Hereinafter, a detailed construction of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First,
As a means for fixing the back plate (12) to the decorative frame (11), an adhesive agent is used in the illustrated embodiment, however, screws or adhesive tape may also be used instead.
The space in the front and rear direction between the decorative frame (11) forming the frame main body (F) and the back plate (12) is demarcated as one exhibit sheet housing space (13) which can house various exhibit sheets (M) such as favorite pictures, photos, a square piece of fancy paper, diplomas, certificates, etc.
In this case, it is also possible that the one housing space (13) is secured to be wide so as to house a plurality of sheets including spares of the above-described exhibit sheets (M) by thickening the rectangular decorative frame (11) or/and back plate (12) by folding back and overlapping the four sides thereof, forming the four sides into channel-shaped sectional shapes or angled sectional shapes as shown in
In any case, in one side which becomes an upper side position when the frame main body (F) formed by the decorative frame (11) and the back plate (12) is used or in adjacent two sides of a longer side (y) and a shorter side (x), an exhibit sheet in/out slit (14) that communicates with the exhibit sheet housing space (13) is opened, and through this slit, the exhibit sheets (M) can be smoothly put in and taken out from the housing space (13).
The reference symbol (S) denotes a folding stand including a turning base plate (15) and a ground seat (16), and in these members, the turning base plate (15) is pivotally supported on the back plate (12) of the frame main body (F) via a turning fulcrum shaft (17) so as to relatively turn by at least approximately 90 degrees (a) (360 degrees in the illustrated embodiment) to become long lengthwise and sideways, and on the other hand, the ground seat (16) is pivotally joined to the turning base plate (15) via opening and closing hinges (18a) and (18b) positioned on the straight line (h-h) parallel to one side of the frame main body (F) on the turning base plate (15) so as to freely open from and close to the turning base plate (15).
This folding stand (S) is also made of a light and hard material of the same type as that of the frame main body (F). In this case, as the turning fulcrum shaft (17) for turning the turning base plate (15) with respect to the back plate (12) of the frame main body (F), an appropriate rivet, pin, screw fastening tool, hard paper tube, etc., may be used according to the material forming the frame main body (F).
As the opening and closing hinges (18a) and (18b) for joining the ground seat (16) to the turning base plate (15), a hinge which stops at a constant crossover angle (opening angle) (b), a dowel which makes convex-concave fitting, or an adhesive tape, etc., can be used according to the material forming the stand (S), and in particular, it is desirable that a so-called free-stop hinge is used, which can stably stop at a position maintaining an arbitrary crossover angle (b) based on an elastic urging force (braking force) or frictional resistance of a compression coil spring (19) installed inside even when the hand to perform the opening and closing operations is released as illustrated in
In any case, the stand (S) is formed into a size so that it is hidden behind the frame main body (F) and is not exposed from the four sides of the frame main body (F) even if the stand is changed in orientation by approximately 90 degrees (a) to become long lengthwise and sideways around the turning fulcrum shaft (17) when the ground seat (16) is folded down and closed to the turning base plate (15).
Namely, the distance (L) between the positions (h-h) of the opening and closing hinges (18a) and (18b) that pivotally join the ground seat (16) to the turning base plate (15) of the stand (S) and the lower side of the ground seat (16) folded down by being turned around the fulcrums of the opening and closing hinges (18a) and (18b) is set to a length equivalent to or less than the shorter side (x) of the frame main body (F) at a maximum so that the stand (S) cannot be visually observed from the front side of the frame main body (F).
In order to satisfy this requirement, in the first embodiment of the present invention in which the difference in length between the longer side (y) and the shorter side (x) of the frame main body (F) is comparatively great, the turning base plate (15) and the ground seat (16) of the stand (S) are formed into rectangular shapes with the same size (for example, approximately 200 mm′ 170 mm), and are pivotally joined in a half-folded state via the opening and closing hinges (18a) and (18b) on the straight line (h-h) as shown in
However, if the lower side of the ground seat (16) which is pulled up and opened around the fulcrums of the opening and closing hinges (18a) and (18b) from the turning base plate (15) of the stand (S) can be stably seated on the table surface (T) and used in a horizontal state, the size of the turning base plate (15) may be made smaller than the ground seat (16) or the contour of the turning base plate (15) may be made different from that of the ground seat (16).
In this case, the ground seat (16) of the stand (S) is formed into the rectangular shape as shown in
Thereby, various storing sheets (21) whose shapes and sizes are not fixed such as memos of important matters which must be recorded for daily life, newspaper and magazine clippings, etc., can be elastically pressed by the stretching band (20) and stored in the ground seat (16) that is folded and closed to the turning base plate (15), and the storing sheets (21) can thus be prevented from being lost.
It is also possible that a small-sized decorative mirror (22) is integrally buried in the outer surface of the ground seat (16) of the stand (S), and this improves convenience more for daily life and increases the added value of the frame with a stand.
