JP2003219920A - Assembling material for working facilities and assembling facilities - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide assembling materials for working facilities that can be assembled the working facilities such as working benches and product shelves or the like used in factories in various forms according to necessities, and provide assembling facilities fabricated by employing such assembling materials. <P>SOLUTION: The assembling materials consist of support columns, beam materials, fixing materials, of which the support columns are circular tubes with numerous grooves attached and installed extending toward the circumferential direction on the outer face. The fixing materials are composed of intermediate materials and clamping materials, each intermediate material consisting of a pair of half-cylinders prepared by longitudinally dividing into two a cylinder provided with the inner face circumscribing the support column having a protruding ridge fitted into the grooves of the support column and provided with the outer face having a taper. The clamping material has a connecting piece fixed to the half cylinder prepared by longitudinally dividing a tapered cylinder circumscribing the intermediate material into two, and the beam-material has the clamping material fixed at one end. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a work facility assembly material and an assembly facility.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Up to now, a work equipment assembly has not been provided. Here, the work equipment assembly material means work equipment such as a workbench, a tool organizer, and a product shelf.
It means a material that can be assembled into various forms as required.

Of the working equipment, a shelf for storing tools and products has been provided which can be assembled as needed. The shelves consisted of columns, locking pieces, and shelves, could be assembled shelves as required, and the spacing between the shelves could be adjusted to some extent. Such a shelf is made by bending an iron plate for both the support column and the shelf plate, and the support column is often formed in a square shape with a U-shaped cross section.

The square pillars have a large number of holes along the longitudinal direction for fixing the shelves. This hole is for fixing a locking piece for supporting the shelf board. That is, the supporting column is set up, the locking piece is inserted and fixed in the hole, and the shelf plate is placed on the locking piece to form an assembly shelf.

[0005] In a pillar having holes formed in a square bar, the holes cannot be formed at small intervals. The reason for this is that if too many holes are made in the timber, the strength of the timber will be reduced and the columns will be weakened. Therefore, the spacing between the holes is necessarily large. Therefore, the position of the shelf board cannot be finely adjusted.

Further, in order to give strength to the pillar made of square wood, the thickness of the metal plate as a material must be increased. Increasing the thickness increases the weight of the column,
It will take labor to assemble and the price as a shelf will rise. A pillar made of square timber has such drawbacks.

In order to eliminate this drawback, it is suitable to use a circular tube for the support column. There are not many assembly shelves using circular tubes for the columns, but they are known. For example, fair fair 5-3571
No. 1 gazette uses circular pipes for supporting columns, and uses, as the other shelf plate, short tubes fixed to the four corners of a right-angled quadrilateral plate, and the supporting columns are inserted into the short tubes to connect the shelf plates to the supporting columns. I have decided.

In Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5-35711, in order to fix the shelf to the support, a hole is made in the support, a shelf fixing material fitted in the hole is circumscribed to the support, and the shelf is fixed from above. It is supposed to cover a short cylinder. This publication also refers to a pillar provided with a groove extending in the circumferential direction, in addition to the pillar having holes.

In Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5-35711, a shelf plate fixing member has a short inner surface having a ridge circumscribing the pillar and fitted in a groove of the pillar and a tapered outer surface. A set of semi-cylinders, which are obtained by vertically dividing a cylinder into two, are used. Further, the short cylinder of the shelf plate is provided with a taper corresponding to the taper provided on the outer surface of the shelf plate fixing material.

However, the assembly shelf proposed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5-35711 has a drawback that it is not easy to remove the shelf plate located in the middle or newly install it. That is, since the short cylinders for fixing to the columns are fixed to the four corners of the right-angled quadrilateral plate, when trying to remove the shelf plate located in the middle from the columns, the shelf plates above it will be removed. You will have to remove everything. Therefore, the removal of the intermediate shelf board is very inconvenient and inconvenient. Therefore, it became necessary to eliminate this inconvenience.

