JP2006254703A - Tool for additionally disposing accessory for water tank - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tool for additionally disposing an accessory for a water tank in order to additionally dispose an accessory in a water tank, with which an accessory is simply and stably disposed in a water tank and which has a simple structure and an inexpensive cost. <P>SOLUTION: The tool S3 for additionally disposing an article for a water tank has an article supporting part 7 for supporting the accessory 10 to be additionally disposed in the water tank 9, an engagement part 31 which is arranged on the accessory supporting part 7 and attached to and detached from the top edge part of the water tank (e.g. an upper frame 91 of the water tank) and a suction cup 6 which is arranged on the accessory supporting part 7 and is adsorbable on the external surface of the side wall 92 of the water tank. The engagement part 31 includes a guide member 311 to double as a seat part to be seated from the upper part of the top edge part of the water tank, an abutment member 312 which takes an abutment position in which the abutment member abuts on the top edge part of the water tank from the inside of the water tank and a retreat position in which the abutment part is retreated from the abutment position and a abutment position maintaining part 313 for maintaining the abutment member 312 at the abutment position. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a water tank article attachment tool for attaching an article to a water tank that can be used for breeding and appreciating animals such as fish, plant growth and viewing, and the like.

Articles may be attached later to water tanks that can be used for rearing and appreciating animals such as fish, and for growing and appreciating plants.
Taking an aquarium fish tank as an example, a purification device that purifies the water in the aquarium, an air pump that supplies bubbles into the water, a water temperature regulator for adjusting the water temperature, a blower that blows air to the water surface to adjust the water temperature A lighting fixture or the like may be attached. In the case of a plant aquarium, a water purification device, a water temperature controller, and the like may be attached.

  Such articles may be mounted on the upper frame of the water tank as described in, for example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 3-17655 and Japanese Patent No. 3476155. As described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 2003-236484, a suction cup provided on an article may be attached to a water tank side wall (which may be made of synthetic resin, but typically a glass side wall). . Further, for example, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-47367, it may be attached by hooking and engaging a hook portion integrally provided on an article with a water tank upper frame.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 3-17655 Japanese Patent No. 3476155 JP 2003-236484 A JP 2003-47367 A

  However, when the article is placed on the water tank upper frame, if the article is heavy, the placement state is relatively stably maintained. However, if the article is light, the user's hand touches it. Articles can be easily detached from the water tank upper frame by external force, which is not sufficient in terms of the stability of attaching the articles.

  When adsorbing and holding an article on the side wall of the water tank with a suction cup, the suction cup adsorbed on the side wall of the water tank may gradually weaken as the adsorbing force gradually decreases with the passage of time from the start of adsorption, and may fall off the side wall. If the external force is directly applied to the suction cup, the suction cup may be deformed, and the suction cup may fall off from the water tank side wall. Supporting articles using only the suction cup is not sufficient in terms of support stability. .

  When hook parts provided integrally with the article are hooked and engaged with the water tank upper frame, if the article is a lightweight object, the support becomes unstable or the article tilts due to external force, etc. It cannot be said that the support stability is sufficient.

  Accordingly, the present invention provides an aquarium article attachment tool for attaching an article to a water tank, wherein the article can be easily and stably attached to a water tank, and the structure is simple and inexpensive. The issue is to provide.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides an article support part that supports an article to be attached to a water tank, an engagement part that is provided on the article support part and that is detachable from an upper edge of the water tank, A suction cup that is provided on the article support portion and can be adsorbed to the outer surface of the water tank side wall, and the engaging portion is seated on the water tank upper edge from above, and the water tank inner edge on the water tank upper edge. A water tank that includes a contact member that can be contacted from the contact position or a retracted position that is retracted from the contact position, and a contact position maintaining unit that can maintain the contact member at the contact position. A tool with an article is provided.

  According to the article attachment tool for aquarium according to the present invention, the article to be attached to the aquarium is supported by the article support portion, and the abutting member in the engagement portion is seated on the upper end edge of the aquarium from above in the retracted position. The suction cup is adsorbed on the outer surface of the water tank side wall, and the abutting member in the engaging part is brought into contact with the upper edge of the water tank from the inside of the water tank, and the abutting position is maintained in the abutting position maintaining part. It can be easily attached to the water tank.

