JP2003088436A - Drawer device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drawer device to be easily and reliably hung. SOLUTION: The drawer device is provided with drawers and drawer bodies for holding the drawers to be put-in/taken-out. Each drawer body has a hanging element for hanging another drawer main body. Another drawer body is hung from the drawer body through the use of the hanging element of the drawer body and the hanging element of another drawer body.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a drawer device applied to a single-sleeve or double-sleeve desk having a plurality of stages of drawers, a side desk, a wagon, and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a drawer of a desk has a structure in which a plurality of drawers are attached to a drawer main body having a front opening. At this time, the drawer body often has a structure integrated with the legs of the desk, the top plate, or the like.

[0003]

However, with the above-mentioned structure, the number of drawers attached and the size thereof cannot be changed, and the expandability is poor. Although a drawer that can be stacked upward is also considered, it is difficult to attach the drawer to other furniture, and even if it is attached, there are many problems as a moving furniture that moves.

Therefore, the present invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned problems all at once by providing a drawer main body with a function of suspending another drawer main body.

[0005]

That is, a drawer device according to the present invention is a drawer device comprising a drawer and a drawer body for holding the drawer so that the drawer body can be inserted and withdrawn. By providing a suspending element for suspending, by using the suspending element of the drawer body and the suspending element of another drawer body,
It is characterized in that another drawer body is suspended from the drawer body.

[0006] With such a structure, it becomes possible to flexibly meet the needs of the user who wants to construct an arbitrary number of drawers.

Further, since the drawer device can be hung on movable furniture, it is possible to flexibly deal with a layout change desired by the user.

In order to flexibly respond to the needs of the user, it is preferable to design the drawer body so that another drawer body can be removed.

By the way, in order to easily suspend or remove the drawer main body, a hook having a notch and a slit are provided in the drawer main body as suspending elements, and the hook of one drawer main body is It is good to engage with the slit of the other drawer body.

In order to reliably suspend the drawer main body, a female thread portion into which a screw can be inserted and a screw through hole are provided as suspending elements, and the screw inserted into the screw through hole of another drawer main body is provided. , It suffices to screw the female screw portion of one drawer body.

In order to make it possible to suspend the drawer body simply and surely by incorporating both of these characteristics, a hook having a cutout portion and a female screw portion into which a slit and a screw can be inserted are provided as suspending elements. A screw through hole is provided in the drawer body, a slit provided in one drawer body is engaged with a hook provided in another drawer body, and a screw inserted in a screw through hole provided in another drawer body is inserted. It may be screwed to a female screw portion provided on one drawer body.

Further, in order to suspend the uppermost drawer, a suspending element is provided on the device supporting member, and the suspending element of the drawer main body is used to suspend the suspending element. Good.

The drawer device described above has a particularly remarkable effect without impairing the moving function even when applied to movable furniture.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The drawer device according to this embodiment is applied to a wagon W as shown in FIGS.

The wagon W will be briefly described. This wagon W is composed of a pair of legs 1 which are spaced apart from each other on the left and right sides.
And a top plate 2 attached to the upper ends of these legs 1, and a handle 3 arranged apart from the used edge of the top plate 2 in the front lower direction.
A shelf plate 4 supported between the intermediate portions of the legs 1, and a back plate 5 arranged behind the top plate 2 with a slight distance therebetween.

The leg 1 has a base 11 in the form of a rectangular plate extending in the front-rear direction, casters 12 attached to the front and rear ends of the base 11, and a support erected vertically upward from the center of the upper surface of the base 11. The support column 13 is provided as a member.

However, as shown in FIG. 7, the support column 13 is a hollow support column body 131 having vertical grooves 13d, 13b, 13c which are open in the front, rear and inward directions.
And a slit bar 132 in the form of a vertically elongated strip having a uniform thickness and vertically extending through the vertically elongated hook holes F in a row.
Slit bars 132 are slidably inserted from above into the front vertical groove 13d and the rear vertical groove 13b, respectively.
The openings of d and 13b are closed, and the inserted slit bars 132 form the front wall and the rear wall of the column 13, respectively. Further, the vertical groove 13c formed on the inner side can be used for inserting a wiring, and a wiring cover (not shown) can be attached to close the wiring.

The top plate 2 has a flat plate shape whose end edge on the use side is curved so as to bulge forward, and both side edge portions of the lower surface thereof are provided with the top plate support bracket 6 serving as an intermediate support member. It is attached to the upper end of each column 13. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, a nut member N1 that opens downward and forms a female screw portion at each of the front portion, the intermediate portion, and the rear portion of each side edge portion of the lower surface of the top plate 2, N2, N
3 are embedded in each of them, which will be described later in detail, but the top plate 2 is attached to the top plate support bracket 6 and the like by tightening the top plate mounting screws B1 which are fasteners to these nut members N1, N2 and N3. It can be fixed.