[0011]

The present invention is not limited to the assembly shelf because the object to be assembled is the working equipment, but it also includes the assembly shelf. Therefore,
Regarding the assembly shelf, the present invention is intended to eliminate the inconvenience of the assembly shelf described above. That is, in the assembly shelf, the intermediate shelf board can be easily removed or newly installed,
Another object of the present invention is to provide an assembly shelf whose position can be changed.

According to the present invention, a circular pipe is used as a column, and work equipment such as a work table, a product mounting table, and a shelf used in a factory can be easily assembled as needed. The present invention provides equipment assembly materials. Further, the present invention provides a work facility made by assembling such materials.

[0013]

The inventor of the present invention, in order to fix a plate member to a support made of a circular pipe, it is better to form a groove extending in the circumferential direction on the surface of the support than to make a hole on the support side. It was considered to be advantageous because many things could be attached at short intervals without reducing the strength. Further, the present inventor recommends that in order to securely and securely fix the shelf plate to the pillar, it is convenient to insert a beam material between two adjacent pillars and place the shelf board on the beam material. Knew. Furthermore, this inventor
A fixing member is used to fix the beam member to the cylindrical column, and it is suitable to use a fixing member composed of an intermediate member and a tightening member. It has been found that the can be fixed to the column only at one end in the longitudinal direction, and the beam can be cantilevered to be strong enough to withstand a certain weight. The present invention has been completed based on such knowledge.

The intermediate material referred to above is the Japanese Utility Model Publication 5-3571.
It is the same as what is defined as a shelf fixing material in Japanese Patent Publication No. That is, the intermediate material used in the present invention was originally a cylinder having an inner surface having a ridge that circumscribes the pillar and fits into the groove of the pillar, and a cylinder having an outer surface that is tapered. It is a set of half cylinders obtained by dividing. The semi-cylinder may be disjointed, or may be a hinge that is integrated.

Further, the above-mentioned tightening material means a connecting piece which vertically divides a cylinder having a tapered inner surface circumscribing the above-mentioned intermediate material into one of the divided ends and extends outward along the divided surface. Is attached. This tightening material may also be a separate half-cylinder or a hinge.

The present invention comprises a column, a beam member having at least one end fixed to the column and extending laterally, and a fixing member for fixing the beam member to the column. The column is circumferentially provided on the outer surface of the circular pipe. A large number of grooves extending to are attached at intervals,
The fixing material consists of an intermediate material and a tightening material, and the intermediate material is divided into two parts in the longitudinal direction of a tube having an inner surface that circumscribes the pillar with a protrusion that fits in the groove of the pillar and an outer surface that has a taper It consists of a set of half-cylinders, and the tightening material is made by attaching a connecting piece to a half-cylinder that vertically divides a tapered cylinder circumscribing the intermediate material, and the beam is at least in the longitudinal direction. The present invention provides a work facility assembly material, characterized in that a fastening material is fixed to one end of the.

The present invention also provides work equipment assembled by using the above-mentioned work equipment constituting materials. The work equipment may be a workbench or an assembly shelf.

The assembling shelf provided by the present invention is constructed by using a column having a large number of grooves extending in the circumferential direction attached to the outer surface of the circular pipe at intervals, and a cross member being inserted between the columns. The shelf frame, the beam material that is stretched between the columns, the fixing material that fixes the beam material to the columns, and the plate that is stretched between the beam elements. It consists of an intermediate material and a fastening material, and the beam material has fastening materials fixed to both ends in the longitudinal direction.First, the intermediate material is brought into contact with each strut so that the ridges of the intermediate material are fitted into the grooves of the strut, Then, the beam material is inserted between the intermediate materials, the intermediate material is clamped and fixed by the tightening material, and then the shelf plate is inserted on the beam material.

