JP2005270399A - Kitchen cabinet - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a kitchen cabinet which enables a specified work in a space for piping or the like without removing a cover. <P>SOLUTION: The kitchen cabinet 1 comprises a cabinet body 2, the space S for the piping P or the like positioned in a lower inner part of the cabinet body 1, and the cover 19 of the space. The cover 19 includes a first covering part 20 fitted to connecting crosspieces 12 and 13 placed between rear parts of side plates 10 of the cabinet body 2, and a second covering part 21 fitted to a bottom plate 15 or a suspended part 16 of the cabinet body. The covering parts are provided so as to be mutually bent, thereby it is possible to access the space S by removing one of the covering parts. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a kitchen cabinet, and in particular, in a structure that covers a space such as a pipe located in the cabinet body, allows easy access to the space, and can perform maintenance and inspection operations. Regarding cabinets.

  Conventionally, in a kitchen cabinet, for example, as disclosed in Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2, a configuration has been adopted in which the lower part in the cabinet body is a piping space and the piping space is concealed by a cover. Yes.

  The kitchen cabinet described in Patent Document 1 includes a horizontal beam positioned at the upper part of the piping space and a vertical beam positioned on the front side of the piping space, and between the front end of the horizontal beam and the upper end of the vertical beam. A configuration in which a cover member constituting the cover is detachably provided is employed.

  The kitchen cabinet described in Patent Document 2 uses a connecting member having a substantially L-shaped side end surface as a cover, and attaches one end of the cover to the lower part of the back plate, and attaches the other end to the rear part of the bottom plate. Configuration is adopted.

JP-A-9-262143 JP-A-11-192130

  However, in the kitchen cabinet disclosed in Patent Documents 1 and 2, by completely removing the cover, the required maintenance and inspection work in the piping space can be performed, and the work becomes large. There is an inconvenience. In particular, when maintenance work is required after installing a kitchen cabinet into a general household, it is normal for a large number of kitchen items to be stored in the cabinet body. The work to take out is also very troublesome.

  In addition, since the cover is configured as a dedicated part for forming a piping space, under the condition that it is not necessary to provide a piping space in the lower part of the cabinet body, the lower part of the cabinet is provided by providing the cover. It is a useless space and there is no versatility to adapt to installation conditions.

[Object of invention]
The present invention has been devised by paying attention to such inconveniences, and the purpose of the present invention is to provide a cover when performing a predetermined work in a space such as a pipe formed in the lower part in the back of the cabinet body. It is to provide a kitchen cabinet that can do this without removing it.

  Another object of the present invention is to provide a kitchen cabinet that can arbitrarily select an open area that allows access to the space without removing the cover.

  Still another object of the present invention is to expand the storage space in the cabinet body without removing the cover by changing the surface position of the cover when space such as piping is not required. To provide kitchen cabinets.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes a cabinet body that connects left and right side plates to each other and opens the front side as an access port, a specific space provided in a lower part in the back of the cabinet body, In a kitchen cabinet that includes a cover that conceals space,
The cover includes a first concealing part attached to the back side located between the rear parts of the side plates, and a second concealing part attached to the bottom side located between the lower parts of the side plates,
The cover is configured to be bendable between the first and second concealing portions, and allows access to the space by removing one of the concealing portions.

The present invention also includes a cabinet body that connects the left and right side plates to each other and opens the front side as a slot, a specific space provided at a lower part in the back of the cabinet body, and a cover that conceals this space. In the kitchen cabinet including
The cover includes a first concealing portion attached to a connecting bar or a back plate located between the rear portions of the side plates, a second concealing portion attached to the bottom side located between the lower portions of the side plates, and the first concealment portions. And an intermediate concealing part located between the second concealing parts,
The respective concealing portions are provided so as to be bendable from each other, and it is possible to adopt a configuration in which access to the space is permitted by removing one of the first and second concealing portions.

