JP3209865B2 - Wet tissue heating device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention is intended to heat a wet tissue, and to reduce the heating efficiency of the wet tissue in order to remove the cold and unpleasant sensations that may occur on sensitive skin such as infants and the sick when using the wet tissue. A good wet tissue heating device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, disposable wet tissues, such as for wiping clothes, for kitchen use, for cleaning toilets, and for wiping the buttocks of infants and the sick, have been widely used as substitutes for cloth towels. In addition, three types of such disposable wet tissue containers are mainly used: bottle type (cylindrical type), box type (box type), and vinyl bag type.

[0003] In particular, when a wet tissue for wiping the buttocks of an infant or a sick person is used in a low temperature period such as winter, the temperature of the wet tissue is low, and the infant or the sick person may feel uncomfortable during use. There was a thing.

As means for solving this problem, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 4-104990 and Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No.
There is an apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. 1-2004-101, in which a bottle-type wet tissue is provided with a heater and heated.

[0005]

On the other hand, the heating devices disclosed in the two publications are disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 4-104990 even though the wet tissue used is located at the center of the roll. Both the heating from the outer peripheral surface of the roll and the heating from the bottom of the roll of the wet tissue in Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 4-111207 are methods for heating the entire bottle type container. The efficiency was low, and furthermore, it could not be used for heating wet tissues contained in a box type or vinyl bag type container.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, and to provide a box type or vinyl type.
To provide a heating device capable of heating a wet tissue contained in a bag-type container and heating at least a part of the wet tissue at that time to efficiently heat the wet tissue to be used. It is.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a storage box for storing a container containing stacked wet tissues, and a lid covering an opening of the storage box and having a heating means inside. In the wet tissue heating apparatus provided, a pressing means for pressing the container against the lid body is provided in the storage box, and is achieved by the wet tissue heating apparatus.

Further, the above object of the present invention is to provide a storage box for storing a container containing laminated wet tissues,
A lid for covering the opening of the storage box, and a heating device for a wet tissue including a heating unit that is stored in the storage box and heats the wet tissue,
This is achieved by a wet tissue heating device, wherein a pressing means for pressing the container against the heating means is provided in the storage box.

[0009]

According to the above construction of the present invention, at least a part of the wet tissue contained in the box type or vinyl bag type container is heated while being pressed against the heating means by the pressing force of the pressing means. The wet tissue can be efficiently heated.

[0010] Further, by heating the upper surface portion of the stack of wet tissues while pressing the upper surface portion of the stack with the heating means by the pressing force of the pressing means, only the wet tissue in the vicinity of the uppermost layer of the next used lamination is heated. It becomes possible.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a wet tissue heating apparatus according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a wet tissue heating apparatus according to the present invention. FIG. 1 and FIG.
As shown in the figure, the main body 100 of the heating device includes a storage box 2 for storing a wet tissue 91 stored in a flexible wet tissue container 9 and a lid 1 that covers an opening of the storage box 2. Have been. In addition, as shown in FIGS. 5 to 7, the well-known wet tissue 91 in this embodiment is popped up so that when one sheet is taken out, a part of the next sheet is easily taken out. It is of a type that is laminated by a method.

As shown in FIG. 2, the lid 1 is formed by laminating an outer lid 11, a heat insulating material 13, a heater 31, and an inner lid 12.

At the center of each of the heat insulating material 13, the heater 31, and the inner lid 12, an opening communicating with a tissue outlet 92 provided at the center of the outer lid 11 is provided. A take-out passage for the wet tissue 91 stored in the main body 100 of the heating device is formed. Lid 1
The central portion of the housing can be closed with a tissue outlet 92 provided at the central portion of the outer lid 11 in a closed state,
In addition, a tissue take-out lid 111 pivotally attached to a part of the outer cover body 11 so as to open and close is provided so that the wet tissue 91 stored in the storage box 2 can be taken out in the open state.

The heater 31 is, for example, mica, chrome,
The bimetal switch 33 is composed of a heater.
Temperature control so as to keep the temperature substantially constant. In this embodiment, the heater temperature is maintained at about 60 ° by this temperature control. It should be noted that the heater temperature is not limited to about 60 °, and the desired number of tissues themselves may be at or above body temperature, preferably 40 ° to 50 °.
It is also possible to set the temperature so as to keep the temperature. Also,
As the temperature switch for controlling the temperature, a thermostat or an electronic circuit for performing the same temperature control can be used instead of the bimetal switch 33. Further, by using a material that also functions as the heat insulating material 13 as the outer lid 11, the heat insulating material 13 can be omitted. The outer lid 11 is provided at its edge with a lead-out groove 112 for the power cord 34.

FIG. 3 shows an example of an electric circuit of the heating means 3 in this embodiment.
The heater 31 and the bimetal switch 33 are connected in series, and a current is supplied from a power plug 35. The bimetal switch 33 turns off the heater 31 when the temperature rises to a predetermined temperature, and turns on the heater 31 when the temperature drops to a predetermined temperature. The fuse 32 is provided between the power plug 35 and the heater 31 to prevent an overcurrent from flowing through the heater 31. The fuse 32, heater 31 and bimetal switch 33 of the electric circuit are connected to a power plug 35 via a power cord 34.

FIG. 4 shows a state in which the lid 1 and the storage box 2 of the heating device are separated from each other when no wet tissue container is stored. As shown in FIG. 4, two coil springs 22 are mounted in the storage box 2, one end of which is on the bottom of the storage box and the other end of which is on the contact plate 21 which is in close contact with the bottom of the wet tissue container 9. Installed. The shape of the contact plate 21 is a rectangle substantially the same as the shape of the bottom surface of the wet tissue container 9. This coil spring 22 is used for the wet tissue container 9.
Is stored in the storage box 2, the heater 31 is compressed by the contact plate 21, and the heater 31 is compressed by the repulsive force of the coil spring 22 which is stored in the storage box 2. It is pressed in the direction of the inner lid 1.

