JP2862520B2 - Wall greening device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a greening device arranged on a wall for greening an outdoor structure such as a retaining wall or a breakwater, or an inner or outer wall of a building, and has a remarkable advantage particularly in maintenance work. The present invention relates to a wall greening device.

[0002]

[Prior Art] Greening has been adopted to improve the appearance of retaining walls and building walls and to harmonize with the surrounding scenery. In recent years, from the viewpoint of protection of the natural environment, greening has been increasingly used. Its importance is increasing. Various methods have been devised for this greening method.The soil is carried to the vegetation space formed on the wall, and fertilizers and seeds are scattered for greening. Means such as packing in a bag or the like and installing it on a wall surface for greening are employed.

[0003]

There are a number of common problems with any of the above described greening methods. First, the difficulty of the construction. It is extremely difficult to apply soil, plant seedlings, and sow seeds on steep retaining walls, and it is difficult for workers to build temporary scaffolds and carry heavy soil, etc. Required. In fact, on steep retaining walls, the slopes are steeply constructed, so there is no place to stuff the soil or plant seeds. It was necessary to construct a vegetation space in concrete with crossing.

[0004] Another problem of these conventional greening methods is the problem of maintenance. In addition to sowing seeds and planting seedlings, it is necessary to grow those plants and prevent them from withering. Water and fertilizers are indispensable until plants take root, so it is necessary to frequently supply water and fertilizers. In addition, it is desirable to replant the plant every season to achieve greening throughout the year, but if new seeds are sown, there will be no green until the plants grow and grass and flowers grow. . The situation is the same when green is given to the indoor and outdoor walls of a building, and conventionally only a space for placing a potted plant at the bottom of the window of the building has been adopted, and it is installed at the time of new construction Therefore, it cannot be said that the greening device is easy to retrofit.

[0005] To this end, the present applicant has already filed Patent No. 2
Japanese Patent Application No. 610244 (Japanese Patent Application No. 7-79529) proposes the invention. This invention attaches a pulley to a retaining wall or an indoor / outdoor wall of a building, hangs a rope on the pulley, suspends a planted plant at both ends of the rope, and raises and lowers the suspended left and right buckets. It is to exchange the plants inside. Although maintenance of the vegetation is extremely easy in the present invention, when exchanging the already grown plants for each bucket, the problem that the work of exchanging the whole bucket is difficult is necessary because the buckets at both ends of the rope must be suspended. is there. In addition, in order to suspend the bucket at the left and right ends of the rope and move it vertically up and down, the rope must be pulled to lift and lower the heavy bucket vertically. In this case, the weight becomes heavy, and a force for pulling up one side is needed, which is difficult for a woman or the like who has no strength.
When buckets are arranged vertically, there is also a problem that the sun does not hit the lower bucket or rainwater does not enter.
Also, it is not aesthetically pleasing to arrange the buckets vertically or horizontally on a straight line.

[0006]

A wall greening apparatus according to the present invention is capable of endlessly rotating between two folded members and obliquely spans a cable member, and is appropriately separated therefrom. By separately suspending a plurality of buckets, the problem of sunshine and rainwater is solved, and the labor of maintenance work is further reduced.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In the present invention, an endless cable is hung on a folded member. A rotating wheel such as a pulley may be used as the folded member. It may be a pulley that hangs the object or a block that hangs the chain. At least two fold members are used, and one of the fold members is pivoted relatively above the wall surface so as to be rotatable substantially parallel to the wall surface. The other folded member is pivoted relatively below the wall to allow rotation substantially parallel to the wall. The rope is wrapped around the two folded members in an endless manner like a loop. Since one of the two rotating wheels is higher than the other, the cable member is hung on the wall surface at an angle. As the cord-like material, a member such as a rope, a chain, a belt, etc., which can be freely and endlessly rotated on two folded members, can be widely used.

[0008] A grip is attached to a portion of the endless cable member that is bridged between both lower edges of the left and right folded members. The grip is detachable from the cable member, for example, it can be tightened and released by bolts and nuts.
A plurality of grips are attached at appropriate positions on the cord material and at appropriate intervals. Each grip has a through ring projecting upward. The through ring has a ring shape, and a portion of the through ring that extends between both upper edges of the left and right folded members passes through the through ring. A greening bucket is detachably suspended from each grip. The greening bucket may be a container filled with a mixture of fertilizer and seeds in the soil, or a container capable of storing potted plants as they are. A hook may be attached above these buckets and hooked on a hook lowered under the grip.

In order to pull down the vegetation bucket, the rope material may be pulled toward the folded member located below, and the bucket may be pulled down together with the grip. Water or fertilizer can be poured into the bucket at an appropriate height, or the entire bucket can be replaced.
When the grip comes down to the position where it hits the turning member, the grip may be released, the rope material may be further pulled, and the next bucket may be lowered. In this way, the buckets are sequentially lowered for maintenance. When pulling up the bucket, the rope material is sent out upside down, and the bucket is pulled up together with the grip. After the front bucket has been sent out to an appropriate height, the grip is fixed to the rope by tightening a bolt of the grip, and the rope is sent out and the bucket is pulled up. A through ring protrudes from the grip, and the through ring passes through the upper cable section,
The weight of the bucket acts on both the upper and lower parts of the endless cable. Therefore, the deflection of the cable member is reduced. Further, each bucket is separately attached to the rope material, and is hung on the rope material which is inclined obliquely. This allows each bucket to receive rainwater well and the sun to hit well.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail based on an embodiment shown in the drawings. The embodiment is an example in which the present invention is applied to the retaining wall 1, and the rotating wheels 2, which are folding members, are rotatably fixed to the retaining wall 1 so as to be rotatable. Of the rotating wheels 2, one rotating wheel 2 is mounted at a relatively lower position on the retaining wall 1, and the other rotating wheel 2 is mounted relatively on the retaining wall 1. A wire rope 3 is hung on the two rotating wheels 2 in an endless shape, that is, a ring shape. Therefore, the wire rope 3 is rotatably hung around the two rotating wheels 2, 2 as a turning point. Further, since one rotating wheel 2 is located at a position higher than the other rotating wheel 2, the wire rope 3 is inclined obliquely from one to the other.