Furthermore, the present invention relates to a cabinet body that connects the left and right side plates to each other and opens the front side as a slot, a specific space provided in a lower lower portion in the cabinet body, and an upper position of the space. In a kitchen cabinet including a cover for determining the front position,
The cover includes a first concealing portion attached to a connecting bar or a back plate located between the rear portions of the side plates, a second concealing portion attached to a bottom portion located between the lower portions of the side plates, and the first concealment portion. A planar concealing portion that determines the upper position in continuation with the lower end of the concealing portion, and a hanging surface concealing portion that is positioned between the front end of the planar concealing portion and the bottom plate to determine the near position,
Each of the concealing portions is provided so as to be bendable with each other, and it is also possible to adopt a configuration in which access to the space is permitted by removing one of the first and second concealing portions.

  In the present invention, the cover can change the size of the space by changing the bending direction.

  Further, it is preferable that the cover is formed of a resin molded product, and that each concealing portion is provided so as to be bendable by forming a thin hinge portion between the concealing portions.

  Further, the cover may be provided so as to partially form an access space to the space.

  According to the present invention, access to the space is permitted by removing one of the first and second concealing portions. Therefore, there is no need to remove the entire cover as in the prior art, and the required work can be performed with a part opened. In addition, since the cover maintains the state where the other concealing portion is attached, it is not necessary to take out the cover from the inside of the cabinet.

  Further, by changing the bending direction of the cover, for example, when there is no piping space or the like on the floor surface side, it is possible to change the size of the space by changing the position of a part of the cover, The storage space in the cabinet body can be expanded and used.

  In addition, when the structure which opens a cover partially is employ | adopted, in addition to reducing the burden of the operation | work which opens the said space, it is a kitchen using a part of cover, ie, the plane concealment part which does not open. It is also possible to place items, and the storage space can be substantially expanded.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[First Embodiment]
The kitchen cabinet in 1st Embodiment is shown by FIGS. 1-4. In FIG. 1 which shows the whole structure, the kitchen cabinet 1 is arrange | positioned along the wall surface W on the floor F of the kitchen. The kitchen cabinet 1 has a box-like cabinet body 2 that has a fixed storage space inside and opens the front side as a slot, and is disposed on the top of the cabinet body 2 and sinks in a part of the area. 4 and a counter 3 in which 4 is arranged. Here, the cabinet body 2 is provided with a drawer 5 and a door 6 as necessary.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the cabinet body 2 is disposed at a pair of left and right side walls 10, 10 that are grounded on the floor surface F, and two back and forth portions between the rear portions of the side walls 10, 10. The upper connection beam 12 and the lower connection beam 13 constituting the side, the front connection beam 14 disposed between the front upper ends between the side walls 10 and 10, and the lower surface between the side walls 10 and 10 and the floor F A bottom plate 15 disposed at a predetermined height, a hanging portion 16 that is positioned between the rear end portion of the bottom plate 15 and the floor surface F and forms the bottom side together with the bottom plate 15, and a front portion of the bottom plate 15 And the floor plate F, and a cover 18 attached between the upper and lower connecting bars 12 and 13 and the bottom plate 15.

  The lower connection bar 13 is disposed between the side plates 10 and 10 at a position above the drainage pipe P located on the floor F, while the bottom plate 15 is slightly in front of the pipe P (see FIG. 2 to the right of the middle), the lower region of the lower connecting rail 13 and the bottom region of the bottom plate 15, that is, the region of the lower side in the cabinet body 2 is the wall W and the floor. It interacts with the surface F to form a specific space S for piping.

  The cover 18 is constituted by a resin plate-like member or sheet-like member which is a single sheet as a whole when placed in the same plane. The cover 18 is detachably attached to the upper and lower connection bars 12 and 13 via screws 19 and the like, and a first concealing part 20 that closes the back side of the cabinet body 2 and a rear part of the bottom plate 15. A second concealing portion 21 that is detachably attached via a screw 19 and the like, and an upper position of the space S are determined continuously to the lower end of the first concealing portion 20, and an insertion hole 23A for the drainage hose H is formed in the center portion. A flat concealment part 23 as an intermediate concealment part, and an intermediate concealment part that is positioned between the front end of the flat concealment part 23 and the second concealment part 21 and determines the front front position of the space S It is comprised by the drooping surface concealment part 24 as. Here, the thin-walled hinge part 26 is formed in the boundary part so that each said concealment part can be bent mutually. In the present embodiment, these thin hinge portions 26 are provided so as to be bent into a substantially crank shape when viewed from the side, as shown in FIG. However, the side and position where the thin hinge portion 26 is formed can be variously changed according to the space S, and does not hinder the adoption of a hinge shape that can be bent in either the front or back direction. Further, when the cover 18 is formed using a material that can be bent at an arbitrary position, it is not necessary to provide the thin hinge portion 26.

