JP2001000299A - Container for feeding hot water - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate hot-water feeding work by preventing falling of a lid by simplifying structure and to facilitate work for putting hot water into a container main body by facilitating opening/closing of the lid. SOLUTION: This container is provided with a container main body 1 having a circular opening 2 at its top and having a nozzle-like hot water feeding port 3 at a side part, a handle 4 provided at the main body 1 and a disk-like lid 5 provided at the opening 2 of the main body 1 in a detachable manner to cover the opening 2. Then, a supporting mechanism 10 for supporting the lid 5 in the state of being rotatable in the direction of the face of the opening 2 and to support the lid 5 to avoid falling from the opening 2 by tilting of the main body 1 at the time of feeding hot water. This mechanism 10 is constituted by providing a part to be supported 11 at the outer periphery part 5a of the lid 5, providing a supporting part 12 for supporting the part 11 at the opening edge part 2 of the main body 1, suspending a rotary shaft 13 at the part 11 and providing a bearing hole 14 for pivotally supporting the shaft 13 by the part 12 in a rotatable manner.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a hot water supply container for pouring hot water such as a teapot and a kettle.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, as a hot water supply container, for example,
As shown in FIG. 7, as an example of a teapot, a container body 1 having a circular opening 2 at the top and a nozzle-shaped hot water supply port 3 on the side, and straddles the opening 2 over the container body 1. A vine-shaped handle 4 is provided, and a disc-shaped lid 5 is provided detachably on the opening 2 of the container body 1 and covers the opening 2. Reference numeral 6 denotes an inner container which is inserted into the container body 1 and is called a so-called tea strainer. Then, the hot water in the container body 1 is
When hot water is supplied, the container body 1 is tilted with the handle 4. By the way, at the time of hot water supply, since the container body 1 is tilted, the lid 5 may fall from the opening 2, especially when the teapot is made of iron casting, compared with aluminum or the like. Because it is heavy, lid 5 is easy to fall,
For this reason, the operation must be performed while holding the lid 5 by hand, and the hot water supply operation is complicated. To solve this, conventionally, as shown in FIG.
When the handle 4 is provided with a holding member 7 for holding the lid 5, when pouring hot water from the opening 2 into the container body 1, the handle 4 is tilted down to hold the holding member 7.
Can be removed from the lid 5 and the lid 5 can be removed. When hot water is supplied, the handle 4 is erected and the lid 5 is pressed by the pressing member 7 to prevent the lid 5 from falling (for example, Published in Kohei 5-300834).

[0003]

However, in this conventional hot water supply container, the holding member 7 must be provided on the handle 4, and the holding member is released when the handle 4 is lowered. Therefore, there is a problem that the structure is complicated and manufacturing is not easy. Also,
When pouring hot water into the container main body 1, the handle 4 must be turned down one by one to remove the lid 5, so that there is a problem that the operation becomes complicated. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and has a simplified structure to prevent the lid from falling, thereby facilitating the hot water supply operation, and opening and closing the lid to easily open and close the hot water in the container body. It is an object of the present invention to provide a hot water supply container capable of facilitating the work of putting hot water.

[0004]

The technical means of the present invention for solving the above problems is to provide a container body having a circular opening at the top and a nozzle-like hot water supply port at the side. A handle provided on the container body, and a disc-shaped lid detachably provided at the opening of the container body and covering the opening, the handle being held at the time of hot water supply for supplying hot water in the container body from a hot water supply port. In a hot water supply container in which the container body is tilted, the lid is supported so as to be rotatable in the plane direction of the opening around one end thereof and is supported so as not to fall out of the opening due to the inclination of the container body during the hot water supply. It is configured to have a support mechanism. With this configuration, the support mechanism can be configured with a simple mechanism that enables the lid to rotate,
The lid can be prevented from dropping, and hot water can be supplied without pressing the lid, which makes the hot water supply operation extremely easy. Also,
Since the opening and closing of the lid is performed by rotation, the opening and closing operation is extremely simple, and the operation of pouring hot water into the container body from the opening can be facilitated.

[0005] If necessary, the support mechanism is provided on a supported portion provided on the outer peripheral edge of the lid and on the open edge of the opening of the container body opposite to the hot water supply port. A support portion for supporting the support portion, and a rotation shaft provided between the supported portion and the support portion, and configured to pivotally support the lid so as to be rotatable in a surface direction of the opening. I have. The structure is simple enough to provide a rotation shaft between the supported portion and the support portion, and the structure is further simplified. In this case, it is effective to provide a bearing hole for vertically supporting the rotating shaft so that the rotating shaft can be rotated, while the rotating shaft is suspended from the supported portion. As a result, even if the lid tries to fall due to gravity,
Due to the load on the rotating shaft, a force in a direction intersecting the axial direction of the rotating shaft acts on the rotating shaft, and the rotating shaft is received by the inner wall surface of the bearing hole. And the lid is prevented from falling off.

