JP2001040740A - Fixed structure for urinal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the cleaning property of a urinal without requiring its bottom section to be fastened and fixed to a floor by fixing a fitting plate fixed to the upper section of the urinal to a wall directly or indirectly. SOLUTION: A fitting plate 47 is provided with cover fixing pieces 50 erected upward at both the right and left ends of its base, it is fixed to the upper face of a urinal body 10 with male screws, and an upper cover 18 is fixed to the cover fixing pieces 50 with bolts 52 and pressers 54 fitted to a pair of the right and left side wall sections. The drain port 104 of the bottom section of the urinal body 10 is merely inserted downward into a drain socket 88 without specially forming a recess at the lower section of a urinal and fixing it to a floor F via a fastener, thereby such a problem is eliminated as the deterioration of the beautiful appearance of the urinal body 10 or the intrusion of refuse into the recess caused by the formation of the recess, and cleaning is facilitated.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a urinal fixing structure installed in contact with a wall.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a urinal is installed in contact with a wall, its bottom is usually fixed to the floor. FIGS. 11 to 13 show an example of a conventional urinal and its fixing structure. The example shown in the figure is an example of a urinal integrally provided with an automatic cleaning device.
Is a ceramic urinal body provided with a bowl 202, and 204 is an upper cover on the upper side thereof.

[0003] As shown in FIG.
An automatic cleaning device 206 for automatically supplying cleaning water for cleaning the pot 202 is assembled on the upper surface of the upper surface 00, and the automatic cleaning device 206 is concealed inside the upper cover 204.

The automatic cleaning device 206 has a valve unit 208 including an electromagnetic valve. The valve unit 208 is fixed to a metal mounting plate 210 fixed on the upper surface of the urinal body 200 and held. Have been.
That is, the valve unit 208 is mounted and fixed on the upper surface of the urinal main body 200 via the mounting plate 210.

The urinal is installed with its back surface in contact with the wall W.
0 is fixed to the floor F by a fixing structure shown in FIG. In the figure, reference numeral 212 denotes a floor flange for fixing the urinal bottom to the floor F, which has a tapered portion 214 and a flange portion 216, and the flange portion 216 is fixed to the floor F by screws 218. ing.

[0006] Reference numeral 220 denotes a drain pipe, and an enlarged portion 221 of the drain pipe at the upper portion thereof is superimposed on the tapered portion 214 of the floor flange 212 so as to be in close contact therewith. A drain port 222 of the urinal is in contact with the expanded portion 221 or the tapered portion 214 via a sealing material 224, and the space therebetween is sealed.

[0007] A pair of recesses 226 are provided on the lower part of the urinal body 200 on the left and right. A pedestal 228 formed by the recesses 226 is screwed to the bolt 230 penetrating therethrough, and further to the bolt 230 inside the recess 226. Nut 232 is fastened to the floor flange 212, and the bottom of the urinal body 200 is connected to the floor F via the floor flange 212.
In a fixed state. In addition, 234 is a makeup cap.

[0008]

However, in the case of such a conventional urinal fixing structure, a concave portion 226 must be provided at a lower portion of the urinal body 200, which impairs the beauty of the urinal. Dirt such as dust enters the recess 226 and adheres thereto, and furthermore, the recess 226
There is a problem that it is difficult to remove dirt that has entered inside, and cleaning performance is poor.

[0009]

The urinal fixing structure of the present invention has been devised to solve such a problem. The urinal fixing structure according to claim 1 is a urinal fixing structure installed in contact with a wall, wherein a mounting plate fixed on an upper part of the urinal is directly or indirectly attached to the wall. It is characterized by being fixed.

[0010] The urinal fixing structure of the second aspect is the first aspect.
In the urinal fixing structure according to the above, the urinal has a urinal body provided with a bowl and an upper cover above the urinal, and the mounting plate is fixed to an upper surface of the urinal body. It is characterized in that the valve unit of the automatic cleaning device is mounted on the upper surface of the urinal body.

