JP3249608U - rack - Google Patents

Abstract

A rack is provided that has a simple structure, is low cost, and allows items to be stably placed on the upper surface.
[Solution] The rack comprises a plurality of support members 11-14 erected in the vertical direction and a plurality of upper beam members 31-34 connecting the upper ends of the support members in the horizontal direction, and has an upper surface portion whose periphery is formed by the plurality of upper beam members. The periphery of the upper surface portion is formed into a rectangular or square shape by four upper beam members, and adjacent upper beam members are connected at right angles at the four corners of the periphery of the upper surface portion, and each of the four corners of the periphery of the upper surface portion is provided with a linear connecting member connecting the upper beam members, and the connecting member is configured to form the upper surface portion. Furthermore, inside the periphery of the upper surface portion, lattice-shaped lattice members 41-44 that form the upper surface portion are provided and connected to the upper beam members, and the lattice members have at least two beam members along the front-rear direction of the rack.
[Selected Figure] Figure 1

Description

This invention relates to a rack for storing items, and in particular to a rack on whose top surface items can be placed.

In order to efficiently store items in a warehouse, racks such as those described in Patent Document 1 are used. These racks are formed in a roughly cubic shape surrounded by supports, and a number of square timbers are connected in a lattice pattern on the top surface to form a loading surface. This makes it possible to store items inside the rack, and also to place items on the loading surface, which is the top surface.

This rack is also configured to be stackable with other racks. As a result, the top surface (mounting surface) of the lower rack is located at the bottom inside the upper rack, making it possible to store items in this location, and items can also be placed on the top surface (mounting surface) of the upper rack. This improves storage efficiency.

Registered Utility Model No. 3201115

However, with the rack described in Patent Document 1, when placing an item on the top surface, which is the loading surface, there is a large gap on the loading surface, which causes the item to be placed in an unstable state.

Therefore, the objective of this disclosure is to provide a rack that can solve the above-mentioned problem of items being placed on the top surface of the rack in an unstable state.

A rack according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes:
A rack comprising a plurality of support members erected along a vertical direction and a plurality of upper end beam members connecting upper ends of the support members in a horizontal direction, the plurality of upper end beam members forming an outer periphery of the rack having an upper surface portion,
The outer periphery of the upper surface portion is formed into a rectangular or square shape by the four upper end beam members, and the upper end beam members adjacent to each other at the four corners of the outer periphery of the upper surface portion are connected at right angles,
A linear connecting member is provided at each of the four corners of the outer periphery of the upper surface portion to connect the adjacent upper end beam members connected at right angles, and the connecting member is configured to form the upper surface portion,
A lattice-shaped lattice member that forms the upper surface portion is provided inside the outer periphery of the upper surface portion and is connected to the upper end beam member,
The lattice member has at least two beam members along the front-rear direction of the rack.
The structure is as follows.

Moreover, a rack according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes:
The lattice member has at least two beam members along a width direction of the rack perpendicular to the front-rear direction.
The structure is as follows.

Moreover, a rack according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes:
The lattice member has two beam members along the front-rear direction and two beam members along the width direction.
The structure is as follows.

Moreover, a rack according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes:
The connecting member is a plate-like member, and one side end of the connecting member is configured to face upward, so that the side end forms the upper surface portion.
The structure is as follows.

As configured above, the present disclosure makes it possible to realize a rack that can stably hold items on its upper surface with a simple structure and low cost.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of a rack. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a state in which racks are stacked. FIG. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a state in which an article is placed on the upper surface of the rack. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a state in which an article is placed on the upper surface of the rack.

<Embodiment 1>
A first embodiment of the present disclosure will be described with reference to Fig. 1 to Fig. 5. Fig. 1 to Fig. 3 show the configuration of a rack. Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 are diagrams showing a state in which an article is placed on the upper surface of the rack.

As shown in Fig. 1, the rack 1 in this embodiment is formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped or cubic shape. Specifically, the rack 1 includes four support members 11, 12, 13, and 14 that are erected vertically at the four corners of a substantially square shape, three beam members 22, 23, and 24 (lower beam members) that horizontally connect the lower ends of the support members 11, 12, 13, and 14, and four beam members 31, 32, 33, and 34 (upper beam members) that horizontally connect the upper ends of the support members 11, 12, 13, and 14.

