JP2538138Y2 - Pet doorway device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pet doorway device provided on a boundary forming member such as a sash, a door or a wall of a house.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When sleeping places for pets (pet animals) such as dogs and cats or livestock such as chickens (hereinafter collectively referred to as pets) are installed indoors, the pets are formed on the boundary forming member of the house. Doorways may be provided.

The conventional pet doorway is formed by directly punching a hole in the boundary surface forming member or by attaching a simple opening frame to the hole, and is always open. .

[0004]

[Problem to be solved by the invention] With the recent spread of air conditioners, in order to make the house as airtight as possible,
It is desired that a boundary surface forming member such as an outer wall, a door or a window has a structure having as few openings and gaps as possible. From this point of view, conventional pet doorways that are always open have problems such as outdoor cold air blowing indoors or indoor warm air escaping outdoors in winter, so recent homes have A pet doorway has been removed.

[0005] However, if pets are kept indoors for a long time without being able to freely enter and leave outdoors and indoors,
Problems such as getting sick due to accumulated stress have been pointed out.

Further, when a pet doorway is formed on a door or a glass shoji, it is not easy to process the door panel or the glass plate of the shoji and to engage with the opening, and there is a problem in crime prevention. There was no doorway for pets on the doors or glass shoji.

Further, recently, hard materials such as metal panels and tiles are often used for outer walls, and it is not easy to open a pet doorway during and after construction.
With such changes in the outer wall structure, it has been demanded to provide a pet doorway on glass shojis and doors that can be processed relatively easily, but conditions such as ease of construction, windproof performance, crime prevention performance, etc. Those having a structure satisfying the above have not been supplied yet.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a pet doorway device which has improved workability in attaching to a boundary surface forming member such as a glass screen, a door or a wall, and is superior in windproof performance and crime prevention performance. And

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, a pet doorway device according to the present invention is provided with a pet door unit at a lower portion of a sash shoji, and the pet door unit includes an upper and lower unit. A pet entrance door is swingably mounted in the frame formed by the crosspiece and the right and left vertical crosspieces so as to swing freely in and out of the room, and the upper crosspiece is fitted with a glass fitting groove for fitting the glass plate of the sash shoji. Is formed on the vertical rail and the lower rail, and a fitting portion to be fitted into a glass fitting groove formed on the vertical frame and the lower frame of the glass shoji is formed.

[0010] A frame composed of upper, lower and left and right vertical bars is attached to a pet doorway formed on a boundary surface forming member such as a wall, a door or a shoji, and the pet doorway door is installed on the frame in the indoor and outdoor directions. In the pet doorway device swingably openable and closable, the left and right vertical rails of the frame, the opening in the direction facing each other, and forming a fitting groove continuous in the vertical direction,
A bearing member is inserted into the fitting groove so as to be able to move up and down, fixed at an appropriate position, and pivots protruding from both left and right sides of the upper end of the pet entrance door are swingable to the bearing member. It is characterized by being supported by.

Further, a frame composed of upper, lower and left and right vertical bars is attached to a pet doorway formed on a boundary surface forming member such as a wall, a door, a shoji, etc. In the pet doorway device swingably openable and closable on the pet doorway, the pet doorway is pivotally supported at the upper portion so as to swing freely, and a lower side of the pet doorway and a lower beam of the frame are magnetically attracted. A closing member is constituted by a suction member provided on the lower rail, or the suction member is attached to the closing member, and the closing member is held so as to float from the upper surface of the lower rail, and the door is closed. Wherein the closing member floats by suction force so as to come into close contact with the lower surface of the pet doorway door.

[0012]

In the doorway unit for pets, the fittings provided on the vertical and lower rails of the frame are fitted into the glass fitting grooves of the vertical and lower frames of the glass sliding door, respectively. By fitting the glass plate, it can be easily attached to the glass shoji. Pets can enter and exit by pushing the pet doorway open.

