JP2014180993A - Roof net device of bottle car - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device in which a net can be operated to open and close at an upper surface opening of a roof rack installed at a roof upper surface of a bottle car by one touch operation on the ground.SOLUTION: Provided is arm shaft rotation means in which an arm shaft is pivotally-supported as bridging side panels of a roof rack, a support arm is mounted for fitting one end of a net to the arm shaft, the other end of the net is engaged as detachable with the upper end part of the roof rack, and the arm shaft is rotated by operation on the ground. The upper surface opening of the roof can be covered and opened by the net fitted to the support arm through rotating the arm shaft. Thus, high place work is not needed.

Description

  The present invention replenishes and supplies beverage products such as juice, tea, coffee, sports drinks and beer contained in beverage containers such as plastic bottles, aluminum cans and steel cans to vending machines or delivers them to stores, etc. At the same time, the present invention relates to a net device of a roof rack installed in an automobile called a so-called bottle car that collects used beverage containers such as plastic bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans, and cups.

  An automobile for supplying or delivering a beverage product of this kind to a vending machine or a store and collecting a used beverage container is called a bottle car, a route car or a bending car. Hereinafter, in the present invention, these automobiles are referred to as bottle cars. The bottle car has a box-shaped packing box (body main body) installed at the rear of the car, stores the beverage container together with the carton in the packing box, and stores the used beverage container on the roof top surface of the packing box. . To replenish and supply beverage products, open the sliding doors on both sides of the packing box and the double doors on the back of the packing box, etc. Take out from.

  By the way, the used beverage container accommodating portion provided on the upper surface of the roof of the packing box is generally a roof rack in which the periphery is surrounded by a plate-like member and the upper portion is covered with a net. Therefore, when workers collect used beverage containers, put the used beverage containers together in a plastic bag, etc., making it difficult to unwrap the opening of the plastic bag, and use a ladder or a stepladder to Or a worker throws a plastic bag into the roof rack and throws it over the net so that the plastic bag does not fall while traveling.

  Collecting used beverage containers in this way usually requires workers to use a ladder or stepladder to load the plastic bag with the plastic bag on the roof rack on the top of the packing box and to work at a high place, such as using a net. Therefore, there is a problem in that it is dangerous and places a burden on the worker in terms of time and body. As means for solving such a problem, techniques described in Patent Documents 1 and 2 shown below are known.

  In the technique of Patent Document 1, a roof rack is provided on the upper surface of the roof of the vehicle body, and a T-shaped support column extending in the front-rear direction of the automobile is erected on the left and right central portions of the upper surface of the vehicle body roof. Then, two wing opening / closing devices on the left and right sides are provided on the support column. The wing opening and closing device opens and closes the wing by allowing the wing itself to be opened and closed by a link mechanism, an arm, etc., and then operating the operator by pulling the rope from the ground and operating the rope in a complicated manner. I have to.

The technique of Patent Document 2 is provided with a fixed carrier guide and a foldable "<"-shaped carrier guide on the top surface of the roof of the vehicle body, and a carrier body is slidably mounted on these carrier guides. . When the foldable carrier guide is deployed to the rear side of the vehicle body, the carrier body is lower than the upper surface of the roof of the vehicle body, so that loading and unloading of loads can be facilitated.
In addition, the carrier body is equipped with a wind-up type hood whose one edge is fixedly supported by a rotating lever so that the hood can be covered or opened by operating the rotating lever. I have to.

JP 2011-131780 A JP 2000-142254 A

However, in the technique of Patent Document 1, it is necessary to install the wing itself so that it can be freely opened and closed in addition to the roof rack. Therefore, it is necessary to construct a complicated part such as a rope for assembling and to assemble it.
Since the configuration is complicated and large, it is difficult to cope with failure. In addition, the rope for wing opening / closing operation is exposed to the outside, and there is a disadvantage that the appearance is not good.

In the technique of Patent Document 2, a carrier guide fixed to the upper surface of the roof of the vehicle body, a foldable carrier guide, a carrier body, a hood winding mechanism, and a hood drawer and extension mechanism are required. The overall configuration was complicated.
In addition, the carrier guide fixed to the top surface of the roof and the foldable carrier guide have the same width dimension because it is necessary to roll with the moving roller of the carrier body fitted in the groove. Need to be. However, it is impossible to fold with the same width dimension as shown in FIG. These points are not clearly disclosed.
Furthermore, in order to pull out the roller of the carrier body from the opening hole at a position between the fixed carrier guide and the foldable carrier guide, an operator needs to support the rear end side of the carrier body by hand. is there. In order to perform such manual work on the top surface of the roof of the bottle car, a stepladder and a stand are required, which has the disadvantage of being a work at a high place.