The urinal fixing structure according to a third aspect of the present invention is the urinal fixing structure according to any one of the first and second aspects, wherein a fixing member is attached to the wall at a predetermined height, and the mounting plate is attached to the wall. It is characterized by being fixed to the wall via the fixing member by fastening to the fixing member.

[0012] The urinal fixing structure according to the fourth aspect is the third aspect.
The urinal fixing structure according to the above item, wherein the fixing member is provided with a vertically long hole, and the fixing member is fixed to the wall with a screw in the long hole.

A urinal fixing structure according to a fifth aspect of the present invention is the urinal fixing structure according to any one of the third and fourth aspects, wherein the mounting plate is formed of a metal plate, and the metal plate has an upper portion and a lower portion. An extension piece having elasticity extending rearward was provided, and a substantially horizontal fastening portion formed at an end of the extension piece was elastically deformed downward on the upper surface of the fixing member, and the extension piece was downwardly deformed. The urinal is fastened and fixed to the wall in a state where the urinal is pressed downward.

[0014]

According to the present invention, as described above, the mounting plate fixed to the upper part of the urinal is fixed to the wall. According to the present invention, the upper part of the urinal is fixed to the wall. This eliminates the need to fasten and fix the bottom to the floor using bolts or the like.

As a result, the recess 226 for fixing the urinal shown in FIGS. 11 and 12 can be made unnecessary, so that the recess 226 deteriorates the aesthetic appearance of the urinal and the urinal due to intrusion of dust or the like into the recess 226. Dirty bottoms, and even recesses 22
6 can be eliminated, and cleaning can be easily performed.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the upper part of the urinal is fixed to the wall by fixing the mounting plate for mounting the valve unit in the automatic cleaning device on the upper surface of the urinal body to the wall. According to this fixing structure, a mounting plate does not need to be specially provided on the urinal body in order to fix the urinal upper portion to the wall, and the urinal upper portion is directly used by using the mounting plate for mounting the valve unit. Can be fixed to the wall.

Moreover, since the mounting plate is fixed on the upper surface of the urinal body, the mounting plate can be fixed to the urinal body in advance at the factory production stage. The urinal can be installed in a fixed state simply by fixing the urinal to the wall.

That is, for example, when a fixing member is attached to a wall and the fixing member and the urinal body are fastened and fixed with a screw at the installation site, the screw is excessively tightened. In this case, the ceramic urinal body may be damaged or cracked.

However, if the mounting plate can be fixed to the urinal body at the factory production stage in advance, even if they are fastened and fixed with screws, the fastening force is controlled while maintaining the proper tightening force. The inconvenience that the urinal body is cracked due to accidentally tightening the screw too much can be avoided.

The reason why the mounting plate can be fixed in advance at the factory production stage is that the mounting plate is fixed on the upper surface of the urinal body. Specifically, the mounting plate can be fixed to the upper side of the urinal body in an exposed state, and the mounting plate can be fixed to the wall under the fixed state to the urinal body at the site.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a urinal is fixed to a wall by attaching a fixing member to a predetermined height position of a wall and fastening the mounting plate to the fixing member. By doing so, the fixing of the mounting plate to the wall, and further to the wall above the urinal, can be performed more easily.

In this case, the fixing member is provided with a vertically long hole, and the fixing member can be fastened and fixed to the wall with a screw in the long hole. In this way, even when there is a manufacturing error in the ceramic urinal and the height position of the mounting plate varies, the fixing member can be positioned at an appropriate height, and the mounting plate can be easily and without trouble. The fixing member can be fastened and fixed.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the fixing structure, the mounting plate is formed of a metal plate, and the metal plate is provided with a resilient extending piece extending upward and rearward. The fastening part is fastened and fixed with a screw in a state in which the extension piece is elastically deformed downward on the upper surface of the fixing member, and the urinal body is pressed downward by doing so. The urinal can be fixed in a fixed state, so that the urinal can be installed firmly in a fixed state even when the bottom is left unfixed to the floor.

