Plug-in holder

Abstract

To provide a holder having an unobstructive flat shape in a service space, and allowing a member to be held such as a towel to be easily inserted thereinto, almost difficult to slip off.SOLUTION: An insertion type holder 1 comprises: a slit 20 opened on a holder body 10 having a flat shape as a whole; an insertion hole 30 having a wide open width with an outer edge connected from the slit 20; and a mounting hole 40 forming a narrow part 15. The slit 20 is formed gradually narrowly from an open end 21 toward a tip 22 so as to block the tip 22.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present invention relates to a plug-in holder that allows a user to attach a holder for holding an object, such as a cloth body including a towel or a dishcloth, at an appropriate location where the user desires to use the holder. [Background technology]

[0002] Towel racks with cuts have existed in the past (see Patent Document 1). The towel rack described in Patent Document 1 has a towel clamping member that is supported with a space provided from the base. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0003] [Patent Document 1] Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 3-120889 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0004] The towel rack described in Patent Document 1, which is a conventional technology, is formed so that the towel clamping member protrudes three-dimensionally from the base to provide a space from the base. When this towel rack is placed in an appropriate location, it takes up space because of its three-dimensional shape, and it could not be placed in a narrow location. In particular, kitchen areas and hand washing areas are often cramped with many items stored there, and the protruding part comes into contact with the user. Therefore, a holder that can hold cloth bodies such as towels in as narrow an area as possible has been required. Furthermore, the towel rack described in Patent Document 1, which is a conventional technology, has an open lower part of the towel clamping member at the protruding part, and when a cloth towel or the like thinner than the width length between the clamping members is inserted, it has the disadvantage of falling out.

[0005] SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT EMBODIMENT An object of the present invention is to provide a plug-in holder that has a basic flat shape that is unobtrusive where it is used, yet allows a held item such as a towel to be easily inserted and is less likely to fall out. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] The present invention Plug-in holder for teeth, The holder is made up of a flat plate-shaped holder body and a holder support portion, and the holder support portion is folded at a folding portion and attached to a support surface by a fixing means while being attached to the holder body. An insertion type holder that holds an object by inserting it into a slit having a predetermined length, The holder body, which is generally flat, has a slit opened in the holder body, an insertion hole having an opening width wider than an open end of the slit, and Continue from both sides of a narrow portion and a mounting hole forming the narrow portion; the bent portion and the holder support portion located above the narrow portion; having The insertion hole has an outer edge that is continuous with the open end of the slit.

[0007] It is also preferable that the slit is formed in the flat holder body so as to gradually narrow from an open end continuing to the insertion hole toward the tip, with the tip being closed.

[0008] In addition, it is preferable that the holder body has a bendable narrow portion that extends continuously from the holder body to the holder support portion, and that the width length of the narrow portion is formed shorter than the width length of the insertion hole opposing portions on both sides of the insertion hole.

[0009] Moreover, it is preferable that the vertical length in the direction opposite to the width of the mounting hole is longer than the width of the open end of the slit. Effect of the Invention

[0010] According to the invention described in claim 1, since the whole is in a flat shape, it can be effectively used even in a narrow installation space to hold towels and other objects, and since there are no protruding parts, the user will not be injured if they accidentally bump into them, and it can be used safely. Also, since an insertion hole is formed in the slit that continues from the open end, it makes it easy for the user to insert towels and other objects.

[0011] According to the invention described in claim 2, by making the slits gradually narrower from the open end, it is possible to provide a holder that reliably holds the object to be held, and by closing the tip (bottom end) of the slit formed along the vertical direction, it is possible to provide a holder that is difficult to fall out. Furthermore, since the slits are formed in a flat holder body rather than a three-dimensional one, it is possible to hold objects ranging from those with a certain thickness to those that are thin.

[0012] According to the invention described in claim 3, the narrow portion allows the user to easily bend and deform the holder body by hand according to the installation location, and the holder support portion is formed at the end of the narrow portion, making it possible to attach the holder to various locations such as the open end of a shelf, a vertical surface, etc. Also, the narrow portion is formed narrower than the portion facing the insertion port, so that when the user bends and deforms the holder, bending at the narrow portion can be induced without causing distortion in the insertion hole or slit.

