JPH08301326A - Container with pedal treading type lid - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide a container with a pedal treading type lid that can be opened and kept in an open state by treading on a pedal with a foot and shut by treading the pedal again and is easy to attach and remove. CONSTITUTION: A lid 4 is connected to a container main body 3 with a hinge and a swingable pedal 6 pivoted on a bottom 5 of the container main body 3 and the lid 4 are connected by a lid lifting rod 7. An upper part 7a of the lid lifting rod 7 is connected to a guide groove 8 having an inverse L-shape cross section with the lid 4 shut, and moves along the guide groove 8 every time the pedal 6 is trod, so that the lid 4 can be kept in an open or closed state. A notch joint 9 of the lid 4 can be detachably connected to a protruding connector 10 formed on the container main body 3.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to empty bottles, empty cans, magazines,
The present invention relates to a container with a foot opening / closing lid that can be used for throwing in garbage such as newspapers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional pedal-type waste container provided is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 2-99805. In this container, the upper opening of the container body is covered with a lid supported on the upper portion of the container body via a hinge, and this lid is connected with a pedal provided at the bottom of the container body by a connecting rod. This allows the lid to be opened, and when closing the lid, the foot on the pedal is removed from the pedal to close the lid.

Further, the pedal type dust container disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-212357 has a lid which can be opened and closed in two steps. That is, the upper opening of the container body is covered with a hinge-joined lid, and the lid is connected to an operating mechanism provided on the lid and a pedal provided at the bottom of the container body via a connecting rod. The lid is opened and held in that state, and the lid is closed by pressing the pedal once again.

[0004]

However, in the pedal type garbage container disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 2-99805 described above, the pedal and the lid are connected via the connecting rod, so that the pedal is not used. When the user tries to open and close the lid by stepping on it, once the pedal is opened to open the lid, the pedal will continue to be depressed or the lid will close unless the opened lid is supported by hand. Therefore, there is a problem for the user that the movement of the dust container is restricted during use.

Therefore, the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 3-212357.
The pedal-type garbage container disclosed in the publication is made to solve the problems of the pedal-based garbage container disclosed in the above-mentioned Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 2-99805, and the lid is opened and closed in two steps. By doing so, the movement of the user is no longer restricted while using the garbage container. However, as shown in FIG. 8, the connecting rod a has an operating mechanism c provided on the lid b.
It is difficult to fit the receiving portion d of the above, and the lid b may not be opened when the pedal is depressed to open the lid b.

Further, in the case of this garbage container, the hole g of the lid b is fitted into the convex portion f formed on the rear portion of the container body e, and the lid b is hinge-joined to the container body e. It is difficult to attach / detach the lid b from the main body e. For example, when the user of the waste container tries to remove the lid b from the main body e of the container and attempts to clean it, there is a problem that the lid cannot be easily removed.

The present invention has been developed in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to open the lid and hold the state by depressing the pedal, and to depress the pedal again. You can close the lid by
The lid can be opened and closed in two steps, and the opening and closing operations can be performed smoothly.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a container with a lid that can be opened and closed by foot so that the lid can be easily attached and detached.

[0008]

The present invention has the following constitution in order to effectively achieve the above object. That is, the container with a foot-opening / closing lid of the present invention according to claim 1 is a bottomed cylindrical container main body having an opening formed in the upper part, and the opening is formed by hinge-joining the rear part of the container main body. A lid that opens and closes freely, a pedal that is pivotally attached to the bottom of the container body, a rear portion of the pedal and a rear portion of the lid that are connected, and the lid is hinged by the vertical movement of the pedal. In a pedal-type lid opening / closing container including a lid lifting rod that is opened and closed, a guide groove having a substantially inverted L-shaped vertical cross section is formed in the rear portion of the lid when the lid is closed. The upper part of the lid elevating rod is movably engaged, and every time the pedal is depressed, the upper part of the lid elevating rod moves in the guide groove so that the lid can be held in the open or closed state.

A container with a foot opening / closing lid according to a second aspect of the present invention has the structure according to the first aspect of the present invention, and a locking projection is formed at the rear portion of the container body, and A notch engaging portion is formed in the rear portion, and the notch engaging portion of the lid is detachably engageable with the locking convex portion of the container body.

[0010]

In the container with a foot opening / closing lid according to the present invention as described in claim 1, when dust is thrown into the container body closed with the lid, the lid lifting rod moves upward when the pedal is depressed. The upper part of the lid elevating rod rises along the guide groove having a substantially inverted L-shape, and the top of the lid elevating rod acts so as to push up the substantially inverted L-shaped corner portion of the guide groove.

