DE2513962A1 - SYSTEM OF DISASSEMBLY FURNITURE - Google Patents

Description

The invention is of paramount importance in connection with the essentially complete establishment of large business urid professional office space, although the principle of the invention also has relative advantages in connection with furnishing small offices and home use.

Creating a large business or professional office usually requires the services of an architect, which designs the spaces and determines the facilities needed to run the business in question effectively. Then you get the equipment or the furniture from one or more furniture manufacturers who specialize in the various Manufacture furniture items. This furniture, which necessarily has a lot of space in relation to its weight, is then transported to the location of the offices with undesired effort, usually transported by hand in elevators, whereby the ' Most of the office space is located above the ground floor, and is finally set up ready for use. The manufacture i of the furniture, its transport and its final installation all involve an effort, which is very. represents a large part of the total cost of creating a large scale office organization. The same Koaten load must be worn in the case of smaller offices and home furnishings.

In order to reduce such costs, the manufacture and use of collapsible furniture, possibly of a modifiable type, has heretofore been suggested. At first glance this offered impressive possibilities, / Äoch all previous constructions of such furniture required a precision manufacturing technique, which makes special faoh work necessary, and the 'installation of the

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Furniture was so complicated that its use was relative. special work was required. Also required such planes often have a large number of parts to meet the requirement to do justice to the fact that the piece of furniture was usually adaptable for use as a bookcase, as a cabinet with doors, Closet with sliding. Drawers and the like

According to the invention, a system of furniture that can be dismantled is primarily to be created, the furniture being built around a basic structural unit, which takes into account the different furniture designs normally required, such as barriers, which form bookcases and are provided with swing doors, sliding drawers, etc., without the ^! parts to be manufactured require special skilled work, with all ropes being able to be shipped flat and the; Can be listed parts at the site of use by relatively unfachliche work presents \. J

To achieve this, the invention provides a system that can be dismantled Furniture in which every piece of furniture includes at least one set of two side boards as well as top and bottom boards, which can be put together at a corner and form a basic unit with four walls, whereby this unit is characterized by the! Boards is formed. Each z \ ^ ei of the boards have edge! Sections which, when the unit is put together, are in mutual neighborhood and are these sections! shaped to have a relatively loosely fitted dovetail joint form between them, the one Kanteriabschnitt protruding and the other is receiving.

These boards with their connections can be made by relatively inexperienced Manpower cut from flat plywood because the joints have large fitting tolerances can. The connection points are completely open in the finished piece of furniture and the parts are for people who use the parts ■ put together, completely visible. Because the parts are loose fit into each other and the interaction is so easily recognizable, everyone can use the four boards to form the basic

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unit fit together · Furthermore , only one person is required! so, because the blacktail compounds themselves! block once they have been fitted to each other. j

Most office staff 'pulls the look and feel of'; Wood before, and as suggested above, plywood is an acceptable material in the case of the present system. To hide the overall <sawed edges welohe in some cases notwendi-j are gerweise disclosed when the unit compiled J, strips are fastened solid wood at these edges, as is customary with plywood furniture. However, in this case the strips are rounded at their exposed corners at a right angle and in this way the exposed connections between the parts are not only made invisible but also designed decoratively, with the exposed dovetail connections and edges receiving decorative features, so that the finished compilation has a certain character.

To hold the joints together when the base unit is pushed around the edges of the sections are what Form the female connectors, grooved, which forms enclosed holes when the decorative strips are attached as they cover the groove. The protruding parts have relatively short holes in these parts are formed at locations which mate with the holes of the female portions when the unit is assembled will. In order to fix the connection against separation, for example when the unit is lifted, \ ^ ground pins with decorative outer ends through these holes inserted through into the two parts of each connector, which the joint inevitably prevents separation blocked. The holes that the female sections require are relatively long and could not go through relatively inexperienced workers are drilled in exactly, but .the described Construction method creates exact holes, which are made without the need for special skill can. The holes in the protruding parts don't need any

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to be very deep and do not require great accuracy. the Fitting of the pins into the holes can be relatively loose without affecting the effectiveness with which the screwing. bond is locked against separation.

