JPH0516868U - Gap closing member - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To provide a gap closing member that is easy to mount and can easily cope with a difference in width of the gap, and can surely close the gap. [Structure] An attachment piece 30 made of a hard material and attached to the front surface of a base material 20 fixed in a gap to be closed.
And a cover piece 40 made of a soft material, which is continuously provided at one end of the attachment piece 30 and extends substantially parallel to the attachment piece 30.
The cover piece 40 projects longer than the other end of the mounting piece 30,
A bulging portion 44 is provided at the tip. The cover piece 40 flexibly deforms while the bulging portion 44 is in contact with the inner wall of the gap to absorb the difference in the width of the gap.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to a gap closing member, and more specifically, when installing various types of housing equipment such as a wash basin, the gap between these housing equipment and wall materials or the gap between adjacent housing installations is closed. The present invention relates to a gap closing member used for filling.

[0002]

[Prior Art]

 In the case of housing equipment, for example, when installing a wash basin, a wash basin part made of ceramics, a so-called pottery ball, is installed in a wash basin cabinet made of wooden frame or plywood, but it has a complicated curved shape and a linear cabinet. A gap is likely to occur between the members. When the washbasin cabinet is constructed by assembling a plurality of structural parts, such as a washbasin body supporting the pottery balls and a side cabinet, there may be a gap at the joint between the respective structural parts. If there is a gap between the pottery ball and the surrounding cabinet and cabinet members, it is not desirable in appearance, and water may enter or foreign matter may fall into the interior from this gap, so the gap is blocked. Need to leave.

In order to close the gap as described above, a pillar material or a plate material matching the width of the gap is inserted into the gap.

[0004]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 However, since the conventional gap closing member as described above must be formed with a width that closely matches the width of the gap, if there is variation in the gap size due to processing error or assembly error, the gap closing member will be closed. Even if a member is inserted, a slight gap may remain or the gap closing member may not be inserted. Therefore, the width of the gap closing member may be reduced according to the actual width of the gap, but this is very troublesome and the workability is poor.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the conventional gap closing member, simplify the mounting, and easily deal with the variation of the gap, and surely close the gap. It is to provide a gap closing member that can be performed.

[0006]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 The gap closing member according to the present invention, which solves the above problems, is made of a hard material, and is made of a soft material and a mounting piece that is mounted on the front surface of the base material that is fixed in the gap to be closed. The cover piece is provided continuously at one end and extends substantially parallel to the attachment piece, and the cover piece protrudes longer than the other end of the attachment piece and has a bulge portion at the tip.

[0007] The space between the housing equipment includes not only the space between the ceramic bowl and the cabinet member or the space between the cabinet members in the wash cabinet, but also the water supply equipment such as the wash surface equipment and the kitchen equipment, and other ordinary homes. In any installed equipment, it means the gap that occurs between the members that make up the equipment or between the equipment that are installed adjacent to each other.

As the hard material forming the mounting piece, a material such as hard PVC resin that can be easily manufactured and can be firmly mounted and fixed by using metal fittings such as screws and nails is used. .. The attachment piece is attached by abutting on the front surface of the base material fixed in the gap. The base material is made of a wooden pillar or the like that is sufficiently narrower than the width of the gap and can be easily inserted into the gap and fixed to a side plate or the like on one side of the gap. The base material is covered with a gap closing member and hidden in appearance. As a means for attaching and fixing the attachment piece to the front surface of the base material, it may be attached with a double-sided tape or an adhesive, or a tacker may be driven in. It is sure to attach and fix with both adhesive and tacker. The width of the mounting piece should be about the same as the width of the base material, and should be set smaller than the width of the gap.

The cover piece is formed of a soft material such as a soft vinyl chloride resin that can be easily formed into a complicated curved cross section and can be elastically deformed. Since the covering piece is attached to the surface while being exposed, it is preferable that the covering piece has a good appearance. Specifically, for example, if it is colored in the same color as the cabinet members and the like that form the both sides of the gap, it is preferable because it is inconspicuous in appearance. The cover piece is connected to one end of the attachment piece. Specifically, the mounting piece and the covering piece may be integrally molded, or the separately molded mounting piece and the covering piece may be integrally joined by means such as bonding. The cover piece extends substantially parallel to the attachment piece from the connection point with the attachment piece, and the tip of the cover piece extends longer than the other end of the attachment piece. The width of the cover piece should be set to be a little wider than the width of the gap where the gap blocker is attached.

