JP4853667B2 - Layout panel storage case - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a storage case for storing and transporting a layout panel forming a diorama for displaying a model railroad.

Railroad model enthusiasts often make a diorama including rails on the surface of the layout panel, and run the model train on it. A layout panel that forms such a diorama occupies a large area, but it is generally placed directly on the floor or displayed on a table, and when stored, it is stored in a horizontal state. . However, storing the layout panel horizontally takes a lot of space and squeezes the living space. In addition, people with the same hobby need to carry the layout panel and enjoy it by transportation, It is very difficult to carry the layout panel. In view of such a problem, the inventor of the present application has proposed a layout panel storage case in which the surface of the layout panel is stored with the surface facing inward in Patent Document 1 below.
Japanese Patent No. 3902580

By the way, in the model railroad, many panels are required for laying out the tracks for layout. However, in the case of storing the panels in the above layout panel storage case, the number of panels incorporated in the case is limited to two. there were. Therefore, in order to extend the layout, a lot of layout panel storage cases are required.
In view of the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a layout panel storage case that can store three or more layout panels.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention has the following configuration.
The invention according to claim 1 is a storage case for transporting a layout panel that forms a diorama on the surface, and includes a bottom plate that constitutes a bottom surface of the storage case, and two or more layout panel holders. The layout panel holding body is composed of two partition plates that are erected vertically and parallel to each other with respect to the bottom plate, and the surface of the layout panel is in the vicinity of the side edges of the two opposing partition plates. Two opposing side surfaces of the layout panel are held so as to face the inside of the storage case. A central reinforcing body made of a plate or a column having a width substantially the same as that between the partition plates and a height substantially the same as the partition plates is provided between the pair of partition plates adjacent to each other. A connecting body made of a rod or a plate that fixes a partition plate other than the set of partition plates is provided on the upper surface of the central reinforcing body.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the layout panel storage case, the two or more layout panel holders are arranged so that all of the partition plates constituting them are parallel to each other, and the two outermost partitions are arranged. The plate constitutes the side surface of the storage case.
According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the layout panel storage case, one or more protrusions are provided on two opposing side surfaces of the layout panel, and the side edge portions at positions corresponding to the protrusions of the partition plate are provided. Is formed with a notch that extends in the horizontal direction and engages with the projection bent vertically downward at the end.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the layout panel storage case according to the third aspect, a plurality of the notches are arranged on the side edge of the partition plate so as to be adapted to a plurality of different layout panels. Is.
According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the layout panel storage case, on the bottom surface of the bottom plate, a fall prevention bar composed of a bar body that protrudes and protrudes in parallel to the bottom plate is fixed so as to cross the edge of the bottom plate. is there.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, since two or more layout panel holders for fixing the layout panel are provided in the vicinity of the edge portion, it is possible to hold four or more layout panels. In addition, since the partition plate is fixed to the central reinforcing body directly or indirectly through the coupling body, it is not necessary to provide a member for preventing the overturning of the base plate on all the partition plates, and the manufacturing cost is reduced. The structure can be simplified.
According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the partition plates at both ends form the side surface of the layout panel storage case, there is no extra configuration, the structure is simplified, and the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
In the invention according to claim 3, since the layout panel can be fixed to the layout panel holding body by fitting the protrusions provided on the side surface of the layout panel into the notch, it is possible to store and take out easily and quickly. it can.
The invention according to claim 4 can accommodate a plurality of types of layout panels by providing a plurality of notches for different layout panels.
The invention according to claim 5 provides a layout panel storage case by providing a fall-preventing bar so that the fall-preventing bar is contracted during transportation so that it does not get in the way. Can be difficult to fall.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of the layout panel storage case X according to the present embodiment in a state in which the layout panel L is stored, and FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of the layout panel storage case X with the layout panel L removed. FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of the layout panel storage case X. FIG. The layout panel storage case X includes a bottom plate 10, partition plates 21 and 22, a top plate 31, a central reinforcing body 40, and a connecting body 32.
The bottom plate 10 includes a bottom plate main body 11 made of a rectangular plate, an elongated plate-like holding plate 12 standing on an edge constituting the short side of the bottom plate main body 11, an overturn prevention bar 13 provided on the bottom surface of the bottom plate main body 11, The caster 14 is provided on the bottom surface of the bottom plate body 11. Two grooves 11 a are formed in the bottom plate main body 11 at a predetermined interval in parallel with the holding plate 12. A through hole is formed in the center of the bottom plate body 11. A thumbscrew 15 for fixing the central reinforcing member 40 passes through the through hole. FIG. 4A shows a bottom view of the bottom plate 10. The fall prevention bar 13 is a quadrangular columnar rod body, and an elongated hole 13b is formed along the longitudinal direction. And the fall prevention bar 13 is being fixed to the baseplate main body 11 by the control member 13a which consists of a rod narrower than the width | variety of the long hole 13b provided with the flange which cannot pass the long hole 13b at the front end side. An auxiliary bar 13 c for preventing the fall prevention bar from rotating is provided along the fall prevention bar 13. With such a configuration, as shown in FIG. 4B, the fall prevention bar 13 can extend from the end edge to the parallel direction of the bottom plate main body 11 and is fixed to be stretchable.