Further, a bearing member is inserted into the fitting grooves of the left and right vertical rails so as to be able to move up and down, and the upper rail and the lower rail are connected to the vertical rail to complete a frame, and the frame is attached to the boundary surface forming member. By pivotally supporting a support shaft protruding from a side surface of an upper end portion of the pet doorway on the bearing member, and fixing the bearing member at an appropriate position, the pet doorway is positioned at a predetermined position in the frame. Can be easily and freely swingably mounted.

Further, the pet door is opened when the pet door is pushed with a certain force, but when the power is removed from the pet door, a suction member provided on the lower side of the hanging pet door and a suction member provided on the lower rail of the frame. Are sucked from each other, and the closing member provided on the lower rail of the frame floats and comes into close contact with the lower surface of the pet entrance door.
As a result, the pet doorway stops immediately after passing through the pet, and the pet door is prevented from swaying unnecessarily by the wind.

[0015]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view of a first embodiment of a pet doorway device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of a pet door unit attached to a glass shoji. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the pet door unit corresponding to line AA in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the pet door unit corresponding to line BB in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG.

FIG. 1 shows a pet doorway unit 20 which is a main part of the present embodiment, below one of the sliding sliding doors 10A, 10B built on the sash window frame WF.
1 shows a pet doorway device configured by attaching a. The other glass shoji 10B of the sliding shoji has a normal configuration. In relation to the gist of the present embodiment, one of the glass sashes 10A and 10B may be a shrink-fitting sash.

The glass shoji 10A, like the glass shoji 10B, has an upper frame 11, a lower frame 12, left and right vertical frames 13 and a horizontal middle rail 14, and a glass plate 15 above the horizontal middle rail 14 is a well-known one. In other words, the glass plate 15 with beads on its outer periphery is fitted into the glass fitting grooves formed on the lower surface of the upper frame, the opposing surfaces of the left and right vertical frames, and the upper surface of the horizontal crosspiece, respectively. Have been.

Further, the glass plate 16 on the lower side of the
Is a pet door unit 2 attached to the lower surface of the horizontal crosspiece 14, the opposing surfaces of the left and right vertical stiles 13, and the lower part of the glass shoji 10A.
0 are fitted and fitted into glass fitting grooves respectively formed on the upper surface of the upper crosspiece 21.

The pet door unit 20 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 3, the upper bar 21, the lower bar 22, the left and right vertical bars 23, 23 'and the vertical middle bar 24 are
5 has a frame 20A joined in a rollover "day" shape.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the upper crosspiece 21 has a glass fitting groove 21a which is opened upward at the upper part similarly to the glass fitting groove on the upper surface of the horizontal middle crosspiece 14 of the glass shoji. The lower portion has a glass fitting groove 21b on the outdoor side and a slide groove 21c on the indoor side.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the lower rail 22 has an upper part formed substantially symmetrically with the lower part of the upper rail 21, and has a glass fitting groove 22b on the outdoor side and a glass fitting groove 22b on the indoor side. Has a slide groove 22c, and a lower surface has a fitting portion 22a protruding downward. The shape of the fitting portion 22a is arbitrary, but is formed so as to fit into the glass fitting groove 12a of the lower frame 12 of the glass shoji 10A without play.

The vertical middle bar 24 of the pet door unit 20A
As shown in FIG. 5, has a fitting groove 24b of substantially the same shape that opens on both the left and right sides. In addition, left and right vertical cross
3 and 23 'have fitting grooves 23a which are formed symmetrically and open on the outdoor side to face the fitting grooves 24a and 24b of the vertical middle rail, and the upper rails on the indoor side. And a slide groove 23c similar to the slide grooves 21c and 22c of the lower rail. Further, the vertical rails 23, 23 'are respectively
0A, the fitting portion 22a of the lower rail 22 protruding to the outer peripheral side
And the same fitting portion 23a.