In the technique of Patent Document 2, since the hood is a single sheet pulled out from the winding device, the side of the hood is an open space even if the hood is placed on the carrier body. There is no function in the hood itself to prevent it from falling while driving. Therefore, it is necessary to fix the luggage individually, and extra work is required.
Considering these, it is impossible to apply the technique of Patent Document 2 to the bottle car targeted by the present invention.

  In view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the present applicant has improved and removed this, so that the net can be opened / closed by a one-touch operation from the ground to the upper surface opening of the roof rack installed on the roof upper surface of the bottle car. It is intended to provide a device that is made up of.

  Thus, in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention adopts the means of claim 1 in a bottle car in which a box-shaped roof rack having an upper surface opened is installed on the upper surface of the vehicle body roof, between the side panels of the roof rack. A support arm for attaching the end of the net to the arm axis is attached to the arm axis, and the other end of the net is detachably locked to the upper end of the roof rack. An arm shaft rotating means for rotating is provided, and the upper surface opening of the roof is covered or opened with a net attached to the support arm by rotating the arm shaft. It is a roof net device of a bottle car.

  According to the present invention, the net having one end edge attached to the arm shaft can be opened and closed by rotating the arm shaft from the ground. By this opening / closing operation, the top opening of the roof rack can be covered with a net or opened. When the total length of the roof rack extends over the entire length of the packing box, the arm shaft and the net may be installed at two locations in the front-rear direction of the packing box of the bottle car. The specific rotation means of the arm shaft is disclosed in the following second to fourth inventions.

  That is, the invention of claim 2 is the roof net device in the case where the arm shaft rotating means is an operation lever attached to the arm shaft in a direction orthogonal to the arm shaft outside the side panel. In the third aspect of the invention, the opening / closing operation of the net is performed by rotating the operation lever clockwise or counterclockwise about the arm axis.

  The invention according to claim 3 is the roof net device in which the arm shaft rotating means is a rack and pinion, and the rack reciprocates while being guided by a slide rail installed on the upper surface of the roof. In the present invention, the net can be opened and closed by sliding the rack in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body.

  That is, the invention according to claim 4 is a roof in the case where the arm shaft rotating means is composed of a universal joint attached to the arm shaft outside the side panel and a crank rod detachably engaged with the universal joint. It is a net device. In the second aspect of the invention, the crank rod is held by hand and rotated to transmit the rotational force to the arm shaft means so as to open / close the net.

  The invention of claim 5 is the roof net device in the case where the arm shaft rotating means is a motor. In the present invention, for example, by operating a switch on a remote control panel and controlling the electric motor to be turned on and off, the net can be opened and closed, and the burden on the worker is most reduced.

  According to the present invention, the arm shaft installed on the roof rack rotates only by the operator operating the crank rod, the handle, the slide rail, or the electrical switch from the ground. Therefore, the opening of the upper surface of the roof rack can be opened and closed by the net by the support arm of the net attached to the arm shaft. This eliminates the need for work at heights and does not pose a danger to workers. Moreover, the mechanism which comprises an apparatus is simple, and it is also possible to retrofit the whole apparatus to the already running bottle car.

It is drawing which looked at the bottle car which concerns on 1st embodiment of this invention from the left side surface. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1A is a plan view and FIG. 1B is a side view of an entire case where two roof net devices according to a first embodiment of the present invention are disposed in front of and behind a vehicle body. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The gear case of the roof net apparatus which concerns on 1st embodiment of this invention is shown, A figure (A) is a side view, A figure (B) is a top view. It is drawing which looked at the bottle car which concerns on 2nd embodiment of this invention from the left side surface. The two roof net devices according to the second embodiment of the present invention are shown as a whole when two roof net devices are arranged on the front and rear of the vehicle body, and FIG. (A) is a plan view and FIG. (B) is a side view. The connection part of the arm axis | shaft and handle | steering_wheel which concerns on 2nd embodiment of this invention is expanded and shown, A figure (A) is a top view, A figure (B) is a side view. The roof net | network apparatus which concerns on 3rd embodiment of this invention is shown, A figure (A) is a side view at the time of opening, and a figure (B) is a side view in the middle of closing operation.

