JP2012207365A - Drain plug - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable trash collected in a collection body to be easily removed.SOLUTION: A drain plug 10 is arranged in a drain channel near a drain port. The drain plug 10 comprises: a valve part 12 capable of opening and closing the drain port; a shank 16 vertically extending under the valve part 12; a collection body 13 displaceably supported by the shank 16; and a penetration body 17 which can penetrate through the collection body 13. The collection body 13 is provided to be displaceable between a first position hidden behind the valve part 12 and a second position protruding from an outer edge of the valve part 12 when planarly viewed. At the first position, trash can be intertwined around the penetration body 17 penetrating through the collection body 13. When the collection body 13 is displaced to the second position, the collection body 13 moves from the penetration body 17 and trash intertwined around the penetration body 17 can be removed from the collection body 13.

Description

  The present invention relates to a drain plug, and more particularly to a drain plug capable of collecting waste flowing from a drain port.

  In a bowl of a bathtub or vanity, a drain plug that can open and close a drain port through which water flows is used. As a well-known configuration of such a drain plug (hereinafter referred to as “conventional structure”), there is a rubber drain plug having a truncated cone shape that is connected to a chain and can close a drain port. In this drain plug, when the drain port is opened and closed, the drain plug itself or the chain close to the drain plug is directly gripped by hand, so that there is a disadvantage that the hand gets wet. In addition, when the drain outlet is not blocked, a space for placing the drain plug is required, and there is a disadvantage that the drain plug becomes an obstacle when using a bowl or the like.

  Here, as a drain plug which can eliminate the inconvenience, there is one disclosed in Patent Document 1, for example. The drain plug of the same document is a valve that can be seated around a drain outlet, a shaft portion that is suspended from the bottom surface of the valve, and a pan that serves as a dust collector provided in an intermediate portion in the extending direction of the shaft portion. And. In the drain plug of this document, the shaft portion is moved up and down by operating an operation button provided on one end side of the wire, and the opening and closing of the drain port by the valve can be remotely operated.

JP-A-11-61931 JP 2009-257045 A

  However, in patent document 1, after taking out a drain plug from a drainage channel, the cleaning operation which removes the dust collected on the eye plate becomes troublesome and difficult. This is because the fingertip, brush, etc. hit the valve just above the eyeplate when inserting the fingertip, brush, etc. inside the eyeplate to clean the eyeplate, so the fingertip, brush, etc. This is because it becomes difficult to insert a finger or the movement of a finger or a brush is restricted. In addition, there is a large amount of dust and hair collected in the eye plate, which tends to get entangled with the eye plate formed in a radial or lattice shape.

  By the way, in patent document 2, the hair catcher provided in a drainage channel is disclosed, This hair catcher is provided with the two eyepieces provided in the middle of the axial part. Of these plates, the lower plate is provided so as to be rotatable about the shaft, and can be removed from the projection surface of the upper plate so as to remove dust. However, even with the eye plate of the same document, the work of removing tangled hair and fibers is not easy and there is room for improvement. Moreover, this document is used for a drain plug of the conventional structure type, and is not used for a type that can remotely open and close a valve as in Patent Document 1.

[Object of invention]
The present invention has been devised by paying attention to the above-mentioned disadvantages and points to be improved, and its purpose is to collect dust collected in a collecting body in a drain plug in which a valve portion and the collecting body are connected by a shaft portion. An object of the present invention is to provide a drain plug capable of facilitating the work of removing water.

In order to achieve the above object, in the drain plug arranged in the drainage channel near the drainage port,
A valve part capable of opening and closing the drain port; a shaft part suspended from the lower surface of the valve part; a collector supported to be displaceable by the shaft part; and a penetrating body capable of penetrating the collector. ,
The collector is provided so as to be displaceable between a first position hidden in the valve portion and a second position protruding from the outer edge of the valve portion when viewed in plan, and the penetrating body penetrates at the first position. And it has taken the composition of leaving from a penetration object in the 2nd position.

  In the present invention, the collecting body is formed with a receiving portion for receiving a penetrating body, and when the penetrating body is received in the receiving portion, the collecting body is provided so as to be positioned at the first position. It is preferable to take.

  Further, the penetrating body can be configured to be formed in a rod shape that is fixed to the valve portion and extends in the extending direction of the shaft portion.

  Furthermore, a configuration in which a stopper capable of restricting movement of the shaft portion in the extending direction of the collecting body is preferably employed.

