JP2006087532A - Metal cabinet and kitchen counter using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a metal cabinet to be used for a kitchen counter, etc. with high flexibility in changing the disposition, and with maintained outer appearance and strength, and capable of being easily assembled in site. <P>SOLUTION: The front face of the metal cabinet 10 is opened, and a notch 14 or opening 15 is formed in at least one side panel 11 of the cabinet. An edge part 16 formed by bending is disposed in the peripheral end of the notch 14 or opening 15, and a plurality of holes 17 are disposed near the peripheral end of the notch 14 or opening 15. A lid plate 20 is fastened to the notch 14 or opening 15, and a half-cut 22 is formed in a prescribed area of the lid plate. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

The present invention relates to a metal cabinet that is a box made of a stainless steel plate or the like, and a kitchen table using the metal cabinet.

Kitchen stoves with gas stoves and sinks are durable consumer goods that have been used for decades, and in recent years they have been placed in dining rooms, etc., and are now positioned as decorative furniture that affects the indoor environment. It is coming.
Therefore, even in the layout of the kitchen stand, not only the conventional wall-contact arrangement, but many so-called island types that are independently arranged in the center of the room are attracting attention.

  On the other hand, it was common for housewives to be used as cooking equipment even in the kitchen usage method, but it has come to enjoy cooking with children, and it has become a lifestyle. Diversified into a combined kitchen. This lifestyle also changes when the singles, newlyweds, children live together, and the family structure of the couple after the child leaves the nest and how the kitchen is set up once. Therefore, the appearance of a system kitchen that can freely change the kitchen configuration according to the lifestyle is desired.

Under such a background, the applicant uses a kitchen structure as a gate-type frame structure, and a system as shown in Patent Document 1 as a system kitchen in which an article storage unit body can be freely selected or arranged in a space portion of the frame portion. Invented and disclosed a kitchen.
Moreover, as a metal cabinet, patent document 2 which made assembly work easy is also disclosed.

JP 2003-102568 A JP 2000-50980 A

However, in the invention of the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, the gas pipe of the gas stove and the water supply / distribution pipe of the sink rise from the frame parts on both sides of the kitchen table and buffer the article storage unit body when connecting to the sink and the gas stove. There was a restriction that it was not possible to relocate freely. Moreover, in invention of patent document 2, the appropriate solution means with respect to the design change request of a kitchen storage part was not given.

The present invention was devised in view of the current situation, and its purpose is to improve the degree of freedom of the rearrangement of the metal cabinet that is the article storage unit body while maintaining the appearance and strength, The company intends to provide a metal cabinet that can be used for pipe space maintenance and local piping.

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 is a metal cabinet having an open front surface, and has a notch or an opening in at least one of the side plates, and the notch or the opening. It is made to have the edge part bend | folded and formed in the peripheral edge of this.
According to the present invention, since there is a notch or opening prepared in advance in the side plate of the metal cabinet, when placing the cabinet in the gate-shaped kitchen stand, buffering with piping etc. can be avoided, Arrangement positions such as end portions can be arbitrarily selected at the site, and since the opening has an edge, fluttering of the side plate can be prevented and a strong metal cabinet can be obtained.
The length of the edge portion is preferably 3 mm or more so that a fixture for attaching a drawer rail or the like can be installed on the side plate, and 20 mm or less in order to maximize the cabinet storage portion.

Further, the invention described in claim 2 is the configuration of the invention described in claim 1, wherein a plurality of holes for detachably fixing a cover plate for closing the notch are provided in the vicinity of the peripheral edge of the notch or the opening. It is the addition of providing.
According to the present invention, since there is a fixing hole for the lid plate in advance, the lid plate can be easily screwed or latched and used as an inspection port.
Preferably, in order to attach and detach the cover plate without using a tool, a latch tool (trade name: Niflatch) is used.

Further, in the invention according to claim 3, a cover plate in which a half cut for locally constructing a piping through hole such as a gas stove or a water supply pipe is applied to a predetermined region is used in the notch or the opening. Yes.
According to the present invention, the half-cut portion can be punched with a scissors or the like as needed to manufacture a through-hole, which facilitates piping work where the metal cabinet and piping under the gas stove or sink are buffered, and the through-hole Since it can be used as it is in an unnecessary place, it looks good and can maintain the insect-repellent effect.

