JP2000027538A - Door frame - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a door frame capable of fixing hinges correspondingly provided to both right and left jambs and a keeper to the door frame through a hinge mounting member and a keeper mounting member in a detachable manner and easily changing opening and closing directions of a door without changing the whole door frame. SOLUTION: A longer hinge mounting member 40 capable of being fixed to each of opposed jambs 12 and 14 constituting a door frame of a single swinging door in a detachable manner and, at the same time, mounting hinges 22 on proper positions and a longer keeper mounting member 42 mounting a keeper 26 on a proper position are so constituted that both of them are replaced with each other to fix, and opening and closing directions of the single swinging door mentioned above can be easily changed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a door frame, and more particularly to a door frame, in which the mounting direction of a single door can be easily changed, for example, from right opening to left opening and from outside opening to inside opening. It relates to a door frame.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a one-sided door is provided at a doorway of a building, a door frame corresponding to the size of the door is installed on a target wall, and the door can be opened and closed via a hinge or the like on the door frame. It is common to pivot. As shown in FIG. 9, a conventional door frame 10 has a first vertical frame 12 for pivotally supporting a door 20 via hinges 22 and 22 and a seat for receiving a latch bolt 28 when the door 20 is closed. Second vertical frame 1 provided with 26
4 and an upper frame and a lower frame (both not shown) connected vertically above and below the first vertical frame 12 and the second vertical frame 14.

[0003] The place where the door frame 10 is installed on the wall depends on whether the one-sided door 20 is opened rightward or leftward. After the door frame 10 is installed, hinges 22 and 22 are attached to the first vertical frame 12 at appropriate positions, and a receiving seat 26 is formed on the second vertical frame 14. Next, the one-sided door 2
0 is attached to the hinges 22, 22 with screws 32.

[0004]

The opening / closing direction of the door is determined at the stage of planning the building of the house. However, there are mistakes in the installation during the construction and a change in the owner's desire or misunderstanding after the completion of the construction. obtain. However, in the conventional mounting process, hinge installation and seat processing are performed directly on the corresponding vertical frame, so if you remove the hinge and the seat to change the opening and closing direction of the door, the hinge side vertical frame There is a defect that a screw mark remains and a hole corresponding to the size of the seat remains in the vertical frame on the seat side, and the appearance of the vertical frame is provided. The only way to eliminate the traces and holes is to putty or bury wood, or replace the entire door frame, and it is extremely difficult to change the opening and closing direction after the door is mounted.

Further, the hinge-side vertical frame corresponding to the right-opening (or left-opening) and the receiving-side vertical frame corresponding to the right-opening (or left-opening) have different shapes. I couldn't. For this reason, it is necessary for the manufacturer of the door frame to hold a set of door frames corresponding to both the right-opening and the right-hand opening as inventory, which points out a drawback that the manufacturing cost and the inventory space increase.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems inherent in a conventional door frame, and has been proposed to solve the problem in a favorable manner. An object of the present invention is to provide a door frame in which a seat can be detachably fixed to a door frame via a hinge mounting member and a seat mounting member, respectively, and the opening and closing direction of the door can be easily changed without changing the entire door frame. And

[0007]

In order to overcome the above-mentioned problems and achieve the intended object, a door frame according to the present invention has a one-sided door mounted on one vertical frame via a hinge so as to face each other. In a door frame provided with a seat for receiving the latch bolt of the one-sided door on the other vertical frame, the long frame can be detachably fixed to any of the two vertical frames, and the hinge is attached to an appropriate position. A hinge mounting member, and a long seat mounting member which is also removably securable to any of the two vertical frames, and which has the long seat mounting member to which the seat is mounted at an appropriate position. The hinge mounting member is fixed to one of the two vertical frames facing each other and the hinged mounting member is fixed to the other of the two vertical frames facing each other, with the single-sided door being interposed between the hinges. When changing the opening and closing direction of the single-door, Characterized was configured to secure by replacing the hinge mounting member and the seat mounting member to each other with respect to the two vertical frames each other the opposed.

[0008]

Next, a door frame according to the present invention will be described.
This will be described below with reference to a preferred embodiment. Note that the same members that have already been described in the conventional door frame described with reference to FIG. 9 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the door frame according to the embodiment, in which intermediate members are not mounted before mounting. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the door frame shown in FIG. 1 after mounting each mounting member. It is. The door frame 10 includes a first vertical frame 12, a second vertical frame 14, and upper and lower frames (not shown). At a predetermined position of the first vertical frame 12 and the second vertical frame 14, a hinge mounting member 40 or a seat mounting member 42 to be described later is fixed, and the hinge mounting member 40 (and the seat mounting member 40) is fixed. 4
The right or left vertical frame is selected as the object to be fixed in 2) according to the opening / closing direction (right or left opening) of the one-sided door 20.