Although the above description refers to a single unit, it is nevertheless to be understood that the same characteristics for the production of a large number of such units reasonable '■' are Wandt. The boards can all be made in the same dimensions, for example around the running office! furniture dimensions, whereby the side boards can be 61 cm high and 45.5 cm deep, while the top and bottom 4

i boards 91 cm wide and of course 45.5 cm deep. For the easiest possible installation of furniture, the side boards can have the protruding connecting parts and the receiving cuts are then made in the top and bottom boards. Only a single protruding and receiving connecting set is required for each of the connecting points because the dovetail parts are more length can be prepared. this may, of course, as with any piece of furniture, the two side boards are inserted over the connecting points in the lower \ board, wherein the side boards remain self-supporting, can be placed to the upper board, in which case the arrangement is self-supporting, until the pins are inserted to complete the assembly. Where assembled units are desired, the connections are made so that each connection can be brought into close contact by the pins of the respective units so that the assembly units are joined together.

If it is intended, the units as open book cases To use, one or more shelves can be attached in the usual way. They can also Side boards be grooved so that a relatively thin plywood back plate can be attached.

To make the basic unit for still others required in offices To make furniture types universally applicable it is necessary

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Take precautions for swing doors and drawers, such as they are required in the case of filing departments and the like. Bind.

Taking into account the above, the top and bottom boards have or sub-boards of the base unit blind holes, which are formed in-the boards over their inner surfaces » These holes are located in the iliac region of the leading and trailing edges these two boards. If they are not needed, they are invisible.

The above holes are designed for attaching both one as well as several "swinging doors", or to equip the base unit with sliding drawers. The manufacturer provides one 'for of the parts a door with a support member, which is preferably covered with the '.Für by suitable hinges Hinges, is connected. Towards such an aging link can simply be a flat wooden rail and for shipping this is laid flat against the door. In the ends of this Link or this rail are blind holes drilled so that the rail along one side of the base unit with their upper and lower ends can be attached, these ends lying substantially against the top and bottom board and the blind holes match those in the top and bottom boards. This allows the position of a cabinet with one or more swing doors, with pins in the blind holes of the bottom end of the support member and into the corresponding j formed in the floor board Holes are inserted before the top board is brought into its position in which the board is connected in a blocking manner will. Then pins are inserted into the holes in the upper part of this link or rail and the board is then brought into position, the pins on the upper and lower part of the rail and the support member, this firmly in its Hold position. In the case of two doors, the other door has the corresponding mounting member or the corresponding one Rail, which is locked in position with pins through upper and lower blind holes at the opposite end of the unit.

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is locked.

These same blind holes are also provided for the assembly of a drawer. In this case the support members are sized to extend substantially the full depth of the side boards of the unit and two support members are used, one at each end of the unit. The top and bottom edges of these lower links are also provided with blind holes drilled not only on their fronts but also on their backs, these holes being for the two corresponding locking pins on the front and back of each link. In this case the links are provided with drawer guides of a suitable type, for example with suitable horizontally extending grooves machined at suitable locations. With the provision of these drawer guides, drawers can be created for the units. To create drawers in accordance with the present system, each drawer is prefabricated in the factory with front, back and side panels, these being interconnected by hinges which allow swinging in directions such that the drawer folds flat for shipping . The sides of this drawer are provided with sliding elements for cooperation with the aforementioned drawer guides. Require even here <changed the work for setting up no significant skill. The flat-folded drawer simply becomes the required one. curved rectangular shape and pushed into its place with the corresponding I fitted drawer guides. For j a sliding shelf, the bottom parts of the drawer boards;

be grooved so that a light sheet of plywood can be inserted into this | Grooves can be made when the drawer is set up, \ or in the unfolded state such a plate actually makes the drawer rigid against being folded again.

The aforementioned blind holes are preferably lined with metal, both for the sake of appearance when they are open. lie, as well as in the case where the 'unit is used as a compartment with ^' open front, as well as against possible De- j

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formation "to be resistant when the holes with the pins to be used.

