JP2017030246A - Duplex writing utensil - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize for a knock rod to easy mount to a window hole and accurately to protect the knock rod from slipping off without a slip-off preventing protrusion arranged on the knock rod when the knock rod is mounted to a barrel by inserting the knock rod through the window hole in a tip direction.SOLUTION: A duplex writing utensil comprises: a plurality of window holes 22 which are arranged at a rear part of a barrel 11 in a longer direction; and knock rods 60 which are respectively attached to rear of a plurality of refills and movable along the window holes 22 back and forth. At least one of the window holes 22 includes a pair of engaging pieces 23 formed in which rear end parts of both side edges of the window holes 22 protrude facing each other, at least one of knock rods 60 corresponding to at least one of the window holes 22 includes a pair of engaging grooves 64 corresponding to the engaging pieces 23 at rear end parts of both side edges of the knock rod 60, and the engaging pieces 23 are engaged with the engaging grooves 64 when the knock rod 60 is positioned at the last end.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

Description

  The present invention relates to a compound writing instrument in which a plurality of refills are accommodated in a shaft cylinder.

Conventionally, as a dual-type writing instrument, a multi-colored ball-point pen refill and a knock bar located behind each of the multi-colored ball-point pen refills are provided. There has been provided a multicolor ballpoint pen (compound writing instrument) in which the refill writing tip protrudes from the tip of the shaft tube. In the present specification, the one where the writing tip is located in the writing instrument is referred to as “tip”, and the opposite side is referred to as “rear end”.
Further, there is also provided a compound writing instrument in which any of the above-described multicolor ballpoint pens is replaced with a mechanical pencil refill in which a lead is drawn out by a reciprocating movement in the axial direction to add a mechanical pencil function.

  The knock bar in the dual type writing instrument is attached so as to be movable in the front-rear direction along a window hole provided along the longitudinal direction at the rear part of the shaft tube. In order to contribute to the knocking operation, a projection that protrudes outward from the window hole from the vicinity of the rear end of the knocking rod is usually provided. This protrusion may be referred to as a knock protrusion. An operation of pushing the knock bar forward by placing a finger on the knock protrusion is performed.

  As for the axial cylinder in a compound writing instrument, the front half part and the latter half part are normally separate members, and these are screwed together to form an axial cylinder. The front half and the rear half are sometimes referred to as a front axis and a rear axis, respectively. In this case, the knock bar is attached to the rear shaft. If the inner diameter of the rear shaft is sufficiently large, it is possible to insert a knock bar from the front end side of the rear shaft. However, when it is desired to make the shaft cylinder narrower due to design requirements, the knock rod may not be inserted from the front end side of the rear shaft. Even when the protruding dimension of the knock protrusion on the knock bar is large, the knock bar may not be inserted from the front end side of the rear shaft. Further, when a member (also referred to as an inner cylinder) for guiding the knock rod to move back and forth is inserted in the rear shaft, the inner space of the rear shaft becomes narrow, and therefore the rear shaft There is a case that the knock bar cannot be inserted from the tip side of the.

  As described above, when the knock bar cannot be inserted from the front end side of the rear shaft, the knock bar is inserted toward the front end through the window hole. By doing so, even if the knock bar has a size that does not pass through the rear shaft, the knock bar can be mounted on the rear shaft if the tip portion of the knock bar can pass through the window hole. Such a method of mounting the knock bar is also disclosed in Patent Document 1 below.

JP 2012-200901 A

  In Patent Document 1, an “insertion hole” wider than the guide hole is provided in front of the “guide hole” corresponding to the window hole. Then, a “presser” corresponding to the above-mentioned knock bar is inserted into the insertion hole from the distal end side, and then the entire pusher is shifted rearward and fitted into the guide hole. And, the "protrusion protrusion" that protrudes on both sides is provided near the rear end of the pusher, and this retaining protrusion is "engaged" inside the edge of the guide hole. It is supposed to work.

  Here, in the dual-type writing instrument, each of the plurality of knock bars is usually provided with a release protrusion protruding in the axial direction. When any of the refills is immersed in the shaft cylinder, the release protrusions of each of the plurality of knock bars are in a state of abutting each other in the axial direction. When one of the knock bars is moved to the tip and the writing tip of the corresponding refill protrudes from the shaft tube, the release protrusion of the knock bar moves in the axial direction inside the shaft tube. It is locked so that writing with the refill is possible. When another knock bar is moved to the tip from this state, the release protrusion comes into contact with the release protrusion of the refill knock bar that is actually writable. Then, the knock bar is unlocked by jumping it outward.

