JP2000103447A - Housing container - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make an initial operation for opening easy by making the free end-side of a lid body raised a little when being released from engagement held by a holding member. SOLUTION: A container main body 12, a lid body 13 connected to the container main body 12 so as to be opened and shut freely, and a holding member 14 for engagement with the free end-side of the lid body 13 to hold the lid body under the state of being shut are provided. While a piece member 33 is provided in continuity, extending almost horizontal toward the inside from the internal face of an opening 11 of the container main body 12, a protuberant part 40 is provided at the underside of the lid body 13, and the protuberant part 40 comes into contact with the piece member 33 and pushed down the piece member 33 when the lid body 13 is held under the state of being shut. Therefore, the lid body 13 is raised a little at its free end-side by an elastic restoring force of the piece member 33 when engagement by the holding member 14 is released.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a storage container, and more particularly to a storage container that can open a lid very easily, can be used in a state of being stored in a drawer, and can be carried as needed. It relates to a storage container.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when storing a recording medium such as a floppy disk or a stationery such as a writing instrument or a sticky note in a drawer of a desk, a storage container such as an open-top tray divided into a plurality of sections. Is used.

[0003]

However, the existing storage container is merely intended to be used by arranging it in a drawer, and considering the working style of the office in recent years, It is not always the case. In other words, at present, so-called notebook computers, which are dramatically reduced in size and have transport characteristics, are widely used, and office staff operate computers using dedicated desks. In addition, it is very common to operate the dedicated desk away from the desk. In the latter case, the storage medium and stationery must be carried to the place where the computer is operated. However, carrying the conventional type storage container as it is is far from the actual situation, and the appearance is not preferable.

[0004] In such a case, if the storage container is provided with a lid so as to provide transportability, it is possible to selectively use the storage container in a drawer or carry it to another place. It becomes possible. In the case of such a storage container with a lid, it is necessary to prevent the lid from being inadvertently opened during transportation. In this case, a holding member is provided on the container body side, and the holding member can be engaged and disengaged with the free end side of the lid, so that the closed lid posture can be stably held.

However, if the holding member is merely provided, the lid remains in the closed position even when the engagement by the holding member is released. Therefore, when the lid is opened, the lid must be opened. The operation cannot be performed easily. In other words, in this case, it is necessary to insert a toe between the lid and the container body to raise the lid, and then insert a fingertip between the lid and the container, which may hurt the nail. Cause. Such inconvenience becomes more apparent when the lid is thin.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such inconvenience, and its object is to make the cover slightly lift when the engagement by the holding member is released,
An object of the present invention is to provide a storage container that can easily open a lid by hooking a fingertip on the raised portion.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a container body having an opening at an upper portion, a lid rotatably connected to the container body, and a free end of the lid. A holding member that engages with a side of the container to hold a closed position, wherein a resilient means is provided between an opening of the container body and the lid, and the resilient means includes When the closed posture by the member is released, the cover is provided so as to be able to give a resilient force for floating the free end side of the cover by a predetermined amount. With such a configuration,
Since the operation of opening the lid can be performed very easily, there is no problem even if the lid is formed thin, and therefore, the drawer of the desk with a sufficient storage volume on the container body side is secured. It can also be stored inside. In addition, in a state where the holding member is engaged with the lid, the lid is stably kept in the closed position, so that the lid can be carried.

[0008] The resilient means in the present invention comprises a piece member oriented substantially inward in the horizontal direction from the inner surface of the opening of the container body, and a convex portion provided on the lower surface side of the lid. It is preferable that when the is held at the closed position, the convex portion comes into contact with the one member and pushes down the one member. In this case, it is preferable that the reinforcing member is provided on the one member, and that the one member and the convex portion are provided at one central portion on the rotation center side of the lid. With such a configuration, the resilient means can be configured with an extremely simple configuration, and even if the one member receives a deforming force due to the protrusion, the risk of damage to the one member can be prevented, and the stability is always stable. The free end side of the lid can be raised by exerting the elastic restoring force thus obtained.

[0009]

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

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the storage container according to the present embodiment in a closed state, and FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the storage container in an open state with the lid open. . In these figures, the storage container 10 is entirely formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape using a synthetic resin material as a molding material. The storage container 10 includes a container body 12 having an opening 11 at an upper portion, a lid 13 connected to the container body 12 to open and close the opening 11, and a holding unit that holds the lid 13 in a closed position. A member 14, a tray 15 (see FIG. 3) removably disposed in the container body 12, and a partition member 1 selectively used with the tray 15 to partition the inside of the container body 12 into a plurality of sections.
6 (see FIG. 4).

As shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, the container body 12 includes a bottom wall 20 having a substantially rectangular shape in plan view and a peripheral wall connected to an outer edge of the bottom wall 20. The peripheral wall includes a side wall 21 continuously provided on both sides of the bottom wall 20 in the long width direction, and a front wall 22 and a rear wall 2 provided on both sides of the bottom wall 20 in the short width direction.
3 On the inner surface side of the bottom wall 20, shallow grooves 24 are formed at predetermined intervals, and groove forming ribs 25 are provided at lower half positions on the inner surface side of the front wall 22 and the rear wall 23 connected to the shallow groove 24. Two partitions are provided, and the partition member 16 can be fitted into an arbitrary position by the groove 25A between the groove forming ribs 25 and the shallow groove 24.

A horizontal step 27 is formed at the upper part on the inner side of the side wall 21, the front wall 22, and the rear wall 23.
7, the tray 15 is provided so that the outer edge side of the tray 15 can be seated thereon.

As shown in FIG. 7, a concave notch 28 is formed in the center of the upper end side of the front wall 22. Support shafts 30 are formed at two positions on the left and right of the notch 28,
The holding member 14 is rotatably connected to the holding member 14 by the support shafts 30.

At the two upper ends of the rear wall 23, a lid 13 is provided.
31 having a hole 31A for rotatably supporting the projection 31
Is formed, and a single member 33 as a resilient member directed substantially inward in the horizontal direction is continuously provided at the upper edge of the rear wall 23 between the protrusions 31 and 31. A reinforcing rib 33A is integrally provided on the upper surface side of the piece member 33, and the reinforcing rib 33A prevents breakage of the piece member 33. As will be described later, a guide groove 31B (see FIG. 7) for forcibly fitting the rotation center axis of the lid 13 into the hole 31A is formed in the outer peripheral portion of the protrusion 31.
Reference) is formed.

As shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the lid member 13 has a substantially flat plate-like appearance. At the rear end of the lid member 13, that is, at the upper end in FIG.
A raised portion 36 having a notch 35 for sandwiching the protrusion 31
Are provided along the longitudinal direction of the lid 13, and the notch 3
The shaft 37 is provided on the end face of the protrusion 5 and the shaft 37 is supported in the hole 31A of the protruding portion 31. As a result, the lid 13 is
The middle and lower ends are rotatably connected to the container body 13 with the free ends.

In the lid 13, a concave portion 40 having a length substantially corresponding to the entire length of the raised portion 36 is formed at a position adjacent to and in parallel with the raised portion 36. This recess 40
The raised portion 36 is provided in a shape having a reversed depth. Further, the central portion on the inner surface side of the concave portion 40, that is, the lid 1
At the center of the rotation center 3 on the side of the rotation, there is formed a projection 42 which constitutes a resilient means together with the piece member 33. When the lid 13 is in the closed position, the convex portion 42 comes into contact with the upper surface of the one member 33 and applies a deforming force to slightly push down the one member 33.

As shown in FIG. 10, a curved concave portion 45 is formed in the center of the free end side of the lid 13, and the holding member 14 allows the lid 13 to be formed by forming the concave portion 46. The holding member 14 is provided so as to fit within the surface of the lid 13 when engaged to hold the lid in the closed position. In the concave portion 45, ridges 46 projecting slightly upward are provided at two positions on the left and right of the leading edge.

As shown in FIGS. 11 and 12, the holding member 14 has a base portion 47 which fits in a notch 28 formed in the front wall 22 of the container body 12, and a tip of the base portion 47. And a bearing piece 49 projecting from the left and right ends of the base piece 47 and fitted to the support shaft 30. A groove 48A is formed on the inner surface of the base of the engagement piece 48, and the above-mentioned ridge 46 can be fitted into the groove 48A.

In this embodiment, the tray 15 employs first and second trays 15A and 15B. The first tray 15 stores seals, clips, and the like, while the second tray stores writing tools and the like. Each of the trays 15A and 15B has a flange portion 50 (see FIG. 3) on the outer edge. The flange portion 50 can be accommodated in the container main body 12 by riding on the step portion 27 of the container main body 12. At this time, the tray 15 is set to be shallower than the depth of the container body 12, and the tray 15
The lower surface of the tray 15 and the container body 1
3, a space is formed between the bottom wall 20 and the bottom wall 20, and a storage medium such as a floppy disk or a compact disk can be stored in the space.

As shown in FIG. 6, the container body 1
The corner between the rear end of the bottom wall 20 and the lower end of the rear wall 23 of the second container 2 is formed into a curved portion 52 that is depressed inward.
When the 0s are stacked in the up-down direction, the protrusions 31 of the storage container 10 on the lower side are received, and the storage container 10 on the upper side can be placed in a substantially horizontal posture.

Although the storage container 10 according to this embodiment is not particularly limited, the storage container 10 has a height that can be accommodated in a drawer of a desk having a storage depth of about 70 mm, and the two storage containers 10 The width in the short direction is set so as to fit in the drawer with their lid connecting sides abutting each other.

Next, the operation of the storage container 10 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. Here, the lids 13 are arranged so that the connection sides of the lids 13 face each other, that is, the rear walls 23 of the storage containers 10 are opposed to each other, and the respective lids 13 are held in the closed posture by the holding members 14. Assume that you are dripping.

