JP5424609B2 - Top plate mounting method and fixture used therefor - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for mounting a cabinet top plate such as a sink, a cooking table, and a washstand, and a fixture for the top plate.

In housing complexes, etc., it is necessary to install housing equipment more efficiently, and in order to use the unevenness between the building walls and building pillars without gaps, cabinets are often installed at the frontage between the pillars. In houses, it is also necessary to replace and renew some aging top plates.
A conventional method of attaching the top plate to this type of cabinet is to cover the top of the cabinet body with a top plate made of stainless steel plate or synthetic resin on the cabinet body combined in a box shape with wooden plywood or the like. And fixed by screwing directly to the outer surface of the side plate of the cabinet body.

Patent document 1 is shown as the example. This patent document 1 makes it easy to fix the top board and can firmly fix the top board to the cabinet without rattling. The front part of the top board has a hanging part and the hanging part. The bottom edge of the cabinet body is provided with an engaging edge facing the cabinet body side, and a hanging plate portion is provided at the rear of the top plate to contact the rear surface of the cabinet body. The joint piece is provided so as to be movable back and forth, and is fixed at a desired position, and is fixed in a state where the engagement piece is in contact with the hanging portion so that the hanging plate portion is in contact with the back surface of the cabinet body. In this state, the engagement piece engages with the engagement edge.

  Further, Patent Document 2 introduces a cabinet for a system kitchen that can be easily removed without requiring large-scale construction even after the installation and installation of the system kitchen, and spans a plurality of adjacent cabinets. As a cabinet used in a system kitchen with a common top plate for each cabinet, door rails and top plate support frames that interfere with the top plate when being pulled out to the front side of the cabinet. In addition, a technique is disclosed in which the cabinet body can be switched to or removed from a posture that avoids interference.

Utility Model Registration No. 2551470 JP 2002-142886 A

  However, Patent Document 1 uses a mounting bracket and an engaging piece for attaching the top plate to the cabinet, and the engaging piece is movable back and forth at the upper part of the front surface of the cabinet body and fixed at a desired position. Even when the cabinet depth length and the top plate depth length are slightly different, they can be adjusted and fixed firmly by the back-and-forth movement. In this method of attaching the top plate, the bracket is screwed and fixed to the front plate of the cabinet, and the engagement piece is temporarily fixed to the bracket, and then the top plate is put on, and then the position of the temporarily fixed engagement piece is adjusted and lowered. The top plate fixing tool requires two parts to fasten and fix the upward screw from the top, and it is difficult to work if there is a door for upward fixing

  In addition, Patent Document 2 provides a crosspiece corresponding to a backing material attached to the top plate and a frame material for supporting the top plate so as to be switchable or removable to a posture that avoids interference with the cabinet body, The cabinet can be pulled out and replaced from the top plate, but a part of the plurality of cabinets is pulled out, and the top plate covering the entire cabinet cannot be replaced.

The present invention has been developed in view of the present situation, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method in which the top plate can be replaced and updated and the top plate can be easily attached.

  In order to solve the above problems, the top plate mounting method according to claim 1 of the present invention is a top plate in which a backing material is fixed to the back surface of a plate material made of stainless steel or synthetic resin, and the side plate and the back plate. And a top plate attachment method that covers the top of the cabinet having the bottom plate and does not fix the hanging side wall of the top plate to the side plate of the cabinet, and attaches a rear fixture to the faucet backing material on the back of the top plate After attaching the front fixture to the front end backing material, the rear fixture attached to the top plate is made to face the rear lid of the cabinet, while the front fixture is placed from the front side of the front kite. Then, the front fixing tool and the rear fixing tool are screwed and fixed to the front heel and rear heel with screws or the like.

In this invention, the front fixture and the rear fixture are fixed in advance to the backing material of the top plate with screws or the like, and the top plate is inverted between the front and rear cabs of the cabinet. The front and rear fixtures can be screwed and fixed to the front and rear saddles, making it easy to mount the top plate, and when replacing the top plate, the hanging side wall is not fixed to the cabinet side. Since it is fixed only to the ridge, even if it is a cabinet that is installed to fill the frontage, it can be easily replaced by lifting the top plate at the place where the sink is installed simply by releasing the fixation of the front and rear ridges.

Moreover, the fixing tool according to claim 2 of the present invention is a fixing tool used as a front fixing tool in the top plate mounting method according to claim 1, wherein the fixing tool is made of an elastic body and has a round hole. The horizontal piece includes a hanging piece having a laterally long hole, and an inclined piece connecting the horizontal piece and the hanging piece.
In this invention, since the fixture used as the front fixture is an elastic body, the folding wall of the top plate can be pressed against the hanging piece and fixed to the front end backing material, which facilitates alignment. together, it is possible to reliably engaged before part fixture folded wall.