  In this state where the article is attached to the water tank, the seating part of the engaging part is seated on the upper edge of the water tank, the abutting member contacts the upper edge of the water tank from the inside of the water tank, and the suction cup Adsorbed on the outer surface. In this manner, the article is stably attached to the water tank by the engaging portion and the suction cup. Even if the water tank user's hand or the like touches the article itself or a part of the article-attached tool, etc., an external force is applied, the article posture is unlikely to go wrong and it is difficult to drop out of the tank.

In addition, the aquarium article attachment tool according to the present invention is simple in structure and can be provided at a low cost.
In addition, the article attachment tool for water tanks which concerns on this invention can also be easily removed from a water tank by retracting the contact member in an engaging part from a water tank upper edge part, and removing a suction cup from a water tank side wall.

  The article support portion may be integrated with the article by being connected to the article to be attached to the aquarium or formed integrally with the article, and should be attached to the aquarium. You may have the goods holding | maintenance part which makes an article removable to this goods support part. If such an article holding unit is employed, for example, even when an article breaks down, the article can be exchanged for a normal one without exchanging the water tank article attaching device. Depending on the article holding unit, it is also possible to exchange and attach an already held article to another article.

  When employing an article support section having an article holding section, the article holding section may hold not only one type of article but also a plurality of types of articles. For example, a pipe that can hold a plurality of types of pipes and hoses that differ in outer diameter may be used. In addition, the article holding unit may be capable of holding not only one article but also two or more articles.

  In addition, also when the article support part is formed integrally with the article, the number of kinds of the article may be two or more, and the number of articles may be two or more.

  The engaging portion can be formed in various ways, but the following engaging portion can be given as an example of a simple structure. That is, the abutting member of the engaging portion is provided on the article support portion so as to be able to reciprocate from the abutting position to the retracted position and from the retracted position to the corresponding contacting position. The maintaining portion includes a plurality of claw engaging portions provided on the article support portion, and a claw portion provided on the reciprocable contact member and capable of engaging with and disengaging from the claw engaging portion. It is the engaging part containing.

  In the case of this engaging part, the contact member may be provided directly on the article support part or may be provided via another member or part (for example, the seating part). The plurality of claw engaging portions constituting the contact position maintaining portion may also be provided directly on the article support portion or may be provided via another member or part (for example, the seating portion). .

  The seating part may also be provided directly on the article support part, or may be provided on the article support part via another member, part, or the like.

  As described above, according to the present invention, a water tank article attaching tool for attaching an article to a water tank, the article can be easily and stably attached to the water tank, and the structure is simple and inexpensive. Attached tools can be provided.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below.
FIG. 1 shows an example S1 of an aquarium article attaching device according to the present invention in a state where an article A is attached to a water tank 9. FIG. 2 is a view of the article A shown in FIG. 1 viewed from the right side in FIG.

  The article A attached to the water tank by the attachment tool S1 is a water tank water temperature adjusting blower A, and the article support part which is a constituent element of the attachment tool S1 is formed integrally with the blower A. It also serves as a part or the whole of a blower support 2 described later, which is a part of the device A.

  The blower A includes a blower 1 having an intake port 11 and an exhaust port 12 and a blower support unit 2 that supports the blower 1.

  The blower support section 2 includes a blower holding portion 21 having a case shape in which the blower 1 is accommodated and held therein, and a blower duct 22 connected thereto. An outside air suction port 211 is formed in the blower holding portion 21, and the outside air suction port 211 communicates with the intake port 11 of the blower 1 through an intake passage formed in the blower holding portion 21.

  The air duct 22 rises from a lower end opening 22a (one end opening as viewed from the whole air duct 22), and a lateral portion 222 that extends from the rising portion to the opposite side of the blower 1 by approximately 90 degrees and extends in the lateral direction. have. A lower end opening 22 a of the rising portion 221 faces the exhaust port 12 of the blower 1. The lateral portion 222 has a tip portion inclined downward toward the water surface WF in the water tank 9. The front end opening of the lateral portion 222 (the other end opening as viewed from the whole air duct 22) is used as the air blowing port 22b.

  The blower support part 2 that also serves as a part or all of the article support part in the article-attached tool S1 has an engaging part that can be engaged with and detached from the upper end edge of the water tank (here, the upper frame 91 of the water tank 9). 31 and a suction cup 32 that can be adsorbed on the outer surface of the side wall (here, a glass plate) of the water tank 9. The engaging part 31 and the suction cup 32 constitute an attachment part 3 for attaching the article A to the water tank 9.

  The suction cup 32 is provided on the surface of the blower holding portion 21 in the case form of the blower support portion 2 that faces the water tank 9. The suction cup 32 is known per se, and can be adsorbed on the flat surface by pressing a flexible umbrella-shaped portion against the flat surface to eliminate internal air.

