JP2002085270A - Kitchen knife holder - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize a kitchen knife holder for preventing danger, which is attached even when the attachment surface of a cabinet, etc., is small in height. SOLUTION: A kitchen knife insertion long hole 7 is formed in parallel with the attachment surface, a kitchen knife inserting direction is made to be diagonal with respect to a vertical direction, knife touch parts 21 and 25 are arranged at both edge and back sides in a kitchen knife storage part and a straight line-shaped attachment positioning surface 13 is formed in a lower part.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a kitchen knife attached to the back of an open / close door of a kitchen sink cabinet, a side wall of a cabinet, and the like. With a knife inserted obliquely to the horizontal plane.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 6 (a) shows an example of a conventionally known kitchen knife holder. This kitchen knife holder 35 is a kitchen knife holder attached to the back surface 8 of the opening / closing door 3 of a sink cabinet 2 in a kitchen. A plurality of long slots 37 for inserting the kitchen knife are formed in the top wall 36 of the main body of the kitchen knife 35, and the kitchen knife 11 is inserted (inserted) from the long hole 37 for inserting the kitchen knife and stored.

[0003]

In recent years, in a kitchen sink cabinet (base cabinet), FIG.
As shown in (b), a cabinet 40 having a drawer 39 provided on a baseboard portion 38 is actively used. In such a sink cabinet 40, the base plate portion is raised by about 150 mm as compared with the general sink cabinet 2, and the opening / closing door 3 (when a kitchen knife is attached to a side plate in a cabinet of a sliding door type sink cabinet, the cabinet is The inner width of the inner side plate is small, the effective height at which the kitchen knife holder 35 can be installed is small, and there is a problem that the kitchen knife cannot be inserted even if the conventional kitchen knife holder 35 is attached.

[0004] The present invention is a kitchen knife that can be used in a cabinet with a small effective height in which a kitchen knife can be installed, as well as a kitchen cabinet with a sliding door as well as a cabinet with a sliding door. An object of the present invention is to realize a kitchen knife insertion which can be used by being attached to a side plate in the refrigerator and which can be easily inserted and removed.

The conventional kitchen knife insert 35 shown in FIG. 6 (a) is used for the open / close door 3 of the open / close type sink cabinet 2.
When opened, the kitchen knife 11 can be easily taken out, so that even a child can easily take it out, which has a problem of lack of safety.

The present invention is to solve the above-mentioned safety problem by realizing a kitchen knife insertion which is simple in structure but cannot be easily taken out by a child.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a main body into which a kitchen knife can be inserted so that a surface including a blade of the kitchen knife is parallel to a vertical mounting surface. A kitchen knife having a kitchen knife, wherein the insertion direction of the kitchen knife is a direction inclined with respect to the vertical direction.

A mounting positioning surface may be formed below the main body so that the mounting angle of the main body can be determined by adjusting the mounting angle in the horizontal or vertical direction.

[0009] A configuration may be adopted in which a blade contact portion of the kitchen knife is formed inside so that the inserted kitchen knife is held while maintaining the insertion direction.

[0010] The blade contact portion may be formed on the blade surface side and the ridge side, which are opposed to each other across the blade portion of the kitchen knife in the kitchen knife storage portion of the main body.

Further, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is arranged such that the surface including the blade of the kitchen knife is at an angle which is not parallel to the vertical mounting surface and oblique to the vertical direction. A kitchen knife having a main body into which a kitchen knife can be inserted, wherein the kitchen knife inserted into the kitchen knife insertion slot is inserted into a kitchen knife insertion slot formed in the main body. A hole is formed so that the hole can be rotated by its own weight about the axis of the knife.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a kitchen knife insertion according to the present invention will be described below based on an embodiment with reference to the drawings.
The kitchen knife insert according to the present invention is attached to a vertical surface (upright surface) such as a back surface of an opening / closing door of a cabinet such as a kitchen sink cabinet or an inner surface of a side plate of a cabinet.
The basic feature is that the insertion direction of the kitchen knife is not a vertical direction but a direction inclined with respect to the vertical direction.

