JPH0440001B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a storage furniture device having a circulating lift capable of storing a large amount of stored items.

[Prior art and its issues]

There are various types of furniture, but so-called chests of drawers are mainly used to store underwear, pants, and other everyday clothing. A typical chest of drawers has a structure in which a required number of storage sections are provided in an outer frame with an open front, and a drawer is accommodated in each storage section. However, conventional chests of drawers have the following problems. That is, the upper limit of the height of a chest of drawers is set at a height that can be comfortably used by a person of normal height, and is generally set at about 150 cm.
The number of stages of the drawer frame is 7 to 8 stages. For this reason, the storage capacity is limited, and for a standard household of four to five people, one stick is not enough, but two or three sticks are required. If you can keep them all in one place, it's not so convenient to use, but if you have to separate them into several places because the room is small, etc., it's not so convenient. In addition, in order to increase the storage capacity or to make it easier to organize, there are some that have each drawer divided into two parts, one on the back side and one on the front side. In the chest of drawers with this structure, in order to pull out the drawer on the back side, it is necessary to remove the drawer on the front side from the storage part, which is a cumbersome operation. Furthermore, if there are a large number of clothes, it is more efficient to remove the drawer from the chest of drawers to store and take out the clothes in the drawer. However, the drawers that contain the items are heavy, so
If the drawer is pulled out at the top or bottom of the chest of drawers, it puts a strain on the body, and raising and lowering the drawer becomes hard work. Especially for the elderly, there is a risk of hurting the lower back.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide storage furniture that can accommodate a large amount of items such as clothing and that can be easily put in and taken out.

[Structure of the invention]

The configuration of the present invention taken to solve the above problems and achieve the objectives is as follows. The drawer frame has an endless conveyor chain that circulates in the vertical direction, and the endless conveyor chain is provided with a plurality of drawer mounting bodies to constitute a circulating lift, and the drawer mounting bodies include a lifting Drawers are placed on all parts except the bottom of the section and the top of the descending section, and the direction change section of the circulating lift has a drawer placed at the same height as an empty drawer placement body on which no drawers are placed. Means is provided for horizontally transporting the drawer placed on the drawer mounting body located thereon and placing it on an empty drawer mounting body, and the chest of drawers frame further has an opening for pulling out the drawer from the chest of drawer frames. A storage furniture arrangement with a circulation lift is provided. Circulating lifts are operated manually or by motors. A chest of drawers frame is built into a house,
If it is something that spans the first and second floors of a house,
An opening for pulling out the drawer from the chest of drawers is provided on each floor. The position of the opening is preferably such that holding the drawer does not put a strain on the body when storing and taking out clothes. Means for horizontally transporting the drawer frame include, for example, a drive roller that is driven by contacting the side edge of the drawer frame, or a movable claw that moves back and forth, but is not limited thereto. It's not a thing.

