CN210643366U - Supporting structure for sofa - Google Patents

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CN210643366U
CN210643366U CN201920822406.6U CN201920822406U CN210643366U CN 210643366 U CN210643366 U CN 210643366U CN 201920822406 U CN201920822406 U CN 201920822406U CN 210643366 U CN210643366 U CN 210643366U
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A supporting structure for a sofa comprises a base and a supporting device arranged on the bottom surface of the base, the supporting device comprises a supporting leg and a limiting component, the supporting leg is a U-shaped supporting leg comprising two vertical rods and a horizontal rod, the bottom surface of the base is provided with a matching groove, the support legs are hinged with the side walls of the matching groove, the surface of the vertical rod, which is in contact with the groove bottom of the matching groove, is a first side surface, the limiting component comprises a limiting rod and a rotating rod, a limiting groove is arranged on the bottom surface of the base, the limiting groove is communicated with the matching groove through a limiting hole, the limiting rod is arranged in the limiting groove, the rotating rod is connected with one end of the limiting rod far away from the matching groove, when the gag lever post moves along spacing hole and gets into the spacing groove completely until the gag lever post, also get into the spacing groove completely until the dwang, the gag lever post is close to the one end in spacing hole in the spacing groove, and the dwang is kept away from the one end in spacing hole in the spacing groove. The utility model provides a problem of the unable regulation of sofa's height.

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Supporting structure for sofa
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the field of furniture, in particular to a bearing structure for sofa.
Background
The sofa is a foreign word and is formed according to the sound translation of the English word sofa, is a multi-seat chair with cushions, and is a backrest chair with springs or thick foam plastics and the like, and is a piece of soft furniture. In a small dwelling, a sofa bed is necessary to meet the occasional visitor's living needs. In general, a sofa bed can be placed in a living room or a study room to serve as a seat, most of the existing sofa beds are commonly used in the form of a sofa, an internal support frame of the sofa bed is made of wood or metal, armrests and a backrest of the sofa are integrally fixed with a sofa seat body, and a sofa cushion and a back cushion are placed on the sofa seat body between the armrests and the backrest of the sofa.
When people play entertainment activities on the tea table, the sofa with fixed height is not suitable, a stool with lower height is needed, the comfort of the stool is not as good as that of the sofa, so the structure of the sofa needs to be improved, and the sofa is suitable for various environments.
Disclosure of Invention
The utility model aims to provide a: the utility model provides a bearing structure for sofa through with the position of gag lever post restriction stabilizer blade, moves the gag lever post when needs rotate the stabilizer blade, covers the dwang of being connected with the gag lever post with the apron, makes the gag lever post unable removal, and the convenience is to the control of stabilizer blade, has solved the problem that the height of sofa can't be adjusted.
The utility model adopts the technical scheme as follows:
a supporting structure for a sofa comprises a base and a supporting device arranged on the bottom surface of the base, wherein the supporting device comprises supporting legs and a limiting component;
the supporting legs are U-shaped supporting legs comprising two vertical bars and a horizontal bar, the vertical bars are cuboids, matching grooves are formed in the bottom surface of the base, the supporting legs are hinged to the side walls of the matching grooves, the supporting legs rotate around hinge axes until the supporting legs completely enter the matching grooves, the supporting legs are in contact with the groove bottoms of the matching grooves, the surfaces of the vertical bars, which are in contact with the groove bottoms of the matching grooves, are first side surfaces, and when the axes of the vertical bars are perpendicular to the bottom surface of the base, the other three side surfaces of the vertical bars except the first side surfaces are in contact with the groove walls of the matching grooves;
the limiting assembly comprises a limiting rod and a rotating rod, a limiting groove is formed in the bottom surface of the base, the limiting groove is an L-shaped groove, the limiting groove is communicated with the matching groove through a limiting hole, the limiting rod is installed in the limiting groove, when the axis of the vertical rod is perpendicular to the bottom surface of the base, one end of the limiting rod penetrates through the limiting hole and then contacts with the first side surface of the support leg, the rotating rod is connected with one end, away from the matching groove, of the limiting rod, the axis of the rotating rod is perpendicular to the axis of the limiting rod, when the limiting rod moves along the limiting hole until the limiting rod completely enters the limiting groove, the rotating rod is pushed to rotate around the axis of the limiting rod until the rotating rod also completely enters the limiting groove, the limiting rod is close to one end of the limiting hole in the limiting groove, and;
stabilizer blade, cooperation groove, spacing groove and spacing subassembly all have two, a stabilizer blade and the cooperation of a cooperation groove, a spacing subassembly and the cooperation of a spacing groove, and a spacing groove corresponds with a stabilizer blade.
