EP0029012A1 - Metallic shelving - Google Patents

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EP0029012A1
EP0029012A1 EP80830078A EP80830078A EP0029012A1 EP 0029012 A1 EP0029012 A1 EP 0029012A1 EP 80830078 A EP80830078 A EP 80830078A EP 80830078 A EP80830078 A EP 80830078A EP 0029012 A1 EP0029012 A1 EP 0029012A1
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hook
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vertical
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Luciano Giulio Belloni
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METALGAMMA S.N.C. DI L.G. BELLONI & C.
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B57/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions
    • A47B57/06—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves
    • A47B57/16—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves consisting of hooks coacting with openings

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  • the present invention relates to some improvements to metallic shelvings particularly to the shelvings that are composed by horizontal sheet panels, or shelves, provided with a peripheral vertical wall connected at their corners to vertical struts usually obtained by angled metallic strips.
  • a first aim of the invention is to provide metallic shelves or panels that may support a load greater than the load supported by the shelves of the prior art having the same thickness of the metallic sheets and the sime sizes in plane view.
  • a second aim of the invention is to strengthen the peripheral wall of the horizontal sheet panels, or shelves, and the junction between each shelf and the strut, so that a greater load may be applied along the strut, and so that a greater coupling stiffness, and consequently a greater stiffness of the whole structure, may be obtained.
  • a further aim of the invention is to obtain a junction between each horizontal panel and the respective strut without any possibility of play, without any possibility of spontaneous release, said junction having the tendency to approach each corner of the horizontal panel to respect ive strut so that the stability and the load capacity of the structure are increased.
  • each side of the vertical peripheral wall, of the horizontal sheet panel is shaped such in a way that it shows an alternation of juxtaposed longitudinal ribs and grooves delimited one with respect to the other by flat sides inclined with respect to the plane of said peripheral wall, and is provided with a terminal edge folded inwardly of the same peripheral wall,said inclined flat sides and the respective folded terminal edge of a side at least of the peripheral wall, in proximity of each corner of the panel, being provided with respective longitudinally elongated holes located in a vertical range, so that a respective hook, projecting from the adjacent strut, may be inserted through all the holes of the vertical range.
  • the longitudinal. l y elongated holes of each vertical range have a respective l enght decreasing from the lower hole to the upper hole, so that a correspondently tapered hook may be inserted through all the holes of the vertical range, forcing their lateral edges against the ends of said holes.
  • the longitudinally elongated holes of each vertical range have the respective ends, nearer to the corner of the horizontal sheet panel, disposed along a common vertical line, while the other respective ends are disposed along an inclined line with respect to the vertical one and consequently the hook shows the inner lateral edge vertically directed while the outer lateral edge is inclined as said inclined line, so that in the coupling, the hook of each side of the strut has the tendency to push the respective corner of the horizontal panel toward the corner of the strut.
  • each hook of a strut is provided with an embossment starting from below the base of the hook and extending beyond the middle point of the height of the same hook, said embossment being able to cause a shrinkage in the transversal direction of each hole, and consequently forcing the hook into each hole both in the longitudinal and transversal direction.
  • each horizontal sheet panel is provided on its horizontal plane surface with peripheral grooves, so that even said horizontal plane surface is strenghtened, thus avoiding the employment of tubular elements that up to now have been applied by welding on the underface of the sheet panels.
  • an horizontal sheet panel 1 for composing metallic shelvings is provided with a peripheral wall 2, each side of which is so shaped as to show alternated longitudinal ribs 3 and grooves 4, and a lower edge 5 folded horizontal ly and inwardly for an appreciable vidht.
  • Ribs 3 and grooves 4 are delimited each other by inclined flat sides 6.
  • both ribs 3 and grooves 4 have respective top and bottom flat walls, but said top and bottom walls may have an arcuated shape.
  • the inclined flat sides 6 and the bent edge 5 are provided with respective holes 8, 9 and 10, so located as to compose a vertical range, said holes being comprised between the top and bottom walls respectively of the ribs and the grooves.
  • the holes 8, 9, 10 of each vertical range are generally elongated in the longitudinal direction of the respective side of the peripheral wall 2, so that they are flattened in the vertical direction.
  • the holes of each vertical range are gradually reduced in lenght starting from hole 8toward hole 10.
  • the ends of the holes 8, 9 and 10 nearer to the corners 7 are located along a vertical line 11 or along a line perpendicular to the sheet panel 1, while the other ends are located along a line 12 inclined with respect to said panel, or to the vertical line.
  • the horizontal sheet panel 1 is provided on its plane with peripheral grooves 13 limited by inclined flat sides 14 said grooves providing a stiffness of the surface of the sheet panel, and avoiding the employment of additional stiffening elements, that, according to the known art have been employed and applied on the underface of the sheet by welding, with a consequent appreciable increasing of the production cost.
  • the sheet panel of the invention constitutes a component of a shelving showing high stiffness and mechanical resistance, because of the shaping of the peripheral wall and of the grooves 13, so that, the thickness of the sheet and the plane size being equal, the sheet panel of the invention may support a load greater than the one supported by the sheet panels of the prior art.
  • Figure 3 shows a strut 15 according to the present invention.
  • Said strut has right angled section obtained from a strip having an adequate thickness, by shearing and shaping the same, according to the usual art.
  • a range of vertically spaced hooks 16 is provided, each hook projecting from the inner face of the respective wall.
  • Each hook 16, as shown in figures 3, 4 is so vertically elongated as to be inserted through a vertical range of holes 8, 9, 10 and to project from the upper hole 10 with its end 16'.
  • Each hook has a shape upwardly tapered so that it may follow, as accuratly as possible, the variation of the lenght of the holes 8 to 10 and may be forced in each one of the holes, through which is has been inserted, by interference of its edges with the ends of the elongated holes 8 to 10.
  • the hook 16 has the edge nearer to the corner of the strut, perpendicular to the sheet panel and the opposed edge inclined with respect to said panel, so that, in the coupling of the panel and the strut, the interference between the inclined edges and the respective ends of the holes has more and more the tendency to wedge in the corner of the panel toward the strut.
  • each hook 16 is provided with a front embos sment 17 which extends from below the base ' of the same hook and beyond the middle point of its height.
  • This embossment is designed to generate a forcing of the hook also in the transversal direction of the holes 8, 9, 10 so that the coupling assures a complete forcing and eliminates every possible play.
  • the hook seen in frontal view in figure 4 shows the manner in which the hook 16 is forced through the holes 8, 9, 10 in the direction of their lenght, while the hook seen in sectional view shows the forcing in the transversal direction of the holes, said forcing being due to the embossment 17 and substantially interesting the holes 8 and 9.