  The central reinforcing body 40 is configured by a slightly flat rectangular column. Specifically, the plate bodies 41 and 41 constituting the front surface and the back surface are formed in a quadrangular prism shape by the rectangular columnar block bodies 42, 43, and 44 that are nipped and fixed to the lower end, the center, and the upper end between the plate bodies 41. Is formed. A demon nut (not shown) is buried in the center of the bottom surface of the block body 42 at the lower end, and is thereby fixed to the center of the bottom plate main body 11 via the thumbscrew 15 described above. On both ends of the central block body 43, demon nuts are buried, and this is used when the partition plate 22 is fixed. A demon nut is also buried in the upper surface of the upper block body 44. On the demon nut of the upper block body, a plate body 45 having the same width as the central reinforcing body 40 and the same length as the upper edge of the partition plate 22 and a hole having a hole in the center and a connecting body 32 described later are thumbscrews. 34 is fixed. On the upper surface of the plate body 45, demon nuts are buried symmetrically in the front-rear direction, and thumb screws 45a, 45a are engaged therewith. The height at which the plate body 45 is overlapped with the central reinforcing body 40 matches the length of the long side of the layout panel L to be attached. Further, the width in the left-right direction of the central reinforcing body 40 is set so as to contact the groove 11 a formed in the bottom plate body 11.

  The partition plates 21 and 21 are rectangular plates, and the outer surface forms the side surface of the layout panel storage case X. FIG. 5 shows a side view of the layout panel X. On the side edge of the partition plate 21, a bowl-shaped cutout 25 is formed which extends horizontally and bends vertically downward at the end. The position of the notch 25 is set so as to correspond to the position of a thumbscrew L1 (to be described later) of the layout panel L. Two demon nuts are buried near the lower edge of the outer surface of the partition plate 21. The lower edge of the partition plate 21 is placed on the upper edge of the holding plate 12 of the bottom plate 10 described above, and there are four holes that match the position of the demon nut near the lower edge of the partition plate 21 and the demon nut of the holding plate 12. It is fixed via a bolt by the provided connecting plate 21a. As a result, the partition plate 21 is fixed to the bottom plate 10. Two through holes are provided in the vicinity of the upper edge of the partition plate 21, and the handle plate 21 b having a handle formed on the upper side, and a demon embedded in a fixed lid 32 a provided at an end portion of the coupling body 32 described later. It is fixed to the nut with a bolt. The height of the partition plate 21 substantially coincides with the length of the long side of the layout panel L in a state where it is on the holding plate 12.

  The partition plates 22 and 22 are rectangular plates, and the same notch 25 as the partition plate 21 is formed at the same height on both side edges. A through hole is provided at the center of the partition plate 22, and when the lower end of the partition plate 22 is fitted into the groove 11 a of the bottom plate body 11, the position of the through hole is the demon nut of the block body 43 at the center of the center reinforcing body 40. It corresponds to the position of. The partition plate 22 is fixed to the central reinforcing body 40 from this through hole via a thumbscrew 22a. The height of the partition plate 22 is set so that the height from the top surface of the bottom plate substantially coincides with the long side of the layout panel L in a state where the partition plate 22 is fitted in the groove 11a. Since the groove 11a into which the partition plate 22 is fitted is parallel to the holding plate 12 on which the partition plate 21 is placed, all the partition plates 21 and 22 are parallel to each other. The adjacent partition plates 21 and 22 form a layout panel holder.

