JP3158826U - Thickness measuring tool - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thickness measuring tool capable of easily measuring the thickness of a heat insulating material layer formed on a wall surface surface over a plurality of locations. SOLUTION: The thickness measuring tool 3 for measuring the thickness of a heat insulating material layer attached on the surface of a wall base is in a direction different from the extending direction of the handle portion 8 and the handle portion 8. An extending tip portion 4 is provided, a contact portion 5 that can be brought into contact with the surface of the heat insulating material layer is formed on the tip portion 4, and the contact portion 5 is brought into contact with the heat insulating material layer from the contact portion 5. A needle 6 that can move back and forth in the thickness direction of the heat insulating material layer is provided, an operation portion 7 for moving the needle 6 in and out is provided on the handle portion 8, and a scale portion 9 that displays the amount of protrusion of the needle 6 from the contact portion 5. Is provided. [Selection diagram] Fig. 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a thickness measuring instrument that measures the thickness of a heat insulating material layer that is provided on the surface of a base that forms the inner wall surface of a building.

  Conventionally, in order to measure the thickness of a urethane foam layer or the like sprayed and formed on a hard base surface such as a wall surface, it protrudes from one end of the cylindrical body along the axial direction of the cylindrical body. A needle-like body is removably housed and a rod-like body that pushes out the needle-like body from the cylindrical body is provided, and a scale for measuring the degree of protrusion of the needle-like body from one end of the cylindrical body is provided on the cylindrical body. (See, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP-A-7-83601

  With the conventional thickness measuring instrument mentioned above, if you want to measure the thickness of insulation material that is formed by blowing urethane foam on the surface of the wall base, especially at the high part of the wall surface of the building, It is necessary to push the tip of the measuring tool perpendicularly to the vertical wall surface of the high place and push out the needle-like body through the rod-like body, and to measure over multiple places in the lateral direction of the wall surface There is a problem that workability is not very good because the stage or ladder has to be moved for each measurement.

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a thickness measuring instrument that solves the above-mentioned problems and can easily measure the thickness of the heat insulating material layer formed on the wall surface at a plurality of locations.

  A first characteristic configuration of the present invention is a thickness measuring tool for measuring the thickness of a heat insulating material layer provided on the surface of a wall base, and is different from a handle portion and an extending direction of the handle portion. Provided with a tip portion extending in the direction of contact, forming a contact portion that can freely contact the surface of the heat insulating material layer at the tip portion, and contacting the contact portion with the contact portion being in contact with the heat insulating material layer. Measurement that can measure the amount of protrusion of the needle from the contact portion by providing a needle that can be moved back and forth in the thickness direction of the heat insulating material layer from the portion, an operation portion for moving the needle out and in the handle portion There is a part.

  According to the first characteristic configuration of the present invention, as long as the handle reaches a height, even if the height of the vertical wall surface is different from the extending direction of the handle. Since the tip portion extending in the direction is provided, the handle portion is brought close to the wall surface from the lateral direction until the tip portion contacts the surface of the heat insulating material layer, and the contact portion is contacted with the heat insulating material layer. In this state, operate the operation part provided on the handle part to project the needle from the contact part in the thickness direction of the heat insulating material layer until the needle contacts the wall base, and measure the protrusion amount with the measurement part By simply reading it, it can be easily measured without placing it on a platform or ladder for each measurement.

  A second characteristic configuration of the present invention is a posture switching mechanism capable of switching the extending direction of the tip portion between a direction different from the extending direction of the handle portion and the same direction as the extending direction of the handle portion. Is in place.

  According to the second characteristic configuration of the present invention, when measuring the thickness of the heat insulating material layer attached to the vertical wall surface, the extending direction of the tip portion is different from the extending direction of the handle portion by the posture switching mechanism. In this direction, the tip portion lifted from below can be moved laterally and measured closer to the heat insulating material layer. On the other hand, the heat insulating material attached to the ceiling wall, the lower surface of the beam, etc. by raising the tip part by holding the handle part by directing the tip part in the same direction as the extending direction of the handle part by the posture switching mechanism Layer thickness can also be measured.

