JPS6049Y2 - Wash pad storage container - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a cleaning pad storage container, and more particularly, to a cleaning pad storage container configured to be able to supply one cylindrical cleaning pad for cleaning the inner surface of a toilet bowl or the like.

The present applicant has previously disclosed a cleaning pad in which short fibers such as crushed pulp are solidified into a cylindrical shape or formed into a sheet and then rolled into a cylindrical shape.

This cleaning pad is normally relatively hard and maintains a cylindrical shape, but when soaked in water, it swells and becomes soft, allowing it to clean the interior surfaces of toilet bowls and the like without damaging them.

Also, after cleaning, the short fibers can be thrown into the toilet bowl to break up the short fibers.

It has excellent water dispersibility, can be flushed down the drain with flushing water, and does not clog the toilet bowl.

However, as a matter of course, this cleaning pad cannot be held by hand, but must be held with a gripper and cleaned using the gripper.

The tip of the gripping tool naturally comes into contact with dirty water, so it cannot be touched by hand, and when gripping a cleaning pad, a container is required to supply each cleaning pad at a time.

The present invention provides a cleaning pad storage container that can reliably supply cleaning pads one by one.

Hereinafter, details of the present invention will be explained along with embodiments shown in the drawings.

In the figure, the container, which is designated as a whole by reference numeral 1, is made of synthetic resin or the like and is formed into a hollow casing with an open bottom end.

This container 1 has a truncated pyramid shape toward the top, and a deep recess 2 with an open front is formed in the center of the top.

As is clear from the sectional view of FIG. 3, the rear wall 3 of this recess 2 extends vertically to the vicinity of the lower end of the container.
A support stand 4 is projecting upwardly on the bottom surface and near the rear wall 3.

As is clear from the cross-sectional view of FIG. 3, the support stand 4 is formed into a rectangular square tube shape, and the rear wall 5 is formed parallel to and perpendicular to the rear wall 3 with a predetermined height. and
A predetermined interval is maintained between the rear walls 3 and 5, and the rain rear wall 3
, 5 are connected by a bottom plate 6.

Further, as is clear from the cross-sectional view of FIG. 4, the left and right side walls 7, 7 of the support base 4 are vertically formed similarly to the left and right side walls 8, 8 of the recess 2, and there is a predetermined interval between them. is maintained,
The lower ends of both side walls 7 and 8 are connected by a bottom plate 9.

On the other hand, the front wall 10 of the support base 4 is parallel to the rear wall 5, but its height is low, and the upper end of the front wall 10 and the upper end of the rear wall 5 form an inclined slope toward the front wall 10. It is closed by a top plate 11.

A load 12 is formed in front of the front wall 10, and this groove 1
The bottom plate 13 of No. 2 is on the same plane as the bottom plates 6 and 9.

The front wall 14 of this groove 12 is parallel to the front wall 10, but
Its height is lower than the front wall 10, and the curved part 15 has a circular arc shape.
Continuing from the bottom plate 16 forming a curved part 15, the bottom plate 16 forms a flat slope 17 that rises toward the front of the container 1, and its upper end is approximately 1 nm taller than the top of the container 1.
It is continuous with the arc-shaped curved part 18 at a position of about 100 degrees, and is continuous with the slope 19 forming the front wall of the container 1.

This slope 19 is located at a position that is one step more recessed than the slopes 20, 20 on the front side of the container 1.

The slopes 20, 20 on the front side of the container 1 protrude one step forward from the slope 19;
A protrusion 21.21 passes through the inside of the groove 9, extends along both sides of the bottom plate 16, and is integrated with the left and right side walls 8, 8 of the recess 2, continuing to the front end of the groove 12.

The curved portions 22 of the protrusions 21, 21 on the front side of the support base 4 are parallel to the curved portion 15, and have substantially the same curvature as the cleaning pad described later.

On the other hand, a package 23 houses the cleaning pad, and is formed from cardboard or the like as a flat rectangular housing, and its thickness is approximately the same as the diameter of the cleaning pad.

In this package 23, a plurality of cylindrical cleaning pads 24 are housed horizontally in vertical rows.

At the lower end of the package 23, a rectangular opening 25 having the same shape as the cross-sectional shape of the support base 4 can be opened through a perforation. The structure is such that the opening 26 can be opened through the eye or the like.

The vertical width of this opening 26 is larger than the diameter of one cleaning pad 24 and smaller than the diameter of two cleaning pads 24.

Thus, the package 23 can be fitted onto the support 4 through the opening 25 at its bottom, and once fitted, the lowermost cleaning pad 24 is pushed out through the opening 26 by the sloping top plate 11 of the support 4. It is pushed out toward the side and rides on the curved part 22 at the base of the protrusion 21.

However, since the protrusion 21 has a slope parallel to the slope 17 above the curved portion 22, the curved portion 22
It cannot rise upwards from the ground and remains on the curved portion 22.

In this state, the second cleaning pad 24 from the bottom is the third cleaning pad 24.
As it is clear in the figure, one end of it is slightly attached to the package 2
3, the lowermost cleaning pad 24 facing in the middle is in contact with the circumferential surface of the bottom cleaning pad 24 and the vicinity of the top of the upper plate 11 of the support base 4, and is restricted from descending, so the subsequent cleaning pads 24 are also restricted from descending. There is.

In other words, when the package 23 is fitted onto the support base 4, the lowermost cleaning pad 24 will necessarily roll onto the curved portion 22 of the protrusions 21, 21.