The upper surface of the rack 1 forms a substantially square or rectangular mounting surface surrounded by the four upper beam members 31, 32, 33, and 34 as shown in FIG. 3. This mounting surface will be described later.

Note that no beam member is provided between the lower ends of the support members 11, 12, and it is possible to store luggage in the rack 1 from the support members 11, 12 side. That is, in this embodiment, the support members 11, 12 form the front side of the rack, and the support members 13, 14 form the back side of the rack. In this embodiment, the direction between the support members 11, 14 and between the support members 12, 13 and along the longitudinal direction of the beam members 32, 34 that form the upper surface is defined as the front-rear direction of the rack. The direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction of the rack, that is, the direction between the support members 11, 12 and between the support members 13, 14 and along the longitudinal direction of the beam members 31, 33 that form the upper surface, is defined as the width direction of the rack.

The same racks 1 can be stacked. Specifically, FIG. 2 shows how the racks are stacked. Note that the upper rack 100 and the lower rack 1 are the same, but for ease of explanation, the upper rack 100 will be indicated by a different reference number.

As shown in this figure, when stacking the racks 1, 100, first, on the front side, the lower ends of the front support members 111, 112 of the upper rack 100 are stacked on the upper ends of the front support members 11, 12 of the lower rack 1. At this time, the semispherical concave portions provided on the upper ends of the lower support members 11, 12 fit into the semispherical convex portions provided on the lower ends of the upper support members 111, 112. Also, on the rear side, the beam member 123 located at the lower end of the upper rack 100 is placed on the beam member 33 located on the upper surface of the lower rack 1. At this time, as shown in FIG. 1, stoppers 61, 62 that protrude above the placement surface are provided near both ends of the beam member 33 located on the rear side of the upper surface (placement surface) of the rack 1. These stoppers 61, 62 are provided outside the outer periphery of the top surface (mounting surface) of rack 1, so by placing the beam member 123 of the upper rack 100 inside this, it is possible to prevent the front and rear racks from shifting positions and to stabilize the stacked state.

By stacking the racks 1 and 100 in this way, items can be stored inside the lower rack 1 and on the loading surface which is the upper surface of the lower rack 1, i.e., inside the upper rack 100 and on the loading surface which is the upper surface of the upper rack 100.

Here, the configuration of the placement surface, which is the upper surface of the rack 1 on which items are placed, will be described in detail. As shown in Figure 1 and Figure 3, which is a top view of Figure 1, the placement surface, which is the upper surface of the rack 1, has an outer periphery formed by four upper beam members 31, 32, 33, and 34 that connect the upper ends of the four support members 11, 12, 13, and 14, respectively. At this time, the four upper beam members 31, 32, 33, and 34 are formed to be approximately the same length and are connected to each other at right angles, so that the placement surface is formed in an approximately square or approximately rectangular shape.

Inside the outer periphery of the mounting surface surrounded by the four upper beam members 31, 32, 33, 34, a lattice-shaped lattice member formed of beam members 41, 42, 43, 44 that connect the opposing upper beam members is provided. Specifically, the lattice member is formed by intersecting and connecting two beam members 41, 42 that connect the opposing upper beam members 32, 34 located on both sides of the rack 1 and extend in the width direction of the rack 1, and two beam members 43, 44 that connect the opposing upper beam members 31, 33 located on the front side and rear side of the rack 1 and extend in the front-rear direction of the rack 1. The two beam members 43, 44 that connect the front side and rear side of the rack 1 are cut at the point where they intersect with the two beam members 41, 42 that connect the both sides, and are butt-joined. As a result, the upper surface of the lattice member is formed flat, and together with the upper beam members 31, 32, 33, and 34 that form the outer periphery, it forms a flat support surface.

The number of beam members forming the above-mentioned lattice member is not limited to the above-mentioned number. For example, the number of beam members 43, 44 extending along the front-rear direction of the rack is not limited to two, but may be three or more. Also, the number of beam members 41, 42 extending along the width direction of the rack is not limited to two, but may be three or more.

