JPH0932080A - Structure of low tank - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To construct a low tank at a low cost and simply by storing a commercial low tank in a wash counter and omitting a special lid, to facilitate operation for an operating button, and easily perform maintenance for the low tank. SOLUTION: An opening part 7 of the upper side of an uncovered low tank 6 is covered with a wash counter 4. An inspection port 23 is provided in a position of the wash counter 4 that faces to the opening part 7 of the low tank 6, and an operating button 25 for controlling the supply of washing water from the low tank 6 to a stool 5 is disposed in the exposed state on an inspection lid 24 removably installed in the inspection port 23.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a structure of a low tank, and more particularly to a structure of a low tank having a built-in wash counter.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a dedicated low tank having a shape different from that of a commercially available low tank has been used as a low tank of a type incorporated in a counter.
It is common to attach a dedicated lid to the opening of this raw tank.

[0003]

However, since the low tank installed in the conventional sanitary unit room is exposed to the outside, the appearance is bad. Therefore, it is possible to conceal the low tank by the counter and improve the design. Although it can be considered, the conventional low tank with a built-in counter is more expensive in price than the commercially available low tank,
Moreover, there were some difficulties in terms of construction, such as installing a low tank. Moreover, there is a problem in that the counter interferes with the drainage operation and maintenance in the low tank.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to make a low tank built in a wash counter good in appearance, inexpensive and easy to install, and to wash the low tank as a wash counter. It is to provide a low tank structure that allows easy drainage operation and easy maintenance of the low tank, even though it has a built-in structure to improve the appearance. An object of the present invention is to provide a sanitary low tank structure that can prevent dust and insects from entering the low tank even if there is no low tank.

[0005]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an opening 7 at the top of a raw tank 6 having no lid.
Is covered with a wash counter 4 and an inspection port 23 is provided at a position facing the opening 7 of the low tank 6 of the wash counter 4, and an inspection lid 24 detachably attached to the inspection port 23 is provided from the low tank 6 to the toilet 5. It is characterized in that the operation button 25 for controlling the supply of the washing water is provided so as to be exposed. With such a configuration, the low tank 6 of a general commercial product can be built in the wash counter 4 with a good appearance, Moreover, although the low tank 6 is built in the wash counter 4 to improve the appearance, the drainage operation is easy and the maintenance of the low tank 6 can be easily performed.

Further, the opening peripheral edge portion 7a of the raw tank 6 is
It is preferable to seal the gap between the bottom surface of the washing counter 4 and the wash counter 4 with the sealing material 22. With this structure, the sealing material 22 can prevent dust, insects, etc. from entering the raw tank 6. .

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, as an example of an embodiment of the present invention, a case where a low tank 6 mounted on a rear upper surface of a toilet 5 is disposed below a wash counter 4 in a sanitary unit room 1 will be described. Sanitary unit room 1
As shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, it is formed in a box shape including a shower room 2, a washroom, a washroom counter 4 for performing makeup, a washroom 3 in which a toilet bowl 5 with a low tank 6 and the like are installed. A floor panel 8, a plurality of wall panels 9 connected in a rectangular shape in a plan view, a plurality of or one ceiling panel 10 arranged in a portion surrounded by upper end portions of the wall panels 9 as constituent members, and The door 11 as a fitting is used. In addition, 12 in FIG. 3 is a building frame.

As shown in FIG. 1, the wash counter 4 includes a wash bowl portion 13 and a counter main body 14 which is continuous with the side portion of the wash bowl portion 13 and extends horizontally. Although the counter body 14 is disposed on the left side of the wash bowl portion 13 in FIG. 1, the present invention is not limited to this, and the counter body 14 is disposed on the right side of the wash bowl portion 13 as shown in FIGS. 2, 3, and 10. It may be provided. In addition, a wall mounting portion 15 is provided behind the wash bowl portion 13 and the counter body 14.
Is provided upright, a cover portion 16 is vertically provided on the front surface, and a frame portion 17 (FIG. 8) is provided on the lower surface. The wash counter 4 is attached after the toilet bowl 5 and the low tank 6 are assembled. For example, as shown in FIG. 10, a bracket 18 is attached to the wall panel 9 and the frame portion 1 of the wash counter 4 is attached.
7 is placed on the bracket 18, the frame portion 17 is pressed against the wall panel 9 side by the butterfly bolt 19, and the height of the wash counter 4 is adjusted by the spacer 20 (horizontal level).
After that, the frame portion 17 is fixed to the bracket 18 with the screw 21.