Further, if necessary, the support portion is formed so as to protrude above the opening edge portion, and is inserted into the container body between the outer peripheral edge portion and the opening edge portion of the lid and is provided with the opening edge portion. The inner container having a flange supported by the inner wall is formed with a gap in which the flange is interposed. Further, if necessary, the supported portion is formed so as to protrude below the outer peripheral edge of the lid, and is inserted into the container body between the outer peripheral edge of the lid and the opening edge and has an opening edge. It has a configuration in which a gap in which the flange of the inner container supported by the portion is interposed is formed.
As described above, when the supported portion or the supporting portion is formed so as to protrude to form a gap in which the flange of the inner container is interposed between the outer peripheral edge and the opening edge of the lid, the content is filled in the gap. Since the flange of the container is interposed, the lid can be closed without difficulty, and the lid does not catch on the flange during rotation, and the rotation of the lid can be smoothly performed. In addition, a stopper is provided on the back surface of the lid as required to restrict the rotation angle of the lid by contacting the opening. Since the rotation angle of the lid is defined by the stopper, the lid does not spread too much because it rotates too much and it is compact, so it does not interfere with the lid by hitting the surroundings and the load of the lid A situation in which the container body is likely to fall down is also prevented, and stability is achieved.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A hot water supply container according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Note that the same components as described above are denoted by the same reference numerals and described. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, the hot water supply container according to the embodiment is an iron casting teapot. The basic configuration of this hot water supply container is such that a container main body 1 having a circular opening 2 at an upper portion and a nozzle-shaped hot water supply port 3 on a side portion, and the container main body 1 is provided across the opening 2. Vine-shaped handle 4 and container body 1
And a disc-shaped lid 5 that is detachably provided in the opening 2 and covers the opening 2. When the hot water in the container body 1 is supplied from the hot water supply port 3, the container body 1 is tilted by holding the handle 4. It is done. Reference numeral 6 denotes a net-like inner container called so-called tea strainer, which is inserted into the container main body 1 and has a flange 6a inserted into the container main body 1 from the opening 2 and supported by the opening edge 2a.

The hot water supply container according to this embodiment has a lid 5
Is provided rotatably about one end thereof in the surface direction of the opening 2 and supported so as not to fall off from the opening 2 due to the inclination of the container body 1 during hot water supply. As shown in FIG. 5, the inclination angle θ of the container main body 1 (the angle of the back surface of the lid 5 with respect to the horizontal) is preferably as large as possible, and in the embodiment, the inclination angle θ does not drop off until θ = 90 °. Is suppressed. Support mechanism 10
Are integrally provided on a tongue-shaped supported portion 11 integrally projecting from an outer peripheral edge 5 a of the lid 5 and an opening edge 2 a of the opening 2 of the container body 1 opposite to the hot water supply port 3. A support portion 12 for supporting the supported portion 11, a rotating shaft 13 provided between the supported portion 11 and the support portion 12, and rotatably supporting the lid 5 so as to be rotatable in the surface direction of the opening 2. It is provided with. The supported part 11 and the support part 12 are in surface contact with each other. For more information,
While the rotating shaft 13 is suspended from the supported part 11,
, A bearing hole 14 for rotatably supporting the rotating shaft 13 is provided. As shown in FIG. 3, the rotating shaft 13 is formed in a pin shape having a head portion 13 a and a shaft portion 13 b, and a shaft portion is formed in a through hole 15 formed in a supported portion 11 integrally formed with the lid 5. 1
By inserting the 3b from above, the rotating shaft 13 is provided on the supported portion 11. Further, the through hole 15 and the bearing hole 14 are formed at the same time during molding, and are finished by a reamer or the like after the molding.