When one storage container 10 is to be opened,
By rotating the holding member 14, the holding member 14 and the lid 13 are rotated.
Can be released. Here, when rotating the holding member 14, the protrusions 46 provided on the free end side of the lid 13 are fitted into the grooves 48 </ b> A of the engagement pieces 48 to restrict unintended rotation. And a certain degree of rotational resistance is involved.

When the engagement by the engagement piece 48 is released by the rotation of the holding member 14, the piece 33 which has been pushed down by the projection 42 exhibits the elasticity to return to the initial horizontal position. And this will
The free end side of the lid 13 slightly rises. Therefore, a fingertip is hooked on the raised portion to cover 1
3 can be rotated to open the opening 11.

As shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. 13, when the lid 13 is rotated by approximately 180 degrees, the lid 13 is located at a position just overlapping the upper surface of the lid 13 of the adjacent storage container 10. At this time, since the raised portion 36 of the other lid 13 is received in the recess 40 of the opened lid 13, each lid 13
Will overlap without interfering with each other. Therefore, even if two such storage containers 10 are stored in the drawer side by side, and one of the lids 13 is always open, the lid 13 does not obstruct the drawer.

In the above embodiment, one piece member 33 is used.
Is shown and described in the case where one is provided in the center part,
The present invention is not limited to this, and a plurality of piece members 33 may be provided at a plurality of positions. However, in consideration of molding errors and the like, the use of one piece member 33 has the advantage that the free end side of the lid 13 can be reliably floated without adverse effects such as so-called one-side contact. .

The shape of the holding member 14 and the shape of the holding member 1
The structure of the mutual engagement between the cover 4 and the lid 13 is not limited to the illustrated configuration example, and various design changes can be made as long as the lid 13 can maintain the closed posture.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A resilient means is provided between the opening of the container body and the lid, and when the closed posture by the holding member is released, the free end side of the lid is configured to float by a predetermined amount. The fingertip can be inserted into a gap formed between the free end and the opening, and the operation of opening the lid can be performed extremely easily even if the lid is formed thin. In addition, the thickness of the lid is reduced and the overall height is suppressed, the storage volume on the container body side can be sufficiently ensured, and storage in the drawer of the desk becomes possible.
In addition, in a state where the holding member is engaged with the lid, the lid is stably kept in the closed position, so that the lid can be carried.

Further, since the resilient means is constituted by the one member directed substantially inward in the horizontal direction from the inner surface of the opening of the container body and the convex portion provided on the lower surface side of the lid, the resilient means is formed. The resilient means can be configured very easily by a simple shape change. Further, in the configuration in which the reinforcing rib is provided on the one member, it is possible to prevent the one member from being damaged when the one member is forcibly pushed down by the convex portion. In addition, since the one member and the convex portion are formed at one central portion on the rotation center side of the lid, there is no inconvenience such as a so-called one-side contact that may occur when the lid member is provided at a plurality of locations, and the elasticity is always stable. It is possible to provide an unprecedented excellent storage container in which the free end side of the lid can be raised by exerting a restoring force.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a storage container according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view showing a state where a lid of the storage container is opened.

FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view showing a state in which a tray is accommodated in a container body.

FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view showing a state in which a partition member is stored instead of the tray.

FIG. 5 is a plan view of the container body.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a front view of the container body.

FIG. 8 is a plan view of a lid.

FIG. 9 is a front view of a lid.

FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 8;

FIG. 11 is a schematic perspective view of a holding member.

FIG. 12 is a sectional view of a holding member.

FIG. 13 is a schematic front view showing a state where a pair of storage containers are arranged.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Storage container 11 Opening 12 Container main body 13 Lid 14 Holding member 33 Single member (elastic means) 33A Reinforcement rib 42 Convex part (elastic means)

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[Submission date] November 24, 1998 (1998.11.
24)

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[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] Name of invention

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

[Title of the Invention] Storage container

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A container body having an opening at an upper part, a lid rotatably connected to the container body, and a holding member which is engaged with a free end side of the lid and holds a closed position. In the storage container provided with, a resilient means is provided between the opening of the container body and the lid, and the resilient means, when the closed posture by the holding member is released, of the lid A storage container characterized by being provided so as to be able to give a resilient force for floating a free end side by a predetermined amount. 2. The container according to claim 2, wherein the resilient means includes a piece member directed substantially inward in the horizontal direction from an inner surface of the opening of the container body, and a protrusion provided on a lower surface side of the lid. The container according to claim 1, wherein when the is held at the closed position, the convex portion comes into contact with the one member and pushes down the one member. 3. The storage container according to claim 2, wherein a reinforcing rib is formed on said one member. 4. The storage container according to claim 2, wherein the one-piece member and the convex portion are provided at one central portion on the rotation center side of the lid.