(Embodiment 1) FIGS. 1 to 3 are views for explaining Embodiment 1 of a kitchen knife insertion according to the present invention. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a state in which a kitchen knife insert 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention is attached to a back surface 8 of a left-hand opening and closing door 3 of a sink cabinet 2 of the opening and closing door type. As shown in FIGS. 1A and 1B, the kitchen knife holder 1 has a case-shaped main body 4 formed of a material such as plastic. The main body 4 is fixed to the back surface 8 of the door 3 with screws or the like.

The main body 4 has two upper and lower top walls 5 and 6 formed in a step shape. Each of the upper and lower top walls 5, 6
Two (a total of four kitchen knife insertion holes) are provided for the kitchen knife insertion slots 7. The kitchen knife insertion slot 7 has a vertical surface to which the kitchen knife holder 1 is attached, a back surface 8 of the opening / closing door 3 and an inner surface 15 of a side plate 10 of a sink cabinet 14 of a sliding door type (see FIG. 2A). Are formed parallel to the mounting surface. That is, the kitchen knife 11 can be inserted so that the surface including the blade 12 of the kitchen knife 11 is parallel to the mounting surface (the back surface 8 and the inner surface 15).

At the lower portion of the main body 4, a mounting positioning surface 13 is formed, whose corner 9 is cut straight. As shown in FIG. 1B, this mounting positioning surface 13
When the main body 4 is mounted on the mounting surface (the back surface 8 in this case) so that
It is attached at a predetermined angle to the left with respect to the vertical direction. As a result, the top walls 5 and 6 are inclined leftward in the figure with respect to the horizontal plane, and the kitchen knife 11 is inserted obliquely leftward in the figure with respect to the vertical direction from the long hole 7 for inserting the kitchen knife.

FIGS. 2 (a) and 2 (b) are views showing a state where the kitchen knife holder 1 is attached to the mounting surface (in this case, the inner surface 15) of the right side plate 10 of the sink cabinet 14 of the sliding door type. In this case, the main body 4 is attached to the mounting positioning surface 1.
By aligning 3 with a vertical line, it is attached at a predetermined angle to the right with respect to the vertical direction. As a result, the top walls 5 and 6 are inclined rightward in the drawing with respect to the horizontal plane, and the kitchen knives stored in the kitchen knife holder 1 are inserted while being inclined rightward in the drawing with respect to the vertical direction.

The above is the outline of the kitchen knife 1 of the first embodiment. The structure of the kitchen knife 1 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 3A is a front view of the kitchen knife holder 1,
FIG. 3B is a top view, and FIG. 3C is a right side view. FIG. 3D is a rear view (a view from the mounting side) of the kitchen knife holder 1.

The main body 4 of the kitchen knife holder 1 is integrally formed of a material such as plastic from the front wall 16, right side wall 17, left side wall 18, top and bottom two top and bottom walls 5, 6 and partition wall 19 (may be separate bodies). The kitchen knife storage part 2 for storing kitchen knives, which is partitioned by a partition wall 19 and has an open lower side.
It has two 0s.

As described above, the top walls 5 and 6 are formed in a stepped shape, and each has two long holes 7 for inserting a kitchen knife (a total of four kitchen knife insertion holes). The lower corner 9 of the front wall 16 is cut straight to form a mounting positioning surface 13.

On the right side wall 17, two blade contact portions 21 protruding into the kitchen knife storage portion 20 are spaced apart in parallel with each other. When viewed from the outside of the right side wall, the blade contact portion 21 is formed as a groove 22 as shown in FIG. 3C, and the inner end portion of the groove 22 (the mounting side to the mounting surface such as a door or a cabinet side plate). ), A mounting piece 23 is formed. A screw hole 24 is formed in the mounting piece 23.

Similarly, on the left side wall 18, two blade contact portions 21 protruding in the kitchen knife storage portion 20 are spaced apart in parallel with each other. The blade contact portion 21 is a groove 22 when viewed from the outside of the left side wall 18, and the inner end of the groove 22 (the side to be mounted on a mounting surface such as a door or a cabinet side plate) has
A mounting piece 23 is formed. A screw hole 24 is formed in the mounting piece 23.