[0024]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 and 2, reference numeral 10 denotes a ceramic urinal body having a bowl 12 and a hanging portion 14, and a spreader 16 is provided on an upper surface of the bowl.
From 6, cleaning water is sprayed downward and radially. In this example, the urinal body 10 is not provided with a conventional vertical rim and a rim water passage therein as shown in FIGS.

Reference numeral 18 denotes an upper cover, on which a sensor window 20 is provided on the front surface. An automatic cleaning device 22 is housed inside the upper cover 18 as shown in FIG.

The automatic cleaning device 22 has a sensor casing 26 and a valve unit 28 as shown in FIG. Inside the sensor casing 26, a photoelectric type human body sensor 30 (see FIG. 6) for sensing the presence or absence of a toilet user through the sensor window 20 is accommodated.

A control section for controlling the operation of an electromagnetic flash valve 42, which will be described later, is provided inside the sensor casing 26. The electromagnetic flash valve 42 and a control section, which will be described later, are provided through a curl cord 32 extending from the sensor casing 26. It is electrically connected to the generator 44 and the like.

In this embodiment, the valve unit 28 has a substantially linear shape, and is disposed obliquely inside the upper cover 18. That is, the end (left end in the figure) on the side where the washing water flows is located at the front, and the opposite end (the right end in the figure) is located obliquely with respect to the wall such that it is located at the back. It is arranged in a state.

One end, specifically, one end of a tubular body 34 is connected to a flexible internal water supply pipe 36 on the primary side.
The other end is connected to the spreader 16 via a secondary internal water supply pipe 38 shown in FIG. 6. The secondary internal water supply pipe 38 extends downward on the rear side of the bowl 12 in the urinal body 10 and has its tip connected to the spreader 16 attached to the bowl surface.

The valve unit 28 includes a water stopcock 4
0, an electromagnetic flash valve 42, and a generator 44 are integrally incorporated. Here, the electromagnetic flash valve 42
It comprises a main valve 45 for opening and closing the main water channel, and an electromagnetic pilot valve 46 for opening and closing the main valve 45.

The generator 44 generates electric power by rotating the impeller with the force of the water flow in the water channel. The generated power is stored in a storage battery not shown. The automatic cleaning device 22 of this embodiment can operate using the storage battery as a power source. However, it can be operated using a 100 V commercial power supply as a power supply. In the latter case, the generator 44 is used as a water amount sensor for detecting the flow rate of water by the rotation of the impeller.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a metal mounting plate 47 is fixed on the upper surface of the urinal body 10, and the valve unit 28 is connected to the urinal via the mounting plate 47. It is attached and fixed to the upper surface of the main body 10.

FIGS. 3, 5 and 7 show the mounting plate 47.
As shown in FIG. 7, cover fixing pieces 50 are provided at both left and right ends of the base 48 so as to stand upright. The mounting plate 47 is fixed to the upper surface of the urinal body 10 with a male screw 49. The upper cover 18 has a pair of left and right side walls fixed to the cover fixing piece 50 by bolts 52 and pressers 54 shown in FIG. 2, and is fixed to the urinal body 10 via the mounting plate 47.

As shown in FIGS. 3, 5 and 7, the mounting plate 47 is integrally provided with a holding portion 56 for holding the valve unit 28. The holding portion 56 has a first support portion 60 and a second support portion 62 that stand upward at a position separated by a predetermined distance in the pipe axis direction of the valve unit 28, and each has a fitting recess 64, 66 are formed.

Here, the fitting recess 64 on the first support portion 60 side is used.
Has a substantially rectangular shape that is open (opened) upward, and the fitting recess 66 on the second support portion 62 side has a substantially U-shape that is open (open) upward. . The first support portion 60 has a valve unit 28 at its upper end.
Are formed in the pipe axis direction.

