DE102017110711B4 - Desk with a wall - Google Patents

Abstract

Desk (17.1, 17.2) with a wall (1) for visual and / or sound insulation with two longitudinal profiles (3), which support a wall element (2) height adjustable, and a base (12), wherein the desk (17.1) and the second desk (17.2) have a height adjustment, wherein the height adjustment via a driver (16.1, 16.2) a wall element (2) of the wall (1) height-adjusted, characterized in that the wall element (2) on one side (8) of the wall element ( 2) has a Einhakausnehmung (10) and on another side (9) of the wall element (2) has a further Einhakausnehmung (11), wherein the wall (1) between the desk (17.1) and the second desk (17.2), wherein arranged on in each case one underside (15) of a desk top (14.1) and a second desk top (14.2) of the desk (17.1) and the second desk (17.2) of the hook-shaped driver (16.1) and the further driver (16.2) s ind, which engage in the use position in each case in the Einhakausnehmung (10) or further Einhakausnehmung (11).

Description

Technical area

The invention relates to a desk with a wall according to the preamble of claim 1, and a use of a wall according to claim 7.

State of the art

Such walls are already known in many forms and configurations and in use.

In this context, on the GB 2 319 470 A and the US 2008/0 121 149 A1 directed. There, a work table is disclosed in each case, on which a panel is arranged vertically adjustable.

In addition, on the US 2015/0 023 729 A1 referenced, which also discloses work tables with height-adjustable panels.

For example, in the DE 10 2015 013 268 A1 discloses a verreicherer- and reducible partition wall as a visual and sound insulation for jobs, especially for facing desks. The partition is clamped with the help of clamps vertically above the back desk edge of the desk, is pulled up and pulled down like a roll and thus forms the visual and possibly sound insulation to the opposite placed desk and its users.

The disadvantage here is that while this partition is in itself enlargeable and reducible, but is relatively cumbersome to handle. Furthermore, such a partition is firmly connected to a desk top. In the case of height-adjustable desks, for example, it helps to move the desk top up and down. In the case of height adjustment, a divider panel should be mounted below both the desk top and a divider above the desk top to provide full privacy and sound protection when the desk top is moved up. Handling is not easy here either. Of course, the clamps could be loosened and the divider panel removed from above the desk top and offset below the desk top, but this is time consuming and cumbersome.

Furthermore, the opposite desk would also have to be provided with such partitions, so that the visual and sound protection is guaranteed for this user when he moves his desk, but the other user now wants to move his desk in an opposite direction.

Object of the invention

The object of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art. In particular, a wall is to be provided which is easy to handle and inexpensive to manufacture. The wall should be as flexible as possible and still provide sufficient visual and / or sound protection for multiple users sitting opposite each other at two opposite desks.

Solution of the task

To achieve the object, the features according to claims 1 and 7.

Advantageous embodiments are described in the subclaims.

It is therefore a preferably height-adjustable desk provided with a wall which comprises a wall element and two the wall element frontally leading longitudinal profiles.

Of course, it is thought to provide only a desk with more than one wall or more than two desks with one or more corresponding walls. Thus, individual workstations and group workplaces can be equipped with walls and thus with visual and / or sound insulation. The desk or desks can be walled from the front. However, it is also conceivable to retrofit one or more walls in one or more existing desks.

It is also conceivable not only to design the wall or the wall element as a planar element, but optionally to equip it with additional linkage and a cover element in order to virtually surround the one or more desks on more than one side. This implementation could, for example, offer an advantage in call centers. Perhaps then an additional motor can be provided to support the height adjustment of the desktop (s) and thus the movement of the wall or the wall element.

It is also conceivable to provide the wall or the wall element additionally with compartments, shelves, sockets, telephone connections, USB ports or the like.

Furthermore, it is conceivable to provide the wall not only for desks, but generally where a visual and / or sound insulation or just a partition is desired. It can be used as a flip chart or white board at the same time and more.