  Due to the circumstances as described above, the release protrusions of the respective knock bars are crowded in the state where they are abutted with each other in the shaft center inside the shaft cylinder of the dual writing instrument. In such a state, it is expected that when the “prevention protrusion” as disclosed in Patent Document 1 is provided in the vicinity of the release protrusion, such a crowding becomes more serious, resulting in design difficulties. Is done. In particular, when it is desired to reduce the diameter of the barrel due to design requirements, it is difficult to adopt such a “prevention protrusion” structure.

  In view of the above, the invention according to the present application is based on the assumption that the knock rod is inserted into the shaft cylinder by inserting the knock rod in the distal direction through the window hole. It is an object of the present invention to realize easy mounting and reliable retaining.

In order to solve the above problems, the compound writing instrument 10 according to the present invention includes a shaft tube 11,
A plurality of refills housed in the shaft 11;
A plurality of window holes 22 corresponding to each of the plurality of refills, which are openings provided in the longitudinal direction in the rear portion of the shaft cylinder 11,
A knock bar 60 attached to the rear of each of the plurality of refills and movable along the window hole 22, and
In the dual-type writing instrument 10 in which the writing tip of the refill on which the knock bar 60 is mounted protrudes from the tip of the shaft cylinder 11 by sliding the knock bar 60 in the distal direction along the window hole 22.
At least one of the plurality of window holes 22 is formed as a pair of engagement pieces 23 projecting so that rear end portions of both side edges of the window hole 22 face each other.
A pair of engagement grooves 64 corresponding to the pair of engagement pieces 23 are provided at both rear ends of the knock bar 60 corresponding to the at least one window hole 22 of the knock bar 60;
The engagement piece 23 is fitted into the engagement groove 64 in a state where the knock bar 60 is located at the rearmost end.

Further, in the present invention, in addition to the above-described features, the shaft cylinder 11 is configured such that a front shaft 40 positioned at the front and a rear shaft 20 positioned at the rear are screwed together, and the window hole 22 includes It is provided on the rear shaft 20.
Furthermore, the present invention, in addition to the above features, includes an inner cylinder 30 that is mounted inside the rear shaft 20 and that accommodates each of the knock bars 60 and guides the slide of the knock bars 60,
The inner cylinder 30 is provided with an opening 31 continuous with the window hole 22.
Further, in addition to the above features, the present invention is provided with a locking projection 65 projecting in the outer peripheral direction in the vicinity of the front end of each outer peripheral surface of the knock bar 60, and the knock bar 60 at the rearmost end. The locking projection 65 is locked to the leading edge 34 of the inner cylinder 30 in the positioned state.

  As described above, according to the present invention, the knock bar is provided with the engagement groove, and the engagement piece is provided so as to protrude from the rear end portions of the side edges of the window hole. That is, when the knock bar is inserted in the distal direction from the outside of the window hole and then returned backward, the engagement piece of the window hole is fitted into the engagement groove of the knock bar, so that the knock bar is inserted into the window hole. It is supposed to be prevented from falling off. That is, the engaging piece acts as a stopper for the knock bar. Thus, easy mounting from the window hole and reliable prevention can be realized without providing a knocking protrusion on the knock bar.

  Further, when the inner cylinder is mounted inside the rear shaft and accommodates each knock bar and guides the slide of the knock bar, the window hole and the engagement piece are provided only on the rear shaft side. . As a result, the structure of the inner cylinder can be entrusted to the inner cylinder to guide the knock bar slide and to lock the knock bar in order to maintain the refill protruding state, thus simplifying the structure of the rear shaft Can do. And only the rear shaft of a simple structure can be painted as an external decoration. Therefore, compared with the case where the structure of the inner cylinder as described above is integrated with the structure of the rear shaft, the coating applied to the complicated structure part is peeled off by the contact at the time of inserting the knock bar. This can be prevented.