On the other hand, one end of the valve unit 28, specifically the body 34 thereof, is provided with a flange 70 as shown in FIG.
2 is provided, and a tightening nut 73 is screwed into the externally threaded pipe portion 72. The flange portion 70 and the tightening nut 73 fasten the first support portion 60 in the tube axis direction, whereby one end of the valve unit 28 is screwed to the first support portion 60.

More specifically, the male screw tube portion 72 is inserted into the fitting recess 64.
The fitting nut 7 is attached to the male screw on the outer peripheral surface of the male screw tube part 72 protruding from the first support part 60.
3 is screwed into the valve unit 2 by the tightening force.
One end of 8 is screwed to the first support portion 60.

It should be noted that a pair of locking claws 6 are
8 protrudes along the pipe axis direction of the valve unit 28, and when the male screw pipe part 72 is fitted downward into the fitting concave part 64, the flange part 70 does not interfere with the locking claw 68, and Fit into the fitting recess 64. Thereafter, the valve unit 28 is slightly pushed into the first support portion 60 to bring the flange portion 70 into contact with the first support portion 60, and the tightening nut 73 is screwed into the male screw tube portion 72.

At this time, as shown in FIG. 4 (B), the locking claws 68 are locked on the outer surface of the flange portion 70, and therefore, even if the tightening nut 73 is loosened, the valve unit 28 Does not escape upward from the fitting recess 64. That is, the locking claw 68 is
Of the valve unit 28 to prevent the valve unit 28 from falling out of the fitting recess 64 at one end.

After the male threaded tube portion 72 is fitted into the fitting recess 64, the tightening nut 73 is screwed in, and the flange portion 70 is pulled toward the first support portion 60 by the tightening force, so that the flange portion 70 is moved. You may make it contact the 1st support part 60. Alternatively, the tightening nut 73 is previously connected to the male thread tube portion 72.
After loosely fitting the male thread tube portion 72 into the fitting recess 64 in this state, the tightening nut 73 is screwed firmly to fix one end of the valve unit 28 to the first support portion 60. May be.

The male screw tube portion 72 protruding from the first support portion 60 further includes a constant flow valve 74 and a nut 7 having a male screw tube.
6, the primary internal water supply pipe 36 is connected to the cap nut 78.
The water from the water supply source pipe is connected by the valve unit 2
8.

The valve unit 28, specifically, its body 34, comprises an electromagnetic flash valve 42 and a generator 44.
The portion (fitting portion) is downwardly inserted into the fitting recess 66 of the second support portion 62 via an elastic member (made of rubber in this example) 80. It is fitted and supported by the second support portion 62 from below. Here, the elastic member 80 has a U-shape corresponding to the fitting recess 66.

The elastic member 80 has a groove 82 along the outer peripheral edge as shown in detail in FIG.
The groove 82 is fitted in the second support portion 62 in a fitted state. A guide portion 84 is provided at the end of the groove 82 so as to open in a C-shape, and the elastic member 80 can be easily fitted into the second support portion 62 by the guide action of the guide portion 84. It has become. Further, ribs 86 are formed integrally with the elastic member 80 at appropriate intervals so as to restrict the guide portion 84 in an open shape in a C shape.

As described above, in this embodiment, the U-shaped elastic member 80 is mounted on the second support portion 62 along the fitting concave portion 66, and the valve unit 2 is connected via the elastic member 80.
8 is fitted into the fitting recess 66. At this time, the elastic member 80 is elastically compressed and tightens the fitting portion of the body 34, so that the fitting portion of the body 34 is supported by the second support portion 62 without rattling.

