body 110 and apron 120, when closing apron 120, insert the lock 300 inside locked groove 400, accomplish the buckle, through setting up the braces in order to carry.
In some embodiments, please refer to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a connection portion between a card slot and a card board according to an embodiment of the present application. The insert 220 is extended and bent away from one end of the bag body 210 to form a clamping plate 221, and a clamping groove 111b corresponding to the clamping plate 221 is formed at the bottom of the slot 111.
In the use process, after the instrument is placed in the bag 200, the bag 200 is sealed, the bag 200 is placed in the first chamber 114, the clamping plates 221 are respectively inserted into the four clamping grooves 111b, the sliding blocks 112 are pressed downwards so that the sliding blocks 112 are pressed on the plug-in units 220, the plug-in units 220 are prevented from falling off from the slots 111, the cover plate 120 is covered, the cover plate 120 is pressed on the sliding blocks 112, and the plug-in units 220 are further prevented from falling off from the slots 111.
Specifically, in the embodiment of the present application, the material of the insert 220 and the card 221 may be different from the material of the bag body portion 210, the bag body portion 210 may be made of flexible plastic, and the card 221 needs to be made of a material with a certain hardness, such as hard plastic, for example, it should be noted that, in order to avoid the break between the insert 220 and the bag body portion 210, a thickening treatment may be performed at the connection between the bag body portion 210 and the insert 220.
In the embodiment of the present application, the card 221 and the card slot 111b are provided, so that the card 220 can be effectively prevented from being separated from the slot 111, and it should be noted that in some embodiments, the card slot 111b and the card 221 are provided, so that the telescopic support pad 116 is not required to be provided.
In some embodiments, the material of the bag 200 is plastic, and one case 100 is collocated with a plurality of bags 200, and the bag bases 210 of the bags 200 have different sizes.
Through setting up the bag body 200 to the plastics material, after putting into the bag body portion 210 with the instrument, can take out the air in the bag body portion 210 for instrument and the inseparable laminating of bag body portion 210 further avoid the instrument to slide in bag body portion 210, a box 100 can match a plurality of bags 200, store in the second cavity 115 after folding a plurality of bags 200, in the use, select suitable bag 200 to accomodate the instrument according to the size of instrument, in order to realize that a box 100 can hold different size instruments.
Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solution of the present utility model, and not for limiting the same; while the utility model has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art will appreciate that: the technical scheme described in the foregoing embodiments can be modified or some or all of the technical features thereof can be replaced by equivalents; such modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit of the utility model, and are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims and description. In particular, the technical features mentioned in the respective embodiments may be combined in any manner as long as there is no structural conflict. The present utility model is not limited to the specific embodiments disclosed herein, but encompasses all technical solutions falling within the scope of the claims.
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1. The utility model provides a universal instrument containing box which is characterized by comprising a box body and a bag body;
the box comprises a box body and a cover plate, wherein the box body is connected with the cover plate through a plurality of hinge shafts, an anti-collision pad is arranged on the inner side of the cover plate, a partition plate is arranged in the box body, the box body is divided into a first cavity and a second cavity by the partition plate, the first cavity is formed by enclosing a side plate of the box body and the partition plate, four slots are formed in the side plate of the box body and the partition plate, sliding blocks are arranged in the four slots, a telescopic supporting pad is arranged at the bottom of the first cavity, and a plurality of bags are placed in the second cavity;
the bag body comprises a bag body base, and plug-in components corresponding to the slots are respectively connected to the periphery of the bag body base.
2. The universal instrument storage box according to claim 1, wherein the telescopic supporting pad comprises a pad body, a containing groove corresponding to the pad body is formed in the bottom of the first chamber, the pad body is located in the containing groove, a first supporting rod and a second supporting rod are arranged at the bottom of the pad body, the middle parts of the first supporting rod and the second supporting rod are hinged to each other to form an X shape, the top of the first supporting rod is hinged to the bottom of the pad body, the bottom of the first supporting rod is slidably connected to the bottom wall of the containing groove, the top of the second supporting rod is slidably connected to the bottom of the pad body, the bottom of the second supporting rod is rotatably connected to the bottom wall of the containing groove, a threaded rod is connected to the bottom of the first supporting rod, and the other end of the first supporting rod extends to the bottom of the second supporting rod and penetrates through the outer side of the box body to form a threaded sleeve.
3. The universal meter storage box according to claim 1, wherein a T-shaped groove is formed in a side edge of the slot, and T-shaped insertion portions corresponding to the T-shaped groove are respectively formed in two sides of the slider, which are close to the slot.
4. The utility meter box of claim 1, wherein the bag is plastic.
5. The universal meter storage box according to claim 1, wherein the box body and the cover plate are respectively provided with a lock member and a lock groove, and the box body is provided with a back strap.
6. The universal meter storage box according to claim 1, wherein one end of the plug-in unit, which is far away from the bag body, is extended and bent to form a clamping plate, and a clamping groove corresponding to the clamping plate is formed in the bottom of the slot.
7. The utility meter storage box of claim 1, wherein one of the boxes is provided with a plurality of the bags, and bag bases of the bags have different sizes.
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