JP2020033157A - Pedal-openable trash bin - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a trash bin which is pedal-operable no matter of direction in which it is placed toward the wall.SOLUTION: A pedal-openable trash bin has a box-like trash bin body with four wall surfaces on the front, back, left and right sides, out of which an opposing pair of wall surfaces 3A and 3B have a narrower width than the other pair of wall surfaces 2A and 2C. A trash throw-in port 4 is disposed at a top part of the trash bin body. A lid body 7 is disposed so as to be freely rotatable relative to the trash throw-in port, by using one end of the trash bin body as a pivot part. The lid body is pushed upward by a lifting/lowering member that is lifted and lowered according to vertical motion of a pedal 6 disposed at a lower part of the trash bin. In the pedal-openable trash bin, a pedal chamber 5 is disposed at a lower part of a corner part between adjacent wall surfaces of the trash bin body, that retracts in a trash bin body inward direction from the wall surfaces. The pedal 6 is disposed inside the pedal chamber.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a trash can, and more particularly to an improved creation of a pedal-openable trash can.

  A lid opening / closing type trash box is provided so as to be rotatable with one end of the trash box as a pivotal support for a garbage input port provided at an upper part of the trash box, and the lid is pushed up and down by a vertically moving member provided below the trash box. Is known.

  In the above-mentioned pedal-opening / closing type trash can, the entire bed is projected from the front wall of the trash can (Patent Document 1), or most of the pedestal is housed in a pedal chamber formed by recessing the front wall of the trash can, and only the tip is wall-mounted. (Patent Document 2).

  In the above-mentioned trash can, the lid can be opened only by depressing a pedal with a foot, so that it is easy to use and widely used.

  The above-mentioned trash can has a housing-like trash can body having four front, rear, left and right walls in which the width of a pair of opposed wall surfaces is smaller than the width of the other pair of wall surfaces, that is, a planar substantially rectangular shape. In general, a pivot portion is provided on the side shorter than the width of the wall of the above, that is, the upper end of the wall on the shorter side to open and close (Patent Documents 1 and 2). In this case, the trash can is provided with a pedal on a front wall surface opposite to the wall surface on which the pivot portion is provided.

  The vertically-equipped trash can has the advantage that it can be placed in a limited space because the width is narrow, but on the other hand, because the lid is long, it is difficult to open it when it is placed under a counter or under a shelf, for example. However, there was an inconvenience that the lid was not completely opened.

  On the other hand, there has been proposed a horizontally long pedal-openable dustbin that is provided with a pivot portion of a lid provided at an upper end of a wall surface on a longitudinal side to open and close (Patent Document 3). In this case, the trash can is provided with a pedal on a front wall surface opposite to the wall surface on which the pivot portion is provided.

  The trash can has the advantage that it can be placed in places with limited upward space, such as under counters and shelves, because the front and back of the lid are short, but the installation space is limited because the width is long There was an inconvenience.

Utility Model Registration No. 3132188 Actual Kaihei 07-019210 Japanese Patent No. 3967901

  As described above, in the conventional pedal-openable recycle bin, when the recycle bin is placed in contact with the wall surface, in the case of a vertically long recycle bin, if the short side wall does not face the wall, the pedal is not located at the front and the pedal operation is performed. In the case of a horizontally long garbage bin, unless the long side wall faces the wall, the pedal will not be located on the front surface, and it will be difficult to operate the pedal. Therefore, consumers have to take into account the merits and demerits of the convenience in the case of the portrait and the landscape in the purchase, and have to consider the environment in which to use them.

  The invention of the present application has been created for the purpose of providing a pedal-openable trash can that solves the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and the width of a pair of opposed wall surfaces is smaller than the width of the other pair of wall surfaces. A lid body is rotatably provided with one end of the trash box main body as a pivotal support portion, and the lid body is provided below the trash box with respect to a garbage input port provided at an upper portion of a housing-shaped trash box main body having four wall surfaces. In a pedal-opening / closing trash box that is pushed up by an elevating member that moves up and down by the up and down movement of the pedal, a pedal chamber is provided below the corner between adjacent walls of the trash box body and retreats inward from the wall surface in the trash box body. A pedal is arranged on the vehicle.

