JP5980099B2 - Pet carry - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a pet carry for carrying pets such as dogs, cats and other animals, and is particularly suitable for relatively large pets.

Some have casters attached to the bottom of the case to carry a pet in the case.
For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a pet carry that can run even in a state where a caster is attached to the bottom surface on the rear side of the case body and a leg portion is protruded on the front side so that the front side is pulled up and tilted.
However, when the vehicle is run with the front side of the case body pulled up and tilted in this way, the burden on the caster is large, the wear of the caster bearing part is severe, and the caster axle is easily worn and deformed. was there.
Especially when it comes to a large carry for large pets, the effect is great, and it was difficult to mount and fix the case on the vehicle seat.

JP-A-8-280291

An object of the present invention is to provide a pet carry in which casters can be easily exchanged.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a pet carry that can be easily fixed to a vehicle seat.

A pet carry according to the present invention includes a case main body portion that accommodates a pet therein, a caster at the bottom of the case main body portion, the caster wheel, and a caster bearing member attached to the bottom of the case main body portion. The caster bearing member can be mounted and exchanged on the bottom of the case body.
Although pet carriers are required to be lighter, they become larger when they are used for larger pets, have a heavy load on the casters, and wear the bearing members and axles of the casters.
Therefore, the present invention is characterized in that the bearing member of the caster can be replaced.
Therefore, although the pet carry according to the present invention may be of a four-wheel type, the load on the caster is particularly effective in the case of a pet carry that travels in a state where the front side of the case main body is lifted up and tilted. It is.

In the present invention, the caster has a bottom portion of the case main body portion and has a rear portion thereof, and can lift and move the front side of the case main body portion, and the bottom portion of the case main body portion has an attachment portion protruding downward. The caster bearing member may have a fitting recess, and the fitting recess may be fitted and fixed to the mounting portion.
If it does in this way, since it can connect so that the insertion recessed part of a caster bearing member may be fitted in the attaching part which projected the case main-body part, it is easy to attach or detach and replace.
In this specification, the direction in which the pet carry travels is expressed as the front-rear direction, and the orthogonal direction is expressed as the width direction.
Therefore, when the casters are provided only on one of the front and rear sides, the case main body without the casters is represented as the front side, and the one with the casters is represented as the rear side.

In the present invention, the caster wheel has a pair of wheel members facing each other and an axle connected at the center, the caster bearing member has a pivotal recess, and the axle of the caster wheel is pivotally mounted to the pivotal recess. It may be.
Here, the pivot attachment recess is pivotally attached so that the axle of the caster wheel is fitted from the opening of the recess, and after the pivot attachment, the caster wheel rotates inside the pivot attachment recess.
As the pivoting direction, it is preferable that the axle of the caster wheel can be fitted into the pivotal concave portion of the caster bearing member from below or obliquely below and pivoted.
If it does in this way, when changing a caster bearing member, removal of a caster wheel is also easy.
The caster wheel may be made of a self-lubricating resin material.
Here, the self-lubricating resin refers to a resin having a low coefficient of friction and excellent slidability, and representative examples include polyacetal resin, polyamide resin, and fluorine resin.

The pet carry according to the present invention is suitable for a large pet carry in which a load is easily applied to the caster.
For example, for large pets, there are some that have a dimension in the front-rear direction longer than that in the width direction, a length in the front-rear direction of 600 to 1000 mm, a width direction of 400 to 700 mm, and a height of 400 to 700 mm.
Such a large pet carry is difficult to fix to the seat when it is carried on the seat of the vehicle.
Therefore, in the present invention, a hook portion for hooking the seat belt of the vehicle seat may be provided at two positions on the front and rear sides of the case main body.
In this case, the hooking portion is an H-shaped groove in plan view so that it can be easily fixed to the seat belt regardless of which side of the width direction of the case main body is on the back side of the seat. Of these grooves, the parallel grooves may have hooking grooves along the width direction of the case main body.
The hook portion may be molded integrally with the case main body portion, or another member may be attached to the case main body portion.
By attaching a separate member, the handle holding portion may be overlapped to increase rigidity.