In this way, all the bars 21, 22, 23,
In a state where the frames 23 'and 24 are joined in a roll-over "day" shape and the frame is assembled, the fitting grooves 21b, 22b, 23b and 24b are continuous in a rectangular shape on the left and right sides of the vertical middle rail 24, respectively.
On the other hand, since the vertical middle rail 24 does not have a slide groove on the indoor side, the slide grooves 21c, 22c, 23c of the respective vertical bars 21, 22, 23, 23 'are rectangular on the indoor side of the vertical middle rail 24. Continuous.

A glass plate 26 is mounted via a bead 27 in one of two right and left rectangular fitting grooves, in the illustrated example, a fitting groove on the right side. An opening surface between the bar 24, the right vertical bar 23 ′, and the lower bar 22 is closed. On the other hand, a pet doorway is formed between the upper crosspiece 21, the vertical middle crosspiece 24, the left vertical crosspiece 23, and the lower crosspiece 22, and the pet doorway 20B is formed at the doorway.
Are mounted to be openable and closable in indoor and outdoor directions as described later.

That is, as partially shown in FIG. 6, the fitting grooves 23b, which open to face the left vertical rail 23 and the vertical middle rail 24,
A bearing member 28 is inserted into 24b so as to be able to move up and down before assembling the frame 20A in a Japanese character shape. The bearing member 28 is formed in a vertically long block shape, and has a bearing portion 28 at an upper end portion.
a has a screw through hole 28b at the bottom.

The pet entrance door 20B is formed in a rectangular shape having an area substantially equal to the opening surface on the left side of the frame 20A, and has support shafts 29 protruding from the upper left and right side surfaces. In order to attach the pet door door 20B to the frame 20A, the upper end of the pet door door is slightly inclined, and the left and right support shafts 29 are respectively attached to the bearing portions 28 of the left and right bearing members 28.
a, the upper end of the double bearing member 28 is
The screw 210 is moved until it stops at 1, and in the stopped state, the screw 210 is screwed firmly into the screw through hole 28b of each bearing member and fixed. Thus, the pet doorway door 20B has an upper end parallel to the upper rail 21 of the frame 20A, swings around the support shaft 29 in the indoor and outdoor directions, and can open and close the opening surface of the frame 20A.

A lock mechanism is provided at the lower end of the pet door 20A. The lock mechanism forms a rectangular cylindrical holding portion 211 that penetrates in the direction of the fitting groove 23b of the vertical bar 23 or the fitting groove 24b of the middle bar 24 at the indoor side portions of the left and right end portions of the pet entrance door, respectively. A rod-like lock member 212 having a rectangular cross section is slid in the holding portion in the left-right direction,
The shaft portion 212a is configured to fit so as to be able to protrude and retract from the side surface of the pet doorway door 20B. Lock member 212
Has a knob or finger hook 212b at the inner end, and when the knob is pinched in the closed state or the finger hook is pushed outward with the fingertip and moved outward, as shown in FIG. Since the shaft portion 212a fits into the fitting grooves 23b and 24b of the vertical rail 23 and the middle rail 24, the pet door 20
B is locked in the closed state. When the lock member is moved inward, the lock is released.
Reference numeral 213 in FIG. 6 denotes a stopper that stops when the lock member 212 is moved in the unlocking direction without falling out of the holding unit 211.

The pet doorway unit 20A configured as described above is used for the lower glass plate 1 of the glass shoji 10A.
6 is mounted between the middle rail 14 and the left and right vertical frames 13 and then fitted between the left and right vertical frames 13, and the fitting portions 23 a of the left and right vertical rails 23 and 23 ′ are respectively fitted to the left and right vertical frames 13. The lower end of the glass plate 16 is fitted into the glass fitting groove 21a of the upper crosspiece 21 while moving in the direction of the lower end of the glass plate 16 in the state of being fitted in the glass fitting groove of FIG. The pet doorway unit 20 is fixed to the glass door 10A by fitting the fitting portion 229 of the lower rail 22 into the glass fitting groove 12a of the lower frame.