The wall or the wall element itself in turn has an approximately square hollow profile with a thickness of about 5 cm in the present case, which is filled with insulating material. The hollow profile is laterally, i. flanked at the bottom of a preferably orthogonal to a bottom sides of the hollow profile of wood elements. In these wooden elements preferably groove-shaped Einhakausnehmungen are embedded in each case on a front side and a rear side of the wall element.

With the hooking recesses preferably come in the position of use hook-shaped driver engaged. The drivers are preferably each arranged on a lower side of a desktop of the desk or desktops of two desks in the event that it is two opposite desks arranged to be visible and soundproofing to be separated from the wall. Of course, it should also be thought to design the attachment of the individual driver on the desk in another way. Thus, the driver can for example by means of a separate U-profile at the desk edge releasably or firmly arranged.

The design of this wall element has been described only by way of example. It is important that any visual and / or sound insulation above and below a desktop of the desk is given by this wall element. The thickness of the wall element and whether the hollow profile is square or rectangular or has another shape, which material has the hollow profile and the insulating material, if an additional fabric cover or the like is provided for design reasons and whether the hollow profile is flanked by wood elements and the like, is of subordinate importance. The desired function of the visual and / or sound insulation must be given. The further embodiment of the wall element can also be left to the wishes and expectations of the user.

The design and arrangement of Einhakausnehmungen is of minor importance. It has been found to be advantageous to provide two Einhakausnehmungen on a front and a back of the wall element, in particular, when the wall two opposing desks should visually and soundproofing separate. However, it is also conceivable to provide one or more Einhakausnehmungen only on one side of the wall element. This may for example be the case if no opposite desk is provided, but the user of the existing desk would still like to have a visual and / or sound insulation.

However, it is also conceivable to provide only one Einhakausnehmung on the front and on the back and to arrange them, for example, the center. For reasons of stability, this may not make sense, but here could then give the longitudinal profiles an increased stability function than may be the case in the present embodiment. The possibilities of the different number and arrangement of Einhakausnehmungen of the present invention include his.

Likewise, it has been found to be advantageous to design the hooking recesses in a channel shape and they at one end, i. at an end facing away from the bottom, to be provided with a kind of blind hole, so that the above-mentioned hook-shaped driver can easily and safely intervene there. Due to the configuration of the blind hole in connection with the hook-shaped drivers is advantageously ensured that the driver also move the desktop element in a movement of the desktop upwards over the engaging with the driving engagement Einhakausnehmungen the wall element upwards.

Of course, it is conceivable to design the individual driver as a simple metal pin or the like, but then falls in the present embodiment given by the hook-shaped configuration of the driver additional support of the wall element or the wall away. If a second opposing desk is provided, this may be negligible as the second desk could catch the wall in case of instability. The hook-shaped configuration of the driver is particularly advantageous if no opposing desk is provided and could cause a collapse of the wall to injury to employees and / or damage to objects.

The number of entrainment on a desktop or multiple desktops depends on the existing hooking recesses. If, as stated above, only one Einhakausnehmung be provided on each side of the wall element or only a Einhakausnehmung on one side of the wall element, then accordingly only one driver to be provided at the corresponding desk. The different ones Possibilities of the number, the arrangement and the configuration of the drivers are to be encompassed by the present invention.

Furthermore, a length of the driver and thus a distance between the desk top and the wall are of minor importance and arbitrarily adjustable according to the wishes and expectations of the user. For reasons of stability, however, a distance between the desk top and the wall should not be too large.

As far as the longitudinal profiles are concerned, their design is also of secondary importance. It is important that the wall element is given a certain leadership in its up and down movement. Alternative leadership options are therefore possible and are intended to be encompassed by the present invention. For example, guide sleeves may be provided which slide up and down on a corresponding tube or the like

The longitudinal profiles can be provided with one or more feet to ensure a good level of wall on the floor. However, the longitudinal profiles can also be integrated in a foot of a desk or in the feet of opposing desks. If one or more separate feet of the longitudinal profiles provided, the possibility of retrofitting the wall is simplified at a desk or between two opposing desks. The wall can then be easily placed on the individual desk or between the two facing desks. In order to prevent displacement of the wall with respect to the desk or the desks or to prevent sliding or slipping of the longitudinal profiles with each other, the base or the feet by means of fasteners, such as screws, bolts or the like attached to the ground become. Alternatively, the two longitudinal profiles can also be connected to one another via a traverse. If the base of the longitudinal profiles is integrated into the feet of the desk (s), less space is required again and a drifting apart of desk and wall is almost automatically prevented. Both options offer advantages. It also includes the desire and the imagination of the user, in what way he wants such a wall arranged.