  Further, since a locking projection that protrudes in the outer circumferential direction is provided in the vicinity of the tip of the outer peripheral surface of the knock bar, the locking projection engages with the engagement groove by engaging with the tip edge of the inner cylinder. In addition to retaining at the rear by fitting with a piece, a retaining at the front is also provided.

The duplex writing instrument which concerns on embodiment of this invention is shown with (A) front view, (B) right side view, and (C) back view. FIG. 2 is a right side cross-sectional view of the dual writing instrument of FIG. 1. The rear axis of the compound writing instrument in FIG. 1 is shown in (A) front view, (B) right side view, and (C) right side cross-sectional view. It is IV-IV sectional drawing shown in FIG.3 (C). The inner cylinder of the dual writing instrument of FIG. 1 is shown in (A) front view, (B) right side view, (C) rear view, and (D) right side cross-sectional view. The front axis | shaft of the compound writing instrument of FIG. 1 is shown with (A) front view and (B) front sectional drawing. The base of the dual-type writing instrument of FIG. 1 is shown by (A) front view and (B) front sectional view. The knock bar of the compound writing instrument of FIG. 1 is shown in (A) front view, (B) right side view, and (C) back view. It is IX-IX sectional drawing shown in FIG.8 (B). It is XX sectional drawing shown in FIG. Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of a part of Fig. 2. FIG. 2 is a right side cross-sectional view of the dual writing instrument of FIG. 1.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
(1) Writing instrument appearance Writing instrument 10 concerning this embodiment is compound writing instrument 10 which shows appearance as shown in Drawing 1 (A)-(C). FIG. 1 shows a non-writing state in which the writing tips of a plurality of refills housed in the compound writing instrument 10 are all immersed.
The shaft cylinder 11 is formed by screwing a rear shaft 20 positioned on the rear end side and a front shaft 40 positioned on the front end side. The ring member 12 is refurbished between the rear shaft 20 and the front shaft 40. A base 50 is screwed to the tip of the front shaft 40.
Three window holes 22 which are openings in the longitudinal direction are provided at the rear part of the rear shaft 20. From each window hole 22, a knock protrusion 62 provided on the outer surface of a knock bar 60 mounted behind the refill described later protrudes. Each knock projection 62 is movable in the front-rear direction along the corresponding window hole 22.

  A clip 13 is attached to the knock projection 62 located in the window hole 22 on the front side (FIGS. 1A and 1B). The tip end portion of the clip 13 protrudes toward the rear shaft 20 and is in contact with a clip protrusion 21 formed on the surface of the rear shaft 20 (FIG. 1B). The knock bar 60 provided with the clip 13 is connected to a rear end of a mechanical pencil refill 70 described later. On the other hand, the other two knock bars 60 (see FIG. 1 (C)) are connected to the rear ends of ballpoint pen refills 80 described later having different ink colors. That is, the compound writing instrument 10 according to the present embodiment has three types of refills built therein.

(2) Refill, inner cylinder 30 and guide cylinder 17
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the dual writing instrument 10 shown in FIG.
On the rear side of the internal space of the rear shaft 20, an inner cylinder 30 is mounted that accommodates the knock bars 60 and guides the slide of the knock bars 60 in the front-rear direction. A guide cylinder 17 that guides the movement of each refill in the front-rear direction is attached to the front end side of the inner cylinder 30. The guide cylinder 17 is provided with a total of three guide holes 18 through which the refills are inserted.

  As described above, the mechanical pencil refill 70 is attached to the tip of the knock bar 60 to which the clip 13 is attached. The mechanical pencil refill 70 has a structure in which a mechanical pencil unit 72 as a mechanical part of a mechanical pencil is connected to the tip of a tubular core accommodating tube 71 that accommodates a core. Further, a spring 90 is extrapolated to the rear outer periphery of the mechanical pencil refill 70. The rear end of the spring 90 is in contact with the step 68 at the tip of the knock bar 60, and the tip of the spring 90 is in contact with the step 19 at the front end of the guide hole 18, and with the slide to the tip of the knock bar 60, The spring 90 is compressed between these steps 68 and 19.

