JPH1042970A - Shelf - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To simplify the taking out and in of a stored matter for a visually handicapped person by mounting a braille plate having braille formed of transparent protruding bodies duplicately formed on the described character of a plate on the front end of a shelf plate. SOLUTION: A braille plate 51 is formed by laminating a back plate made of thin milk white translucent acrylic resin, a transparent or translucent film display layer having an ink character 59 printed thereon, and a base plate layer formed of thick transparent acrylic resin plate in this order, and further providing raised letters 58 formed of a plurality of transparent protruding bodies 57 on the surface of the base plate layer. The raised letters 58 for visually handicapped person are the synonym of the ink character 59 for sound person, and arranged so as to be duplicate with the ink character 59. A visually handicapped person can easily gain a desired book in braille by reading the raised letters 58 of the braille plate 51 displayed on the front end of the shelf plate by the finger tops. On the other hand, an aged person or sound person can clearly visually confirm the ink character 59 displayed on the display layer by a back light since the raised character 58 and the base plate layer are transparent.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a shelf, and more particularly, to a shelf which can be used by visually impaired persons, elderly people, and healthy persons.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the number of Braille books for the visually impaired has increased remarkably, and libraries and the like have come to have corners for Braille books. However, there are few places on the shelves that store Braille books, for example, for each line of literature, history, natural science, etc., and even for the same literature, there are few lines for each line, such as Japanese literature, English and American literature. People with visual impairments spend a lot of effort trying to find the Braille books they want from the shelves. Displaying only Braille is inconvenient when a healthy person searches for a Braille book desired by a visually impaired person instead of a visually impaired person.

[0003]

Therefore, it is conceivable to attach a Braille plate indicating the type of Braille book to the front end of the shelf, but since the thickness of the shelf is naturally limited, it is intended for visually impaired persons. If braille and characters for healthy persons (hereinafter referred to as "ink-letter") are displayed side by side in two rows, the size of the braille or ink-letter may be reduced, making it difficult to read.
In addition, there is a problem that the braille plate becomes very long when braille and ink characters are arranged side by side and displayed. In addition, it is desired that the rack itself can easily put in and take out Braille books. In addition, when the number of Braille books significantly increased,
There is a need for a shelf that can increase the storage capacity of Braille books by minimizing the distance between the Braille books and the shelf board. Elderly people, on the other hand, generally do not have sufficient vision, and often have trouble with standing behavior.
For example, when taking out a book or the like, it is necessary for the design of the shelf to be easy to find and easy to take out.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned demands, and it is intended that a normal person, a visually impaired person and an elderly person, particularly, a book and the like that a visually impaired person and an elderly person desire for themselves from a shelf. While it is possible to easily find the object to be stored, it is possible to easily put in and out the object to be stored,
It is another object of the present invention to provide a shelf that can minimize the distance between the storage object and the shelf.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a shelf on which shelves are arranged between side plates, and the front end and / or the side surface of the side plates are provided with notation characters for healthy persons displayed on the plates. It is a mounting shelf to which a braille plate formed by overlapping and providing a plurality of transparent synonymous brailles composed of transparent convex bodies is attached.

It is effective to form the base plate of the Braille plate from a transparent or translucent plate, and attach a disc-shaped light emitting body to the back of the Braille plate. It is also effective to form a plate, which is the base of the Braille plate, from a transparent or translucent plate, and to provide a backlight behind the Braille plate. Further, it is preferable to provide a tapered surface on the upper edge of the front end and / or the lower edge of the front end of the shelf.

Further, it is preferable to provide an allowable gap corresponding to a clearance for allowing the storage object such as a book to be tilted on the lower surface of the shelf board. In addition, it is preferable to provide an inclination guiding section for inclining the storage object forward on the upper surface of the shelf.
Further, it is preferable to provide a height adjusting portion for adjusting the vertical interval between the shelf plates on the side plate.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In describing the embodiments, a steel shelf provided with a braille plate with a backlight will be described as an example. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 denotes a steel box-shaped mounting shelf main body having an opening portion 11 on the front surface, and two vertically long steel mounting frame portions 13 are mounted inside a side plate 12 thereof. The shelf 10 is fixed at predetermined intervals in the front-rear direction. And the mounting frame 13
Steel shelves 30 are attached in multiple stages (four stages in the figure).

