DE29904860U1 - System furniture - Google Patents

Description

Company hülsta-werke Hüls GmbH & Co. KG, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Str. 43 - 49, 48703 Stadtlohn

"System furniture"
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The innovation relates to a system furniture according to the preamble of claim 1.

Such system furniture is well known in practice. It is constructed like a shelf with several shelves and studs, whereby the studs have a greater depth than the shelves in order to ensure high stability and whereby the shelves, on the other hand, give the entire system furniture a relaxed and attractive visual impression due to their reduced depth compared to the studs.

It is known from practice to design such system furniture either with insertable drawers or to provide individual areas of the system furniture with doors, so that a significant advantage of such shelving furniture is that

that the user can put this shelving unit together according to his or her individual wishes and, if necessary, can also redesign the system furniture after a longer period of use, e.g. from an open, shelf-like piece of furniture to a cupboard-like piece of furniture closed off by doors or vice versa.

This advantageous characteristic of such a system furniture, to be as flexible as possible, is limited, however, by the fact that, for example, the sliding doors, which are advantageous in many cases, cannot be opened due to the different

depth of tunnels and floors cannot be used.

The innovation is based on the task of improving a generic system furniture so that it

can be fitted with sliding doors.

This problem underlying the innovation is solved by a system furniture with the features of claim 1.

In other words, the innovation proposes a depth adjustment using a profile strip that is placed in front of the front edge of the shelves. In this way, a guide can be created for the sliding door so that the sliding door can also be moved in front of the studs that protrude from the shelves, thus allowing good access to the inside of the cabinet.

Advantageously, the profile strip can be designed in two parts, so that a guide rail profile is provided for guiding the sliding doors and a bridging profile, which provides the actual depth compensation between the floor and the frame.

and studs. In this way, the same guide rail profile can be used cost-effectively for different system furniture by simply using different bridging profiles.

The bridging profile can advantageously be designed as a U-shaped extruded profile, which allows for quick and concealed fastening to the floors with low material consumption and low weight, for example by screw heads inside this U-shaped profile cross-section.

tes can be recorded.

The guide rail profile can advantageously be connected to the bridging profile using a clip fastener. If the two materials have sufficient elasticity,

the guide rail profile can actually be clipped onto the bridging profile. If the elasticity is lower, the clip-type contouring allows the guide rail profile to be pushed onto the bridging profile in the longitudinal direction, so that only the final

side mounting caps are required to prevent loosening of the

both profiles from each other. In any case, the clip-lock-like contouring of the two profiles enables them to be attached without fasteners that would be visible from the front of the system furniture. 5

Advantageously, the new profile strip can extend over a maximum of half the height of a floor. In this way, either an upper and a lower sliding door can adjoin one another on the same floor or other components of the system furniture can be placed above or below

be arranged behind the sliding door, for example drawers, panels or swing doors, since such system elements are usually also designed in such a way that they extend up to a maximum of halfway over the front edge of a base of the system furniture.

An example of a system furniture according to the innovation is explained in more detail below using the drawings.
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Fig. 1 a cross section through the front edge of a

floor of the system furniture and by a profile strip, and

Fig. 2 a similar cross-section, but with two

Profile strips arranged in front of the shelf.

In the case of a so-called system furniture, which is constructed like a shelf and which has shelves 1 that are less deep than the studs of the system furniture, the innovation proposes the use of bridging profiles 2,

which extend from the front edge of the floor 1 and the amount that corresponds to the difference in depth between the floor 1 and the stud. The front edge of a stud of this system furniture is indicated with 3. Due to its U-shaped cross-section, the bridging profile can

can be easily screwed to the floor 1, as the

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The interior of the bridging profile 2 is accessible for a screwdriver or similar tools.

A guide rail profile 4 is attached to the front of the bridging profile 2, advantageously by means of a clip fastener, so that no fastening elements visible at the front of the furniture are required. A roller of a schematically indicated furniture door 6 can run on the guide rail profile 4, the roller being attached to a frame profile or at least to a metal profile 7 attached to the underside of the furniture door 6.

A screw channel 8 is provided in the guide rail profile so that decorative cover caps can be attached to the end of the guide rail profile 4 as well as mechanical stops for the rollers 5 or stops that can be attached to the

the door 6 and form an end stop for the movement of the door 6 on the guide rail profile 7.

From Fig. 2 it is clear that the arrangement of bridging profile 2 and guide rail profile 4 covers less than half the thickness of a floor 1. In this way - as shown in Fig. 2 - an arrangement of two sliding doors 6 one above the other can be made possible. It can be seen that the doors 6 run on rollers 5 at their lower edge, while on their upper edge there are approximately Z-shaped hooks 9 in front of

which extend into the running rail profile 4.

Instead of two essentially identical sliding doors arranged one above the other, the design of the bridging profiles 2 and guide rail profiles 4 also enables

vertical arrangement of only one sliding door and, opposite it, a swing door, the front panel of a drawer or the like, whereby in the generic system furniture the panels of such drawers or the frames of the swing doors abut against the front edge of the floors 1.

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HABBEL & HABBEL PATENT ATTORNEYS PO Box 3429 ♦ 48019 Münster DIPL.-INQ. H.-Q. HABBEL DIPL.-INQ. LUTZ HABBEL EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEYS DIPL.-QEOQR. PETER HABBEL TELEPHONE (0251) 535 780 ♦ FAX (0251) 531 996 OUR FILE:
(please specify) H6/21556 Iu/Sc Münster, 16.03.1999 Company hülsta-werke Hüls GmbH & Co. KG, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Str. 43 - 49, 48703 Stadtlohn "System furniture" protection claims : 1. System furniture, with vertical studs and with horizontal floors, wherein the floors have a smaller depth than the studs, characterized by a profile strip arranged in front of the front edge of the floor (1) for guiding a sliding door (6), wherein the profile strip extends from the front edge of the floor (1) to in front of the front edge (3) of the stud. 2. System furniture according to claim 1, characterized in that the profile strip has a bridging profile (2) which effects the depth compensation between the floor (1) and the studs and a guide rail profile (4) which guides the guide elements of the sliding door (6). 3. System furniture according to claim 2, characterized in that the bridging profile (2) has a substantially U-shaped cross-section, wherein it rests with the base of the U on the front edge of the floor (1) and wherein the two legs of the U extend from the ground (1) forwards towards the front edge (3) of the stud. 4. System furniture according to claim 2, characterized in that that the guide rail profile (4) and the bridging profile (2) can be connected to one another using a clip closure. 5. System furniture according to claim 1, characterized in that the profile strip extends over a maximum of half the height of the floor (1).