JP2002101984A - Cabinet - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cabinet improved so that a door panel does neither interfere even when simultaneously opening with an adjacently arranged built-in apparatus, nor interfere with a wall surface or a stile. SOLUTION: This cabinet for freely extracting a housing body 5 having the door panel 10 in a front part from a housing part 9, has a rotational driving means for rotating the door panel by a prescribed angle by interlocking with an extracting movement of the housing body. Thus, since a width dimension of a front projection plane of the door panel reduces by rotating (including) the door panel, the interference can be avoided on both the left and right. In this kind of cabinet, extracting operation is performed from the side of the housing part, and since the door panel inclines so as to turn to the user side with such constitution, the extracting operation can be facilitated further.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cabinet having a door having a door plate at a front portion thereof, which can be pulled out of the housing.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in a kitchen cabinet in which a dishwasher, an oven and the like are built in, it is common to provide a drawer that can be pulled out in a gap between the built-in equipment and a wall.

[0003] This type of kitchen cabinet is installed near a wall, and a door plate provided on the front surface of the storage body moves along the wall surface as described above. Sliding contact could damage the wall surface. In addition, if the entrance to the kitchen is close to the cabinet, the frame provided at the entrance slightly protrudes from the wall to the inside of the room, so that the side edge of the door plate may interfere with the projecting portion of the frame. It was possible.

In order to avoid such interference with a wall surface or a frame, the door plate is moved in the lateral direction in conjunction with the drawer movement of the housing, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 7-33758.
No. 2 (see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-168443) proposed by the applicant of the present invention.

[0005]

However, according to this prior art, when the storage body is pulled out, the door plate moves in a direction away from the wall surface, that is, toward the built-in device arranged adjacent to the storage portion, so that the built-in device is not used. If the door is opened, the door may interfere with the door of the built-in device, which may hinder the operation of pulling out the storage body.

The present invention has been devised in order to solve such problems of the prior art, and its main purpose is to avoid interference with a wall surface or a frame, as well as to arrange adjacently. An object of the present invention is to provide an improved cabinet so that a door plate does not interfere even when the cabinet is simultaneously opened with a built-in device.

[0007]

In order to achieve such an object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a door plate (1) is provided at a front portion.
A cabinet in which the storage body (5) having the configuration (0) can be pulled out from the storage part (9) is provided with rotation driving means for rotating the door plate by a predetermined angle in conjunction with the movement of the storage body. To do.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the door plate is
A pair of side plates (7, 8) forming a storage section between the opposing surfaces
Is characterized in that it rotates between two planes where its outer surface is in contact.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the rotating drive means includes a vertical shaft (first pin shaft 11 in the embodiment) for rotatably supporting the door plate on the housing, and A slide member (18) supported by the housing so as to be able to move in parallel with the back surface of the door plate, and a back surface of the door plate so that its free end (the second pin shaft 12 in the embodiment) is engaged with the slide member. And an urging means (torsion coil spring 15 in the embodiment) for applying a tilting power to the door plate.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a cam means (cam unit 1 in the embodiment) is provided between the slide member and the storage section for converting the forward and backward movement of the storage body into the left and right movement of the slide member.
6 and a striker 20) are provided.

According to this structure, since the width of the projection surface on the front surface of the door plate is reduced by rotating (tilting), the outer surfaces of the pair of side plates forming the storage portion between the opposing surfaces are particularly reduced. By rotating the door plate between the two contacting planes, it is possible to avoid interference with objects disposed adjacent to the left and right sides of the door plate on both sides. Further, in this type of cabinet, the drawer operation is performed from the side of the storage unit. However, by configuring as described above, the door plate is inclined so as to face the user side, so that the drawer operation is more easily performed. Become.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a main part of a kitchen cabinet to which the present invention is applied. The kitchen cabinet 1 has a drawer-type storage body 5 between a gas table 2 and an oven 3 installed below the gas table 2 and a wall surface 4. As shown in FIG. 2, the storage body 5 is housed in a storage part 9 surrounded by a top plate 6 and a pair of side plates 7.8 so as to be movable in the front-rear direction. Guide rails (not shown) provided on opposing surfaces of 7.8
A well-known type drawer composed of a mesh basket or the like engaged with the device can be applied.

On the front surface of the housing 5, a door plate 10 for closing the opening of the housing 9 is provided. On the back surface of the door plate 10, two axes extending in the vertical direction and extending parallel to each other in a plane substantially perpendicular to the back surface of the door plate 10.
An arm member 13 having the pin shafts 11 and 12 fixed thereto is attached. The door plate 10 is rotatably supported by a bracket 14 fixed to the front surface of the housing 5 with the first pin shaft 11 on the side close to the door plate 10.

The first pin shaft 11 is provided with a torsion coil spring 15 whose one end is locked to the inner surface of the door plate 10 and whose other end is locked to the bracket 14, so that the first pin shaft 11 rotates counterclockwise. The door plate 10 is elastically urged to move (tilt).

A slide member 18 having a cam portion 16 and a slide portion 17 arranged in an L shape when viewed from above is engaged with the bracket 14 so as to be movable in the left-right direction. A long groove 19 in the front-rear direction is formed at an appropriate position of the sliding portion 17 of the slide member 18, and the long groove 19 is provided with a second pin of the two pin shafts that is farther from the door plate 10. Axis 12
Are engaged.

