JP2006063736A - Face-to-face kitchen water faucet - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a water faucet to be mounted in a counter provided between a kitchen room and a dining room for allowing easy water discharge not only from the kitchen room but also from the dining room. <P>SOLUTION: A face-to-face kitchen 1 has the main counter 3 provided between the kitchen room 4 and the dining room 5. The main counter 3 has the water faucet 14 from which hot water is discharged and a sink 12 to which the hot water discharged from the water faucet 14 is supplied. The faucet 14 comprises a body 15 storing a valve mechanism 26 for adjusting the flow rate of the hot water, a water discharge pipe 16 from which the hot water is discharged with the flow rate adjusted by the valve mechanism 26, and a lever 17 for discharging/stopping the hot water in linkage with the valve mechanism 26. On the outer periphery of the body 14 facing the dining room 5, an auxiliary handle 18 is provided for discharging the water from the water discharge pipe 16 even when the lever 17 is at a water stop position. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a face-to-face kitchen in which a counter is provided between a kitchen room and a dining room, and more particularly to a face-to-face kitchen faucet attached to the counter.

Traditionally, the kitchen room and dining room were formed as separate rooms inside the building, cooking was done in the kitchen, and the dining room was used as a room for families to relax. Face-to-face kitchen units with a kitchen room and dining room in the room have become popular.
As such a face-to-face kitchen unit, one disclosed in, for example, Patent Document 1 is known. In Patent Document 1, a counter is provided between the kitchen room and the dining room, and a faucet and a sink are attached to the upper surface of the counter. And a water discharge pipe through which the adjusted hot water is discharged, and hot water is discharged from the water discharge pipe to the sink by operating the lever. And when eating in a dining room, the delivery of the dish and tableware made in the kitchen room to the dining room can be performed using a counter. In addition, it is possible to see a person relaxing in the dining room while working in the kitchen room and to have a conversation.

JP 2003-310366 A

  In such Patent Document 1, the faucet attached to the counter is provided for cooking and the like in the kitchen room, and the lever for discharging and stopping hot water extends toward the kitchen room. Therefore, it can be easily operated from the kitchen room. However, for example, when a person who is relaxed in the dining room uses water, it is necessary to operate the lever of the faucet, but the lever extends toward the kitchen room, so it is difficult to operate from the dining room In this case, the lever cannot be operated as intended by the user, and the person in the kitchen room operates the lever by swirling from the dining room to the kitchen room. It was necessary to prepare water and a solution was desired.

  This invention was made paying attention to the problem which exists in such a prior art, The subject is the faucet attached to the counter provided between the kitchen room and the dining room, It should be easy to operate from the dining room as well as the kitchen room.

In order to achieve the above object, in the first aspect of the present invention, a main counter is provided between the kitchen room and the dining room. The main counter has a faucet for discharging hot water and water discharged from the faucet. In a face-to-face kitchen equipped with a sink to which hot and cold water is supplied, the faucet has a main body in which a valve mechanism for adjusting the flow rate of hot water is accommodated, and a water discharge pipe for discharging hot water adjusted by the valve mechanism And a lever for discharging and stopping hot water connected to the valve mechanism, and at a position facing the dining room on the outer periphery of the main body, an auxiliary handle for discharging water from the water discharge pipe even when the lever is in the water stop position Is provided.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the face-to-face kitchen faucet according to the first aspect of the present invention, a water flow path is formed in the main body, and the water flow path and the water discharge pipe communicate with each other without a valve mechanism. A bypass path is formed, and the auxiliary handle discharges water from the water discharge pipe by opening and closing the bypass path.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the face-to-face kitchen faucet according to the first or second aspect of the present invention, the auxiliary handle is provided at a lower portion of the water discharge pipe.

  According to claim 1 of the present invention, water can be discharged by operating the auxiliary handle of the faucet not only from the kitchen room side but also from the dining room side, and those who relax in the dining room purposely move to the kitchen room. It's easy to use because there is no need to operate the faucet in an unreasonable posture.

  According to the second aspect, the operability can be greatly improved by a simple change by simply adding a bypass to a normal water faucet.

  According to the third aspect, since the auxiliary handle is provided at the lower part of the water discharge pipe, the auxiliary handle is provided at a low position of the main body, and the operation is easy.

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

  As shown in FIG. 1, the face-to-face kitchen 1 is a horizontally long sub-counter 2 disposed in close contact along a wall surface A standing inside the building, and protrudes in a perpendicular direction from one end of the sub-counter 2. The main counter 3 is arranged so as to partition a kitchen room 4 for cooking or the like and a dining room 5 as a space where families can relax.

  The sub-counter 2 is provided with a storage cabinet 6 in which tableware and seasonings can be taken in and out along the wall surface A, and a drawer cabinet 7 in which small items can be stored. It is attached. A refrigerator 9 is disposed adjacent to the left side of the sub-counter 2.

  The main counter 3 is formed in a horizontally long shape so as to partition the kitchen room 4 and the dining room 5, and the upper surface of the main counter 3 performs cooking with a gas appliance 10 as a heating tool in order from the side facing the sub-counter 2. A cooking space 11 and a sink 12 are provided as work areas, and a faucet 14 is attached to a back guard portion 13 formed behind the sink 12. The kitchen room 4 is a space for cooking and the like between the sub-counter 2 and the main counter 3, and a space is provided so that a worker who performs cooking can freely move.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the faucet 14 has a vertically long main body 15, a water discharge pipe 16 rotatably attached to the main body 15, and hot water supplied from the water discharge pipe 16. A lever 17 for adjusting the flow rate and temperature of the water and an auxiliary handle 18 for discharging water from the dining room 5 side are provided.