The support portion 12 is formed to protrude above the opening edge 2a, and the flange 6a of the inner container 6 is interposed between the outer peripheral edge 5a of the lid 5 and the opening edge 2a. A gap c (FIG. 5) to be mounted is formed. The surface of the supported portion 11 facing the support portion 12 is formed slightly lower than the outer peripheral edge 5 a of the lid 5. Furthermore, on the back of the lid 5,
An arc-shaped stopper 16 that protrudes from the opening 2 and restricts the rotation angle α of the lid 5 is provided in a protruding manner. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 4, when the lid 5 is closed, the outer surface of the stopper 16 abuts on the opening 2 to allow rotation only in one direction (R1) and in the other direction (R2). Blocking the rotation of
At the position rotated by a predetermined angle, the end abuts on the opening 2 to prevent rotation in one direction (R1) and to prevent rotation in the other direction (R1).
It is provided on the back surface of the lid 5 so as to allow rotation to 2). The rotation angle α (rotation angle range) of the lid 5 is, for example,
α is set to about 80 °.

Therefore, when manufacturing the hot water supply container according to this embodiment, for example, a mold made of a sand mold for the container body 1, the lid 5 and the handle 4 is formed in advance, and the molten cast iron is added to this mold. Is cast. After demolding, finish processing. At this time, the through hole 15 and the bearing hole 1
4 is also finished with a reamer or the like. Thereafter, the rotating shaft 13 is fitted into the through hole 15 of the lid 5 to complete the lid 5. In this case, the supported portion 11 and the supported portion 12 are molded and the rotating shaft 13 only needs to be fitted into the supported portion 11, so that the support mechanism 10 is extremely easily formed, the structure is simple, and the manufacturing is easy. become.

Next, when using the hot water supply container according to the embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the inner container 6 is inserted through the opening 2 of the container body 1 in advance, and the flange 6a is connected to the opening edge 2a. To support. Then, the lid 5 is put on the opening 2. In this case, the rotation shaft 13 of the lid 5 is inserted into the bearing hole 14. In this state, since the gap c in which the flange 6a of the inner container 6 is interposed is formed between the outer peripheral edge 5a of the lid 5 and the opening edge 2a, the lid 5 can be closed without difficulty, The rotation operation described later is also performed smoothly.

When pouring hot water into the container body 1, as shown in FIG. 4, the lid 5 is rotated and opened. Then, for example, green tea is put into the inner container 6, and hot water is put into the container body 1 through the opening 2. After that, the lid 5 is rotated and closed again. In this case, the handle 4 may be either tilted or left standing. Therefore, just by rotating the lid 5, the lid 5
Can be opened and closed, so that it is not necessary to tilt the handle 4 one by one and lift and remove the lid 5 as in the related art.
Operation is extremely simple. In this case, the lid 5
Is restricted by the stopper 16, the cover 5 does not spread too much due to rotation, and the cover 5 is compact. A situation in which the container body 1 is likely to fall down due to the load is prevented, and stability is achieved.

When hot water is supplied from the hot water supply port 3 in the container body 1, the container body 1 is tilted with the handle 4 as shown in FIG. In this case, the support mechanism 10
Since the lid 5 is supported by the container main body 1 in the above, that is, the rotating shaft 13 vertically provided on the supported part 11 of the lid 5 is inserted into the bearing hole 14 of the support part 12 of the container main body 1. When the lid 5 is about to fall due to gravity, the lid 5
As a result, a force in a direction intersecting the axial direction of the rotating shaft 13 acts on the rotating shaft 13, and the rotating shaft 13 is received by the inner wall surface of the bearing hole 14. And the lid 5 is prevented from falling off. For this reason, since it is not necessary to hold the lid 5 by hand every time, the hot water supply operation is extremely easily performed.

FIG. 6 shows a modification of the support mechanism 10. This is because the supported portion 11 is formed to protrude below the outer peripheral edge 5a of the lid 5, and the outer peripheral edge 5a of the lid 5 and the opening edge 2a are formed.
And a gap c in which the flange 6a of the inner container 6 inserted into the container body 1 and supported by the opening edge 2a is interposed.
Is formed. This also provides the same operation and effect as described above. Note that both the supported portion 11 and the support portion 12 are formed so as to protrude to form a gap c in the flange 6 a of the inner container 6.
May be formed.

In the above embodiment, the rotation shaft 13
Is provided in the supported portion 11 and the bearing hole 14 is provided in the support portion 12, but the invention is not limited to this. Conversely, the rotating shaft 13 is provided in the support portion 12 and the bearing hole 14 is provided. May be provided on the supported portion 11 and may be changed as appropriate. Further, in the above embodiment, the present invention is applied to a teapot made of casting, but is not necessarily limited thereto, and may be applied to a teapot of another material.
Naturally, the present invention may be applied to various hot water supply containers, such as application to kettles for water heaters such as cast iron kettles.

