JP2009183527A - Article holder - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an article holder, which is easy to operate even in a case of such a strong holder as securely holding a thick article, and which is excellent in design performance. <P>SOLUTION: The article holder 10 is mounted on a side circumferential surface of a counter 2 for use. The article holder includes a pair of holding piece parts 11 disposed to face each other in such a way as holding an article, and a mounting part 20 for mounting the pair of holding piece parts 11 onto the counter 2. A cover member 15 to cover the holding piece parts 11 is pivotally supported 14 on the opening end part side on the opposite mounting part side of the holding piece parts 11. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an article holder such as a cloth towel or towel that is used by being attached to a side peripheral surface of a counter.

  Conventionally, as an article holder that can be attached to a kitchen counter or a wash counter and can easily hold a cloth or towel, etc., and that an article such as a cloth or towel that is held in use does not easily fall off. As in Document 1, a pair of sandwiching pieces that are opposed to each other so as to be able to sandwich an article, and an attachment part for attaching the pair of sandwiching pieces to a counter, are opened in the pair of sandwiching pieces At the end, a holding piece for holding an article inserted between the open ends of the pair of holding pieces protrudes toward the other holding piece, and the holding piece is at the tip thereof. It is disclosed that the portion is formed so as to be located inside the open end portion of the other sandwiching piece portion, and the outer surface is provided with a guide surface for guiding the article in the insertion direction.

JP 2007-167182 A

  However, the article holder (article holder) described in Patent Document 1 pushes one end part of the article toward the sandwiching piece part, so that the article can be easily opened without manually opening the sandwiching piece part. Since the article inserted inside is held by the holding piece, it does not fall off easily, but depending on the clamping force, it can be folded up with a towel etc. In order to hold it, it is necessary to push it in while holding the holding piece part by hand, and there is a point that the operability is slightly inferior in dealing with articles of various thicknesses.

The present invention was devised in view of the present situation, and the object of the present invention is to support a variety of article thicknesses, and a holder having a strong clamping force that can securely clamp a thick article. Even so, it is intended to provide an article holder that can be easily operated and has excellent design.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, an article holder according to claim 1 of the present invention is an article holder that is used by being attached to a side peripheral surface of a counter, and is a pair that is opposedly arranged so as to sandwich an article. And a cover for attaching the pair of clamping pieces to the counter, the cover body covering the clamping pieces is pivoted to the open end side of the clamping piece on the side opposite to the attachment part Has been.

  In this invention, since the front surface of the article holder is covered with the cover body, the appearance when the article is not sandwiched is good, it is easy to open the holding space by grasping the cover, and the thick article is pushed in. Since it is easy and the clamping force can be increased, it is difficult to come off even if the article is pulled during use.

  In addition to the invention of Claim 1, the article holder according to Claim 2 of the present invention is provided with an urging means for urging the cover body toward the attachment portion with the pivot as a support shaft. A cue portion is provided in the vicinity of the side end portion.

According to the present invention, in addition to the effect of the first aspect, the cover body is provided with a handle portion, and it is easy to widen the space portion of the holding piece portion by pulling the handle portion toward the front side. The cover body reliably covers the clamping piece portion by the biasing means and does not hang, so that the appearance is good.

As described above, the article holder according to the present invention can handle hanging of articles of various thicknesses, and even if it is a holder having a strong clamping force that can securely clamp a thick article, it can be easily operated. And has the effect of being excellent in design.

The best mode for carrying out the article holder according to the present invention will be described below on the basis of examples.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First, FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state in which an article holder in Embodiment 1 is attached to a front drawer plate of a kitchen table, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the article holder of FIG. 1 taken along the line AA, and FIG. 4 is a perspective view illustrating the structure of the mounting portion of the first embodiment. FIG. 5 shows the kitchen table with the article holder of the present invention attached thereto.
In the following description, the lower left side in FIG. 1 is the front side (front side) of the article holder, and the upper right side is the rear side (back side). In the description of the kitchen table, the lower left side of FIG. 5 is described as the front side (front side) of the kitchen table, and the upper right side of the page is described as the rear surface (back side).