Further, on both side surfaces of the base (top wall side) and both side surfaces of the lower end portion of the partition wall 19, two blade contact portions 25 protruding into the kitchen knife storage portion 20 are formed.

In short, the blade contact portions 21 and 25 are provided in the kitchen knife storage portion 20 of the main body 4 by the blade portions (blade) of the kitchen knife.
The blade 12 is formed on the blade surface side and the ridge side (the back side of the blade) opposite to each other with the film 12 therebetween. As will be described later, these blade contact portions 21 hold the inserted kitchen knife 11 while maintaining the insertion direction, and when the kitchen knife 11 is taken out, the base portion 12 ′ of the blade portion 12 of the kitchen knife 11 is It has a function of preventing the edge of the insertion slot 7 from being caught.

The operation of the kitchen knife insert 1 according to the first embodiment having the above configuration will be described below. Fig. 1
The back surface 8 of the open / close door 3 of the sink cabinet 2 as shown in FIG.
When mounting on the sink cabinet 2, with the mounting positioning surface 13 of the main body 4 aligned with a horizontal line, the shaft of the driver is inserted through the groove 22, and the mounting piece 23 is screwed through the screw hole 24 of the mounting piece 23. To the back surface 8 of

As shown in FIG. 1, when the kitchen knife holder 1 is attached to the back surface 8 of the left-side door 3 of the sink cabinet 2 at an angle to the vertical direction, the height of the door 3 becomes small. Also, the kitchen knife 11 can be sufficiently stored without protruding from the upper end of the door 3. And the door 3
When the knives are opened, the kitchen knife insert 1 is inclined so that the handle of the kitchen knife 11 faces the front side (the left side in FIG. 1B), so that the kitchen knife 11 can be easily inserted and removed.

In FIG. 1B, when the knife 11 on the right side is inserted through the knife insertion slot 7, the blade portion 12 is placed and fixed on the blade contact portion 25 formed on the partition wall 19. . As a result, the kitchen knife 11 is tilted clockwise from the insertion direction in the drawing, so that when the kitchen knife 11 is taken out, the portion 12 'on the base side of the blade of the kitchen knife 11 does not fit into the knife insertion slot 7, and the edge thereof It is possible to prevent the user from being stuck and cannot be taken out. As a result, smooth kitchen knife 11
Can be taken out.

Similarly, the kitchen knife on the left side in FIG.
The blade contact portion 21 formed on the left side wall 18 has the blade portion 12
Is placed and fixed, and similarly, the kitchen knife 11 can be easily taken out.

When the kitchen knife holder 1 is attached to the inner surface 15 of the right side plate 10 of the sliding door type sink cabinet 14 as shown in FIG.
Even if the height of the inside (side plate) of the sink cabinet 14 is small, the kitchen knife can be sufficiently stored without being stuck on the ceiling of the sink cabinet 14.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2A, the kitchen knife holder 1 is attached to the right side of the sink cabinet 14 so that the handle of the kitchen knife faces the front side. The operation of inserting and removing the kitchen knife 11 becomes easy.

In the case of the mounting as shown in FIG.
As shown in (b), the upper knife 11 is placed and fixed on the blade contact portion 25 formed on the partition wall 19, and the lower kitchen knife 11 is formed on the right wall 17. It is placed and fixed on the contact portion 21. Therefore, similarly to the case of FIG. 1, the blade portion 12 of the kitchen knife 11 is
Is prevented from being stuck to the edge of the paper.

(Embodiment 2) FIGS. 4 and 5 are views for explaining Embodiment 2 of a kitchen knife insertion according to the present invention. FIG. 4 (a)
It is a figure which shows the state which attached the kitchen knife insert 26 of Example 2 which concerns on this invention to the back surface 8 of the opening / closing door 3 of the left side of the sink cabinet 2 of opening / closing door type. FIGS. 4B and 4C are a front view and a top view of the kitchen knife holder 26, respectively.

