JP2000081275A - Storage house - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily attach a pillar to a storage house main body, particularly by hand. SOLUTION: There is provided an industrial refrigerator comprising a refrigerator main body 11, 21 having a bottom portion 14, 24 to which a pillar 30 is attached. The pillar 30 comprises a shaft 32 having a guide portion 33 with a flat peripheral surface and a threaded portion 34 with a male thread 34A. The guide portion 33 and the threaded portion 34 are formed at the front end and the base end of the shaft 32, respectively. The bottom portion of the storage house (refrigerator) main body includes a coupling portion 46 in which a female thread 45 is formed such that the threaded portion of the shaft 32 can be screwed therein. When the threaded portion of the shaft 32 of the pillar 30 is screwed in the coupling portion of the storage house main body 11, 21, the pillar 30 is attached to the bottom portion 14, 24 of the storage house main body 11, 21.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a storage, and more particularly to a storage with an improved mounting structure for a pedestal.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a commercial refrigerator has a refrigerator main body and a pedestal separately provided at the time of shipment from a factory in order to reduce transportation costs. Since the pedestal is removed from the refrigerator body and packed, the packing volume can be reduced, so that the transportation cost can be reduced.

Accordingly, the pedestal is to be attached to the refrigerator body by an operator on site.

[0004]

In order to improve the mountability of the pedestal to the refrigerator main body, there is a type in which the pedestal is mounted on the refrigerator main body with a single touch using a simple tool or the like. However, in this case, the mounting strength of the pedestal to the refrigerator body may be reduced.

On the other hand, there is a type in which a male screw portion formed on the entire length of the shaft of the pedestal is screwed to the refrigerator main body to increase the mounting strength of the pedestal to the refrigerator main body. However, in this case, the worker must manually rotate the pedestal many times on site and attach the pedestal to the refrigerator body,
The installation work becomes complicated.

An object of the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a storage box in which a pedestal can be easily attached to a storage box main body, particularly by hand.

[0007]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
In a storage in which a pedestal is attached to the bottom of the storage body, the pedestal has a guide portion having a flat outer peripheral surface,
A shaft having a threaded portion having a male thread at the distal end and a proximal end thereof is provided, and a coupling portion formed with a female thread capable of screwing the threaded portion of the shaft is provided at the bottom of the storage body. The threaded portion of the shaft portion of the pedestal is screwed into the coupling portion of the storage main body, so that the pedestal can be attached to the bottom of the storage main body. Things.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, a support is provided on the bottom of the storage body so that a guide portion of a shaft of the pedestal can be fitted with the pedestal mounted. A member is provided.

The first aspect of the invention has the following operation.

By rotating the pedestal one or several times, the thread of the pedestal shaft can be screwed into the connection at the bottom of the storage body, so that the pedestal can be attached to the storage body, especially on site. Easy installation by hand.

The second aspect of the present invention has the following operation.

A support member is provided at the bottom of the storage main body so that the guide portion of the shaft of the pedestal can be fitted when the pedestal is mounted. Even if a force perpendicular to the axial direction acts, this force can be supported by the support member of the storage body via the guide portion of the shaft, so that the mounting strength of the pedestal to the storage body can be improved. it can.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a vertical commercial refrigerator to which an embodiment of a storage according to the present invention is applied. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a horizontal commercial refrigerator to which an embodiment of the storage according to the present invention is applied.

A vertical commercial refrigerator 10 as a storage unit shown in FIG. 1 has a door 12 disposed on the front surface of a refrigerator main unit 11 as a storage unit body having an open front surface so as to be openable and closable. The inside of FIG. 1 is frozen or refrigerated by the cooling unit 13 installed in the storage unit.

A horizontal commercial refrigerator 20 as a storage shown in FIG. 2 has a door 22 provided on the front surface of a refrigerator body 21 as a storage body having an open front surface so as to be openable and closable. The inside of the refrigerator body 21 is frozen or refrigerated by the cooling unit 23 installed on the side.

The refrigerator main body 11 of each of the above-mentioned commercial refrigerators 10 and 20 and the bottom portions 14 and 24 of the refrigerator main body 21
, The pedestals 30 are attached to the four corners. These pedestals 30 are separated from the refrigerator main bodies 11 and 21 when the commercial refrigerators 10 and 20 are transported.
Is bundled with the main body of the refrigerator.
1, 21 will be attached to the bottom surfaces 14, 24, respectively.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the pedestal 30 is formed by integrating a shaft 32 coaxially with a pedestal body 31 made of a resin material, for example, by molding. The shaft 32 has a guide portion 33 and a screw portion 34.