When the step-down, the pulling dwang makes the gag lever post remove to keeping away from the cooperation groove along spacing hole, and until the gag lever post no longer with the stabilizer blade contact, promote the dwang, make the dwang get into the spacing groove, promote the stabilizer blade and rotate around articulated axis, make the stabilizer blade get into the cooperation groove completely, the bottom surface of base forms a smooth plane, the height of sofa just reduces.
When uprising, the pulling stabilizer blade, the bottom surface of the vertical pole perpendicular to base at both ends on making the stabilizer blade, the pulling dwang makes the bottom surface of dwang perpendicular to base, promote the dwang and make the gag lever post remove along spacing hole, make the gag lever post get into in the cooperation groove with the first side contact of stabilizer blade, the gag lever post makes the stabilizer blade can't rotate easily, the stabilizer blade remains the support to sofa base throughout, the high rigidity of sofa is unchangeable, the subaerial ceramic tile can not be scraped the flower by the stabilizer blade to the rubber pad of keeping away from the base on the stabilizer blade.
The utility model discloses a position with the gag lever post restriction stabilizer blade, the gag lever post that moves when needs rotate the stabilizer blade covers the dwang that will be connected with the gag lever post with the apron, makes the gag lever post can't remove, and the problem of the highly unable regulation of sofa has been solved to the convenient control to the stabilizer blade.
Further, be equipped with the guiding hole on the lateral wall that spacing hole was kept away from to the spacing groove, the guiding hole is the rectangular hole, and the cell wall intercommunication in spacing hole is kept away from with the spacing groove to the guiding hole, is equipped with the spout on the pore wall of keeping away from ground of guiding hole, the both ends of spout are the blind end, and the axis of the spacing hole of axis perpendicular to of spout installs the apron in the guiding hole, the one end of apron is passed the guiding hole and is located the spacing groove, be connected with on the top surface of apron with spout complex connecting block, the connecting block passes through the spring and is connected with the blind end of spout. The position of dwang can be restricted to the apron, and then conveniently controls the limiting displacement of gag lever post to the stabilizer blade.
Furthermore, a rubber pad is connected to one side of the support leg close to the ground. The support legs can be prevented from scratching the tiles on the ground when the sofa is pushed.
Further, the spring is a cylindrical helical compression spring. The spring can be compressed and restored only along a fixed direction, cannot be deformed and is durable.
Further, an arc-shaped notch is formed in the side face, far away from the spring, of the cover plate. The convenient when pulling the apron, can directly detain the breach, prevent to take off the hand when the apron from removing.
Furthermore, a retaining ring is arranged on the side surface of the supporting leg. It is more convenient when pulling the support leg.
Due to the adoption of the technical scheme, the beneficial effects of the utility model are that:
1. the utility model relates to a bearing structure for sofa through the position with the gag lever post restriction stabilizer blade, moves the gag lever post when needs rotate the stabilizer blade, covers the dwang of being connected with the gag lever post with the apron, makes the gag lever post unable removal, and the problem of the highly unable regulation of sofa has been solved to the convenient control to the stabilizer blade.
2. The utility model relates to a bearing structure for sofa be equipped with the guiding hole on the lateral wall that spacing hole was kept away from to the spacing groove, the guiding hole is the rectangular hole, and the cell wall intercommunication of spacing hole is kept away from to guiding hole and spacing groove is equipped with the spout on the pore wall of keeping away from ground of guiding hole, the both ends of spout are the blind end, and the axis of the spacing hole of axis perpendicular to of spout installs the apron in the guiding hole, the one end of apron is passed the guiding hole and is located the spacing groove, be connected with at the top surface of apron with spout complex connecting block, the connecting block passes through the spring and is connected with the blind end of spout. The position of dwang can be restricted to the apron, and then conveniently controls the limiting displacement of gag lever post to the stabilizer blade.