As shown in FIG. 5, a low tank without a lid is used as the low tank 6, and an opening 7 at the upper portion of the low tank 6 is arranged so as to face the lower surface of the counter body 14. The gap between the opening peripheral edge portion 7 a of the low tank 6 and the lower surface of the wash counter 4 is sealed with a sealing material 22. The sealing material 22 is formed in a band shape, has a cushioning property, and is crushed by the weight of the wash counter 4 so that the space between the wash counter 4 and the raw tank 6 can be sealed. By using the sealing material 22 having the cushioning property as described above, it is possible to cope with the dimensional variations of the low tank 6 and the wash counter 4, and the release sheet 60 (FIG. 9) is attached to the adhesive surface of the sealing material 22. Is temporarily attached, the release sheet 60 is peeled off, and the adhesive surface of the sealing material 22 is attached to the low tank 6
The sealing material 22 can be easily adhered to the upper end of the raw tank 6 by adhering it to the upper end of.

As shown in FIG. 5, the counter body 14 has an inspection port 2 at a position facing the opening 7 of the raw tank 6.
3 are formed. The inspection port 23 is formed as a square hole smaller than the opening 7 of the raw tank 6, and the peripheral portion 23a of the inspection port 23 is formed lower than the upper surface of the counter body 14, and the inspection lid 24 is attached to and detached from this portion. It is installed freely. It is preferable that the inspection lid 24 is formed in a rectangular plate shape that is detachably attached to the inspection port 23, and that the surface of the inspection lid 24 is colored or patterned continuously with the surface of the counter body 14.

At the center of the inspection lid 24, an operation button 25 for controlling the supply of wash water from the low tank 6 to the toilet bowl 5.
An operation button mounting hole 26 for exposing the operation button is formed, and as shown in FIG. 4, the operation button mounting hole 2 is formed.
A button base 27 having a cylindrical shape is fitted into the button base 6, and a collar portion 27a having a diameter larger than that of the operation button mounting hole 26 is projectingly provided on an upper portion of the button base 27. By locking around the operation button mounting hole 26 on the upper surface of the button 27, the button base 27 becomes the operation button mounting hole 2.
6 is held. Further, a cap-shaped operation button 25 is mounted on the inner surface of the button base 27 so as to be vertically movable with respect to the button base 27, and a tubular portion 28 for press-fitting an operator is provided on the lower surface of the operation button 25 so as to project therefrom. Button base 27
The cylindrical portion 2 having an internal thread portion 29a formed on the inner surface at the lower part of the
9'is projected.

On the other hand, inside the low tank 6, an operator 29
And the downward movement of the drain valve 30 and the operator 29
The link mechanism 31 and the like for converting into the ascending movement of the are provided. The upper portion of the operator 29 is press-fitted and held in the press-fitting cylinder portion 28 protruding from the lower surface of the operation button 25. A brim-shaped spring support portion 31 and a locking projection 32 are provided at upper and lower portions of the outer peripheral surface of the operator 29 on the center side, respectively.
A substantially C-shaped bearing portion 33 is integrally formed in the lower portion of 9.

A valve mount 34 is housed inside the raw tank 6. The valve mount 34 is formed in a substantially cylindrical shape with a small diameter at the top and a large diameter at the bottom. An internal thread 35 is formed at the top of the valve mount 34, and a drain valve 30 is provided at the bottom. An insertion hole 35a of the shaft portion 47 is formed.
Inside the valve mount 34, a manipulator guide portion 36 for guiding the manipulator 29 in a vertically movable manner is housed. A male screw portion 37 is formed on the outer periphery of the upper portion of the manipulator guide portion 36, and a female screw portion 29a of a tubular portion 29 'protruding from the lower portion of the button base 27 is screwed onto the upper portion of the male screw portion 37. Thus, the operator guide portion 36 is fixed to the inspection lid 24 via the button base 27. Further, a female screw portion 35 formed on an upper portion of the valve mount 34 is screwed into a lower portion of the male screw portion 37 of the operator guide portion 36, whereby the valve mount 3 is mounted.
Reference numeral 4 is fixed to the inspection lid 24 via the operator guide portion 36 and the button base 27.

On the inner surface of the operator guide portion 36, a collar-shaped spring bearing portion 38 is provided so as to project. This spring bearing portion 38 is provided between the spring bearing portion 31 of the operator 29 and the locking protrusion 32. A return spring 39, which is a compression coil spring, is supported between the spring bearing portion 31 and the spring bearing portion 38 of the operator 29.
Is always biased upwards. Further, the brim-shaped locking projection 32 of the operator 29 can be brought into and out of contact with the lower surface of the spring bearing 38 of the operator guide 36, and the locking projection 32 comes into contact with the spring bearing 38 so that the operator 29 is a return spring 3
The spring force of 9 prevents the operator guide portion 36 from coming out above.

