JP6266961B2 - Piping cover and handwashing unit having the same - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a piping cover and a hand basin unit having the same.

  Conventionally, a piping cover that covers equipment such as piping connected to the lower part of a hand-washer has been used. As the piping cover, there is known a piping cover that is installed without leaving a gap with the lower part of the hand-washer (see, for example, Patent Document 1). In addition, a pipe cover that is installed with a gap from the lower part of the hand-washing machine is also known (see, for example, Patent Document 2). By using these piping covers, it is possible to prevent the inside of the piping cover from being visually recognized from the upper portion of the piping cover and touching equipment such as piping arranged in the piping cover.

JP 2010-84444 A JP 2004-92232 A

  By the way, the piping cover installed without leaving a gap with the lower part of the hand-washer needs to match the shape of the upper part with the shape of the lower part of the hand-washer, and is not versatile. Further, when such a piping cover is used, it is necessary to remove the entire piping cover when maintaining the piping or the like located inside the piping cover.

  It is not necessary to match the shape of the upper part of the piping cover installed at a distance from the lower part of the handwasher with the shape of the lower part of the handwasher. However, such a pipe cover is covered to the upper part by a member integrated with the side surface part, and depending on the position of the pipe of the handwasher, the position of the hole through which the pipe passes is opened at the upper part of the pipe cover. Since it needs to be changed, it is also not versatile. Even when such a piping cover is used, it is necessary to remove the entire piping cover when maintaining the piping or the like located inside the piping cover.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and its purpose is versatility that can be used for any hand-washing machine, and equipment such as piping disposed inside is visually recognized. It is providing the piping cover which can maintain these facilities apparatus easily, preventing this.

  (1) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a pipe cover for covering equipment equipment including a pipe (for example, a pipe 70 described later), which is arranged below a hand-washer (for example, a handwasher 60 described later). (For example, a pipe cover 1 described later), and a cover body (for example, a cover body 10 described later) and a cover part (for example, a cover described later) that covers the upper surface of the cover body and is separate from the cover body. A piping cover having a portion 20).

  In the invention of (1), in the piping cover capable of preventing the inside from being visually recognized, the cover main body and the lid are configured as separate bodies. Thereby, maintenance of equipment equipment, such as piping, and cleaning in a piping cover can be performed only by removing a lid part. Therefore, if the piping cover according to the present invention is used, it is possible to prevent the facility equipment such as piping disposed inside from being visually recognized, and also to easily maintain and clean these equipment equipment. Moreover, the piping cover 1 which concerns on this invention can be used regardless of the shape of the bowl of a hand-washing machine. Furthermore, the piping cover according to the present invention can be used in common by replacing only the lid portion with respect to a plurality of types of hand wash basins in which the piping passes through the lid portion. Therefore, the piping cover according to the present invention has versatility that can be used for any hand-washing machine.

  (2) It is preferable that the said cover part is plate shape and both surfaces are comprised as a design surface.

  In the invention of (2), both surfaces of the plate-like lid are configured as design surfaces. By the way, depending on arrangement | positioning of installation apparatuses, such as piping under the predetermined hand-washing machine, the piping cover which has an asymmetrical cover part in which the guide groove is formed in the edge part vicinity may be used. According to the present invention, both surfaces of the lid portion are configured as design surfaces, and therefore have a symmetrical structure when viewed from the front side with respect to such a predetermined hand-washing machine. It can be applied by turning the lid over the piping cover used in the handwasher. That is, the piping cover (lid part) used for a pair of hand-washing machines which are symmetrical to each other when viewed from the front side can be shared, and the versatility of the piping cover becomes higher. Moreover, if it is a cover part of a left-right symmetric structure, since both surfaces are configured as design surfaces, when one surface is contaminated, it can be used with the other surface facing upward. .

  (3) It further includes a mounting bracket (for example, an upper mounting bracket 30 described later) for fixing the cover body to the installation surface, and the mounting bracket is a horizontal surface portion (for example, for mounting the lid) (for example, It is preferable to provide the upper mounting bracket horizontal plane portions 33, 33) described later.

