JP2017104352A - Chair - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a convenient chair such as a sofa or a bench that can be easily used by various users.
A bench 10 is formed above a seat portion 20 on which a plurality of users can be seated side by side in a width direction, a backrest portion 30 disposed on a rear end portion of the seat portion 20, and a seat portion 20. Partitioning member 40 that divides the seating spaces S1 to S3 into a plurality in the width direction, and the partitioning member 40 has a width W2 of some of the seating spaces S2 among the plurality of seating spaces S1 to S3. The seating spaces S1 and S3 are provided so as to be larger than the widths W1 and W3.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a chair such as a sofa or a bench.

  In waiting rooms such as government offices, financial institutions, hospitals, stations, airports, etc., benches that allow a plurality of users to sit side by side are used. Some benches have a backrest in addition to a seat having a seating surface on which a user sits.

As disclosed in Patent Document 1, such a bench includes a seat frame, a back frame, a seat cushion provided on the upper surface of the seat frame, and a back cushion provided on the front surface of the back frame. And a skin material provided to cover the seat cushion and the back cushion.
In such a bench, the seat has a rectangular shape in plan view with a long side in the width direction in which a plurality of users are arranged, and the front end of the seat and the back end of the backrest also extend along the width direction. In general, it is formed in a shape.

By the way, when multiple people sit side by side on the bench as described above, if the seating space for each person is not clearly shown, the result is that the user sits at a distance from other adjacent users. The number of people who can use the bench will decrease.
Therefore, in order to clearly indicate the seating space for each person, a line is drawn on the seating surface, seat cushions are individually divided, and partition members such as armrests are provided.

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However, if the user's body is disabled, such as a disabled person or a disabled person, if the physique is large, or if they carry a lot of luggage with their children, the seating space for each person is clearly indicated. If this is the case, the seating space may be too narrow for the user to sit down.
An object of the present invention made there is to provide a convenient chair such as a sofa or a bench that can be easily used by various users.

The present invention employs the following means in order to solve the above problems.
The chair according to the present invention is a seat formed by a plurality of users seated side by side in a width direction, a backrest disposed behind or behind the seat, and a seat formed above the seat. A partition member that divides the space into a plurality of spaces in the width direction, wherein the partition member has a width of a part of the seating spaces larger than a width of the other seating spaces among the plurality of seating spaces. It is provided to be.

  In this way, when the width of some seating spaces is made larger than the width of other seating spaces, if the user is disabled, such as a disabled person or a disabled person, the physique is If it is large, even if it is a case with children or carrying a lot of luggage, it becomes easier to use the chair by sitting in a wide seating space.

Further, the chair according to the present invention is the above chair, wherein the partition member has a width of the seating space located on the inner side in the width direction than the seating space located at an end of the seat portion in the width direction. You may make it provide so that it may become larger than the width | variety of the other said seating space.
Thereby, it becomes easy to utilize the seating space located in the width direction inner side.

Further, in the chair according to the present invention, in the above chair, the partition member is provided so that a width of the seating space located at an end portion in a width direction of the seat portion is larger than a width of the other seating space. It may be made to be.
Thus, it becomes easy to use the seating space located at the end in the width direction.

Moreover, the chair which concerns on this invention WHEREIN: In the said chair, you may make it the front end part of the said seat part be formed so that the width direction both sides may be located back rather than the width direction center part.
Thus, by positioning the both sides in the width direction of the front end portion of the seat portion rearward, when the user passes the front of the seat portion of the chair, the accessibility can be enhanced.

  According to the chair according to the present invention, it becomes easy for various users to use, and convenience can be enhanced.

It is the perspective view which looked at the chair which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention from diagonally forward. It is the perspective view which looked at the said chair from diagonally backward. It is a perspective view which shows the internal structure of the said chair. It is a perspective view which shows the attachment structure of the division member with respect to the said chair. It is a top view which shows the modification of the layout of the division member in the said chair.

  Hereinafter, with reference to an accompanying drawing, a form for carrying out a chair by the present invention is explained. However, the present invention is not limited only to this embodiment.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a chair according to an embodiment of the present invention as viewed obliquely from the front. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the chair as viewed obliquely from the rear. FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the internal structure of the chair. FIG. 4 is a plan view showing a structure for attaching a partition member to the chair.
In the following description, with a user seated on a bench (chair) 10, the direction in which the user faces the front is front, the opposite direction is the rear or back side, and the direction connecting the front and the rear is orthogonal in the horizontal plane. The direction to do is suitably referred to as the width direction.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the bench 10 includes a seat portion 20 and a backrest portion 30.