The link mechanism 31 interposed between the operator 29 and the drain valve 30 includes a horizontally long link 40 and a pusher 4.
1, the connecting shaft 42, the horizontally long link 40,
One end 40a of the link 40 is supported by a rotary shaft 43 attached to the lower part of the operator guide portion 36 so as to be rotatable around a horizontal axis.
A pusher 41 is fixed to the upper surface of the side. Pusher 41
The lower part of the link 40 is fixed by welding or the like at a position displaced to the side A from the rotary shaft 43 of the link 40, and the pusher 41 extends toward the direction directly above the rotary shaft 43 of the link 40 from the bottom to the upper part. And the upper end of the pusher 41 is the link 4
0 through the rotary shaft 44 coaxial with the rotary shaft 43
Is rotatably connected to a substantially C-shaped bearing portion 33 provided in the lower part of the. Further, the upper end of the connecting shaft 42 is connected to the other end 40b side of the link 40 via a rotating shaft 45 coaxial with the rotating shaft 43 of the link 40, and the lower end of the connecting shaft 42 is orthogonal to the rotating shaft 45. Drainage valve 3 via rotating shaft 46
It is rotatably connected to the upper side surface of the shaft portion 47 of 0.

The shaft portion 47 of the drain valve 30 is a valve mount 34.
Is vertically movably inserted through the insertion hole 35a at the bottom of
An umbrella-shaped valve body 50 is provided at an end portion of the shaft portion 47 that protrudes below the valve mount 34. The valve body 50 is formed to have substantially the same size as the bottom surface 34a of the valve mount 34, the upper surface 50a of the valve body 50 is formed in a flat shape, and the lower surface 50b of the valve body 50 gradually becomes closer to the center. It is formed in a tapered shape projecting downward so that the upper surface 50a of the valve body 50 can come into surface contact with the bottom surface 34a of the valve mount 34 when the drain valve 30 rises.

At the bottom of the low tank 6, as shown in FIG. 7, a water supply port 51 which is opened and closed by the drain valve 30 is provided. The water supply port 51 communicates with the inside of the toilet bowl 5, and when the drain valve 30 rises, the water supply port 51 is opened to supply wash water into the toilet bowl 5. In addition,
In addition to the water supply port 51, a water supply pipe 55 and an overflow pipe 56 are inserted through the bottom of the low tank 6, respectively.
A ball tap valve device 57 is attached to the tip of the water supply pipe 55 inserted into the low tank 6. As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, this ball tap valve device 57 has a built-in valve (not shown) that opens and closes by a float 58 housed in the low tank 6, and this valve is a water level inside the low tank 6. Floats below a certain amount
When 8 descends, the valve is opened, and the water in the water supply pipe 55 is supplied from the spouting part into the low tank 6, and when the water level in the low tank 6 returns to a fixed amount, the valve is closed. The water supply from the water supply pipe 55 is stopped.

Next, the operation will be described. When the operation button 25 provided on the inspection lid 24 of the wash counter 4 is pushed down in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 4 after the toilet is used, the operator 29 press-fitted and held in the operation button 25 is lowered, and the presser 41 is linked to the link 40. One end 40a side is pushed down, the other end 40b of the link 40 rises in conjunction with this, pushing up the connecting shaft 42, and the drain valve 30 rises in the direction of arrow C in FIG. Immediately after the drain valve 30 is opened, the water level of the wash water is higher than that of the drain valve 30, so that the water pressure P of the wash water flowing out to the water supply port 50 (FIG. 7) is P.
Thus, the drain valve 30 is pressed in the direction of arrow D in FIG. 1, the water supply port 51 is opened, and the supply of cleaning water is continued. That is, the return spring 39 is released by releasing the depression of the operation button 25.
The spring force of the return spring 39 should be set such that the pushing force of the drainage valve 30 due to water pressure is greater even if the spring force of the drainage valve 30 acts in the direction of lowering the drainage valve 30 (direction of arrow E in FIG. 4). As a result, the surface contact state between the upper surface 50a of the valve body 50 and the bottom surface 34a of the bottom of the valve mount 34 is maintained, and even when the operation button 25 is released, the drain valve 30 immediately descends to close the water supply port 51. Without losing
After that, when the water level of the wash water becomes lower than the drain valve 30, the water pressure P that presses the drain valve 30 upward weakens, and the drain valve 30 descends in the direction of arrow E in FIG. 1 to close the water supply port 51 and wash. Water supply is stopped. When the water level in the low tank 6 drops, the float 58 descends, and in conjunction with this, the valve body 50 of the water supply pipe 55 opens, and the wash water is replenished in the low tank 6 in preparation for the next cleaning.