  According to the present invention, dust such as hair can be entangled with a penetrating body that penetrates the collector. Then, when the drain plug is taken out from the drainage channel and the collector is displaced to a position away from the penetrating body, the state where the penetrating body is entangled with the dust can be maintained, and thereby the entangled garbage is removed from the collecting body. It becomes possible. That is, by displacing the collection body from the first position to the second position, it becomes possible to remove dust from the collection body, and the work can be facilitated and speeded up. In addition, after the collector has been displaced to the second position, when the dust on the collector is removed with a fingertip or the like, the valve portion is less likely to get in the way, thereby reducing the work burden. .

  In addition, since the collection body can be positioned at the first position by the receiving portion, the collection body can be smoothly inserted into the drainage channel when the drain plug is disposed in the drainage channel near the drainage port. Become.

  Furthermore, since the penetrating body has a rod shape as described above, it is possible to remove dust entangled with the penetrating body so as to be extracted from the front end side of the penetrating body, and it is possible to perform the dust removal operation more easily. It becomes.

  Moreover, since the stopper was provided with respect to the collection body, when removing a drain plug from the inside of a drainage channel, the relative position which the penetration body penetrated to the collection body can be maintained. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the penetration body from penetrating the collection body before the collection body is displaced from the first position to the second position.

The schematic front sectional view of the drain plug concerning a 1st embodiment. The schematic perspective view of the said drain plug. The perspective view similar to FIG. 2 of the state which displaced the collection body to the 2nd position. (A) is sectional drawing in alignment with the AA line of FIG. 2 which abbreviate | omitted one part structure, (B) is sectional drawing in alignment with the BB line of FIG. 3 which abbreviate | omitted one part structure. The perspective view similar to FIG. 2 of the drain plug which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. (A) And (B) is sectional drawing similar to FIG. 4 (A) and (B) of the drain plug which concerns on 2nd Embodiment.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
In the present specification and claims, unless otherwise specified, “upper” and “lower” are based on FIG. 1, and “plan view” is when the drain plug is viewed from the upper side in the same figure. Use for.

[First Embodiment]
1 to 4, a drain plug 10 according to the first embodiment is disposed in a drainage channel 11 in the vicinity of a drainage port 11 </ b> A provided in a bottom B of a bathtub, a bowl of a bathroom vanity, a sink of a kitchen, or the like. . The drain plug 10 includes a valve portion 12 capable of opening and closing the drain port 11A, a collection body 13 disposed in the drainage channel 11, an auxiliary collection body 14 provided below the collection body 13, a valve portion 12, The shaft part 16 which fixes the collection body 13 and the auxiliary collection body 14 and the penetration body 17 which is connected with the lower surface side of the valve part 12, and hangs down are comprised.

  In the present embodiment, the drainage channel 11 extends downward from the bottom B. In the drainage channel 11, an upper region including the drain port 11 </ b> A is formed by the cover body 20, and a lower region of the cover body 20 is formed by the tube body 21. Step forming surfaces 20 </ b> A and 21 </ b> A are formed on the inner peripheral surfaces of the cover body 20 and the tube body 21, respectively. A collecting body 13 is provided on the step forming surface 20A of the cover body 20 so as to be placed thereon, and an auxiliary collecting body 14 is provided on the step forming surface 21A of the tube body 21 so as to be placed thereon. Further, in the drainage channel 11, a channel 22 is connected between the step forming surfaces 20A and 21A. The flow path 22 is connected to an overflow hole (not shown) that is provided above a wash bowl or the like and prevents water from overflowing from the bowl. Therefore, the dust that has entered the overflow hole flows out of the flow path 22 and is collected by the auxiliary collector 14.

  The valve portion 12 includes a valve body 25 having a circular shape in plan view, and an annular (closed loop) packing 26 provided on the outer edge side of the valve body 25. The valve part 12 stops the water which is going to flow into the said drain outlet 11A because the packing 26 closely_contact | adheres to the formation edge of the drain outlet 11A, raises the valve main body 25 from this state, and cancels | releases the said adhesion | attachment By doing so, the flow of water into the drain port 11A is allowed.

  The collector 13 is supported by an intermediate portion in the extending direction of the shaft portion 16. The collection body 13 includes an upper plate part 28 formed of a net-like body or a lattice-like body that can collect waste D such as hair while allowing passage of drainage, and an insertion part 29 through which the shaft part 16 can be inserted. And a receiving portion 30 formed in the upper eye plate portion 28 and capable of receiving the penetrating body 17. The insertion portion 29 and the shaft portion 16 are not fixed, thereby allowing the collector 13 to move in the extending direction of the shaft portion 16. Furthermore, the collection body 13 can rotate around the shaft portion 16, that is, in the direction of arrow R in FIG. Thereby, when the collector 13 is seen in a plan view, the first position where the collector 13 is hidden by the valve portion 12 (see FIGS. 2 and 4A) and the second edge that protrudes from the outer edge of the valve portion 12. It can be rotationally displaced between the positions (see FIGS. 3 and 4B). As shown in FIG. 1, when the drain plug 10 is disposed in the drain channel 11, the collector 13 is set at the first position.