Moreover, the invention of Claim 4 arrange | positions the metal cabinet of Claims 1 thru | or 3 in the space part in the flame | frame part of a kitchen stand by single or multistage stacking.
According to the present invention, as described above, by using several types of metal cabinets with a predetermined frontage, the cabinet arrangement can be freely made, so that the metal cabinet can be standardized and the productivity can be improved.

Since the metal cabinet according to the present invention has the above-described contents, while maintaining the appearance and strength, it improves the freedom of the rearrangement of the metal cabinet as the article storage unit body, and also maintains the piping space and the site. This has the effect of facilitating piping work and improving productivity.

The details of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a component configuration diagram of a kitchen table to which the present invention is applied, and FIGS. 2 and 3 are perspective views showing an embodiment of a metal cabinet side plate of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a cover plate used in the present invention, and FIG. 5 is an assembled view in which the metal cabinet of the present invention is incorporated in a kitchen table.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the metal cabinet of the present invention is attached to a space portion 5 surrounded by a frame portion 4 of a kitchen table 1 and used as an article storage unit body of a kitchen. The metal cabinet 10 of the first embodiment uses a line finish of 0.8 mm steel plate of SUS304. The thickness of the steel sheet depends on the size of the cabinet, but considering the pressing force from the front, rear, left and right of the cabinet, the weight of the kitchen-related items in the cabinet, etc., 0.5 mm to 1 mm is preferable in order to maintain the cabinet strength. .

  The metal cabinet 10 is open at the front, and includes a bottom plate 13, a back plate 12, side plates 11 on both sides, and upper reinforcing bars 18. In this embodiment, the bottom plate 13, the back plate 12, the side plates 11, and the reinforcing bars 18 are individually manufactured, and each plate is connected to be assembled into a box. The necessary peripheral portions of each plate are bent in an L shape, and screw holes for connecting screws are provided in the bent portions. The metal cabinet 10 is assembled into a box by screwing each plate using these screw holes. A reinforcing bar 18 which is a C-shaped stainless steel folded plate is screwed and fixed to the upper part of the box to maintain the strength of the cabinet.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the side plate 11 of the metal cabinet 10 is provided with a notch 14 or an opening 15 in at least one of the side plates 11, and a peripheral edge 16 is formed at the peripheral end thereof. I am letting. 2 shows an example of the upper cabinet 10b of the metal cabinet 10 shown in FIG. 1, and the side plate 11 of FIG. 3 shows an example of the lower cabinet 10c of the metal cabinet 10 shown in FIG. Both edges 16 are bent outwardly of the box, and the length is preferably as short as possible in order to increase the storage efficiency of the kitchen space, but is preferably 3 mm or more in order to maintain the cabinet strength. The bent edge 16 prevents the side plate 11 having the opening 15 or the notch 14 from fluttering and improves the strength of the cabinet.

Although the upper cabinet 10b and the lower cabinet 10c of the metal cabinet 10 are not shown, for example, when the metal cabinet 10d on the right side of the drawing of FIG. Thus, the opening 15 of the lower cabinet 10c becomes a maintenance opening corresponding to the valve positions of the drainage pipe 9, the water supply pipe 7, the hot water supply pipe 8, and the like. Therefore, the use environment in which the rearrangement of the metal cabinet 10 of the kitchen user is considered in advance and the opening 15 or the notch 14 is formed on the side plate 11 can be changed according to the user's preference. Can provide kitchen storage. In addition, even in the manufacture of the metal cabinet 10 of the rearrangement specification, it is possible to rationalize the manufacturing because a standard one with the notch 14 or the opening 15 can be manufactured in advance.

