CA1061075A - Hinge devices for the interconnection of preferably panel-shaped furnishing components - Google Patents

Hinge devices for the interconnection of preferably panel-shaped furnishing components

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CA1061075A
CA1061075A CA190,328A CA190328A CA1061075A CA 1061075 A CA1061075 A CA 1061075A CA 190328 A CA190328 A CA 190328A CA 1061075 A CA1061075 A CA 1061075A
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tape
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frame element
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Torsten F. Bergstrom
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FORMFAC INTERNATIONAL AB
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44BBUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B18/00Fasteners of the touch-and-close type; Making such fasteners
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47GHOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G5/00Screens; Draught-deflectors
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05DHINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D1/00Pinless hinges; Substitutes for hinges
    • GPHYSICS
    • G09EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09FDISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F15/00Boards, hoardings, pillars, or like structures for notices, placards, posters, or the like
    • G09F15/0068Modular articulated structures, e.g. stands, and articulation means therefor
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05YINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
    • E05Y2900/00Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E05Y2900/10Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for buildings or parts thereof
    • E05Y2900/13Type of wing

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Connection Of Plates (AREA)
  • Building Environments (AREA)
  • Pivots And Pivotal Connections (AREA)
  • Hinges (AREA)
  • Mirrors, Picture Frames, Photograph Stands, And Related Fastening Devices (AREA)

Abstract

HINGE DEVICE FOR THE INTERCONNECTION OF
PREFERABLY PANEL-SHAPED FURNISHING COMPONENTS

Abstract of the Disclosure Hinge device for interconnecting furnishing com-ponents and comprising two interengaging complementary Velcro tapes at least one of which is attached to an arcuate surface on which the other Velcro tape on its furnishing component rolls when the hinge device is pivoted.

Description

1(~61075 In modern open-plan offices and industrial wGrk-shops, panels for sound-damping and other purposes are often used to divide up the open-plan office or industrial workshop into smaller units. These panels or other furnishing components are often interconnected by means of various fittings which, however, permit only certain predetermined angles of position - between abutting furnishing components. These connecting devices display disadvantages, not only concerning the limited choice of positional angles but also concerning cost, because the various fittings are relatively expensive and require careful mounting on the furnishing components, so that they fit each other.
In an attempt to create freedom of choice concerning the angles of position between abutting furnishing panels;
in this case folding door elements; it has been suggested, in the British patent specification 921,647, to use gear segments which are mounted along the vertical edges of the door elements.
A longitudinal clamp member serves to hold the door elements in engagement and to maintain the gear segments in mesh.
This construction is, however, not only expensive but also disadvantageous when used in connection with furnishing com-ponents such as sound-damping panels, which are often moved around, according to the required rearrangement of the furnish-ing in the open-plan office, or, according to the placing of machinery in the industrial wor~shop.
An object of the present invention is to provide a connecting device, serving as a hinge, for preferably panel-- ~L

1~61~375 shaped furnishing components, thereby to obviate the dis-advantages in the prior art devices serving similar purposes.
Another object of the invention is to provide an improved and cheaper connecting device, for preferably panel-shaped furnishing components, which can serve as a hinge means between the furnishing components, despite the fact that it permits simple separation of them.
Indeed, the U.S. patent specification 3,114,951 discloses a connecting device of so-called VELCRO (trade mark) tape (bur fastener tape), but these Velcro tapes are used for the connection of preferably flexible elements. The patent specification does not, however, make any statements which indicate that such tape fasteners could be used to obviate the disadvantages in the aforementioned connecting devices for panel-shaped furnishing components.
According to the present invention, there is provided for use in a panel, a member having a curved section, an outer surface of which supports one of a complementary pair of tapes adapted to form a tape fastener~ Opposite ends of the curved section have engaging means adapted to releasably retain the member in contact with a cooperating member situated along a vertical edge of the panel, whereby the tape on the member is adapted to engage a second tape situated on a respective surface, whereby an angle of contact of the member with respect to the surface can be varied while contact is maintained between the member and the surface.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided for use in a panel, a cooperating member adapted to be connected to a vertical edge of the panel, the cooperating member adapted to releasably support along a vertical edge of the panel a member having one of a pair of tapes mounted on an outer surface thereof, the tapes adapted 1~61~375 to form a tape fastener.
According to a further embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a panel comprising a cooperating member mounted along at least one vertical edge of the panel, the cooperating member releasably supporting a member having a curved section, an outer surface of which supports one of a complementary pair of tapes adapted to form a tape fastener.
Opposite ends of the curved section have engaging means releasably retaining the member in contact with the cooperating member, whereby the tape on the outer surface of the curved section of the member is adapted to engage a second tape situated on a respective surface, whereby an angle of contact of the panel relative to the surface can be varied while maintaining contact between the surface and the panel.
Other objects of the invention will be apparent from the following description in which embodiments of the invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
In the drawing:
Figure 1 is a perspective view of two panels which have been interconnected by means of a hinge device according to the invention:
Figure 2 shows a section on the line II-II in Figure 1: and Figure 3 is a section corresponding to Figure 2, but illustrating a panel connected to a bookcase.
As seen in Figure 1, two panels 10 are interconnected by means of a hinge device according to the present invention.
This hinge device consists of two complementary tapes 11, 12 which are mounted on their respective semi-cylindrical frame elements 13, these elements being, in turn, releasably secured to the vertical edges of the panels 10. The two tapes 11, 12 together form one tape fastener.