  In invention of (3), it shall have further the attachment metal fitting of a cover main body provided with the horizontal surface part for mounting a cover part. Thereby, since a cover part can be mounted in a horizontal surface part, the attachment operation | work and removal operation | work of a cover part become easy. Moreover, since the cover part 20 can also be fixed to the mounting bracket for fixing the cover body to the installation surface, the number of parts of the piping cover can be reduced.

  (4) Moreover, in this invention, the hand-washing machine unit (for example, below-mentioned) which has a hand-washing machine (for example, the below-mentioned hand-washing machine 60) and the said piping cover installed at intervals from the lower part of the said hand-washing machine. A hand basin unit 100) is provided.

  According to the invention of (4), a hand washer and a pipe cover that can prevent the equipment such as the pipe 7 arranged inside the pipe cover from being visually recognized and can easily perform maintenance and cleaning of the equipment are provided. A hand basin unit can be provided.

  According to the present invention, there is a versatility that can be used for any hand-washing machine, and while preventing the installation of equipment such as piping disposed inside, A piping cover that can be easily maintained can be provided.

It is a perspective view of a hand-washing machine unit which has a piping cover concerning one embodiment of the present invention. It is a front view of a hand-washing machine unit which has a piping cover concerning the above-mentioned embodiment. It is sectional drawing of the hand-washing machine unit which has a piping cover which concerns on the said embodiment, and is AA sectional view taken on the line of FIG. It is a disassembled perspective view of the piping cover which concerns on the said embodiment. It is a figure shown about the attachment method of the piping cover which concerns on the said embodiment, and is a figure shown about the method of installing a cover main body. It is a figure shown about the attachment method of the piping cover which concerns on the said embodiment, and is a figure shown about the method of installing a cover part.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
First, the use state of the piping cover 1 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a handwashing unit 100 having a piping cover 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a front view of the handwashing unit 100. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the handwashing unit 100, and is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. The installation surface of the handwashing unit 100 is a wall surface.
As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the handwasher unit 100 includes a handwasher 60 and a pipe cover 1.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the hand-washing device 60 is a pop-up arranged to be openable and closable with respect to a bowl 61 having a bowl portion 61a formed on the upper surface side and a drain outlet 61b formed at the center of the bottom surface of the bowl portion 61a. It has a valve 62 and a faucet fitting 63 arranged in the vicinity of the bowl portion 61 a on the upper surface of the bowl 61.

  The faucet fitting 63 has a water discharge port 63a formed on the distal end side and an operation lever 63b disposed on the proximal end side. As shown in FIG. 2, the operation lever 63b is a rod-like member extending to the lower side of the bowl 61, and is moved up and down to operate the pop-up valve 62 through a transmission member (not shown) to open and close the drain port 61b. be able to.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the handwashing unit 100 further includes equipment that is disposed below the handwashing device 60 and includes a pipe 70 that is connected to the drain outlet 61 b of the bowl 61. The pipe 70 includes a connecting pipe 71 whose upstream side is connected to the drain port 61b, a trap pipe 72 whose upstream side is connected to the connecting pipe 71 and bent in a U shape, and can store sealed water, and an upstream side A horizontal pipe 73 bent into an L shape and connected to the downstream side of the trap pipe 72. The horizontal pipe 73 is connected to a drain pipe (not shown) provided inside the wall or floor.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the pipe cover 1 is disposed below the bowl 61 and covers the pipe 70.

The handwashing unit 100 described above is used as follows.
First, water (or hot water) is supplied to the faucet fitting 63 from a water supply pipe (not shown). Water is discharged from the spout 63a and used for hand washing, face washing, etc., and then falls to the bowl portion 61a. The water dropped on the bowl portion 61a is discharged from the drain outlet 61b to a drain pipe (not shown) through the pipe 70.

  Next, the piping cover 1 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the pipe cover 1. The piping cover 1 includes a cover body 10, a lid portion 20, an upper mounting bracket 30, and a pair of lower mounting brackets 40 and 40.

  The cover body 10 includes a plate-shaped front portion 11 that is gently curved, and side portions 12 and 12 that are bent and extended from both ends in the width direction (left and right direction in FIG. 2) of the front portion 11. It is a U-shaped member in plan view. The side surface parts 12 and 12 have screw holes 12a and 12a formed in the vicinity of the upper end part, and grooves 12b and 12b formed in the lower end part.