3. The utility model relates to a bearing structure for sofa one side that the stabilizer blade is close to ground is connected with the rubber pad. The support legs can be prevented from scratching the tiles on the ground when the sofa is pushed.
4. The utility model relates to a bearing structure for sofa, the spring is cylinder helical compression spring. The spring can be compressed and restored only along a fixed direction, cannot be deformed and is durable.
5. The utility model relates to a bearing structure for sofa the apron is kept away from and is equipped with the arc breach on the side of spring. The convenient when pulling the apron, can directly detain the breach, prevent to take off the hand when the apron from removing.
6. The utility model relates to a bearing structure for sofa be equipped with the buckle on the side of stabilizer blade. It is more convenient when pulling the support leg.
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The invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of portion A of FIG. 1;
fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the pilot hole of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a partial sectional view of the present invention.
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1-base, 3-leg, 31-first side, 4-limiting rod, 5-rotating rod, 6-cover plate, 7-connecting block, 8-spring, 9-matching groove, 10-limiting groove, 11-limiting hole, 12-guiding hole, 13-sliding groove, 14-rubber pad, 15-cross rod, 16-arc notch, 17-groove.
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To make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples, and the exemplary embodiments and descriptions of the present invention are only used for explaining the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention, the dimensional ratios between the components in the description, and the dimensional ratios of the components in actual use.
The present invention will be described in detail with reference to fig. 1 to 4.
Example 1
A supporting structure for a sofa comprises a base 1 and a supporting device arranged on the bottom surface of the base 1, wherein the supporting device comprises a supporting leg 3 and a limiting component;
the supporting foot 3 is a U-shaped supporting foot comprising two vertical rods and a horizontal rod, the vertical rods are cuboid, a matching groove 9 is formed in the bottom surface of the base 1, the supporting foot 3 is hinged to the side wall of the matching groove 9, the supporting foot 3 rotates around a hinge axis until the supporting foot 3 completely enters the matching groove 9, the supporting foot 3 is in contact with the bottom of the matching groove 9, the surface of the vertical rod in contact with the bottom of the matching groove 9 is a first side surface 31, and when the axis of the vertical rod is perpendicular to the bottom surface of the base 1, the other three side surfaces of the vertical rod except the first side surface 31 are in contact with the groove wall of the matching groove 9;
the limiting component comprises a limiting rod 4 and a rotating rod 5, a limiting groove 10 is arranged on the bottom surface of the base 1, the limiting groove 10 is an L-shaped groove, the limiting groove 10 is communicated with the matching groove 9 through a limiting hole 11, the limiting rod 4 is arranged in the limiting groove 10, when the axis of the vertical rod is vertical to the bottom surface of the base 1, one end of the limiting rod 4 passes through the limiting hole 11 and then contacts with the first side surface 31 of the supporting leg 3, the rotating rod 5 is connected with one end of the limiting rod 4 far away from the matching groove 9, the axis of the rotating rod 5 is vertical to the axis of the limiting rod 4, when the limiting rod 4 moves along the limiting hole 11 until the limiting rod 4 completely enters the limiting groove 10, the rotating rod 5 is pushed to rotate around the axis of the limiting rod 4 until the rotating rod 5 also completely enters the limiting groove 10, the limiting rod 4 is close to one end of the limiting hole 11 in the limiting groove 10, and the rotating rod 5 is far away from one end of the limiting hole 11 in the limiting groove 10;
stabilizer blade 3, cooperation groove 9, spacing groove 10 and spacing subassembly all have two, a stabilizer blade 3 and the cooperation of a cooperation groove 9, a spacing subassembly and the cooperation of a spacing groove 10, and a spacing groove 10 corresponds with a stabilizer blade 3.
