JP6887819B2 - Strainer device for drain - Google Patents

Description

The present invention is a strainer device attached to a drain port of a kitchen sink or a bathroom, etc., and is for a drain port that can easily and quickly remove deposits such as slime adhering to the strainer and keep it clean. It relates to a strainer device.

Conventionally, for example, a strainer for collecting and draining food waste such as vegetable waste has been used at the drain outlet of a kitchen sink in a general household. As shown in FIGS. 12 to 13, the strainer 40 conventionally used in the kitchen of a general household has a large number of draining holes 43 in the upper peripheral wall 42 of the peripheral walls 41 formed in an elongated tubular body. While opening the draining portion 44, the odor blocking plate 46 is installed on the upper surface without opening the draining hole in the lower peripheral wall 45, and the odor blocking portion 47 formed in the shape of an inverted cup is drained. It is formed integrally with the lower portion of the portion 44.

Further, the strainer shown in the following patent document, which is a prior patent document relating to the strainer, also has a cylindrical draining portion (FIG. 1) by opening a large number of draining holes in the peripheral wall, similarly to the strainer used in the general household. -Along with the formation of the dust container 2) of 2, it is clear that the bottom plate is installed at the lower end of the draining portion (although it is not indicated by a symbol in the figure, from the description of FIGS. 1 and 2. The only difference is that the strainer is integrally fixed and is not provided with a peripheral wall on the lower side without an opening, unlike the strainer conventionally used in ordinary households.

The strainer conventionally used in ordinary households and the strainer shown in the patent document both have a shape in which an odor blocking portion or a bottom plate is integrally fixed to the lower end of the draining portion in a cylindrical shape. ..

Jikkenhei 2-78673

Both the strainer currently used in ordinary households and the strainer described in the patent document have an odor preventive portion or a bottom plate integrally fixed to the lower end of a drainage portion formed in a cylindrical shape. When the strainer is taken out from the kitchen sink or the drain port of the bathroom for cleaning, each strainer keeps its shape in a cylindrical shape and its volume cannot be reduced by disassembly or the like. Cleaning the wall surface, odor preventive part, or bottom plate part is troublesome and time-consuming, and there is a problem that it is not possible to completely remove deposits such as slime, and the strainer is immersed in a cleaning agent for a certain period of time. In the case of soaking and washing, there is a problem that the amount of the cleaning agent used is large because the strainer is tall even if it is laid down, which is uneconomical.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and a plurality of arc-shaped drainage pieces are connected by hinges and joining means to form a cylindrical strainer body, and the strainer body is cleaned at the time of cleaning. It spreads in a wavy shape through the hinge, and is disassembled into the strainer body and the bottom member to reduce the thickness of the strainer body and immerse it in a cleaning agent, or to clean a sponge or the like with a cleaning liquid. By cleaning with a member, the amount of cleaning agent to be immersed can be reduced as compared with the case of a conventional cylindrical strainer, and the cleaning work with the cleaning agent is quick and easy. On the other hand, since the bottom member is less dirty than the strainer body, the bottom member can be cleaned by disassembling the strainer body and the bottom member. It is intended to provide a drainage outlet strainer device that is extremely easy.

According to claim 1, the present invention is a means for solving the above-mentioned problems.
A drainage outlet strainer device composed of a cylindrical strainer body and a bottom member that is detachably attached and fixed to the lower surface of the strainer body. The strainer body has a large number of drainage holes on the peripheral wall. The arc-shaped drainage pieces divided into a plurality of open plastic pieces are connected by a hinge so as to be expandable and deployable, and the drainage pieces at both ends are integrally joined and fixed by a joining means, and the whole is cylindrical. On the other hand, the bottom member is formed with an odor blocking plate, and the lower end portion of the strainer body is integrally engaged with the odor blocking plate by an engaging means so as to be removable. A drainage strainer device is provided, which is characterized by being connected and fixed to the drainage port.
Then, in claim 2,
The drainage outlet strainer device according to claim 1, wherein the bottom member is formed in an inverted cup shape by installing an odor blocking plate on the upper surface of a cylindrical peripheral wall. Ru is.