By further pressing the pedal to raise the lid lifting rod upward, the lid is pushed upward with the hinge joint portion of the container body as a fulcrum, and the opening of the container body is opened. When the foot is released from the pedal with the lid open, the upper part of the lid lifting rod that pushes up the substantially inverted L-shaped corner of the guide groove as the pedal returns to the original state With the opening operation of (1), the guide falls to the lower end of the vertical groove portion of the guide groove that is displaced in the rotational direction, and the lid continues to hold the open state.

Next, when the pedal is stepped on again, the lid raising / lowering rod rises upward, and the upper portion of the lid raising / lowering rod located at the lower end of the vertical groove portion of the above-mentioned guide groove moves in the vertical direction of this guide groove. The lid is located at the upper end of the groove portion, and by continuing to step on the pedal, the lid rotates in the direction opposite to that when it is opened to close the opening of the container body. In addition, in the container with a foot opening / closing lid according to the present invention as set forth in claim 2, in addition to the above-described action, when the lid is attached to or detached from the container body, the locking projection formed on the rear portion of the container body is provided with By engaging the notch engaging portion from the notch portion, the lid can be easily attached to the container body. Further, when removing the lid from the container body, by removing the notch engaging portion of the lid engaged with the locking projection of the container body from the notch portion of the notch engaging portion, it is easy to remove from the container body. Remove the lid.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. As shown in the figure, 1 is a container with a foot-opening / closing lid according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2, a lid 4 that covers the container 2, a pedal 6 that is pivotally mounted on a bottom portion 5 of the container body 3, a lid lifting rod 7 that connects the rear portion 6a of the pedal 6 and the rear portion 4a of the lid 4, and a lid. Rear part 4
It comprises a guide groove 8 formed in a, a notch engaging portion 9 formed in the rear portion 4a of the lid 4, and an engaging convex portion 10 formed in the rear portion 3a of the container body 3.

More specifically, the container body 3 is composed of
It is formed of a synthetic resin so as to have a cylindrical shape with a bottom and an opening 2 at the upper part, and the upper end rear portion 3a projects outward. On both sides of this rear portion 3a, short columnar engagement protrusions 10 project horizontally. Further, the lid 4 is formed of synthetic resin in such a size as to cover the opening 2 in the upper portion of the container body 3, and the rear portion 4a (see FIG. 6) has a notch engaging portion 9 horizontally from the rear end 4b. Has been formed.
An opening is formed on the rear end 4b side of the notch engaging portion 9. The innermost portion 9a of the notch engaging portion 9 is formed in an arc shape and sealed.

The lid 4 constructed as described above is engaged with the engaging projection 10 of the container body 3 through the opening of the notch engaging portion 9, and the lid 4 is hinged to the container body 3 so as to be openable and closable. To set up. A guide groove 8 (see FIG. 6) is formed in the rear portion 4a of the lid 4. The guide groove 8 is formed so as to cross the vertical groove portion 8a and the horizontal groove portion 8b so that the vertical cross section has a substantially inverted L shape when the lid 4 is closed. An opening is formed on the lower end 13 side of the vertical groove portion 8a. further,
A semicircular vertical groove recess 11 is formed at the upper end of the vertical groove 8a, and a semicircular horizontal groove recess 12 is formed at the left end of the horizontal groove 8b.
Is formed so that the upper portion 7a of the lid elevating rod 7 can engage / disengage with the vertical groove recess 11 and the horizontal groove recess 12.

The widths of the vertical groove portion 8a and the horizontal groove portion 8b are preferably formed to be slightly larger than the diameter of the lid elevating rod 7, and are formed to be about 0.5 to 1.0 mm larger than the diameter. I am doing it. As a result, the lid lifting rod 7
It is possible to move more smoothly within the vertical groove portion 8a and the horizontal groove portion 8b. The upper portion 7a of the lid elevating rod 7 is engaged with the guide groove 8 described above. The upper portion 7a of the lid lifting rod 7 has a vertical groove portion 8a.
And the horizontal groove portion 8b is movable, and the vertical groove concave portion 11
And engage with the lateral groove recess 12. Lower end 7b of lid lifting rod 7
Is pivotally attached to a rear portion 6a of a pedal 6 provided on the bottom portion 5 of the container body 3.

The pedal 6 (see FIGS. 1 to 4) is pivotally attached at the center to the center of the bottom portion 5 of the container body 3 and is supported so as to swing vertically. Tip 6a of pedal 6
Is located on the front side of the container body 3. Further, as shown in FIG. 5, the rear portion 3a of the container body 3 is formed with a hole portion 14 for communicating the lid raising / lowering rod 7, and the lid raising / lowering rod 7 is always provided in the hole portion 14 when the lid 4 is closed. Two (or one) locking projections 15 are provided so that they are located at the same position.