[0016]

As described above, according to the hot water supply container of the present invention, the lid is supported so as to be rotatable in the surface direction of the opening, and is supported so as not to fall out of the opening due to the inclination of the container body at the time of hot water supply. Since the supporting mechanism is provided, a simple mechanism capable of rotating the supporting mechanism can be provided, and the fall of the lid can be prevented, so that the hot water supply operation can be extremely facilitated. In addition, since the opening and closing of the lid is performed by rotation, the opening and closing operation is extremely simple, and the operation of pouring hot water into the container body from the opening can be facilitated. The support mechanism includes a supported portion provided on an outer peripheral edge of the lid, a support portion provided on the container body for supporting the supported portion, and a pivotal support such that the lid is rotatable in a surface direction of the opening. When it is configured with a rotating shaft to be provided, the structure is simple enough to provide the rotating shaft between the supported portion and the supporting portion, and the structure can be further simplified to facilitate manufacture. it can.

In this case, if the rotating shaft is vertically provided on the supported portion and the bearing portion is provided with a bearing hole for rotatably supporting the rotating shaft, even if the lid attempts to drop due to gravity. The rotating shaft is received by the inner wall surface of the bearing hole, so that the rotating shaft does not easily come out of the bearing hole and the lid can be prevented from dropping. It is not necessary to hold it by hand, and the hot water supply operation can be performed extremely easily. Further, a content in which at least one of the supported portion and the support portion is formed so as to protrude, and a flange is provided between the outer peripheral edge portion and the opening edge portion of the lid and inserted into the container body and supported by the opening edge portion. In the case where a gap in which the flange of the container is interposed is formed, the flange of the inner container is interposed in this gap, so that the lid can be closed without difficulty, and the lid does not catch on the flange when rotating. Also, the turning operation of the lid can be performed smoothly. If a stopper is provided on the back surface of the lid to restrict the rotation angle of the lid by abutting the opening, the rotation angle of the lid is defined by the stopper, so that the lid may rotate excessively and spread. Because it is compact and there is no obstruction due to the lid hitting around,
It is also possible to prevent the container body from easily falling down due to the load of the lid.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing a hot water supply container according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view showing the hot water supply container according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of a main part showing a support mechanism of the hot water supply container according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing an operation when hot water is poured into the container body of the hot water supply container according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a side view showing an operation at the time of hot water supply of the hot water supply container according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of a main part showing an example of another support mechanism of the hot water supply container according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view showing an example of a conventional hot water supply container.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Container main body 2 Opening 2a Opening edge 3 Hot water supply port 4 Handle 5 Lid 5a Outer peripheral edge 6 Inner container 6a Flange 10 Support mechanism θ Tilt angle 11 Supported part 12 Supporting part 13 Rotating shaft 14 Bearing hole 15 Through hole c Void α Rotation angle 16 Stopper

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A container body having a circular opening at an upper portion and a nozzle-shaped hot water supply port at a side portion, a handle provided on the container body, and a detachably provided at an opening of the container body. A hot water supply container having a disc-shaped lid covering the opening, and tilting the container main body with a handle at the time of hot water supply for supplying hot water in the container main body from the hot water supply port; A hot water supply container comprising a support mechanism rotatably supported in the surface direction of the opening and a support mechanism for supporting the container body so as not to fall out of the opening due to the inclination of the container body during the hot water supply. 2. The supporting mechanism according to claim 1, wherein said supporting mechanism is provided on an outer peripheral edge of said lid and provided on an opening edge of said opening of said container body opposite to said hot water supply port. And a rotating shaft provided between the supported portion and the supporting portion, the rotating shaft being pivotally supported so that the lid can rotate in the surface direction of the opening. The hot water supply container according to claim 1. 3. A rotating shaft is suspended from the supported portion,
3. The hot water supply container according to claim 2, wherein a bearing hole for rotatably supporting the rotation shaft is provided in the support portion. 4. The support portion is formed so as to protrude above the opening edge, and is inserted into the container body between the outer peripheral edge and the opening edge of the lid and supported by the opening edge. The hot water supply container according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the inner container having a flange has a gap in which the flange is interposed. 5. The supporting portion is formed to protrude below the outer peripheral edge of the lid, and is inserted into the container body between the outer peripheral edge and the opening edge of the lid and has an opening edge. 5. The hot water supply container according to claim 2, wherein a gap is formed in which the flange of the inner container supported by the container is interposed. 6. A hot water supply according to claim 1, wherein a stopper is provided on the back surface of said lid to abut on said opening to regulate a rotation angle of said lid. container.