  As described above, according to the present invention, the top plate can be replaced and updated, and the top plate can be easily attached.

A top plate replacement method according to the present invention and a best mode for carrying out a fixture used therefor will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view for explaining an installation environment of a sink to which the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the sink, and FIG. 3 is a view of FIG. FIG.
4A is a perspective view of the rear fixture, FIG. 4B is a perspective view of the front fixture, and FIG. 4C illustrates a state in which the front fixture is fixed to the front end backing material. It is a perspective view. Further, FIG. 5 shows a front view, a plan view, a bottom view, and a left and right side view of the front fixture, and FIG. 6 shows a front view, a plan view, a bottom view, and a left and right side view of the rear fixture. .
Hereinafter, the lower left side of FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 and the left side of FIG. 3 will be referred to as the front side (front side), and the upper right side of FIG. 3 and the right side of FIG.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the installation situation of a sink 3 to which the present invention is applied. Reference numeral 3 denotes a sink, and shows an example in which the sink 3 is installed with a full width between the building wall 1 and the building column 2 in the figure in consideration of the space efficiency of the house. As shown in FIG. 2, the sink 3 is composed of a top plate 4 and a cabinet that is a storage part below the top plate. The top plate 4 is provided with a sink 8 and a faucet 9 for washing kitchen utensils. A back guard 9 is provided on the back side of the top plate 4 so as to protrude from the upper part for returning water.
A plurality of cabinets may be connected to each other or may be singular. In this embodiment, the cooking cabinet 32 and the sink cabinet 31 are illustrated as an example. The cabinet includes a side plate 5, a back plate 7, and a bottom plate 6. It is a box whose upper part is released, and is composed of a front rod 51 and a rear rod 52 for maintaining cabinet strength. The back side of the cabinet is not shown, but is used as a piping space in which a drain pipe for discharging sewage in the sink 8 and a water supply pipe for the faucet 9 are arranged, and the valves of the pipe are inspected. An inspection port 71 for repair is provided in the back plate 7.

The top plate 4 is made of a plate material such as stainless steel or synthetic resin, and a wooden backing material for reinforcing the plate material is attached to the back surface of the top plate 4. 2 and 3 illustrate a stainless steel top plate, and the top plate 4 is formed by bending a stainless steel plate to form a back guard 9 on the back side and a hanging rear wall 45 at the end of the back guard, Both side hanging walls 44 have a hanging wall 41, a horizontal wall 42, and a folded wall 43 on the front side. The backing material is a front edge backing material 46 that is long in the front direction on the front side of the top plate, a side backing material 47 inside the hanging side walls 44, and the back surface of the top plate at the installation position of the faucet 9 A faucet lining material 48 for reinforcing the plate material is fixed to and integrated with the top plate 4 with an adhesive.

The top plate attaching method of the present invention is such that the rear fixture 30 is attached to the faucet portion backing material 48 on the back surface of the top plate, and the top fixture 4 is reversed after the front fixture 20 is attached to the front end backing material 46. Then, the rear fixture 30 is made to face the rear ridge 52 of the cabinet, and the front fixture 20 is opposed to the front heel 51 from the front side on one front heel 51 side so that the upper part of the cabinet is placed on the top plate 4. Then, the front fixture 20 and the rear fixture 30 are respectively screwed and fixed to the front rod 51 and the rear rod 52 with screws 11 or the like.
In this embodiment, the rear fixing tool 30 is screwed and fixed to the rear saddle 52 because the rear saddle 52 is arranged on the front side from the innermost end in the sink 3 having a piping space on the rear side. It is preferable to use the rear fixture 30 that also serves as a flexure reinforcement. In this case, both sides of the triangular steel plate sandwiching the right angle are bent to form a standing piece 302, and a standing hole is provided in the standing piece 302. 11 etc. are inserted, and the top plate 4 and the rear lid 52 are fixed.

In this embodiment, since the rear fixing tool 30 is brought into contact with and fixed by screws from the rear side of the rear collar 52, a tool such as a screwdriver is inserted from the inspection port 71 of the back plate 7 to perform the installation work. When the rear rod 52 is close to the back guard 9 of the top plate 4 and the rear fixture 30 can be provided on the near side, the inspection port 71 is not necessary.
On the other hand, the attachment of the front fixture 20 to the front hook 51 is performed in the hook hole provided in the hanging piece 203 of the front fixture 20 with the front fixture 20 corresponding to the front side of the front hook 51. The screws 11 may be inserted and tightened from the front side.

On the other hand, when replacing the top plate 4 that has deteriorated over time, the hanging side wall 44 of the top plate 4 is not fixed to the cabinet and is in a fitted or locked state. 51 and the front fixing tool 20 may be released, and the fixing screw 11 is removed from the inspection port 71 of the back plate 7 with a screwdriver or the like in the reverse operation when the rear fixing tool 30 is attached. The front fixture 20 attached to the gutter 51 may be removed and released, and the top plate 4 can be easily removed from the cabinet.