As shown in FIG. 2, a braille plate 51 indicating a braille book mesh is attached to the front end 31 of the shelf board 30. As shown in FIG. 3, the Braille plate 51 is provided so as to fit into the horizontally long opening 32 provided at the front end 31 of the shelf 30 from behind the front end 31 of the shelf 30. The Braille plate 51 has a backlight 52 such as a small fluorescent tube inside.
Is mounted on the front surface of a synthetic resin case 53 provided with a braille plate, and is usually handled as a Braille display 50 in which the Braille plate 51 and the case 53 are integrated. Therefore, when the Braille plate 51 is attached to the front end 31 of the shelf 30, the Braille display 50 is attached from behind the front end 31 of the shelf 30.

[0010] As shown in FIG.
A thin, milky translucent acrylic resin backing plate 54,
A display layer 55 made of a transparent or translucent film on which ink letters (not shown) are printed, and a substrate layer 56 made of a thick transparent acrylic resin plate are laminated in this order. Braille 58 composed of a plurality of transparent convex bodies 57 on the surface
Is formed. Braille 58 for the visually impaired is synonymous with ink character 59 for a healthy person.
As shown in FIG.

Therefore, the visually impaired person is required to
The desired Braille book can be easily obtained by reading the Braille 58 of the Braille plate 51 displayed at 1 with a fingertip. On the other hand, since the braille 58 and the substrate layer 56 are transparent, an elderly person and a healthy person can clearly see the ink characters 59 displayed on the display layer 55 by the backlight 52. As described above, when the Braille 58 and the ink character 59 are provided so as to overlap with each other, it is not necessary to provide the Braille 58 and the ink character 59 in two upper and lower stages, or to arrange them in a horizontal line, so that relatively large characters can be used. Use a braille plate 51
In addition, the Braille bulletin device 50 can be formed compact.

As the transparent three-dimensional ink for forming the transparent Braille 58, for example, a thermosetting plastic powder ink, a foaming ink which rises by applying heat,
UV curable resin inks and the like, among which,
It is excellent in heat resistance and abrasion resistance, has good fixability to materials such as substrate layers, and cures at a temperature of about 40 ° C, so it does not damage materials such as substrate layers. Resin ink is preferred.

Further, since the translucent back plate 54 is laminated on the back surface of the display layer 55, the heat of the backlight 52 is directly transmitted to the display layer 55, so that the display layer 55 is thermally deteriorated. However, the deterioration can be prevented from being promoted. Furthermore, in the present invention, as another form of the braille plate, EL (Electro Luminescence) is used.
nce) panel or LED [LightEmi
Braille plate 51a using [ting diode (light emitting diode)] can be adopted. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, a composite type braille plate 51a in which a light-emitting layer 60 such as an EL panel or an LED is attached to the back surface of the braille plate 51.

In this case, since the Braille plate 51a itself emits light, the backlight 52 is not always necessary. Also, the case 53 is not required, and the braille plate 5
1a itself can be directly attached to the front surface 31 of the shelf. Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the Braille plate 51 having no light emitting layer 60 is directly attached to the front surface 31 of the shelf 30.
May be attached. The EL panel and the LED may be of any shape, and can be selected in consideration of cost and the like.
Panels, enameled EL panels, resin-dispersed EL panels, flexible EL panels, and the like can be given.

As shown in FIG. 7, a light emitting layer (EL panel) 60 attached to a front end of a shelf (not shown) is provided.
Braille plate 51b may be adhered to the front surface of. The Braille plate 51b is formed by printing ink characters 59 on one surface of a display layer 55 made of a film and printing a Braille 58 made of a transparent convex body 57 on the ink characters 59 so as to overlap.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 8, the shelf plate 30 has tapered surfaces 33,
34, so that the Braille book 1 can be easily taken out and stored. The tapered surface is
Only one of the two may be used. further,
The shelf board 30 is provided with an allowable gap 36 corresponding to a clearance for allowing the Braille book (not shown) to be inclined on the lower surface 35 thereof, and when the Braille book is taken out, the upper surface rear end (not shown) of the Braille book is provided. It is structured to avoid contact with the shelf board lower surface 35.

Further, the shelf board 30 is provided with an inclination guide portion 38 for guiding and guiding a Braille book on the upper surface 37 thereof. The inclined guide portion 38 can be moved in the front-rear direction of the shelf board 30 in accordance with the size of a Braille book.
In other words, the inclined guiding section 38 has a flat front surface.
9, a mountain-shaped inclined guiding portion main body 40 and a fitting projection 41
And the insertion protrusions 41 are arranged at predetermined intervals in the width direction of the inclined guiding portion main body 40 as shown in FIG.
The shelf plate 30 has a slit-shaped fitting groove 4 on its upper surface.
2 are provided at equal pitches in the front-rear direction of the shelf 30.
, So that the inclination guiding section 38 can be set at an arbitrary position on the shelf board 30.