At this time, since the bottom plate 16 is one level lower than the protrusion 21, a gap other than the level difference is created between the bottom plate 16 and the cleaning pad 24 at the lowest level.

By the way, what is shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 is a gripping tool,
The gripping tool 27 has an elongated handle shape as a whole, and a grip part 28 is formed at one end of the handle, and a handle part 2 having an arcuate cross section extends from the grip part 28 to the tip.
9 in a row.

A fixed claw 30 curved inward is formed at the tip of the handle 29, and a rotary claw 3 is formed in a state facing the fixed claw 30.
1 is rotatably supported on a shaft.

The rotation amount 31 is rotatably supported on both side walls of the handle 29 via a protrusion 32 provided on a part thereof, and one end of a rod 33 is rotatably supported on the base thereof. .

The rod 33 is made of steel wire or the like, and has a handle 29 with an arcuate cross section.
The other end slidably passes through a support plate 34 provided across the base of the handle 29 .

A rod is attached to a protruding piece 37 that protrudes inward from the shaft 35 of a trigger-like operation lever 36, which is rotatably attached at one end via a shaft 35 near the grip 28 side that is the base of the handle 29. The other end of 33 is rotatably supported.

A coil spring 38 is elastically mounted between the support plate 34 and the projecting piece 37 while being loosely fitted onto the rod 33.

Therefore, when no force is applied to the operating lever 36, the operating lever 36 is moved as shown in FIG. 6 by the elastic force of the coil spring 38.
The rod 33 is rotated clockwise about the shaft 35, and the rod 33 is pulled rearward in the figure, so that the rotating claw 31 is rotated clockwise in the figure about the support shaft (not shown) of the protrusion 32. The tip of the rotary claw 31 approaches the fixed claw 30 side, bites into the side surface of the cleaning pad 24, and grips the center of the cleaning pad 24 from above and below.

Reference numerals 39 and 40 indicate guide plates, and reference numeral 41 indicates a reinforcing plate that also serves as a guide plate.

Since this embodiment is constructed as described above, when using it, the tip of the gripping tool 27 is directed toward the bottom of the recess 2 of the container 1, and the gripping tool 27 is moved along the bottom plate 16 as shown by the chain line in FIG. The protrusions 21 and 2 are fed from the open part above the curved part 18.
The lowest cleaning pad 24 horizontally suspended on the curved part 22 of No. 1
When the rod 33 is held against the elastic force of the coil spring 33, the rod 33 can be moved against the elastic force of the coil spring 33. Because it is pushed forward, the rotary claw 31 rotates in the opening direction, opening the space between the fixed claw 30 and the rotating claw 31, so that the cleaning pad 24 is exposed so as to sandwich a part of its circumferential surface, and is operated. When the lever 36 is released, the rod 33 is pulled by the elastic force of the coil spring 38, the rotating claw 31 and the fixed claw 30 approach each other, and the circumferential surface of the cleaning pad 24 is held between them over a predetermined angle range. If the gripping tool 27 is pulled out from the recess 2 in this state, the cleaning pad 24 can be pulled out of the container 1 while being held therein.

When the lowest cleaning pad 24 is grabbed and pulled out in this way, the next highest cleaning pad 24 is pulled out from the opening 26 along the slope of the upper plate 11, which is inclined due to the weight from above. It rolls out onto the curved portion 22.

Thereafter, the cleaning pads 24 can be taken out one after another in the same manner without using hands.

As is clear from the above description, the present invention has a support base into which a package containing a plurality of cleaning pads can be fitted, the top surface of the support base is inclined, and The cleaning pad is configured with a pair of protrusions on the left and right sides having a curved part to receive the cleaning pad in front of the cleaning pad, so the cleaning pad can be supplied one by one and can be reliably gripped and taken out using the gripping tool. Ru.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings are for explaining one embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is an overall perspective view, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the package installed state, Fig. 3 is a vertical side view of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the package. 3, and FIGS. 5 and 6 are longitudinal sectional side views illustrating the operation of the gripping tool. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Container, 2... Recessed part, 3, 5... Rear wall, 4...
...Support stand, 6.9. 13. 16... bottom plate, 7,
8...Side wall, 10...Front wall, 11...Top plate, 12
...Groove, 15, 18.22. ...Wankyubu, 1,7
, 19... slope, 23... package, 24...
Cleaning pad, 27... Gripping tool, 30... Fixed claw, 3
1...Rotating claw.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] It is formed in the shape of a hollow casing with an open bottom, and a recess 2 with a depth reaching approximately half of the casing is formed in the upper part, and a rear wall 3 is formed at the bottom of this recess 2 near the rear wall 3 side. , side wall 8,8
A rectangular support stand 4 is placed at a predetermined distance from
The upper plate 11 of this support stand 4 has a slope that becomes lower toward the front, and a groove 1 is provided in front of this support stand 4.
The bottom plate 16 that continues through the bottom plate 2 forms a curved portion 15 near the support base 4, then becomes a slope 17 that becomes higher toward the front of the container, and forms a slope 19 that becomes the front wall of the container via a curved portion 18. A raised protrusion 21 is formed over the entire length on both sides of the bottom plate 16, and a curved portion 22 is formed on the support base 4 side of the protrusion 21, 21. The cleaning pad storage container is characterized in that the cleaning pad storage container has a slope from 22 toward the upper end of the slope 19.