  In the pet carry according to the present invention, the caster can be easily replaced, and in particular, the caster bearing member can be replaced. Therefore, even if the caster bearing member is worn, the caster bearing member attached to the bottom of the case main body is provided. Just carry out the exchange to restore the carrying performance of the pet carry.

The external view of the pet carry which concerns on this invention is shown, (a) shows the state seen from the front door side upper direction, (b) shows the state seen from the back bottom face side. The component block diagram of a caster is shown. The caster assembling diagram is shown, (a) is a state where the bearing member is fitted to the bottom of the case body, (b) is a state where the bearing member is fixed to the mounting portion of the case body, and (c) is a caster wheel. The state pivotally attached to the bearing member is shown. A bearing member is shown, (a) is the perspective view seen from the bottom side, (b) shows the perspective view seen from the upper part. (A) is a side view of a caster, (b) shows the sectional view. (A) is a rear view of the caster, and (b) is a sectional view thereof. (A) is a perspective view of the upper surface of a pet carry, (b) shows a top view. (A) is an example which fixes a pet carry using the right and left seat belts of the seat of a vehicle, (b), (c) shows the enlarged view of a hook part. (A) is an example which fixes a pet carry to a seat of a vehicle with one seat belt, (b), (c) shows an enlarged view of a hook part. The example which attaches four subcasters to the bottom of a pet carry is shown. (A) is an enlarged view of an attachment part, (b) shows a general view. The state where the front side is lifted with the front handle is shown.

Although the structural example of the pet carry 10 which concerns on this invention is demonstrated based on drawing below, this invention is not limited to this.
The pet carry 10 according to the present invention is suitable for traveling on a rear caster (caster wheel 18) by lifting the front of the case body 11 as shown in FIG.
Although a belt or the like may be attached to the front of the case main body 11 and lifted, the present embodiment is an example in which the handle 14 is provided on the upper portion of the case main body.

FIG. 1 shows an external view.
The pet carry 10 has a door 12 in front of a case main body 11 that accommodates a pet, and has a caster in a rear bottom 11b.
The case body 11 in the example shown in FIG. 1 is an example in which an upper case made of resin and a lower case are fastened with bolts or the like, but there is no limitation on the shape or structure.
The upper portion 11a of the case body 11 is provided with a pair of handles 14, 15 on the front and rear sides of the front portion and the rear portion, and hook portions 16, 17 having seat belt hook grooves 16a, 17a, which will be described later.
The hooking grooves 16 a and 17 a are formed in a substantially H shape, and of the H shape grooves, the parallel grooves are provided along the width direction, that is, in parallel with the front surface of the door 12.
The door 12 has a mesh shape and is detachable from the case main body 11. The pair of lock rods 13a and 13a are provided on the left and right sides in the width direction from the lock operation portions 13 and 13 to serve as the door opening / closing shaft. It is provided so that it can protrude and retract in the vertical direction.
When push members 13c provided above and below the operation unit 13 are pressed, the lock rod 13a is detached from the lock hole 13b.
As a result, the door 12 can be opened / closed using either one of the left and right as a door shaft, so that one of the left and right can be selectively opened / closed.
As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the caster is formed with a notch recess 11c on the rear side of the bottom of the case main body 11, and can be replaced with a mounting portion 11d projecting downward from the notch recess 11c. It is attached.
The caster includes a caster bearing member 19 and caster wheels 18.
As shown in FIG. 4, the caster bearing member 19 has a fitting recess 19 d for fitting so as to cover the mounting portion 11 d provided to protrude from the case main body 11.
In addition, the caster bearing member 19 can be fixed to the mounting portion 11e with a screw 19e or the like through a mounting hole 19c provided on the side surface in a state of being fitted to the mounting portion 11d of the case main body 11.
The present embodiment is an example in which the caster bearing member 19 is screwed to the attachment portion 11d of the case main body portion, but the fixing method is not limited to such a fixing method as long as replacement is possible.

