JPH07292808A - Wall panel connection structure of unit room - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make it possible to assemble wall panels easily when forming a corner part with a wall panel which forms a plane-shaped side wall. CONSTITUTION:A projected fit-in part 6 is installed to one side edge of a wall panel in such a fashion that it may turn to its lateral side while a recessed fit-in part 7 is installed to the other side edge of the wall panel in such a fashion that it may turn to its lateral side. In a corner part of an unit room, both wall panels 2a and 2b are connected by means of a corner piece which shapes up fit-in parts with the projected fit-in part 6 of one-sided wall panels 2a and 2b and/or the recessed fit-in part 7 of the other-sided wall panels 2a and 2b and a connector 5 which connects the projected fit-in part 6 of the one sided wall panels 2a and 2b with the recessed fit-in part 7 of the recessed fit-in part 7 of the other-sided wall panels 2a and 2b.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention divides a side edge portion of a wall panel when forming a corner portion in a so-called unit room which is generally used as an assembled house such as an assembled bathroom called a bath unit, a karaoke box, and a simple toilet. The present invention relates to a wall panel connection structure of a unit room that is connected and fixed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the case of forming a corner of a unit room of this type, for example, the Japanese Utility Model Publication No.
The one described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 144762 is known. That is, as disclosed in the above publication, for example, as shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. 9, a flat side wall panel 202a and a corner panel 202b in which an end portion 203b is greatly bent to form a corner portion are provided. To form the side edges 203a and 20b of the two panels 202a and 202b.
3b is connected to form a corner portion of the unit room.

[0003] Also, as a similar product, the actual publication is Sho 62-23.
A wall panel 102a forming a flat side wall portion (flat joint portion) 120 shown in FIG.
One wall panel 102a of 102b is a flat side wall panel 102b as shown in FIG. 7, and a wall panel 102c integrally formed with a bent connecting portion 103 at a corner portion is connected at its side edge portions. Although it is known that a corner of a unit room is formed, in any of the above, the flat wall panels 202a and 102b and the corner panel 202b in which the corner portion is integrally formed are formed.
There was a problem that at least two types of panels of 102c had to be manufactured, which resulted in high cost.

Particularly, in the one disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 54-144762, the corner panel 202b has an end portion 2
03b is greatly bent, and the whole panel 202b is bulky due to this bent portion, and it is inconvenient to handle, and there is also a problem that the wall panel is damaged at the corner portion that is greatly bent during transportation. there were.

Therefore, in order to deal with such a problem, for example, as shown in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 5-35919, side edge portions of wall panels used when forming a flat side wall portion are abutted at substantially right angles. Side-by-side side edge parts of each wall panel with L-shaped metal fittings (connectors). Which is formed by forming a corner of the unit room by pressing and fixing to each other, and then fixing the wall panels juxtaposed substantially at right angles to each other, as shown in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 5-14326. The edges are juxtaposed in a substantially right-angled state, and an L-shaped corner piece is attached to one of the side edges that are butted. The L-shaped corner piece has a crank-shaped tip in plan view. Sidewalk While fixing the locking tool with the bolt locking groove formed, a bolt that fits into the bolt locking groove is provided on the side edge of the other wall panel, and the locking tool and bolt form a connecting tool. It is known that a wall panel on the side provided with is lifted and lowered from above so that a bolt is engaged with a groove for bolt engagement to form a corner of a unit room with a flat wall panel.

[0006]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention]
In the structure described in Japanese Patent No. 35919, a corner of a unit room is formed by a W-shaped corner piece and an L-shaped connecting tool that engages with both end portions of a wall panel whose side edges are abutted at substantially right angles. However, this wall panel has a problem that the flat portion cannot be formed with the same structure.

Further, in the one disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 5-14326, an L-shaped corner piece is attached to one of the side edge portions of the wall panels which are butted against each other at a substantially right angle. A lot of work man-hours such as fixing a crank-shaped locking tool having a groove for bolt engagement to the L-shaped corner piece and providing a bolt to be fitted in the groove for bolt engagement on the side edge of the other wall panel There was a problem that it was necessary.

Further, in such a structure, since the side edges of the wall panels forming the corners easily move relative to each other, the wall panels at the corners are not stable until the ceiling panel is placed and fixed, There was also the problem of easy removal. In addition, the wall panel to which the crank-shaped locking tool having the bolt engaging groove is fixed is lifted, and the other wall panel is lifted so that the bolt engaging groove fits into the bolt of the other wall panel. Since the bolt and the groove for bolt engagement are engaged with each other by lowering it, the corner of the unit room is formed by the flat wall panel, so the heavy wall panel on the side where the bolt is installed is lifted and lifted in the positioned state. There was also a problem that the wall panel had to be gradually lowered, which required a lot of trouble and time for the work.