The configuration of the roof net device for a bottle car of the present invention will be described in detail below based on the first embodiment shown in the drawings.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the roof top surface 3 of the packing box 2 installed at the rear part of the bottle car 1 has a roof surrounded by a side panel 4 made of a synthetic resin or a metal such as an aluminum alloy. A rack 5 is provided. The bottom plate of the roof rack 5 may be shared with the roof top surface 3 of the packing box 2 or may be separately provided with the same material as the side panel 4. Thus, the roof rack 5 of this embodiment has a long dimension that covers substantially the entire length of the packing box 2, and two roof net devices 6 and 6 are provided in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body to provide an upper surface of the roof rack 5. The opening is covered with a net 7 or opened.
FIG. 1 shows a case in which sliding opening / closing doors 2A and 2B are provided on the left and right side surfaces of the packing box 2, and the opening / closing doors 2A and 2B are opened and beverages accommodated in the luggage compartment. The container is taken out or loaded.

  Next, the configuration of the roof net device 6 will be described based on the roof net device 6 on the front side of the bottle car 1. The roof net device 6 has an arm shaft 8 that is pivotably supported across the left and right side panels 4 constituting the roof rack 5. A gate-type support arm 9 formed of a synthetic resin or aluminum alloy pipe or the like is fixed to the arm shaft 8. One end edge of the net 7 is attached to the support arm 9. The other edge of the net 7 is detachably locked to the front of the roof rack 5 and the upper end surface side of the left and right side panels 4. The support arm 9 is set to a length dimension (radial length) that allows the net 7 to cover or open half of the top opening of the roof rack 5 by rotating approximately 180 degrees. Yes. Specifically, in this embodiment, since two roof net devices 6 are provided on the front and rear sides, the size is set to 1/4 of the length of the roof rack 5 in the front-rear direction.

A gear case 10 is provided outside the left side panel 4 of the arm shaft 8. The gear case 10 includes four large and small gears G1 to G4, a crank side shaft 11 disposed in parallel with the arm shaft 8, and an intermediate gear shaft 12 disposed in parallel with the arm shaft 8 and the crank side shaft 11. Is provided. The small gear G1 of the crank side shaft 11 is engaged with the gear G2 of the intermediate gear shaft 12, and the large gear G4 of the arm shaft 8 is engaged with the gear G3 of the intermediate gear shaft 12. Therefore, when the crank side shaft 11 is rotated, the rotational force is transmitted from the gear G1 to the gear G2, and further transmitted from the intermediate gear shaft G3 to the large gear G4 of the arm shaft 8, so that the arm shaft 8 rotates. Become. As the arm shaft 8 rotates, the support arm 9 connected and fixed to the arm shaft 8 rotates at the same angle to open and close the net 7.
For example, the gear ratios of the gears G1 to G4 are set to G1 = 10, G2 = 48, G3 = 20, G4 = 100, and when the crank side shaft 12 rotates 12 times, the arm shaft 8 rotates approximately 180 degrees. The net 7 can be opened and closed.

  A universal joint 13 is provided on the further outer side of the crank side shaft 11. A crank rod 14 provided with a pin projecting in a cross shape is detachably mounted on one side of the universal joint 13 (not shown).

  Next, the operation | movement aspect of the roof net | network apparatus 6 comprised in this way is demonstrated. Workers supplemented and supplied beverage products such as juice, tea, coffee, sports drinks, and beer in beverage containers such as PET bottles, aluminum cans, and steel cans, or delivery to stores was completed. After that, collect used beverage containers such as plastic bottles, aluminum cans, steel cans and cups. In the collection operation, the used beverage containers are put together in a plastic bag and the opening of the plastic bag is tied up so that it cannot be unwound. After all the used beverage containers are put in the plastic bag and the preparation work is completed, the net 7 of the roof rack 5 is opened.

As shown in FIG. 1, the net 7 is opened by the operator taking out the crank rod 14 detachably fixed to a part of the vehicle body and fitting the cross-shaped tip of the crank rod 14 to the universal joint 13. Installing. When the worker rotates the counterclockwise direction while gripping the crank rod 14 by hand, the gear G1 rotates counterclockwise, and the gears G2 and G3 rotate clockwise. Then, the gear G4 and the arm shaft 8 rotate counterclockwise.
As the arm shaft 8 rotates counterclockwise, the support arm 9 connected and fixed to the arm shaft 8 rotates counterclockwise from the state where the upper surface opening of the roof rack 5 is covered, thereby opening the upper surface opening of the roof rack 5. To do. In this embodiment, the net 7 is changed from being covered (fully closed) to being released (fully opened) by 12 rotations of the crank rod 14.