The guide portion 33 is formed at the tip of the shaft 32, has an outer periphery provided on a flat surface, and connects the shaft 32 to the connecting portion 46 of the refrigerator bodies 11 and 21 when the pedestal 30 is attached.
(Described later). The screw portion 34 is formed at the base end of the shaft 32, and one or two external threads 34A are engraved on the outer periphery.

Most of the screw portion 34 of the shaft 32 is located inside the skirt portion 35 of the pedestal main body 31. A part of the screw portion 34 and the guide portion 33 are positioned above the end surface 35A of the skirt portion 35 in FIGS. The part of the screw portion 34 has a length corresponding to one lead or several (2, 3) leads of the male screw 34A in the screw portion 34.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG.
A heat insulating material 43 is filled between the inner panel 1 and the inner panel 42, and a reinforcing plate 44 is fixed inside the outer panel 41. At four corners of the bottom portions 14 and 24, a connecting portion 46 having a female screw 45 formed thereon is provided on the reinforcing plate 44, and the connecting portion 46 is supported as a support member so as to cover the upper part in FIG. A metal fitting 47 is fixed to the reinforcing plate 44.

The connecting portion 46 is connected to the shaft 3 of the pedestal 30.
The male screw 34A of the screw portion 34 in 2 can be screwed. As a result, the pedestals 30 are fixedly attached to the bottom surfaces 14, 24 of the refrigerator bodies 11, 21, respectively.

The support fitting 47 has a support cylinder 48 formed coaxially with the connecting portion 46, and further has an enlarged diameter portion 49 formed on the side of the support tube 48 on the connecting portion 46 side. Support tube part 48
Is a state in which the pedestals 30 are attached to the refrigerator main bodies 11 and 21,
The guide portion 33 on the shaft 32 of the pedestal 30 is fitted, and a force F acting substantially orthogonally to the axial direction of the pedestal 30 can be supported via the guide portion 33. Also, the enlarged diameter portion 49
Is a burring shape in which the diameter of the support metal part 47 of the support cylinder part 48 on the joint part 46 side is increased toward the joint part 46. When the pedestal 30 is attached to the refrigerator bodies 11 and 21, the pedestal 30
The guide part 33 of the shaft 32 is
Can be easily fitted into the support cylinder portion 48 of the first embodiment.

Next, a procedure for attaching the pedestal 30 to the refrigerator bodies 11 and 21 will be described.

For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the bottom surfaces 14, 24 of the unpacked refrigerator bodies 11, 21 respectively.
The pedestal 30 is attached to each of the four corners. At this time, first, the guide portion 33 of the shaft 32 of the pedestal 30 is
The guide portion 33 is inserted into the connecting portion 46 of the bottom portions 14 and 24 of the refrigerator main bodies 11 and 21, and then the guide portion 33 is guided by the enlarged diameter portion 49, and the guide portion 33 is
And fitted into the supporting cylinder portion 48. Next, the pedestal 30
Is rotated one or several times (two or three times), and the screw portion 34 of the shaft 32 in the pedestal 30 is screwed into the coupling portion 46 in the bottom surface portions 14 and 24 of the refrigerator bodies 11 and 21, respectively. 30 is fixedly attached to the refrigerator main bodies 11, 21.

In the mounted state of the pedestal 30, the end surface 35A of the skirt portion 35 of the pedestal 30 is
21 abuts against the outer panel 41 at the respective bottom portions 14, 24. And the end face 3 of this skirt portion 35
A part of the screw portion 34 of the shaft 32 above the upper portion of FIG. 3 in FIG. 3 is screwed into the connecting portion 46 of the bottom surfaces 14 and 24 of the refrigerator bodies 11 and 21. Further, in this state, the guide portion 33 of the shaft 32 of the pedestal 30 is fitted to the support tube portion 48 of the support fitting 47 of the refrigerator main bodies 11 and 21.

Therefore, according to the above-described embodiment, the following effects are obtained.

By rotating the pedestal 30 one or several times (two or three times), the threaded portion 34 of the shaft 32 of the pedestal 30 is connected to the connecting portions of the bottom surfaces 14 and 24 of the refrigerator bodies 11 and 21 respectively. Since it can be screwed to 46, the pedestal 30 can be easily attached to the refrigerator main bodies 11 and 21 by hand, especially on site.