It can be seen that the invention creates a system
which meets the goals listed above. In
In all cases there are relatively large machining tolerances to _r
casual, which makes it easier to manufacture. During manufacture, all parts to be handled are flat, eliminating the need for expensive manufacturing facilities. ' Each type of suspension can be equipped with parts that are flat; and can be stacked and shipped, and this accordingly makes the handling of the parts relatively easy in connection with the fact that the parts are brought into the office space that needs the equipment. The setting up of the basic ^! units and the application of the components that are required. _; to create doors, drawers, etc., is so obvious that setting them up is almost a matter of responsibility
every person fills. Skill is not required. After the aiii "ask, every furniture construction is firmly bolted together
and can be moved around and lifted without fear of falling apart.

A preferred embodiment of the invention is set out in the accompanying drawings Drawings illustrated.

Pig. 1 is a perspective view showing one of
Shows basic units during their assembly;

I ¹ Xg. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing how
two of the units stacked on top of each other when putting them together.
can be;

7ig. 3 is a perspective view showing the base unit shows how it appears in the form of a cupboard with swing doors;

Figure 4 is a vertical section taken along line 4-4 of Figure 3;

Pig. Figure 5 is a horizontal cross section taken along line 5-5 of Figure 5

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Figure 6 is a vertical section taken along line 6-6 of Figure 4;

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the unit when it is provided with drawers;

Figure 8 is a vertical section taken along line 8-8 of Figure 7;

Figure 9 is a horizontal cross-section taken along line 9-9 of Figure 7;

Figure 10 is a vertical section taken along line 10-10 of Figure 8 and

Fig. 11 is a perspective view showing one of the drawers in an unfolded state.

Figs. 1 and 2 show the concept of the basic unit.

Each unit comprises a set of two side boards 1 and 2 and top and bottom boards 3 and 4, respectively. To assemble the unit, these boards are put together in edge relationship and form the basic unit shown in Fig. 2, in which two of the units, one on the top of the other, .stocked. All boards can be cut from plywood of suitable thickness and external appearance. The side boards 1 and 2 have top and bottom edge portions which are cut to form the protruding members 5 of the dovetail joints described above, and the top board and bottom board have edge portions which are cut to form the female members 6 of these joints form. The parts 6a of the female connecting portions are grooved, as in 6b, and provided with finished strips 7 which cover these grooves while forming holes. Because of the length required, the holes may be drilled in the protruding connecting elements 5 , but preferably for convenience they are also grooved, as shown at 5a, and covered by the finished strips 8 of the side board. These strips 7 and 8 can be made of wood and

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rait rounded edges, v / ie this at 8a and 7a is shown.

The floor board 4 and its connecting parts and edge trim can be the same and the finished strips 9 are attached, where they are needed to cover the laminations of the plywood board edges.

The pins 10 can be inserted via the holes which go through the $ Grooves 5a and 6b are formed and the connection is used 11 when the elements are stacked on top of each other.

In Pig. 2 are two of the basic units, one on the upper j part of the other, increased and, if not clearly indicated, it is to be understood that both basic units have the j Connections 11 are connected to each other, which with the ι mutually adjacent sets of pins 10 in engagement I

stand. |

As noted, none of the joints or the sawn edges of the plywood require precision engineering. The edges are covered by the strips 7, 8, 9 , etc. , and the edges of these strips are generally continuously rounded so that the looseness is covered at the connection points. The ease of the aforementioned assembly is clearly shown by FIG. Practically anyone can do the compilation.

In terms of modern style, the result is most attractive, like from Pig. 2 can be seen. The open and exposed dovetail joints are attractive, the rounded ones Edges of the decorative wood deliberately leave all connections decorative and therefore psychologically non-existent appear, and the pins themselves can be quite decorative in that they have spherical ends 10a which are chrome-plated can. The connections 11, if they are used, can be chrome-plated so that they have the effect of a own voluntary decoration.

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In all cases the top and bottom boards have 3 and 4 the aforementioned blind holes 12 in their insides in the vicinity of the front end of the unit, and at least one another hole 13 in their back ends, these holes being drilled in all top and bottom boards so that they fit into Neighborhood of the side boards in the case of an assembled unit.