  The invention according to claim 2 is characterized in that, in the above-described pedal-opening / closing trash box, the pivotal support of the lid is provided at the upper end of the wall surface on the side whose width is longer than the width of the other wall surface.

  The invention according to claim 3 is characterized in that in the pedal-opening / closing trash box, a housing-shaped trash box main body having four front, rear, left, and right wall surfaces is a flat rectangular shape.

  The invention according to claim 4 is characterized in that, in the above-mentioned pedal-opening / closing trash box, the pedal chamber is formed by cutting out a lower part of a corner between adjacent wall surfaces of the trash box body.

  The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that, in the above-mentioned pedal-opening / closing trash box, the pedal chamber is formed by recessing a portion below a corner between adjacent wall surfaces of the trash box body.

  A feature of the pedal-opening / closing trash can of the present invention is that a pedal chamber is provided below the corner between adjacent walls of the trash can main body so as to recede inward from the wall. In the conventional pedal-opening / closing garbage bin, the entire pedal room is provided on the front wall surface of the garbage bin, and such an idea did not exist.

  As a result, in the pedal-openable trash can of the present invention, the pedal that opens and closes the lid is disposed at the corner between adjacent walls of the trash can main body, and the pedal can be operated on either of the adjacent wall surfaces. When placed in contact with a wall surface, the pedal can be operated even when the short side wall surface faces the wall or the long side wall surface faces the wall.

  In the invention of the present application, the corners between the adjacent walls where the pedal chamber is provided have both sides forming an angle of 90 degrees. That is, in the pedal chamber of the conventional pedal-operated trash can provided by recessing the front wall surface, the wall surface is at a position orthogonal to the depth direction of the pedal, but in the present invention, the wall surfaces on both sides are 45 degrees. It means retreating inward at an angle. Therefore, in the prior art, in order to allow the foot to be inserted from the lateral direction with respect to the bed, the width of the pedal chamber is increased by increasing the width of the pedal chamber so as not to be obstructed by the front wall present at the orthogonal position. Although the end had to be kept away from the bed, in the present invention, even if the width of the pedal room was minimized, the wall did not block the toes.

  As a result, in the present invention, even when the width of the pedal chamber is minimized, the pedal operation is not hindered even if the tip of the pedal does not protrude from the wall surface of the trash can, which has been conventionally difficult. Stacking of recycle bins becomes possible.

  Further, since the width of the pedal chamber can be minimized and the pedal chamber is arranged at the corner instead of the front of the trash box, the possibility that the pedal chamber adversely affects the storage capacity of the trash box is reduced.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pedal-openable trash can according to the present invention. Ditto, perspective views observed from different angles. Ditto, front view. Ditto, side view. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the pedal-openable trash can of the present invention.

  Hereinafter, a specific embodiment of a pedal opening / closing type according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The invention of the present application discloses a known method in which a lid is rotatably provided to a refuse input port provided at an upper portion of a trash box with one end of the trash box being used as a pivotal support, and the lid is pushed up by an elevating member which moves up and down by a pedal provided below the trash box. This is implemented in a trash can that can be opened and closed.

  Reference numeral 1 in the figure indicates a main body of a trash can made of a plastic material. The trash box main body 1 has four front, rear, left and right walls, that is, a front wall 2A, a rear wall 2B, a right wall 3A, and a left wall 3B. The four front, rear, left, and right wall surfaces have a flat rectangular shape in which the width of the front wall 2A and the rear wall 2B is wider than the width of the right wall 3A and the left wall 3B. Here, stacking is possible by making the bottom outer dimension smaller than the opening inner dimension, but it is needless to say that the lower constriction shape is not required.

