JP3177081U - Auxiliary tools used when moving furniture - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an auxiliary tool that can be moved without dismantling store fixtures, which are heavy objects, can reduce work time, and can ensure safety.
A height for lifting a leg by using a fixture leg insertion part 3 having a concave shape capable of inserting a leg part of the fixture and casters 4, 5 and 6 in place of a flat carriage. As a result, the workability and safety are improved.
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Description

  The present invention relates to an auxiliary tool for efficiently moving a fixture. In particular, the present invention relates to an auxiliary tool for moving so-called store fixtures for displaying and installing products and samples in stores and showrooms.

  A fixture is a shelf that is widely used in supermarkets, convenience stores, showrooms, and the like, and is used to display and install products and samples. For example, so-called store fixtures used in supermarkets are mainly composed of metal with high mechanical strength so that many products can be displayed and products with relatively heavy weight such as food can be stably installed.

  A general store fixture has a configuration in which a plurality of support columns are arranged vertically from a floor surface, and the plurality of support columns are connected by a connecting horizontal bar or the like parallel to the floor surface. A shelf support rod is connected and fixed in a direction perpendicular to the support column and the connecting horizontal bar from each of the plurality of support columns, and a product can be displayed by installing a shelf board on the shelf support rod. I have to. Legs are provided to stably install the entire fixture on the floor. The leg portion is connected and fixed to the lower end portions of the plurality of support columns and has a shape extending in a direction perpendicular to the support columns and the connecting horizontal bar. As a result, the shape formed by the support and the leg is generally an inverted T-shape or L-shape.

  When changing the layout of the store, the position of the product may be changed without moving the fixture, but it may be more efficient to move the fixture together. For example, when laying out seasonal products so that they are placed in the most prominent position, for other products, it is more efficient to move the fixtures with the products on them in cases where the positions are changed in a daring manner. .

Although some store fixtures have a caster for movement, most store fixtures do not have a caster, and therefore, some sort of moving means is necessary to move in a state where a product is placed. A flat carriage is generally used as the moving means. If the weight of the fixture with the product on it is relatively light, the operator lifts the entire fixture and another operator inserts a flat carriage under the raised fixture leg. Can do. For example, in the case of a store fixture having three inverted T-shaped legs, a flat cart is placed under each inverted T-shaped leg, and the fixture can be moved using a total of three flat carts.
However, if the product is heavy, the furniture on which the product is placed cannot be lifted. Therefore, after removing the product from the display shelf and moving the furniture to a predetermined position using a flat carriage, the product is placed on the display shelf. The work which requires the trouble of arranging was necessary. In addition, when the fixture itself is a heavy object that cannot be lifted even by a plurality of people, it is necessary to further troublesome work of disassembling the fixture and assembling it at a predetermined position.

Even if the product or the fixture itself is heavy, it is also conceivable to use a tool such as a bar or a jack to lift a part of the store fixture above the level of the flat cart and insert the flat cart into the space. However, the height of a flat carriage that can support a store fixture on which a heavy product is placed is generally about 100 mm or more, and each leg of the store fixture is placed on the flat cart. It was necessary to lift each leg to a higher height. In this case, it is necessary to tilt the store fixture to a large degree, for example, about 45 degrees, and it is practically impossible because the product falls from the shelf or, in the worst case, the store fixture falls over.
The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and facilitates work during movement of store fixtures and improves safety.

  Two caster attachment parts, a fixture leg insertion part having a concave shape into which the legs of the fixture formed between the two caster attachment parts can be inserted, and two each of the two caster attachment parts An assisting tool having a structure having a caster provided is used.

Further, a through hole into which the thumb can be inserted is provided in each of the two caster mounting portions.
Furthermore, when the caster is installed on a flat floor surface, the distance from the floor surface to the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3 is 10 mm or more and 25 mm or less.
Moreover, the hole which can store the height adjuster of a fixture is provided in the concave bottom of the said fixture leg insertion part.

  Since the auxiliary tool for moving fixtures according to the present invention is configured as described above, the height for lifting the store fixtures is small, and even if a tool such as a bar or jack is used, the store fixtures can be used. Therefore, the risk of the product falling from the shelf or the store fixtures falling over is significantly reduced. Therefore, it is possible to move the furniture with the heavy goods placed on the furniture, or to move without dismantling the heavy goods, and the work time can be significantly reduced compared to the conventional work. .