  After the net 7 is opened, the worker throws the plastic bag filled with the used beverage container into the roof rack 5 and accommodates it. Then, this time, the crank rod 14 is rotated in the clockwise direction opposite to the above, and the net 7 is operated so as to cover the upper surface opening of the roof rack 5. The net 7 changes from a fully open state to a fully closed state by 12 rotations of the crank rod 14. Thereafter, the crank rod 14 may be removed from the universal joint 13 and fixed to a part of the vehicle body. Thereby, the collection | recovery operation | work of a used beverage container is completed.

By the way, since the net 7 may be bent at the intermediate portion during the opening operation, a large number of intermediate frames (not shown) having the same portal shape as the support frame 9 are provided for each predetermined interval of the net 7 so You may make it prevent bending.
Further, when a material made of a stretchable rubber material is used as the material of the net 7, it is possible to hold down the collected used container and to cope with a volume change.

  Next, a roof net device 15 according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. In this embodiment, an operation lever 16 is attached to an arm shaft 8 that protrudes outside the side panel 4. As shown in FIG. 6B, the operation lever 16 is attached so as to form a straight line with the support arm 9 around the arm shaft 8 when viewed from the side. In the figure, reference numeral 17 denotes a handle of the operation lever 16, and reference numeral 18 denotes a bearing that supports the arm shaft 8. Other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment.

  In this embodiment, the operator grips the handle 17 and rotates the operation lever 16 from the horizontal position to the horizontal position in the opposite direction by about 180 degrees, thereby opening and closing the net 7. The handle 17 of the operation lever 16 is attached to the operation lever 17 via a ball joint or the like as shown by a chain line in FIG. 6B, so that the operation lever 16 is downward when it is in the horizontal position. Thus, it is possible to reach a height position where a worker on the ground can easily reach and operate.

Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In this embodiment, the net 7 can be opened and closed via the arm shaft 8 by rack and pinion. A slide rail 19 is fixedly installed on the roof upper surface 3 of the packing box 2, and a rack 20 is slidably mounted on the slide rail 19 in the front-rear direction of the bottle car 1. The passive gear 23 of the arm shaft 8 is meshed with the drive gear 22 provided coaxially with the pinion gear 21 meshed with the rack 20. Other configurations are the same as those in the above embodiments.
In this embodiment, the net 7 can be opened and closed simply by sliding the rack 20 in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle body.

Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In this embodiment, the arm shaft 8 is rotationally driven by a motor (not shown). The arm shaft 8 and the motor may be connected by a direct method, a gear method, a belt or chain method, or the like. The motor may be configured so that forward / reverse rotation ON / OFF control can be performed by an operator operating a switch on the operation panel.
Therefore, the operator can open and close the net 7 only by operating the switch on the operation panel from the ground.

  In the above description, the present invention has been described with respect to an apparatus for opening and closing a roof rack net for collecting used beverage containers of a bottle car. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and appropriate modifications are possible. is there. For example, the present invention can be applied to a load carrier sheet such as a light truck, various shelf covers, and a crop net.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Bottle car 2 ... Packing box 3 ... Roof upper surface 4 ... Side panel 5 ... Roof rack 6 ... Roof net device 7 ... Net 8 ... Arm shaft 9 ... Support arm 13 ... Universal joint 14 ... Crank rod 15 ... Roof net device 16 ... Control lever 19 ... Slide rail 20 ... Rack 21 ... Pinion gear 22 ... Drive gear 23 ... Passive gear

Claims (5)

  A support arm for pivotally supporting an arm shaft across the side panels of the roof rack and attaching the edge of the net to the arm shaft in a bottle car in which a box-shaped roof rack having an upper surface is opened on the upper surface of the vehicle body roof The other end of the net is detachably locked to the upper end of the roof rack, and arm shaft rotating means for rotating the arm shaft is provided, and the support arm is configured by rotating the arm shaft. A roof net device for a bottle car, characterized in that the top opening of the roof is covered or opened with a net attached to the roof.   2. The roof net device for a bottle car according to claim 1, wherein the arm shaft rotating means is an operation lever attached to the arm shaft in a direction orthogonal to the arm shaft outside the side panel.   2. The roof net device for a bottle car according to claim 1, wherein the arm shaft rotating means is a rack and pinion, and the rack reciprocates while being guided by a slide rail installed on an upper surface of the roof.   2. The roof of the bottle car according to claim 1, wherein the arm shaft rotating means comprises a universal joint attached to the arm shaft outside the side panel and a crank rod detachably engaged with the universal joint. Net equipment.   The roof net device for a bottle car according to claim 1, wherein the arm shaft rotating means is a motor.

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