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EP80830078A 1979-11-13 1980-10-08 Metallic shelving Ceased EP0029012A1 (en)

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IT27246/79A IT1124967B (it) 1979-11-13 1979-11-13 Perfezionamenti alle scaffalature metalliche
IT2724679 1979-11-13

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EP0029012A1 true EP0029012A1 (en) 1981-05-20

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JP (1) JPS56158610A (es)
CA (1) CA1151600A (es)
DK (1) DK480580A (es)
ES (1) ES260962Y (es)
IT (1) IT1124967B (es)

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GB2324709A (en) * 1997-05-02 1998-11-04 Dexion Group Plc Beam connector for racking systems

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GB952576A (en) * 1962-10-09 1964-03-18 Palmer Shile Co Improvements in or relating to beams for adjustable storage racks
DE1186182B (de) * 1958-11-24 1965-01-28 Heinz Nuelken Regal, bestehend aus Eckpfosten und hoehenstellbaren Fachboeden
FR2344249A1 (fr) * 1976-03-15 1977-10-14 Guillemin Henri Rayonnage

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE1186182B (de) * 1958-11-24 1965-01-28 Heinz Nuelken Regal, bestehend aus Eckpfosten und hoehenstellbaren Fachboeden
GB952576A (en) * 1962-10-09 1964-03-18 Palmer Shile Co Improvements in or relating to beams for adjustable storage racks
FR2344249A1 (fr) * 1976-03-15 1977-10-14 Guillemin Henri Rayonnage

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2324709A (en) * 1997-05-02 1998-11-04 Dexion Group Plc Beam connector for racking systems
GB2324709B (en) * 1997-05-02 2001-12-05 Dexion Group Plc Beam end connector

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IT1124967B (it) 1986-05-14
ES260962U (es) 1982-04-16
JPS56158610A (en) 1981-12-07
IT7927246A0 (it) 1979-11-13
DK480580A (da) 1981-05-14
ES260962Y (es) 1982-11-16
CA1151600A (en) 1983-08-09

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