According to the present embodiment, it is assumed that two opposing desks, between which the wall is arranged. In the initial position, the wall or the wall element is in a position in which a distance to the ground is the lowest. As a rule, the desk in front or behind it or its desk top is located at a height of about 75 cm from the floor.

The drivers on the underside of the desk plates are located in the Einhakausnehmungen the wood elements of the wall elements of the wall. A first user, for example, sitting at the one desks, is visible in this way through the wall and / or soundproof in front of a second user who sits at the second desk.

If one of the users now wishes to adjust the height of his desk top, he activates a corresponding height adjustment and moves his desk top upwards. The drivers, which are firmly connected to the underside of the desktop of the height-adjustable desk, thereby also move upwards. As it engages in the Einhakausnehmung, take the driver in this way the wall element on the way up with.

When it reaches the height desired by the first user, it stops moving the desktop upwards. In such an end position, the desk top may preferably be located approximately at a height of 125 cm. However, any other end position above and below is conceivable and should be encompassed by the present invention. Of course, the movement of the desk top is limited up to a maximum end position. Where this maximum end position is determined depends on the respective manufacturer of such height-adjustable desks.

The fact that the wall element has made the movement of the desk top to the top, continues visual and / or sound protection between the two users. Neither one user can look over the wall element away at the other user nor can he look below the wall element in the direction of the other user and vice versa.

Now drives the second user his desk also upwards, so nothing changes in the visual and / or soundproofing conditions. The drivers on the desktop drive in the Einhakausnehmungen of the wall element up without, however, provisionally to change the position of the wall element itself, as this has already been moved by the driver of the first driven up to the desk top upwards. At the position of the wall element then something changes when the first user or his desk has not reached the maximum possible end position. Then the second user adjust his desktop in this maximum end position. The moment his desk top gets higher than the first desk of the first user, the second dogs of this second desk come into engagement with the corresponding blind holes of the hooking recesses and pull the wall element upward into the desired end position. Furthermore, there is visual and / or sound protection between the two users.

If one of the two users decides to move his height-adjusted desktop back down towards the floor, he can do so. If the present description is the first user, then he moves his corresponding desk top down to its desired end position. The associated drivers move unhindered in the Einhakausnehmungen down. The position of the wall element is not changed for the time being, since this is still held in its position by the second drivers of the desktop of the second user.

If, however, the second user wishes to move his desktop back down towards the floor, but the first user is to hold on to the position of his desk top, the wall element is driven downwards over the downwardly moving desk top or its second driver, respectively the position of the first desktop is reached. Here then take the driver of the first desktop back into engagement with the wall element and hold it in position, while the second desktop or its second driver continue their movement down without taking the wall element.

The driver furthest from the floor thus determines the height position of the wall element. In this way, the visual and / or soundproofing is guaranteed in any position of the desktops of the desks.

list of figures

• 1 eine Vorder- oder Rückansicht einer erfindungsgemäßen Wandung;
• 2 einen Querschnitt durch die Wandung nach 1 entlang der Linie II - II;
• 3 eine schematische Seitenansicht der Wandung nach 1 in Ausgangsstellung und gestrichelt dargestellter Höhenjustierung zwischen zwei Schreibtischen; und
• 4 eine Ansicht von unten auf einen Teil der Wandung nach 1, mit welcher ein Mitnehmer eines Schreibtisches in Eingriff steht.