The workbench provided by the present invention includes a pair of long columns, a pair of short columns, two pairs of beam members, a fixing member that abuts on each column, and is placed on the beam members. Base plate, each of the columns is a circular tube having the groove as described above, the fixing member is composed of the intermediate member and the tightening member as described above, and the beam member is in the longitudinal direction. The fastening material is fixed to both ends of the, first, a pair of short struts in front, and a pair of long struts in front, standing in the corners of the quadrilateral,
The intermediate material is brought into contact with the upper end of the short pillar and the equal height position of the long pillar, and the ridges of the intermediate material are fitted into the grooves of the pillar, and then the beam material is inserted between the intermediate materials and the intermediate material is tightened. Tighten the material to fix it, and then insert the base plate between the beam materials to make the work table.

In the workbench assembled in this way, another beam member is similarly inserted between a pair of long columns protruding above the base plate and fixed, and the perforated plate is fixed to the beam member. It can be used as a tool holder, or one end of another beam member can be fixed to a long support, and this can be used as a tool holder as a cantilevered arm.

An example of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view of a work equipment assembly according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of an intermediate material used in the present invention. Figure 3
[Fig. 6] is an enlarged perspective view of another tightening member used in the present invention. FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a shelf assembled using the assembly material according to the present invention. 5 and 6 are partially cutaway perspective views of a workbench assembled using the work equipment assembly according to the present invention. FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a composite facility assembled using the work facility assembly material according to the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a column, 2 is an intermediate material, 3 is a fastening material, 4 is a beam material, and 5 is a plate.

The pillar 1 is made of a circular tube and has a large number of circumferentially extending grooves 11 provided at intervals on the outer surface thereof. The stanchions are made of metal, especially iron.

A fixing member is used to fix the beam member 4 to the column 1, and the fixing member is composed of the intermediate member 2 and the tightening member 3.

The intermediate member 2 is a set of half cylinders as shown in FIG. The intermediate member 2 is a half-cylinder, which was originally a cylinder that comes into close contact with the surface of the column 1 but is vertically divided into two. That is, the inner surface 21 of the intermediate member 2 is a surface circumscribing the surface of the support column 1, and has a ridge 22 fitted in the groove 11 of the support column 1 at the center thereof. The outer surface 23 of the intermediate member 2 has a taper along the axial direction. Therefore, the wall thickness of the intermediate member 2 gradually increases from one end to the other end.

The mating surface after the intermediate material 2 is divided may be a flat surface, but as shown in FIG.
It is preferable that 4 is concave and the other surface 25 is convex. This is because it is easy to handle as a group when facing each other. The intermediate material 2 is preferably made of synthetic resin.

As shown in FIG. 1, the fastening member 3 has a split surface extending from one end of a semi-cylinder 31 obtained by vertically splitting a tapered cylinder circumscribing the intermediate member 2. The structure is such that the connecting piece 32 is attached in the direction. That is, the fastening material 3 has a shape in which the inner surface of the semi-cylinder 31 is in close contact with the outer surface 23 of the intermediate material 2, and is therefore tapered. The outer surface of the fastening material 3 may or may not have a taper, but since the fastening material 3 is often made of a metal plate having a uniform thickness, the outer surface is usually tapered similarly to the inner surface. ing.

As the fastening material 3, a material having a structure shown in FIG. 3 can be used in addition to the material shown in FIG. The fastening material 3 shown in FIG. 3 is obtained by dividing a tapered cylinder into two longitudinally divided pieces, and connecting the divided pieces to each other so that one end is a shaft mount 33 and the other end can be opened. A connection piece 32 is attached to the center of the divided piece.

Although the beam member 4 may be composed of a single strip-shaped plate, as shown in FIG. 1, two thin tubes 41 are made parallel to each other and both ends thereof are fixed by small plates 42. Those listed are preferred. It is lighter in weight that it is composed of two thin pipes 41, but its strength is relatively high, and it is necessary to insert a wire or the like into the gap between the thin pipes 41 and use it for locking. Because you can Moreover, since the fastening member 3 is fixed to at least one end of the beam member 4 by the connecting piece 32,
As shown in FIG. 1, the small plate 42 may be omitted and the two thin tubes 41 may be directly fixed by the connecting piece 32 of the fastening member 3.

