JPH08105268A - Rotary door device for washroom - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To make effective use of space in a washroom by providing the entrance of the washroom with a turntable, providing a semicircular door plate on the turntable, and rotating the turntable at the time of use so as to protrude the door plate outside. CONSTITUTION: When a user who is about to enter a washroom 2 stands on a turntable 50 and operates a switch, a motor 80 is actuated to rotate the turntable 50 by a half circle. The entrance part of the washroom is thereby closed by a semicircular door plate 10, and the internal space of the washroom 2 is enlarged. After use, the turntable 50 is further rotated to enclose the door plate 10 in the washroom 2. In the case of the motor 80 failing during use (in the state of the door plate 10 protruding from the external wall 3), an auxiliary door 15 is opened for escape. Interlocked with the rotation of the turntable 50, a scraper in a bowl shape trap provided at the lower part of a drain hole 55 is rotated to remove dust, deposit, and the like, thus preventing the clogging of drain. Space can thereby be used effectively.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a door structure for a toilet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a toilet door, a door having a structure in which a flat door is attached to the entrance of a toilet by a hinge has been widely used.

However, in such a door structure, no consideration is given to improving the utilization efficiency in the toilet room. Therefore, in order to improve the utilization efficiency in the toilet room, the door plate of the door is formed in a curved shape (for example, a semicircular cross section) unlike the flat door, and is provided in the upper center part of this door. A door having a structure in which the door is suspended from the ceiling by a rotating shaft and is rotated around the vertical axis can be considered. By using such a revolving door, when the toilet is used, the door rotates in a state in which the protruding portion of the door plate is directed to the outside of the toilet, increasing the toilet interior space,
When the toilet is not used, the door rotates so that the protruding portion of the door plate faces the toilet, and acts to reduce the space in the toilet.

[0004]

However, in such a revolving door, since the center of gravity of the door is located on the door plate side away from the revolving shaft, an unbalanced load is applied to the revolving shaft supporting the door and the Stability is lost.

The present invention has been made in view of the above matters, and an object thereof is to provide a revolving door for a toilet, which can effectively utilize a space, as a structure having good stability.

Further, it is a technical subject to make a revolving door for a toilet which has a space effective reason, into a highly safe door structure. Another object of the present invention is to provide a revolving door device for a toilet equipped with a revolving door for a toilet, which can provide a reason for effective space, to provide a structure with good floor drainage.

[0007]

The present invention adopts the following means in order to solve the above technical problems. That is, as a first configuration, a base provided on the floor of the toilet room entrance and a door mounted on the base, the front surface of which is convex and the back surface of which is concave. And a plate.

The base is rotated together with the door plate about a vertical line in the center of the base, and the door plate is
When the toilet is used, the door plate surface is rotated so as to project to the outside of the toilet to increase the space inside the toilet, and when the toilet is not used, the door is rotated toward the toilet to rotate the door toward the toilet. Reduce space. The base is preferably formed in a disc shape.

As a second structure, the door plate is provided with an emergency auxiliary door. The auxiliary door is formed at a position where it can be opened without crossing the side wall when the side wall of the entrance and the door plate are closed or narrowed. That is, the user or manager of the toilet room can access the toilet room between the side wall of the entrance and the door plate or from the auxiliary door when the door plate makes one rotation. The auxiliary door plate can be formed, for example, near the center of the door plate. Further, auxiliary doors may be formed near both ends of the door plate.

As a third configuration, a rising portion of the drainage pipe, a widening portion formed around the rising portion, and a scraper inside the rising portion are provided below the center of the base. A bowl-shaped trap provided with a bowl portion covering the rising portion, and the bowl-shaped trap communicates with a drain port formed in the base through a drain pipe, and the base side and the bowl portion are connected to each other. It is configured to be connected by a connecting body that rotates the bowl according to the rotation of the base. The drain port is preferably formed at the center of the base, but can be formed at any position on the base.

[0011]

When the toilet is not in use, the door plate rotates around the longitudinal line in the center of the base together with the base so that the surface of the door plate faces the toilet, reducing the space inside the toilet. It becomes a state.

When the toilet room is in use, the door plate when not in use rotates together with the base so that the door plate surface protrudes outside the toilet room, resulting in a state in which the toilet room space increases, and the toilet room is sufficiently wide. Secure.