  The lid portion 20 is disposed above the cover body 10 and covers the upper surface of the cover body 10. The lid 20 is a plate-like member whose peripheral shape corresponds to the shape of the cover body 10 in plan view. The lid 20 is a separate body from the cover body 10. The lid portion 20 is configured as a design surface on both sides, and can be arranged upside down.

  The lid portion 20 extends from the central portion in the width direction (the X direction in FIGS. 2 and 3) of the piping cover 1 at the end on the back side (installation surface side) of the piping cover 1 (wash basin unit 100). The guide groove 21 is formed extending in the depth direction (Y direction in FIGS. 3 and 4). Further, the lid portion 20 includes a guide groove 22 formed to extend in the Y direction from a position closer to one side (right side in FIG. 2) than the center in the X direction of the end portion on the back side of the pipe cover 1. Have. Further, the lid 20 has screw holes 20a and 20a formed in the vicinity of both ends in the X direction.

  The upper mounting bracket 30 includes a plate-shaped upper mounting bracket main body 31 disposed on the back side of the pipe cover 1 and an upper mounting bracket extending from the both ends of the upper mounting bracket main body 31 in the X direction. Protruding portions 32, 32, and upper mounting bracket horizontal surface portions 33, 33 that are bent and extended inward from the upper end of the upper mounting bracket extension portion 32. The length in the X direction of the upper mounting bracket 30 is slightly shorter than the length in the X direction inside the cover body 10.

  The upper mounting bracket main body 31 has four screw holes 31a formed side by side in the X direction. The upper mounting bracket extension portions 32 and 32 each have a screw hole 32 a formed in the vicinity of the end portion on the back side of the pipe cover 1. Each of the upper mounting bracket horizontal plane portions 33 has a screw hole 33 a formed in the vicinity of the front end portion of the pipe cover 1.

Each of the pair of lower mounting brackets 40 includes a plate-like lower mounting bracket main body portion 41 disposed on the back side of the pipe cover 1 and a lower portion bent and extended from an end portion of the lower mounting bracket main body portion 41 in the X direction. Mounting bracket extension 42.
The lower mounting bracket main body 41 has screw holes 41a and 41a formed side by side in the X direction. The lower mounting bracket extension portions 42, 42 have screw holes 42a, 42a formed side by side in the height direction of the pipe cover 1 (Z direction in FIGS. 2 to 4).

Next, an installation method of the pipe cover 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a method for installing the cover main body 10, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a method for installing the lid 20.
First, the upper mounting bracket 30 and the lower mounting brackets 40, 40 are fixed to the installation surface. The upper mounting bracket 30 is fixed to the installation surface with four screws 31b inserted into the four screw holes 31a (see FIG. 4).
The pair of lower mounting brackets 40 are fixed to the installation surface by two screws 41b inserted into the two screw holes 41a below the location where the upper mounting bracket 30 is fixed. The pair of lower mounting brackets 40 are fixed to the installation surface such that the distance between the lower mounting bracket extension portions 42 in the X direction is slightly shorter than the length in the X direction inside the cover main body 10.

  Subsequently, the screw 42b is screwed into the screw hole 42a located on the lower side in the Z direction of each of the pair of lower mounting brackets 40. Then, the two grooves 12b of the cover main body 10 are fitted into the neck portions of the screws 42b screwed into the screw holes 42a, respectively. The cover body 10 is fixed using the screws 32b, with the two screw holes 12a overlapped with the respective screw holes 32a of the upper mounting bracket extension 32 (see FIGS. 4 and 5).

  Subsequently, the lid 20 is placed on the upper mounting bracket horizontal surfaces 33 and 33. At that time, the pipe 70 is inserted into the guide groove 21, and the operation lever 63 b is inserted into the guide groove 22. Then, the two screw holes 20a of the lid portion 20 are overlapped with the screw holes 33a of the upper mounting bracket horizontal surface portion 33, respectively, and fixed using the two screws 20b (see FIGS. 4 and 6).