In the above structure, the commercially available low tank 6 can be stored in the wash counter 4 with a good appearance, and the price is low, and the operation button 25 is provided on the upper surface of the inspection lid 24 of the wash counter 4. This facilitates draining operation of the operation button 25. Further, since the operation button 25 is not attached to the low tank 6 but is attached to the inspection lid 24, the operation button 25 and the low tank metal fittings (external parts such as the button base 27 and internal parts such as the link mechanism 31) are compatible as standard products. it can. Further, when the inspection lid 24 is opened, the lower part of the inspection port 23 becomes the inside of the low tank 6, so that the low tank 6 can be easily maintained even though the low tank 6 is built in the wash counter 4 to improve the appearance. There is an advantage that can be done.

Further, by sealing the gap between the opening peripheral edge portion 7a of the low tank 6 and the lower surface of the wash counter 4 with the sealing material 22, it is ensured that dust, insects and the like enter from the upper opening portion 7 of the low tank 6. It can be prevented. Here, as shown in FIG. 8, the lower surface of the frame portion 17 of the wash counter 4 is attached to the sealing material 2
When placed on the upper surface of 2, the seal material 22 is crushed by the weight of the wash counter 4 and the gap between the low tank 6 and the wash counter 4 is reliably sealed by the seal material 22, thus improving the sealing performance. Very hygienic.

Further, the inspection lid 24 is placed on the peripheral portion 23a of the inspection opening 23 which is stepped down from the upper surface of the counter body 14, so that the upper surface of the inspection lid 24 is flush with the upper surface of the counter body 14. In addition, the entire upper surface of the counter main body 14 including the upper surface of the inspection lid 24 can be effectively used as a storage space for small items such as cosmetics, and the color of the surface of the inspection lid 24 that is continuous with the surface of the counter main body 14 or Wash counter 4 when applying a pattern
The appearance of the inspection lid 24 and the appearance of the inspection lid 24 is eliminated, and the design can be further improved.

[0022]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1, the upper opening of the low tank without the lid is covered with the wash counter, and the inspection port is provided at the position facing the opening of the low tank of the wash counter. , The inspection lid that is detachably attached to the inspection port has an operation button exposed to control the supply of washing water from the low tank to the toilet bowl. Not only can it be stored in a good appearance, it can be inexpensive, and the operation buttons are placed on the upper surface of the inspection lid of the wash counter to facilitate drainage operation. Since the inside of the low tank is inside, the low tank is built into the wash counter to improve the appearance, but the inside of the low tank can be easily maintained from the inspection port. One in which it is bet.

According to the invention of claim 2, in addition to the effect of claim 1, in the low tank, the gap between the peripheral edge of the opening of the raw tank and the lower surface of the wash counter is sealed with a sealing material. Dust, insects, etc. can be reliably prevented by the sealing material, which is hygienic. Further, even if the periphery of the opening of the low tank is sealed, it does not hinder the attachment / detachment of the inspection lid, so that maintenance inside the low tank can be performed without any problems.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the above sanitary unit room.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the above sanitary unit room.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view illustrating the above link mechanism.

FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the wash counter and the inspection lid of the same.

FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the inside of the low tank of the above.

FIG. 7 is a side sectional view for explaining the inside of the raw tank of the above.

FIG. 8 is a side sectional view illustrating an arrangement state of the same sealing material.

FIG. 9 is a perspective view illustrating a stuck state of the above sealing material.

FIG. 10A is an exploded perspective view for explaining the mounting state of the washbasin counter, and FIG. 10B is an explanatory diagram for adjusting the horizontal level of the counter body.

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 Washbasin counter 5 Toilet bowl 6 Low tank 7 Opening 22 Sealing material 23 Inspection port 24 Inspection lid 25 Operation button

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An opening at the top of a low tank without a lid is covered with a wash counter, and an inspection opening is provided at a position of the wash counter facing the opening of the low tank. A structure of a low tank, in which an operation button for controlling the supply of washing water from the low tank to the toilet is exposed. 2. The structure of the low tank according to claim 1, wherein the gap between the peripheral edge of the opening of the low tank and the lower surface of the wash counter is sealed with a sealing material.