JP2001178553A - Lifting and lowering cabinet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid the interference of a housing part with an obstruction located below it when the housing part is lowered. SOLUTION: The lifting and lowering cabinet 10 comprises a fixed main body part 11 and a housing part 12 provided so as to be housed in the main body part 11 and movable between an upper limit position housed in the main body part 11 and a lower limit position located below the main body part 11. The housing part 12 comprises a housing case 47 and a housing basket 48 in which the position of the height of a bottom part 79 is changed with respect to the housing case 47. A step is formed between the bottom part 79 and the bottom plate 50 of the housing case 47 so that a retraction area R for preventing the interference with an obstruction located below the housing basket 48 is formed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a lifting cabinet, and more particularly, to a lifting cabinet capable of avoiding interference with an obstacle located below a storage unit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There has been known a lifting cabinet arranged above a kitchen counter. The elevating cabinet includes a main body fixedly disposed on an upper wall of a kitchen room and the like, and a storage case provided in the main body so as to be able to be stored therein and having a storage area capable of storing tableware and the like formed therein. The storage case is moved up and down between an upper limit position accommodated in the main body and a lower limit position located below the main body by electric or manual operation.

[0003]

However, in the elevating cabinet, when the storage case is lowered, there is a possibility that the storage case may interfere with an obstacle located below the storage case.
To elaborate on this, in general, the elevating cabinet sets the height of the lower limit position of the storage case to a height that facilitates taking in and out of stored items, and when the storage case is at the lower limit position, In many cases, the distance between the bottom surface and the top surface of the kitchen counter is only about 300 mm. For this reason, when the elevating cabinet is arranged above the work space of the kitchen counter, if a relatively tall object such as an electric pot or a rice cooker is installed on the work space, when the storage case is lowered,
They will interfere. In addition, since steam is generated from an electric pot or the like placed on the counter, if the storage case is located at a position where the steam can be touched, there is an inconvenience that the stored items are wet. Therefore, in such a case, in the lifting cabinet, an electric pot or the like cannot be placed on the work space of the kitchen counter, which is inconvenient. On the other hand, when the elevating cabinet is arranged above the sink, when the storage case is lowered, it interferes with the faucet located on the depth side of the sink. In recent years, a kitchen counter provided with an automatic dishwasher has been known, and the automatic dishwasher is arranged such that a lid member buried on the upper surface of the kitchen counter rises with one end as a fulcrum. The cover can be opened by rotating. For this reason, even when the elevating cabinet is disposed above the lid member, there is a possibility that the lowering cabinet may interfere with the lowered storage case as described above. As described above, in the elevating cabinet, there is an inconvenience that a tall object cannot be installed below the cabinet, or the installation position is restricted, and the cabinet cannot be installed in an arbitrary place.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been devised in view of such inconvenience. The purpose of the present invention is to make it possible for the storage unit to move between the storage unit and an obstacle located below the storage unit when the storage unit descends. An object of the present invention is to provide a lifting cabinet capable of avoiding interference.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a main body fixedly disposed, an upper limit position provided in the main body so as to be accommodated therein, and an upper limit position accommodated in the main body. In a lifting cabinet provided with a storage unit movable to a lower limit position located below the storage unit, a retreat area for avoiding interference with an obstacle located below the storage unit is formed in the storage unit. The configuration is adopted. According to such a configuration, even when the storage unit is lowered, it is possible to avoid interference with an obstacle located below the storage unit, and the lifting cabinet can be arbitrarily set with almost no restrictions on the installation position. It can be installed in the position.

[0006]

In the present invention, the storage section is
The shelter area is constituted by a plurality of shelf forming members,
It is preferable to adopt a configuration in which the plurality of shelf forming members are formed by providing bottom portions of the plurality of shelf forming members at different height positions. Thereby, the evacuation area can be formed with a simpler configuration. Here, a configuration in which the storage unit includes a height adjustment unit that can adjust the height position of the bottom of the shelf forming member can also be adopted. According to such a configuration, the height of the evacuation area can be changed in accordance with the height of the obstacle, which is more general.