According to the present invention having the above configuration, the strainer body integrated with the bottom member is taken out from the drain port, and then the joining means of the drain pieces at both ends of each of the plurality of drain pieces is peeled off. For example, each of the plurality of drainage pieces is in a state of being unfolded via a hinge, whereby the engagement state of each of the drainage pieces with the bottom member is released, and the strainer body is extremely easily removed from the bottom member. Then, it can be expanded and thinned into a corrugated sheet, and then the cleaning work can be started immediately. Then, in the cleaning work, the strainer body is expanded in a wavy shape via the hinge to reduce the overall thickness and immersed in a cleaning agent, or cleaning is performed with a cleaning member such as a sponge soaked with a cleaning liquid. As a result, the amount of cleaning agent to be immersed can be reduced as compared with the case of the conventional cylindrical strainer, and the cleaning work with a cleaning member such as a sponge to which the cleaning agent is applied can be performed in a short time and labor. It's easy and quick. Since the bottom member is less dirty than the strainer body, it is extremely easy to clean the bottom member by disassembling the strainer body and the bottom member.

It is an overall perspective view which shows the 1st Example of the strainer device for a drain outlet of this invention. It is a top view of the strainer main body which comprises the strainer device for drainage port of this invention by 1st Example. It is a front view which shows the state which the strainer main body was attached to the bottom member in the strainer device for drainage port of this invention by 1st Example, cut out a part. It is a perspective view of the bottom member in the strainer device for drainage port of this invention by 1st Example. It is a vertical cross-sectional view of the bottom member in the strainer device for drainage port of this invention by 1st Example. It is a front view which shows the state in which the strainer main body which constitutes the strainer device for drainage port of this invention by 1st Example is developed. It is a top view which shows the developed state of the strainer main body which comprises the strainer device for drainage port of this invention by 1st Example. It is the whole perspective view which shows the 2nd Example of the strainer device for a drain outlet of this invention. It is a front view which shows the state which the strainer main body was attached to the bottom member in the strainer device for drainage port of this invention by 2nd Example, cut out a part. It is a perspective view of the bottom member in the strainer device for drainage port of this invention by 2nd Example. It is a vertical cross-sectional view of the bottom member in the strainer device for drainage port of this invention by 2nd Example. It is a perspective view of the strainer conventionally used in the kitchen of a general household. It is a front view which shows by cutting out a part of the strainer. It is a perspective view which shows the state which joined and fixed the strainer main body to the bottom member in 1st Example of the strainer device for a drain outlet of this invention.

An embodiment of the strainer device for a drain port of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view showing a first embodiment of the strainer device for a drain port of the present invention. The device of the present invention includes a cylindrical strainer body 1 that can be disassembled and deployed, and the strainer body 1. It is composed of a bottom member 2 that is detachably attached and fixed to the lower surface. Hereinafter, the first embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 7.

The strainer main body 1 constituting the strainer device according to the first embodiment has arc-shaped drainage pieces 4a, 4b, and 4c (in the embodiment) divided into a plurality of plastic pieces having a large number of drainage holes 3 opened in the peripheral wall. Uses three drainage pieces. Hereinafter, in this embodiment, three drainage pieces will be used.) Are connected freely by a hinge 5, while drainage pieces 4a and 4c at both ends. Is integrally joined and fixed by the joining means 10 described later, and is separable, so that the whole is formed in a cylindrical shape.

That is, the cylindrical strainer main body 1 has a vertical side edge portion 6 of the drainage piece 4b located at the intermediate portion and a vertical inner edge portion 6 of the drainage pieces 4a and 4c located on both sides of the drainage piece 4b. 7 is integrally connected to each other by a hinge 5 so as to be openable and closable, while joining means 10 is provided at the vertical outer edge portions 8 and 9 of the drainage pieces 4a and 4c located at both ends of the drainage pieces 4a and 4a. The vertical outer edge portions 8 and 9 of 4c are integrally joined and fixed by the joining means 10 to form a cylindrical shape.

The joining means 10 for forming the cylindrical strainer body 1 by joining and fixing the vertical outer edge portions 8 and 9 of the drainage pieces 4a and 4c located at both ends is not particularly limited, but is preferable. It is recommended that the configuration be as shown in FIGS. 6 to 7. That is, in FIGS. 6 to 7, a plurality of fitting protrusions 11 are projected from the vertical outer edge portion 8 of the drainage piece 4a at intervals, and the fitting protrusions 11 are fitted and fixed. The fitting recess 12 is formed in the vertical outer edge portion 9 of the drainage piece 4c. As a result, the fitting protrusion 11 projecting from the vertical outer edge portion 8 of the drainage piece 4a is fitted and fixed in the fitting recess 12 of the drainage piece 4c, whereby the drainage pieces 4a and 4c at both ends are fitted and fixed. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the drainage pieces 4a, 4b, and 4c can be integrally joined and fixed in a cylindrical shape.

