JPS5839720B2 - Panel type assembly aquarium - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a panel-type assembly water tank having an internal reinforcement structure.

Panel-type assembling water tanks are constructed by combining a required number of unit panels that are pre-produced in a factory according to their volume, and their use has been rapidly increasing in recent years.

A panel-type assembled aquarium is generally installed on a suitable frame, but as the aquarium becomes larger or higher in height, various types of water pressure reinforcement become necessary.

This method of reinforcing opposing side walls of an aquarium with tension rods is not necessarily an effective reinforcement method for aquariums with large bottom areas, so generally, especially for large aquariums,
It is advantageous to connect the bottom wall and side walls diagonally with stays.

With this diagonal reinforcement method, the load on the side wall due to the water pressure in the aquarium is received by the bottom wall through the stay, and at the joint between the stay and the bottom wall, the tension applied to the stay is the force that lifts the bottom wall, and the force that lifts the bottom wall horizontally. It is divided into a pulling force and a pulling force.

The force that lifts the bottom wall can be dispersed by fixing the bottom wall and the pedestal via fixing brackets, but little consideration has been given to ways to avoid the force that pulls the bottom wall horizontally. As a result, there was a drawback that the joints of the bottom wall panels opened and water leaked.

The present invention is aimed at solving the above-mentioned drawbacks, and consists of rectangular unit panels having mounting flanges on all four sides, which are fastened to each other to form the ceiling, side walls and bottom wall. and two stay blocks for the bottom wall that fix the diagonally reinforced stays on the opposing side walls in a panel-type assembled aquarium in which stay blocks are attached to each corner of the side wall panels and diagonally reinforced with stays between the stay blocks. The present invention relates to a panel type assembled aquarium characterized in that horizontal reinforcing stays are installed between the stay blocks or between the stay blocks provided at one or more corner portions existing in the direction in which the stay blocks project.

The present invention will be explained below based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view showing the inside of a panel-type assembly aquarium according to an example of the present invention, in which stay locks 11 and 21 is fixed to four unit panels so as to disperse stress, and a stay 3 is diagonally inserted between each stay block 11 and 21, and both ends of the stay 3 are fixed to the stay blocks 11 and 21.

In the conventional diagonal reinforcement method, at the corner of the bottom wall panel to which the stay block 21 is fixed, the bottom wall panel is moved in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1 due to the horizontal component of the tension of the stay 3 caused by the bulge of the side wall due to water pressure. drawn to.

The diagonal reinforcing stays are generally installed symmetrically between the opposing side wall panels 10 and 10' and the bottom wall panels 20 and 20' as shown in FIG. As a result, the joints of the bottom wall panels tend to open in the center of the bottom wall, causing water leakage.

This tendency is particularly noticeable in the joints adjacent to the joints to which the stay block 21 is fixed.

In the first example of this invention, the bottom area is not very large as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, and in this case, the stay block 21 and the stays attached to the corners of the opposing bottom wall panel are A horizontal reinforcing stay 4 is passed between the blocks 21' and fixed.

In this way, the horizontal force generated at each corner can be canceled out by providing the stay 4 with a receiver.

In the second example of this invention, in the case of an assembled aquarium with a large bottom area as shown in FIG.
1 and 21', and it is impractical to directly reinforce the stay blocks 21 and 21' with the stay 4 as shown in FIG.
Attach the stay blocks 22 and 22' to the corners of the bottom wall panel next to the installation position of ', and then
22 and 21' and 22', horizontal reinforcing stays 5 and 5' are fixed across and fixed to disperse the horizontal force at each corner.

As shown in Fig. 3, in an aquarium with an extremely large bottom area, in order to more effectively disperse the horizontal force, stay locks 23 and 23 are installed at the corners of the inner bottom wall panel.
', and the stays 6 and 6' are reinforced between the stay blocks 22 and 23 and between 22' and 23'.

In this way, when the bottom area of the assembled aquarium is large, horizontal reinforcing stays are installed between the stay blocks 21 or 21' and the stay blocks provided at one or more corners in the direction in which the stay 3 extends. Installation, optionally reinforced with stay locks and stays.

According to the present invention, the horizontal forces at each corner of the bottom wall panel are canceled out or distributed and are significantly smaller than those of conventional constructions, so that in the fixed position of the stay lock, the bottom wall Only the component force (vertical component) that lifts up will act, and as shown in FIG. 4, the stay lock 21 can be directly fastened to the pedestal 7 by the port 8 without using a fixing bracket. The aquarium can be easily assembled and manufacturing costs can be reduced.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway perspective view of a panel-type assembled aquarium according to an example of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the bottom of the aquarium shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a panel-type assembly aquarium according to another example of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the bottom of the assembled water tank. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view showing the mounting structure between the bottom of the panel-type assembled water tank and the frame of the present invention. 3... Stay, 4, 5, 5', 6, 6'...
...Stay, 7... Frame, 8... Bolt, 10, 10'... Side wall panel, 11, 11
'...Stay lock, 20...Bottom wall panel, 21, 21', 22, 22', 23
. 23'・・・Stay lock.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1 Rectangular unit panels having mounting flanges on all four sides are fastened together to form the ceiling, side walls, and bottom wall, and stay blocks are attached to the corners of the bottom wall panel and the corner of the side wall panel using the above-mentioned stay blocks. In a panel-type assembled aquarium in which blocks are diagonally reinforced with stays, between two stay blocks for the bottom wall that fix diagonally reinforced stays on opposing side walls,
Alternatively, a panel-type assembled aquarium characterized in that horizontal reinforcing stays are installed between each stay block and the stay blocks provided at one or more corners in the direction in which the stays project.