  FIG. 3A is a cross-sectional view taken along the line XX of FIG. 1 for showing the air duct lateral portion 222 of the air blowing device A shown in FIG. 1 and the engaging portion 31 provided thereon. FIG. 3B is a plan view of the contact member 312 in the engaging portion 31.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 3A, the engaging portion 31 includes a pair of guide members 311 provided on the lower surface of the air duct lateral portion 222 and a contact member 312 guided by the guide members 311. It is out. The guide member 311 extends in the same direction as the air duct lateral portion 222. As will be described later, the guide member 311 also serves as a seating portion for seating on the upper frame 91 of the water tank 9 from above.

  The abutting member 312 is a plate-like abutting member main body 312a extending in the vertical direction parallel to the air duct rising portion 221, and is integrally connected to the upper end of the main body in a direction of approximately 90 degrees with respect to the main body. The plate-shaped slide portion 312b extends.

  As shown in FIG. 3A, the slide portion 312b has its both ear portions 312b 'slidably fitted to the pair of guide members 311 so that the contact member 312 Can reciprocate in the direction approaching the rising portion 221 of the air duct and in the direction moving away from the rising portion 221.

  The engaging portion 31 also includes a maintaining portion 313 that maintains the contact member 312 in its current position. The retaining portion 313 is formed between the pair of guide members 311 on the lower surface of the air duct lateral portion 222, and the claw portions provided on the slide portion 312b of the contact member 312 and the multi-step claw engaging portion 313a. 313b. As shown in FIG. 3B, the claw portion 313b is formed at the free end of a cantilevered flexible tongue 313c formed by cutting the slide portion 312b into a gate shape.

  When the contact member 312 is slid along the guide member 311, the tongue 313 c on the slide portion 312 b of the contact member 312 is bent up and down, and the claw portion 313 b on the tongue piece and the claw engaging portion on the air duct side. Since the engagement and disengagement with 313a are repeated, the contact member 312 can be reciprocated along the guide member 311. On the other hand, when the movement of the contact member 312 is stopped, the contact member 312 is brought to that position by the claw portion 313b and the claw engagement portion 313a that is engaged with the claw portion 313b at that time. Can be maintained.

  As will be described later, the contact member 312 can be moved to contact the upper frame 91 of the water tank 9 from the inside of the water tank, and can be maintained at the contact position. That is, the maintaining unit 313 maintains the contact member 312 at its current position, and maintains the contact member 312 in contact with the upper edge of the water tank 9 (here, the water tank upper frame 91) from the inside of the water tank. Functions as a contact position maintaining unit.

  According to the article attachment tool S1 described above, as shown in FIG. 1, the contact member 312 in the engaging portion 31 is placed at a position somewhat away from the air duct rising portion 221, and the seating portion in the engaging portion 31 is placed. A pair of guide members 311 that also serve as seats are seated on the water tank upper frame 91 from above, the suction cup 32 is attracted to the outer surface of the water tank side wall (here, a glass plate) 92, and the contact member 312 of the engaging portion 31 is attached to the guide member 311. The air blower A is placed in the water tank by sliding it toward the air duct rising portion 221 and making it contact the water tank upper frame 91 from the inside of the water tank and maintaining the contact position in the contact position maintaining part 313. 9 can be easily attached.

  Thus, in the state where the air blower A is attached to the water tank 9, the outside air suction port 211 formed in the blower holding portion 21 of the air blower A is located outside the water tank 9 and below the upper end opening surface of the water tank. Located on the opposite side of the aquarium. On the other hand, the air outlet 22b of the air duct 22 faces the tank water surface WF.

  Therefore, by operating the blower 1, the outside air around the water tank is sucked from the outside air suction port 211 to the blower air intake port 11, exhausted from the blower exhaust port 12, blown by the blower duct 22, and from the blower port 22 b to the inside of the tank. Air can be blown and blown toward the water surface WF, whereby the water temperature in the tank can be adjusted.

According to the article attachment tool S1 described above, in a state where the blower A is attached to the water tank 9, the seating portion (guide member 311) of the engaging portion 31 is seated on the water tank upper frame 91 and the abutting member 312 is provided. The suction cup 32 is in contact with the outer surface of the water tank side wall 92 in contact with the water tank upper frame 91 from the inside of the water tank. Thus, the blower A is stably attached to the water tank 9 by the engaging portion 31 and the suction cup 32. Even if an external force is applied to the air blower A or a part of the attachment S1 by lightly touching the hand of the water tank user, the posture of the air blower A is not likely to be out of order, and it is difficult to drop out of the water tank 9.
Further, the article-attached tool S1 can be simply provided with a structure and can be provided at a low cost.