As shown in FIG. 5B, the caster bearing member 19 is formed with a substantially semicircular pivotal recess 19a and projections 19b and 19b on the left and right sides of the opening. If the resin material is used, it is possible to pivot so that the axle 18b of the caster wheel is fitted from the bottom upward using the deformation.
Since the pivot recess is semicircular and has protrusions 19b, 19b on the left and right of the opening, the wheel 18 rotates without falling off.
The caster wheel 18 has a structure in which a pair of opposite wheel members 18 a and 18 a are connected by a central axle 18 b, and the length of the axle 18 b is slightly longer than the thickness of the caster bearing member 19.
This pivoting state is shown in FIG.
Since the pivot recess 19a of the caster bearing member 19 and the axle 18b of the caster wheel are slidably rotated with each other, they are easily worn.
Therefore, at least one of them is preferably made of a self-lubricating resin material having a low friction coefficient.
In this embodiment, the caster wheel 18 is made of polyacetal resin, and the caster bearing member 19 is made of polypropylene resin material.

Next, an example will be described in which the pet carry 10 according to the present invention is fixed to a vehicle seat using a seat belt.
As shown in FIG. 7, a pair of hook portions 16 and 17 are attached to both the front and rear portions of the upper portion 11 a of the case main body 11 together with the pair of handles 14 and 15.
The hook portions 16 and 17 are formed in substantially H-shaped hook grooves 16a and 17a.
Of the H-shaped grooves, the parallel grooves are along the width direction of the case body.
Thus, as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the seat belt 2 is hooked on either of the left and right hook pieces (16b, 16c), (17b, 17c) of the H-shaped hook grooves 16a, 17a. The seat belt 2 can be hooked regardless of which side of the side surface in the width direction of the case main body 11 is positioned on the backrest side with respect to the seat 1.
The case body 11 is lifted by the front and rear handles 14 and 15 and placed on the seat 1.
An example of fixing using the seat belts 2 and 2 of the left and right seats is shown in FIG. 8, and an example of fixing to the left and right seats with one seat belt 2 is shown in FIG.
As described above, since the pair of hooking portions 16 and 17 are provided on both the front and rear portions of the case main body 11, even a large pet carry can be stably fixed.

  The pet carry 10 is used by attaching casters only to the rear part, and for example, as shown in FIG. 10, the bottom surface (bottom part) 11b of the case main body 11 is provided with four attachment surfaces 11f of the sub-casters such as screws, It is also possible to attach four sub-casters 119.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Pet carry 11 Case main-body part 11d Attachment part 12 Door 14 Handle 15 Handle 16 Hook part 16a Hatch groove 17 Hook part 17a Hatch groove 18 Caster wheel 18a Wheel member 18b Axle 19 Caster bearing member 19a Pivoting recessed part

Claims (5)

A case body for accommodating a pet inside,
A caster is provided at the bottom of the case body,
The caster has a caster wheel and a caster bearing member attached to the bottom of the case body,
The caster bearing member can be mounted and exchanged on the bottom of the case body ,
The caster is at the bottom of the case body and at the rear thereof,
You can run by lifting the front side of the case body,
The bottom of the case body has a mounting portion protruding downward,
The caster bearing member has a fitting recess,
A pet carry characterized in that the fitting recess is fitted and fixed to the mounting portion . The caster wheel has a pair of wheel members facing each other and an axle connected at the center,
The caster bearing member has a pivot recess,
Pet Carry of claim 1, wherein the pivotally axle of the caster wheel on the pivot recess. 3. The pet carry according to claim 1, wherein the caster wheel is made of a self-lubricating resin material. A case body for accommodating a pet inside,
A caster is provided at the bottom of the case body,
The caster has a caster wheel and a caster bearing member attached to the bottom of the case body,
The caster bearing member can be mounted and exchanged on the bottom of the case body,
A pet carry having a seat belt hook portion of a vehicle seat at two upper and lower portions of the case main body. The pet carry according to claim 4, wherein the hook portion is an H-shaped groove in plan view, and the parallel groove of the H-shaped grooves has a hook groove along the width direction of the case main body portion. .

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