  In the above configuration, in a state in which the cover 18 is attached to the cabinet body 2, the space S is formed in the entire area along the left-right direction at the lower side in the cabinet body 2. And when the required operation | work in the space S is needed, for example, the 2nd concealment part 21 is removed from the baseplate 15, and the drooping face concealment part 24 is rotated upwards, or FIG. As shown in the figure, the access space for the space S can be formed forward by rotating the hose H upward including the flat hiding portion 23 and the hanging surface hiding portion 24 as long as the hose H does not get in the way.

  Therefore, according to the first embodiment, since the cover 18 is formed in a state where the first concealing portion 20 forms the back surface of the cabinet body 2, the configuration may be extremely simple. In addition, when performing maintenance, inspection work, etc. on the space S for the piping P, it is possible to carry out without removing the cover 18 as a whole.

  In addition, when the pipe P does not exist on the floor surface, as shown in FIG. 5, the plane concealing portion 23 and the hanging surface concealing portion 24 are positioned in substantially the same vertical plane as the first concealing portion 20. The bending direction is changed so that the second concealing portion 21 is positioned on the floor surface F, or the drooping surface concealing portion 24 and the second concealing portion 21 are positioned in substantially the same horizontal plane, and the side view is omitted. It is possible to change the bending direction into an L-shape, whereby the size of the space S can be changed, and an extended storage space S1 can be formed in the lower part on the back side of the cabinet body 2. It is possible to provide versatility such as when a space for the piping P is not required.

[Second Embodiment]
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In the following description, the same or similar components as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals as necessary, and the description is omitted or simplified.

  In the second embodiment, a single back plate 30 is attached to the upper connecting bar 12 and the lower connecting bar 13 in the first embodiment, or the upper connecting bar 12 and the lower connecting bar 13 are not provided as shown in the drawing. A feature is that a single back plate 30 is used as a member constituting the back side, and a cover 18 is provided between the back plate 30 and the bottom plate 15. The cover 18 has substantially the same configuration as the cover 18 of the first embodiment, except that the vertical length or height of the first concealing portion 20 is shortened.

  Even with such a configuration, an access space to the space S can be formed without completely removing the cover 18 as in the first embodiment. In addition, as shown in FIG. By selectively removing the concealing portions 20 and 21, it is possible to form an access space according to the work mode.

The best configuration, method and the like for carrying out the present invention have been disclosed in the above description, but the present invention is not limited to this.
That is, the present invention has been particularly shown and described with respect to particular embodiments, but is not limited to the embodiments described above without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention. Various modifications may be made by those skilled in the art in terms of position, orientation, and other detailed configurations.
Therefore, the description limited to the shape disclosed above is an example for easy understanding of the present invention, and does not limit the present invention. The description by the name of the member which remove | excluded one part or all part is included in this invention.

  For example, in each of the above-described embodiments, the configuration in which the second concealing portion 21 is attached to the upper surface of the rear portion of the bottom plate 15 has been illustrated and described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and as illustrated in FIG. The upper end portion of the hanging portion 16 constituting the bottom side is slightly protruded from the upper surface position of the bottom plate 15, and the second concealing portion 21 can be attached to the front surface of the protruding portion with the screw 19. . In this case, the drooping surface concealing portion shown in the above embodiment becomes the second concealing portion 21, so that the planar size of the cover 18 can be reduced.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 9, a prismatic block-shaped support member 40 is provided as a back side member on the inner surface of each side plate 10, 10, and the first concealing portion 20 is screwed on the upper surface of the support member 40. You may make it attach with 19. Even with such a configuration, it is possible to form an access space by removing any one of the concealing parts 20 and 21, and the first concealing part 20 and the second concealing part 21 are directly connected to each other. The cover 18 can be configured by a single member, and the manufacturing cost can be greatly reduced while the size of the cover 18 is reduced.