By inserting and fixing the fitting protrusion 11 projecting from the vertical outer edge portion 8 of the drainage piece 4a into the fitting recess 12 of the drainage piece 4c, the drainage pieces 4a and 4c at both ends are fitted and fixed. When the strainer main body 1 which is integrally joined and fixed and the drainage pieces 4a, 4b, and 4c are integrally joined and fixed in a cylindrical shape is disassembled and deployed as shown in FIG. 6, the drainage piece is simply said. By holding 4a and 4c and peeling off the fitting protrusion 11 fitted and fixed in the fitting and inserting recess 12, the fitting and fixing state of the fitting protrusion 11 in the fitting and inserting recess 12 can be released. The strainer body 1 in which the drainage pieces 4a, 4b, and 4c are integrally joined and fixed in a cylindrical shape is separated, and as shown in FIG. 6, the drainage pieces 4a, 4b, and 4c are expanded via the hinge 5. It can be in an expanded state.

The bottom member 2 detachably attached and fixed to the lower surface of the strainer main body 1 having the above configuration can be adopted as long as it can be detachably attached to the lower surface of the strainer main body 1. .. The bottom member 2 is not particularly limited, but preferably, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 5, the bottom member 2a in the shape of an inverted cup may be used, or the second bottom member 2a described later may be used. As shown in FIGS. 8 to 11 of Examples, a disk-shaped bottom member 2b can also be used.

First, the bottom member 2a shown in FIGS. 3 to 5 which is the first embodiment of the present invention will be described. In FIGS. 3 to 5, an odor preventive plate 14 is installed on the upper surface of the cylindrical peripheral wall 13 so that the odor from the drain port (not shown) does not diffuse on the sink or in the bathroom, and the whole is reversed. It is formed in a cup shape, and the lower end portion of the strainer body 1 is engaged with the engaging means 15 so as to be removable on the odor blocking plate 14, is connected and fixed, and is attached to the drain port. There is.

The engaging means 15 for engaging and fixing the lower end portion of the strainer body 1 on the odor blocking plate 14 constituting the bottom member 2a so as to be freely removable is not particularly limited, but is preferably FIG. 3 to FIG. It is recommended to configure as shown in FIG. That is, as shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the engaging means 15 is provided with a concave groove 16 in the lower portion of the outer peripheral surface of the odor blocking plate 14, and the outer peripheral edge of the odor blocking plate 14 on the concave groove 16. An annular locking projection 17 is formed on the inside of the drainage piece, and each drainage piece constituting the strainer main body 1 is fitted into the concave groove 16 of the odor blocking plate 14 and can be locked to the locking projection 17. At the lower end edge of the inner peripheral wall of 4a, 4b, and 4c, a locking ridge 18 for locking to the locking projection 17 is extended inward and downward in an oblique direction. In the figure, reference numeral 19 denotes a take-out member, which is used when the device of the present invention attached to the drain port is taken out from the drain port for cleaning. In the embodiment, the take-out member 19 is projected from the upper inner peripheral wall surface of the drainage piece 4c, but for example, it can be a curved take-out member like the handle of a bucket. The configuration is arbitrary.

Next, a second embodiment of the strainer device for a drain port of the present invention will be described in detail. FIG. 8 is an overall perspective view showing a second embodiment of the drainage port strainer device of the present invention, and similarly to the first embodiment, the cylindrical strainer main body 1 that can be disassembled and deployed, It is composed of a bottom member 2 that is detachably mounted and fixed to the lower surface of the strainer main body 1. Hereinafter, the second embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 8 to 11. As shown in FIGS. 8 to 11, the strainer main body 1 in the second embodiment has the same configuration as that of the first embodiment, but the configuration of the bottom member 2 is different from that of the first embodiment. Is. That is, unlike the first embodiment, the bottom member 2b shown as the second embodiment is formed of a disk-shaped bottom plate 20 made of a flat plate without a cylindrical peripheral wall, and the bottom plate 20 is the strainer. An engaging means 15 similar to that of the first embodiment is provided at the lower end of the main body 1 so as to be removable. The bottom member 2b includes a concave groove 16 and a locking projection 17 provided in the bottom member 2a of the first embodiment. In addition, in FIGS. 9 to 11, 21 is a large number of small holes for draining that are bored in the bottom plate 20.