  The connecting body 32 is an elongated rectangular plate having a length substantially equal to the length in the left-right direction of the layout panel storage case X, and is a rod having a square cross section in contact with the inner side surfaces of the partition plates 21 on both lower surfaces. The fixed lid 32a made of is fixed. A through-hole is provided in the center of the coupling body 32 and is fixed by the thumbscrew 34 so that the plate body 45 is sandwiched between the demon nuts of the block body 44 on the upper side of the central reinforcing body 40 as described above. On the outside of the fixed lid 32, demon nuts are buried at positions corresponding to two through holes provided in the vicinity of the upper edges of the partition plates 21, 21, and the partition plate 21 is fixed together with the handle plate 21b by bolts. Is done.

  The top plate 31 is a rectangular plate body, and a straight cutout 31a is formed inside the center. The left and right lengths of the top plate 31 are the same as the left and right lengths of the connecting body 32, and the front and rear widths of the top plate 31 are the widths of the two top plates 31 aligned with the connecting body 32. It is set to be equal to the width. The top plate 31 is inserted into the shaft of a thumb screw 45a fixed to the plate body 45 fixed to the upper surface of the central reinforcing body 40, and the central reinforcing body is interposed via the plate body 45 by tightening the thumb screw 45a. 40 is fixed.

  FIG. 6 shows an exploded perspective view of the layout panel L. FIG. The layout panel L is a flat rectangular parallelepiped box, and is formed by screwing plate bodies L3 and L4 so as to close the opening of the rectangular frame L2. The surface of one plate L3 is a surface that forms a diorama, and a diorama model is placed on this surface. The plate L4 on the back surface is provided with four cylindrical legs L41. Then, two demon nuts are embedded in both side surfaces forming the long side of the frame, and a thumb screw L1 serving as a protrusion is engaged with each of the demon nuts. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 5, the thumbscrew L1 is engaged with the notch 25 of the partition plates 21 and 22, whereby the layout panel L is stored in the layout panel storage case X.

Then, the surface of the layout panel L can be held high by using the legs S as shown in FIG. The leg S is a rectangular plate, and is provided with two straight cutouts S1 and S2 that can engage the thumb screw L1 at the upper end and the lower end.
FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing a state in which the layout panel L is supported using the legs S. As shown in the figure, the legs S attach the layout panels L to each other, and fix and support the layout panels so that the thumb screws L1 of different adjacent layout panels L are engaged with the notches S1, respectively. The thumbscrew L1 of the layout panel L located at the end is engaged with one notch S1 of the leg S. The distance of the notch S1 is determined by the distance between adjacent thumb screws L1 when the layout panel L is attached. Note that the distance between the notches S1 and S1 formed at the upper end and the distance between the notches S2 and S2 formed at the lower end are set to be different. This is to make it possible to deal with two types of layout panels in which the position of the thumb screw L1 is different, and the notch S2 can be used in the same manner as the notch S1 by turning the legs S upside down.