~61~375 Each of the opposite vertical edges of the panels 10 have each been fitted with their respective types of tape. One of the tapes, for example, tape 11, is of the closed loop type, while the other tape 12 is of the cut loop type. In the cut loop type of tape 12, the cut loops form small hooks which engage the uncut loops of the other complementary tape 11.
Alternatively, the bur grip fasteners can be designed with tapes having mushroom-shaped projections which engage each other when they are joined together.
Figure 2 illustrates one embodiment of the semi~
circular frame elements or profiles 13 which are situated along the vertical edges of the panels 10. In this embodiment, the frame element 13 is in the form of an extruded, channel-shaped profile having a semi-circular arch 14 which terminates in inwardly-directed limbs 15. The limbs 15 merge into respective rearwardly-directed projections16, each projection 16 having a barb-like thickened portion 17 at its outer end. The thickened portions 17 clasp inwardly bent, cooperating edge portions 18 on a substantially U-shaped cooperating element or profile 19. The cooperating element or profile 19 is either affixed (for example, by pop-riveting) to a supporting frame 20, or itself forms the supporting frame of the panel, this latter embodiment not being shown. In this latter construction, the thickness of the panel 10 is of the same thickness as the width of the U-shaped profile.
The thickened portions 17 and the inwardly bent edge portions 18 function as a snap-action catch because of the flexibility of the semi-circular arch 14.
~ he inwardly directed limbs 15 are preferably provided with shoulder portions 21 which extend outwardly to the ends of the arch 14. The shoulder portions provide spaces between the frame elements 13 and U-shaped profiles 19 to receive ends of the tapes 11, 12.

1~)6~175 In the embodiment of Figure 2, a cloth cover 25 is stretched over the surfaces of the panels 10, the cover 25 extending over the surfaces of the supporting frame 20 and U-shaped profiles 19. Ends of the cover are secured by glueing to the U-shaped profiles 19 at locations adjacent the shoulder portions 21. In this way, a very durable method of securing both the cloth covering 25 and tapes 11, 12 is provided. Further, in the embodiment of the invention in which the cooperating element or profile 19 also forms the supporting frame for the panel 10, and the element or profile is of the same thickness as the panel, a connection of the frame element 13 to the cooperating element or profile 19 is provided without the presence of aesthetically unattractive shoulders along the vertical edges of the panel 10.
As is apparent from Figure 3, it is possible to glue two strips of tape 12 (or 11, or alternatively 11 and 12 in the same line) to the end edges of, for example, bookcases 22, so that the panels may be directly attached to the bookcase units 22O
Another embodiment of the present invention, which is not shown in the drawings, utilizes one of the types of tape, for example, the tape with the cut loops, which is secured around a rod, the rod then being positioned as the connecting and hinging element between two panels or other furnishing components which have been fitted with the other type of tape, the screens or other components being interconnected in a desired angular position.
A great advantage inherent in, for example, the semi-cylindrical frame element 13 is that more than two furnishing components can be connected to each other at the same pivot point. Thus, for example, two furnishing components fitted with the tape 11 on their frame elements 13 can be connected to one ~: "

1C1 61~75 and the same frame element 13, fitted with the tape 12, on another furnishing component.
Experiments have shown that the hinge device according to the invention is very strong and resistant to shearing forces. As a result, there is very little risk that two or more interconnected furnishing components will be detached from each other by shearing at right ang~es to the hinge axis. This powerful resistance of the hinge and con-necting device ensures that, for example, panels such as shown in Figure 1, can be fitted with straight legs 23 without out-wardly extending support feet, while still avoiding the risk of the panels falling over.

Claims (3)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:-
1. A panel comprising:
a cooperating member mounted along at least one vertical edge of the panel, the cooperating member releasably supporting a semi-circular frame element, an outer surface of which supports one of a complimentary pair of tapes adapted to form a tape fastener, opposite limbs of the frame element having projections releasably retaining the frame element in contact with the cooperating member, said frame element further having shoulders to receive and retain said tape, whereby the tape on the outer surface of the frame element is adapted to engage a second tape situated on a respective surface whereby an angle of contact of the panel relative to the surface can be varied while main-taining contact between the surface and the panel.
2. A panel according to claim 1 , wherein the projections include shoulder portions adjacent respective opposite ends of the curved section of the member, the shoulder portions cooperating with adjacent surfaces of the cooperating member in order to define separation spaces between the member and the cooperating member, each separation space receiving a respective opposite end of the tape mounted on the outer surface of the curved section of the member, thereby facilitating mounting of the tape on the curved surface.
3. A panel according to claim 2, wherein each separation space is also adapted to receive ends of a covering extending over a surface of the panel, the ends of the covering being secured to the cooperating member adjacent the separation space, the ends of the covering cooperating with the ends of the tape so as to provide a secure fixation of the ends of the tape and the ends of the covering to the panel.
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