In the above state, when the glass shoji 10A is used by being built on a window frame, the pet door 20B is used.
Are swingably supported in the indoor and outdoor directions by a support shaft 29. Accordingly, the pet can enter and exit through the doorway of the pet door unit 20 by pushing the pet doorway door open with the head.

However, if the pet door door 20B is simply supported by the support shaft 29, the pet door door swings even with a weak wind, and there is a disadvantage that the wind enters. Also, it is not preferable that the pet doorway swings for a long time after the pet passes. The fitting portion 22b of the lower crosspiece 22 of the pet doorway unit 20 is open on the upper surface in a portion corresponding to the pet entrance door 20B. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the fitting groove is used to prevent unnecessary swinging of the pet door.

That is, as illustrated in FIG.
In the second fitting groove 22b, a closing member 30 extending in the longitudinal direction of the fitting groove is provided between the middle bar 24 and the left vertical bar 23 so as to float, and a suction member exposed on the upper surface of the closing member 30 is provided. 31 is fixed, and a suction member 32 is provided at the lower end of the pet doorway 20B. These suction members 3
The magnets 1 and 32 act to attract each other by magnetism, and one of them can be a permanent magnet, the other is a magnetic material, or both are permanent magnets. Further, instead of attaching the suction member 31 to the closing member 30, the closing member 30 itself may be formed by a suction member. In the closed state, the suction members 31 and 32 approach each other to apply a suction force, so that the closing member 30 floats, and the upper surface thereof is in close contact with the lower surface of the pet door 20B. As the suction member 31, it is preferable to use stainless steel which is superior in corrosion resistance. Also, as shown in FIG.
The magnetic material 3 is provided at both ends in the longitudinal direction of the closing member 30 or at intervals.
1 and a fitting material 3 such as a vinyl chloride resin
What is necessary is just to pack in 1A. Therefore, the suction member 3 on the door 20B side
In 2, permanent magnets may be arranged at a plurality of locations corresponding to each magnetic material 31.

For this reason, when the pet is
After the door is pushed open, the pet doorway stops swinging quickly and acts to maintain the closed state. Therefore, the pet door does not swing open and close even if it is a little wind, so that outdoor noise and cold outside air can easily flow into the indoor area, and indoor warm air can easily flow out to the outdoor area. Alternatively, generation of swing noise of the pet doorway due to wind, vibration, or the like is prevented.

The unnecessary swinging of the pet doorway due to the suction force of the suction members 31 and 32 is prevented.
Not valid. In some cases, it is necessary to prohibit the pet from going out. In such a case, it is convenient if the entrance can be completely shielded.

The slide grooves 21c, 22c and 23c provided on the indoor side of the pet door unit 20 are provided for this purpose. That is, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, these slide grooves are provided with a glass plate 4 for closing an entrance between the vertical middle bar 24 and one of the vertical bars 23.
0 is slidably mounted. The glass plate 40 is preferably provided with a knob 41 or a hollow 41 so that the opening and closing force can be easily applied by hand from the indoor side.

The above embodiment is an example in which the pet door unit 20 which is a main part of the present invention is incorporated in the lower part of the glass shoji 10A, so that the pet door unit 20 has a width equal to the width of the glass shoji 10A. However, usually, the width of the glass shoji has a size of 90 cm or more. Therefore, since the pet doorway unit 20 is larger than the width required as a pet doorway, the middle crosspiece 24 is provided, and the space between the middle crosspiece 24 and the other vertical crosspiece 23 ′ is closed by the glass plate 26. .

However, the pet door unit 20 does not have the glass plate 26, that is, without the middle bar 24,
A frame 20A 'is formed by only the upper and lower crosses and the left and right vertical crosses to form an entrance and exit, and a pet entrance and exit door 20B is provided at the entrance and exit, and a lock mechanism is provided as described above, and unnecessary swinging is performed by a suction action. The structure can be prevented.