[0007]

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

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a lifting cabinet according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a schematic front view of the cabinet with a door removed from FIG. In these figures, an elevating cabinet 10 includes a main body 11 fixedly arranged on a ceiling or an upper wall (not shown), a housing 12 provided to be housed in the main body 11, and having a plurality of housing areas, A pair of suspension belts 13 (see FIG. 2) fixed to the left and right ends of the storage unit 12 respectively, and a driving device 14 (see FIG. 2) for winding and unwinding the pair of suspension belts 13 are provided. It is configured.
In the elevating cabinet 10, by operating an operation switch 16 provided at a lower portion of the storage section 12, the suspension belt 13 is wound up or fed out, and the storage section 12 is stored in the main body section 11. Upper limit position and main unit 1
1 is moved up and down with respect to a lower limit position located below. 1 and 2 show a state where the storage unit 12 is at the lower limit position.

The main body 11 includes a top plate 18, a pair of side plates 19 suspended at both left and right ends of the top plate 18, and a top plate 1.
8 and a back plate 20 arranged at the rear end of the side plate 19 and a door 21 arranged at the front end side are formed in a bottom open type. In this embodiment, the door 21 is formed by fitting a translucent resin plate 24 inside a metal outer frame 23. The upper end of the door 21 is hinged, and the lower end, which is the free end, can be rotated in the front-rear direction with the upper end serving as a fulcrum. Therefore, by holding the handle 25 provided at the lower part of the door 21 and rotating in the front-rear direction, it is possible to access the storage section 12 arranged in the main body section 11.
An illumination device 26 is disposed at the lower end of the door 21 so that the storage area of the storage section 12 in a lowered state and the lower area of the storage section 12 can be irradiated.

The storage section 12 includes an inner top plate 43 and a shelf forming member 45 disposed below the inner top plate 43. One end side of each of the suspension belts 13 is fixed to each of the left and right sides of the upper surface of the inner top plate 43, whereby the inner top plate 43 is suspended by the main body 11. Here, a hooking bar 44 that is substantially U-shaped when viewed from the side is provided on the lower right side of the lower surface of the inner top plate 43.

The shelf forming member 45 includes a storage case 47 located on the left side when viewed from the front and a storage basket 48 located on the right side.
It consists of Here, the storage net basket 48 is capable of storing wet items such as tableware after washing, while the storage case 47 is capable of storing other items.

The storage case 47 has a bottom plate 50 forming a bottom thereof, a bar-like member 51 which is erected at four corners of the bottom plate 50 and whose upper end is fixed to the inner top plate 43, and a left side surface. It is provided with translucent resin plates 52 and 53 arranged between the bar-shaped members 51 located on the side and the back side, respectively, and a net shelf 55 fixed to the lower surface of the inner top plate 43.

The rod-shaped member 51 is provided in a hollow prism shape, and a wiring cord (not shown) extending from the bottom plate 50 to the driving device 14 passes through the inside thereof. Further, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the bar-shaped member 5
Engagement projections 77 and 78 projecting in mutually opposing directions are provided on the upper and lower portions 1 and 51, respectively.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 and the like, the storage net basket 48 includes a lower net shelf 79 serving as a bottom thereof, an upper net shelf 80 located above the lower net shelf 79, and left and right front ends of the lower net shelf 79. A vertical bar member 82 standing upright to support an upper net shelf 80; a frame 83 arranged on the right side of each of the net shelves 79, 80; and a translucent resin side plate 85 fitted inside the frame 83. And a translucent resin back plate 86 disposed on the back side of each of the net shelves 79 and 80. On the left end side of the upper net shelf 80, the engaging projections 77, 78
The hook 88 is provided so as to be selectively engageable with any one of them. On the other hand, the resin side plate 85 located on the right end side of the storage net basket 48 has substantially U-shaped engaging members 90 and 91 in plan view that can be engaged with the hook bar 44 hanging down from the inner top plate 43.
Are provided at two locations above and below. Here, when the upper engaging projection 77 provided on the storage case 47 and the hook 88 are engaged with the lower engaging member 91, the horizontal portion 44A of the hook bar 44 (see FIG. 4). ) Is provided at a height position that can be engaged. The separation width of each of the engagement members 90 and 91 is set substantially equal to the separation width of each of the engagement protrusions 77 and 78. Thus, when the hook 88 is engaged with the lower engaging projection 78, the engaging member 90 located on the upper side is engaged with the hook bar 44.