  The seat 20 includes a wooden or metal seat frame 21 (see FIG. 3), a seat cushion 22, and a skin material 23. The seat portion 20 is formed in a substantially rectangular shape in plan view that is long in the width direction and short in the front-rear direction.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the seat frame 21 is erected on the bottom plate 24 arranged parallel to the floor F, the top plate 25 arranged above the bottom plate 24 with a gap, and the bottom plate 24. , And a support member 26 that supports the upper plate 25. A leg member 27 is attached to the lower surface of the bottom plate 24 so as to extend downward and stand on the floor surface F.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the seat cushion 22 is provided on an upper plate 25 (see FIG. 3). The seat cushion 22 is made of an appropriate cushion material such as urethane.

  The skin material 23 is made of leather, cloth, vinyl-based material, and the like, and is provided so as to cover at least the upper part, the front part, and both sides in the width direction of the seat part cushion 22 and the seat part frame 21.

  As shown in FIG. 1, in such a seat portion 20, the front end portion 20 f of the seat portion 20 is positioned such that both end portions 20 s and 20 s in the width direction are rearward with respect to the center portion 20 c in the width direction of the seat portion 20. It is formed as follows. In the example of FIG. 3, the front end portion 20 f of the seat portion 20 is formed by a curved surface 20 w in which a central portion 20 c bulges forward with respect to the width direction both end portions 20 s and 20 s in a plan view.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the backrest 30 includes a wooden or metal back frame 31 (see FIG. 3), a back cushion 32, and a skin material 33. The backrest 30 is formed to extend upward from the rear end of the seat 20.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the back frame 31 includes a back plate 34 that extends upward from the rear end of the seat frame 21, a front plate 35 that is disposed in front of the back plate 34 with a gap, and a back plate 31. A support member 36 provided between the face plate 34 and the front plate 35 is integrally provided.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the back cushion 32 is provided so as to cover the front of the front plate 35 (see FIG. 3). The back cushion 32 is made of an appropriate cushion material such as urethane.

  The skin material 33 is made of leather, cloth, vinyl-based material, and the like, and is provided so as to cover the front, rear, upper, and both sides in the width direction of the back cushion 32 and the back frame 31.

As shown in FIG. 2, in such a backrest portion 30, the back surface 30 r of the backrest portion 30 faces forward on the both sides in the width direction with respect to the center portion 30 c in the width direction of the back surface 30 r of the backrest portion 30. An inclined notch surface 37 is formed.
In this embodiment, the central portion 30c of the back surface 30r of the backrest portion 30 is formed by a vertical surface 30V orthogonal to the floor surface F. On the other hand, the notch surface 37 is formed by an inclined surface 30F that gradually inclines forward from the upper side to the lower side and gradually inclines forward from the vertical surface 30V side in the width direction. The inclined surface 30F has a triangular shape with the intersection of the back surface 30r and the side surface 30s of the backrest 30 as a vertex 30t, and the base 30b is the lower end of the vertical surface 30V and the lower end of the side surface 20g of the seat portion 20. Are formed so as to be obliquely connected to each other.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the bench 10 is provided with a partition member 40 that partitions the space above the seat portion 20 into a plurality of portions in the width direction. The partition member 40 is used as an armrest, for example.
The partition member 40 is provided so as to be orthogonal to the upper surface 29 of the seat portion 20 and the backrest surface 39 of the backrest portion 30 and to extend above the seat portion 20 and forward of the backrest portion 30. In this embodiment, the partition member 40 has a plate shape positioned in a plane orthogonal to the upper surface 29 of the seat portion 20 and the backrest surface 39 of the backrest portion 30. The partition member 40 is not limited to a plate shape, and can be formed of an appropriate rod-like member used for an armrest or the like.
The partition member 40 can cover the surface with an appropriate cushion material or skin material.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the partition member 40 is fixed to the upper plate 25 by a screw 43 inserted from below the upper plate 25 into a seat base member 41 disposed on the upper plate 25 of the seat frame 21. Has been. Further, the partition member 40 is fixed to the front plate 35 by screws 44 inserted from the back of the front plate 35 into the back base member 42 disposed along the front surface of the front plate 35 of the back frame 31.

  In this embodiment, the bench 10 is provided with two partition members 40, 40, for example. Thereby, the space above the seat portion 20 is partitioned into three seating spaces S1, S2, and S3 in the width direction. Further, the bench 10 has a width W2 of the seating space S2 located in the center in the width direction of the bench 10 among the seating spaces S1 to S3 so that the width W2 of the other seating spaces S1 and S3 is larger than the widths W1 and W3. Partition members 40, 40 are arranged.