According to this embodiment, the following effects are produced.
In this embodiment, in the piping cover 1 that can prevent the inside from being visually recognized, the cover main body 10 and the lid portion 20 are configured separately.
Thereby, the maintenance of the equipment such as the pipe 70 and the cleaning of the pipe cover 1 can be performed only by removing the lid 20. Therefore, if the piping cover 1 according to the present embodiment is used, it is possible to prevent the facility devices such as the piping 70 disposed inside from being visually recognized, and to easily perform maintenance and cleaning of these facility devices.
Moreover, the piping cover 1 which concerns on this embodiment can be used regardless of the shape of the bowl 61 of the hand-washing machine 60. FIG. Furthermore, the piping cover 1 according to the present embodiment can be used in common by replacing only the lid portion 20 for a plurality of types of hand wash basins with different positions through which the piping 70 passes in the lid portion 20. . Therefore, the piping cover 1 according to the present embodiment has versatility that can be used for any hand-washing machine.

Moreover, in this embodiment, both surfaces of the plate-shaped cover part were comprised as a design surface.
By the way, for the hand-washing machine 60 in this embodiment, the piping cover 1 which has the asymmetrical cover part 20 in which the guide groove 22 was formed near the edge part is used for the convenience of arrangement | positioning of the operation lever 63b. Since both surfaces of the lid portion 20 are configured as design surfaces, the piping according to the present embodiment has, for example, a custom-made hand-washing device having a symmetrical structure when viewed from the front side with respect to such a hand-washing device 60. The cover 1 can be applied by turning the lid 20 over. That is, the piping cover 1 (lid part 20) used for a pair of hand-washing machines which are symmetrical to each other when viewed from the front side can be shared, and the versatility of the piping cover 1 becomes higher. Moreover, if it is a cover part of a left-right symmetric structure, since both surfaces are configured as design surfaces, when one surface is contaminated, it can be used with the other surface facing upward. .

Moreover, in this embodiment, the piping cover 1 shall further have the upper attachment metal fitting 30 provided with the upper attachment metal fitting horizontal surface parts 33 and 33 for mounting the cover part 20. As shown in FIG.
Thereby, since the cover part 20 can be mounted in the upper attachment metal horizontal surface parts 33 and 33, the attachment operation | work of the cover part 20 and a removal operation | work become easy. Moreover, since the cover part 20 can also be fixed to the upper mounting bracket 30 for fixing the cover main body 10 to an installation surface, the number of parts of the piping cover 1 can be reduced.

Moreover, in this embodiment, the hand-washing machine unit 100 shall have the hand-washing machine 60 and the piping cover 1 installed at intervals from the lower part of the hand-washing machine 60.
This includes the hand-washing machine 60 and the pipe cover 1 that can prevent the equipment such as the pipe 70 arranged inside the pipe cover 1 from being visually recognized and can easily perform maintenance and cleaning of the equipment. A hand basin unit 100 can be provided.

It should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and modifications, improvements, etc. within a scope that can achieve the object of the present invention are included in the present invention.
In the present embodiment, the pipe 70 is cited as the equipment disposed below the handwasher 60. However, in addition to the pipe 70 as the equipment, an electric water heater is disposed below the handwasher 60, and the pipe cover 1 is installed. May be covered. Thereby, it can prevent that the electric water heater with the piping 70 is visually recognized from the outside of the piping cover 1.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Piping cover 10 ... Cover main body 20 ... Cover part 30 ... Upper mounting bracket (mounting bracket)
33, 33 ... Upper mounting bracket horizontal plane (horizontal plane)
60 ... washbasin 70 ... piping

Claims (4)

It is a piping cover for covering equipment including piping, which is arranged below the hand-washer
A cover body;
Covering the upper surface of the cover body, it has a, a lid portion which is separate from the said cover body,
The said cover part is a piping cover provided with a guide groove . It is a piping cover for covering equipment including piping, which is arranged below the hand-washer,
A cover body;
A cover that covers the upper surface of the cover body and is a separate body from the cover body;
It further has a mounting bracket for fixing the cover body to the installation surface,
The mounting bracket is a piping cover including a horizontal surface portion on which the lid portion is placed. The lid portion is a plate-like and pipe cover both sides according to claim 1, wherein configured as a design surface. Hand wash basin,
A handwasher unit comprising: the piping cover according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the pipe cover is installed at a distance from a lower portion of the handwasher.

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