JPH09195342A - Kitchen sink - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve execution efficiency of a kitchen sink when a garbage crusher is installed inside a cabinet in the kitchen sink. SOLUTION: A starting and stopping operation switch 22 of a garbage crusher 20 is provided to the front of the upper part of a cabinet 14 in a kitchen sink 10 in advance. An electric circuit box 24 is provided to the inside of the upper part of the cabinet 14, and a controlling circuit for making ON/OFF control of the crusher 20 from control of the operation switch 22 and a leak breaker circuit are incorporated inside the electric circuit box 24. A connector for electrically connecting with the crusher 20 is provided in the electric circuit box 24.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a kitchen sink, and more particularly to a kitchen sink in which a crushing apparatus for kitchen refuse can be attached and is easy.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a processing tank, a crushing mechanism for crushing food waste by rotating a rotating body, and a motor for driving the crushing mechanism are provided, and the food waste supplied from a drain port of a sink is supplied with water. BACKGROUND ART There is known a crushing device for crushing raw garbage and discharging it through a drainage passage.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the mounting state on a sink. In FIG. 4, reference numeral 200 denotes a kitchen sink having a sink 202 and a cabinet 204, and a sink faucet 206 is installed on the upper surface thereof. A water supply pipe 208 for supplying water to the sink faucet 206 is provided inside the cabinet 204.
One end of the sink to the sink faucet 206 and the other end to the wall 224.
It is connected to the water source pipe embedded in the inside of the.

Reference numeral 210 is a crushing apparatus for garbage, which is attached to and suspended from the drain port of the sink 202.
A drain pipe 212 extends from the crushing device 210 so that the crushed raw garbage from the crushing device 210 is discharged to the outside together with water.

From the crusher 210, and also inside the cabinet 204, an electrical cord 21 for connection to a power source.
4 is extended, and an outlet 2 is provided on the wall 224 via an earth leakage breaker 216 provided at the tip.
18 is plugged in and connected.

In the construction example of the crushing device 210 shown in FIG. 4, the operation switch 220 is attached to the wall 224 above the sink 200.
0 is electrically connected to the crushing device 210 through the electric wiring 222 embedded inside the wall 224.

In the case of this construction example, therefore, garbage is put into the crusher 210 through the drain of the sink 202, and the sink faucet 206 is operated to flow water, and the operation switch 220 is turned on. By starting the motor, the input food waste is crushed by the crushing device 210 and is discharged to the outside through the drain pipe 212 together with the supplied water.

[0008]

As described above, in the conventional case, when the crushing device 210 is attached, the wall 22 is attached.
4, it is necessary to install the operation switch 220 on the No. 4 and also to provide the electric wiring 222 on the back side of the wall 224, which causes a problem in that the installation is extremely difficult.

In addition, there is a problem in that it is necessary to install the outlet 218 on the inner wall surface of the cabinet 204 and to extend the power supply line to the outlet 218.

Further, in the conventional case, the cabinet 204
The leakage breaker 216 is exposed inside, and various electric wirings are disturbed inside the cabinet 204 to make the inside of the cabinet 204 complicated, which obstructs the loading and unloading of articles inside the cabinet 204. There was a problem such as becoming.

[0011]

The sink of the present invention has been devised to solve such a problem.
Thus, the sink of the invention of the present application is a sink of a kitchen in which a crusher for garbage is attached inside a cabinet and below a sink, and an operation switch for starting and stopping the crusher, and operation of the operation switch. An electric circuit box including a control circuit for performing start / stop control of the crushing device based on the above, an electrical connection portion for connecting an electric cord from the crushing device, and an earth leakage breaker circuit is attached to the crushing device. It is provided in advance prior to the above (claim 1).

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sink according to claim 1, wherein an electric cord for connecting to a power source extends from the electric circuit box (claim 2).

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sink according to claim 1.
Or 2, the electric circuit box is fixed to the inner surface of the upper portion of the cabinet (claim 3).

A sink according to still another invention of the present application is characterized in that in any one of claims 1, 2 and 3, the operation switch is provided on a front surface of the cabinet (claim 4).

In the sink according to still another invention of the present application, in any one of claims 1, 2, 3 and 4, water is directly supplied to the inside of the cabinet to the crushing device without passing through a sink faucet. A water supply pipe for a crushing device for the crusher is provided in advance separately from a water supply pipe for the sink faucet, and a backflow preventing means is connected in advance on a water supply passage of the water supply pipe for the crushing device. (Claim 5).

[0016]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the invention, the kitchen sink is provided with an operation switch for starting and stopping the garbage crushing device in advance, and the crushing is performed based on the operation of the operation switch. An electric circuit box including a control circuit for performing on / off control of the device, a connecting portion of an electric cord from the crushing device, and an earth leakage breaker circuit is provided in advance together. For example, when installing the crushing device on the sink, it is possible to attach an operation switch to the wall above the sink as before, or to perform electrical wiring work on the back side of the wall to connect the operation switch and the crusher. It is not necessary, and the installation work of the crusher on the sink is significantly simplified.