In the state where the air blower A is attached to the water tank 9 by the engaging portion 31 and the suction cup 32, the outside air suction port 211 is located outside the water tank 9 and below the upper end opening surface. It is suppressed that the steam rising from the water surface WF is directly sucked into the blower A, and the outside air around the water tank is sucked into the blower.
Therefore, even when the amount of air blown to the water surface WF is the same as or substantially the same as that of a conventional blower, the water temperature in the tank can be adjusted efficiently by the air blow.

  The abutting member 312 in the engaging portion 31 is retracted from the water tank upper frame 91, and the suction cup 32 is removed from the water tank side wall 92, so that the article-attached tool S1, and thus the blower A here is also easily removed from the water tank. Can do.

  The present invention is not limited to the article-attached tool S1 described above. For example, as a contact position maintaining part for the contact member 312 in the engaging part to the upper edge of the water tank, a claw engaging part 313a and a flexible member that can be engaged and disengaged to the claw engaging part 313a like the maintaining part 313. Instead of the configuration including the claw portion 313b on the sexual tongue 313c, a bolt 313d erected on the lower surface of the air duct lateral portion 222 is contacted as in the engagement portion 31 ′ illustrated in FIG. A maintenance portion 313 ′ having a configuration in which a long nut 313e formed in the slide portion 312b of the member 312 is penetrated and a locking nut 313f is screwed into the penetrated bolt portion from the lower side of the slide portion 312b can also be adopted.

FIG. 5 shows another example S2 of the article attachment tool according to the present invention.
5 includes a plate-shaped article support portion 4, an engagement portion 5 provided continuously with the article support portion 4, and a suction cup 6 provided on the article support portion 4.

  The article support unit 4 has an article holding unit 41. The article holding portion 41 is formed by forming small and large article gripping portions 411 and 412 on the substrate portion 410 that can be expanded to hold a pipe or a hose, and the support portion main body is formed at the portion of the substrate portion 410. Connection is supported.

  The engaging portion 5 includes a plate-shaped seating portion 51, a contact member 52, and a contact position maintaining portion that extend from the upper end of the article support portion 4 substantially at right angles to the opposite side of the article holding portion 41. 53. The contact member 52 is formed of a plate body bent at a right angle, and includes a contact member body 521 parallel to the article support portion 4 and a slide portion 522 that slides along the lower surface of the seat portion 51. Yes.

  The abutting position maintaining portion 53 is erected from the upper surface side of the seating portion 51 to a bolt 531 standing on the upper surface of the slide portion 522 and penetrating through a long hole 533 provided in the seating portion 51, and a through-projecting portion of the bolt. It consists of a locking nut 532 that mates.

  The attachment S2 is configured such that the seat 51 is seated on the water tank upper frame 91 from above with the abutting member 52 being slightly away from the article support 4, and the suction cup 6 is adsorbed to the outer surface of the water tank side wall 92. The contact member 52 is slid toward the water tank upper frame 91 and brought into contact with the upper frame 92 from the inside of the water tank, and the lock nut 532 is tightened there to maintain the position of the contact member 52, so that the water tank 9 is attached. it can. And the holding parts 411 and 412 of the article holding part 41 in the article support part 4 support, for example, pipes or hoses for purifying aquarium water having different outer diameters, so that the pipes or hoses can be easily attached to the aquarium 9. , Can be attached stably. The attachment S1 can be removed from the water tank 9 by loosening the locking nut 532 and moving the contact member 52 backward and removing the suction cup 6 from the water tank side wall.

FIG. 6 shows another example S3 of the article attachment tool according to the present invention.
The aquarium article attachment tool S3 shown in FIG. 6 includes an inverted L-shaped plate-shaped article support portion 7 as viewed from the side, an engagement portion 31 provided on the article support portion 7, and a suction cup 6 provided on the article support portion 4. Is included.

  The article support part 7 has an article holding part 8. The article holding unit 8 includes a receiving shelf part 81 connected to the lower end of the vertical part 71 of the article support part 7 and an article holding band 82 provided in the middle of the vertical part 71.