  Reference numeral 1 in FIG. 5 denotes a kitchen table 1 disposed in the kitchen. On the counter 2 of the kitchen table 1, a heating device 4, a sink 5, a faucet 6 and the like are provided, and the kitchen table 1 side is provided. An operation unit 3 and a plurality of drawers 9 of the heating device 4 are provided on the front surface which is a part of the peripheral surface. A front plate 7 capable of closing an opening (not shown) for allowing a storage part (not shown) of the drawer 9 to be drawn out from the inside of the main body of the kitchen table 1 is attached to the front side of each drawer 9. A handle 29 extending over the entire width of the front plate 7 in the left-right direction is disposed at the top of each front plate 7. The handle 29 has a substantially U shape with the front side opened in a side view.

  Among these drawers 9, an article holder 10 that holds a towel 8, which is an example of an article, is attached to the upper edge of the front plate 7 in the uppermost drawer 9. The towel 8 is sandwiched and suspended by the article holder 10 in a state of being folded into four (two or more) in the longitudinal direction. As shown in FIG. 1, the front plate 7 in the upper drawer 9 has a handle 29 extending in the width direction at the upper end of the front plate 7, and the user pulls the handle 29 with his / her hand. Can be opened.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the article holder 10 according to the first embodiment has a handle 8 at the upper end of the front plate 7 sandwiched from the front and rear, and is attached to the upper end of the front plate 7 with a towel 8. A pair of sandwiching piece portions 11 that are opposed to each other are fixed, and a cover body 15 is pivotally attached to the front side of the sandwiching piece portion 11, that is, the upper portion of the first sandwiching piece 11a. The sandwiching piece portion 11 is a resin-made elastic body having a U-shape as viewed in a longitudinal section (AA section), and has a space portion 13 into which the towel 8 can be pushed and sandwiched. The holding piece portion 11 is composed of a first holding piece 11a and a second holding piece 11b, and a holding piece portion 12 is provided inside the holding piece portions 11 to prevent the sandwiched towel 8 from slipping off. The holding piece 12 is composed of a plurality of ridges.

The cover body 15 is supported by a pivot 14 disposed in the vicinity of the upper end of the first clamping piece 11a of the clamping piece 11 which is the open end of the anti-attachment portion (near side) so that the lower end of the cover body 15 can swing freely. A cue 16 is provided in the lateral direction inside the vicinity of the lower end. By adopting such a configuration, when pushing a towel or the like from the opening end, it is possible to hang the finger by hooking the clue 16 and pull it upward, making it easy to widen the space at the open end. ing. The cover body 15 is urged by an urging means 17 such as a coil spring 25 (not shown) in the direction of the attachment portion 20 (back side) with the pivot shaft 14 as a support shaft portion.

Next, the attachment portion 20 will be described. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the mounting portion 20 includes a first mounting piece 21a, a second mounting piece 21b, a shaft 22 and a spring 25, and a bearing hole 24 for the first mounting piece 21a and the second mounting piece 21b. The shaft body 22 is pivotally connected to the shaft body 22 so as to be swingable. A spring 25 is wound around the shaft 22 and is biased by the spring 25 in a direction in which the lower end sides of both mounting pieces are narrowed (see the solid line in FIG. 3).
Therefore, in order to attach the article holder 10 to the handle 29 of the drawer 9, after the drawer 9 is pulled out, the upper end portion of the front and rear attachment pieces is gripped and gripped firmly to widen the lower end portion and sandwiched from the upper end of the handle 29 Therefore, the article holder 10 can be easily attached to the upper end of the drawer front plate 7.

Both the first mounting piece 21 a and the second mounting piece 21 b of the mounting portion 20 are constituted by a standing piece 26, an intermediate piece 27, a hanging piece 27, and bearing pieces 23 at both ends of the standing piece 26. The hanging piece 27 of the second attachment piece 21b disposed inside the drawer 9 when attached to the front plate 7 of the drawer 9 is a plate body that can change at least elastically. As shown in FIG. 3, the attachment portion 20 in a state where the article holder 10 is pulled out and removed from the front plate 7 is formed such that the hanging piece 27 and the intermediate piece 27 have an acute angle of 90 degrees or less, and the lower end thereof. Is formed to be curved toward the first mounting piece 21a.
By doing in this way, even if it is a case where the thickness of the front plate 7 or the handle 29 part differs, the goods holder 10 of this invention can be attached easily. In particular, since the lower end of the first hanging piece 27 is curved, it can be attached without damaging the inner surface of the front plate.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the drawings, the specific configuration is not limited to these embodiments, and modifications and additions within the scope of the present invention are included in the present invention. It is.