Therefore, the present invention has been proposed in view of the above problems, and when the corner portion is formed by the wall panel forming the flat side wall, the assembling thereof can be simply and quickly fixed. It is an object of the present invention to provide a wall panel connection structure for a unit room.

[0010]

In order to achieve the above object, a wall panel connection structure for a unit room according to the present invention comprises:
In a unit room where wall panels are connected to each other to form a peripheral wall, a convex fitting portion is provided at one side edge of the wall panel so as to face sideways, and a concave fitting so as to face sideways is provided at the other side edge. A mating portion is provided, the convex fitting portion is configured to be fit-connectable to the concave fitting portion, and at the corner portion of the unit room, the convex fitting portion of one wall panel and / or the other With a corner piece formed with a fitting portion with the concave fitting portion of the wall panel, and a connector for locking the convex fitting portion of one wall panel and the concave fitting portion of the other wall panel The feature is that both wall panels are connected.

The connector may be constructed by engaging the convex fitting portion or the concave fitting portion and the corner piece, or the corner piece may be joined and fixed to the convex fitting portion or the concave fitting portion. It is also characterized by that.

[0012]

In the connector for connecting the wall panel at the corner portion in the unit room of the present invention, first, a corner piece is attached to the side edge portion of one wall panel used when forming a flat side wall, and the wall is connected. Set up the panel. Here, when the wall panel has already been erected on the opposite side of the corner portion, the wall panel is continuously connected to the erected wall panel and the wall panel is connected in the straight direction, and the operation of connecting the corner portion is started.

Then, another wall panel is installed perpendicularly to the wall panel having the corner piece attached to the side edge portion so that the side edges are joined to each other, and the corner piece is fitted to the fitting portion of the side edge. When combined, the two wall panels are held at a predetermined angle by the corner pieces, for example 90 °. Further, in the case where the connector is configured by locking the convex fitting portion or the concave fitting portion and the corner piece, the corner piece is fixed to either the convex fitting portion or the concave fitting portion. After that, after fitting the other convex fitting portion or concave fitting portion to the corner piece, when fitting the connecting tool from above the joint edge of both wall panels to fix both wall panels, The corner of the unit room is formed.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. <Embodiment 1> FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a connecting portion of a wall panel forming a corner of a unit room such as a prefabricated bathroom. In the figure, reference numeral 1 generally indicates the corner portion.

The corner portion 1 has flat plate-shaped wall panels 2a and 2b and two wall panels 2a and 2 which are orthogonal to each other.
The corner piece 4 interposed between the joint edge portions 3a and 3b formed on the side edge portion of b, and fitted between the joint edge portions 3a and 3b of both wall panels 2a and 2b outside the corner piece 4. It consists of the connected fitting 5. Flat wall panel 2a
-The illustration of the whole of each of 2b is omitted,
After bending one side edge portion of a plate-shaped vinyl chloride (PVC) to the back side by about 90 ° and then further folding it by 180 °, the tip end portion 6a is bent by 90 ° to have a substantially “up” shape in plan view. A joint edge portion 3b is formed on which the formed convex fitting portion 6 is formed, and a joining portion 7 is formed on the other side edge portion, which is formed into a concave fitting portion 7 bent in an inverted "S" shape. The edge portion 3a is formed.

Although not shown in the drawings, the joint edge portion 3 thus formed forms a planar side wall when the convex fitting portion 6 is directly fitted to the concave fitting portion 7. ing.
Further, the corner piece 4 interposed between the joining edge portions 3a and 3b includes a fitting portion 8 fitted to the tip of the convex fitting portion 6 by extrusion molding of vinyl chloride (PVC), and a concave fitting portion. The fitting portion 9 to be fitted inside 7 is integrally formed, and the length thereof is formed to be substantially equal to the height of the wall panels 2a and 2b.

The connector 5 fitted outside the corner piece 4 and between the joint edge portions 3a and 3b of the two wall panels 2a and 2b is made of spring steel which is hard and elastic, and is substantially "planar". C-shaped, with a convex fitting part 6 at one end
A convex side engaging portion 10 that engages with the concave engaging portion 11 that engages with the concave fitting portion 7 from the outside of the corner piece 4 is formed in series on the other end side.