When the door plate is rotated, the door plate is mounted on the base, so that the door plate can be stably rotated. Also, if an emergency auxiliary door is provided on the door plate, the user (or administrator) will not be able to use the side wall of the entrance even if the door plate cannot rotate due to a failure of the power mechanism that rotates the base. The user is not trapped in the toilet because it can enter or leave the toilet via the door plate or the auxiliary door.

When a bowl-shaped trap is provided below the center of the base, the bowl connected to the connecting body rotates as the base rotates, and the scraper of the bowl adheres to the rising portion. Remove water stains, etc.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. An outer wall 3 is a toilet room 2 having an entrance 5 on the front side.
It is formed by. A toilet 6 is provided in the toilet room 2.

A door plate 10 for opening and closing the entrance 5 of the toilet room 2.
, The front surface 11 has a convex shape and the back surface 12 has a concave shape. A handrail portion 19 is provided on the back surface 12 side of the door plate 10.

The floor of the inlet 5 is formed by a turntable 50 which is a disk-shaped base. As shown in FIG. 2, the turntable 50 is located in the recess 40 formed in the floor, and the top surface of the turntable 50 is adjusted to be flush with the surrounding floor surface. A plurality of wheels 70 are provided below the periphery of the turntable 50. A rail 43 serving as a rotation track of the wheel 70 is provided on a step 42 in the recess 40 corresponding to the wheel 70. A floor surface 41 in the recess 40 is formed in a mortar shape that descends and slopes toward the center.

The turntable 50 is designed to rotate about the longitudinal center line of the turntable 50 by the driving force of a motor 80 embedded and fixed in the floor.
That is, the motor 80 is located on the floor portion close to the outer edge of the turntable 50, and the rotational driving force of the motor 80 turns through the drive shaft 81 and the gear 82 attached to the tip of the drive shaft 81. It is transmitted to the uneven portion formed on the lower surface of the peripheral edge of the table 50 and meshing with the gear 82. The motor 80 is rotated normally and reversely according to a signal from a control unit (ECU) (not shown), and the turntable 5 is rotated.
0 will be rotated.

As shown in FIG. 1, a door plate 10 having a semicircular cross section is fixedly mounted on the turntable 50. An emergency auxiliary door 15 is provided at the center of the door plate 10. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, the auxiliary door 15 has the hinge 16 as a fulcrum and the surface (convex surface) of the door plate 10.
It can be opened in any direction. A handle 17 having a key mechanism is provided on the door plate 15.

A drain port 55 is formed at the center of the turntable 50, and the surface shape of the turntable 50 is slightly inclined downward toward the drain port 55 at the center. A drainage pipe 57 hangs down below the drainage port 55, and the drainage from the drainage port 55 is guided to a bowl-shaped trap 60 provided at the center of the recess 40. The bowl-shaped trap 60 is connected to a drain branch pipe 59 that communicates with the drain main pipe.

The bowl-shaped trap 60 has a rising portion 61 of the drainage pipe, an expanding portion 62 formed around the rising portion 61, and a scraper 63 that abuts against the rising portion 61 inside. Bowl 64 covering the rising portion 61
It has and. Further, the lower end of a connecting body 67 whose upper end is connected to the turntable 50 side is connected to the top of the bowl 64. In addition, the upper end of the connecting portion 67 has an eye plate 53 attached to the drainage port 55 of the turntable 50.
Connected with. Then, when the turntable 50 rotates, the connecting body 67 also rotates to rotate the bowl 64,
The scraper 63 removes dust, water stains, etc. adhering to the rising portion 61.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. Toilet room 2
When not in use, the door plate 10 is in a state in which the door plate surface 11 faces the inside of the toilet room 2 as shown in FIG. A toilet user rides on the turntable 50 and rotates the turntable 50 together with the door plate 180 degrees by operating a switch (not shown). As shown in FIG.
Is turned into the toilet room 2. At this time, since the user is located on the turntable 50, the user can enter the toilet room 2. After the use of the toilet room 2, the user is placed on the turntable 50 again and the turntable 5
Rotate 0 to 180 degrees and go out of toilet room 2. The turntable 50 may be rotated clockwise or counterclockwise,
Further, when leaving the room, it may be rotated in the same direction as the rotation direction when entering the room, or may be rotated in the opposite direction.