  As shown in FIG. 4A, the receiving portion 30 is formed so as to cut out the upper eye plate portion 28 from the outer edge of the upper eye plate portion 28 to the penetrating body 17. The planar shape of the receiving portion 30 is formed along an arcuate path through which the penetrating body 17 passes when the collector 13 is displaced between the first and second positions, and is received from the side surface of the penetrating body 17. The portion 30 has a gap of about 1 mm. Accordingly, the receiving unit 30 allows the rotational displacement of the collector 13 described above. Further, at the first position shown in FIG. 4A, the counter-opening end portion of the receiving portion 30 comes into contact with the side surface of the penetrating body 17 to restrict the clockwise rotation of the collecting body 13 in the figure. The collector 13 can be positioned.

  The auxiliary collector 14 includes a lower eye dish 32 having a lattice-like body extending radially from the center, and a fixing portion 33 fixed to the lower end of the shaft portion 16. A rod 35 extending downward is provided on the lower surface side of the lower plate part 32, and an end cap 36 is attached to the tip of the rod 35. The end cap 36 which is the lower end of the drain plug 10 is located above the elevating body 38 (see FIG. 1), and this elevating body 38 is connected to one end side of a wire (not shown), and the other end side of the wire is not shown. An operation button is provided. By operating this operation button, the elevating body 38 is displaced up and down, and the auxiliary collector 14, the shaft portion 16 and the valve portion 12 are also displaced up and down so that the opening and closing of the drain port 11A by the valve portion 12 can be remotely operated. It has become.

  The shaft portion 16 is suspended from the lower surface of the valve body 25 and has a round bar shape. The upper end side of the shaft portion 16 is fixed at a position shifted to the right side in FIG. 1 from the center position on the lower surface of the valve body 25. A cylindrical stopper 40 is provided between the collector 13 and the auxiliary collector 14 in the shaft portion 16. The stopper 40 is separated downward from the lower surface of the insertion portion 29 when the drain plug 10 is disposed in the drain channel 11 (see FIG. 1). On the other hand, when the drain plug 10 is taken out from the drain channel 11, the lower surface of the insertion portion 29 comes into contact with the upper end surface of the stopper 40 (see FIG. 2).

  The penetrating body 17 has a round bar shape extending in the vertical direction in parallel with the shaft portion 16. The upper end side of the penetrating body 17 is fixed to a position shifted to the left side in FIG. 1 from the center position on the lower surface of the valve body 25, that is, opposite to the shaft portion 16 across the center. The distal end side of the penetrating body 17 is received by the receiving portion 30 and can penetrate the collecting body 13. Further, the length of the penetrating body 17 is such that when the insertion part 29 of the collecting body 13 is brought into contact with the stopper 40, the distal end side of the penetrating body 17 protrudes from the lower part of the upper plate part 28 and penetrates the collecting body 13. Is set to maintain the state.

  Next, the removal method of the dust D of the collection body 13 in this embodiment is demonstrated.

  First, the valve portion 12 is grasped to lift the drain plug 10 and the drain plug 10 is taken out from the drain channel 11. At this time, as shown in FIG. 2, the receiving portion 30 receives the penetrating body 17, and the collecting body 13 is in a first position hidden in the valve portion 12 in plan view. In addition, the collection body 13 abuts on the stopper 40, and the lowering of the collection body 13 is restricted by the stopper 40, and the state where the tip end side of the penetrating body 17 protrudes from the lower portion of the upper plate part 28 can be maintained. In this state, the collection body 13 is rotated by 180 ° from the first position to the second position around the shaft portion 16 to displace the collection body 13 from the penetrating body 17 to a position away from the penetration body 17 (see FIG. 3). ). As a result, as shown in FIGS. 4A and 4B, the dust D collected by the upper eye plate 28 at the first position and entangled with the penetrating body 17 is displaced to the second position. Even so, the entangled state can be maintained. That is, it is possible to remove the dust D from the upper eye plate portion 28 by the rotational displacement of the collector 13.

