JPH0956624A - Bathroom handrail mounting structure - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fitting structure of a handrail for a bathroom, by which the fitting position of the handrail can be simply changed to a designated position corresponding to the aging of a healthy very old person without using a tool such as a driver or the like. SOLUTION: A pair of handrail holding members 5, 5 are installed parallel in the horizontal direction at a fixed space on the upper and lower positions of the surface of a wall panel 4 of a bathroom. Both end parts of a handrail 7 are fitted to the handrail holding members 5, 5 in such a manner that the handrail 7 can be slid in the horizontal direction along the handrail holding members 5, 5.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bathroom handrail mounting structure which is mounted on a wall panel of a bathtub or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a bathroom for elderly people, there has been known a bathroom in which a handrail is fixed to a wall panel above the bathtub with bolts, nuts, and screws so that the bathroom can be safely put in and out. (See, for example, Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5-15819 and Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5-12424).

By the way, in the case of elderly people and healthy people,
The handrail mounting position must be different. That is, when an elderly person enters the bathtub, he / she sits on a wide stool provided in the upper part of the side wall of the bathtub, grasps the handrail, and turns his / her body (so-called, sitting down) while entering the bathtub. When a person or a healthy elderly person enters the bathtub, it is common to directly enter (entry) by holding the handrail while standing without sitting on the edge of the bathtub.

[0004]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional bathroom handrail mounting structure, since the handrail is fixed to the wall panel in the bathroom with screws or the like, the handrail is adapted to the aging of healthy elderly people. There is a problem in that the mounting position of cannot be easily changed to a predetermined position.

The present invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and the purpose thereof is to easily change the handrail mounting position to an arbitrary position by hand without using a tool such as a driver. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a bathroom handrail mounting structure that can be used.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a bathroom handrail mounting structure comprising: a bathroom wall panel and the like; A pair of handrail holding members are attached in parallel in a substantially horizontal direction, both ends of the handrail are fitted to the handrail holding member, and the handrail is slidable in the horizontal direction.

(Operation) In the bathroom handrail mounting structure of the present invention as set forth in claim 1, since the handrail is slidable in the horizontal direction, the fitting at both ends of the handrail is loosened to slide the handrail. By moving the handrail, the handrail attachment position can be easily changed to an arbitrary position without using a tool such as a screwdriver. That is, it is possible to easily change the mounting position of the handrail according to the aging of the healthy elderly.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION In the present invention, the handrail arrangement portion may be a panel member having a mirror mounting portion and a storage portion in addition to the wall panel and fixed to the surface of the wall panel.

Further, in the present invention, the handrail holding member may be a rail member, a columnar or cylindrical member, or a long slot formed integrally with the panel member.

Further, in the present invention, the handrail may be columnar or tubular with both ends bent in the same direction. In this case, the cross section may be circular, elliptical, square, or the like. It may be.

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a bathroom handrail mounting structure of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of an essential part showing an enlarged main part of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a modified example of FIG. is there.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a bathtub having a rectangular planar shape, 2 is a washing basin, and these are formed by FRP. 3 is a counter, which is made of FRP like the bathtub 1. The end of the counter 3 on the bathtub 1 side is widened toward the bathtub 1 and serves as a stool portion 31 for the elderly person to sit down and change the body direction when sitting down.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a wall panel of a bathroom which is a handrail arrangement portion, and a pair of upper and lower rail members 5 and 5 which are handrail holding members are provided on the surface of the wall panel 4 with a plurality of screws 6, 6 ,. Are installed parallel to the horizontal direction. Rail member 5
Has a mounting groove 51 having a T-shaped cross section.
An upper locking portion 52 and a lower locking portion 53 are formed above and below the opening of No. 1.

Reference numeral 7 is a cylindrical handrail having both ends bent in the same direction, and both ends of the handrail 7 are fitted in the mounting groove 51 of the rail member 5. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, an annular convex portion 81 formed on the inner periphery of one end of the cap nut 8 is fitted into an annular concave groove 72 formed on the outer periphery of both ends of the handrail main body 71, and the cap nut 8 is formed. Is rotatable in the circumferential direction.

On the other hand, a female screw 82 having a small diameter is provided on the inner circumference of the other end of the cap nut 8, and a male screw 91 of a bolt 9 having a T-shaped cross section is screwed into the female screw 82. The head 92 of the bolt 9 has a square shape with chamfered corners, and its vertical width is slightly narrower than the width of the mounting groove 51 of the rail member 5. As shown in FIG. 1, the outer periphery of the cap nut 8 is knurled to prevent slipping.

As a result, the cap nut 8 is rotated,
When the opening vertical locking portions 52, 53 of the rail member 5 are tightened between the head portion 92 and the cap nut 8, the head portion 92 does not rotate in the mounting groove 51 of the rail member 5.

Then, as shown in FIG.
The heads 92, 92 of the bolts 9 are fitted into the mounting grooves 51, 51 from the end openings of the rail members 5, 5, and the cap nuts 8, 8 are rotated in a predetermined direction so that the heads 92 of the bolts 9 and the cap nuts 8 In between, the upper and lower locking portions 52, 53 of the rail member 5 are clamped and pinched, whereby both ends of the handrail 7 are fixed to the wall panel 4 via the rail member 5.

Then, as shown in FIG. 1, the cap nut 8 is manually rotated in a direction opposite to that at the time of tightening to loosen it, and the handrail 7 is moved in the direction of the arrow along the wall panel surface to be in a broken line state. By rotating the cap nuts 8 again by hand to fix both end portions of the handrail 7 at the position shown by, the elderly person can sit on the seat portion 3
It can be used as a handrail when sitting on the bathtub 1 and entering the bathtub 1.