In addition, support members 51, 52, 53, and 54 (connecting members) that form the mounting surface are provided at the four corners of the mounting surface, which is the upper surface of the rack 1. Specifically, the support member 51 is a linear member, in this case a plate-like member having a width substantially equal to that of the upper beam member 31, which is a square timber, and is provided to connect the adjacent upper beam members 31 and 32 that are connected at a right angle. At this time, the plate-like support member 51 is arranged so that one side end along the longitudinal direction faces the upper side of the rack 1 and is positioned at the same height as the upper surfaces of the lattice members and the upper beam members 31, 32, 33, and 34.

And, like the support member 51, the other support members 52, 53, 54 are also provided to connect the adjacent upper beam members connected at right angles. Specifically, support member 52 connects upper beam members 32, 33, support member 53 connects upper beam members 33, 34, and support member 54 connects upper beam members 34, 31. As a result, the four corners of the placement surface, which is the upper surface of rack 1, are each formed into a triangular shape by the upper beam members 31, 32, 33, 34 and the support members 51, 52, 53, 54 when viewed from above.

The upper parts of the upper beam members 31, 32, 33, 34, the lattice members 41, 42, 43, 44, and the support members 51, 52, 53, 54 form a flat mounting surface. As a result, the article 200 can be placed on the mounting surface as shown by the imaginary lines in Figures 4 and 5. At this time, since the support members 51, 52, 53, 54 are located near the four corners of the mounting surface, the corners of the rectangular or cubic article 200 can be supported, and the article itself can be stably supported. In addition, by forming the inside of the mounting surface into a lattice shape with a total of four or more beam members, two vertically and two horizontally, the gaps in the mounting surface are small, and the article 200 can be supported more stably.

Furthermore, by connecting the support members 51, 52, 53, and 54 near the corners of the mounting surface as described above, the strength of the mounting surface, which is the upper surface of the rack 1, can be increased even if the number of beam members that make up the lattice members 41, 42, 43, and 44 is small.

In the above, support members 51, 52, 53, and 54 are provided at all four corners of the mounting surface, which is the upper surface of the rack 1, but support members do not necessarily need to be provided at all corners, and may be provided at only some of the corners. In addition, the lattice members provided on the mounting surface are not limited to the shapes described above, and may be of any shape and may be composed of any number of beam members.

The shape of the mounting surface, which is the upper surface of the rack 1, has been described as being approximately square or rectangular, but it may be any shape. In other words, the upper beam members that form the periphery of the mounting surface may be connected to adjacent ones at any angle, as long as a linear support member is connected between them.

The beam members and other members that make up the rack 1 are primarily connected (joined) by welding, but they may be connected in any manner, such as by gluing or by using fasteners such as bolts.

Although the present disclosure has been described above with reference to the above-mentioned embodiments, the present disclosure is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments. Various modifications that can be understood by a person skilled in the art can be made to the configuration and details of the present disclosure within the scope of the present disclosure.

1,100 Rack 11,12,13,14,111,112 Support member 22,23,24,123 Lower end beam member 31,32,33,34, Upper end beam member 41,42,43,44 Lattice member 51,52,53,54 Support member 61,62 Stopper

Claims (4)

A rack comprising a plurality of support members erected along a vertical direction and a plurality of upper end beam members connecting upper ends of the support members in a horizontal direction, the plurality of upper end beam members forming an outer periphery of the rack having an upper surface portion,
The outer periphery of the upper surface portion is formed into a rectangular or square shape by the four upper end beam members, and the upper end beam members adjacent to each other at the four corners of the outer periphery of the upper surface portion are connected at right angles,
A linear connecting member is provided at each of the four corners of the outer periphery of the upper surface portion to connect the adjacent upper end beam members connected at right angles, and the connecting member is configured to form the upper surface portion,
A lattice-shaped lattice member that forms the upper surface portion is provided inside the outer periphery of the upper surface portion and is connected to the upper end beam member,
The lattice member has at least two beam members along the front-rear direction of the rack.
rack. 2. The rack of claim 1,
The lattice member has at least two beam members along a width direction of the rack perpendicular to the front-rear direction.
rack. 3. The rack according to claim 2,
The lattice member has two beam members along the front-rear direction and two beam members along the width direction.
rack. 2. The rack of claim 1,
The connecting member is a plate-like member, and one side end of the connecting member is configured to face upward, so that the side end forms the upper surface portion.
rack.