Further, in the present invention, the crusher is turned on.
Since the electric circuit box containing the electrical connection between the control circuit for performing the off control and the crushing device and the earth leakage breaker circuit is pre-installed in the sink, the earth leakage breaker and the control for installing the crushing device on the sink It is possible to save the trouble of separately arranging circuits etc. inside the cabinet, and it is possible to prevent those leakage breakers and electric wires extending from these from being entangled intricately inside the cabinet, and the inside of the cabinet has been made clean. It is possible to easily take items in and out of the cabinet.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, an electric cord for connecting to a power source is extended from the electric circuit box. By inserting the electric cord into an outlet at an appropriate position in the kitchen, the electric circuit is connected. The box can be connected to a power source. Therefore, in the present invention, when the crushing device is mounted inside the sink cabinet, the crushing device can be connected to the power source only by connecting the electric cord from the crushing device to the connecting portion of the electric circuit box. You can

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is not necessary to newly provide an outlet for inserting and connecting the electric cord of the crushing device on the wall surface inside the cabinet, and extension work of the power line to the outlet is also unnecessary. it can.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the electric circuit box is fixed to the inner surface of the upper portion of the cabinet. According to the present invention, the electric circuit box prevents the articles from being taken in and out of the cabinet. There is an advantage that it is possible to more effectively prevent the inside of the cabinet from being complicated.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the operation switch is provided on the front surface of the cabinet. According to the present invention, the operation switch can be easily operated, and the crusher can be easily used.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, a water supply pipe for directly supplying water to the crushing device without passing through the sink water faucet is provided in advance inside the cabinet separately from the water supply pipe for the sink water faucet. In addition, the backflow prevention means such as a vacuum breaker is connected in advance on the water supply pipe,
According to the present invention, since the pipes necessary for supplying water to the crushing device are provided inside the cabinet in advance prior to the installation of the crushing device, there is an advantage that the installation work of the crushing device to the sink is further facilitated. can get.

[0023]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, 10 is a sink, which has a sink 12 and a cabinet 14, and has a sink faucet 1 on the upper surface.
6 will be installed. In addition, 18 is a sink 1.
0 is a back guard portion provided in a rising shape at the rear end portion.

In the sink 10 of this example, an operation switch 22 for starting and stopping the crushing device 20 described later is provided on the front surface of the upper portion of the cabinet 14, and an electric circuit box 24 is provided on the inner surface of the upper portion of the cabinet 14. It is fixed.

An electric cord 26 for connecting to a power source extends from the electric circuit box 24. An electric plug 26 at the tip of the electric cord 26 is inserted into an outlet provided at an appropriate position in the kitchen so that an electric circuit is formed. The box 24 is connected to the power supply.

The electric circuit box 24 includes a crushing device 20.
There is provided a connector 34 as an electrical connecting portion for connecting the connector 32 at the tip of the electric cord 30 from the above, and by connecting these connectors 32, 34 to the crushing device 20, specifically, Power is supplied to the internal drive motor.

Reference numeral 31 is a cylindrical auxiliary member for attaching the crushing device 20 to the drainage port of the sink 12, and has an opening 33 at the upper end, and a lid 35 is fitted and set in the opening 33. Has become.

The lid 35 is configured to form a water passage hole through which water discharged from the sink faucet 16 is passed through the crushing device 20 at a set closed position. In the state of being set to the closed position, the pair of magnets 38 are mounted at the two positions just opposite to the pair of reed switches 36 provided on the auxiliary member 31. In this example, the reed switch 36 and the magnet 38 constitute a lid switch 40 that detects whether or not the lid body 35 is in the closed state.

As shown in FIG. 2, the electric circuit box 24 has a built-in control circuit 42 and an earth leakage breaker circuit 44 for performing on / off control of the crushing device 20 based on the operation of the operation switch 22. . A relay 46 is connected to the control circuit 42, and the lid switch 40 is connected to a relay drive circuit 48 that drives the relay 46. Here, the relay 46 includes a relay coil 50 and a relay contact 52.

In this embodiment, when the crushing device 20 is mounted, the electric cord 26 attached to the sink 10 is plugged into an outlet at an appropriate position in the kitchen.
In that state, the crushing device 20 is attached to the bottom of the sink 12 by the auxiliary member 31 inside the cabinet 14, and the electric cord 30 from the crushing device 20 is connected to the electric circuit box 24 by connecting the connectors 32 and 34. The installation can be done easily with.