On the other hand, the ballpoint pen refill 80 is attached to the tips of the other two knock bars 60 as described above. The ballpoint pen refill 80 has a structure in which a ballpoint pen tip 82 as a writing tip is connected to the tip of a tubular ink containing tube 81 that contains ink. Also, a spring 90 is extrapolated to the rear outer periphery of the ballpoint pen refill 80. The spring 90 is the same as the mechanical pencil refill 70 described above.
A cushion member 14 is interposed between the rear end portion of the inner cylinder 30 and the rear end inside the shaft cylinder 11, which will be described later.

(3) Rear axle 20
As described above, the rear shaft 20 is provided with three window holes 22 (FIGS. 3A and 3B and FIG. 4). Among them, the rear end portions of both side edges of the window hole 22 positioned in the front surface are projected so as to face each other, and these portions form a pair of engaging pieces 23 (FIGS. 3A and 4). ). A similar projecting portion is also provided at the rear edge of the window hole 22 to connect the engaging pieces 23 on both sides (FIG. 3A). A rear shaft female screw portion 24 that is a female screw for screwing with the front shaft 40 is formed on the inner periphery near the tip of the rear shaft 20. In addition, the rear end of the inner space of the rear shaft 20 is a table-like portion 25 that protrudes slightly to the tip, and the tip end surface is flat. This flat surface is the rear shaft rear end surface 26 (FIGS. 3C and 4) on which the above-described cushion material 14 abuts. This will be described later.

(4) Inner cylinder 30
The inner cylinder 30 is also provided with a total of three openings 31 corresponding to the respective window holes 22 of the rear shaft 20 and continuous therewith (FIGS. 5A to 5D). A rail 32 that guides the sliding of the knock bar 60 in the front-rear direction is provided along both edges of each opening 31 (FIGS. 5A to 5D). The tip portion of each rail 32 sinks in the axial direction, and this portion is referred to as a rail step 33 (FIGS. 5A to 5D).
The distal end edge 34 of the inner cylinder 30 is a portion where the distal end portion of the knock bar 60 is locked as will be described later. This will be described later.
A rear end recess 35 into which the cushion material 14 is inserted is formed at the rear end of the inner cylinder 30. This will be described later.

(5) Lead shaft 40
The front shaft 40 is a member formed by two-color molding. Specifically, a secondary molded body grip portion that is secondarily molded with a relatively soft material such as butadiene rubber on the outer periphery of a primary molded body 41 that is primarily molded with a relatively hard resin such as polycarbonate resin. 42 is located (FIGS. 6A and 6B). The outer periphery of the rear end portion of the primary molded body 41 is a front shaft male screw portion 43 that is screwed into the rear shaft 20 (FIGS. 6A and 6B). Further, the inner periphery of the front end portion of the primary molded body 41 is a receiving portion 44 (FIG. 6B) in which a female screw is formed so that the rear end portion of the base 50 is screwed. The receiving portion 44 is undercut due to the mold structure, but is forcibly removed when the die is cut. In the primary molded body 41, the portion where the receiving portion 44 is formed is formed thinner than the portion behind it (FIG. 6B).

(6) Base 50
The base 50 is made of metal, and has a tapered portion 51 formed on the front end side that is tapered. The outer periphery of the substantially cylindrical portion on the rear end side is screwed into the receiving portion 44 of the front shaft 40. Therefore, the insertion portion 53 is formed with a male screw (FIGS. 7A and 7B). A tip opening 52 is formed at the tip of the tapered portion 51 (FIG. 7B), from which the writing tip of each refill appears and disappears.

(7) Knock stick 60
FIG. 8 shows a knock bar 60 attached to the mechanical pencil refill 70. The knock bar 60 includes a knock bar insertion part 61 (FIGS. 8A to 8C) inserted from the outside into the window hole 22 of the rear shaft 20 and the opening 31 of the inner cylinder 30 from the outside, and thereafter And a knock projection 62 (FIG. 8B) projecting outward.
A clip mounting portion 63 to which the clip 13 is mounted protrudes further outward from the knock protrusion 62 (FIGS. 8A and 8B). In addition, engagement grooves 64, which are a pair of grooves, are formed at both rear ends of the base of the knock protrusion 62 (FIGS. 8B and 9). As described above, the knock rod 60 is inserted into the window hole 22 of the rear shaft 20 and the opening portion 31 of the inner cylinder 30 from the outside in the distal direction, and then the knock rod 60 is slightly rearward along the rail 32. As shown in FIG. 10, the engagement piece 23 of the window hole 22 is fitted into these engagement grooves 64 as shown in FIG. 10, so that the knock bar 60 is prevented from falling off. That is, the engagement piece 23 of the window hole 22 functions as a stopper for the knock bar 60 to come off.