  According to a third characteristic configuration of the present invention, an extension / retraction force transmission mechanism is provided between the operation portion and the needle withdrawal / retraction mechanism, and the extension direction of the handle portion is configured to constitute the withdrawal / retraction force transmission mechanism. A flexible member that can be bent in the extending direction of the tip portion and capable of transmitting an axial force is connected to the operation portion and the needle at both ends, and the flexible member is allowed to move along the sliding path of the flexible member. A guide portion for guiding the flexible member is provided.

According to the third characteristic configuration of the present invention, the axial force is transmitted while the flexible member is guided by the guide portion even if the extending direction of the handle portion is different from the extending direction of the distal end portion. For this reason, the needle mechanically moves out of the contact portion by the operation force of the operation portion provided in the handle portion.
Therefore, it is possible to measure the thickness of the heat insulating material layer by allowing the needle to enter the heat insulating material layer with a simple structure.

  A fourth characteristic configuration of the present invention is that the flexible member is a leaf spring.

  According to the fourth characteristic configuration of the present invention, the axial force can be transmitted by a leaf spring, which can be easily manufactured.

  According to a fifth characteristic configuration of the present invention, the flexible member is made of a push-pull wire, and the guide portion is made of a cylindrical outer case having rigidity and flexibility for fitting the push-pull wire. It is in.

  According to the fifth characteristic configuration of the present invention, the combination of the push-pull wire and the outer case makes it possible to transmit axial force with high accuracy in a direction different from the handle portion even if it is thin, and is a lightweight and compact thickness measuring instrument. Can be made.

  A sixth characteristic configuration of the present invention is that an expansion / contraction mechanism is provided to make the handle portion extendable in the extending direction.

  According to the sixth characteristic configuration of the present invention, for the heat insulating material layer attached to the wall base at a high place, the handle portion can be extended without being placed on a table or ladder, and can be measured. The handle can be shrunk and carried in a compact state, improving workability.

  According to a seventh characteristic configuration of the present invention, the handle portion is formed from a divided member divided into a plurality of parts in the extending direction, and the connecting portions that can be integrated by connecting the plurality of divided members are respectively provided. In addition to being formed on the divided member, the connecting portion between the adjacent divided members is configured to be foldable.

  According to the seventh characteristic configuration of the present invention, the handle portion is formed of a plurality of divided members, and the connecting portion between the divided members is made foldable, so that the portable device can be more compact when carried.

  An eighth characteristic configuration of the present invention is that the measurement unit is configured by a scale unit that displays a protruding amount of the needle and is provided on a handle unit.

  According to the 8th characteristic structure of this invention, the protrusion amount of the said needle | hook can be read with the scale part provided in the handle part, the thickness of a heat insulating material layer can be confirmed quickly, and thickness measurement of a simple structure as a whole Can be configured into tools.

  According to a ninth feature of the present invention, the measurement unit includes an automatic measurement unit that automatically measures the protrusion amount of the needle, and includes a transmission unit that wirelessly transmits measurement information from the automatic measurement unit. A measurement value remote display device including a reception unit that receives transmission information from the unit and a display unit that displays the reception information received by the reception unit as the thickness of the heat insulating material layer is provided.

  According to the ninth feature configuration of the present invention, there is a person who holds the handle part and applies a contact part to the heat insulating layer on the wall surface to measure the thickness, and a person who reads and confirms and records the measurement result. Easy work sharing and improved measurement work efficiency.

  According to a tenth feature of the present invention, the measurement unit includes a counting unit that counts the number of measurements, and the display unit can display the number of times measured by the measurement unit.

  According to the tenth feature configuration of the present invention, particularly when the number of thickness measurement portions of the heat insulating material layer increases, the number of times of measurement can be recognized together with the measurement value, thereby facilitating management of measurement work and improving work efficiency. Useful.