The hinge mounting member 40 is provided with hinges 22 and 22 at appropriate positions by screws 32.
The one-sided door 20 is pivotally supported via the opening 22 so as to be freely opened and closed. The seat mounting member 42 is provided with a seat 26 for receiving the latch bolt 28 provided on the one-sided door 20 when the one-sided door 20 is closed. These mounting members 40, 42
Are provided with screw holes 18 for guiding screws 24 when fixed to the vertical frames 12 and 14, respectively.

The hinge mounting member 40 is shown in FIGS.
As shown in (a), the screw 24 is fixed to the corresponding first vertical frame 12 via the screw hole 18. Thereby, the one-sided door 20 is pivotally supported by the first vertical frame 12 via the hinges 22, 22 so as to be openable and closable. Here, the number of hinges is two, but the number and the mounting position can be changed as appropriate according to the intended use. The seat mounting member 42 provided with the seat 26 corresponding to the latch bolt 28 of the one-sided door 20 is also provided on the other second vertical frame 1.
4 is fixed by the screw 24 through the screw hole 18.

When fixing the hinge mounting member 40 on the hanging side that pivotally supports the one-way opening door 20 to the first vertical frame 12, the screw 3 on the hinge 22 is added in addition to the fixing force of the screw 24.
A fixing force of 2 may also be used. That is, the hinge mounting member 4
If a screw 32 having a length exceeding the thickness of 0 is used, the screw 32 reaches the first vertical frame 12, and the hinges 22, 22 are fixed to the hinge mounting member 40, and the mounting member 40 is It can be fixed to the first vertical frame 12.

Each mounting member 40, 42 is connected to a corresponding vertical frame 12,
Although an example in which the screw 24 is used as a means for fixing to the mounting member 14 has been described, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, as shown in FIG.
Is provided on each of the mounting members 40, 42, and each of the vertical frames 12, 1
4, a fitting groove 52 corresponding to the fitting piece 50 is formed;
The fitting piece 50 and the fitting groove 52 may be fitted to each other to be fixed to the vertical frames 12 and 14. In this case, the strength of the fitting between the fitting piece 50 and the fitting groove 52 can be changed by changing the shape and size of the fitting piece 50 and the fitting groove 52 so that the one-sided door 20 is formed. It is set appropriately so as to have a pivotable and detachable strength.

[0014]

Next, the actual use of the door frame according to the above construction will be described. When a door is provided in a building such as a house, the door frame 10 is first assembled in accordance with the installation position of the door.
Next, a hinge mounting member is provided for the first vertical frame 12 and the second vertical frame 14 corresponding to the hinge side and the seat side constituting the door frame 10 in accordance with the opening / closing direction (right or left) of the one-sided door 20. 40 and the seat mounting member 42 are fixed using a plurality of screws 24 (see FIG. 1). Then, the one-sided door 20 is attached to the hinge attachment member 40 via the hinges 22, 22 using a plurality of screws 32 (see FIG. 2).

[0015] For example, the door 2
If the opening / closing direction of the door is mistaken, the positions of the mounting members 40 and 42 are exchanged so that
0 can be easily changed in the opening / closing direction (see FIG. 5). At this time, a screw trace 24a due to the attachment of the screw 24 and, in some cases, a screw trace of the screw 32 remain in the corresponding portions of the attachment members 40 and 42 of the vertical frames 12 and 14 (see FIG. 4).
Is covered by the respective mounting members 40 and 42 after the replacement, so that the appearance is not impaired.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, each vertical frame 1
The mounting members 40 and 42 are machined so that they can be mounted on both the inner and outer sides of the mounting members 14 and 14, respectively.
Depending on the mounting position of 42, not only right-opening or left-opening but also inner-opening or outer-opening can be supported. Then, a decorative mounting member 38 is mounted on the processing portion where the mounting members 40 and 42 are not mounted according to the opening / closing direction (inward or outward opening). This decorative mounting member 38
A member having the same size and shape without attaching a hinge or a seat to each of the attachment members 40 and 42,
Like the other attachment members 40 and 42, they are attached to the vertical frames 12 and 14 by the screws 24.