When the rail member is attached to the surface of the wall panel 4, a pair of upper and lower rail members 5 are provided as shown in FIG.
A and 5A may be attached by inclining obliquely downward from the bathtub 1 side toward the washroom 2 side. By mounting the rail member 5A in this manner, the position of the handrail 7 can be changed and at the same time the mounting height of the handrail 7 can be changed.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing another example of the bathroom handrail mounting structure of the present invention, and FIG. 5 is an enlarged sectional view of an essential part showing an enlarged part of FIG.

Reference numeral 10 is a panel member made of FRP, and the left half of the panel member 10 is an example in which a handrail is provided. Basically, the only difference is that a panel member 10 is used in place of the rail member 5 in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 above, and therefore the same parts are designated by the same reference numerals. The detailed description will be omitted.

On the right half of the panel member 10, there are formed three upper and lower storage boxes 11 and a mirror mounting portion 12, while on the left half, a pair of upper and lower elongated holes 1 penetrating from the front surface to the back surface.
3 are formed parallel to the horizontal direction. Panel member 10
Reinforcing ribs 14 and 1 are provided above and below the long holes 13 and 13 on the back surface side of the
4 are integrally formed. A mirror 15 is attached to the mirror attachment portion 12.

First, before fixing the panel member 10 to the surface of the wall panel 4, as shown in FIG. 5, the male screw 91 of the bolt 9 is projected to the front surface side through the elongated hole 13 from the rear surface side of the panel member 10. The male screw 91 and the female screw 82 of the cap nut 8 rotatably fitted to the outer circumference of both ends of the handrail main body 71.
Screw. Then, the cap nuts 8 and 8 are rotated in a predetermined direction, and the upper and lower edge portions 13A and 13A of the elongated hole 13 are clamped and pinched between the head portion 92 of the bolt 9 and the cap nut 8, so that the handrail 7 Both ends of are fixed to predetermined positions on the surface of the panel member 10. Next, the panel member 10 is fixed to the surface of the wall panel 4 with a plurality of screws 6, 6, ....

Then, as shown in FIG. 4, the cap nut 8 is manually rotated in a direction opposite to the direction in which the cap nut 8 is tightened to loosen it, and the handrail 7 is moved in the direction of the arrow along the wall panel surface so that it is in a broken line state. By rotating the cap nuts 8 again by hand to fix both end portions of the handrail 7 at the position shown by, the elderly person can sit on the seat portion 3
It can be used as a handrail when sitting on the bathtub 1 and entering the bathtub 1. In this embodiment also, as shown in FIG. 4, the outer periphery of the cap nut 8 is knurled for slip prevention.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing still another example of the bathroom handrail mounting structure of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is an enlarged sectional view of an essential part showing an enlarged part of FIG.

Instead of the rail member 5 in the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a columnar handrail holding member 16 whose both ends are bent in the same direction is used. The linear sliding portion 16A of 16 has slidably fitted tubular sliding portions 9A, 9A provided at both ends of the handrail 7A. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, a threaded hole 91A penetrating the wall surface of the sliding portion 9A is provided, and a fixing screw 8A is screwed into the screw hole 91A to press the outer surface of the handrail holding member 16. ing. A part of the head side of a bolt (not shown) is integrally embedded in both ends of the handrail holding members 16 and 16 and is fixed by tightening a nut from the back side of the wall panel 4.

Then, as shown in FIG. 6, the fixing screw 8A is loosened by hand to release the outer surface pressure of the handrail holding member 16 to move the handrail 7A along the handrail holding member 16 in the direction of the arrow so as to be in a broken line state. At the position shown by, the fixing screw 8A is screwed again to press the outer surface of the handrail holding member 16 to fix the sliding portions 9A at both ends of the handrail 7A, whereby the elderly person sits down and enters the bathtub 1. Can be used as a handrail when entering.

[0028]

According to the bathroom handrail mounting structure of the present invention as set forth in claim 1, a pair of upper and lower handrails are provided at a predetermined interval above and below the surface of the handrail arrangement portion such as a wall panel of the bathroom. Since the holding member is attached in parallel to the substantially horizontal direction and both ends of the handrail are fitted to the handrail holding member, and the handrail is slidable in the horizontal direction, the fitting of both ends of the handrail can be performed. By loosening it by hand and sliding the handrail, the mounting position of the handrail can be easily changed to an arbitrary position without using a tool such as a screwdriver. That is,
It is possible to easily change the mounting position of the handrail according to the aging of healthy elderly people.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing an example of a bathroom handrail mounting structure of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of an essential part showing an enlarged part of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a modified example of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing another example of the bathroom handrail mounting structure of the present invention.

5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of an essential part showing an enlarged part of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing still another example of the bathroom handrail mounting structure of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an enlarged sectional view of an essential part showing an enlarged part of FIG. 6;

[Explanation of symbols]

 4 Wall Panel (Handrail Arrangement) 5, 5A Rail Member (Handrail Holding Member) 7, 7A Handrail 71 Handrail Main Body 8 Cap Nut 8A Fixing Screw 9 Bolt 9A Cylindrical Sliding Part 10 Panel Member (Handrail Arrangement) 13 Long hole 16 Handrail holding member (handrail arrangement part)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A pair of upper and lower handrail holding members are attached in parallel to each other in a substantially horizontal direction at a vertical position on a surface of a handrail disposing portion such as a wall panel of a bathroom, with a certain interval therebetween. An attachment structure for a handrail for a bathroom, wherein both ends of the handrail are fitted and the handrail is slidable in a horizontal direction.