As shown in FIG. 4A, the kitchen knife insert 26 according to the second embodiment has a case-like main body 27 formed of a material such as plastic. The main body 27 is integrally formed in a case shape (may be assembled separately) from a front wall, a back wall, left and right side walls, and an inclined top wall 29, and has a kitchen knife storage portion 30 opened downward. The main body 27 has a screw hole or the like (not shown) for mounting, and has a structure in which the main body 27 can be mounted on a mounting surface (back surface 8) of the open / close door 3 or the like of the sink cabinet 2 by an appropriate screw.

As shown in FIG. 4C, the inclined top wall 2
In FIG. 9, a plurality (three in this embodiment) of kitchen knife insertion slots 31 are spaced from each other so as to be perpendicular to the mounting surface (back surface 8) of the open / close door 3 and the like of the sink cabinet 2. It is formed. The knife insertion slot 31 is formed in the inclined top wall 29, and the direction of the perforation is perpendicular to the top wall 29 (see the right angle R in FIG. 4C). It is formed as follows.

The shape of the slot 31 for inserting the kitchen knife is as follows.
The blade 12 has a substantially elongated shape so that one blade 12 can be inserted therein, and a circular opening 32 is formed at the center thereof. The circular opening 32 is large enough to prevent the handle 33 of the kitchen knife 11 of the blade portion 12 from falling off.
3 is formed in such a size as to be rotatable therein.

The operation according to the second embodiment will be described below with reference to FIG. This knife insert 26 is, as shown in FIG.
It is used by being appropriately attached to the mounting surface (back surface 8) of the opening / closing door 3 of the sink cabinet 2 by a fixing means such as a screw.

When the kitchen knives 11 are inserted and stored in the kitchen knives 26, as shown in FIG. 5A, the kitchen knives 11 are placed along the slot 31 for inserting the kitchen knives, that is, a surface including the blade of the kitchen knives 11. Is perpendicular to the mounting surface (back surface 8) of the door 3, which is a vertical surface, and in a direction perpendicular to the top wall 29, that is, oblique to the vertical direction, as shown in FIG. Insert.

The blade 12 of the kitchen knife thus inserted is
When the kitchen knife 11 is completely inserted into the kitchen knife storage section 30, the kitchen knife 11
As shown in FIG. 5 (b), it automatically rotates 90 degrees about the axis of the mounting portion 34 to the handle 33 and stops. That is, when the kitchen knife 11 is inserted and stored in the direction as shown in FIG.
Is formed, the mounting portion 3 is seen from the whole kitchen knife.
Moment due to eccentric weight acts on the axis 4.

For this reason, when the knife 12 is inserted obliquely from the slot 31 for inserting the kitchen knife, the heavy blade 12 is rotated 90 degrees about the axis of the mounting portion 34 so that the heavy blade 12 faces downward.
As shown in (b), the blade portion 12 faces the lower side of the top wall 29.

In the second embodiment, the longitudinal direction of the knife insertion slot 31 formed in the inclined top wall 29 is oriented in the longitudinal direction with respect to the mounting surface (back surface 8) of the sink cabinet 2 such as the door 3 and the like. , The angle R (90 degrees) is formed so as to be in a right angle direction, but may not be in a particularly right angle direction as shown in FIG.

This is because the knife insertion slot 31 drilled in the inclined top wall 29 has an eccentric weight of the knife part 12 if the angle is not parallel to the vertical mounting surface. This produces a rotational force. FIG. 5C shows a configuration in which the longitudinal direction of the knife insertion slot 31 is perforated in the top wall 29 at an angle θ that is not perpendicular to the mounting surface.

In short, the kitchen knife 11 is inserted into the knife insertion length such that the plane including the blade of the kitchen knife 11 is at an angle that is not parallel to the vertical mounting surface and is oblique to the vertical direction. The kitchen knife 11 inserted into the hole 31 and inserted into the kitchen storage section 30 from the kitchen insertion slot 31 is inserted into the kitchen knife 11.
Can be rotated by its own weight about the axis of the mounting portion 34 of the handle 33.