FIGS. 5 to 7 show a state in which the wet tissue container 9 is accommodated in the main body 100 of the heating device during the above-described embodiment of the present invention. When storing the wet tissue container 9 in the storage box 2, when the wet tissue container 9 is pushed into the storage box 2, the contact plate 21 is pushed down and the coil spring 22 contracts. The storage box 2 is hermetically closed by placing the lid 1 thereon so as to prevent the wet tissue container 9 from jumping out of the storage box 2 due to the elastic force of the coil spring 22. At this time, wet tissue container 9
Is sandwiched between the lid 1 in which the heater 31 is provided and the contact plate 21.

FIG. 6 is an external perspective view showing a state in which the wet tissue take-out lid 111 is opened so that the wet tissue 91 can be taken out. When the wet tissue take-off lid 111 is closed and the power plug 35 is inserted into a power outlet (not shown), power is supplied to the heater 31 and heating is started. As shown in FIG.
Since the wet tissues 91 are stacked in layers one by one, and heated by the heater 31 from above,
Heat will be transmitted from the upper layer closest to the wet tissue take-out lid 111 to the lower layer. Therefore, the next uppermost wet tissue 91 to be used is heated most often.

Wet tissue 91 used at one time
However, if there are five sheets, for example, it is sufficient that up to five layers from the top are heated to a desired temperature. With such a structure, only the necessary amount of the wet tissue 13 needs to be heated, so that it is efficient and the power consumption is small.

As a modified example of the described configuration, the coil spring 22 may be formed of an elastic body such as a flat spring, rubber band, sponge or the like. Further, in the above embodiment, the wet tissue container 9 is pressed toward the heater 31 by the coil spring 22, but the heater 31 is pressed toward the wet tissue container 9 by the coil spring 22. The structure can be changed.

[0021]

As described above, according to the heating apparatus of the present invention, at least a part of the wet tissue contained in the box type or vinyl bag type container is heated and pressed by the pressing means. Since the heating is performed while being pressed, the wet tissue to be used can be efficiently heated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view in which a lid 1 and a storage box 2 of a wet tissue heating device according to an embodiment of the present invention are separated.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the lid 1 of the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is an electric circuit diagram of the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the lid 1 and the storage box 2 of the above-described embodiment separated from each other.

FIG. 5 is an external perspective view when the wet tissue container 9 is stored in the storage box 2 of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an external perspective view of the storage box 2 according to the embodiment when the wet tissue container 9 is stored and the tissue take-out cover 111 of the lid 1 is opened.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of a main part when the wet tissue container 9 is stored in the storage box 2 of the embodiment and the tissue take-out cover 111 of the lid 1 is opened.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Lid 11 Outer lid 12 Inner lid 13 Insulation material 14 Screw 111 Wet tissue take-off lid 112 Drawer groove 2 Storage box 21 Adhesive plate 22 Coil spring 3 Heating means 31 Heater 32 Fuse 33 Bimetal switch 34 Power supply Code 35 Power plug 9 Wet tissue container 91 Wet tissue 92 Wet tissue outlet 100 Main body of heating device

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-64-70017 (JP, A) JP-A-58-139481 (JP, U) Registered utility model 300001512 (JP, U) JP-T-63-501708 (Japanese) JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) A47K 7/00 B65D 84/18 B65D 83/08

Claims (12)

(57) [Claims] Claims: 1. A storage device for storing laminated wet tissues.
Storage box for storing the container, and an opening of the storage box is covered.
A lid, provided in the lid, and the wet tissue;
Heating means for heating the menu, and a heating means provided in the storage box.
Pressing means for pressing the container against the lid, and heating means
Temperature control unit for controlling the temperature of the heating means, wherein the heating means
Desired number of wet tissues by the temperature control unit
Controlled to maintain itself at almost constant temperature above body temperature
Heating apparatus wet tissue, characterized in that it is. 2. Wet the heating means according to claim 1, wherein said that it is controlled to maintain at least five layers to a desired temperature from the extraction side of the wet tissue stacked by the temperature control unit Tissue heating device. 3. The heating apparatus for a wet tissue according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature control unit includes a bimetal switch. 4. The wet tissue heating device according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature control unit has a thermostat. 5. The apparatus for heating a wet tissue according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature control section has a control section using an electronic circuit. 6. The wet tissue according to claim 1, wherein the lid is formed by laminating an outer lid, a heater, and an inner lid. Heating equipment. 7. The wet tissue heating apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the outer lid is formed of a heat insulating material. 8. The apparatus for heating a wet tissue according to claim 6 , wherein the lid is provided with a heat insulating material. 9. An opening is formed at the center of each of the heater and the inner lid, and the heater and the inner lid are housed in the storage box by communicating with a tissue outlet formed at the center of the outer lid. 9. A wet-tissue take-out passage formed as described above, wherein:
The heating device for a wet tissue according to claim 1 . 10. A tissue take-out cover is provided at the center of the cover so as to be openable and closable, and in a closed state of the tissue take-off cover, a tissue take-out opening provided at the center of the outer cover is sealed. any one Kouki of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that it is possible to take out the wet tissue accommodated in the storage box in the opened state
On the wet tissue heating device. 11. The apparatus for heating a wet tissue according to claim 1 , wherein the pressing means is interposed between a bottom portion of the storage box and an adhesive plate which is in close contact with the container. . 12. The pressing means includes a coil spring,
Flat spring, rubber band, any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one of an elastic body such as a sponge
A heating device for the described wet tissue.