In this state, the garbage is thrown into the crushing device 20 through the drainage port at the bottom of the sink, the lid 35 is set to the closed position, the operation switch 22 is turned on, and the sink faucet is turned on. Operate 16 to discharge water.
At this time, the lid switch 40 is in the closed state, the relay drive circuit 48 drives the relay 46, and the relay contact 52 is in the closed state.
The electric power is supplied to the motor, the motor is activated, and the crushing device 20 performs the crushing process on the food waste.

In this example, since the operation switch 22 for starting / stopping the crushing device 20 is provided in the sink 10 in advance, when the crushing device 20 is mounted on the sink 10, the operation above the sink is performed as in the conventional case. It is not necessary to mount the operation switch on the wall or to perform electrical wiring work on the back side of the wall for connecting the operation switch and the crushing device, and the installation work of the crushing device 20 on the sink 10 is simplified. .

Further, in the present embodiment, it is possible to save the trouble of separately disposing the earth leakage breaker, the control circuit and the like inside the cabinet 14, and the earth leakage breaker and the electric wiring extending from the earth leakage breaker are cluttered inside the cabinet 14. Entanglement can be prevented, the interior of the cabinet 14 can be made clean, and articles can be smoothly taken in and out of the cabinet 14.

Further, in the present embodiment, the crushing device 20 can be connected to the power source simply by connecting the electric cord 30 extending from the crushing device 20 to the electric circuit box 24 provided in the sink 10. Therefore, there is an advantage that it is possible to omit providing an outlet on the wall surface inside the cabinet 14 and extending the power line to the outlet.

In addition, since the electric circuit box 24 is fixed to the upper inner surface of the cabinet 14, it is possible to prevent the electric circuit box 24 from making the inside of the cabinet feel complicated.

Further, in this example, since the operation switch 22 is provided on the front surface of the upper portion of the cabinet 14, the operability thereof is good, and the usability of the crushing device 20 is good.

Next, FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the present invention, in which the crushing device 20 is provided inside the cabinet 14.
Water supply pipe 54 for supplying water to the sink 1
6 is provided in advance separately from the water supply pipe 56, and the water supply pipe 54 is set up so as to pass through the inside of the back guard part 18. Inside the back guard part 18, the vacuum breaker 58 is connected to the water supply pipe. 54 is connected in advance. Reference numeral 60 is an electromagnetic valve for controlling the water supply from the water supply pipe 54 to the crushing device 20.

In this example, since the necessary pipes for supplying water to the crushing device 20 are provided inside the cabinet 14 of the sink 10 in advance, it is easier to attach the crushing device 20 to the sink 10. Is obtained.

The vacuum breaker 58 is an example, and it is possible to replace the vacuum breaker 58 with a check valve, a cistern, or other backflow preventing means. In this example, the operation switch 22 is provided on the front surface of the back guard unit 18, and the back guard unit 1 is further provided.
An electric circuit box 24 is provided on the inner surface of the device 8.
The rest of the configuration is similar to that of the first embodiment.

In this case, there is no risk of accidentally operating the operation switch 22 with the waist or the like while working toward the sink 10, and the operation switch 22 is placed in a position out of reach of children. For this reason, there is an advantage that it is possible to prevent the operation by a mischief.

The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, but this is merely an example, and the present invention can be configured in a form in which various modifications are made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram of a kitchen sink according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an electric circuit diagram inside the electric circuit box in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a view of a sink which is another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for explaining the background of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Sink 12 Sink 14 Cabinet 16 Sink Faucet 20 Crusher 22 Operation Switch 24 Electrical Circuit Box 26, 30 Electrical Cord 34 Connector 42 Control Circuit 44 Leakage Breaker Circuit 54 Water Supply Pipe 58 Vacuum Breaker

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A kitchen sink in which a crusher for garbage is installed inside a cabinet and below a sink, and an operation switch for starting and stopping the crusher, and the crusher based on an operation of the operation switch. An electric circuit box including a control circuit for performing start / stop control of the crusher, an electrical connection portion for connecting an electric cord from the crusher, and an earth leakage breaker circuit is provided in advance prior to mounting the crusher. A kitchen sink that is characterized by 2. The kitchen sink according to claim 1, wherein an electric cord for connecting to a power source extends from the electric circuit box. 3. The kitchen sink according to claim 1, wherein the electric circuit box is fixed to an inner surface of an upper portion of the cabinet. 4. The kitchen sink according to any one of claims 1, 2 and 3, wherein the operation switch is provided on a front surface of the cabinet. 5. The water supply pipe for a crushing device according to claim 1, wherein the water supply pipe for the crushing device is provided inside the cabinet for directly supplying water to the crushing device without passing through a sink faucet. A sink in a kitchen, which is provided separately from a water supply pipe to the sink water faucet, and a backflow preventing means is previously connected to a water supply passage formed by the water supply pipe for the crushing device.