Further advantages, features and details of the invention will become apparent from the following description of preferred embodiments and from the drawings; these show in:

• 1 a front or rear view of a wall according to the invention;
• 2 a cross section through the wall after 1 along the line II - II ;
• 3 a schematic side view of the wall after 1 in initial position and dashed height adjustment between two desks; and
• 4 a view from below of a part of the wall 1 with which a driver of a desk is engaged.

embodiment

In the 1 and 2 is a wall 1 shown, which is a wall element 2 as well as two the wall element 2 leading longitudinal profiles 3 includes.

The wall element 2 again in the present case has an approximately square hollow profile 4 with a thickness of about 5 cm in the present case, which with insulating material 5 is filled. The hollow profile 4 is laterally, ie at the to a floor 6 preferably orthogonal sides of the hollow profile 4 of wooden elements 7 flanked. In these wooden elements 7 are each on a front side 8th and a back 9 of the wall element 2 preferably channel-shaped Einhakausnehmungen 10 or further hooking recesses 11 admitted.

The longitudinal profiles 3 can with feet 12 Be provided a good stand of the wall 2 on the ground 6 to ensure. The longitudinal profiles 3 however, can also be in one foot 13 a desk 17 be integrated.

3 shows the wall 1 between a desk 17.1 and a second desk 17.2 , On one bottom each 15 a desktop 14.1 or a second desktop 14.2 of the desk 17.1 or the second desk 17.2 are a preferred hook-shaped driver 16.1 and second driver 16.2 arranged, which in the use position respectively in the Einhakausnehmungen 10 or the further hooking recesses 11 the wooden elements 7 intervention.

4 shows a view from below of a part of the wall 1 , in particular on the Einhakausnehmungen 10 and the other hooking recesses 11 as well as the driver 16.1 , which with the Einhakausnehmung 10 engaged.

Referring to the 1 to 4 explains the operation of the present invention as follows:

In the starting position according to 3 there is the wall 1 or the wall element 2 in a position in which a distance to the ground 6 is lowest. Usually there is the desk 14.1 or the second desk 14.2 or his desk top 14.1 or second desktop 14.2 at a height of about 75 cm from the ground 6 away.

The driver 16.1 and the second driver 16.2 on the bottom 15 the desktop 14.1 and the second desktop 14.2 are in the Einhakausnehmungen 10 and 11 the wooden elements 7 of the wall element 2 the wall 1 , A user not shown in detail, for example, at the desks 17.1 sits that way through the wall 1 visible and / or soundproof in front of a second user, who at the second desk 17.2 sitting.

Now one of the users wants his desktop 14.1 or his second desktop 14.2 Adjust in height, so he moves his respective desktop, this is according to 3 the desktop 14.1 , to the heights. The driver 16.1 , which firmly with the bottom 15 the desktop 14.1 is thereby also moved in height. Because he is in the Einhakausnehmung 10 engages, takes the driver 16.1 in this way the wall element 2 on the way to the desktop 14.1 upwards, ie in one from the ground 6 opposite direction, with.

When the height desired by the user is reached, it stops the movement of the desk top 14.1 up. Such an end position is in 3 shown in dashed lines. The desk top 14.1 is approximately at a height of 125 cm, but this is not the maximum end position of the desktop 14.1 have to be.

In that the wall element 2 the movement of the desktop 14.1 has participated in the top, continues to provide visual and / or sound protection between the two users. Neither can the one user on the wall element 2 He can not look at the other user, nor can he look below the wall element 2 look in the direction of the other user and vice versa.

The wall element 2 or its wooden elements 7 Both in its initial position and on its way up into an end position stabilizing from the longitudinal profiles 3 guided. At the same time prevent the hook-shaped driver 16.1 a possible sliding of the wall element 2 or the Einhakausnehmungen 10 from the drivers 16.1 ,

Now drives the second user his second desktop 14.2 also upwards, so nothing changes in the visual and / or sound insulation conditions. The second driver 16.2 on the second desktop 14.2 drive in the other hooking recesses 11 of the wall element 2 upwards but not provisionally at the position of the wall element 2 to change something, because this already by the drivers 16.1 the first raised desk top 14.1 was moved up. At the position of the wall element 2 then something changes when the first user or his first desktop 14.1 not reached the maximum possible end position. Then the second user can have his second desktop 14.2 adjust to this maximum end position. The moment his second desktop 14.2 higher than the first desktop 14.1 the first user arrives, come the second driver 16.2 this second desktop 14.2 with the corresponding blind holes of the further hooking recesses 11 engage and pull the wall element 2 with him up to the desired end position. Furthermore, there is visual and / or sound protection between the two users.