To create the swinging doors illustrated in FIG. 3, the doors 14 are via European or covered hinges 15 on the lateral support members 16 'or on vertical ones Attached to wooden rails, these rails having holes 17 at their upper and lower ends into which pins 18 'are used to anchor the support member 16 when installing the top board 3 in place, each The support member or each rail extends vertically and the top and bottom ends are firmly anchored to form the door is attached in each case by pure hinge effect.

In Fig. 7 the unit is shown with drawers. For this purpose, side members or brackets 16a are used, which in this case extend horizontally backwards and have holes in their upper and lower edges which fit together with the rear holes 13 in the top of the floorboards. These side members 16a must in this case be attached within the two side walls 1 and 2 and these members create the drawers->_; guides 19, which are required for the drawers. It can be seen that the creation of either of the links 16 or the links 16a takes into account either the swing doors or the use of drawers. The drawers used are as described above, by a Prontbrett 19, side boards 20 and backboard 21 are formed, which ι all are connected by hinges 22 which are arranged to create oscillating directions, the <drawer allow which dispatch in a flat, folded state, from which '-the drawer is erected (partial erection in Fig. 11

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shown). The side boards 20 are provided with grooves 20a for sliding Receipt of a plywood floor '23 provided. This bottom is after unfolding or setting up the drawer pushed into its place and serves as both a drawer bottom. as well as to prevent the collapse of the erected or unfolded drawer.

\ ^R hen necessary, the basic unit may be provided with a back plate 24, as shown in Fig. 8, the "rick plate in recesses 25 is maintained, which are cut into the upper 'inci lower boards 3 and 4, wherein the above The decorative strips 9 described above are used to keep this back plate in place.

If it is necessary to create a foundation, it can either be a flat foundation or it can, as in P ig · 3 _; : <e: -; eigt, are formed by large chrome balls 26, v.'oiche are supported by short legs 27 which are attached to metal webs 23, the metal webs extending under the floor board 4 and having angular ends 28a, which with Holes are provided through which the associated pin 10 extends,

It is to be understood that the relatively loose interfitting of the joints which provides the advantages described above may result in units which are not adequately rigid. However, each unit becomes rigid, ^Ύ : Γβηη the back plate 24 is inserted into the recesses 25, velch the latter are converted into grooves by the strips 9. Each set of side, top, and bottom boards should include this back plate 24 as well. As shown in Fig. 1, this back plate 24 can easily be lowered into position before lowering the top board 3 into the side boards. The groove 25 should be formed in the back ends of all four boards so that the unit is perfectly rigid when completed.

'.'eil all parts of the unit with large manufacturing tolerances

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and because of the simplicity of the parts, it is not necessary for the manufacturer of the parts of the unit to increase the manufacturing cost by producing a test assembly of each unit. Previous demountable, furniture usually required by a test compilation: the producer, -to ensure that the parts by the user: can be put together. Because of the simplicity of the j compilation can inventively prepared dismantled \ bare furniture is easy to put together and even by! typists from offices or by the homeowner for household use.

The folding drawer shown in Fig. 11 uses, as illustrated, four hinges to articulate each of the corners of the two side and front and back boards of the drawer together. This type of folding construction can be used when the front panel of the drawer is not wide enough to open allow the two side boards to be folded against each other. When the front board, as indicated above, has a width of 91 .om and the depth is 45.5 cm, so the two side boards can be hinged to the Yorder board that they can be folded against each other and lie flat on the front bold, with the dimensions given External dimensions are. Although not illustrated, the back board can be provided with locks in this case which-snap into the rear ends of the side boards, so that after sliding the bottom plate 23 into the grooves 20a the drawer becomes a rigid unit.

The invention creates what can be called a superstructure system consisting of side, top and bottom or bottom boards as well as back panels of the base unit, whereby the base unit is used either with an open front or with swing doors or drawers can be provided. The assembled units are symmetrical and can be made using the the connections described above are stacked on top of each other, to create partitions for adjacent business departments. Because the units are symmetrical, they can with

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Front side can be increased in each direction, which allows the occupants of neighboring rooms, for example to alternate Units to have access without each occupant through a solid wall, which through the backs of all Units is formed, faces one another. The outer surfaces of the back plates 24 can of course be attractively manufactured. Once the units are created, they have the flexibility required to the dynamics of periodically occurring reorganizations modern Offices cater .. The units can be taken apart and be reassembled. Units that originally had an open front can either be Doors or drawers and the like. Be equipped.