A bulging portion having a spherical shape or the like is provided at the tip of the cover piece. The bulging portion may have a smooth curved surface shape other than a spherical shape as long as it can exactly contact the inner surface of the gap. If the vicinity of the bulging portion formation part of the cover piece is slightly curved toward the mounting piece side, when the bulging portion comes into contact with the inner wall of the gap, it may be deformed smoothly to the inside, that is, to the mounting piece side. it can. The cover piece is preferably one that can be flexibly deformed according to the width of the gap. Therefore, it is preferable that among the cover pieces, the root portion connected to the attachment piece is made relatively thick and the tip side is thin so that it is easily deformed. When the thickness at the root and the thickness at the tip side are different, it is preferable that the thickness is changed in a taper shape from the root to the middle.

When the cover piece is deformed, in order to prevent the cover piece from falling down to the attachment piece side, the attachment piece protrudes toward the cover piece side at the tip end portion on the side opposite to the connecting portion with the cover piece. By providing the protrusion, even if the cover piece is deformed, when it comes into contact with the protrusion, it does not fall further toward the mounting piece.

[0012]

[Action]

 When the attachment piece of the gap closing member is attached to the front surface of the base material fixed in the gap, the attachment piece is made of a hard material, so that the gap closing member is attached to the base material accurately and firmly. Since the mounting piece should be formed narrower than the width of the gap, it is easy to insert the mounting piece into the gap.

Since the cover piece is wider than the mounting piece, it is possible to cover the entire width of the gap. When the bulging part provided at the tip of the cover piece hits the side wall surface of the gap, the cover piece made of a soft material and easily deformable flexibly deforms. The gap can be surely covered in the state of being brought into contact with the ridge. If the tip of the cover piece is sharp or thin, it will be caught on the side wall surface of the gap, but if a bulge is provided at the tip, this bulge will slide along the side wall surface of the gap. Thus, the cover piece can be easily deformed.

[0014]

【Example】

 An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows the entire structure of the gap closing member 10 and the base material 20. The base material 20 is made of a wooden pillar material having a rectangular cross section. The gap closing member 10 is composed of a mounting piece 30 and a covering piece 40. The mounting piece 30 and the covering piece 40 are integrally connected by adhesion or the like.

The attachment piece 30 is formed of a hard vinyl chloride resin, has a band shape as a whole, and is attached by abutting on one side surface which is the front surface of the base material 20. The mounting piece 30 has almost the same thickness as a whole, but a small projection 32 is formed at the side end of the side where the covering piece 40 described later is not continuously provided. The cover piece 40 is formed of a soft vinyl chloride resin, has a band shape as a whole, and is continuously provided at one end of the attachment piece 30. The cross-sectional shape of the cover piece 40 extends from one end of the attachment piece 30 in a direction orthogonal to the attachment piece 30 and then bends in a direction parallel to the attachment piece 30 with a certain distance from the attachment piece 30. It extends in parallel. The tip of the cover piece 40 extends further outside than the other end of the attachment piece 30. The covering piece 40 is relatively thick from the place where the covering piece 40 is connected to the mounting piece 30 to the vicinity of the above-mentioned bent portion, and has sufficient shape maintaining property. The part that extends outward from the mounting piece 30 is thin. The thin portion 42 is easily deformed. The vicinity of the tip of the covering piece 40 is slightly curved inward, that is, the mounting piece 30 side, and a spherical bulging portion 44 is formed at the tip thereof.

FIG. 2 shows a usage state of the gap closing member 10 having the mounting piece 30 and the covering piece 40 as described above. There is a gap H between the two side wall members 52 and 62 arranged adjacent to each other, and the gap H is closed by the gap closing member 10. First, as shown in FIG. 1, the attachment piece 30 of the gap closing member 10 is attached and fixed to the front surface of the base material 20. As the fixing means, double-sided tape and tucking are used together. The integrated material of the base material 10 and the gap closing member 10 is inserted into the gap H, and the base material 10 is brought into contact with the surface of the side wall material 52 on one side. Since the base material 10 is narrower than the gap H, the base material 10 can be easily inserted into the gap H. The base material 10 is fixed to the side wall material 52 with screws b. If the side wall material 62 is an obstacle and the screw b cannot be attached, the base material 20 may be fixed to the side wall material 52 before the side wall material 62 is arranged, or the base material 20 may be attached by means such as adhesion. May be fixed to the side wall member 52.

