DE29906024U1 - Stationary tool container - Google Patents

Description

DR. ULRICH OSTERTAG'" " DR. REINHARD OSTERTAG

EIBENWEG 10 D-70597 STUTTGART TEL.+49-711-766845 FAX +49-711-7655701

Stationary tool container

Applicant: Rau GmbH

Im Rohrbach 14 72336 Baiingen

Attorney file: 6440.4

RN.06-159

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Stationary tool container

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The innovation concerns a stationary tool container with a cabinet-like container body, the interior of which can be reached via at least one access opening that can be closed by a roller shutter.

Stationary tool containers include, for example, workbenches, side tables or tool cabinets.

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Tool containers of this type contain, in different storage devices, mainly in pull-out drawers, different tools and other objects that are needed in workshops and are kept in this tool container close to the user's place of use. The roller shutters allow the tool container to be locked so that the tools inside it cannot be accessed by unauthorized persons. In known tool containers of the type mentioned above, the roller shutter can be moved in a vertical direction, as is also usual with window roller shutters. However, this has the disadvantage that the interior of the cabinet-like container body of the tool container is not accessible over its full height, as the roller shutter is in the way.

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The purpose of this innovation is to design a tool container of the type mentioned above in such a way that accessibility to the interior is improved.

This task is solved by the fact that

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the roller shutter can be moved horizontally.

According to the innovation, the roller shutter can be pushed out completely from the side of the access opening of the cabinet-like container body, so that the full height of the cabinet-like container body can be used for drawers or other pull-out parts, for example. In this way, no space is wasted; the objects stored in the tool container can be reached more easily.

In an advantageous embodiment of the innovation, the roller shutter is guided in profile rails that are attached to the inside of a base plate and a top plate of the container body.

Certain tool containers are designed in such a way that they have only one access opening and a rear wall on the opposite side. For these tool containers, which only allow the drawers to be pulled out in one direction, it is recommended that the roller shutter can be pushed along the sides of the container body next to the rear wall. The only access opening can be completely exposed in this way; the roller shutter takes up only a minimal amount of space within the container body.

Other models of tool containers have an access opening on opposite sides of the cabinet-like container body. The storage means located in the interior of the container body, e.g. drawers, can then be pulled out of the interior in opposite directions. In this case, a design of the innovation is recommended in which the roller shutters assigned to the access openings are located next to the sides of the container body essentially parallel to these

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can be wound up.

An example of the innovation is explained in more detail below using the drawing; it shows 05

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a workbench, partially opened;

Figure 2 the workbench of Figure 1, but completely closed;

Figure 3 is a schematic plan view of the floor

of the container body of the workbench of Figures 1 and 2.

The workbench shown in the drawing comprises a cabinet-like container body 1 with two side cheeks 3, a base plate 4 and a worktop 5. The two cheeks 3, the base plate 4 and the worktop 5 delimit rectangular access openings 6 on opposite sides of the container body 1, through which the interior of the container body 1 is accessible from both sides.

To reinforce the container body 1, it has a supporting frame 10 made of square profiles. This has four feet 2 on which the workbench stands.

In the interior of the container body 1 there are various storage means, e.g. drawers 7 and a standing perforated plate, which can be fully pulled out to both sides via the access openings 6. The exact type and design of these storage means are of no interest in the present context.

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The two access openings 6 of the container body 1 can be closed by two roller shutters 8. Contrary to the usual direction of movement of roller shutters, these are arranged so that they can be moved horizontally rather than vertically. For this purpose, they are guided on their upper and lower horizontal edges in profile rails 9, which are located on the inner surfaces of the base plate 4 and the worktop 5.

The exact guidance of the profile rails 9 is shown in Figure 3, which shows a top view of the base plate 4. The profile rails 9 on the inside of the worktop 5 correspond to this design.

As can be seen from Figure 3, the profile rails 9 run with a section 9a at a short distance from the long edge of the base plate 4 and thus along the access opening 6. The guide rails 9 then bend at the narrow edges of the base plate 4, i.e. in the area of the cheeks 3 of the container body 1, with a second, correspondingly shorter section 9b. The profile rail 9 is guided in a further section 9c parallel to section 9d in the direction of section 9a again via a semicircular curve, makes another turn of about 18 0 and runs out in a section 9d, which in turn extends parallel to section 9b, at a short distance from it. The area of the profile rail 9 adjacent to the narrow edge of the base plate 4 is therefore wound up in a "snail shape"; the entire profile rail 9 resembles a bent-up paper clip.

The workbench described above works as follows: In the closed state, shown in Figure 2

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the roller shutter 8 extends over the entire associated access opening 6 of the container body 1, so that this access opening 6 is completely closed. To open an access opening 6, the corresponding roller shutter 8 is moved horizontally in such a way that it slides into the areas 9b, 9c, 9d of the profile rail 9 and thereby rolls up adjacent to the cheeks 3 of the container body 1. With this design, both opposite access openings 6 can be opened or closed independently of one another and to their full height.

Alternatively, instead of being attached directly to the worktop 5, the upper profile rails 9 can also be attached to another upper plate that closes off the container body 1 at the top and on which the worktop 5 rests.

Claims (4)

6440.4 -"L - 23.03.1999 Protection claims 05 1. Stationary tool container with a cabinet-like container body, the interior of which has at least one access opening that can be closed by a roller shutter can be reached, characterized in that the roller shutter (8) can be moved horizontally. 2. Stationary tool container according to claim 1, characterized in that the roller shutter (8) in profile rails (9) which are attached to the inner sides of a base plate (4) and a top plate (5) of the container body (1). 3. Stationary tool container according to claim 1 or 2, which has an access opening on only one side and a rear wall on the side opposite this, characterized in that the roller shutter can be pushed along the cheeks (3) of the container body (1) next to the rear wall. 4. Stationary tool container according to claim 1 or 2, which has an access opening on each of the opposite sides, characterized in that the roller shutters (8) assigned to the access openings (6) can be wound up next to the cheeks (3) of the container body (1) essentially parallel to them. AUN.239-010