A striker 20 is fixedly mounted on the inner surface of the side plate 7 on one side (closer to the wall) of the storage portion 9 so as to be able to contact the outer surface of the cam portion 16 of the slide member 18.

Next, the operation of the cabinet will be described. First, in a state where the storage body 5 is fully stored in the storage part 9, the slide member 18 is positioned rightward in FIG. In this state, since the second pin shaft 12 engaged with the long groove 19 of the slide member 18 is moving rightward together with the slide member 18, the second pin shaft 18
The door plate 10 supported by the bracket 14 with the first pin shaft 11 fixed to the base end side of the arm member 13 provided at its free end is held at a position perpendicular to the side plates 7.8. ing. In this state, since the slide member 18 cannot move to the left, the door plate 10 urged to rotate by the torsion coil spring 15 cannot rotate.

When the knob 21 provided on the front surface of the door plate 10 is pulled, the bracket 14 and the slide member 18 are moved to the housing 9.
And is pulled out forward. If the cam portion 16 of the slide member 18 comes off the striker 20 during the process of moving the storage body 9 forward, the restraining force of the second pin shaft 12 and the long groove 19 against the elastic force of the torsion coil spring 15 is released. Therefore, the resilient force of the torsion coil spring 15 causes the door plate 10
Rotates counterclockwise in FIG. Here, since the rotation angle is determined by the inner surface of the door plate 10 abutting against the bracket 14, even if the storage body 5 is fully pulled out from the storage portion 9, the door plate 10 rotates by a predetermined angle and stops. I do.

Here, the door plate 10 is configured to rotate between two planes where the outer surfaces of a pair of side plates 7, 8 forming the storage portion 9 between the opposing surfaces thereof are in contact with each other. When rotated (inclined), the width dimension of the projection surface on the front surface of the door plate 10 is reduced, so that it is provided adjacent to the storage body 5 as well as the frame 22 protruding from the wall surface 4 toward the room side. Interference with built-in equipment such as the oven 3 can also be avoided.

When the storage body 5 is pushed into the storage section 9 in the reverse of the above, the taper surfaces 23 and 24 are formed at the opposing portions of the cam portion 16 of the slide member 18 and the striker 20. When the cam portion 16 comes into contact, the slide member 18 moves rightward, and accordingly, the second pin shaft 12 engaged with the long groove 19 is pushed rightward. Then, the door plate 10 rotates clockwise against the urging force of the torsion coil spring 15, and when the storage body 5 is fully pushed into the storage portion 9, the door plate 1
0 is returned to the fully closed position at right angles to the side plates 7,8.

In the above embodiment, the first pin shaft 1
Although the torsion coil spring 15 attached to 1 is configured to rotationally bias the door plate 10, the torsion coil spring 15 may be configured so that a leftward elastic biasing force directly acts on the slide member 18. .

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, the width of the projection surface on the front surface of the door plate provided on the front surface of the storage body is reduced by inclining the door plate. By rotating the door plate between two planes where the outer surfaces of the pair of side plates forming the storage portion therebetween are in contact with each other, interference between the door plate and an adjacent object can be avoided on both the left and right sides. Therefore, it is possible to prevent sliding contact with the wall surface when the storage body installed near the wall is taken in and out, and it is possible to prevent trouble even when the storage body is used simultaneously with the built-in device arranged adjacent to the storage body. In addition, this type of cabinet generally performs a pull-out operation from the side of the storage unit. In this case, the pull-out operation is further facilitated because the door plate faces the user side.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a main part of a kitchen cabinet to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of a main part showing a housed state of a cabinet according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a horizontal sectional view showing a main part of the cabinet according to the present invention in a pulled-out state;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Kitchen cabinet 3 Oven 4 Wall surface 5 Storage body 6 Top plate 7.8 Side plate 9 Storage part 10 Door plate 11 1st pin shaft 12 2nd pin shaft 13 Arm member 14 Bracket 15 Torsion coil spring 16 Cam part 17 Sliding part 18 Slide member 19 long groove 20 striker

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Yousuke Ishii 184 Maioka-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture Nifco Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 3B060 GA00 LA01 MA10

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A cabinet in which a storage body having a door plate at a front portion can be freely pulled out of a storage part, and a rotation driving means for rotating the door plate by a predetermined angle in conjunction with the movement of the storage body being pulled out. Cabinet characterized by having. 2. The cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the door plate pivots between two planes where the outer surfaces of a pair of side plates forming the storage portion are in contact between the opposing surfaces. 3. The rotating drive means is supported by the housing so as to be capable of rotating the door plate on the housing so as to be rotatable, and is capable of moving in parallel with the back surface of the door plate in the housed state. A sliding member, an arm member protruding from the rear surface of the door plate so that its free end is engaged with the sliding member, and an urging means for applying a tilting power to the door plate. The cabinet according to claim 1 or 2. 4. The cabinet according to claim 3, wherein a cam means is provided between the slide member and the storage portion, the cam means for converting the forward and backward movement of the storage body into the left and right movement of the slide member. .