The pins 18 are preferably press-fitted into the ends of the rails 16 by the manufacturer in order to avoid the pins must be shipped as separate items with loose fittings.

Although not illustrated, it is now to be understood that all the components of this new system are in the form of flat parts can be manufactured, shipped and handled, which, when appropriate, are stacked. Large manufacturing tolerances are not only stipulated in order to keep production costs low, but are of equal importance is to make it very easy to put the various components together to allow which are required to open the various enclosures, barriers with doors, compartments with Drawers, in particular file departments and the like. Build up. The matching pieces aren't just too easy Put them together loosely, but they are also all easily overlooked, so that practically everyone can see how the parts belong together. The invention provides a construction system for equipping even large offices, the system being low in manufacturing costs, requires low freight costs and low transport and handling costs to the place of use and finally the assembly costs are low while

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at the same time produced a large number of furniture constructions will.

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Claims (11)

Pat ent claims '' A system that can be dismantled, characterized by at least one set of two side boards (1, 2) and upper (3) and lower or lower boards. Floor boards (4), which can be put together edge to edge and form a basic unit with four walls, which are formed by these boards, two of these boards each having edge sections which are adjacent to each other when the unit is put together and the edge sections are shaped in this way are that they provide between them a dovetail joint with a protruding connection part (5) in one of these sections and, with a female connecting part (6) in the other of said portions being provided _m the boards with female connecting parts with holes (6b) which extend right through their edge portions and open in the female connecting parts, and wherein the boards with the protruding connecting parts have holes (5a) which enter the protruding connecting part and which with the former Holes fit together j when the connection and pins (10) are adapted to be inserted through the holes in the female connector portions and protruded into the protruding member holes for releasably securing the dovetail joints together. 2.) System according to claim 1, characterized in that the parts of the dovetail joint fit loosely into one another, so that precise manufacture of the set is avoided. 3.) System according to claim 1, characterized in that there are zv / egg such sets for assembling two basic units having one unit on top of the other ^{K 80/1} 509882/0306 to top up, connections (11) with holes being provided through which the pins (10) of the topped up units can pass in order to connect the two zoin units to one another. 4.) System according to claim 1, characterized geke v.nz egg without t that the upper and lower boards have doggie (12, 13), ve lc lie on their insides in Ilachbarschaft at least one open lindes, which is formed by the assembled base unit and the system includes at least one support member (16) adapted to be fitted within at least one of the side boards in the vicinity of the open end of the unit, the support member having ends facing inwardly thereof extend out and have end holes (17), polygons mate with the blind holes, and v / Whether pins (18) can be inserted into the blind holes and end holes during assembly of the unit to secure the bracket on the inside and against the inside of the to attach one of these side boards. 5.) System according to claim 4, characterized in that the Retaining member (16) hinges (15) and a door (14) for comprises the open end of the base unit, the door being connected to the support member via the hinges. 6.) System according to claim 4, characterized in that the holes have metal sleeves and the boards made of non-metallic Material are made. 7.) System according to claim 4, characterized in that two support members, one each for the inside of each 'side board are provided, the support members are dimensioned so that they extend substantially over the depth of the Extend side boards and have guides for drawers on their insides. 8.) System according to claim 7, characterized in that a drawer is measured for sliding in these drawer guides is, whereby this drawer is formed by four sides, ^{K 8} ° / ¹ 509882/0306 '■ • ^R el which are linked to one another, to be grounded unfolded and iir. unfolded to be inserted into the drawer racks. 9 ·) Sys te :: · according to claim S, characterized in that there is a has third such links and hinges and a door for the open I] nde of the basic unit and which with this third link is connected via the hinges, this third link and the two links being interchangeable can be attached to the base unit. 10.) System according to claim ^C J, characterized in that: this third member and its hinges and the door are folded into a flat arrangement, so that the base unit, drawer and door and the support members when they are not assembled as Stack of flat parts can be handled and transported. 11.) System according to claim 2, characterized in that the boards have adjacent edges which are rounded in the right \ 1i: to make the looseness invisible. 509882/0306