Now decides one of the two users, his height-disguised first desktop 14.1 or second desk top 14.2 back down towards the ground 6 to move, he can do this. If the present description is the first user, then he moves his corresponding first desktop 14.1 down to its desired end position. The associated drivers 16.1 move freely in the Einhakausnehmungen 10 downward. The position of the wall element 2 is not changed for the time being, as this is still the other drivers 16.2 the second desktop 14.2 the second user is held in position.

However, the second user wants his second desktop 14.2 back down towards the floor 6 but the first user is at the position of his first desktop 14.1 hold, so will the wall element 2 over the down-moving second desktop 14.2 or their other drivers 16.2 taken down so long until the position of the first desk top 14.1 is reached. Here take over then the drivers 16.1 the first desktop 14.1 again the engagement with the wall element 2 and keep it in its position while the second desk top 14.2 or their other drivers 16.2 continue their movement downwards without the wall element 2 take.

The driver furthest away from the ground 16.1 or. 16.2 So sets the height position of the wall element 2 firmly. In this way, the visual and / or sound insulation in every position of the desktop 14.1 or the second desktop 14.2 of the desk 17.1 or the second desk 17.2 guaranteed.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

wall

2

wall element

3

longitudinal profile

4

hollow profile

5

insulation

6

ground

7

wood element

8th

front

9

back

10

latching recess

11

Further hooking recess

12

stand

13

stand

14

desktop

14.1

first desktop

14.2

second desk top

15

bottom

16

takeaway

16.1

takeaway

16.2

Another driver

17

writing desk

17.1

writing desk

17.2

Second desk

Claims (7)

Desk (17.1, 17.2) with a wall (1) for visual and / or sound insulation with two longitudinal profiles (3), which support a wall element (2) height adjustable, and a base (12), wherein the desk (17.1) and the second desk (17.2) have a height adjustment, wherein the height adjustment via a driver (16.1, 16.2) a wall element (2) of the wall (1) height-adjusted, characterized in that the wall element (2) on one side (8) of the wall element ( 2) has a Einhakausnehmung (10) and on another side (9) of the wall element (2) has a further Einhakausnehmung (11), wherein the wall (1) between the desk (17.1) and the second desk (17.2), wherein arranged on each one underside (15) of a desk top (14.1) and a second desk top (14.2) of the desk (17.1) and the second desk (17.2) of the hook-shaped driver (16.1) and the further driver (16.2) are, which engage in the use position in each case in the Einhakausnehmung (10) or further Einhakausnehmung (11). Desk (17.1, 17.2) after Claim 1 , characterized in that the Einhakausnehmung (10, 11) has a channel shape, in which the driver (16.1, 16.2) is movable. Desk (17.1, 17.2) after one of the Claims 1 or 2 , characterized in that the Einhakausnehmung (10, 11) at one end has a blind hole. Desk (17.1, 17.2) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the wall element (2) in each case frontally over a longitudinal profile (3) can be guided. Desk (17.1, 17.2) after Claim 4 , characterized in that the two longitudinal profiles (3) have a base (12). Desk (17.1, 17.2) after Claim 5 , characterized in that the base (12) is formed as part of a foot (13) of the desk (17.1, 17.2). Use of a wall (1) for a desk (17.1) and a second desk (17.2), the desks (17.1, 17.2) each having a height adjustment, characterized in that a driver (16.1) for a Einhakausnehmung (10) and a Another driver (16.2) for a further hooking recess (11), wherein a wall element (2) in a longitudinal profile (3) is guided, wherein the of a bottom (6) farthest driver (16.1, 16.2), the height position of the wall element (2).

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