[0013] According to the invention as recited in claim 4, it is possible to secure a minimum pushing width for the object to be held when inserted into the slit, while the narrow portion allows the holder body to be bent at 90 degrees or 180 degrees for installation. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0014] [Figure 1] FIG. 1 is a front view of a plug-in type holder according to a first embodiment of the present invention. [Diagram 2] FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the plug-in holder of FIG. 1; [Diagram 3] 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which the plug-in type holder of FIG. 1 is bent at a narrow portion by approximately 180 degrees. [Figure 4] FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. [Diagram 5] FIG. 13 is a perspective view showing a state in which the narrow portion is bent at approximately 90 degrees. [Figure 6] 4 is a perspective view showing a state in which an object to be held is inserted and held in the state shown in FIG. 3. FIG. [Figure 7] 13 is a side view of the narrow portion having a short vertical length and an acute angled bend. FIG. [Figure 8]FIG. 4 is a front view showing a second embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 9] FIG. 11 is a front view showing a third embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 10] FIG. 11 is a front view showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 11] FIG. 13 is a front view showing a fifth embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0015] An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in Figures 1 to 5, a plug-in holder 1 according to the first embodiment is made of a holder body 10 made of a flat plate-like member, with a slit 20, an insertion hole 30, and an attachment hole 40 formed therein.

[0016] The holder body 10 according to the first embodiment is a metal plate made of stainless steel, and is a thin plate with a vertical length of 60 to 80 mm, a width length (left-right length) of 30 to 40 mm, and a thickness of about 0.4 to 1 mm, and is so-called palm-sized. When viewed from the front, the upper side is approximately rectangular and the lower side is curved to prevent injury when contacted. This embodiment is a holder that can hold a held member such as a towel even in a narrow space with a simple configuration of a long hole-shaped slit 20 and two holes 30, 40 formed in a flat thin plate, as long as there is a space (insertion space R) of about 5 mm on the back side of the holder body 10. Note that this embodiment uses a holder body 10 with a vertical direction as the longitudinal direction, but the holder body 10 may be a holder with a left-right direction (width direction) as the longitudinal direction, and the material may be a metal plate other than stainless steel, or may be a hard plate that can be bent at the narrow width parts 15, 15.

[0017] The objects to be held in this embodiment are primarily cloth objects such as towels and dish towels, but it is also possible to insert and hold lightweight items such as masks, kitchen accessories, and cords.

[0018] The holder body 10 is entirely made of a single thin flat plate. As shown in Fig. 1, the holder body 10 is made up of a lower portion 11 located below the tip 22 of the slit 20, slit facing portions 12, 12 located on both sides of the slit 20 in the width direction, insertion hole facing portions 13, 13 located on both sides of the insertion hole 30 in the width direction, which is a hole into which a held member is inserted, a central portion 14 located between the insertion hole and the mounting hole, narrow portions (mounting hole facing portions) 15, 15 located on both sides of the mounting hole 40 in the width direction, and a holder support portion 16 located above the mounting hole 40. All of these are continuous, and are formed by drilling the slit 20, the insertion hole 30, and the mounting hole 40 from a single metal flat plate.

[0019] 1 and 2, the slit 20 formed in the holder body 10 is formed as an elongated hole with the vertical direction being the longitudinal direction at the center position in the width direction of the holder body 10. The slit 20 has open ends 21, 21 which are the upper end and a tip 22 which is the lower end, and the open ends 21, 21 which are the uppermost part of the linear slit are continuous with the outer edge of the lower part of the curved insertion hole 30, and the slit 20 and the insertion hole 30 are opened integrally, so that the insertion hole 30 and the slit 20 form a continuous opening hole.

[0020] The tip 22, which is the lower end of the slit 20, is closed by the lower part 11 of the holder body 10 below it, and since the slit 20 is an opening in a flat plate-like holder that is not vertically arranged, a part that is closed vertically downward is provided at every part of the slit 20, so that the held member held by the slit 20 does not fall out. The width length between the open ends 21, 21 at the upper end of the slit 20 becomes shorter as it goes downward along the longitudinal direction of the slit 20, and the slit is closed at the tip (lower end) 22. The shape of the tip 22 is not a sharp V-shape when viewed from the front, but a U-shape with a gentle arc. The longitudinal length of the slit is 20 to 25 mm, and the width length between the open ends 21, 21 is 2 to 4 mm.

[0021] The slits 20 are groove-shaped openings in the flat holder body 10, and are not three-dimensional shapes that cause convex objects to protrude from the surface of the holder body 10. With this configuration, when the plug-in holder 1 is used, there are no parts that protrude from the holder body 10, and it becomes possible to hold the object to be held even in a small gap.

[0022] The insertion hole 30 in this embodiment is open below its outer edge, continuing to the open ends 21, 21 of the slit 20. The insertion hole 30 in the first embodiment has a heart-shaped outer edge, but it may be simply circular or diamond-shaped, a cat's face-shaped (see FIG. 8), or another shape. The center of the insertion hole 30 is located in the vertical center of the holder body 10, making it easy for the user to insert the insertion hole 30 and making it easy for the insertion hole 30 to receive distortion in the width direction when the slit is held.