In the figure, reference numeral 12 is a floor panel of the bathroom, and reference numeral 13 is a lower connecting tool which is connected to the floor panel 12 with a screw 14 and fixes the lower end portion of the corner portion 1. Next, a case where the corner portions 1 are formed by connecting the both wall panels 2a and 2b with the connecting tool 5 configured as described above will be described.
First, the lower connector 13 is fixed to the corner 15 of the floor panel 12 with the screw 14. Next, the fitting portion 8 of the corner piece 4 is fitted to the tip of the convex fitting portion 6 of one of the wall panels 2a and 2b, and the corner piece 4 is projected with a fixing tool (not shown) such as a screw. The tip 6a of the fitting portion 6 is firmly fixed by hitting it with a mallet or the like.

One wall panel 2a, in which the corner piece 4 is attached to the tip end 6a of the convex fitting portion 6, and the other wall panel 2a are arranged perpendicularly to each other, one wall panel 2a is provided.
While the fitting portion 9 of the corner piece 4 is fitted into the concave fitting portion 7 of the other wall panel 2a, the lower end thereof is supported by the lower connector 13. Then, as shown in FIG. 2, a connecting member 5 formed in a substantially "C" shape from above the side edge portions of both wall panels 2a and 2b is provided with a convex side engaging portion 10 formed at one end thereof. The concave side engaging portion 11 formed on the other end side is engaged with the fitting portion 6, and the concave fitting portion 7 is engaged with the concave fitting portion 7 from the outside of the corner piece 4, and the connector 5 is attached to the wall panel 2 side. The wall panels 2a and 2b are slid downward along the edge portions, and the middle portions of the wall panels 2a and 2b are fixed by using a plurality of connectors 5 from above the wall panels 2a and 2b.

By repeating this operation and fitting a plurality of connecting tools 5 into the side edge portions of both wall panels 2a and 2b, the lower ends of both wall panels 2a and 2b are supported and fixed to the lower connecting tool 13, and The upper part is firmly fixed by the connection tool 5. Here, if the upper edges of the side edges of both wall panels 2a and 2b are at the same height, the squareness of both wall panels 2a and 2b is accurately maintained, and when a step is generated, Is floating due to dust being caught in one of the wall panels 2a and 2b, or because the wall panels 2a and 2b are tilted, it is possible to correct the lifting of the wall panels 2a and 2b, or to remove them in the direction in which this step is eliminated. When the wall panels 2a and 2b are pressed and corrected, the verticality of both wall panels 2a and 2b can be easily corrected.

After that, a ceiling panel (not shown) is fixed to the upper end portions of both wall panels 2a and 2b, and silicone rubber or the like is attached to the abutted side edges of both wall panels 2a and 2b as shown in FIG. The unit room is formed when the caulking material 16 is filled. When the caulking material 16 such as silicone rubber is filled, the corner piece 4 becomes the caulking material 1
It acts as a backup member of 6.

When the corner piece 4 is used as a backup member for filling as in this example, there is an advantage that a separate backup member need not be provided and that portion can be implemented at low cost. In the above embodiment, the fitting portion 8 for fitting the corner piece 4 into the tip portion 6a of the convex fitting portion 6 and the fitting portion 9 fitted in the concave fitting portion 7 are formed. However, as shown in FIG. 3, the fitting member 8
Instead of this, the corner piece 4 can be formed by symmetrically providing the same shape as the fitting portion 9.

Thus, the wall panel is erected to assemble the four enclosures of the unit room, and the ceiling panel is placed on the upper end of the four enclosures and connected to form the unit room.
Further, when disassembling the wall panels 2a and 2b at the corners of the unit room assembled as in the above-mentioned embodiment, after removing the ceiling panel, the connector 5 is pulled up by the commercial method or pulled out or elastically deformed. Wall panel 2a ・ 2
The wall panels 2a and 2b can be easily removed by removing them from the side edge portion of b. <Embodiment 2> In this embodiment, the shapes of the corner piece 4 and the connector 5 in Embodiment 1 are changed as shown in FIG.

That is, the corner piece 4 is formed into a pure "F" shape in cross section, and the corner piece 4 is formed inside the corner piece 4.
Is formed in the concave fitting portion 7 with a screw hole 18 for fixing with a screw 17, and one end of the connector 5 is bent into an acute angle in plan view to form an engaging portion 11 to form a corner “U” shape. However, a fixing screw 19 is provided at the other end. In this embodiment, first, the corner piece 4 is fixed to the concave fitting portion 7 with the screw 17.

