JP5101336B2 - Mailbox - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a mailbox.

As shown in Patent Document 1 and Non-Patent Document 1, the post box attached to the wall surface is provided with a door for taking out mails that have been posted, and is closed with a door that opens to open the door. Yes. A dial lock is attached to this door to ensure security. However, the dial lock is exposed on the front of the mailbox, so that the door can be opened by a third party operating the dial lock or the design is damaged. was there.
JP 2001-78876 A “Sankyo Tateyama Aluminum Exterior General Catalog” (Catalog No. STX0140A S.07.03-2234), Sankyo Tateyama Aluminum Co., Ltd., March 2007, p. 208-211

  The present invention has been made in view of the circumstances described above, and an object of the present invention is to provide a mailbox that is excellent in security and design.

  In order to achieve the above object, a mail box according to the invention described in claim 1 has a mail box main body having a mailing port and a mail outlet, and is provided rotatably on the mail box and opens and closes the mail outlet. The door includes a door and a locking means provided on the door. The door includes a door main body and a cover material provided on the front side of the door main body so as to be slidable laterally or vertically. The locking means is attached to the door main body. The lock means can be operated when the cover member is slid.

  The mailbox according to the invention described in claim 2 is characterized in that, in addition to the structure of the invention described in claim 1, the door body has a recess that opens on the front side, and an operating portion of the lock means is provided in the recess. To do.

  In addition to the structure of the invention described in claim 1 or 2, the mailbox according to the invention described in claim 3 has a back side portion on the back side of the door main body, the vertical and horizontal dimensions being substantially the same as the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the outlet. The part is fitted in the outlet.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the structure of the first, second, or third aspect, the door body includes a front side member and a back side member, and the take-out port extends to the inner peripheral side. It has an extending piece and a protruding piece that protrudes from the extending piece to the front side, a cylindrical part is formed by the protruding piece, and a back side member surrounds the outer periphery of the cylindrical part from the front side .

  In the mail box according to the first aspect of the present invention, the cover member is slidably provided on the front side of the door that opens and closes the outlet, and the lock means can be operated when the cover member is slid. It is possible to improve the security by preventing the three means from operating the locking means, and it is possible to improve the design by not exposing the locking means.

  The mailbox according to the second aspect of the present invention has a recessed portion whose front side is opened on the door body, and the operation portion of the locking means is provided in the recessed portion, so that the locking means can be easily installed and the cover material is the locking means. This makes it easy to manufacture and install the cover material.

  The mailbox according to the invention of claim 3 is provided with a back side portion whose vertical and horizontal dimensions are substantially the same as the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the take-out port on the back side of the door body, and the back side portion is fitted into the take-out port. Rainwater can be prevented from entering the mailbox.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mail box having an extension piece extending to the inner peripheral side at the take-out port and a protrusion piece protruding from the extension piece to the front side, and a cylindrical portion is formed by the protrusion piece. Yes, because the back side member surrounds the outer periphery of the cylindrical part from the front side, even if rainwater enters along the outer periphery of the back side member, it is blocked by the cylindrical part. It is possible to more reliably prevent rainwater from entering the water. Moreover, a door main body can be easily manufactured by comprising a door main body from two members, a front side member and a back side member.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1 to 7 show an embodiment of the mailbox according to the present invention. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the mailbox includes a mailbox box body 1 formed in a vertically long rectangular box shape when viewed from the front, a door 4 provided on the front surface of the mailbox box body 1, and a mailbox box body 1. And an upper lid 10 provided on the upper surface. This mailbox is mainly installed by fixing the rear surface of the mailbox 1 to an outer wall or a bag.

The mail box main body 1 is formed of a thin metal plate, and as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, a mailing port 2 is provided on the upper surface, and an outlet 3 is provided on the front surface. The take-out port 3 includes a bent piece 11b bent toward the back side, an extended piece 11c extending from the bent piece 11b to the inner peripheral side, and a protruding piece 11a protruding from the extended piece 11c to the front side. The concave groove 11 is formed on the entire circumference, and the cylindrical portion 26 is formed by the protruding piece 11a. The tip of the cylindrical portion 26 is located slightly rearward of the front surface of the mailbox 1, and the folded portion 12 is provided on the upper and lower end edges so as to protrude outward. The folded portion 12 may be provided on the entire circumference of the tubular portion 26. At a position slightly below the middle in the up-down direction inside the take-out port 3, a horizontal beam 13 is attached to prevent the mail pieces inside from falling down and jumping out from the take-out port 3 when the door 4 is opened.
As shown in FIG. 3, the upper lid 10 is attached to the rear end portion of the upper surface of the mailbox 1 by a hinge 14 so as to be freely rotatable upward.