As shown in FIG. 1, when the Braille book 1 to be stored is pulled out from the rack, the Braille book 1
Of the front lower part 3 of the shelf unit 10 in the direction of the back plate 14, the lower rear end 4 of the Braille book 1 is guided by the inclined surface 39 of the inclined guiding part 38 and lifts up, so that the Braille book 1 is indicated by a solid line. And the upper end 5 of the front of the Braille book 1 is
The Braille book 1 can be easily pulled out from the shelf by grasping the protruding portion since the Braille book 1 protrudes toward the opening 11 side. When the Braille book 1 is inclined forward as shown by a solid line, the contact between the upper rear end 2 of the Braille book 1 and the shelf 30 is avoided because the permissible space 36 is provided on the lower surface 35 of the shelf 30. Damage to the Braille book 1 can be prevented.

The inclined surface 39 of the inclined guiding portion 38 is not limited to a flat surface. As shown in FIG. 10, when the inclined surface 39 is formed into a curved surface 39a which is curved downward, a Braille book can be used. Guidance inclination becomes smoother. Further, the pipe 4 is inserted into a gutter-shaped groove 44 provided in front of the inclined guiding portion 38.
When 5 is installed, the pipe 45 acts as a "roller", so that the Braille books can be moved more smoothly.

As shown in FIG. 1, each of the mounting frames 13 has a height adjusting portion 15 so that the vertical distance H between the shelves 30 can be adjusted arbitrarily. Height adjustment unit 15
As shown in FIG. 11, a plurality of round holes 16 are formed by a chain hole 17 formed by vertically piercing two or more round holes 16 so as to partially overlap each other. Then, a metal shelf receiver 18 as shown in FIG. 12 is fitted to a predetermined position of the chain hole 17.

According to the above configuration, for example, FIG.
In (a), the pitch A of the mutual round holes 16 is 10 mm, and
In the case of 10 connections, the adjustment interval of the vertical distance is 1/2 A, and in FIG. 11B, when the pitch B of the round holes 16 is 9 mm, in the vertical distance, the adjustment interval is 1/2 B. For this reason, the conventional movable pitch of the shelf board was considered to be 15 mm as a limit. However, in the above-described movable adjustment of the vertical interval using the chain holes, the movable range in the vertical direction can be reduced to about 6 mm.

Therefore, not only the conventional height adjustment on the shelf plate 20 but also the movable pitch on the mounting shelf can be adjusted as appropriate, so that objects to be stored having different heights can be finely classified and arranged. In this case, the number of items to be stored can be increased. In order to avoid a decrease in the strength of the mounting frame 13, it is preferable to provide the discontinuous portion 19 and divide the chain hole 17 into several blocks, rather than to form the chain hole 17 as one continuous one.

When the side plate 12 of the shelf main body 10 has a single-layer structure, the mounting frame portion 13 has a convex cross section as shown in FIG. 13, and the flange portion 20 is fixed to the inside of the side plate 12 by welding or the like. I do. On the other hand, when the shelf main body 10 is wooden,
As shown in FIG. 14, the mounting frame portion 13a having a U-shaped cross section is embedded in the vertical groove 21 of the side plate 12 and fixed with a wood screw (not shown).

FIG. 15 shows a height adjusting section which enables fine adjustment of the vertical distance between the shelves, and a height adjusting section 15a provided on each mounting frame 13 has a plurality of vertical slots. 22 are arranged at a constant interval w with three vertical slot groups 23 provided at a constant pitch p in the vertical direction, and the phases of the vertical slot groups 23 are shifted by h in the vertical direction. ing. Therefore, the height of the shelf support can be finely adjusted by the phase h. In this case, as shown in FIG. 16, the shelf support 18a is long in a lateral direction so as to straddle the left and right mounting frames.

Further, as shown in FIG. 17, the height adjusting portion 15b
The height adjusting portion 15a may be provided in each of the mounting frame portions 13 in pairs. In this case, shelf support 18
b becomes smaller as shown in FIG. It is preferable to provide an identification mark such as a colored mark or a symbol near the vertical slot so that the height of the front, rear, left and right shelf supports can be easily matched.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, and even if there is a design change or the like without departing from the gist of the present invention. Included in the invention. That is, in the above description, the case where the shelf main body 10 and the shelf plate 30 are made of steel is described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and they may be made of wood, synthetic resin, or a combination thereof. In the above description, the Braille plate 51 is attached to the front end 31 of the shelf 30. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the Braille plate 51 may be attached to the side surface of the side plate 12 or the front surface of the side plate 12. Further, in the embodiment of the present invention,
Although the Braille book is taken as an example of the object to be stored, the book may be an ordinary book, and is also applicable to articles such as CDs, VTR cases, and various sales items in department stores and supermarkets.