Next, the bent tip portion 6a of the wall panel 2b having the convex fitting portion 6 is attached to the slit 20 of the corner piece 4.
After being inserted into the inside, the connector 5 is fitted between the corner piece 4 and the convex fitting portion 6, and the corner piece 1 and the convex fitting portion 6 are fixed with the fixing screw 19 to fix the corner portion 1. Are formed. <Embodiment 3> In this embodiment, the shape of the corner piece 4 in Embodiment 2 is changed as shown in FIG.

That is, the corner piece 4 is formed into a square "U" -shaped cross section, and one end of the corner piece 4 is folded back about 180 ° at its substantially intermediate height position to bend the tip end 6 of the convex fitting portion 6.
While forming an engaging portion (fitting portion) 8 that fits in a,
At the other end, a pinching portion 21 that is pinched between the fixing screw 19 of the connector 5 and the end surface of the concave fitting portion 7 is formed. In this embodiment, first, the engaging portion 8 of the corner piece 4 is fitted to the bent front end portion 6a of the convex fitting portion 6, and then one side surface of the holding portion 21 is brought into contact with the end surface of the concave fitting portion 7. In this state, the connector 5 is mounted between the concave fitting portion 7 and the corner piece 4,
When one side surface of the holding portion 21 is pressed by the fixing screw 19, the holding portion 21 is fixed to the concave fitting portion 7, and the corner portion 1 is formed.

[0027]

As described above, the wall panel connection structure for a unit room according to the present invention has a convex fitting portion provided on one side edge and a concave fitting portion provided on the other side edge. The corner portion can be formed as it is with almost no change in the structure of the wall panel for plane joining provided with and. As a result, it is not necessary to prepare a plurality of wall panels having different structures, and the cost can be reduced by mass production.

In addition, a corner piece can be formed by simply attaching a corner piece to the end portion of the wall panel in a state of abutting each other at right angles and fixing the wall panel with a connecting tool. Since the man-hours can be significantly reduced, there is also an advantage that the labor cost can be drastically reduced. Further, the wall panel fixed by the connecting tool to form the corner portion, the ends of the wall panel are firmly fixed by the corner piece and the connecting tool, so that the wall panel in the corner portion is stable and the ceiling panel also There is also an advantage that it can be easily placed and fixed without coming off.

Incidentally, in the case where the connecting tool locks the convex fitting part or the concave fitting part and the corner piece, and particularly, in the case where the connecting tool is formed by the elastic member, from the indoor side of the corner part. There is also an advantage that the wall panel can be assembled. In addition, the corner piece may be joined and fixed to the convex fitting portion or the concave fitting portion, and in particular, the corner piece may be joined and fixed to the convex fitting portion or the concave fitting portion with a fixing tool such as a screw. There is also an advantage that it is possible to prevent the corner pieces from being accidentally detached during the assembly work of the wall panel.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a corner portion in a unit room according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional plan view of a corner portion according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a partially cutaway perspective view of a corner portion showing a modified example of the corner piece.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional plan view of a corner portion of a unit room according to a second embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional plan view of a corner portion in the unit room according to the third embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional plan view of a side wall portion of a conventional example according to the applicant's previous proposal.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional plan view of a corner portion in a unit room of a conventional example according to the applicant's previous proposal.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a connecting portion of side walls of a corner portion according to another conventional example.

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional plan view of a side wall of a corner portion according to another conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Corner part 2 ... Wall panel 4 ... Corner piece 5 ... Connecting tool 6 ... Convex fitting part 7 ... Concave fitting part

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In a unit room in which wall panels are connected to each other to form a peripheral wall, a convex fitting portion is provided on one side edge of the wall panel so as to be directed to the side, and another side edge is provided on the side edge. The concave fitting portion is provided so as to face, and the convex fitting portion is configured so that it can be fitted and connected to the concave fitting portion, and at the corner portion of the unit room, the convex fitting portion of one wall panel And / or the corner piece having a fitting portion with the concave fitting portion of the other wall panel and the convex fitting portion of one wall panel and the concave fitting portion of the other wall panel are locked A wall panel connection structure in a unit room in which both wall panels are connected by a connecting tool. 2. The wall panel connection structure for a unit room according to claim 1, wherein the connecting tool locks the convex fitting portion or the concave fitting portion and the corner piece. 3. The wall panel connection structure for a unit room according to claim 1, wherein the corner piece is joined and fixed to the convex fitting portion or the concave fitting portion.