The handle 3 has a cylindrical shape that is curved so as to be parallel to the end edge of the top plate 2, and the top plate support brackets 6 of the top plate 2 extend forward from the front edge of the top plate 2. It is laterally integrated between the tips.

The shelf board 4 has a rectangular flat plate shape, and is supported by being sandwiched between the inner surfaces of the pillars 13 via a shelf board support bracket 41 attached to the middle portion of the pillars 13. There is.

The back plate 5 is a thin plate having a width substantially equal to that of the top plate 2. The upper end of the back plate 5 extends slightly above the upper surface 13a of the top plate 2, and the lower end thereof is at the same height as the vicinity of the center of the column 13. The size and the mounting position are set so that the size becomes small.

Further, in the present embodiment, the lower surface of the top plate 2 is
A drawer device provided with a drawer 80 capable of accommodating articles and a drawer body 8 holding the drawer 80 so that the drawer 80 can be taken in and out is attached.

The drawer 80 is provided with a rectangular parallelepiped accommodating portion that opens upward and an end plate 86 attached to the front surface of this accommodating portion.

The drawer body 8 includes a bottom plate 81 and the bottom plate 8
A pair of side plates 82 formed by bending and standing up integrally from each of the left and right side edges, and further bending upward in a U shape so as to form an inward flange 821. It has a rectangular parallelepiped shape composed of a rear plate 83 standing upright from the rear edge and a reinforcing member 84 extending laterally between the front upper ends of the pair of left and right side plates 82. The front is open.

In the present embodiment, however, the drawer body 8
The hanging element includes a female screw portion 88a, a slit 87b, a hook 87a, and a drawer body mounting screw through hole 88b so that one drawer body can be hung on another drawer body.

More specifically, the female screw portion 88a has a bottom plate 81
A hexagonal nut to which a screw 89 is screwed is welded to the inside of the above, but it goes without saying that a hole through which the screw 89 can be inserted is required in the bottom plate 81 at this time.

The slit 87b is a hole penetrating the bottom plate 81, and has a rectangular shape having a longitudinal dimension in the depth direction of the drawer body 8.

The hook 87a has a notch 871 formed in a U shape by opening one position in the horizontal direction on the erected surface.

The drawer body mounting screw through hole 88b is formed in the reinforcing member 84, but has a round hole shape having a size such that only the screw portion of the screw 89 is inserted and the head of the screw 89 is stopped.

Then, on the bottom plate 81, a female screw portion 88a for fixing one drawer main body and another drawer main body by screwing on the front opening side thereof, and a rectangular slit 87b on the rear end side thereof. 2 were provided for each.

The hook 87a is in contact with the standing surface of the inner end of the inward flange 821, and the notch 871 of the standing surface is open rearward, so that the hooks 87a of the left and right side plates 82 are formed. One is attached to the rear part.

Further, the reinforcing member 84 has a drawer main body through which a screw for fixing one drawer main body and another drawer main body is inserted at a position where the central axis of the female screw portion 88a is extended in the vertical direction. A mounting screw through hole 88b is provided. The reinforcing member 84 is attached so that the upper surface thereof is in contact with the lower surface of the inward flange 821 of the side plate 82.

The suspending method will be described in detail. First, referring to FIG.
As shown in (a), the slit 87b provided in one drawer main body 8 is provided with the hook 8 provided in the other drawer main body.
Insert 7a. Then, as shown in FIG. 6B, while the notch 871 of the hook 87a is caught by the slit 87b of the one drawer body 8, the other drawer body is pushed in the direction of the arrow (rearward), Another drawer body can be suspended on one drawer body.
At this time, as shown in FIG. 5, the gap d1 between the lower end surface of the hook 87a, that is, the downward surface that forms the cutout portion 871 and the upper surface of the inward flange 821 of the side plate 82 is the gap of the bottom plate 81 that constitutes one drawer body. Since the thickness is equal to or slightly smaller than the thickness (plate thickness), it is possible to easily perform suspension without causing unnecessary rattling.

Next, a screw 89 is inserted through a drawer body mounting screw through hole 88b provided in another drawer body 8,
Then, by screwing the screw 89 to the female screw portion 88a provided on the one drawer body 8, another drawer body 8 can be suspended and fixed to the one drawer body 8.