  In addition, here, a planar rectangular shape is illustrated as a shape having four front, rear, left, and right walls, but each wall may be rounded, and a corner between adjacent wall surfaces is completely formed. It may be rounded instead of corners.

  The garbage box main body 1 is opened as a garbage inlet 4 at an upper part, and a lid 7 is provided rotatably with respect to the garbage inlet. In this case, the lid 7 is provided with a pivotable portion at the upper end of the rear side wall 2B, which is a wall surface on the longitudinal side, so as to be pivotally opened and closed, and a mechanism that can be opened and closed by pedal operation is provided. For example, the following known technology (not shown) can be assumed as the above mechanism.

  That is, an elevating rod is vertically movable in the vertical direction of the garbage box main body 1, and a raising / lowering rod is provided at a rear end of the rotatable rod which pivots up and down in a seesaw shape with a pivot provided on the bottom rear surface of the garbage bin main body as a fulcrum. Are connected to each other with a pivot portion, and the contact portion at the upper end of the elevating rod is arranged to contact a contact portion provided near the pivot portion on the back surface of the lid. A pedal 6 that can be stepped on is disposed below the trash box main body in front of the rotating rod, and the lid is pushed open by the lifting rod that rises when the pedal is lowered.

  Reference numeral 5 in the drawing denotes a pedal chamber which constitutes a characteristic portion of the pedal-openable trash can of the present invention. The pedal room 5 is provided below the corner between adjacent wall surfaces of the trash box main body 1 (here, the front wall surface 2A and the right wall surface 3A) at a position receding inwardly from the wall surface in the trash box main body.

  In this embodiment, the pedal chamber 5 is formed by cutting out the lower part of the front wall surface 2A and the lower part of the right wall surface 3A of the trash box main body 1. May be formed by recessing inward.

  In this embodiment, the lower end of the front wall surface 2A and the lower right wall surface 3A of the trash box main body 1 are cut into a triangular shape to form a triangular pyramid space at the corner of the trash can main body. Of course, the cutouts at the lower ends of 2A and the right wall 3A are not limited to triangular shapes.

  In the figure, reference numeral 6 denotes a pedal, which is arranged in the pedal chamber 5 so as not to protrude from the wall surface of the trash can body in consideration of stacking.

  FIG. 5 is a view showing a case where the lid 7 is a short side, that is, the upper end of the left wall surface 3B is a pivot portion in the pedal-opening / closing trash can of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Recycle bin main body 2A The front wall surface of the recycle bin main body 2B The back wall surface of the (recycle bin main body) 3A The right wall surface of the recycle bin main body 3B The left wall surface of the recycle bin main body 4 Garbage inlet 5 Pedal room 6 Pedal 7 Lid

Claims (5)

  A lid is attached to one end of the garbage box main body with respect to a garbage input port provided at an upper portion of a housing-like garbage bin main body having four front, rear, left and right walls in which the width of a pair of opposing wall surfaces is smaller than the width of the other pair of wall surfaces. In a pedal-openable trash box that is rotatably provided as a pivot portion and pushed up by a lifting member that moves up and down by a pedal provided below the trash box, the lid is located below the corner between adjacent wall surfaces of the trash box body. A pedal openable / closable trash box, comprising: a pedal chamber that retreats from a wall surface in an inward direction of the trash box main body; and a pedal is disposed in the pedal chamber.   The pedal-opening / closing trash box according to claim 1, wherein the pivot portion of the lid is provided at an upper end of a wall surface having a width longer than the width of the other wall surface.   The pedal-operated trash box according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the housing-shaped trash box main body having four front, rear, left, and right walls is a flat rectangular shape.   The pedal-openable trash box according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the pedal chamber is formed by cutting out a lower part of a corner between adjacent wall surfaces of the trash box body.   The pedal-operated trash box according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the pedal chamber is formed by recessing a lower portion of a corner between adjacent wall surfaces of the trash box body.

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