JPS6038552Y2 - Panel type assembly aquarium - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention relates to a panel-type assembled aquarium, and aims to propose an improvement in reinforcing the front and rear walls of this type of aquarium, which is assembled higher than its depth.

Panel-type assembled aquariums, which are assembled from a bottom wall made by stitching together and fastening a large number of rectangular unit panels, and front, rear, left and right side walls, can be used to create a tank of any capacity depending on the facility environment. Widely used as an elevated aquarium.

There is an increasing demand for these water tanks to be earthquake resistant in order to secure emergency water in the event of an earthquake.

As a means of reinforcing panel-type assembled water tanks,
The diagonal reinforcement method using diagonal stays, as shown in the 826 Japanese Publication, has been widely adopted because it has a considerable effect on both hydrostatic pressure and fluctuating water pressure during earthquakes.

However, for panel-type aquariums where the number of unit panels stacked in the depth direction is smaller than the number of unit panels stacked in the height direction, the mounting position of the diagonal stay 3 on the bottom wall 1 is small, as shown in Figure 1. , it is necessary to install two or more diagonal stays 3 at that location, but the diagonal stays 3゜3' extending from the bottom wall 1 to the front and rear walls 2, 2' are mutually marked with ○ in Fig. 1. This results in interference at the intersection points shown in Figure 2, and therefore some stays have to be omitted.

Note that 4 in the figure is one of the left and right side walls.

However, the above-mentioned water tanks with a narrow depth and a high level belong to a type that has a significant lack of seismic strength, so effective reinforcing means have been required as necessary.

This invention relates to reinforcing panel-type assembled aquariums, and is intended to provide particularly effective earthquake resistance enhancement to, for example, narrow and high-level panel-type aquariums.

In other words, this idea consists of unit panels that face each other between the front and rear walls of a panel-type aquarium that has a bottom wall made up of a plurality of rectangular unit panels with attached flanges on all four sides, and front and rear, left and right side walls. A tension rod is passed between the abutting areas and is fixed to both the front and rear walls, and one of the abutting areas is fixed to the front and back walls.
This is a panel-type assembly aquarium characterized by diagonal stays extending alternately from the front and rear side walls toward the abutment area of the unit panels on the bottom wall and fixed to the front and rear side walls and the bottom wall. .

An embodiment of this invention will be described below based on a drawing of a tall panel type assembly water tank.

Figure 2 is a perspective view showing an example of a tall panel type assembled aquarium based on this invention, with the front wall partially broken.As in the case of Figure 1, this assembled aquarium also has a plurality of flanges attached to its four circumferences. Bottom wall 1 by stitching square unit panels together
Front and rear side walls 2, 2' and left and right side walls (not shown in the figure)
4, in the depth direction, in this example, unit panels are sewn together and arranged in pairs, and in the height direction, 4 unit panels (one of which is 1/2 height size in this example) are arranged. It is a stack of stitches.

Thus, this invention provides the following reinforcement for a tall panel type assembly aquarium in which the number of unit panels in the depth direction is less than that of the unit panels in the height direction.

A tension rod 5 is inserted between the abutting areas of the unit panels facing each other between the front side wall 2 and the rear side wall 2' of this assembled aquarium, for example, the areas a and b formed by abutting four unit panels. hand over.

In this example, the tension rods 5 are shown in the case where they are used as a set of four, and the upper two tension rods are omitted for the sake of simplicity of illustration, but both ends of the tension rods 5 are connected to each panel by suitable water sealing means using known means. It is made to protrude through and is fastened and fixed using a contact plate 6.

This fastening is preferably done by screws, but may also be done by pins, rivets, etc.

From the abutting areas a and b, the unit panels are aligned alternately from the inner surface of the front and rear side walls 2, 2' to the bottom wall 1 or the bottom wall 1 and the adjacent front and rear side walls 2, 2'. A diagonal stay 7.7' is passed toward the area C/, for example, an area where four unit panels are butted together.

As shown in the figure, in order to firmly fix both ends of the diagonal stay 7.7', the abutment area a used for the fixing;
It is preferable to use brackets 8 and 9 for b, C, C' and C", and these brackets can be used to connect the diagonal stays 7 and 7' with pins 10 on each side of each side while avoiding their interference. It has a tongue piece 11.

The bracket 8 may be provided with locking parts near both ends of the tension rod 5, and the unit panel may be sandwiched between the bracket 8 and the backing plate 6 and fixed with screws. The bolt holes left over from the insertion may be used as screws to sandwich the unit panel between it and the backing plate 6.
Of course, all the bolt holes of the bracket 9 used in the bottom wall 1 are used for fixing to the bottom wall 1.

As described above, according to this invention, the compressive or tensile force generated in the diagonal stay can resist the fluctuating water pressure applied to the front and rear walls during an earthquake, and the tension rod can also minimize the deformation of the opposing front and rear walls. This greatly improves the earthquake resistance of narrow, high-level aquariums.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a conventional panel-type assembly water tank showing the state of interference caused by reinforcement using only diagonal stays, and FIG. 2 is an internal sketch showing an embodiment of this invention. 1... Bottom wall, 2, 2'... Front and rear side walls, 5... Tension rod, 7... Diagonal stays a, b. , c/...Unit panel butting area.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Installation on all four sides is the butt area of unit panels that face each other between the front and back walls of a panel-type aquarium that has a bottom wall made of multiple rectangular unit panels with flanges stitched together, and front and rear, left and right side walls. Tension rods are passed between them and fixed to both the front and rear walls, and diagonal stays are installed alternately from the front and rear side walls at every other butt area toward the butt area of the unit panel on the bottom wall. A panel-type assembly aquarium characterized by being fixed to the front and rear side walls and the bottom wall across the tank.