  A mounting portion 19 is formed at the lower end of the main body 15, and a male screw portion 20 is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the mounting portion 19, and the mounting portion 19 is inserted into a mounting hole 13 a formed in the back guard portion 13. The nut 21 is screwed onto the male screw portion 20 from below, and is attached to the back guard portion 13. A water supply pipe 22 and a hot water supply pipe 23 communicating with the water supply source and the hot water supply source on the upstream side are attached to the mounting portion 19 so as to be parallel to each other. A water flow path 24 and a hot water flow path 25 communicating with the water supply pipe 22 and the hot water supply pipe 23 are formed inside the main body 15, respectively. The valve mechanism 26 in which the water and hot water supplied from are mixed is accommodated. The valve mechanism 26 is formed therein with a valve chamber 27 communicating with the water flow path 24 and the hot water flow path 25. The valve chamber 27 has a fixed plate 28 formed of ceramics and the same material as the fixed plate 28. And the movable plate 29 is connected to the lever 17 via the handle shaft 30, and the lever 17 operates to control the valve between the fixed plate 28 and the movable plate 29. By changing the correspondence between opening and closing, water, hot water or hot water can be supplied to the water discharge pipe 16.

  A water discharge pipe 16 for supplying hot water adjusted by the valve mechanism 26 to the sink 12 is rotatably mounted on the outer periphery of the main body 15. The valve mechanism 26 communicates with a passage 16 a formed in the water discharge pipe 16, and the hot water adjusted by the valve mechanism 26 passes through the passage 16 a of the water discharge pipe 16 and is supplied toward the sink 12. The water discharge pipe 16 extends obliquely upward toward the sink 12 and can be swung left and right, and the lever 17 is inclined obliquely upward toward the sink 12 and the kitchen room 4 above the water discharge pipe 16. .

  An intermediate portion of the water passage 24 communicates with the bypass passage 32. The bypass path 32 directly connects the water flow path 24 and the passage 16a of the water discharge pipe 16 without using the valve mechanism 26. An opening hole 32a communicating with the outside is formed in the middle of the flow path of the bypass path 32, and this opening hole 32a faces the dining room 5 when the faucet 14 is attached to the back guard portion 13. An opening / closing valve 33 for supplying water passing through the water flow path 24 to the passage 16a of the water discharge pipe 16 is mounted in the opening hole 32a. The on-off valve 33 includes a valve body 35 that opens and closes a valve port 34 formed in the bypass path 32, a valve shaft 36 that is connected to the valve body 35, and an auxiliary handle 18 that is attached to the tip of the valve shaft 36. By operating the auxiliary handle 18 in the valve opening direction, moving the valve body 35 via the valve shaft 36 and opening the valve port 34, the water flow path 24 and the bypass path 32 communicate with each other. The passing water can be supplied to the water discharge pipe 16 without passing through the valve mechanism 26. Such an auxiliary handle 18 is attached to a position opposite to the lever 17 on the outer peripheral surface of the main body 15, and the faucet 14 is attached to the back guard part 13 and needs to be operated to discharge hot water. Even if the lever 17 faces the sink 12 and the kitchen room 4, water can be discharged from the water discharge pipe 16 toward the sink 12 by operating the auxiliary handle 18 from the dining room 5.

  In the faucet 14 of the present invention, the flow rate and temperature of hot water are adjusted by operating the lever 17, and the adjusted hot water can be discharged from the water discharge pipe 16 toward the sink 12. In this case, since the lever 17 of the faucet 14 faces the kitchen room 4, it is easy to operate the lever 17 from the kitchen room 4 side. However, if the lever 17 is operated from the dining room 5 side, the lever 17 17 is operated from the rear, and it is necessary to reach far away, and the operability is poor. Therefore, the faucet 14 of the present invention is provided with an auxiliary handle 18 on the back side of the main body 15 opposite to the lever 17. The auxiliary handle 18 can open and close a bypass passage 32 that communicates the water flow path 24 and the passage 16a of the water discharge pipe 16. If the auxiliary handle 18 is operated in the water discharge direction, the lever 17 is in the water stop position. Even if it exists, water can be discharged toward the sink 12 from the water discharge pipe 16.

In this embodiment, the faucet is a single lenner in which the flow rate and temperature of hot water are adjusted by operating a lever, but it may be a two-handle type, a mixing type, or a thermostat type.
Also, the equipment installed at the counter can be arbitrarily changed.

It is a perspective view of a face-to-face kitchen. It is a side view of the state which attached the faucet of this invention to the counter. It is an expanded sectional view of the state where the faucet of the present invention was attached to the counter.

Explanation of symbols

1: Face-to-face kitchen 3: Main counter 4: Kitchen room 5: Dining room 12: Sink 14: Water faucet 15: Main body 16: Water discharge pipe 17: Lever 18: Auxiliary handle 24: Water flow path 26: Valve mechanism 32: Bypass path

Claims (3)

  A main counter is provided between the kitchen room and the dining room, and the main counter has a faucet for discharging hot water and a sink for supplying hot water discharged from the faucet. The faucet has a main body accommodating a valve mechanism for adjusting the flow rate of hot water, a water discharge pipe for discharging hot water adjusted by the valve mechanism, a lever connected to the valve mechanism for discharging and stopping hot water. A faucet for a face-to-face kitchen provided with an auxiliary handle for discharging water from the water discharge pipe at a position facing the dining room on the outer periphery of the main body even when the lever is in the water stop position.   A water flow path is formed in the main body, a bypass path is formed between the water flow path and the water discharge pipe without a valve mechanism, and the auxiliary handle opens and closes the bypass path to discharge water from the water discharge pipe. The faucet for a face-to-face kitchen according to claim 1, which is performed. The face-to-face kitchen faucet according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the auxiliary handle is provided at a lower portion of the water discharge pipe.

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