  According to an eleventh characteristic configuration of the present invention, the measured value remote display device includes a storage unit that stores the reception information received by the receiving unit, and an interface that can extract the storage information stored in the storage unit to the outside. By the way.

  According to the eleventh characteristic configuration of the present invention, the information stored in the storage means such as the measurement value is extracted from the interface, and can be stored and managed by a computer or the like more easily and efficiently.

  According to a twelfth feature of the present invention, the display form of the display unit is formed by at least one of analog display, digital display, and printout display.

  According to the twelfth characteristic configuration of the present invention, the display unit can be formed with at least one of analog display, digital display, and printout display according to the preference of the operator and the handling request, thereby improving efficiency. .

(A) is the whole perspective view of this embodiment, (b) is a principal part perspective view of the state which turned the handle part and the front-end | tip part to the same direction with the attitude | position switching mechanism. (A) It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view before pushing out a needle | hook, (b) It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view when a needle | hook is pushed out. (A) The longitudinal cross-sectional view of the state which extended the handle part of another embodiment, (b) The longitudinal cross-sectional view of the state which shrunk the handle part of another embodiment. (a) The side view of the attitude | position which made the handle part of another embodiment the same direction as the front-end | tip part, (b) The side view which orient | assigned the handle part of another embodiment to the direction different from the front-end | tip part. It is a whole perspective view of another embodiment.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In general, in a reinforced concrete building or the like, heat treatment is imparted to a concrete base 1 such as a wall surface or a ceiling surface to reduce the heating and cooling load.
The insulation material to be attached to the concrete base 1 is made of polyurethane foamed in-situ and cured to a certain thickness. It is necessary to measure whether or not the thickness of the urethane foam layer as the heat insulating material layer 2 is greater than a set value.

Therefore, the thickness measuring tool 3 of the heat insulating material layer 2 is configured as follows.
As shown in FIGS. 1 (a) and 1 (b), a flange-like metal contact portion 5 that can freely contact the surface of the heat insulating material layer 2 is formed at the tip portion 4, and the contact portion is attached to the heat insulating material layer 2. In the state where 5 is in contact, a needle 6 is provided that can be moved in and out of the thickness direction of the heat insulating material layer 2 from the contact portion 5, and an operation portion 7 for moving the needle 6 in and out is provided in the handle portion 8. A scale portion 9 for displaying the protruding amount of the needle 6 from the portion 5 is provided.

  The measuring instrument main body 10 is composed of a metal first square tube member 10A, a second square tube member 10B, and a third square tube member 10C made of three members, and the first, second, and third square tube members 10C. They are connected to each other via a butterfly bolt 11 and a nut 12 so that they can be bent and swung, but they cannot be swung by tightening, so that the extending direction of the distal end portion 4 and the extending direction of the handle portion 8 of the measuring instrument body 10 are connected. Can be switched in such a way that they can be in different directions (FIG. 1 (a)) or in the same direction (FIG. 1 (b)).

A stretchable stretching rod 14 is connected across the first rectangular tube member 10A and the third rectangular tube member 10C.
The tension rod 14 can change the length of a pair of metal bars by allowing a metal bar on two flat plates to be tightened by inserting a fixing tool 16 such as a screw through the elongated hole 15. Stabilization after switching of the extending direction of the handle portion 8 and the tip portion 4 is achieved.

An exit / retreat force transmission mechanism is provided between the operation unit 7 and the needle 6.
A flexible member made of a push-pull wire 17 made of steel that can be bent in the extending direction of the tip portion 4 and capable of transmitting an axial force to constitute the retracting force transmission mechanism, Rigidity and flexibility to fit the push-pull wire 17 as a guide unit that connects the both ends to the operation unit 7 and the needle 6 and guides the push-pull wire 17 along the sliding path of the push-pull wire 17 A cylindrical outer case 18 provided with is provided.