A guide portion 33 is formed at the tip of the shaft 32 of the pedestal 30, and this guide portion 33
1, 21 are inserted into the coupling portions 46 of the bottom portions 14, 24, respectively.
Since the guide 4 is guided to the connecting portion 46, the pedestal 30 can be easily attached to the refrigerator main bodies 11 and 21.

Lifting one side of the bottom parts 14, 24 of the unpacked refrigerator bodies 11, 21, raises the bottom parts 14, 2
When the pedestal 30 is attached to the corner of the pedestal 4, the guide portion 33 of the shaft 32 of the pedestal 30
Can be easily inserted into the connecting portion 46 of the refrigerator bodies 11 and 21, and the screw portion 34 of the shaft 32 is screwed into the connecting portion 42 by simply rotating the pedestal 30 once or several times.
Since the mounting of the base 30 can be completed, the workability of mounting the pedestal 30 can be further improved.

The pedestal 3 is attached to the bottoms 14, 24 of the refrigerator bodies 11, 21 with the pedestal 30 attached.
Since the support fitting 47 that allows the guide portion 33 of the 0 shaft 32 to be fitted is provided, even if a force F substantially perpendicular to the axial direction acts on the pedestal 30 in the mounted state of the pedestal 30, This force F is applied to the bottom part 1 of the refrigerator main bodies 11 and 21 via the skirt part 35 of the pedestal main body 31 of the pedestal 30.
4 and 24, and can be supported by the refrigerator bodies 11 and 21 via the guide portion 33 of the shaft 32 and the support fitting 47.
It is possible to improve the mounting strength to the device.

Although the present invention has been described based on one embodiment, the present invention is not limited to this.

For example, the present invention can be applied to a case in which the pedestal provided with the casters is attached to the bottom portions 14 and 24 of the refrigerator bodies 11 and 21, respectively. Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the present invention is applied to a commercial refrigerator, but the present invention can also be applied to a storage cabinet, a constant temperature / humidity cabinet, ordinary cabinets and furniture without temperature control.

[0034]

As described above, according to the storage according to the present invention, the pedestal has the guide portion having the flat outer peripheral surface and the shaft having the thread portion having the male screw at the distal end and the proximal end, respectively. At the bottom of the storage main body, there is provided a coupling portion formed with a female screw capable of screwing the screw portion of the shaft, and the screw portion of the shaft portion of the pedestal is screwed to the coupling portion of the storage main body. Thus, since the pedestal is configured to be attachable to the bottom of the storage main body, the pedestal can be easily attached to the storage main body, particularly by hand.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a vertical commercial refrigerator to which an embodiment of a storage according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a horizontal commercial refrigerator to which an embodiment of the storage according to the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view showing a mounting state of the pedestal shown in FIGS. 1 and 2;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the pedestal shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a mounting state of the pedestal shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Commercial refrigerator 11 Refrigerator main body 14 Bottom part 20 Commercial refrigerator 21 Refrigerator main body 24 Bottom part 30 Leg 32 Shaft 33 Guide part 34 Screw part 34A Male screw 45 Female screw 46 Coupling part 47 Support fitting (support member) 48 Support cylinder Part F force

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Yoshiharu Abe 2-5-5 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Masaaki Ushimaru 2-5-5 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka Inside Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Tadashi Kuraya 2-5-5 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Fumio Mizuno 2-5-2 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka No. 5 Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (72) Akira Uchida 2-5-5 Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka Prefecture 5-5 Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. (72) Masao Saito 2-chome, Keihanhondori, Moriguchi-shi, Osaka No. 5-5 in Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A storage in which a pedestal is attached to the bottom of the storage body, wherein the pedestal has a guide portion having a flat outer peripheral surface and a screw portion having a male screw at a distal end and a proximal end, respectively. Is provided at the bottom of the storage main body, and a coupling portion formed with a female screw capable of screwing the screw portion of the shaft is provided. The screw portion of the shaft portion of the pedestal is connected to the storage portion. A storage, wherein the pedestal is configured to be attachable to the bottom of the storage main body by being screwed into the coupling portion of the main body. 2. A support member is provided at a bottom portion of the storage main body so that a guide portion of a shaft of the pedestal can be fitted when the pedestal is mounted.
The storage according to 1.