FIGS. 9 and 10 show a connection structure between the drain port 104 at the bottom of the urinal main body 10 and the drain pipe 112 provided on the floor F. In these figures, reference numeral 88 denotes a drain port 10.
4 is a drain socket connecting the drain pipe 112 and the drain pipe 112,
A horizontal flange portion 90, a short cylindrical socket portion 92 rising upward, and a cylindrical portion 9 falling downward.
4 and is fixed to the floor F at a flange portion 90 thereof.

The drainage socket 88 has a sealing member 98.
The drain port 104 is inserted through the seal member 98 into the socket portion 92 of the drain socket 88 in a watertight manner.

On the other hand, a seal member 106 having a cylindrical portion 108 and an inverted umbrella-shaped elastic seal portion 110 is interposed between the cylindrical portion 94 of the drain socket 88 and the drain pipe 112. The cylindrical portion 108 of the sealing member 106 is fitted to the downwardly facing cylindrical portion 94 of the drain socket 88, and the inverted umbrella-shaped elastic seal portion 110 is attached to the drain pipe 1.
Elastic contact is made with the inner surface of the cylinder 12 over the entire circumference, and the space between the cylindrical portion 94 and the drain pipe 112 is sealed watertight.

That is, in this example, the urinal body 10 has only the drain port 104 of the bottom 102 inserted downward into the drain socket 88, and is specially connected to the floor F with fasteners such as bolts and screws. Not fixed. Therefore, as clearly shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the lower portion of the urinal body 10 is not provided with a concave portion for fixing the urinal body 10 to the floor F.

In FIGS. 2 and 7, reference numeral 114 denotes a fixing block (fixing member, made of resin in this example) fixed to the wall W. The upper surface of the fixing block 114 is a horizontal plane 122, the upper front surface is an inclined surface 124, and the lower front surface is a vertical surface 126. The fixing block 114 has a pair of vertically long slots 118 formed at both left and right ends.
6 is attached and fixed at a predetermined height position of the wall W. The height position of the fixed block 114 is adjustable in the elongated hole 118.

On the other hand, the mounting plate 47 fixed to the upper surface of the urinal body 10 is integrally provided with an extension piece 128 for urinal fixing, which extends upward and rearward from the rear end. The extension piece 128 has the fixed block 1
Horizontal plane 122, inclined plane 124 and vertical plane 1 at 14
Horizontal portion (fastening portion) 130 and inclined portion 132 corresponding to 26
And a vertical portion 134 are formed.

7 and 8.
As shown in (A), the horizontal portion 130 and the inclined portion 132
And fixed block 1 by male screws 136 and 138
14 is fixed to the horizontal surface 122 and the inclined surface 124 of the urinal body 10 via the mounting plate 47.
Is fixed to the wall W.

A gap 140 is formed between the horizontal portion 130 of the extension piece 128 and the horizontal plane 122 of the fixed block 114 in the screwed state as shown in FIG. 8B. That is, the mounting height position of the fixed block 114 to the wall W is determined so that the gap 140 is formed.

When the extension piece 128 is forcibly elastically deformed downward, the horizontal portion 130 is fixed to the fixed block 114.
The urinal body 10 is strongly pressed downward by the male screw 136 on the horizontal surface 122 of the urinal, based on the elastic deformation of the extension piece 128.

In this example, a gap 140 is formed between the horizontal portion 130 of the extension piece 128 and the horizontal plane 122 of the fixing block 114 in the screw-fastened state. The horizontal portion 130 and the horizontal surface 122 of the fixed block 114 may be in a state of contact in a deformed state.

As described above, in the fixing structure of this embodiment, the upper part of the urinal is fixed to the wall, and the lower part is not fixed to the floor F. Therefore, the recess 226 (FIG. 1)
1, FIG. 12), so that the recess 22
6, the dirt on the bottom of the urinal due to the deterioration of the aesthetic appearance of the urinal and the intrusion of dust and the like into the concave portion 226, and the problem of deterioration of the cleanability due to the concave portion 226 can be solved, and the cleaning can be easily performed.