[0027]

As described above, according to the present invention, a plurality of transparent convex bodies are provided on the front end of a shelf plate disposed between the side plates and / or on the side surface of the side plate, on the notation for a healthy person displayed on the plate. The Braille plate formed by overlapping and synonymous Braille consisting of consists of healthy people, visually impaired people, elderly people,
In particular, visually impaired persons and the elderly can now easily find what they want on the shelf, such as Braille books. That is, the visually impaired person can easily obtain the desired storage object by reading the Braille on the Braille plate displayed on the front end of the shelf with his fingertip.
On the other hand, healthy people and elderly people can clearly see the characters written on the display layer, for example, written characters such as "Japanese literature" by the backlight because the braille and the substrate layer are transparent. Became.

Further, in the present invention, since the upper edge and / or the lower edge of the front end of the shelf are provided with a tapered surface,
It has become possible to easily carry in and out of storage objects such as Braille books. Also, in the present invention, while providing an allowable gap corresponding to the clearance that allows the tilt of the storage object such as a book on the lower surface of the shelf, an inclination guiding portion for tilting the storage object forward on the upper surface of the shelf is provided. Therefore, the object to be stored, such as a Braille book, can be easily taken out without damaging the object while tilting the object to be stored, such as a Braille book, forward by using the inclined surface of the inclined guiding portion. Further, the present invention provides
Since the height adjustment unit that adjusts the vertical spacing of the shelf plates is provided on the side plate of the mounting shelf main body, the interval between the shelf plate and the storage object can be narrowed as much as possible, and the number of stored objects can be reduced accordingly. Can now be increased.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a rack according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of a rack according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a portion indicated by reference numeral E in FIG.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of a braille plate.

FIG. 5 is a front view of a braille plate.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view showing another embodiment of the braille plate.

FIG. 7 is a sectional view showing still another embodiment of the braille plate.

FIG. 8 is an enlarged sectional view of a shelf board.

FIG. 9 is an exploded view of the shelf board.

FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view showing another embodiment of the tilt guiding section.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of a height adjusting unit.

FIG. 12 is a perspective view of a shelf receiver.

FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional view of the mounting frame portion.

FIG. 14 is a cross-sectional view showing another embodiment of the mounting frame portion.

FIG. 15 is a front view showing another embodiment of the height adjusting unit.

FIG. 16 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the shelf receiver.

FIG. 17 is a front view showing another embodiment of the height adjusting unit.

FIG. 18 is a perspective view showing another embodiment of the shelf receiver.

[Explanation of symbols]

 12 side plate 30 shelf board 31 shelf board front end 55 plate 59 ink character 57 transparent convex body 58 braille 51, 51a, 51b braille plate

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Shigeo Koga 2-182, Higashi-Asakayamacho, Sakai-shi, Osaka (72) Inventor Masayuki Fukumoto 1-17-6-502 Higashi-Nippori, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo Crystal 3

Claims (7)

[Claims] Claims: 1. In a mounting shelf in which a shelf plate is arranged between side plates,
On the front end and / or the side of the side plate of the shelf plate, a Braille plate formed by providing a plurality of synonymous Braille characters composed of a plurality of transparent convex bodies on the notation characters for healthy persons displayed on the plate was attached. A mounting shelf characterized by that: 2. The rack according to claim 1, wherein a plate, which is a base of the Braille plate, is formed of a transparent or translucent plate, and a disc-shaped light-emitting body is attached to a back surface of the Braille plate. 3. The rack according to claim 1, wherein a plate serving as a base of the Braille plate is formed of a transparent or translucent plate, and a backlight is provided behind the Braille plate. 4. The rack according to claim 1, wherein a tapered surface is provided on an upper edge of a front end and / or a lower edge of the front end of the shelf. 5. The mounting shelf according to claim 1, wherein a permissible gap corresponding to a clearance for permitting inclination of a storage object such as a book is provided on a lower surface of said shelf plate. 6. The rack according to claim 1, wherein an inclined guiding portion for tilting an object to be stored forward is provided on an upper surface of the shelf plate. 7. The mounting shelf according to claim 1, wherein a height adjusting portion for adjusting a vertical interval between the shelf plates is provided on the side plate.