As described above, the bench 10 includes the seat 20 on which the plurality of users can be seated side by side in the width direction, the backrest 30 supported by the seat 20, and the seat 20. A partition member 40 that partitions the formed seating spaces S1 to S3 into a plurality of width directions, and the partition member 40 has a width W2 of a part of the seating spaces S2 among the plurality of seating spaces S1 to S3. The other seating spaces S1 and S3 are provided to be larger than the widths W1 and W3.
As described above, the bench 10 is formed with a wide width W2 of the seating space S2 in the central portion among the plurality of seating spaces S1 to S3 partitioned by the partition member 40. Easy use of the seating space S2 in the center, even if the user's body is disabled, such as a handicapped person, if the physique is large, or if they are accompanied by children or carry a lot of luggage Can do. In addition, although the seating space S2 in the central part is usually easy to feel the presence of other users using the seating spaces S1 and S3 on both sides, in this embodiment, the width of the seating space S2 in the central part Since W2 is widely formed, it is difficult to feel the presence of other users. Therefore, the convenience of the bench 10 can be improved.

Further, the front end portion 20f of the seat portion 20 is formed such that the width direction both end portions 20s and 20s are located rearward of the width direction central portion 20c.
As described above, by positioning the widthwise end portions 20s and 20s of the front end portion 20f of the seat portion 20 at the rear, the accessibility can be improved even when the user passes the front of the seat portion 20 of the bench 10. it can. In addition, the user using the seating spaces S1 and S3 on both sides of the bench 10 in the width direction has the front portion 20f of the seat portion 20, that is, the center portion 20c is in front of the width direction both ends 20s and 20s. In accordance with the curved surface 20w bulging out, it is directed obliquely outward from the front (front). Therefore, the user who uses the seating spaces S1 and S3 on both sides in the width direction of the bench 10 is unlikely to cross the line of sight with the user who uses the seating space S2 at the center in the width direction.

  Further, the bench 10 has notch surfaces 37 formed on both sides in the width direction of the back surface 30r of the backrest 30. Therefore, when a plurality of front end portions 20f of the seat portion 20 are arranged in the same direction with a space in the front-rear direction, when the user goes in and out between the front and rear benches 10, 10, the rear bench 10 It is difficult to interfere with both end portions in the width direction of the back surface 30r of the backrest portion 30. Therefore, the accessibility when the user passes behind the bench 10 can be enhanced.

(Modification of the embodiment)
In the above embodiment, the bench 10 is formed so that the width W2 of the seating space S2 located at the center in the width direction of the bench 10 among the seating spaces S1 to S3 is wide.
As shown in FIG. 5, the partition members 40, 40 are arranged so that the width W1 of the seating space S1 located on one end side in the width direction of the bench 10 is larger than the widths W2, W3 of the other seating spaces S2, S3. May be.
In this way, even if the user is disabled, such as a disabled person or a disabled person, if the physique is large, if the user is with a child or possesses a lot of luggage, etc. The seating space S1 can be easily used. In particular, since the seating space S1 is located on one end side in the width direction of the bench 10, there is an advantage that it is easier to use than the seating space S2 in the center portion in the width direction.

(Other embodiments)
In addition, the chair of this invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment described with reference to drawings, Various modifications can be considered in the technical scope.
For example, the number of partition members 40 formed on the bench 10 is not limited to two and may be at least one. Further, the position and number of the wide seating spaces among the plurality of seating spaces provided on the bench 10 can be set as appropriate.
Moreover, the partition member 40 should just be supported by at least any one of the seat part 20 and the backrest part 30. FIG.
Further, the overall shape and structure of the bench 10 are not limited to those exemplified in the above embodiment. For example, in the above embodiment, the backrest 30 is provided to be supported by the rear end of the seat 20, but not limited thereto, the backrest 30 is provided at the rear end of the seat 20, It may be supported by a leg such as the leg member 27.
Furthermore, the backrest portion 30 is not limited to the rear end portion of the seat portion 20, and may be provided at the rear portion of the seat portion 20 or behind the seat portion 20, and the position and the mounting structure are limited at all. It is not a thing.
In addition to this, the configuration described in the above embodiment can be selected or changed to another configuration as appropriate without departing from the gist of the present invention.

10 Bench (chair)
20 Seat part 20c Center part 20f Front end part 20s End part 30 Backrest part S1, S2, S3 Seating space W1, W2, W3 Width

Claims (4)

A seat where a plurality of users can sit side by side in the width direction;
A backrest disposed at the rear or rear of the seat; and
A partition member that divides a seating space formed above the seat portion into a plurality of portions in the width direction,
The partition member is a chair provided such that a width of a part of the seating spaces is larger than a width of the other seating spaces among the plurality of seating spaces. The partition member is provided so that a width of the seating space located on the inner side in the width direction is larger than a width of the other seating space with respect to the seating space located at an end portion of the seat portion in the width direction. Being
The chair according to claim 1. The partition member is provided such that a width of the seating space located at an end in a width direction of the seat is larger than a width of the other seating space.
The chair according to claim 1.   The chair according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the front end portion of the seat portion is formed so that both sides in the width direction are located rearward of the center portion in the width direction.

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