[0011] Of the endless wire rope 3,
A portion extending between the lower edges of the left and right rotating wheels 2, that is, the lower part of the two upper and lower wire ropes 3 that are hung endlessly around the rotating wheels 2, and are appropriately separated from each other. Grip 4 is attached. The grip 4 can be tightened and released by bolts and nuts 5. The grip 4 is fixed by tightening, and the position with respect to the wire rope 3 can be freely changed by loosening. Above each grip 4, a through ring 6 as a ring protrudes, and a portion extending between the lower edges of the left and right rotating wheels 2, that is, an endless shape is formed into two upper and lower portions. The upper part of the wire rope 3 passes through. A hook 7 is lowered below the grip 4.

The greening bucket 8 is adapted to be lowered by a hook 9, and the greening bucket 8 is filled with fertilizer and soil 10 and is planted with plants. The greening bucket 8 is hooked on the hook 7 of the grip 4 by the hook 9 and suspended. In order to raise on the retaining wall 1, tighten the bolts and nuts 5 to fix the grip 4, fix the grip 4, and send the wire rope 3 from which the greening bucket 8 is suspended to the upper side. Gradually rises along the inclined wire rope 3. When there is an appropriate interval from the raised greening bucket 8, the next grip 4 can be fixed, the greening bucket 8 can be hung, and similarly sent upward. In order to perform maintenance such as watering or fertilizer on the greening bucket 8 or to replace the entire greening bucket 8, the wire rope 3 to which the grip 4 is fixed is turned downward, and the bolts and nuts 5 of the grip 4 are adjusted to an appropriate height. , The same operation may be performed by pulling the wire rope 3 and lowering the next greening bucket 8. With the bucket 8 raised to a desired position, the rope 3 is clipped to a bracket fixed to a wall surface, or the two ropes 3 turned up and down are tied by clips to fix the rope 3 so as not to fall.

As the folding member, a sliding shoe 11 covered with a resin such as Teflon around a bar as shown in FIG.
Sometimes used. When the rope 3, which is a rope material folded back over the sliding shoe 11, slides on the surface of the sliding shoe 11 and rotates when it is pulled.

[0014]

The present invention has the above-described configuration, and can obtain the following effects. Potted vegetation vegetated or stored in the greening bucket allows the wall surface to be moist and harmonious with the surrounding environment. Attach the folded member to the wall, fix the grip by hanging the rope on the other, just lower the greening bucket,
The construction is remarkably easy, and it is particularly effective when greening is performed not only on new retaining walls and buildings, but also on existing retaining walls and buildings. The cable members are obliquely inclined. Therefore, instead of directly raising the weight of the bucket, it is possible to easily raise and lower the greening bucket without requiring a large force to pull the rope material, and even a weak woman or an elderly person can easily use water or water. Maintenance work such as fertilizer can be performed. Replace the plants or pots in the greening bucket,
Alternatively, by replacing the entire bucket, it is possible to always replace the existing lush plants with greenery, and it is possible to plant trees almost all year. Since a through ring protrudes above the grip, the grip is fixed to the lower part of the endless rope, and the upper part of the endless rope passes through the through ring,
The load of the greening bucket is distributed to the upper part and the lower part of the rope material, and the flexure of the rope material is reduced. Since the greening buckets are arranged at appropriate intervals on the slanted cable members, the buckets are laterally shifted. In other words, there is nothing on each greening bucket that blocks rainwater fall or sunshine, and the plant grows well. Since the buckets are individually suspended from the ropes one by one,
The work of replacing the whole bucket is easy. Since the cable members are inclined obliquely, a plurality of greening buckets are arranged on the wall surface sequentially in a diagonal manner as appropriate, not in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction, so that the entire wall surface has a good view.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a wall greening device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a wall greening device.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged front view of a grip.

FIG. 4 is a front view of a state in which a grip is pulled toward a rotating wheel disposed below.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a state in which a rope is hung on a lower sliding shoe.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Retaining wall 2 Rotating wheel 3 Wire rope 4 Grip 5 Bolt / nut 6 Through ring 7 Hook 8 Greening bucket 9 Hook 10 Soil 11 Sliding shoe

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. At least two folded members are attached to an inner or outer wall of an outdoor structure or building such as a retaining wall, one of which is relatively above the wall and the other is relatively below the wall. The endless rope is hung on the two folded members, and the two folded members are turned so as to be rotatable. In addition, the endless rope is inclined from one folded member to the other folded member. A plurality of grips are detachably attached to a portion of the strip extending from the lower edge of one of the folded members to the lower edge of the other folded member, and the plurality of grips are protruded upward from each grip. Through the part of the endless cable member that extends from the upper edge of one folded member to the upper edge of the other folded member, and each grip detachably suspends the greening basket. A greening device for walls.