When the step-down, pulling dwang 5 makes gag lever post 4 remove to keeping away from cooperation groove 9 along spacing hole 11, and up to gag lever post 4 no longer with the contact of stabilizer blade 3, promote dwang 5, make dwang 5 get into spacing groove 10 in, promote stabilizer blade 3 and rotate around articulated axis, make stabilizer blade 3 get into cooperation groove 9 completely, the bottom surface of base 1 forms a smooth plane, the height of sofa just reduces.
When uprising, pulling stabilizer blade 3, make the vertical pole perpendicular to base 1's at both ends bottom surface on the stabilizer blade 3, pulling dwang 5, make dwang 5 perpendicular to base 1's bottom surface, promote dwang 5 and make gag lever post 4 remove along spacing hole 11, make gag lever post 4 get into in the cooperation groove 9 with the first side 31 contact of stabilizer blade 3, gag lever post 4 makes stabilizer blade 3 can't rotate easily, stabilizer blade 3 remains the support to sofa base 1 all the time, the highly fixed invariance of sofa, the subaerial ceramic tile can not be scraped the flower by stabilizer blade 3 to the rubber pad 14 of keeping away from base 1 on stabilizer blade 3.
The utility model discloses a position with the gag lever post restriction stabilizer blade, the gag lever post that moves when needs rotate the stabilizer blade covers the dwang that will be connected with the gag lever post with the apron, makes the gag lever post can't remove, and the problem of the highly unable regulation of sofa has been solved to the convenient control to the stabilizer blade.
Example 2
A specific implementation description is made with respect to the operation manner in embodiment 1.
As shown in fig. 1 and 4, in the present invention, a guide hole 12 communicated with a limiting groove 10 is provided on a side surface of a base 1, a cover plate 6 is installed in the guide hole 12, a connecting block 7 is connected to a side of the cover plate 6 away from the ground, a sliding groove 13 matched with the connecting block 7 is provided on a wall of the guide hole 12 away from the ground, and the connecting block 7 is connected to a closed end of the sliding groove 13 near the limiting hole 11 through a helical cylindrical compression spring 8;
when the supporting feet 3 need to be rotated to reduce the height of the base 1, the cover plate 6 is pushed to move along the axis of the sliding groove 13, the spring 8 is compressed until the cover plate 6 moves to one end of the guide hole 12, the cover plate 6 retreats from the limiting groove 10, after the movable limiting rod 10 completely enters the limiting groove 10, the rotating rod 5 is pushed to rotate along the axis of the limiting rod 4, the rotating rod 5 also enters the limiting groove 10, the control on the cover plate 6 is released, under the action of the restoring force of the spring 8, the cover plate 6 covers the rotating rod 5 and the limiting rod 4, the rotating rod 5 and the limiting rod 4 are positioned between the cover plate 6 and the groove bottom of the limiting groove 10, the rotating rod 5 cannot rotate any more, the limiting rod 4 cannot move, and the supporting feet 3 can smoothly rotate to enter the matching;
when needs heighten the sofa, the stabilizer blade 3 rotates, make the vertical pole perpendicular to base 1's on the stabilizer blade 3 bottom surface, detain arc breach 16 on the apron 6, spring 8 is compressed, the pulling dwang 5, make the axis perpendicular to base 1's of dwang 5 bottom surface, promote dwang 5 and make gag lever post 4 remove along spacing hole 1, the side of up to gag lever post 11 contacts with first side 31 on the vertical pole, loosen the control to apron 6, under the effect of the restoring force of spring 8, apron 6 moves to spacing groove 10 along spout 13, when making gag lever post 4 remove to keeping away from cooperation groove 9, under the restriction of dwang 5, gag lever post 4 can't withdraw from cooperation groove 9 completely, break away from the contact with first side 31, make gag lever post 5 remain the restriction to stabilizer blade 3 position all the time.
Example 3
A specific implementation description is made with respect to the operation manner in embodiment 1.
As shown in fig. 1, the utility model discloses in be equipped with recess 17 in the side of stabilizer blade 3, be connected with horizontal pole 15 on recess 17's lateral wall, when pulling out stabilizer blade 3 from cooperation groove 9, horizontal pole 15 is than better application of force point of stabilizer blade 3 itself, the better pulling stabilizer blade 3 of person of facilitating the use.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can be covered within the protection scope of the present invention without the changes or substitutions conceived by the inventive work within the technical scope disclosed by the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the protection scope defined by the claims.