In this embodiment, the mounting plate 47 for mounting the valve unit 28 is used as it is as a mounting plate for fixing the urinal, so that there is no need to provide a mounting plate for fixing the urinal. Moreover, since the mounting plate 47 is fixed on the upper surface of the urinal body 10,
At the installation site, the mounting plate 47 can be easily fixed to the wall W via the fixing block 114.

Further, the fixing block 114 can adjust the mounting position on the wall W in the elongated hole 118 up and down.
Therefore, even when the urinal made of ceramic has a manufacturing error and the height position of the mounting plate 47 varies, the upper part of the urinal can be satisfactorily fixed to the wall W without any trouble.

Further, according to the fixing structure of the present embodiment, the urinal body 10 is fixed in a downwardly pressed state, so that the urinal can be firmly installed even when the bottom is not fixed to the floor F.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail, this is merely an example. In the present invention, the mounting plate 47 may be directly fixed to the wall W without passing through the fixing block 114 in some cases. A mounting plate is fixed on the upper surface of the urinal body 10 separately from the mounting plate for fixing the valve unit 28, and is fixed to the wall W directly or via the fixing block 114 or other fixing members. For example, the present invention can be configured in variously modified forms without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing a urinal to which the present invention is applied in an external appearance state and an installed state.

FIG. 2 is a view showing the urinal of FIG. 1 together with a structure for fixing the urinal to a wall.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of a main part of the fixing structure of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the automatic cleaning apparatus of FIG. 3 in detail.

FIG. 5 is a view showing a state in which the valve unit and its mounting plate in the automatic cleaning apparatus of FIGS. 3 and 4 are separated.

FIG. 6 is a partially cutaway view of the upper part of the urinal of FIGS. 1 and 2;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged perspective view of a main part of the fixing structure of FIGS. 3 and 4 in a state before fixing.

FIG. 8 is an enlarged side sectional view of a main part of the fixing structure of FIGS. 3 and 4 in a state before fixing.

FIG. 9 is a view showing a connection structure between a drain port and a drain pipe of the urinal of FIG. 1;

FIG. 10 is an exploded view showing the connection structure of FIG. 9 disassembled into components.

FIG. 11 is a view of a conventional urinal.

12 is a view showing the urinal of FIG. 11 with an upper cover removed.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a structure for fixing the urinal of FIGS. 11 and 12 to a floor.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Urinal body 12 Pot 18 Upper cover 22 Automatic washing device 28 Valve unit 47 Mounting plate 114 Fixing block (fixing member) 116, 136, 138 Male screw 118 Long hole 128 Extension piece 130 Horizontal portion (fastening portion) W Wall

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A urinal fixed structure installed in contact with a wall, wherein a mounting plate fixed on an upper portion of the urinal is directly or indirectly fixed to the wall. Fixed structure. 2. The urinal fixing structure according to claim 1, wherein the urinal has a urinal body provided with a bowl and an upper cover above the urinal, and the mounting plate is provided with the urinal. A urinal fixing structure fixed to an upper surface of a main body to attach a valve unit of an automatic cleaning device to an upper surface of the urinal main body. 3. The urinal fixing structure according to claim 1, wherein a fixing member is attached to the wall at a predetermined height, and the mounting plate is fastened to the fixing member. A urinal fixing structure fixed to the wall via a fixing member. 4. The urinal fixing structure according to claim 3, wherein the fixing member has a vertically long hole, and the fixing member is fixed to the wall with a screw in the long hole. Urinal fixing structure. 5. The urinal fixing structure according to claim 3, wherein the mounting plate comprises a metal plate, and the metal plate has elasticity extending upward and rearward. An extension piece is provided, and a substantially horizontal fastening portion formed at the end of the extension piece is fastened and fixed to the upper surface of the fixing member with a screw while the extension piece is elastically deformed downward. A urinal fixing structure, wherein the urinal is fixed to the wall in a downwardly pressed state.