The figure for demonstrating the structure of the auxiliary tool for fixture movement which concerns on this invention The figure showing the state which inserted the fixture leg part in the auxiliary tool for fixture movement concerning this invention The figure for demonstrating the structure of another auxiliary tool for fixture movement which concerns on this invention

Embodiment 1 FIG.
The configuration and the like of the fixture moving aid according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The following description discloses a good example related to the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to the embodiment.

First, the configuration of a fixture moving aid according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
The auxiliary tool for moving the fixture is provided between the caster mounting left part 1, the caster mounting right part 2 having a symmetrical shape with the caster mounting left part 1, and the caster mounting left part 1 and the caster mounting right part 2. A fixture leg insertion portion 3 having a concave shape, a first caster 4 and a second caster 5 provided on the caster mounting left portion 1, a third caster 6 and a second caster provided on the caster mounting right portion 2. The four casters 7, the first hole 8 provided in the caster attachment left part 1, and the second hole 9 provided in the caster attachment right part 2 are configured.

  The caster attachment left part 1 and the caster attachment right part 2 are connected and fixed via a fixture leg insertion part 3. The caster attachment left part 1, the caster attachment right part 2 and the fixture leg insertion part 3 are made of a material such as metal or hard processed plastic. In this embodiment, iron is used. The caster mounting left part 1 and the fixture leg insertion part 3 and the caster attachment right part 2 and the fixture leg insertion part 3 may be connected by welding, or one material is integrally formed by cutting or the like. You may do it. In this embodiment, it is formed by bending an iron plate.

The size of the caster mounting left portion 1 is 60 mm in the horizontal direction and 120 mm in the vertical direction in FIG. The thickness is 4 millimeters. The caster mounting right part 2 has the same size.
1, the horizontal direction is 36 mm and the vertical direction is 120 mm. The depth of the fixture leg insertion part 3 is 50 mm from the upper surface of the caster attachment left part 1 and the caster attachment right part 2. The thickness is 4 millimeters.

  In FIG. 1, the first caster 4 and the second caster 5 are rotatably fixed to the left end front and the left end rear of the left part 1 of the caster. Here, the rotatable direction is a direction around the rotation axis perpendicular to the plane of the caster mounting left portion 1. Similarly, in FIG. 1, the third caster 6 and the fourth caster 7 are rotatably fixed to the right end front and the right end rear of the caster mounting right part 2, respectively.

  Each of the casters 4 to 7 has a wheel having a diameter of 40 millimeters, and can be moved with a small force by rotating the wheel with the fixture moving aid placed on the floor. Further, as described above, the casters 4 to 7 are rotatably fixed to the caster mounting left portion 1 and the caster mounting right portion 2, so that the wheels face along the moving direction of the fixture moving aid. Smooth movement in any direction is possible.

  The casters 4 to 7 are attached to the caster mounting left part 1 and the caster mounting right part 2 by fixing female screws at predetermined positions on the bottom surfaces of the caster mounting left part 1 and the caster mounting right part 2. ing. Further, a through hole may be provided in the caster mounting left part 1 and the caster mounting right part 2 and fixed with screws from above.

  The length of each caster 4 to 7 is 74 millimeters from the bottom surface of the caster mounting left part 1 and the caster mounting right part 2. Therefore, when the fixture moving aid is installed on the flat floor surface with the casters down, the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3 is separated from the floor surface by 20 mm. The distance from the floor should be as close as possible. This is because the height for lifting store fixtures is small. However, if the floor surface is not sufficiently hard and the floor surface sinks due to the weight of the store fixtures, or if the floor surface is uneven, the fixture leg insertion part 3 is too small if the distance from the floor surface is too small. Since the bottom surface of the slab may contact the floor and damage the floor surface, it is set to 20 mm here.

  A first hole 8 is provided in the caster attachment left portion 1, and a second hole 9 is provided in the caster attachment right portion 2. These two holes are through holes and the diameter of the holes is 40 millimeters. There are two reasons for providing a hole. The first reason is to reduce the weight of the fixture moving aid and to carry a plurality of fixture moving aids once. The second reason is that it is easy to carry the fixture moving aid by putting a hand in this hole and holding the fixture moving aid. Since a plurality of fixture moving aids are used for moving one store fixture, facilitating carrying a plurality of fixture moving aids contributes to an increase in work efficiency. Therefore, the diameter of the hole is not limited to the above-mentioned size, but it is desirable that the hole is at least large enough to allow an adult thumb to be inserted from the viewpoint of ease of carrying.