  The engaging portion 31 has substantially the same structure as the engaging portion 31 in the attachment S1 shown in FIG. 1, and a pair of guide members 311 provided on the lower surface of the lateral portion 72 of the article support portion 8, The contact member 312 is slidable along the contact member 312, and the maintaining unit 313 maintains the position of the contact member 312.

  In the attachment S3, the guide member 311 that also serves as a seating portion is seated on the water tank upper frame 91 with the abutting member 312 being slightly away from the longitudinal portion 71 of the article support portion 4, and the suction cup 6 is placed on the water tank side wall 92. In addition, the contact member 312 is slid toward the water tank upper frame 91 to contact the upper frame 92 from the inside of the water tank, and the position is maintained by the contact position maintaining unit 313. It can be attached to the water tank 9. Then, the article 10 to be attached to the water tank is placed on the shelf 81 of the article holding section 8 in the article support section 4 and the article 10 is held in the support section 7 by the band 82, so that the article 10 is placed in the water tank 9. Can be attached.

  INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention can be used for easily and stably attaching articles to be attached to a water tank that can be used for breeding and appreciation of animals such as fish, plant growth and appreciation, and the like.

It is a figure which shows one example of the attachment tool for articles | goods for water tanks which concerns on this invention in the state which attached the article to the water tank. It is the figure which looked at the articles | goods (air blower) attached to the water tank with the attachment tool shown in FIG. 1 from the right side in FIG. 3A is a cross-sectional view taken along the line XX of FIG. 1 for showing a lateral direction portion of the blower duct of the blower shown in FIG. 1 and an engaging portion provided on the blow duct, and FIG. ) Is a plan view of a contact member in the engaging portion. It is a figure which shows the other example of the contact position maintenance part in an engaging part. It is a perspective view of the other example of the fixture with an article for water tanks concerning the present invention. It is a figure which shows the further another example of the fixture with articles | goods for water tanks which concerns on this invention in the state attached to the water tank.

Explanation of symbols

S1 Water tank article attachment tool A Water tank water temperature adjustment blower 1 Blower 11 Intake port 12 Exhaust port 2 Blower support part 21 serving as part or all of the article support part of attachment S1 Blower holding part 211 Outside air suction port 22 Blow duct 221 Air duct rising portion 222 Air duct lateral portion 22a Lower end opening of the rising portion 221 (one end opening of the duct)
22b Front end opening (air outlet) of the lateral portion 222 (opening of the other end of the duct)
3 Attached portion 31 Engaging portion 311 Guide member 312 also serving as a seating portion Contact member 312a Contact member main body 312b Slide portion 312b 'Slide portion ear 313 Contact position maintaining portion 313a Claw engaging portion 313b Claw portion 313c Flexible Sexual tongue piece 32 Suction cup 31 ′ Engaging portion 313 ′ Contact position maintaining portion 313 d Bolt 313 e Long hole 313 f Locking nut S 2 Water tank article attachment tool 4 Article support portion 41 Article holding portion 410 Substrate portion 411, 412 Article gripping portion 5 Joint portion 51 Seating portion 52 Contact member 521 Contact member main body 522 Slide portion 53 Contact position maintaining portion 531 Bolt 532 Locking nut 533 Long hole 6 Suction cup S3 Attaching article for water tank 7 Article support portion 71 Vertical portion 72 Horizontal direction Part 8 Article holding part 81 Shelf part 82 Article holding band 9 Water tank 91 Water tank upper frame 92 Water tank side wall WF Water surface in the tank

Claims (4)

  An article support part for supporting an article to be attached to the water tank; an engagement part provided in the article support part; and an engagement part detachable from an upper edge of the water tank; provided in the article support part; A suction cup that can be adsorbed on the outer surface, and the engaging portion is a seating portion that can be seated on the upper end edge of the water tank from above; A water tank article attachment tool, comprising: a contact member capable of taking a retracted position retracted from a contact position; and a contact position maintaining unit capable of maintaining the contact member at the contact position.   The article attachment tool for aquarium according to claim 1, wherein the article support portion is formed integrally with an article to be attached to the aquarium.   The said article support part is an article attachment tool for aquariums of Claim 1 which has the article holding part which makes the article support part detachable the article which should be attached to a water tank.   The contact member of the engagement portion is provided on the article support portion so as to be able to reciprocate from the contact position to the retracted position and from the retracted position to the corresponding contact position. The position maintaining part includes a plurality of claw engagements provided on the article support part, and a claw part provided on the reciprocable contact member and engageable / removable with respect to the claw engagement part. The aquarium article-attached tool according to claim 1, 2, or 3.