  The dust D entangled with the penetrating body 17 is pulled out and removed from the penetrating body 17 by pulling it down with a fingertip or the like. The dust D remaining on the upper eye plate 28 is removed with a fingertip, a brush or the like. At this time, the collector 13 at the second position hardly overlaps with the valve portion 12 in plan view, and therefore, when removing the dust D, the valve portion 12 is unlikely to hit the fingertip, brush, or the like.

  After the dust D is removed as described above, the collector 13 is rotationally displaced and set at the first position. At this time, since the anti-open end of the receiving portion 30 and the side surface of the penetrating body 17 come into contact with each other, the collecting body 13 can be easily positioned at the first position. In this state, by inserting the drain plug 10 into the drain channel 11 near the drain port 11A, the arrangement of the drain plug 10 is completed.

  Therefore, according to such an embodiment, the dust D can be easily and quickly removed from the upper eye plate portion 28 by rotationally displacing the collector 13. In addition, the dust D entangled with the penetrating body 17 can also be removed only by a linear extraction operation, and it is possible to reduce the labor of the entire removal work of the dust D. Here, in the upper plate part 28, the dust D flowing from the drain outlet 11 </ b> A tends to be entangled or concentrated on the penetrating body 17. Accordingly, most of the dust D in the upper eye plate portion 28 can be removed while being entangled with the penetrating body 17, and it can be expected that the dust D remaining in the upper eye plate portion 28 is reduced.

[Second Embodiment]
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the following description, the same reference numerals are used for the same or equivalent components as in the first embodiment, and the description will be omitted or simplified.

  5 and 6 show a second embodiment of the present invention. The collector 45 of the second embodiment is provided so as to be linearly displaced in the radial direction of the shaft portion 16, that is, displaceable in the left-right direction in FIG. The collector 45 opens the insertion portion 46 having a long hole 46A extending in the left-right direction in FIG. 6A and the left end side of the upper plate 47 in the same direction as the longitudinal direction of the long hole 46A. And a receiving portion 48 formed with an extending notch.

  The collector 45 is disposed at the first position when the shaft portion 16 is positioned on the right side of the elongated hole 46A in FIG. 6A. Further, when the collector 45 arranged at the first position is displaced in the right direction in the drawing, and the shaft portion 16 is positioned on the left side of the elongated hole 46A in the drawing as shown in FIG. 6B, The collecting body 45 is disposed at a second position that protrudes from the outer edge of the valve portion 12. When the collecting body 45 is displaced from the first position to the second position, the penetrating body 17 is separated from the receiving portion 48, and as a result, the dust D is entangled with the penetrating body 17 in the same manner as in the first embodiment. The dust D can be removed from the dish portion 47. The collector 45 is rotatable around the shaft portion 16 at the position shown in FIG. 6 (B), and the receiving portion 48 is rotationally displaced so as to be positioned on the right side, upper side, or lower side in the drawing. It can be.

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. In other detailed configurations, those skilled in the art can make various modifications.
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, the penetrating body 17 is fixed at a position different from the above-described embodiments, such as the center position on the lower surface of the valve portion 12, is suspended from the upper surface of the auxiliary collector 14, or is formed in an L shape to It may be fixed. However, the shape and the connecting position as in the above-described embodiment is advantageous in that it is easy to perform a removal operation in which the dust D is entangled with the penetrating body 17.

  Moreover, as long as the said upper plate part 28,47 and the lower plate part 32 can collect garbage, you may change into another form.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Drain plug, 11 ... Drainage channel, 11A ... Drain outlet, 12 ... Valve part, 13, 45 ... Collecting body, 16 ... Shaft part, 17 ... Through body , 30, 48... Receiving part

Claims (4)

In the drain plug located in the drainage channel near the drainage outlet,
A valve part capable of opening and closing the drain port; a shaft part suspended from the lower surface of the valve part; a collector supported to be displaceable by the shaft part; and a penetrating body capable of penetrating the collector. ,
The collector is provided so as to be displaceable between a first position hidden in the valve portion and a second position protruding from the outer edge of the valve portion when viewed in plan, and the penetrating body penetrates at the first position. And a drain plug that is separated from the penetrating body at the second position.   The collector is provided with a receiving portion for receiving a penetrating body, and when the penetrating body is received in the receiving portion, the collecting body is provided so as to be positioned at a first position. Item 1. The drain plug according to Item 1.   The drain plug according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the penetrating body is formed in a rod shape that is fixed to the valve portion and extends in the extending direction of the shaft portion.   The drain plug according to claim 1, 2 or 3, further comprising a stopper capable of restricting movement of the shaft portion in the extending direction of the collecting body.

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