[0017]

As shown in FIG. 8, a connecting mounting member 44 is mounted on the top of a hinge mounting member 40 and a seat mounting member 42 to form a gate-shaped structure 54, which can be installed on the door frame 10. You may. In this case, the upper frame 16 constituting the upper part of the door frame 10 is subjected to the mounting process of the mounting member in the same manner as the first vertical frame 12 and the second vertical frame 14, and the connection mounting member 44 is provided.
Is fixed detachably with the screw 24 or the like in the same manner as the other mounting members 40 and 42, the mounting strength to the door frame 10 is improved. When changing the opening / closing direction of the one-sided door 20, the gate-shaped structure 54 is removed, and the mounting members 40 and 42 on both sides are rotated so as to be exchanged.
Should be fixed again. In addition, the vertical frames 12, 14
If the mounting members 38, 40, 42, and 44 are attached to the inner and outer surfaces of the upper frame 16, respectively, the opening / closing direction of the one-sided door 20 can be changed not only to the left and right but also to the inside and outside. .

[0018]

As described above, according to the door frame of the present invention, the hinge processing and the seating processing are not performed directly on the vertical frame of the door frame, and the door frame itself is not replaced. The opening / closing direction of the one-sided door can be easily changed. Therefore, the left and right vertical frames can be shared, and it is not necessary to stock different sets of door frames corresponding to the left-opening and the right-opening, respectively. This has the effect of reducing manufacturing costs and inventory space.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an intermediate omitted perspective view of a door frame according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, observed in a state before mounting respective mounting members.

FIG. 2 is an intermediate perspective view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 after a mounting member is mounted.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional perspective view showing a mounting method of each mounting member constituting the door frame according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an intermediate omitted perspective view showing a state where each mounting member of the door frame according to the embodiment is detached from the frame.

FIG. 5 is a schematic plan view showing a state where the door can be selectively opened rightward or leftward by exchanging each mounting member of the door frame according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an intermediate omitted perspective view showing a state before attaching each mounting member of the door frame according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a schematic plan view showing an example in which the door can be selectively changed to either an outward opening or an inward opening by changing a mounting direction of the door frame according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an intermediate omitted perspective view showing a state before mounting of each mounting member of the door frame according to another embodiment.

FIG. 9 is an intermediate perspective view showing a mounting structure of a single-door according to the related art.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 door frame 12 first vertical frame (vertical frame) 14 second vertical frame (vertical frame) 20 one-sided door 22 hinge 24 screw 26 seat 28 latch bolt 40 hinge mounting member 42 seat mounting member 44 connection mounting member 50 fitting Mating piece 52 mating groove 54 portal structure

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A hinged door (20) is provided on one vertical frame (12).
2) in a door frame provided with a seat (26) for receiving a latch bolt (28) of the one-sided door (20) on the other opposite vertical frame (14), (12, 14) can be detachably fixed to any of the hinges (22)
And a long hinge attachment member (40) to which the receiving seat (26) is attached in an appropriate position, and can be detachably fixed to any of the two vertical frames (12, 14). And a hinge mounting member (42), and the hinge mounting member (40) is fixed to one of the opposed vertical frames (12, 14).
The seat mounting member (42) is connected to the two opposed vertical frames (12,
When fixing the single-sided door (20) to the hinge mounting member (40) via the hinge (22) in a state of being fixed to the other side of 14), when changing the opening and closing direction of the single-sided door (20) The hinge mounting member (40) with respect to the two opposed vertical frames (12, 14).
A door frame characterized in that the seat mounting members (42) are interchanged and fixed. 2. The hinge mounting member (40) and the seat mounting member (42) are detachably fixed to the corresponding vertical frames (12, 14) via screws (24). Door frame. 3. The hinge mounting member (40) and the seat mounting member (42) have a fitting piece (50) projecting from the back surface thereof, and the fitting piece (50) is attached to each corresponding vertical frame (12). , 14) formed groove (52)
These members (40, 42) are forcibly fitted to
The door frame according to claim 1, wherein the door frame is detachably fixed to the (12, 14). 4. The hinged mounting member (40) and the seat mounting member (42) are connected to each other by a connecting mounting member (44) at the top thereof to form a gate shape as a whole.
When changing the opening / closing direction of (20), these portal structures (5
4) The two vertical frames facing each other with the left and right inverted.
The door frame according to claim 1, wherein the door frame is fixed to (12, 14).