When making a shelf, the shelf board 5 shown in FIG. 1 is used in addition to the pillar 1, the intermediate material 2, the fastening material 3, and the beam material 4. As shown in FIG. 1, the shelf board 5 may be provided with only one fixing groove 51 to the beam member 4, or may be provided with only one fixing groove 52. .

FIG. 4 shows an example of an assembly rack made using the assembly material according to the present invention. In FIG. 4, it is premised on a rectangular parallelepiped shelf frame in which four equal-length columns 1 are erected at four corners, and a top plate 61 and a bottom plate 62 are horizontally fixed between the columns 1 and fixed to each other. A case where a shelf board is attached to the assembly material according to the present invention will be described.

Although not shown in FIG. 4, four columns 1
First, the intermediate member 2 shown in FIG. 1 is brought into contact with each of them, and the ridges of the intermediate member 2 are fitted into the grooves of the support column 1. Next, for example, the beam member 4 having the fastening member 3 as shown in FIG. 1 fixed at one end is inserted between the columns 1, and the fastening member 3 fixed to the beam member 4 is inserted.
Further, another half of the fastening material 3 is brought into contact with the fastening material 3 and fixed with the bolt 71 and the nut 72 shown in FIG.
Tighten with to fix. Thus, as shown in FIG. 4, the beam member 4 is fixed to the column. After that, the shelf plates 53, 54, 55 are inserted between the beam members 4 and fixed.

When the intermediate member 2 is fixed, when the intermediate member 2 is positioned at the same height of each column, the shelf board 53
Or, it extends horizontally like 55. However, when the intermediate member 2 is positioned at different heights of the support column 1,
The shelf plate will be inclined like 54. The inclined shelf board makes it easy to see the items placed on the shelf from the side and to take them. In this way, the shelf plate can be mounted by changing not only its height but also its inclination. Further, the removal of the shelf plate can be easily performed by loosening the bolt and the nut.

FIG. 5 shows the assembly material according to the present invention.
The principal part of the assembled workbench is shown. The support columns are composed of a pair of long cylindrical support columns 13 and a pair of short cylindrical support columns 14, and each support column is provided with a large number of circumferentially extending grooves 11 at intervals on the outer surface thereof. Although the fixing material is not shown in FIG. 5, the intermediate material 2 and the fastening material 3 as shown in FIG. 1 are used. As the beam member 4, the one shown in FIG. 1 is used.

The workbench shown in FIG. 5 is assembled as follows. First, the pair of short columns 14 is placed in the front, and the pair of long columns 13 is placed in the front so as to stand at positions corresponding to the four corners of the base plate of the work table to be assembled. Next, although not shown in FIG. 5, the intermediate member 2 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is attached to the upper end of the short pillar 14 and the same height position of the long pillar, respectively, and the ridges 22 of the intermediate material 2 are attached. Groove 11 of the pillar
Fit in. Next, the beam member 4 is inserted between the intermediate members 2, and the intermediate member 2 is tightened with the tightening member 3 attached to the beam member 4 to fix the beam member 4 to the support column. After that, the base plate 5 is inserted between the beam members 4 to form a work table.

In the workbench shown in FIG. 5, the intermediate member 2 and the tightening member 3 are attached to the proper positions of the columns 13 projecting upward from the base plate 5 and the beam member 4 is fixed in the same manner as above. A locking plate 7 is locked between the two beam members 4 thus attached. Since the locking plate 7 is made of a perforated plate, a locking tool can be locked in the hole and a tool necessary for work can be hooked.

Further, the intermediate member 2 and the tightening member 3 as described above are attached to the support column 13 to fix the beam member 40 at only one end to form a cantilever type arm 73. . A small box 74 can be fixed on the arm 73 to form a small container. A connecting member 75 is used to fix the small box 74, and each bent piece of the connecting member 75 is passed between two thin pipes 41 constituting the beam member 40 to form a connecting member 3. The elasticity of allows easy and stable fixing.