[0023] In the holder body 10, both sides of the insertion hole 30 in the width direction are located further to the side in the width direction than the open ends 21, 21 of the slit 20, and the width direction length of the insertion hole 30 at its widest position is longer than the width direction length of the slit 20 at its widest position. In other words, the width direction length of the insertion hole facing parts 13, 13 is shorter than the width direction length of the slit facing parts 12, 12. Since the insertion hole 30 is formed as a hole with a longer width direction length than the slit 20, and the slit 20 is narrowed from the open ends 21, 21, which are continuous positions with the insertion hole 30, to the tip 22, as shown in FIG. 6, when inserting the object T to be held into the slit 20, the object T to be held is passed through the insertion hole 30 once and then lowered along the slit 20 in that state, so that the object to be held is held in the slit 20. In this way, the object to be held can be easily held.

[0024] Furthermore, since the slit 20 narrows towards its tip, and the insertion hole 30 continuing from the slit 20 is formed wide in the width direction, when an object to be held is inserted into the slit 20 to be held (clamped), deformation (distortion in the width direction) of the thin plate-shaped holder body 10 occurs near the upper insertion hole 30 rather than near the tip of the slit, which reduces damage to the slit 20 and makes it possible for the slit 20 to continuously hold the object.

[0025] The open ends 21, 21 at the upper end of the slit 20 are continuous with the outer edge of the lower end of the insertion hole 30, but in this embodiment, the open ends 21, 21 are rounded in shape. This prevents a held member such as a towel from getting caught, allowing it to be smoothly inserted into the slit 20, and also prevents the user's hand from being injured when it is inserted into the slit 20.

[0026] The mounting hole 40 is formed in the holder main body 10 as an elliptical opening with the width direction as the longitudinal direction, and is located above the insertion hole 30. On both sides of the mounting hole 40 in the width direction, there are narrow portions (mounting hole facing portions) 15, 15 formed continuously from the holder main body 10. The mounting hole 40 is opened in a rectangular shape with the width direction as the longitudinal direction, and both sides in the width direction are located further to the lateral side in the width direction than both sides in the width direction of the insertion hole 30. The holder support portion 16 is disposed above the mounting hole 40.

[0027] The formation of the mounting holes 40 makes it possible to fold the holder body 10 at the narrow portions 15, 15 on both sides of the holder body 10. As will be described later, by manually bending the holder body 10 by the user, the user can position the plug-in type holder 1 in an appropriate location.

[0028] The width direction length of the mounting hole 40 is formed longer than the insertion hole 30, and conversely, the width length of the narrow width parts 15, 15 of the holder body 10 is formed shorter than the width length of the insertion hole facing parts 13, 13. By forming the narrow width parts 15, 15 located on both sides of the holder body 10 to be the shortest, the holder body 10 can be guided to the position where it is easiest to bend, and unnecessary distortion is not formed in the insertion hole 30 or the slit 20 of the holder body 10 when bending. In this embodiment, the narrow width parts 15, 15 are formed at multiple locations, and the width length is based on the total width length. Specifically, the narrow width parts 15, 15 are formed in two across the mounting hole 40, and the insertion hole facing parts 13, 13 are formed in two across the insertion hole 30, but both the narrow width parts and the insertion hole facing parts are based on the total length obtained by adding up the two width lengths, and the narrow width parts are shorter than the insertion hole facing parts. This is the same even when the mounting hole 40 is four small holes in other embodiments, and the total width of all narrow portions 15, 15 located on both sides of the four small holes is used as the reference.

[0029] 1 and 4, the vertical length L2 of the narrow portions 15, 15 (vertical length of the mounting hole 40) is longer than the opening length (width) L1 between the open ends 21, 21 of the slit 20, and more preferably is three times longer. When the object T to be held is inserted from the insertion hole 30 through the open ends 21, 21 of the slit 20 (see FIG. 6), it is preferable that the back side of the holder body 10 has a certain insertion space R with the installation surface K according to the width L1 between the open ends 21, 21 of the slit. If this insertion space R has a depth L3 of about 1.5 times the width L1 between the open ends 21, 21 of the slit, it becomes possible to hook and insert the object into the slit 20. On the other hand, the vertical length L2 of the narrow portions 15, 15 (vertical length of the mounting hole 40) must be long enough to allow the holder body 10 to be bent at about 90 degrees or about 180 degrees while maintaining the depth length L3 of the insertion space R when the holder body 10 is bent, and is preferably formed to be at least twice as long as the length L1 between the open ends 21, 21, and is preferably three to four times as long, taking into consideration the bending portion. If the vertical length L2 of the narrow portions 15, 15 is shorter than the length L1 between the open ends 21, 21, it becomes difficult to bend the holder body 10 at 90 degrees or 180 degrees, and if the length is shorter than twice the length L1 between the open ends 21, 21, the insertion space R cannot be formed when the holder body 10 is bent at 180 degrees. 7(a)(b), an acute angled bend is required, causing the lower depth length L3 of the holder body 10 to protrude forward, making it impossible to achieve the intended purpose of installation in a narrow area. In this embodiment, the length L1 between the open ends is approximately 3 mm, the vertical length L2 of the narrow portions 15, 15 is approximately 10 mm, and the required depth length L3 of the insertion space R is approximately 5 mm.