【Example】

The present invention will be explained in more detail based on embodiments shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view with a portion cut away. The accommodation furniture includes a chest of drawers frame 1. Chest of drawers frame 1
is formed into a box shape, and a drawer opening 12 with a width equivalent to three drawers is formed at the lower part of the front side (right side in the figure). On the inner surfaces of both side walls 14, 14a of the chest of drawer frame 1,
A pair of sprockets 21 at each of the upper and lower four corners,
22, 23, and 24 are attached. A pair of sprockets 21a and 22 are also located slightly inside.
a, 23a, and 24a are attached. Furthermore, sprockets 25 and 26 are attached at the top and bottom inside thereof. Endless chains C1, C2, and C3 are wound around the sprockets 21, 22, 23, and 24, the sprockets 21a, 22a, 23a, and 24a, and the sprockets 25 and 26, respectively. Elevating rollers 30 are mounted on the chains C1, C2, and C3 at equal intervals. Further, the heights of adjacent lifting rollers 30 are set to be the same and parallel to each other. Note that each sprocket is driven at the same speed by a drive motor (not shown), the chains C1, C2, and C3 are also fed at the same speed, and the adjacent lifting rollers 30 are also moved parallel to each other in the vertically moving section. Move in the same state. At the upper and lower portions of the side walls 14, 14a, movable rollers 41,
42, 43, and 44 are provided. The moving rollers 41, 42, 43, and 44 are made of a material with a large friction coefficient, such as rubber, and are arranged so as to come into contact with a portion of the drawer 5 when the drawer 5 reaches a predetermined position. The front side of the chest of drawer frame 1 is a rising part 1A where the elevating rollers 30 rise, and the back side is a descending part 1B where the elevating rollers 30 descend. Drawers 5 are placed and housed in multiple stages on the elevating rollers 30 of the ascending section 1A and the descending section 1B, leaving one location at the top or bottom for movement.
The drawer 5 is open at the top and has a handle 52 at the front. The driving and stopping of each drive unit in this embodiment is controlled by known technical means such as a limit switch. (Operation) The operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to the drawings. If there is no desired stored item in the drawer 5 located at the drawer opening 12, a drive switch (not shown) is turned on. Each sprocket provided inside the side walls 14, 14a of the chest of drawer frame 1 is driven, and the chains C1,
C2 and C3 rotate counterclockwise in the figure. The drawer 5 of the ascending section 1A rises and the descending section 1
The drawers 5 of B move one step each and then stop, and the bottom step of the rising section 1A and the top step of the descending section 1B become empty spaces. At that time, drawer 5
are in contact with moving rollers 41, 42, 43, and 44. The upper moving rollers 41 and 42 are driven, and first the uppermost drawer 5 of the ascending section 1A is moved to the descending section 1.
It is sent horizontally to the B side. At the same time, the lower moving rollers 43 and 44 are driven, and the lowermost drawer 5 of the lowering part 1B is sent horizontally to the rising part 1A, and appears at the lowermost stage of the drawer opening 12 of the chest of drawer frame 1. In this way, the drawers 5 are sequentially fed until the desired drawer 5 appears. Note that the present invention is not limited to the illustrated embodiment, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the claims.

【Effect of the invention】

The present invention has the above configuration and has the following effects. (1) The storage capacity of clothes can be increased arbitrarily by increasing the number of drawer mounting bodies and the number of drawers placed thereon. Therefore, the storage furniture can be installed in one place, and the workability of storing and taking out clothes is improved compared to the case where the storage furniture is distributed. (2) Unlike conventional furniture, the position of the opening for pulling out the drawers can be set arbitrarily. For this reason, by providing the opening in a position where it will not put a strain on the body even when the drawer is taken out of the chest of drawers, the strain on the body can be reduced, and furthermore, the workability of storing and taking out clothes can be improved. . Further, the size of the storage furniture device can be freely set within the range that can fit in the house. (3) Since the drawers on the back side can also be moved forward one after another, there is no need to remove the drawers on the front side, unlike conventional storage furniture with split-type drawers.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show an embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 1 is a partially cutaway schematic perspective view. A... Storage furniture, 1... Chest of drawer frame, 12... Drawer opening, 21, 22, 23, 24, 21a, 22
a, 23a, 24a, 25, 26... Sprocket, C1, C2, C3... Chain, 1A... Rising part, 1B... Descending part, 30... Lifting roller body,
5...Drawer, 41, 42, 43, 44...Moving roller.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An endless conveyor chain that circulates in the vertical direction is provided in the chest of drawers, and a plurality of drawer mounting bodies are provided on the endless conveyor chain to constitute a circulating lift, and the drawer mounting bodies include: Drawers are placed on all but the lowest part of the rising part and the top part of the lowering part, and the direction changing part of the circulation type lift has a drawer placed at the same height as an empty drawer mounting body on which no drawers are placed. The drawer placed on the drawer mounting body located at A storage furniture system with a circulating lift, which is provided with.