  Further, the metal cabinet 10 of the present embodiment can have the cover plate 20 fixed to the notch 14 or the opening 15 of the side plate 11. For this purpose, two holes 17 are provided in the vicinity of the peripheral edge of the notch 14 or the opening 15 for removably fastening the cover plate 20 that closes the notch 14. Although the number and position of the holes 17 are not particularly limited, the holes 17 are provided on both sides of the notch 14 in FIG. 2, and the cover plate 20 corresponding to the notch 14 is shown in FIG. The cover plate 20 is attached to the notch 14 by inserting a latch tool (trade name; Niflatch) (not shown) in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG. 4 in correspondence with the holes 17 on both sides of the notch in the side plate 11 from the inside of the cabinet. Easy to fasten. Since the lid 20 can be used detachably from the inside of the metal cabinet 10 in this way, maintenance of the water supply pipes and the like arranged in the kitchen stand frame is easily performed by removing the stored items in the metal cabinet from the cabinet. can do.

  Further, a half cut 22 capable of providing a through hole 21 is provided in a predetermined region in the lid 20. The half-cut 22 is a through-hole 21 that is manufactured locally when the gas stove 2 or the pipe of the water distribution pipe is passed through the notch 14 or the opening 15, and the opening can be easily manufactured by punching using a scissors or the like. . In this embodiment, the half-cut through-hole 21 is prepared in advance by punching and leaving three portions of the through-hole 21 with a width of 5 mm. In the field, providing an opening having a curved portion in a stainless steel plate is a difficult task because a dedicated instrument cannot be prepared. Thus, the through hole 21 can be easily manufactured with a scissor that is a general tool. . The through hole 21 is then deburred with a file or the like.

As described above, the embodiments of the present invention have been described. However, the specific configuration is not limited to these embodiments. For example, the above-described method of assembling the metal cabinet 10 may weld and join the side plates 11. Alternatively, the bottom plate 13, the side plates 11, the back plate 12, and the top plate may be formed by bending a single stainless steel plate. In addition, in the present embodiment, the reinforcing bars 18 on the upper part of the metal cabinet are provided only at two locations on both sides in order to reduce the material cost of the stainless steel plate. May be covered. Furthermore, although SUS304 is used as the material of the metal cabinet 10, other stainless steel such as SUS430, coated steel plate, galvanized steel plate, enameled steel plate and the like can also be used.

Further, although the storage structure in the metal cabinet has not been described above, by using such a metal cabinet 10, the metal cabinet 10 can be multi-staged or single, and a drawer 30 can be provided by providing a rail inside. Since it can be attached or simply provided with a door 31, the storage body of the kitchen stand space 5 can be laid out according to the user's preference.
FIG. 5 shows the completed kitchen table 1 after assembling the storage components of FIG.

It is a component block diagram of the kitchen stand to which this invention is applied. It is a perspective view which shows the Example of a side plate in the metal cabinet of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the other Example of a side plate in the metal cabinet of this invention. It is a perspective view which shows the Example of the cover plate used by this invention. It is the assembly completion figure which integrated the metal cabinet of this invention in the kitchen stand.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Kitchen stand 2 Gas stove 3 Sink 4 Frame part 5 Space part 6 Gas pipe 7 Water supply pipe 8 Hot water supply pipe 9 Drain pipe 10 Metal cabinet 11 Side plate 12 Back plate 13 Bottom plate 14 Notch 15 Opening 16 Edge 17 Hole 18 Reinforcement bar 20 Cover plate 21 Through hole 22 Half cut 30 Drawer 31 Door

Claims (4)

A metal cabinet (10) having an open front surface, which has a notch (14) or an opening (15) on at least one side plate (11), and the notch (14) or the opening (15). A metal cabinet characterized in that it has an edge portion (16) formed by bending at the peripheral end of).   A plurality of holes (17) are provided in the vicinity of the peripheral edge of the notch (14) or the opening (15) for removably attaching a cover plate (20) for closing the notch (14). The metal cabinet according to claim 1, wherein:   The cutout (14) or the opening (15) is provided with a half cut (22) in a predetermined region for constructing a piping through hole (21) such as a gas stove (2) and a water supply pipe (7). 3. The metal cabinet according to claim 1, wherein a lid plate (20) is used. A metal table according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the metal cabinet is arranged in the space (5) in the frame (4) of the kitchen table (1) alone or in a multi-stage stack.

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