The operation portion 7 is connected to the proximal end of the push-pull wire 17 and is formed of a rod-like body 19 fitted in the third rectangular tube member 10C, and is used for pushing and pulling in the longitudinal direction of the third rectangular tube member 10C. The protrusion 20 is provided in the rod-like body 19 through the long hole 21 formed in the third rectangular tube member 10C.
The scale portion 9 is formed on the rear end side of the rod-shaped body 19, and the amount of protrusion of the needle 6 that accompanies the push-pull operation of the rod-shaped body 19 is graduated through the scale reading elongated hole 22 formed in the third rectangular tube member 10 C. The unit 9 is read.

Next, an operation procedure for measuring the thickness of the heat insulating material layer 2 will be described.
1. With respect to the urethane foam layer attached to the surface of the wall base 1 along the vertical direction as the heat insulating material layer 2, the tip end portion 4 is set at a right angle to the handle portion 8 by the posture switching mechanism 13.
2. As shown in FIG. 2A, the contact portion 5 of the tip portion 4 is applied to the surface of the heat insulating material layer 2.
3. As shown in FIG. 2 (b), the operating portion 7 is pushed in so that the needle 6 protrudes outward from the distal end portion 4, and the needle 6 enters the heat insulating material layer 2 until it hits the wall substrate 1.
4). The scale portion 9 is read through the scale reading slot 22 and the degree of penetration of the needle 6 is measured.

[Another embodiment]
Other embodiments will be described below.

<1> The handle portion 8 is formed of a divided member obtained by dividing a metal square pipe into a plurality of extending directions, and connecting portions that can be integrated by connecting a plurality of divided members are respectively divided. While forming in a member, the connection part between the adjacent division members may be foldable via a pivot shaft.
<2> As shown in FIG. 5, the flexible member constituting the withdrawal / retraction force transmission mechanism is formed by a long leaf spring 23 instead of the push-pull wire 17, and the guide portion thereof is an outer wire member. Instead of the case 18, a rectangular tube body in which the leaf spring 23 is slidably fitted without rattling may be used.
<3> In order to move the needle 6 back and forth based on the operation of the operation unit 7, the needle 6 is driven by a servo motor instead of a mechanical output transmission mechanism for transmitting an axial force between them. The electric device to be operated may be provided at the distal end portion 4 of the measuring tool and the operation portion 7 may be provided with an electric operation switch of the electric device. In addition, the electric device and the operation unit 7 may be wirelessly linked in addition to the electric wire.
<4> As shown in FIG. 3, if a telescopic mechanism that allows the handle portion 8 to extend and contract in the extending direction is provided, the measuring instrument body 10 is extended and carried as shown in FIG. Sometimes, the measuring tool body 10 can be contracted as shown in FIG.
<5> When the posture switching mechanism 13 is configured, as shown in FIG. 4, a flexible bellows portion 24 is formed in the measuring tool main body 10, and the thickness of the heat insulating material layer 2 attached to the ceiling surface is measured. This can be achieved by setting the state shown in FIG. 4A and measuring the thickness of the heat insulating material layer 2 on the vertical wall surface by setting the state shown in FIG. 4B. As in the present embodiment, the posture can be switched to an arbitrary angle not only when the wall surface is vertical but also when the wall surface is oblique.
<6> As shown in FIG. 5, the measuring tool main body 10 may be a metal square tube member having a bent tip side. In this case, it can be easily manufactured by fitting a flat plate leaf spring 23 into the square tube to provide a mechanism for transmitting and retracting the needle 6.
<7> Instead of providing the scale portion 9 on the handle portion 8 and performing visual measurement, an automatic measurement portion that automatically measures the protrusion amount of the needle 6 is provided, and measurement information from the automatic measurement portion May be provided wirelessly as electronic data, and these are collectively referred to as a measurement unit. In this case, a reception unit that receives transmission information from the transmission unit is provided, and at least one of analog display, digital display, and printout display is used as the thickness of the heat insulating material layer. A measured value remote display device including a display unit for displaying by seed is provided. Moreover, the said measured value remote display apparatus is considered to be a member different from the measuring tool main body 10 provided with the front-end | tip part 4 and the handle | steering-piece part 8, so that a work can be shared with a measurement person and a measurement value checker. However, the measurement unit may be provided at the distal end portion 4, and the measurement value remote display device may be provided at the handle portion 8.
<8> The measuring unit may include a counting unit that counts the number of times of measurement, and the display unit may be able to display the number of times of measurement by the measuring unit.
<9> The measurement value remote display device includes a storage unit that stores the reception information received by the reception unit, and an interface that can extract the storage information of the storage unit to the outside. Can be considered. If the interface is formed so that a USB cable or the like can be connected, data can be taken into the computer. In addition to the built-in hard disk, if the storage means is composed of an SD card, a flash memory, or the like, it is convenient that the storage means can be easily removed and taken outside.