  The door 4 opens and closes the take-out port 3, and is pivotally attached to the right edge of the front surface of the mailbox 1 by a hinge 25 as shown in FIG. 4. As shown in FIG. 2, the door 4 has a vertical and horizontal dimension larger than that of the postbox main body 1, and the postbox main body 1 is hidden behind the door 4 when viewed from the front. As shown in FIG. 5, the door 4 includes a door main body 5 and a cover material 6 that covers the front side portion of the door main body 5. The door main body 5 further joins two members, a front side member 5a and a back side member 5b. Formed. As shown in FIG. 3, the cover member 6 engages with the upper and lower edges of the front member 5 a of the door body 5 and is slidable in the lateral direction (left-right direction). The front side member 5a, the back side member 5b, and the cover material 6 are each formed of a thin metal plate.

As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the back side member 5 b of the door main body 5 is formed in a shallow box shape in which the upper, lower, left and right edges are bent rearward and the back side is opened. An opening 15 is formed in the central portion of the back side member 5b in the left-right direction over substantially the entire length in the vertical direction, and a glass portion 16 is attached to the back side of the opening 15 to form a window portion 17. A dial lock 7 is attached to the left side of the back member 5b. The vertical and horizontal dimensions of the back side member 5b are substantially the same as the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the extraction port 3 including the concave groove 11, and when the door 4 is closed, the back side member 5b is connected to the extraction port 3 as shown in FIGS. The back piece 5b surrounds the outer periphery of the cylindrical portion 26 of the outlet 3 from the front side. Therefore, even if rainwater enters through the outer periphery of the back side member 5b, the rainwater is reliably blocked by the protruding piece 11a and the folded-back portion 12, and rainwater enters the mail receiving box body 1 from the outlet 3 with certainty. Can be prevented. Rainwater that has entered the groove 11 moves downward along the outer periphery of the extension piece 11c and the cylindrical portion 26, and is drained out of the groove 11 on the lower side.
As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the front-side member 5 a is formed in a shallow box shape in which the upper and lower and left edges are bent forward to form the recesses 8 and the front and right sides are open. The front-side member 5a is formed so that the vertical and horizontal dimensions are slightly larger than the back-side member 5b, and closes the take-out port 3 from the front. The front side member 5a is provided with an opening 18 at the center in the left-right direction so as to overlap the window 17 of the back side member 5b, and round so as to allow the operation part 7a of the dial lock 7 to escape from the left edge. A hole 19 is formed. The dial lock operating portion 7 a is inserted into the circular hole 19 and is positioned in the recess 8. A stopper 20 that restricts the sliding range of the cover member 6 is provided so as to protrude upward at a substantially central position in the left-right direction on the upper surface of the front member 5a.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the cover member 6 has a groove 21 formed by bending the upper part and the lower part rearward in a U-shape, and has a substantially C-shaped longitudinal section. As described above, the right edge is bent rearward and formed into a shallow box shape with the back side and the left side open. Inside the upper and lower grooves 21, two U-shaped sliding contact members 9 made of hard resin are attached at intervals in the left-right direction. The upper edge and the lower edge are slidably engaged. An opening 22 is formed in a longitudinal slit shape at the center in the left-right direction of the cover member 6, and a window 23 is formed by attaching a glass 23 on the back side of the opening 22. As shown in FIG. 4, the window portion 24 of the cover material 6 overlaps the front of the window portion 17 of the door body 5 with the cover material 6 covering the front surface of the door body 5. The cover member 6 is attached to the front member 5a of the door body 5 by sliding from the right side. When the cover material 6 is attached, the concave portion 8 of the front side member 5 a of the door body 5 is shielded by the cover material 6, and a space is formed between the front side member 5 a and the cover material 6 by the concave portion 8.