Next, the state in which the legs of the fixture are inserted into the fixture moving aid according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 2 shows a state in which the legs of the store fixtures having an L-shape are inserted into the fixture moving aid. When one fixture moving aid is inserted into one leg of a store fixture as shown in FIG. 2, the same number of fixture moving aids as the number of leg portions of the store fixture is used. In addition, when the depth of the store fixture is deep, the store fixture can be stably moved by inserting two fixture moving aids into one leg of the store fixture. In this case, the fixture moving auxiliary tool is used twice the number of legs of the store fixture.

  In any case, when the leg of the store fixture is inserted into the fixture moving auxiliary tool, the height at which the store fixture is lifted is a slight height. That is, it is only necessary to lift 24 millimeters by adding the thickness 4 millimeters of the fixture leg insertion portion 3 to the distance 20 millimeters from the floor surface to the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3. Even if a tool such as a bar or jack is used at this height, it is not necessary to tilt the store fixtures greatly, so the product falls from the shelf or the store fixtures themselves fall over. Risk is extremely small.

  In addition, on the floor surface made of various different materials, the distance from the floor surface to the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3 is changed to verify that the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3 does not contact the floor surface. It was. There are 25 types of floor surfaces used for verification, and all are floor surfaces generally used in stores. The verification results are shown in Table 1.

  For nine types of distances from the floor surface to the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3, 6, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, and 28 millimeters, contact occurs on each of the 25 floor surfaces. We verified whether there was any. The second row of Table 1 is the number of floor surfaces in contact with the floor surface. The third row in Table 1 is the number of floor surfaces in which severe contact has occurred such that the floor surface is broken.

Severe contact did not occur when the distance from the floor surface to the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3 was 10 millimeters or more. Therefore, it has been found that the distance from the floor surface to the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3 should be at least 10 millimeters.
Further, when the distance from the floor surface to the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3 was 25 millimeters, no light contact occurred. Accordingly, the distance from the floor surface to the bottom surface of the fixture leg insertion portion 3 may be at most 25 millimeters, and even if the distance is longer than that, only the demerit that the height of lifting the store fixture increases. I found out.

  Since the fixture moving aid according to the present invention is configured as described above, the lifting height of the store fixture can be reduced, and the lifting effort can be reduced, while at the same time using tools such as a bar or jack. Even if it exists, since it is not necessary to tilt a store fixture largely, the danger that goods will fall from a shelf or store fixture itself will fall remarkably. Therefore, workability and safety are significantly improved as compared with conventional work. In particular, it is very effective when performing a layout in which a heavy product is moved while placed on a fixture. Moreover, since it becomes possible to move a very heavy fixture without dismantling, work time can be shortened remarkably.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
The structure of the fixture moving aid according to the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
A different configuration from the first embodiment is that a height adjuster storage unit 10 is provided on the concave bottom of the fixture leg insertion unit 3. Since other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment, description thereof will be omitted below.

  A general store fixture has a height adjuster (knob) at each leg as shown in FIG. Thereby, it becomes possible to install store fixtures horizontally with respect to the floor surface. The height adjuster storage unit 10 has a diameter for storing the height adjuster. Here, the height adjuster storage unit 10 is a through hole having a diameter of 30 millimeters. In addition, it is good also as a hole which does not make it a through-hole but has a fixed depth.

  Since the fixture moving auxiliary tool according to the second embodiment of the present invention is configured as described above, the height adjuster of the store fixture leg is fitted into the height adjuster storage unit 10 so that the fixture Can be more stably installed on the fixture moving aid.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Caster installation left part 2 Caster installation right part 3 Fixture leg insertion part 4 1st caster 5 2nd caster 6 3rd caster 7 4th caster 8 1st hole 9 2nd hole 10 Height adjuster Storage

Claims (4)

An auxiliary tool used when moving the fixture,
Two caster mountings,
A fixture leg insertion portion having a concave shape into which the fixture leg portion formed between the two caster attachment portions can be inserted;
Two casters provided on each of the two caster mounting portions;
An auxiliary tool used when moving a fixture having   The auxiliary tool used when moving the fixture according to claim 1, wherein a through hole into which a thumb can be inserted is provided in each of the two caster mounting portions.   The distance from the said floor surface to the bottom face of the said fixture leg insertion part 3 when the said caster is installed in a flat floor surface is 10 millimeters or more and 25 millimeters or less, The Claim 1 or 2 characterized by the above-mentioned. Auxiliary tool used when moving furniture. The auxiliary tool used when moving the fixture according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a hole capable of storing the height adjuster of the fixture is provided in the bottom of the concave shape of the fixture leg insertion portion.