As a result, the direction of the blade portion 12 of the kitchen knife 11 and the direction of the long hole 31 for inserting the kitchen knife are shifted from each other by 90 degrees, so that the kitchen knife 11 cannot be pulled out from the kitchen knife insertion 26 in the state as it is. In order to pull out the kitchen knife 11,
Is rotated by 90 degrees about the axis of the mounting portion 34 to rotate the blade portion 1
It is necessary to align the direction of 2 with the slot 31 for inserting the kitchen knife and then pull it out. Therefore, it is impossible for a child or the like to easily remove the kitchen knife, thereby preventing a child accident caused by the kitchen knife.

Although the embodiment of the kitchen knife insertion according to the present invention has been described based on the embodiments, the present invention is not particularly limited to such embodiments, and the scope of the technical matters described in the claims is described. It goes without saying that there are various embodiments.

[0044]

According to the kitchen knife of the present invention configured as described above, the following effects are produced. (1) Even in a cabinet of a type having a small effective height at which a kitchen knife can be installed and a drawer provided in a baseboard portion which has been frequently used recently, the kitchen knife can be sufficiently stored.
And it can be used not only for the cabinet with the opening and closing door but also for the kitchen cabinet with the sliding door, by attaching it to the side plate inside the cabinet.

(2) Since the mounting positioning surface is formed on the body of the kitchen knife holder, the top walls 5 and 6 are predetermined regardless of whether they are mounted on the back of the opening / closing door or on the cabinet inner plate. It can be easily installed at an angle of inclination.

(3) A raised blade contact portion is formed in the kitchen knife storage portion of the main body, and the kitchen knife can be mounted on the back surface of the opening / closing door of the cabinet or attached to the inner side wall of the cabinet. Since the knife is stored so as to be in contact with the blade contact portion, when the knife portion of the kitchen knife is dropped and the kitchen knife is taken out, it does not occur that the kitchen knife and the knife insertion length do not match and it is difficult to take out.

(4) Although the structure is simple, it is not possible for a child to easily take out the kitchen knife. Therefore, it is possible to prevent a danger that the child takes out the kitchen knife without permission.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view for explaining a kitchen knife according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a view for explaining a kitchen knife according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a front view, a top view, a right side view, and a back view for explaining the detailed structure of the kitchen knife according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a kitchen knife according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a view for explaining the operation of the kitchen knife in the second embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1, 26, 35 Kitchen knife insertion 2, 40 Opening / closing door type sink cabinet 3 Opening / closing door 4, 27 Main body 5, 6, 29, 36 Top wall 7, 31, 37 Slot for inserting kitchen knife 10 Side plate 11 Kitchen knife 12 Blade section 13 Mounting positioning surface 14 Sliding door sink cabinet 16 Front wall 19 Partition wall 20 Kitchen knife storage part 21 Blade contact part 32 Circular opening 33 Knife handle 34 Attachment part to knife blade handle 39 Drawer

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A kitchen knife having a main body into which a kitchen knife can be inserted so that a surface including a blade of the kitchen knife is parallel to a vertical mounting surface, wherein the insertion direction of the kitchen knife is a vertical direction. Knife insert characterized by the direction of inclination relative to. 2. The kitchen knife according to claim 1, wherein a mounting positioning surface is formed at a lower portion of the main body so that a mounting angle of the main body can be determined by adjusting the mounting angle of the main body in a horizontal or vertical direction. Pointing. 3. The kitchen knife as claimed in claim 1, wherein a blade contact portion of the kitchen knife is formed inside the kitchen knife so that the inserted kitchen knife is maintained in the insertion direction. . 4. The blade contact portion is formed on a blade surface side and a ridge side, which are opposed to each other with the blade portion of the kitchen knife therebetween, in the kitchen knife storage portion of the main body.
2 or 3 kitchen knife. 5. A body into which a kitchen knife can be inserted so that a surface including a blade of the kitchen knife is at an angle that is not parallel to a vertical mounting surface and oblique to a vertical direction. A kitchen knife having a kitchen knife inserted into the kitchen knife insertion slot formed in the main body, the kitchen knife can be rotated by its own weight around the axis of the mounting portion to the handle of the kitchen knife. A kitchen knife with a hole formed.