The knock rod 60 is mounted by being inserted from the outside of the window hole 22 of the rear shaft 20 because the inner cylinder 30 and the guide cylinder 17 are inserted inside the rear shaft 20, and the rear shaft 20 This is because there is no sufficient space for inserting the knock bar 60 from the tip of the head toward the rear.
On the other hand, a locking protrusion 65 protruding outward is formed at the tip of the knock bar insertion portion 61 (FIG. 8B). The locking step 66 located behind the locking projection 65 is locked with the tip edge 34 of the inner cylinder 30 (see FIG. 2), which also contributes to preventing the knock bar 60 from coming off. .

On the inner side of the knock bar 60, a release protrusion 69 is formed that protrudes inward along the longitudinal direction (FIGS. 8B and 8C). The release protrusions 69 are also provided on the other two knock protrusions 62. In the non-writing state shown in FIG. 1, as shown in FIG. 10, each release protrusion 69 is abutted toward the axis. It is in a state.
From the tip of the knock bar 60, a refill mounting portion 67 protrudes in the tip direction (FIGS. 8A to 8C). The refill mounting portion 67 is press-fitted into the rear end of the mechanical pencil refill 70 (see FIG. 2).

(8) Cushion material 14
As shown in FIG. 11, the cushion material 14 has a substantially frustoconical convex portion 15 that is slightly tapered toward the tip, and a disc-like plate-like portion 16 that continues to the rear end. It is the member integrally molded by. Of the cushion material 14, the convex portion 15 is inserted into a rear end concave portion 35 (see FIG. 5D) of the inner cylinder 30. The plate-like portion 16 abuts on the rear shaft rear end face 26 (see FIG. 3C) of the base portion 25 of the rear shaft 20. That is, the cushion material 14 is a member interposed between the inner cylinder 30 and the rear shaft 20. A shallow circular first recessed portion 27 is formed at the rear end of the rear shaft 20, and a deeper circular second recessed portion 28 having the same center as that is also formed therein. A mold gate mark is located at the center of the second recess 28. A circular seal member 29 is fitted in the first recess 27 for the purpose of hiding the gate trace of the mold. Here, a rounded chamfered portion 27A is formed on the periphery of the first recessed portion 27, and a groove having a substantially V-shaped cross section is formed around the peripheral portion of the first recessed portion 27 with the rising portion 27C of the first recessed portion 27. Is formed. This groove is referred to as a round groove 27B. Due to the rounded groove 27B, a gap is generated around the surface where the seal member 29 contacts the first recessed portion 27. Since there is this round groove 27B, when coating the surface of the rear shaft 20, the paint can enter the round groove 27B, so that the edge of the first recess 27 becomes thick due to the surface tension of the paint. There is no. Therefore, the edge of the seal member 29 does not float when the seal member 29 is attached.

(9) Advance and Retreat of Refill In the state shown in FIG. 2, the knock bar 60 is located at the rearmost end, and the engagement piece 23 of the window hole 22 of the rear shaft 20 is formed in the engagement groove 64 of the knock bar 60. It is inserted. From this state, when the knock bar 60 to which the clip 13 is attached is pressed in the distal direction, the knock bar 60 is moved forward along the rail 32 of the inner cylinder 30 (see FIG. 5A) while compressing the spring 90. Moving. Then, when reaching the rail step 33 at the tip of the rail 32, the knock bar 60 sinks so as to drop in the axial direction. In this state, as shown in FIG. 12, the writing tip of the mechanical pencil refill 70 protrudes from the tip opening 52 (see FIG. 7B) of the base 50, and writing is possible. At this time, the release protrusion 69 of the knock bar 60 is engaged with the rail step 33. By this engagement, the state where the writing tip protrudes against the urging force of the compressed spring 90 is maintained.