Since the covering piece 40 of the gap closing member 10 is formed to be slightly wider than the width of the gap H, the bulged portion 44 at the tip of the covering piece 40 contacts the side wall material 62. Then, the thin portion 42 of the covering piece 40 is deformed so as to be curved mainly toward the back side, that is, the mounting piece 30 side, and the bulging portion 44 moves to the back side while being in close contact with the side wall material 62. When viewed from the front side of the gap H (the lower side of FIG. 2), the side wall members 52 and 62 are covered by the covering piece 40 having a smoothly curved surface, and the gap H is completely closed. Even if the width of the gap H is slightly different, the gap H can be reliably closed only by changing the deformation amount of the thin portion 42 of the cover piece 40 or the movement amount of the bulging portion 44.

When the cover piece 40 is deformed to the back side, if the tip side of the cover piece 40 is deformed so as to fall extremely inward, it is not preferable in appearance and the bulging portion 44 fits the side wall material 62 exactly. It becomes difficult to make contact. However, in this embodiment, since the mounting piece 30 is provided with the protrusion 32, if the cover piece 40 is largely deformed, it will hit the protrusion 32, and the cover piece 40 cannot be deformed any further. Therefore, the cover piece 40 does not fall extremely inward, and it can be used always in a favorable state in terms of appearance and function.

FIG. 3 shows another usage state. A pair of cabinet parts 50 and 60 adjacent to each other on the left and right are arranged, and a gap H is formed between the side wall members 52 and 62 of both cabinet parts 50 and 60. Into the gap H, an integrated product of the gap closing member 10 and the base material 20 is inserted in the same manner as described above. In this embodiment, the base material 20 is fixed to the side wall member 62 by inserting the screw b from the outside of the side wall member 62.

FIG. 4 shows a case where the gap of the washbasin cabinet is closed. The pottery ball 70 is installed on the side wall material 62 of the washbasin main body, and the outer shape of the pottery ball 70 is projected more outward than the side wall material 62. The side wall material 52 of the side cabinet is arranged so as to contact the outer circumference of the pottery ball 70. Therefore, there is a considerably large gap H between the side wall material 52 of the side cabinet and the side wall material 62 of the washbasin body. The size of the gap H varies depending on the manufacturing error of the ceramic ball 70 and the like, and is, for example, about 10 to 20 mm.

Therefore, in the same manner as in each of the above-described embodiments, an integrated product of the gap closing member 10 and the base material 20 is inserted into this gap H, and fixed by attachment, and the cover piece 40 of the gap closing member 10 makes the gap H. Block it. By doing so, even if the outer shape of the pottery ball 70 varies and the width of the gap H fluctuates to some extent, the bulging portion 44 causes the bulging portion 44 to move inside the gap H due to the flexible deformation of the covering piece 40. It is possible to close the gap H by making a close contact with.

[0022]

[Effect of the device]

 According to the gap closing member according to the present invention described above, by combining the two structural portions of the mounting piece and the covering piece, it is easy to mount and fix the gap, and the gap is surely closed. It will be possible. In particular, even if the width of the gap is slightly different, the cover piece flexibly deforms, and the bulging part makes close contact with the inner wall of the gap, so that the gap can be reliably closed. As described above, the troublesome work of shaving the gap closing member to match the width of the gap becomes unnecessary.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing a usage state.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing another usage state.

FIG. 4 is a schematic front view showing another usage state.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Gap closing member 20 Base material 30 Mounting piece 40 Covering piece 44 Swelling part H Gap

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A mounting piece which is made of a hard material and is attached to the front surface of a base material which is fixed in a gap to be closed, and a mounting piece which is made of a soft material and is continuously provided at one end of the mounting piece. A gap closing member comprising: a cover piece extending substantially in parallel, the cover piece protruding longer than the other end of the mounting piece, and having a bulge portion at the tip.