With the rotation of the turntable 50, the connecting body 67, which is connected to the pan of the drainage port 55, is connected to the bowl 64.
The scraper 63 of the bowl 64 squeezes dust, water stains, etc. adhering to the rising portion 61 of the drain pipe. Therefore, the drainage from the drainage port 55 and the groove around the turntable 50 can be satisfactorily discharged to the drainage branch pipe 59 because the bowl-shaped trap 60 is not clogged with dust or the like.

The operation when the turntable 50 cannot rotate due to a failure of the motor 80 or the like when the toilet room 2 is used will be described. When the turntable 50 does not move with the door plate 10 shown in FIG. 3 blocking all the entrance portions 5, the user unlocks the auxiliary door 15 and opens the auxiliary door 15 as shown in FIG. You can open it and exit outside the toilet. Further, when the turntable 50 fails during rotation (when the auxiliary door 15 cannot be opened because the outer wall 3 is in the way), the door plate 10 occupies only half of the turntable 50. A sufficient space is formed between the plate 10 and the outer wall 3, and the user can leave the space. That is, no matter where the door plate 10 fails and stops, the user is not trapped in the toilet room 2.

As described above, according to this embodiment, since the curved door plate 10 is mounted on the turntable 50,
Unbalanced load on the door plate is distributed to the wheels 70 of the turntable 50. Therefore, the curved door plate 10 can be stably operated.

[0026]

According to the present invention, since the door plate is placed on the base and the door plate is rotated together with the base, the revolving door for a toilet, which can effectively utilize the space, has good stability. It can have a different structure.

Further, since the emergency auxiliary door is provided on the door plate so that the door plate can be exited from the toilet no matter where the door plate is located, the safety of the revolving door for the toilet which is effective in saving the space is ensured. It can have a high door structure.

In addition to providing a drainage port on the base,
Since the trap part that communicates with this drain port is structured to be cleaned every time the base is rotated, in the revolving door device for a toilet equipped with a revolving door for the toilet that can improve the space, the floor drainage can be improved. A structure can be provided.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. 2 showing an embodiment of the present invention when the toilet is not used.

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view of a central portion of a base of the embodiment.

3 is a plan cross-sectional view taken along the line AA in FIG. 2, showing a toilet room in use.

FIG. 4 is a plan sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. 2, showing a state in which an auxiliary door is opened.

FIG. 5 is a vertical sectional view of a bowl-shaped trap according to an embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 ... Toilet room 3 ... Outer wall 5 ... Entrance 6 ... Toilet board 11 ... (Door board) front surface 12 ... (Door board) back surface 15 ... Auxiliary door 16 ... Hinge 19 ...・ Handrails 40 ・ ・ Recesses 41 ・ ・ Floor 43 ・ ・ Rail 50 ・ ・ Turntable (base) 53 ・ ・ Dish 55 ・ ・ Drainage 57 ・ ・ Drainage pipe 59 ・ ・ Drainage pipe 60 ・ ・Bowl type trap 61 ・ ・ Rising part 63 ・ ・ Scraper 64 ・ ・ Bowl part 67 ・ ・ Connecting body 70 ・ ・ Wheel 80 ・ ・ Motor 81 ・ ・ Drive shaft 82 ・ ・ Gear

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A base provided on the floor of the toilet room entrance,
Mounted on this base, comprising a door plate having a convex surface and a concave surface on the back surface, the base is centered on a vertical line in the center of the base. The door plate rotates together with the door plate, and the door plate rotates so that the surface of the door plate projects outside the toilet room when the toilet room is used to increase the space in the toilet room. A revolving door device for a toilet that rotates the plate surface toward the toilet room to reduce the space in the toilet room. 2. An emergency auxiliary door is provided on the door plate, and when the door plate makes one rotation, a user can enter or leave the toilet room between the side wall of the entrance and the door plate or from the auxiliary door. The revolving door device for a toilet according to claim 1, wherein: 3. A rising part of the first drainage pipe, an expanding part formed around the rising part, and a scraper inside the rising part are provided below the center of the base, and the scraper contacts the rising part. A bowl-shaped trap provided with a bowl portion covering the rising portion is provided, and the bowl-shaped trap communicates with a drain port formed in the base via a second drain pipe, and the base side and the bowl portion are connected to each other. 3. The revolving door device for a toilet according to claim 1, wherein the revolving door device is connected by a connecting body that rotates the bowl according to the rotation of the base.