  In this state, when one of the other two knock bars 60 is pressed toward the tip, the tip of the release protrusion 69 provided on the knock bar 60 sinks in the axial direction as described above, and the rail step It abuts on the rear end of the release protrusion 69 engaged with 33 and flips it up in the outer circumferential direction. As a result, the engagement between the release protrusion 69 and the rail step 33 is released. Then, the knock bar 60 moves rearward by the urging force of the compressed spring 90, and the protruding writing tip is immersed in the shaft tube 11 to return to the state shown in FIG. At this time, the knock bar 60 is positioned at the rearmost end. At this time, the engagement piece 23 of the window hole 22 of the rear shaft 20 is fitted into the engagement groove 64 of the knock bar 60 again.

(10) Action of Cushion Material 14 Here, even when the use frequency of a specific refill (for example, mechanical pencil refill 70) is extremely higher than that of other ballpoint refills 80, it functions as follows. That is, even when the knock bar 60 attached to the refill collides backward by the urging force of the spring 90 due to the release from the writable state, the knock bar 60 does not directly collide with the cushion material 14. That is, the knock bar 60 collides with the inner cylinder 30 in which it is accommodated. Therefore, the impact associated with the retreat of the specific refill is dispersed into a force that pushes the entire inner cylinder 30 backward, and the dispersed force is renovated between the inner cylinder 30 and the rear shaft 20 as a cushion material 14 ( (See FIG. 11). Therefore, only a specific position (for example, a position corresponding to such a specific refill) of the cushion material 14 is not reduced.

  The present invention can be used for a plurality of ballpoint pen refills or a compound writing instrument in which one of them is replaced with a mechanical pencil refill.

10 Writing implements (compound writing implements) 11 Shaft cylinder 12 Ring member
13 Clip 14 Cushion material 15 Convex part
16 Plate-shaped part 17 Guide tube 18 Guide hole
19 Step at the tip of guide hole
20 Rear shaft 21 Clip projection 22 Window hole
23 Engagement piece 24 Rear shaft female screw part 25 Base part
26 Rear shaft rear end face 27 First recess 27A Chamfer
27B R-groove 27C Rising part 28 Second recess
29 Seal material
30 Inner cylinder 31 Opening 32 Rail
33 Rail level difference 34 Leading edge 35 Rear edge recess
40 Front shaft 41 Primary compact 42 Secondary compact grip
43 Lead screw male thread 44 Receiving part
50 Base 51 Taper 52 Opening the tip
53 Insertion section
60 Knock stick 61 Knock stick insertion part 62 Knock protrusion
63 Clip mounting part 64 Engaging groove 65 Locking protrusion
66 Locking step 67 Refill mounting 68 Step at the end of knock bar
69 Release protrusion
70 Mechanical pencil refill 71 Core tube
72 Mechanical pencil unit
80 Ballpoint pen refill 81 Ink storage tube 82 Ballpoint pen tip
90 Spring

Claims (4)

A barrel,
A plurality of refills housed in the barrel;
A plurality of window holes corresponding to each of the plurality of refills, which are openings provided in a longitudinal direction in a rear portion of the shaft cylinder;
A knock bar attached to the rear of each of the plurality of refills and movable along the window hole;
In the compound writing instrument in which the writing tip of the refill on which the knock bar is mounted protrudes from the tip of the shaft tube by sliding the knock bar in the tip direction along the window hole.
In at least one of the plurality of window holes, formed as a pair of engaging pieces projecting so that rear end portions of both side edges of the window hole face each other,
A pair of engagement grooves corresponding to the pair of engagement pieces are provided at both rear ends of the knock bar corresponding to the at least one window hole of the knock bar,
The compound writing instrument, wherein the engagement piece is inserted into the engagement groove in a state where the knock bar is located at the rearmost end.   2. The shaft cylinder according to claim 1, wherein a front shaft positioned in front and a rear shaft positioned in rear are screwed together, and the window hole is provided in the rear shaft. The double-type writing instrument according to 1. An inner cylinder that is mounted inside the rear shaft and accommodates each of the knock bars and guides the slide of the knock bars;
The compound writing instrument according to claim 2, wherein the inner cylinder is provided with an opening continuous with the window hole.   A locking projection that protrudes in the outer circumferential direction is provided in the vicinity of the tip of each outer peripheral surface of each knock bar, and when the knock bar is located at the rearmost end, the locking projection is The double writing instrument according to claim 3, wherein the double writing instrument is locked to a leading edge of the writing instrument.