Next, a method of using the layout panel storage case X having the above configuration will be described. First, when the layout panel L is stored in the layout panel storage case X, the top plate 31 is removed by loosening the thumbscrews 45a to obtain the state shown in FIG. Next, with the thumbscrew L1 of the layout panel L slightly loosened, the thumbscrew L1 is inserted horizontally into the notch 25 of the opposing partition plates 21 and 22, and moved downward when it reaches the end, The layout panel L is placed on the main body 11. At this position, the thumbscrew L1 of the layout panel L is tightened and fixed. Since there are four places where the layout panel L can be fixed, the layout panel L is engaged and fixed at the respective positions by the same operation. Thereafter, the top plate 31 is returned to the original position, and the top plate 31 is fixed by tightening the thumbscrew 45a, whereby the state shown in FIG. 1 is obtained and the storage is completed. In this state, the layout panel L is not only fixed by the thumbscrew L1, but also the upward movement is restricted by the top plate 31, so that the engagement between the notch 25 and the thumbscrew L1 may be released. Absent. In this state, the layout panel L is transported and stored.
When removing the layout panel L, the operation may be reversed. The thumbscrew 45a is loosened to remove the top plate 31, the thumbscrew L1 of the layout panel L is loosened, and the thumbscrew L1 of the layout panel L is cut out. 25.
Thus, the layout panel storage case X can fix the four layout panels L. Also, as shown in FIG. 3, the layout panel storage case X can be disassembled, so that it can be disassembled and stored when not in use.
Although a layout panel storage case that can store only one type of layout panel L is shown here, a plurality of types of layout panels L can be handled by increasing the number of notches 25. FIG. 9 shows a perspective view in which the top panel 31 of the layout panel storage case X2 with the notches 25 increased is removed. By increasing the notches 25, for example, small layout panels La, Lb, and Lc as shown in FIG. 9 can be accommodated. Even if these layout panels are stacked, they are smaller than the layout panel L described above, so that they can be stored vertically stacked.
Moreover, although the layout panel storage case which stores the layout panel L in four places was shown here, the location which can store the layout panel L can be increased suitably by increasing a partition plate. FIG. 10 shows a layout panel storage case X3 having six partition plates. This layout panel storage case X3 has six sheets 21, 21, 22, 22, 23, and 23 as partition plates, so that the layout panel can be held at a total of six locations.

It is a perspective view in the state where the layout panel of the layout panel storage case concerning an embodiment was stored. It is a perspective view which shows the state which removed the top plate of the layout panel storage case which concerns on embodiment. It is a disassembled perspective view of the layout panel storage case which concerns on embodiment. (A) is a bottom view which shows the state which shrunk the fall prevention bar of a bottom plate, (b) is a bottom view which shows the state which extended the fall prevention bar of the bottom plate. It is a side view of the layout panel storage case which concerns on embodiment. It is a disassembled perspective view of a layout panel. It is a perspective view which shows the leg of a layout panel. It is a perspective view which shows the state which supported the layout panel with the leg. It is a perspective view which shows the 1st modification of a layout panel storage case. It is a perspective view which shows the 2nd modification of a layout panel storage case.

Explanation of symbols

X, X2, X3 Layout panel storage case L Layout panel 10 Bottom plate 13 Fall prevention bars 21 and 22 Partition plate 31 Top plate 32 Connecting body 40 Central reinforcing body

Claims (5)

A storage case for carrying a layout panel that forms a diorama on the surface,
A bottom plate constituting the bottom surface of the storage case;
Two or more layout panel holders,
The layout panel holding body is two partition plates standing upright and parallel to each other with respect to the bottom plate, and the surface of the layout panel is located in the vicinity of the side edges of the two opposing partition plates. It consists of two partition plates that hold the two opposing side surfaces of the layout panel so as to face the inside of the storage case,
A central reinforcing body composed of a plate body or a column body having a width substantially the same as the interval between the partition plates and a height substantially the same as these partition plates is provided between a pair of partition plates adjacent to each other. Fixed to the partition plate and the bottom plate,
A layout panel storage case provided on a top surface of the central reinforcing body with a connecting body composed of a bar or a plate for fixing a partition plate other than the set of partition plates.   The two or more layout panel holders are arranged so that all the partition plates are parallel to each other, and the two outermost partition plates constitute a side surface of the storage case. The layout panel storage case according to 1. One or more protrusions are provided on two opposing side surfaces of the layout panel, and the side edges at the positions corresponding to the protrusions of the partition plate extend in the horizontal direction and bend vertically downward at the ends. The layout panel storage case according to claim 1, wherein a notch is formed. The layout panel storage case according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of the notches are arranged at the side edge of the partition plate so as to be adapted to a plurality of different layout panels. The layout panel storage case according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein a fall prevention bar made of a rod body that protrudes and protrudes in parallel with the bottom plate is fixed to the bottom surface of the bottom plate so as to cross an edge of the bottom plate .

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