Similar to FIG. 5, FIG. 6 shows a workbench assembled using the assembly material according to the present invention. This workbench includes the intermediate member 2 shown in FIG. 2 and the fastening member 3 shown in FIG.
And the beam member 4 made of a strip plate are used to fix the beam member 4 to the columns 13 and 14 in two directions that are perpendicular to each other. After that, the beam member 4 located above the base plate 5 is used as a work table.

Between the long columns 13, another cross member 6 is provided at the upper end.
I'm pointing at 3. The cross member 63 has holes 64 at both ends in the longitudinal direction, which are fitted into the support columns 13, and in which the support columns 1 are inserted.
The upper ends of 3 are fitted to fix the columns 13. Then, the beam member 4 is inserted into the portion of the column 13 located between the base plate 5 and the cross member 63 in the same manner as shown in FIG. 5 to make it useful for hooking tools necessary for the work.

FIG. 7 shows an assembly material according to the present invention.
1 illustrates a complex facility in which a workbench and an assembly shelf are combined.
In FIG. 7, casters are detachably attached to the lower end of each of these complex facilities, and the casters are attached to make them movable, and the casters can be left stationary by removing them.

In the complex equipment A shown in FIG. 7, work benches B and C and a product or tool shelf D are integrated. The workbench B and the workbench C are connected by a connecting member X, and the workbench C and the shelf D are connected by sharing the support column 1.

In the shelf D in FIG. 7, a cantilevered beam member 40 is attached to the upper part of the support column 1 so as to project on the work table C. Further, the locks 81 and 82 are attached between the two beam members 40. The locks 81 and 82 are used to suspend a tool or the like.

In the complex facility P shown in FIG. 7, the workbench Q and the shelf R are connected by sharing the support 1. Two cantilever beams 40 are attached in parallel to the column 1 and project above the workbench Q. Between the beam members 40, as in the above-described combined facility A, the locks 81 and 82 are laid out so that they can be used to suspend the tool.

[0044]

According to the present invention, since the circular pipe is used for the supporting column, it is lighter and has a greater strength than the case where the square bar is used, and therefore it is convenient for assembly. Also, to lock the beam,
Since the groove extending in the circumferential direction is formed instead of the hole, the installation positions of the beam members can be adjusted at small intervals. Further, a fixing member is used to fix the beam member to the supporting column, the fixing member is divided into an intermediate member and a fastening member, and the intermediate member is provided with a ridge that fits in the groove of the supporting column on the inner surface. Since the intermediate member is divided into two and abuts on the column, the intermediate member can be easily attached to the column regardless of the position of the groove. Further, since the tightening member is also made of two cylinders, it can easily come into contact with the intermediate member.

Moreover, the tightening member is made by attaching a connecting piece to a half-cylinder that is divided into two parts, and is fixed to one end in the longitudinal direction of the beam member by the connecting piece. When directed to the material, the fastening material will immediately contact the intermediate material. Therefore, after that, the fastening member can be easily fixed to the column by merely contacting the other half of the fastening member with the intermediate member and tightening it with a bolt, or by rotating and fixing the half member.

After being fixed in this way, the intermediate member is firmly fixed to the column by inserting the ridge into the groove. Also,
Between the intermediate material and the tightening material, the outer surface of the intermediate material is tapered, and the inner surface of the tightening material is also tapered to contact the outer surface of the intermediate material. And will be close to each other on the tapered surface. Therefore, if the intermediate member is attached to the column with the tapered surface widening downward, the fastening member is firmly fixed to the column unless it is lifted upward. Therefore, the beam member is firmly attached to the column.

On the contrary, by removing the tightening material,
The beam can be easily removed. In this way, working equipment that is easy to assemble and disassemble can be created.