In the foot-opening / closing lid-equipped container 1 having the above-mentioned structure, when dust is to be thrown in, the front end portion 6b of the pedal 6 is stepped on, so that the rear portion of the pedal 6 as shown in FIG. 6a goes up. As a result, the lid lifting rod 7 also rises upward. Along with this operation, the upper portion 7a of the lid elevating rod 7 rises along the vertical groove portion 8a of the guide groove 8, and the upper portion 7a of the lid elevating rod 7 is formed in the vertical groove concave portion 1 formed at the upper end of the vertical groove portion 8a.
Engage 1.

By further depressing the pedal 6 to raise the lid lifting rod 7 upward, the lid 4 is pushed upward with the engaging projection 10 (hinge joint portion) of the container body 3 as a fulcrum, and the opening of the container body 3 is opened. The part 2 is opened (see FIG. 3). As shown in FIGS. 4 and 7, when the foot is released from the pedal 6 with the lid 4 opened, the pedal 6 is engaged with the vertical groove recess 11 and pushes up the lid 4 as the pedal 6 returns to the original state. The upper portion 7a of the lid elevating rod 7 that has been dropped falls to the lower end of the lateral groove portion 8b which is displaced in the rotational direction as the lid 4 is opened, and the lid 4 continues to be kept open.

Since the lid 4 is kept open even if the pedal 6 is not depressed in this way, the lid 4 will be closed even if the lid 1 is separated from the container 1 with a foot-opening / closing lid during the introduction of dust. Nothing. When the lid 4 is closed, by depressing the pedal 6 again, the lid elevating rod 7 again rises upward, and the upper portion 7a of the lid elevating rod 7 engages with the lateral groove recess 12 of the lateral groove portion 8b facing up and down. By continuing to step on the pedal 6, the lid 4 rotates in the direction opposite to that when it is opened, and the opening 2 of the container body 3 is closed. At this time, the upper portion 7a of the lid elevating rod 7 that is engaged with the lateral groove recess 12 is separated from the lateral groove recess 12 and is located at the lower end of the vertical groove 8a, and remains in that state until the next opening of the lid 4.

When the lid 4 is attached to or detached from the container body 3,
By engaging the notch engaging portion 9 of the lid 4 with the engaging protrusion 10 of the rear portion 3a of the container body 3 from the notch,
Can be easily attached to and detached from the container body 5.

[0022]

As is apparent from the above description, in the container with a foot opening / closing lid of the present invention, the lid is opened by pressing the pedal and the open state is maintained, and the lid is opened by pressing the pedal again. Since the lid can be opened and closed every time the pedal is pressed, such as by closing the lid, the lid does not close when the lid is opened and the foot is removed from the pedal. Can be significantly improved.

Further, since the guide groove for engaging and moving the upper part of the lid elevating rod is formed in a substantially inverted L-shape, the upper part of the lid elevating rod moves more smoothly when opening and closing the lid. This eliminates the trouble that the lid cannot be opened and closed smoothly as in the past. Further, the notch engaging portion of the lid can be easily attached to and detached from the locking convex portion of the container body, and cleaning can be easily performed when the lid becomes dirty.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a foot-opening / closing lid-equipped container with a lid closed.

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a container with a lid that can be opened and closed with a foot opened and closed.

FIG. 3 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a container with a foot-opening / closing lid in which the lid is almost open.

FIG. 4 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the container with a foot opening / closing lid with the lid completely opened.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing a part of the rear portion of the container body.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a rear portion of the lid with the lid closed.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a rear portion of the lid with the lid opened.

FIG. 8 is a partial cross-sectional view of a conventional garbage container.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Container with a foot opening / closing type 2 Opening part 3 Container body 3a Rear part 4 Lid 4a Rear part 5 Bottom part 6 Pedal 7 Lid lifting rod 8 Guide groove 9 Notch engaging part 10 Engaging convex part

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A bottomed cylindrical container body having an opening formed in an upper portion, a lid hingedly joined to a rear portion of the container body to openably and closably cover the opening, and a swinging member at the bottom of the container body. A pedal-type lid opening / closing container including a freely pivoted pedal, and a lid elevating rod that connects the rear portion of the pedal and the rear portion of the lid and vertically moves the pedal to open and close with the hinge-joined portion of the lid as a fulcrum. In the above, a guide groove is formed in the rear part of the lid, the guide groove of which the longitudinal section is substantially inverted L-shape when the lid is closed, and the upper part of the lid lifting rod is movably engaged with the guide groove to operate the pedal. A foot-opening / closing lid-equipped container characterized in that an upper portion of a lid lifting rod moves in a guide groove each time the user steps on the lid, so that the lid can be kept open or closed. 2. A locking projection is formed on the rear part of the container body, a notch engaging part is formed on the rear part of the lid, and the notch engaging part of the lid is detachably engaged with the locking projection of the container body. The container with a lid for opening and closing a foot according to claim 1, which is adapted to be combined.