JP2008291582A - Hand washing device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hand washing device which has a small footprint of a floor surface, can be set in a narrow place such as a toilet room with good space efficiency, is small in parts count, and simple in structure. <P>SOLUTION: The hand washing device has: a main body 20 which is integrally formed of a hand washing section 21 having a hand washing bowl 22, and a frame section 25 extending downward from the hand washing section; an arrangement space (30) in which feed/drain pipes are arranged, on one lateral side of the frame section; a cover member 40 which is detachably arranged on the frame section, for covering the arrangement space from the front; and a door member 50 which covers the other lateral side of the frame section. The cover member and the door member have substantially the same external shape, and when the door member is closed, the former and the latter form an almost continuous convex curved surface. Further the cover member and the door member have, on lower sides thereof, inclined surfaces 43, 51 that recede inward at lower locations. The main body is fixed to a wall in the state of being lifted from a floor. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a hand-washing apparatus, and more particularly to a hand-washing apparatus suitable for installation in a narrow place such as a toilet.

  Many of the conventional toilet devices have been equipped with a hand-washer at the top of the toilet tank. However, in recent years, tankless toilets without toilet tanks are becoming popular. In this case, a hand-washing device is installed separately from the tankless toilet. There is a need to.

An example of a hand-washing apparatus installed separately from a toilet is described in Patent Document 1 below.
Japanese Patent No. 3560281

  However, according to the prior art described in Patent Document 1, since the base cabinet device is installed under the hand-washing machine, there is a problem that the floor surface that can be actuated becomes narrow and the floor surface is difficult to clean. These problems are fatal drawbacks particularly when installed in a narrow place such as a toilet.

  In addition, this hand-washing device is mainly composed of a wash basin and a base cabinet device, but it requires a large number of parts such as a hand-washing device, a piping cover, a hand-washing device cover, a door, etc. Incurs increased costs.

  Therefore, the present invention solves the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, has a small floor area, can be installed efficiently in a small space such as a toilet, and has a simple configuration with a small number of parts. It is an object of the present invention to provide a hand-washing device having the following.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention according to claim 1 has a main body formed by integrally forming a hand-washing portion having hand-washing balls and a frame portion extending downward from the hand-washing portion. An arrangement space for arranging the water supply / drainage pipe is provided on one side of the direction, provided with a cover member that is detachably provided to the frame part and covers the arrangement space from the front side, and covers the other side of the frame part in the left-right direction A door member is provided, and the cover member and the door member have substantially the same external shape, and are formed in a convex curved shape that is substantially continuous when the door member is closed. A hand-washing device characterized in that a receding inclined surface is formed.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, the cover member includes a storage portion that extends to the other side in the left-right direction of the frame portion and is fitted in the frame portion on the other side, and covers the storage portion from the front side. The hand washing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the door member is provided.

  The present invention according to claim 3 is the hand-washing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the main body is fixed to the wall in a state of floating from the floor.

  According to the hand-washing apparatus of the present invention, since the hand-washing portion having the hand-washing ball and the frame portion extending downward from the hand-washing portion are integrally formed, the number of parts is small and the construction is easy.

  Since an arrangement space for arranging the water supply / drainage pipe is provided on one side of the frame portion of the main body in the left-right direction, a storage space for storing toiletry articles and the like can be secured on the other side of the frame portion in the left-right direction.

  Since the cover member is detachably provided on the main body frame portion, the work can be performed with the cover member removed when checking or repairing the water supply / drainage pipe.

  The cover member and the door member have substantially the same external shape, and when the door member is closed, the cover member and the door member have a substantially continuous convex curved surface shape, thus giving a clean appearance.

  Since the cover member and the door member are formed with an inclined surface that recedes inwardly toward the lower end, the foot is widened and cleaning is easy. This effect becomes more prominent when the main body is floated from the floor and fixed to the wall. Therefore, it can be installed efficiently in a small space such as a toilet.

  The structure of the hand-washing apparatus 10 by one Embodiment of this invention is shown in FIGS. This hand-washing apparatus 10 is composed of three members: a main body 20, a cover member 40, and a door member 50. Each of these members is made of various synthetic resin plates such as acrylic, polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PSt), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), acrylonitrile / butadiene / styrene (ABS), or a composite of these. A composite plate (for example, a composite plate formed by laminating methyl methacrylate resin ((PMMA), a kind of acrylic resin) on the front side of the plate and acrylonitrile / butadiene / styrene resin on the back side) is formed into a predetermined shape by a vacuum forming method. It is obtained by molding into

  The main body 20 is an integrally molded product having a hand-washing portion 21 and a frame portion 25. The hand-washing unit 21 includes a hand-washing ball 22, a faucet mounting part 23, and a back guard 24. The back guard 24 prevents the wall from becoming dirty due to water splashing during hand washing.