  In each of the above-described embodiments, any one of the first and second concealing parts 20 and 21 can be removed so as to open the space S as a whole, but the first and second concealing parts 20 and 21 are provided. It is also possible to provide only a part of the concealment part, that is, the concealment part where the pipe P is located so as to open the space S.

  In addition, as the means for attaching the first and second concealing portions 20 and 21, in each of the above embodiments, the screw 19 is used. However, for example, the attachment may be performed via an appropriate surface fastener or the like. In this case, the cover 18 can be attached and detached more easily.

  Further, the space S is not limited to the space for the pipe P, but includes a case where it is used as a space for a power cable or the like.

The schematic perspective view of the kitchen cabinet which concerns on 1st Embodiment. FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA in FIG. 1. The schematic perspective view which partially cut down the structure of the said kitchen cabinet. The B section enlarged side view of FIG. The schematic sectional drawing which shows the example of the position of the cover when the space for piping is not required. The schematic perspective view similar to FIG. 3 which shows 2nd Embodiment. The side view similar to FIG. 4 which expanded a part of FIG. The principal part sectional drawing which shows the modification of the said embodiment. The principal part sectional drawing which shows the further different modification of the said embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Kitchen cabinet, 2 ... Cabinet main body, 10 ... Side wall, 12 ... Upper stage connection cross, 13 ... Lower stage connection cross, 15 ... Bottom plate, 16 ... Hanging part, 18 ... Cover, 20 ... 1st concealing part, 21 ... 1st 2 concealing parts, 23 ... plane concealing part (intermediate concealing part), 24 ... drooping surface concealing part (intermediate concealing part), 30 ... back plate, P ... piping, S ... space

Claims (6)

In a kitchen cabinet including a cabinet body that connects left and right side plates to each other and opens the front side as a slot, a specific space provided in a lower part in the back of the cabinet body, and a cover that conceals this space ,
The cover includes a first concealing part attached to the back side located between the rear parts of the side plates, and a second concealing part attached to the bottom side located between the lower parts of the side plates,
The said cover is provided between the 1st and 2nd concealment parts so that it can be bent, and access to the said space is permitted by removing one concealment part, The kitchen cabinet characterized by the above-mentioned. In a kitchen cabinet including a cabinet body that connects left and right side plates to each other and opens the front side as a slot, a specific space provided in a lower part in the back of the cabinet body, and a cover that conceals this space ,
The cover includes a first concealing portion attached to a connecting bar or a back plate located between the rear portions of the side plates, a second concealing portion attached to the bottom side located between the lower portions of the side plates, and the first concealment portions. And an intermediate concealing part located between the second concealing parts,
Each of the concealing portions is provided so as to be bendable with each other, and access to the space is permitted by removing one of the first and second concealing portions. A cabinet body that connects the left and right side plates to each other and opens the front side as an entry / exit port, a specific space provided in the lower bottom of the cabinet body, and a cover that determines the upper position and the front position of this space In the kitchen cabinet including
The cover includes a first concealing portion attached to a connecting bar or a back plate located between the rear portions of the side plates, a second concealing portion attached to a bottom portion located between the lower portions of the side plates, and the first concealment portion. A planar concealing portion that determines the upper position in continuation with the lower end of the concealing portion, and a hanging surface concealing portion that is positioned between the front end of the planar concealing portion and the bottom plate to determine the near position,
Each of the concealing portions is provided so as to be bendable with each other, and access to the space is permitted by removing one of the first and second concealing portions. The kitchen cabinet according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the size of the space can be changed by changing a bending direction of the cover. The said cover is comprised by the resin molded product, and each concealing part is provided so that it can be bent mutually by forming a thin hinge part between each concealing part. The listed kitchen cabinet. The kitchen cabinet according to claim 1, 2, 3, or 4, wherein the cover is provided so that an access space to the space can be partially formed.

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