At this time, when one drawer main body 8 and another drawer main body 8 are vertically adjacent to each other, the space between the bottom plate 81 which constitutes one drawer main body 8 and the reinforcing member 84 which constitutes another drawer main body. Then, a gap d2 corresponding to the thickness of the inward flange 821 is generated (FIG. 5). Then, when the screws 89 are screwed, the gap d2 disappears, and the reinforcing member 84 is bent by the thickness of the gap d2. At this time, the reinforcing member 84
Causes a stress that tries to return so that the flexure disappears. This stress acts on the screw 89 inserted in the drawer body mounting screw insertion hole 88b provided in the reinforcing member 84, and thus the reinforcing member 84 has a screw loosening preventing effect like a spring washer. .

The uppermost drawer main body 8 is suspended from the device supporting member 9, and the device supporting member 9 is attached to the wagon W.
The drawer main body 8 and the device support member 9 are then attached to the wagon W because they are attached to the wagon W.
The mounting procedure to be attached to will be described below.

As shown in FIG. 4, the device supporting member 9 includes a bottom plate 91, side plates 92 that are bent and erected from the bottom plate 91 in a pair to the left and right, respectively, and after erected from the rear edge of the bottom plate 91. It is composed of a plate 93 and a front plate 94 which is also erected from the front edge of the bottom plate 91, and has a rectangular parallelepiped shape with an open upper surface.

On the bottom plate 91, the female screw portion 95a for fixing the main body of the drawer by screwing the drawer main body inside the front plate 94 at the front end thereof, and the two inside corners of the rear plate 93 and the side plate 92 are formed. Two rectangular slits 95b are provided in each of the two. Furthermore, the top plate mounting screw B1
A top plate mounting screw through hole 963 through which the front plate 94 and the side plate 92 are formed, and a top plate mounting screw through hole 961 is formed inside the two corners formed by the front plate 94 and the side plate 92. The top plate mounting screw through holes 962 are provided in two places near the center of the side plate 92 on the inner side, and a total of six places.

The side plate 92 is formed by bending the side plate 92 inward in a U-shape so that the upper part thereof forms an inward flange 921, and top plate mounting screw through holes 964, 965, 966 are formed.
The central axis of the top plate mounting screw through holes 961, 96
The inward facing flanges 92 correspond to the central axes that have been extended in the mounting direction of the top plate mounting screws B1 of 2,963.
1 is provided.

That is, the device supporting member 9 is provided with the female screw portion 95a serving as a suspending element and the slit 95b so that the drawer main body 8 can be suspended and mounted on the device supporting member 9, and the ceiling plate mounting By providing the screw through holes, the device supporting member 9 can be hung on furniture such as a wagon.

As described above, the lower part of the device supporting member 9 is
Since the same hanging element as the lower hanging element of the drawer body 8 is provided and is arranged at the corresponding corresponding position, the drawer body 8 is attached to the device supporting member 9.
Since the method of suspending the drawer is the same as the method of suspending the other drawer body on the one drawer body described above, the description thereof will be omitted.

As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the method of suspending the device supporting member 9 on the wagon W is such that the top plate 2, the removal preventing member 7, the top plate supporting bracket 6, and the device supporting member 9 are the top plates. It is realized by tightening together with the mounting screw B1.

The mounting procedure will be described below. First, the hook claws FF of the top plate supporting bracket 6 are set so that the upper surface 62a of the horizontal supporting plate 62 and the upper surface 13a of the supporting column 13 are at the same height. Hook into each of the 13 predetermined hook holes.

Next, by inserting the strut mounting screw B2 from above into the strut mounting screw through hole 71 provided in the removal preventing member 7, and tightening the strut mounting screw B2 into the screw hole 134 of the strut 13, The removal-preventing member 7 is closely fixed to the upper surface 13a of each column 13. The removal prohibiting member 7 thus attached to the support column 13 also plays a role of preventing the slit bar 132 from coming off upward.

When the top plate support bracket 6 and the removal-preventing member 7 are thus respectively attached to the columns 13, the support plate 6 of the top plate support bracket 6 is, as described above.
2, the withdrawal prohibition member 7 overlaps, and in the overlapping region, the two top plate mounting screw through holes 621 and 622 provided in the support plate 62 and the two front ceiling members provided in the withdrawal prohibition member 7 are overlapped. The plate mounting screw through holes 72 and 73 overlap each other.

After this, the top plate 2 is placed on the removal prohibiting member 7. Then, on each side edge portion of the lower surface of the top plate 2, nut members N1, N2, N3 opening downward are respectively embedded at three positions of a front portion, an intermediate portion and a rear portion thereof. The front two, N1 and N2
Is a top plate mounting screw through hole 961, 96
4,621,72,962,965,622,73,
Tighten the top plate mounting screw B1 inserted from below. As a result, the removal preventing member 7 and the top plate supporting bracket 6
Also, the device support member 9 is fastened together with the top plate 2 to fix them.