  A drainage port 36 is provided at a position from the front right of the bottom of the hand-washing ball 22. The drain port 36 communicates with a drain pipe 11 described later. The faucet mounting portion 23 is provided on the right side of the hand-washing ball and has a mounting hole 37 for mounting the faucet W. The water tap W leads to a water supply pipe 12 which will be described later.

  Screw holes 38 are provided along both side edges on the lower end of the hand-washing portion 21 (FIG. 6), and a towel hanger 39 is attached to these screw holes 38 with screws (not shown). The towel hanger 39 is a strip-like or rod-like long material made of metal or the like, and exhibits a curved shape synchronized with the hand-washing portion 21 with a slight gap left from the hand-washing portion 21 at the lower end of the hand-washing portion 21. (FIG. 4).

  The frame portion 25 has a pair of left and right vertical frames 26, 27 and a central frame 28 that extend downward integrally from the hand-washing portion 21, and a lower frame 29 that connects these lower ends together and extends in the horizontal direction ( FIG. 6).

  A space formed on the right side of the frame portion 25 in front view below the hand-washing portion 21, that is, a space 30 surrounded by the right vertical frame 26, the central frame 28, and the lower frame 29 is continuous from the back surface of the frame portion 25 downward. It is used as a piping space for accommodating the drain pipe 11 or the water supply pipe 12 and passing it through the wall or floor.

  In this embodiment, since it is the hand-washing apparatus 10 of the type which drains and drains the pipe 11 and the water supply pipe 12 through a wall, the semicircle notch (code | symbol) of the magnitude | size equivalent to the outer diameter of the drain pipe 11 is provided. The pair of plate members 31 and 31 are attached to the wall surface located in the back side opening 30a with screws, double-sided adhesive tape (not shown), etc., and a lid (not shown) is formed in the gap formed around the drain pipe 11. Hold. A donut-shaped lid member (not shown) is attached to the surface through which the water supply pipe 12 penetrates the wall surface. In this case, a plate-like lid (not shown) is attached to the lower frame 29 with a screw (not shown), and the bottom side opening 30b of the space 30 is covered.

  In the case of a hand-washing apparatus of the type that supplies and drains water from the bottom surface, the drainage pipe 11 and the water supply pipe 12 are passed through the bottom surface side opening 30 b of the space 30. In this case, in order to cover the drainage pipe 11 and the water supply pipe 12 exposed between the lower end of the lower frame 29 and the floor 13 (FIG. 7), a substantially U-shape with a height dimension substantially matching these intervals. It is preferable to attach a floor drain cover (not shown).

  A back plate 32 is attached to a space formed on the left side in front of the frame portion 25 below the hand-washing portion 21, that is, a space surrounded by the left vertical frame 27, the center frame 28, and the lower frame 29. The back plate 32 increases the strength of the frame portion 25 and can be screwed into the back plate 32 so that the main body 20 can be easily fixed to the wall. Holes 33 and 34 are formed in the upper and lower portions of the back plate 32.

  A pair of upper and lower hinges 19 for attaching the door member 50 to the left vertical frame 27 is fixed.

  The cover member 40 is detachably attached to the open front surface of the frame portion 25 in order to close the internal space of the frame portion 25. As an example, convex attachment / detachment portions 35 are provided at four positions on the front surface side corresponding to the space 30 of the frame portion 25, and attachment / detachment portions are also provided on the back surface side portions of the cover member 40 corresponding to these attachment / detachment portions 35. The cover member 40 can be attached through engagement / disengagement of the parts. As the detachable portion 35, a Velcro tape (surface fastener), a permanent magnet, or the like can be used.

  The cover member 40 is integrally formed with a cover portion 41 that closes a space (pipe space) 30 on the right side in front view of the frame portion 25 and a storage portion 42 that is housed and fitted in the space on the left side in front view of the frame portion 25. It is a product.