As described above, the unit 20 in which the pet entrance door is mounted on the frame 20A 'assembled with the upper and lower rails and the left and right vertical rails is mounted on a glass sliding door or other sliding door. As illustrated, it can be used by being attached to an entrance or door D which is a doorway for humans, or it can be used by being attached to an outer wall W near the doorway for humans as shown in FIG.

In these cases, the outer periphery of the frame 20A '
Any structure that facilitates attachment to a door or wall is added.

[0039]

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, a pet door unit can be simply attached to the lower part of the glass shoji.
A pet doorway can be provided, and the doorway is opened and closed by a pet doorway, thereby preventing inflow of cool air and loss of warm air. In addition, since the pet doorway unit inserts the fitting portion between the vertical bar and the lower bar into the glass fitting groove of the glass shoji and fits the glass plate into the glass fitting groove of the upper bar, and is fixed. It can be easily attached to a shoji.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the pet door can be easily mounted on the assembled frame so as to be rotatable around the support shaft at the upper end.

According to the third aspect of the present invention,
Since the swing of the pet doorway can be stopped immediately after the pet passes through the doorway and the closed state can be maintained, unlike the conventional pet doorway which is always open, the cooling and heating load is prevented from increasing, Generation of noise due to swinging is suppressed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the pet doorway unit of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line AA of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line BBB of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the pet door unit of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an exploded perspective view illustrating a structure for attaching the pet door to the frame.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view illustrating an example of a holding member.

FIG. 8 is a front view showing another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a front view showing still another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 WF Window frame 10A Glass shoji 20 Pet doorway unit 21 Upper bar 22 Lower bar 23, 23 'Vertical bar 24 Middle vertical bar 26 Glass plate 20B Pet doorway 29 Support shaft 30 Closing member 30 Magnetic material (suction member) 32 Permanent magnet (Suction member)

Claims (3)

(57) [Scope of request for utility model registration] 1. A pet doorway unit is attached to a lower portion of a sash shoji, and the pet doorway unit swings a pet doorway door indoors and outdoors in a frame including an upper, lower, and left and right vertical bars. A glass fitting groove for fitting the glass plate of the sash shoji is formed in the upper rail, and the vertical rail and the lower rail are formed on the vertical frame and the lower rail of the glass sliding door. A pet entrance / exit device, characterized in that a fitting portion to be fitted into the formed glass fitting groove is formed. 2. A frame comprising upper, lower and left and right vertical rails is attached to a pet doorway formed on a boundary surface forming member such as a wall, a door, a shoji screen, and the pet doorway door is directed to the indoor and outdoor directions. In the pet doorway device swingably openable and closable, the left and right vertical rails of the frame are formed with fitting grooves that open in opposite directions and that are continuous in the vertical direction. Then, a bearing member is inserted so as to be able to move up and down and fixed at an appropriate position, and support shafts projecting from both left and right side surfaces of an upper end portion of the pet entrance door are swingably opened and closed by the bearing member. A doorway device for pets. 3. A frame comprising upper, lower and left and right vertical bars is attached to a pet doorway formed on a boundary forming member such as a wall, a door or a shoji, and a pet doorway is provided on the frame in the indoor and outdoor directions. In a pet doorway device that is swingably opened and closed, the pet doorway is pivotally supported at an upper portion so as to be swingable,
A suction member that performs a magnetic suction operation is provided on the lower side of the pet doorway and the lower crosspiece of the frame, and the suction member provided on the lower crosspiece constitutes a closing member, or the closing member includes the suction member. The pet, wherein the closing member is held so as to float from the upper surface of the lower crosspiece, and in a closed state, the closing member floats by a suction force so as to be in close contact with the lower surface of the pet doorway door. Doorway device.