Therefore, in the drainage outlet strainer device according to the second embodiment, the bottom plate is fixed to the lower end of the strainer described in the patent document, whereas in the case of the second embodiment, the bottom member 2b ( The difference is that (corresponding to the bottom plate of the patent document) is removable from the strainer body 1. The operation of engaging and disengaging the strainer main body 1 and the bottom member 2b using the engaging means 15 is the same as that of the first embodiment, and thus the description thereof will be omitted.

The operation of the apparatus of the present invention having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG. 14, assuming that the bottom member 2a according to the first embodiment is used. The case where the bottom member 2a according to the second embodiment is used is substantially the same as the case where the bottom member 2a according to the first embodiment is used, and thus the description thereof will be omitted.

First, in order to engage and fix the strainer main body 1 on the odor blocking plate 14, the strainer main body 1 is expanded and expanded by releasing the joint and fixed state of the drainage pieces 4a, 4b, and 4c, and then expanded and expanded. As shown in the above, the locking ridges 18 of the drainage pieces 4a, 4b, and 4c are fitted into the concave grooves 15 of the odor blocking plate 14 from the outside, and the fitting protrusions 11 are integrated with the fitting recesses 12. The strainer body 1 is integrally joined and fixed in a cylindrical shape, and the locking pieces 17 of the drainage pieces 4a, 4b, and 4c are locked to the locking claws 16 of the odor blocking plate 14. Therefore, the strainer main body 1 is fixed on the odor blocking plate 14 without detaching while maintaining the cylindrical shape, whereby the strainer main body 1 is integrally fixed to the bottom member 2a (FIG. 9). ..

Next, when the device of the present invention is removed from the drain port of the sink to clean the deposits such as slime, the strainer main body 1 integrated with the bottom member 2a is held from the drain port by holding the take-out protrusion 19. After taking out, the drainage pieces 4a and 4c are held, and the fitting protrusion 11 fitted and fixed in the fitting recess 12 is peeled off to release the fitting state. The 4b and 4c are in the expanded and expanded state, and the locking ridges 18 of the drainage pieces 4a, 4b and 4c are released from the recessed groove 15 of the odor blocking plate 14 and the strainer main body is released. 1 can be removed from the odor blocking plate 14 of the bottom member 2a very easily, and the cleaning operation can be started immediately.

Then, as described above, in the cleaning work, the strainer body 1 is expanded in a wavy shape via the hinge 5 to reduce the overall thickness and immersed in a cleaning agent, or a sponge soaked with a cleaning liquid. By cleaning with a cleaning member such as, the amount of cleaning agent to be immersed can be reduced as compared with the case of a conventional cylindrical strainer, and the cleaning work with the cleaning member is quick and time-consuming. It's easy to do.

Although not shown, it is the same as the makisu that is widely used when making sushi rolls, instead of the strainer body of the first and second embodiments provided with the arc-shaped drainage pieces divided into a plurality of pieces. A makisu-shaped strainer body having a large number of drainage holes and having the same joining means and engaging means as the strainer body of the first and second embodiments is used as the strainer body. You can also do it.

1 Strainer body 2 Bottom member 2a Bottom member (1st Example)
2b Bottom member (second embodiment)
3 Drainage holes 4a, 4b, 4c Drainage pieces 5 Hinge 6 Vertical side both end edges 7 Vertical inner edge edge 8/9 Vertical outer edge 10 Joining means 11 Fitting protrusion 12 Fitting recess 13 Peripheral wall 14 Odor stop plate 15 Engagement means 16 Concave groove 17 Locking protrusion 18 Locking protrusion 19 Taking out protrusion 20 Bottom plate 21 Draining small hole

Claims (2)

A drainage outlet strainer device composed of a cylindrical strainer body and a bottom member that is detachably attached and fixed to the lower surface of the strainer body. The strainer body has a large number of drainage holes on the peripheral wall. The arc-shaped drainage pieces divided into a plurality of open plastic pieces are connected by a hinge so as to be expandable and deployable, and the drainage pieces at both ends are integrally joined and fixed by a joining means, and the whole is cylindrical. On the other hand, the bottom member is formed with an odor preventive plate, and the lower end portion of the strainer main body is integrally engaged with the odor preventive plate by an engaging means so as to be removable. A strainer device for drainage outlets, which is characterized by being connected and fixed to. The drainage outlet strainer device according to claim 1, wherein the bottom member is formed in an inverted cup shape by installing an odor blocking plate on the upper surface of a cylindrical peripheral wall.

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