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1. A supporting structure for a sofa, comprising a base (1) and supporting means mounted on the bottom surface of the base (1), characterized in that: the supporting device comprises a supporting leg (3) and a limiting assembly;
the supporting foot (3) is a U-shaped supporting foot comprising two vertical rods and a horizontal rod, the vertical rods are cuboids, a matching groove (9) is formed in the bottom surface of the base (1), the supporting foot (3) is hinged to the groove wall of the matching groove (9), the supporting foot (3) rotates around a hinge axis until the supporting foot (3) completely enters the matching groove (9), the supporting foot (3) is in contact with the groove bottom of the matching groove (9), the surface of the vertical rods, which is in contact with the groove bottom of the matching groove (9), is a first side surface (31), and when the axis of the vertical rods is perpendicular to the bottom surface of the base (1), other three side surfaces of the vertical rods except the first side surface (31) are in contact with the groove wall of the matching groove (9);
the limiting component comprises a limiting rod (4) and a rotating rod (5), a limiting groove (10) is arranged on the bottom surface of the base (1), the limiting groove (10) is an L-shaped groove, the limiting groove (10) is communicated with a matching groove (9) through a limiting hole (11), the limiting rod (4) is installed in the limiting groove (10), when the axis of the vertical rod is perpendicular to the bottom surface of the base (1), one end of the limiting rod (4) is contacted with a first side surface (31) of the support leg (3) after passing through the limiting hole (11), the rotating rod (5) is connected with one end of the limiting rod (4) far away from the matching groove (9), the axis of the rotating rod (5) is perpendicular to the axis of the limiting rod (4), when the limiting rod (4) moves along the limiting hole (11) until the limiting rod (4) completely enters the limiting groove (10), the rotating rod (5) is pushed to rotate around the axis of the limiting rod (4), until the rotating rod (5) completely enters the limiting groove (10), the limiting rod (4) is close to one end of the limiting hole (11) in the limiting groove (10), and the rotating rod (5) is far away from one end of the limiting hole (11) in the limiting groove (10);
stabilizer blade (3), cooperation groove (9), spacing groove (10) and spacing subassembly all have two, and stabilizer blade (3) respectively with a cooperation groove (9) cooperation respectively, spacing subassembly respectively with a spacing groove (10) cooperation respectively, spacing groove (10) respectively correspond with a stabilizer blade (3) respectively.
2. A support structure for a sofa as claimed in claim 1, wherein: be equipped with guiding hole (12) on spacing groove (10) keep away from the lateral wall of spacing hole (11), guiding hole (12) are the rectangular hole, and guiding hole (12) and spacing groove (10) keep away from the cell wall intercommunication of spacing hole (11), are equipped with spout (13) on the pore wall of keeping away from ground of guiding hole (12), the both ends of spout (13) are the blind end, and the axis of the spacing hole of axis perpendicular to (11) of spout (13) installs apron (6) in guiding hole (12), the one end of apron (6) is passed guiding hole (12) and is located spacing groove (10), is connected with on the top surface of apron (6) and is connected with spout (13) complex connecting block (7), connecting block (7) are connected with the blind end of spout (13) through spring (8).
3. A support structure for a sofa as claimed in claim 1, wherein: when the vertical rod of the support leg (3) is perpendicular to the bottom surface of the base (1), one side of the support leg (3) far away from the base (1) is connected with a rubber pad (14).
4. A support structure for a sofa as claimed in claim 2, wherein: the spring (8) is a cylindrical spiral compression spring.
5. A support structure for a sofa as claimed in claim 2, wherein: an arc notch (16) is arranged on one end of the cover plate (6) far away from the base (1) and on the side face of the cover plate far away from the spring (8).
6. A support structure for a sofa according to any one of claims 1-5, wherein: the side surface of the supporting leg (3) is provided with a groove (17), a cross rod (15) is arranged in the groove (17), and the cross rod (15) is connected with two opposite groove walls of the groove (17).
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