[0030] The following describes a mode in which the plug-in holder 1 is positioned by folding at the mounting hole 40 and the narrow portions 15, 15. The plug-in holder 1 is positioned by folding at the narrow portions 15, 15 and supporting it with the holder support portion 16 located above the narrow portions 15, 15 depending on the location of use. The plug-in holder 1 can hold an object even in a small space, with a gap of about 5 mm being sufficient for the depth length of the insertion space R on the back side. Therefore, when installing the plug-in holder 1, it is positioned so that a gap of about 5 mm is created.

[0031] In the first arrangement, as shown in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, the holder body 10 is folded at approximately 180 degrees at the mounting hole 40 and the narrow portions 15, 15, and the holder support portion 16 of the holder body 10, which is the folded portion, is bonded to a vertical surface. In the second arrangement, as shown in Fig. 5, the holder support portion 16 is bent at approximately 90 degrees relative to the portion of the holder body 10 where the slit 20 is located, and the holder support portion 16 is placed on the end of a door or a flat open end of a shelf. In the third arrangement, the depth length L3 of the insertion space R may be set to 5 mm, and the narrow portions 15, 15 may be bonded to a vertical surface as is by the holder support portion 16 without being folded.

[0032] The support and arrangement by the holder support part 16 is preferably achieved by adhering the holder support part 16 to the support surface by sticking double-sided tape 50 to either the front or back surface of the holder support part 16. When a separate fixing means is provided on the holder support surface, means such as adhesive or screw fastening other than double-sided tape may be used. Since the front and back surfaces of the plug-in type holder 1 of this embodiment have the same shape, if double-sided tape is provided on either the front or back surface, the plug-in type holder 1 can be used by turning it over even in the first, second, or third arrangement form.

[0033] Other embodiments of the present invention will be described. In Fig. 8, unlike the first embodiment, the insertion hole 30 is shaped like a cat's face. In Fig. 9, the mounting hole from the first embodiment is shaped like a rectangle with the width direction as the longitudinal direction. In Fig. 10, the insertion hole 30 is shaped like a cat's face, and instead of one mounting hole 40, multiple small holes are arranged continuously in the width direction. Even in this case, it is preferable that the total length of the narrow part 15 between the multiple small holes is shorter than the total length of the insertion hole facing parts 13, 13 of the insertion hole 30. Fig. 11 shows a wine glass type in which the insertion hole, mounting hole, and slit are a continuous hole. Even in this case, it is preferable that the hole upper part 40 corresponding to the mounting hole forms the narrow part 15, 15 so that it is narrower than the insertion hole facing parts 13, 13. In addition, a convex strip extending in the width direction is formed below the tip 22 of the slit 20 to form a fall-off prevention part that further prevents the held object from falling off. [Explanation of symbols]

[0034] 1...plug-in type holder, 10...holder body, 11...lower portion, 12...slit facing portion, 13...insertion hole facing portion, 14...central portion, 15...narrow portion, 16...holder support portion, 20...slit, 21...open end, 22...tip, 30...insertion hole, 40...mounting hole, L1...width of open end, L2...vertical length of narrow portion, L3...depth, R...insertion space, T...held object.

Claims

1. An insertion-type holder comprising a flat holder body and a holder support part, the holder support part being folded at a folding part and attached to a support surface by a fixing means, and an object to be held being inserted into a slit having a predetermined length in the holder body, The holder body, which is generally flat, has a slit opened in the holder body, an insertion hole having an opening width wider than an open end of the slit, a bent portion consisting of a narrow portion continuing from both sides of the holder body and an attachment hole forming the narrow portion, and the holder support portion located above the narrow portion, A plug-in type holder, wherein the insertion hole has an outer edge that is continuous with the open end of the slit.

2. 2. The plug-in type holder according to claim 1, wherein the slit is formed in the flat holder body so as to gradually narrow from an open end connected to the insertion hole to a tip end, the tip end being closed.

3. the holder body has a bendable narrow portion that is continuous with the holder body and reaches the holder support portion, 3. The plug-in type holder according to claim 1, wherein the narrow portion has a width smaller than a width of portions of the insertion hole facing each other on both sides of the insertion hole.

4. 4. The plug-in type holder according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the vertical length of the narrow portion is longer than the width of the open end of the slit.

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