  An inclined surface 43 that recedes inwardly toward the lower end is formed below the cover portion 41, and a recess 44 is formed on the upper left edge. The dent 44 functions as an operation unit for inserting a finger when the door member 50 in the closed state is opened. Therefore, it is not necessary to separately provide a knob for operation on the door member 50, and the appearance of the door member 50 is clean. Let

  The storage unit 42 is used for storing toiletry items such as toilet paper, toilet brushes, and detergent sprays, and optionally has a shelf board 45. In this embodiment, the width of the shelf plate 45 is set to about one half of the width of the storage portion 42 so that a long member such as a toilet brush can be stored in the left space.

  The door member 50 rotatably attached to the left vertical frame 27 of the main body frame portion 25 via the hinges 19, 19 has a shape synchronized with the cover portion 41, and when the door member 50 is closed, these are Are substantially continuous and exhibit a substantially curved convex shape in plan view (FIGS. 3 to 5). Further, similarly to the cover portion 41, an inclined surface 51 that recedes inward toward the lower end is formed below the cover portion 41, and when the door member 50 is closed, these inclined surfaces 43 and 51 synchronize with each other in a front view. It can be regarded as a receding surface having a semicircular arc-shaped upper edge (FIGS. 1, 5 and 7). The inclination angle α (FIG. 2) of the inclined surfaces 43 and 51 is preferably about 10 to 30 degrees with respect to the vertical plane, and is about 15 degrees in this embodiment. If the inclination angle α is less than 10 degrees, the effect of widening the foot space and facilitating cleaning cannot be obtained sufficiently. If the inclination angle α exceeds 30 degrees, it looks angular, and the visual design effect is reduced.

  FIG. 7 shows an installation state of the hand washing apparatus 10. In this installation example, the hand-washing device 10 is fixed to the wall 14 while being floated from the floor 13. As a result, a gap is formed between the main body 20 and the floor surface 13, so that the foot space near the floor surface 13 is wide in combination with the inclined surfaces 43 and 51 formed below the cover portion 41 and the door member 50. Easy to use and clean. Therefore, it can be efficiently installed in a narrow space such as a toilet. In FIG. 7, reference numeral 15 is a toilet, 16 is a counter, 17 is a toilet paper holder, and 18 is a skirting board. When the baseboard 18 is present, it is preferable to fix the main body 20 to the wall 14 so that the lower end of the main body frame portion 25 is in contact with the upper end of the baseboard 18 or positioned above the upper end.

  Although the method of fixing the main body 20 to the wall 14 is not limited, for example, a hook receiving bracket is fixed to the wall 14 and a hook hanging bracket is fixed to the back side of the main body 20 so that the hook hanging bracket on the main body 20 side is fixed to the wall. It can be fixed by hanging it on the hook receiving metal on the 14 side. In this state, if the frame portion 25 is fixed to the wall 14 using screws at an arbitrary position of the main body frame portion 25, a reliable and stable installation state can be obtained.

It is a front view of the hand-washing apparatus by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a right view of this hand-washing apparatus. It is a top view of this hand-washing apparatus. It is a disassembled perspective view of this hand-washing apparatus. It is sectional drawing by the AA cutting line in FIG. It is a perspective view of the main body of this hand-washing apparatus. It is an installation state perspective view of this hand-washing apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Hand-washing apparatus 20 Main body 21 Hand-washing part 22 Hand-washing ball 25 Frame part 26, 27 Vertical frame 28 Center frame 29 Lower frame 30 Space (pipe space)
40 Cover member 41 Cover portion 42 Storage portion 43 Inclined surface 50 Door member 51 Inclined surface

Claims (3)

It has a main body formed by integrally molding a hand-washing part having hand-washing balls and a frame part extending downward from the hand-washing part, and an arrangement space for arranging a water supply / drain pipe is provided on one side of the frame part in the left-right direction. A cover member that is detachably provided to the frame portion and covers the arrangement space from the front side, and a door member that covers the other side of the frame portion in the left-right direction. The cover member and the door member have substantially the same external shape. A hand-washing apparatus having a convex curved surface that is substantially continuous when the door member is closed, and an inclined surface that recedes inward toward the lower end is formed below these doors. The cover member includes a storage portion that extends to the other side of the frame portion in the left-right direction and is fitted into the frame portion on the other side, and the door member is provided to cover the storage portion from the front side. The hand-washing apparatus according to claim 1. The hand-washing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the main body is fixed to the wall in a state of floating from the floor.

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