On the other hand, of the nut members, the rear one N3 has a top plate mounting screw through hole 96 of the device supporting member 9.
3,966 and a top plate mounting screw B which is inserted from below into a rear top plate mounting screw through hole 74 provided in the removal-preventing member 7.
Tighten 1. As a result, the removal-preventing member 7 and the device supporting member 9 are fastened to the top plate 2 and auxiliary fixed.

Therefore, according to the present embodiment configured as described above, it is possible to realize a drawer device that can flexibly meet the needs of the user who wants to configure the number of drawers to an arbitrary number.

Since the drawer body can be easily removed, it is possible to flexibly meet the needs of the user.

Furthermore, it also has a screw loosening prevention effect,
It is possible to realize a drawer device that can be simply and surely suspended.

Further, even for furniture such as a wagon, the drawer can be easily and securely pulled out without causing a heavy load for installation.
Since it can be hung and attached to furniture, it is possible to realize a drawer device that can easily cope with layout changes and the like.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described in detail above.

In the present invention, the notch portion of the hook is formed in a U-shape to engage with the bottom plate. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the hook body may be engaged with a member constituting the drawer body. However, the shape of the cutout portion of the hook is not limited to that in the above embodiment.

Further, the number and location of the female screw portion, the screw through hole, the hook and the slit are not limited to those in the present embodiment, but may be changed according to various design parameters such as the size and weight of the drawer. You may change it suitably.

Even when the size of the drawer main body to be suspended is different from that of the drawer main body to be suspended,
If the hanging elements provided on each drawer body have a corresponding structure, it can be easily hung.

In this embodiment, the nut is welded to the female thread portion, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a method in which a screw is attached in addition to a protruding tap may be used.

Further, in the present embodiment, the female screw portion, the screw through hole, the hook and the slit are adopted as the suspending element, but the present invention is not limited to this, and other functions such as using a latch member can be provided to suspend the drawer. Any one may be used as long as it has it.

Further, for example, not only a wagon, but the present invention can be applied to furniture such as shelves and desks, and the same effects can be obtained.

Others The present invention is not limited to the illustrated examples described in detail above, and various modifications can be made.

[0061]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
Since the drawer main body is hung, the expandability is improved by responding to the needs such as changing the number of drawers attached and the size, and the drawer main body can be easily and surely attached to other furniture. It can be easily and easily installed on mobile furniture.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an entire wagon according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the entire wagon in the same embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the entire wagon in the same embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the drawer device according to the same embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view for explaining the attachment of the drawer device in the same embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view for explaining the attachment of the drawer device in the same embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view for explaining the attachment of the device support member in the same embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view illustrating the attachment of the device support member according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

80 ... Withdrawal 8: Drawer body 87a ... hook 871 ... Notch 87b ... slit 88a ... Female screw part 88b ... Drawer body mounting screw through hole 89 ... screw 9 ... Device support member 95a ... female screw part 95b ... slit B1 ... Top plate mounting screw 961-966 ... Top plate mounting screw through hole W ... Wagon

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A hanging element for suspending another drawer body is provided on a drawer body for holding a drawer so that the drawer body can be drawn in and out, and a hanging element for one drawer body and a hanging element for another drawer body. The drawer device is characterized in that the other drawer body can be hung below the drawer body by utilizing the above. 2. A drawer main body is detachably hung from another drawer main body.
The drawer device described. 3. The one drawer is characterized in that the suspending element comprises a hook and a slit, and the slit provided in one drawer body is engaged with the hook provided in another drawer body to thereby make the one drawer. 3. The drawer device according to claim 1, wherein the other drawer main body can be suspended from the main body. 4. The suspending element comprises a female screw portion and a screw through hole, and a screw inserted into a screw through hole provided in another drawer body is provided in one drawer body. The drawer device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein another drawer body can be suspended by screwing the female screw portion. 5. The suspending element comprises a hook and a slit, a female screw portion and a screw through hole,
A female screw part provided on one drawer body by engaging a slit provided on one drawer body with a hook provided on another drawer body, and further inserting a screw inserted into a screw through hole provided in another drawer body The drawer device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the other drawer body can be suspended from the one drawer body by screwing the drawer body. 6. The uppermost drawer body is suspended below a predetermined device support member, and is suspended from the device support member using a suspending element of the drawer body. The drawer device according to claim 1, wherein the drawer device can be lowered. 7. The drawer device according to claim 1, wherein the drawer device can be hung on a movable furniture.