DE29507322U1 - Panel adjustment device for a drawer with a length-adjustable railing - Google Patents

Description

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Panel adjustment device for a drawer with a length- adjustable railing

The subject of the innovation is a panel adjustment device for a drawer, whereby a length-adjustable railing is used.

An adjustment device of this type is known, for example, from the Austrian patent application A 971/81. Here, railing profiles are mounted radially in a flange screwed onto the inner surface of the drawer front and are inserted so that they can be moved axially. The railing is fixed using a driver flange which engages in recesses in the railing, whereby the driver flange and thus also the railing can be adjusted axially using an adjustment screw. The flange with which the railing is attached protects the entire adjustment device from the ingress of dirt and also serves to cover the adjustment device 0 for aesthetic reasons.

The disadvantage of this adjustment device is that an adjustment screw must be operated to adjust the railing and this requires an appropriate tool.

The aim of this innovation is to propose an adjustment device which, as a self-contained unit, enables easy adjustment without tools.

This problem is solved by the technical teaching of protection claim 1.

The innovation provides that a cover of the adjustment device designed as a sliding sleeve simultaneously

serves as a "tool" to adjust the length of the railing.

The sliding sleeve advantageously has an internal profile that interacts with the external profile of the adjustment part.

In this way, when this sliding sleeve is pushed onto the adjustment part, the sleeve is adjusted when it is rotated and the entire arrangement is covered at the same time.

The technical teachings presented here therefore offer the advantage that the angle of the aperture can be adjusted without the use of tools, which was not possible before. The adjustment device is completely covered by the sliding sleeve, and thus also satisfies aesthetic requirements.

Of course, the adjustment part can have any conceivable profile, e.g. it can be designed as a square, in which case the sliding sleeve has a corresponding, adapted profile.

The subject matter of the present innovation arises not only from the subject matter of the individual protection claims, but also from the combination of the individual protection claims with one another.

All information and features disclosed in the documents, in particular the spatial configuration shown in the drawings, are claimed as essential to the invention insofar as they are new compared to the prior art, either individually or in combination.

In the following, the innovation is explained in more detail using drawings that only show one implementation method.

Further essential features and advantages of the innovation emerge from the drawings and their description.

Show it:

Figure 1: a perspective view of the aperture adjustment device;

Figure 2: the aperture adjustment device in exploded view.

Figure 1 shows the adjustment device according to the innovation, whereby a rail 1 is anchored to the drawer panel (not shown) by means of an anchor 7. In the example, the anchor 7 is designed as a press-in anchor, which is fastened in a corresponding recess in the drawer panel. It is also intended to fasten the anchor 7 using other fastening means, such as screws or rivets.

Between railing 1 and anchoring 7 there is an adjustment part 3, which is covered by a sliding sleeve 2. By turning the sliding sleeve in direction 8 or 9, the adjustment part 3 located underneath is actuated, and thus the railing 1 can be adjusted axially in direction 10 or 11, which leads to a desired inclination of the drawer panel.

The sliding sleeve 2 is used for adjustment and at the same time to protect the adjustment device and can be pushed in direction 11 back onto the railing 1 in order to expose the adjustment part 3 (Figure 2).

The adjustment part essentially consists of a bolt which has a flange 5 on one side. The adjustment part 3 has an external thread onto which a

Adjusting nut 4 is screwed on. The end of the adjusting part 3 facing the railing can be inserted into the railing, whereby by turning the adjusting nut 4 the adjusting part 3 protrudes more or less from the railing and thereby lengthens or shortens the railing 1. The flange 5 of the adjusting part 3 engages in a groove 6 of the anchoring 7 so that the entire device is securely fixed in the drawer front.

The adjustment part 3 or the adjustment nut 4 remains rotatable in direction 8 or 9 in order to be able to change the length of the railing. The sliding sleeve 3 is now pushed onto the entire arrangement, which has an inner profile that corresponds to the outer profile of the adjustment nut 4. The sliding sleeve 2 thus engages the nut 4, so that the nut 4 is also rotated by turning the sliding sleeve 2 and at the same time the railing is adjusted.

The adjustment part or the adjustment nut 4 can take on any desired profile, as long as the inner profile of the sliding sleeve 2 is adapted to this profile, so that a rotation of the sliding sleeve 2 affects the adjustment part 3.

DRAWING LEGEND

1 railing

2 sliding sleeve

3 Adjustment part

4 Adjusting nut

5 Flange 6 Groove

7 Anchoring

8 Direction

9 Direction Direction 11 Direction

Claims (6)

• * DR.- ING. -RETER RIEBUMG ..*...* Dipl.-Ing.
EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEY PO Box 3160 D-88113 Lindau (Bodensee) Telephone (083 82) 78025 Fax {08382)78027 8980.5-G2154-54-he 06.04.1995 Applicant: Grass AG, A-6973 Höchst/Vlbg., Austria S PROTECTIVE RULES 1. Panel adjustment device for a drawer with a length-adjustable railing and an adjustment device attached to the railing, characterized in that a sliding sleeve (2) is provided on the railing (1), which interacts with an adjustment part (3). Home address: Bank accounts*. ·· . «.· .. ···«.·.· ,. ,. Postal checking account Rennerle 10 Bayer. Association LiSdJuiB) IJr. 1J57 1J8 (BLJW30292 9&Ggr;} · · Munich D-88131 Lindau Hypo-BankJ-fhdaiffEJ No. 6^7}-3^68f3 (BLZ 7|S20442ji ·* 414848-808 VolksbanM-trtüau <& Nr«9»222eeO (BisZ &bgr;&dgr;&oacgr;&bgr;&bgr;&oacgr; 10) . !.· . !.. (BLZ 700100 80) VAT number: DE 129020439 2. Aperture adjustment device according to claim 1, characterized in that the adjusting part (3) has an adjusting nut (4). 3. Aperture adjustment device according to one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that the inner profile of the sliding sleeve (2) corresponds to the outer profile of the adjusting nut (4). 4. Aperture adjustment device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the sliding sleeve (2) covers the adjustment part {3). 5. Panel adjustment device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the railing (1) is fixed to a drawer panel by means of an anchor (7). 6. Aperture adjustment device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the adjustment part (3) is located between the railing (1) and the anchoring (7).