Next, a fixture used as the front fixture according to claim 2 will be described. FIG. 4B shows a perspective view of the fixture, and FIG. 5 shows a development view thereof. The fixture in the present embodiment is an elastic body made of hard resin, and as shown in the figure, has a horizontal piece 201, an inclined piece 202, and a hanging piece 203, and the inclined piece 202 and the hanging piece 203 are connected to the locking step portion 204. They are connected via a depth adjustment step 205. The horizontal piece 201 has a top plate stop hole that is a round hole in the substantially central portion, and the hanging piece 203 has a hook stop hole that is a horizontally long hole.
As shown in FIGS. 4C and 3, the fixture can be positioned by pressing the hanging piece 203 of the fixture against the folded wall 43 of the top plate 4. Can be installed easily. Still further, when the restricting projection 206 is extended to the locking step portion 204, even if the length of the folding wall 43 of the top plate 4 varies, the folding wall 43 is surely brought into contact with a predetermined position of the fixture and positioned. be able to.

4A shows a perspective view of the rear fixture 30, and FIG. 6 shows a development view thereof. The rear fixture 30 is formed by folding up both sides sandwiching a right angle portion of a reinforcing piece 301 having a substantially right triangle shape and molding the standing piece 302 into a standing piece 302. The material may be a steel plate or a hard synthetic resin. The standing piece 302 is provided with two stop holes 303 which are round holes, and the screws 11 are passed through the stop holes 303 to be fixed to the faucet lining material 48 on the top plate side or the rear lid 52 on the cabinet side. .

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the drawings, the specific configuration is not limited to these embodiments, and modifications and additions within the scope of the present invention are included in the present invention. It is.

For example, the present embodiment has been described with an example in which only the faucet 9 and the sink 8 are provided on the top plate. However, the present embodiment is not limited to these, and other devices include a gas stove and IH on the top plate. A heating device such as the above may be provided.

Further, the fixture used as the front fixture shown in claim 2 is used as the front fixture 20 in the present embodiment, and the rear fixture 30 is described as a fixture that also serves as reinforcement on the back side of the top plate. If the sink 3 has a structure that does not need to bend and bend, it can also be used as the rear fixture 30.

It is a perspective view explaining the installation environment of the sink to which this invention is applied. It is a disassembled perspective view of the sink of a present Example. It is AA sectional drawing of FIG. 1 for demonstrating the detail of the principal part of this invention. It is an Example of the fixing tool of this invention, (a) is a perspective view of a rear fixing tool, (b) is a perspective view of a front fixing tool, (c) is a front end backing material. It is a perspective view explaining the state fixed to. It is an expanded view which shows the front view, top view, bottom view, and left-right side view of a front fixing tool. It is an expanded view showing the front view, top view, bottom view, and right and left side view of a rear fixture.

Explanation of symbols

1 building wall 2 building pillar 3 sink (kitchen equipment)
31 sink cabinet 32 cooking cabinet 4 top plate 41 hanging front wall 42 horizontal wall 43 folding wall 44 hanging wall 45 hanging rear wall 46 front end backing material 47 side backing material 48 faucet backing material 5 side plate 51 front plate 52 Rear plate 6 Bottom plate 7 Back plate 71 Inspection port 8 Sink 9 Back guard 10 Faucet 11 Screw 20 Front fixture 201 Horizontal piece 202 Inclined piece 203 Drooping piece 204 Locking step portion 205 Depth adjustment step portion 206 Restriction protrusion 30 Rear portion Fixing tool 301 Reinforcing piece 302 Standing piece 303 Retaining hole

Claims (2)

A top plate (4) having a backing material fixed to the back surface of a plate material made of stainless steel or synthetic resin, etc., covers the upper part of the cabinet having the side plate (5), the back plate (7), and the bottom plate (6), A top plate mounting method in which the hanging side wall (44) of the top plate (4) is not fixed to the side plate (5) of the cabinet,
After attaching the rear fixture (30) to the faucet lining material (48) on the back of the top plate and attaching the front fixture (20) to the front end lining material (46),
The rear fixture (30) attached to the top plate (4) is opposed to the rear kite (52) of the cabinet, while the front fixture (20) is placed on the front kite from the front side of the front kite (51). (51)
Next, the top plate attaching method, wherein the front fixture (20) and the rear fixture (30) are screwed and fixed to the front rod (51) and the rear rod (52) with screws (11) or the like. A fixture used as a front fixture in the top plate mounting method according to claim 1, wherein the fixture is made of an elastic body, a horizontal piece (201) having a round hole, and a hanging piece having a laterally long hole. (203) and an inclined piece (202) connecting the horizontal piece (201) and the hanging piece (203).

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