Furthermore, the reference symbols (23a), (23b), (23c), and (23d) denote freely bendable cables such as strings or ropes integrally attached in advance near the four corners (P1), (P2), (P3), and (P4) of the back plate (12) forming the frame main body (F) so as not to come off in a positional relationship corresponding to intervals to sandwich, in particular, the ground seat (16) of the folding stand (S), and each two adjacent cables of the four in total are selectively tied to become long sideways or lengthwise.
Namely, while the lengthwise state of especially the turning base plate (15) of the stand (S) as shown in
In this case, by the other remaining pair of third and fourth cables (23c) and (23d) on the lower positions, the ground seat (16) of the stand (S) can be locked in a closed state that the ground seat (16) is folded down to the turning base plate (15) as shown in
Then, the tied state of the first and second cables (23a) and (23b) and the tied state of the third and fourth cables (23c) and (23d) are both released, and as seen in
Also in this case, by the remaining pair of second and fourth cables (23b) and (23d) tied on the lower positions, the ground seat (16) of the stand (S) is locked in a closed state that the ground seat (16) is folded down to the turning base plate (15) as shown in
Namely, the four in total of the first through fourth cables (23a), (23b), (23c), and (23d) attached to the back plate (12) of the frame main body (F) are used for performing both the function for hanging the frame main body (F) on the wall face (W) of the building and the function for locking the ground seat (16) of the stand (S) in the folded-down state.
In both the usage state that the frame main body (F) is hung so that a shorter side is at the top and the usage state that the frame main body (F) is hung so that a longer side is at the top, by appropriately adjusting the working lengths of the first and second cables (23a) and (23b) and the first and third cables (23a) and (23c) to be hung on the hook (24), the inclination angle (g) of the frame main body (F) with respect to the wall face (W) of the building can be adjusted to be small or large so that the frame can always be directly seen from below.
Furthermore, the third and fourth cables (23c) and (23d) tied on the lower positions as shown in
In this case, as seen in
The two first and second cables (23a) and (23b) or the two first and third cables (23a) and (23c) remaining on the upper positions may be left tied.
In the first embodiment of the present invention described based on
As described above, it is also possible that the turning base plate (15) of the stand (S) is formed so that its contour shape becomes a semicircle smaller than the ground seat (16) (see
Even when employing this construction of the second embodiment, there is no risk that the ground seat (16) of the stand (S) whose orientation is changed by approximately 90 degrees (a) around the turning fulcrum shaft (17) of the turning base plate (15) to become long lengthwise and sideways as shown by the chain line of
In the first embodiment of the present invention, the four in total of first through fourth cables (23a), (23b), (23c), and (23d) are integrally attached to the vicinities of the four corners (P1), (P2), (P3), and (P4) of the back plate (12) of the frame main body (F) so as not to come off, however, instead of this construction, as in the second embodiment shown in
Similarly, in the case of the first embodiment shown in
In the first embodiment described above, a decorative mirror (22) that is convenient for daily life is integrally buried in the outer surface of the ground seat (16) of the folding stand (S), however, as additionally shown in the second embodiment of
Thereby, similar to various storing sheets (21) with indeterminate forms, the various cards (27) housed inside the housing concave groove (28) can also be pressed against the ground seat (16) by the stretching band (20) used for the ground seat (16) of the stand (S) so as not to fall, and therefore this is useful for preventing the cards (27) from being lost.
Furthermore, in the first and second embodiments of the present invention shown in
Furthermore, in this case, see-through windows (10a) and (10b) with similar entire shapes which are smaller than the see-through window (10) and become gradually smaller toward the rear side (inner side) from the position of the see-through window (10) opened in the forefront decorative frame (11) are opened in the central portions of the respective partition decorative frames (11a) and (11b) so as to a maintain a state that the exhibit sheets (M) housed in the respective exhibit sheet housing spaces (13a), (13b), and (13c) can always be visually observed from the front side of the frame main body (F).
It is obvious that a corresponding plurality (three in the illustrated embodiment) of exhibit sheet in/out slits (14a), (14b), and (14c) which communicate with the respective exhibit sheet housing spaces (13a), (13b), and (13c) are also opened in one side which becomes the upper side position when the frame main body (F) is used or two adjacent longer side (y) and shorter side (x) in the same manner as in the first embodiment described above.
Then, in order to naturally maintain the exhibit sheets (M) housed in the respective exhibit sheet housing spaces (13a), (13b), and (13c) in the positional relationship in which they are centered with the see-through windows (10), (10a), and (10b) with different sizes, centering packings (29a) and (29b) are integrally fitted to the insides of the respective exhibit sheet housing spaces (13a), (13b), and (13c) so as to face the exhibit sheet in/out slits (14a), (14b), and (14c).
By employing this construction of the third embodiment, even when the exhibit sheets (M) such as pictures and photos have a difference in size, these can be selectively housed in the exhibit sheet housing spaces (13a), (13b), and (13c) corresponding to the sizes with convenience, and an excellent decoration effect in which a margin does not appear can always be obtained.
Other constructions, operating methods, and usage states according to the second and third embodiments of the present invention are substantially the same as those in the first embodiment, so that the reference symbols corresponding to those in
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2006-142412 | May 2006 | JP | national |