  In addition, as mentioned above, although the code | symbol was written in order to make contrast with drawing convenient, this invention is not limited to the structure of an accompanying drawing by this entry. In addition, it goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented in various modes without departing from the gist of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Groundwork 2 Heat insulation material layer 4 Tip part 5 Contact part 6 Needle 7 Operation part 8 Handle part 9 Scale part 13 Posture switching mechanism 17 Push-pull wire 18 Outer case 23 Leaf spring

Claims (12)

A thickness measuring tool that measures the thickness of the heat insulating material layer attached on the surface of the wall base,
Provide a handle and a tip that extends in a direction different from the direction in which the handle extends,
Forming a free contact portion on the surface of the heat insulating material layer at the tip portion,
In the state where the contact portion is in contact with the heat insulating material layer, a needle is provided that can freely move in and out of the thickness direction of the heat insulating material layer from the contact portion,
An operating part for withdrawing and retracting the needle is provided in the handle part,
A thickness measuring tool provided with a measuring unit capable of measuring the protruding amount of the needle from the contact part.   The posture switching mechanism is provided, wherein the extending direction of the tip portion can be switched between a direction different from the extending direction of the handle portion and the same direction as the extending direction of the handle portion. Thickness measuring tool. Provide a retracting force transmission mechanism between the operation unit and the needle retracting mechanism,
To constitute the retracting force transmission mechanism, a flexible member that can be bent from the extending direction of the handle portion to the extending direction of the tip portion and capable of transmitting an axial force is provided at both ends of the operating portion and the needle. Connecting the parts,
The thickness measuring tool according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a guide portion that guides the flexible member along a sliding path of the flexible member is provided.   The thickness measuring tool according to claim 3, wherein the flexible member is a leaf spring.   The thickness measuring tool according to claim 3, wherein the flexible member is made of a push-pull wire, and the guide portion is constituted by a cylindrical outer case having rigidity and flexibility for fitting the push-pull wire.   The thickness measuring tool according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising an expansion / contraction mechanism that allows the handle portion to expand and contract in an extending direction thereof.   The handle portion is formed from a divided member divided into a plurality in the extending direction, and a connecting portion that can be integrated by connecting the plurality of divided members is formed in each divided member, and adjacent divided portions are formed. The thickness measuring tool according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the connecting portion between the members is configured to be foldable.   The thickness measuring tool according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the measuring unit is configured by a scale unit that displays a protruding amount of the needle and is provided on a handle unit. The measurement unit includes an automatic measurement unit that automatically measures the protrusion amount of the needle, and includes a transmission unit that wirelessly transmits measurement information from the automatic measurement unit,
A measurement value remote display device including a reception unit that receives transmission information from the transmission unit and a display unit that displays the reception information received by the reception unit as a thickness of the heat insulating material layer. The thickness measuring tool of any one of 1-7. The measuring unit includes a counting means for counting the number of times of measurement,
The thickness measuring tool according to claim 9, wherein the display unit can display the number of times of measurement by the measurement unit.   The thickness according to claim 9 or 10, wherein the measurement value remote display device includes storage means for storing the reception information received by the reception unit and an interface capable of taking out the storage information of the storage means to the outside. Measuring tool.   The thickness measuring tool according to any one of claims 9 to 11, wherein a display form in the display unit is formed by at least one of analog display, digital display, and printout display.

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