For example, in the above embodiment, the kitchen table 1 provided with the article holder 10 is taken as an example and applied to the face-to-face kitchen counter 2 installed in the kitchen, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, you may provide the goods holder 10 of this invention in the kitchen counter 22 installed in the state which contact | abutted a part (for example, back surface) of side peripheral surface to the wall surface etc., for example.
Furthermore, the kitchen counter 1 is not limited to the kitchen counter 22 installed in the kitchen, and may be a kitchen table 1 installed in a dining room. A wash counter installed in a washroom, or a counter or cabinet used for various other purposes. The article holder 10 of the present invention may be provided in fixtures such as the above.

Moreover, in the said Example, although the goods holder 10 was provided in the front which is an example of the side peripheral surface of the kitchen counter 2, the arrangement position of the goods holder 10 is not limited to a front, A kitchen counter You may provide in the predetermined part of the right-and-left side surface which is surfaces other than the upper surface (top plate surface) of 2 and a bottom surface, and a back surface.

Moreover, in the said Example, although the attaching part 20 of the article | item holder 10 was comprised so that the upper end edge part of the front plate 7 of the drawer 9 could be clamped, it is comprised in this invention, This is limited to this. Instead, it may be attached by an adhesive or a screw. Further, the second holding piece 11b is also used as the mounting portion 20, and the second mounting piece 21b is used as the mounting portion 20 to be attached to an arbitrary position on the side peripheral surface of the kitchen counter 2 of the attached portion by using a double-sided tape. Also good.

Furthermore, in the said Example, although the accommodation recessed part formed in the front surface of the front frame board in drawer was attached to the handle 29 of the upper end edge of the front board 7 which can be opened and closed, this invention is limited to this. Rather, the towel 8 as the article holder 10 is not particularly shown, but the front plate 7 attached to the front end of an auxiliary table or the like that can be pulled out directly under the top plate or the like, a sliding door or an open door, etc. You may attach to the various board | plate material provided in the front side with respect to the side peripheral surface of the counter 2 so that extraction (opening) was possible.

The article holder 10 of the present invention is not limited to various plate materials (front plate 7 and the like) provided so as to be able to be pulled out to the front side with respect to the side peripheral surface of the kitchen counter 2 as described in the above embodiment. It may be attached to the upper edge of a curtain plate or the like fixed to the side peripheral surface of the kitchen counter 2, or a fixing means such as a magnet, an adhesive or a screw is provided at the attachment portion of the holder, and the fixing means is interposed therebetween. It may be attached directly to the side peripheral surface of the kitchen counter 2.

It is a perspective view which shows the state which attached the goods holder of Example 1 to the drawer | drawing-out front board of the kitchen stand. It is a perspective view when the cover body of the present Example 1 is rotated. It is explanatory drawing only of the goods holder except the front board in the AA longitudinal cross-sectional view of FIG. It is a perspective view explaining the structure of the attaching part of the present Example 1. FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the kitchen stand of the state which attached the goods holder of the present Example 1. FIG.

Explanation of symbols

1 Kitchen stand 2 Counter (top plate)
3 Operation unit 4 Heating device 5 Sink 6 Faucet (water tap)
7 Front plate 8 Towel 9 Drawer 10 Article holder 11 Holding piece portion 11a First holding piece 11b Second holding piece 12 Holding piece portion 13 Space portion (holding space)
14 pivot shaft 15 cover body 16 handle portion 17 inactive means 20 attachment portion 21a first attachment piece 21b second attachment piece 22 shaft body 23 bearing piece 24 bearing hole 25 spring 26 standing piece 27 intermediate piece 28 hanging piece 29 handle

Claims (2)

An article holder (10) used by being attached to a side peripheral surface of a counter (2), and a pair of sandwiching piece portions (11) arranged to face each other so as to sandwich an article, and the pair of sandwiching piece portions ( 11) is attached to the counter (2), and a cover body (15) covering the sandwiching piece (11) is opened on the side of the sandwiching piece (11) opposite to the attachment part An article holder characterized by being pivoted (14) on the end side. The cover body (15) includes an urging means (17) for urging the mounting portion side with the pivot shaft (14) as a support shaft, and a cue portion (16) is provided in the vicinity of the end portion on the opposite pivot side. The article holder according to claim 1.

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