Further, according to the present invention, two types of standard products having the lengths of about 2000 mm and about 700 mm are prepared as the columns, and the lengths of the beam members are about 600 mm and about 900 m.
It is convenient to prepare two types of standard products, such as m, because it is possible to build up various required equipment just by using these standard products.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view of a work equipment assembly according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of an intermediate material used in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of another fastening material used in the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a shelf assembled using the work facility assembly material according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a partially cutaway perspective view of a workbench assembled using the work facility assembly material according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a partially cutaway perspective view of another workbench assembled by using the work facility assembly material according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of another work facility assembled using the work facility assembly material according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1, 13, 14 Strut 2 Intermediate material 3 Tightening material 4, 40 Beam material 5 Plate 7 Locking plate 11 Groove 21 Inner surface 22 of intermediate material 2 Protrusion 23 External surface 24, 25 of intermediate material 2 Mating surface of intermediate material 2 31 semi-cylindrical 32 connection piece 33 shaft attachment 41 thin tube 42 small plates 51, 52 fixing grooves 53, 54, 55 shelf plate 61 top plate 62 bottom plate 63 horizontal member 64 hole 71 bolt 72 nut 73 arm 74 small box 75 connecting member 81 , 82

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A strut, a beam member having at least one end fixed to the strut and extending laterally, and a fixing member for fixing the beam member to the strut, wherein the strut is circumferentially formed on the outer surface of the circular pipe. A large number of extending grooves are provided at intervals, the fixing material consists of an intermediate material and a fastening material, and the intermediate material has an inner surface that circumscribes the pillar with a ridge that fits in the groove of the pillar, and a taper. It is composed of a set of half cylinders that are divided into two parts in the vertical direction, and the tightening material is a half cylinder in which the tapered cylinder that circumscribes the intermediate material is divided into two parts. A facility assembly material for work, characterized in that the beam material is attached, and a fastening material is fixed to at least one end in the longitudinal direction. 2. The work equipment assembly material according to claim 1, wherein the beam material is one in which a fastening material is fixed at both ends in the longitudinal direction and is stretched between two columns. . 3. A column having a large number of grooves extending in the circumferential direction on the outer surface of the circular pipe at intervals is used as a column, and between the column and a shelf frame fixed with a cross member. It consists of a beam material to be wrought, a fixing material for fixing the beam material to the support, and a shelf board to be laid between the beam materials. The fixing material is an intermediate material and a fastening material. Is a set of half cylinders that are divided into two parts in the vertical direction and have an inner surface that has a ridge that fits in the groove of the pillar and that circumscribes the pillar, and a tapered outer surface. It is made by attaching a connecting piece to a semi-cylinder that vertically divides a cylinder with a taper circumscribing the material, and the beam material has fastening materials fixed at both ends in the longitudinal direction. Abut the intermediate material on each strut, insert the ridge of the intermediate material into the groove of the strut, then insert the beam material between the intermediate materials and tighten the intermediate material with the tightening material. An assembly shelf that is tightened and fixed, and then a shelf board is put on the beam. 4. A pair of long pillars, a pair of short pillars, two pairs of beam members, a fixing member for fixing the beam members to the pillars, and a base plate, and each of the pillars. A large number of grooves extending in the circumferential direction are provided at intervals on the outer surface of the circular pipe, the fixing material consists of an intermediate material and a fastening material, and the intermediate material has a ridge that fits in the groove of the support pillar. It is composed of a set of half cylinders that are divided into two parts in the vertical direction, which has an inner surface that circumscribes the outer surface and a tapered outer surface.The tightening material is a vertical cylinder that circumscribes the intermediate material. It is made by connecting connecting pieces to a divided half cylinder, and the beam is fixed with fastening materials at both ends in the longitudinal direction.First, place a pair of short columns in front and a pair of long columns in front. Stand upright in the corner of a right-angled quadrilateral, and contact the intermediate material with the upper end of the short pillar and the equal height position of the long pillar, respectively. Is inserted into the groove of the pillar, then the beam is inserted between the intermediate materials, the intermediate material is clamped and fixed with the fastening material, and then the base plate is inserted between the beam materials.