The present mailbox is configured as described above. As shown in FIG. 1A and the like, the front side member 5a of the door 4 is covered with the cover material 6, and the dial lock 7 is covered with the cover material 6. For this reason, security and design are improved. Further, the back side member 5b of the door body 5 fits into the concave groove 11 of the take-out port 3 and surrounds the outer periphery of the cylindrical portion 26 from the front side, so that rainwater enters from the take-out port 3 into the post box main body 1. Can be prevented. In addition, the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the door 4 are larger than those of the mailbox box body 1 and the mailbox box body 1 is hidden behind the door 4 when viewed from the front, so that it is a clean and innovative design. Since the longitudinal slit-shaped windows 24 and 17 are provided on the cover member 6 and the door body 5 so as to overlap in the front-rear direction, the mail in the mail box body 1 is opened from the windows 24 and 17 with the door 4 closed. The presence or absence of objects can be easily confirmed. As shown in FIG. 7, it is possible to post mails from the posting port 2 by rotating the upper lid 10 upward.
When taking out the mail, as shown in FIG. 1 (b), the operating portion 7a of the dial lock 7 is exposed by sliding the cover material 6 to the right, and then the operating portion 7a is operated to dial. Unlocking the lock 7 and opening the door 4 forward as shown in FIG. When the cover material 6 is slid, the sliding range of the cover material 6 is regulated by abutting the stopper 20 against the sliding contact member 9 as shown in FIGS. It does not come off the door body 5. Further, since the engaging portion of the cover material 6 with the door main body 5 is formed by the resin sliding contact member 9, the cover material 6 can be smoothly slid with a light force without generating a metallic sound during sliding.
Further, the door 4 of the present mailbox can be easily manufactured by forming the cover material 6, the front side member 5a, and the back side member 5b in a box shape and combining them.

  The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above. The cover member 6 can also be provided so as to be slidable in the vertical direction by engaging with the left and right edges of the door body 5. The door main body 5 is not manufactured separately from the front side member 5a and the back side member 5b, but the front side portion and the back side portion can be integrally formed. Further, as shown in FIGS. 8A and 8B, the back side member 5b is not formed in a box shape with the back side open, and the back side member 5b is fitted in the inner periphery of the take-out port 3. The cylindrical portion 26 may not be formed on the take-out port 3 toward the front side. Further, as shown in FIG. 8 (c), the outlet 3 is formed in a cylindrical shape so as to protrude from the front surface of the mailbox case 1 without forming the concave groove 11 on the front surface of the mailbox box body 1. You may make it surround the taking-out port 3 with the back side member 5b. Furthermore, the door main body 5 may not have the back side member 5 b fitted into the take-out port 3. The take-out port 3 and the door 4 can also be provided on the side surface or the rear surface of the post box main body 1. The mailing slot 2 can also be provided on the side surface or the front surface of the mail box main body 1. The door locking means 7 may be anything that can restrain the door 4 in the closed state, and is not limited to a dial lock, and any one can be used. The mail box of the present invention is not limited to the wall-mounted type, and can be installed while being supported by a support.

It is a perspective view which shows the use condition of the mail box of this invention, (a) is the state which closed the door, (b) is the state which slid the cover material of the door, (c) is the state which opened the door. Show. (A) is a top view which shows one Embodiment of the mailbox of this invention, (b) is the same front view, (c) is the same side view. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG. It is BB sectional drawing of FIG. It is a disassembled perspective view of a door. It is a cross-sectional view which shows the engaging part with the door main body of a cover material, Comprising: (a) is the state before sliding a cover material, (b) has shown the state which slid the cover material. It is a perspective view which shows the state when mailing a mail. It is sectional drawing which shows the other example of the fitting condition of the back side member and extraction port of a door main body.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mailbox main body 2 Posting port 3 Outlet 4 Door 5 Door main body 5a Front side member (front side part)
5b Back side member (back side)
6 Cover material 7 Dial lock (locking means)
7a Operation part of dial lock 8 Recess 9 Sliding member (engagement part)
11a Projection piece 11c Extension piece 26 Cylindrical part

Claims (4)

  A post box main body having a mailing port and a mail outlet; a door that is pivotally provided in the mail box main body and opens and closes the outlet; and a locking means provided on the door. The cover body is provided on the front side of the door body so as to be slidable in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction, and the lock means is attached to the door body, and the lock means can be operated when the cover material is slid. A mail box characterized by that.   2. A mailbox according to claim 1, wherein the door body has a concave portion opened on the front side, and an operation portion of the lock means is provided in the concave portion.   3. A mailbox according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the back side of the door body has a back side portion substantially the same as the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the take-out port, and the back side portion is fitted into the take-out port. .   The door body is composed of a front side member and a back side member, and the take-out port has an extending piece extending to the inner peripheral side and a protruding piece protruding to the front side from the extending piece, and the cylindrical portion is formed by the protruding piece. 4. The mailbox according to claim 1, wherein the post box is formed and the back member surrounds the outer periphery of the cylindrical portion from the front side.

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