With such a configuration, the storage net basket 48 is
It is detachably mounted between the storage case 47 and the hook bar 44, and moves up and down with the storage case 47. Here, the storage net basket 48 is attached by engaging the engaging members 90 and 91 with the hook bar 44 while hooking the hook 88 on one of the engaging protrusions 77 and 78 on the storage case 47 side. Do. On the other hand, removal of the storage net basket 48 is performed by the reverse operation.
Also, by changing the engagement position of the hook 88, the height position of each of the net shelves 79, 80 can be adjusted. In the above, the hook bar 44, the engagement protrusions 77, 78, the hook 8
8, a height adjusting unit capable of adjusting the height position of the storage net basket 48 is constituted by the engaging members 90 and 91.

Further, when the hook 88 is engaged with the lower engaging projection 78, the storage net basket 48 is
9 and the bottom plate 50 of the storage case 47 are set to a height such that a step is formed between the lower part of the right side of the storage part 12 and an obstacle (not shown) located therebelow. The evacuation region R for preventing interference is formed. When the hook 88 is engaged with the upper engaging projection 77, the step is further increased, and the retreat area R becomes higher.

Therefore, according to such an embodiment, since the retreat area R is formed in the lower area of the storage section 12,
When the storage unit 12 is lowered, even if there is an obstacle below the storage unit 12, the obstacle can be retracted to the retreat area R, and the effect of preventing interference between the storage unit 12 and the obstacle can be obtained.

In the above embodiment, the storage net basket 4
Although only the height of 8 is adjustable, the present invention is not limited to this, and the height of the storage case 47 may be adjustable. In short, various structures can be adopted as long as the retreat area R can be formed by changing the height position of the bottom of the shelf forming member 45 mutually.

The height adjusting section for adjusting the height position of the shelf forming member 45 is not limited to the structure of the above-described embodiment, but may be any of various types as long as the height of the shelf forming member 45 can be adjusted. A structure can be adopted. For example, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, a storage case 95 that can change the height of the retreat area R by moving the position of the bottom plate 93 up and down with respect to the side plate 94 may be adopted.

Further, as the storage section 12, a storage case 47 is provided.
And the storage net basket 48 is divided into two parts. However, the structure may be further divided into plural parts, and plural retreat areas R may be formed.

The present invention can be applied not only to a lifting cabinet having a drying function but also to a lifting cabinet which can be raised and lowered manually.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A retractable area for avoiding interference with an obstacle located below the storage section in a storage section movable between an upper limit position in the main body section which is fixed and a lower limit position located below the main section. Since it is formed, even when the storage unit is lowered, it is possible to avoid interference with an obstacle located below the storage unit, and the lifting cabinet can be installed at an arbitrary position.

Further, the storage section is constituted by a plurality of shelf forming members, and the retreat area is formed by providing the bottom portions of the shelf forming members at different height positions, so that the retraction area is more simplified. Can be formed.

Further, since the height of the bottom of the shelf forming member is adjustable in the storage section, the height of the retreat area can be changed according to the height of the obstacle.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a lifting cabinet according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a schematic front view of FIG. 1 with a door omitted.

FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a schematic right side view of a lifting cabinet in which a storage net basket is omitted.

FIG. 5 is a schematic front view showing a modification of the storage section.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... elevating cabinet, 11 ... body part, 12
... storage part, 45 ... shelf forming member, 47 ... storage case, 48 ... storage net basket, 50 ... bottom plate (bottom part), 44 ... hook bar (height adjustment part) , 77 ...
Engagement projection (height adjustment part), 78: engagement projection (height adjustment part), 79: lower net basket (bottom part), 88: hook (height adjustment part), 90 ··· Engaging member (height adjusting unit), 91 ··· Engaging member (height adjusting unit), 93 ···
Bottom plate (bottom), R ... evacuation area

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Takashi Honda 1370 Nishiyama-cho, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka Pref. (72) Inventor Ippei Maruo 1370 Nishiyama-cho, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka pref. Reference) 3B060 EA02 EA04 EA06 JA02

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A fixedly arranged main body, and a storage portion provided so as to be accommodated in the main body and movable between an upper limit position accommodated in the main body portion and a lower limit position located below the main body portion. The elevating cabinet comprising: a retractable area formed in the storage section to avoid interference with an obstacle located below the storage section. 2. The storage section is constituted by a plurality of shelf forming members, and the retreat area is formed by providing bottom portions of the plurality of shelf forming members at different height positions. The lifting cabinet according to claim 1. 3. The elevating cabinet according to claim 2, wherein the storage unit includes a height adjustment unit that can adjust a height position of a bottom of the shelf forming member.