EP0043168A1 - Schrank, Bücherregal und dgl. - Google Patents

Schrank, Bücherregal und dgl. Download PDF

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EP0043168A1
EP0043168A1 EP81200720A EP81200720A EP0043168A1 EP 0043168 A1 EP0043168 A1 EP 0043168A1 EP 81200720 A EP81200720 A EP 81200720A EP 81200720 A EP81200720 A EP 81200720A EP 0043168 A1 EP0043168 A1 EP 0043168A1
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Lars Gunnar Ruthér
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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
    • A47B57/08—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves consisting of grooved or notched ledges, uprights or side walls
    • A47B57/10—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves consisting of grooved or notched ledges, uprights or side walls the grooved or notched parts being the side walls or uprights themselves
    • 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
    • A47B57/26—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of the shelves consisting of clamping means, e.g. with sliding bolts or sliding wedges

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  • This invention relates to such improvements in cupboards, racks, sets of shelves and the like as are generally defined in the preamble of claim 1.
  • the improvements are primarily intended for book shelves but may also be applied to cupboards, storage racks and other units and pieces of furniture for storage purpose.
  • a common device for the carrying of a shelf in a book shelf or a cupboard comprises 'two pairs of small-brackets of metal or the like, each having a pair of mutually perpendicular flanges of which one is provided with a stud which is directed away from the other flange and is intended to be introduced into a corresponding bore or socket in one of the walls of the book shelf or the like, said other flange being intended to carry half of an end of a shelf.
  • This known device is simple and inexpensive but suffers from the drawback that it is difficult to shift the shelves in the vertical direction, since such displacement necessitates withdrawal of all four studs and insertion thereof in four new holes after the displacement or removal of the shelf.
  • This operation can hardly be carried through without a prior removal of at least the major part of the objects upon the shelf, at least if they are heavy, before the shelf can be shifted. After the displacement of the shelf and the introduction of the bracket studs in their new holes the objects will have to be replaced upon the shelf. All this is complicated and time consuming.
  • the principal object of the invention is to eliminate this drawback and to provide an arrangement of the kind in question which permits a simple shift or transfer of the shelves in the vertical direction. This object is attained thanks to the fact that the arrangement or system according to the invention is so designed as is set forth in the characterizing clause of claim 1.
  • the (book)shelf or the cupboard according to Fig. 1 comprises a stationary base or bottom 1, a stationary upper shelf 2 or top and two end walls 3, of which one could constitute an intermediate wall of a wider shelf unit, possibly a back panel 4, and two displaceable shelves 5. These are suitably inserted in an inclined position into the shelf unit as illustrated in Fig. 1.
  • Each end wall or intermediate wall 3 is on each one of its sides or principal surfaces which face an opposed end wall or intermediate wall provided with two carrier rails which are generally designated 7 and are more clearly shown in Figs. 2 - 6.
  • the rails 7 are made e.g. of aluminium or another preferably metallic, wear-resistant material and have bores 8 at their ends (Figs. 2 and 3) for screws 9 by means of which the rails are secured to the walls 3.
  • the rails 7 are substantially sawtooth-shaped as seen in a longitudinal section, as is evident from Figs. 2 and 4, and comprise shoulders 10 which are intended to carry a shelf 5 in cooperation with a bracket to be described below, at the transitions between one saw-tooth and the adjacent one.
  • the saw-teeth 11 suitably have a brooken or angular contour.
  • the rails may alternatively be comprised of portions of the respective walls, in that they firstly comprise flexible tongues which are cut out in the sheet iron wall and essentially correspond to the outer edge portion of the saw-teeth, and secondly comprise such portions of the sheet iron wall as are located intermediate the tongues or surround them, respectively.
  • a first embodiment of a bracket is illustrated in Figs. 4 and 6, in which it is generally designated 13.
  • the bracket which is of plastic or another flexible or elastical material comprises two interconnected plate- shaped shanks 14 and 15 which form an obtuse angle with each other in the un-bent condition of the bracket (the lower bracket in Fig. 4).
  • the shank 14 has an integral substantially cylindrical rib 16 which is intended to be introduced into a corresponding groove in the end edge of the shelf 5, as is apparent from Figs. 4 and 6.
  • the lower free edge of the flange 15 is intended to rest upon one of the shoulders 10 of the rails and thereby support the shelf 5. Since the cooperating rails normally are four in number, there is normally a bracket adjacent each corner of the shelf 5.
  • a bracket 13 which comprises two plates or the like 18, 19, which are united through a web 20 and between themselves form an interspace 21 defined by preferably parallel wall surfaces, and a suitably cylindrical stud 22 which is united with one of the plates 18 and whose longitudinal axis forms an obtuse angle with the other plate 19, which has a preferably planar carrier surface which is intended to rest upon one of the said shoulders 10 of the rail 7 for carrying a shelf 5.
  • the plates or shanks 18, 19 may possible be wider than as shown, and furthermore the plate 18 may suitably be given a circular shape to be able to be countersunk in a drilled or milled counterbore, which is coaxial with the stud 22, which corresponds to the rib 16 in Figs. 4 and 6, in the end edge of the shelf 5.
  • FIGs. 8 there is illustrated another bracket 13 which is intended in particular for shelves 5 in the form of thin plates, e.g. of glass.
  • This bracket is comprised of a short profile rail of approximately F-shaped cross section, the lower horizontal shank 24 of the F forming an obtuse angle with the ascender 25 and being intended as a carrier surface for the end of a shelf, and the upper horizontal shank 26, which is shorter than the lower shank, of the F being intended to embrace the end of the shelf together with the lower shank.
  • the bottom end of the ascender 25 of the F forms a preferably planar carrier surface, which is intended to rest upon one of the said shoulders 10 of the rail 7.
  • a further bracket 13 is shown, which in first instance is intended for sheet--inetal shelves.
  • This bracket comprises a substantially parallelepipedal block 27 and a flexible tongue 28 which projects obliquely therefrom and whose free end edge forms a preferably planar carrier surface, which is intended to rest upon one of the shoulders 10 of the rail 7.
  • the block 27 may be secured to the shelf 5 by means of a diagrammatically indicated rivet 29 or the like.
  • the flexible shanks 15, 19, 25, 28 of the brackets 13 may be comprised of tongues which are cut out and bent out of the end edge of the shelf (Fig. 9) which in this case is perpendicular to said end edge, whereby the brackets 13 become integral parts of the shelves 5.
  • Fig. 10 there is illustrated how the shift or displacement of a shelf 5 in the vertical direction is carried out.
  • the shelf is initially raised to the upper level in Fig. 4, the shanks 15 of the brackets being hereby pressed out of the saw-tooth recesses or grooves in the rail 7.
  • the shelf 5 is pulled forward in the direction of the arrow to the depth position A in Fig. 10, after which the shelf can be moved upwards or downwards to the desired level and than be pushed inwards into its normal depth position B which is shown to the right in Fig. 10, and subsequently the height position is adjusted to a new level, so that the shank 15 of the bracket flexes in into another one of the grooves of the rail 7 and comes to rest upon another shoulder 10.
  • the end walls and/or intermediate walls 3 may comprise vertical posts 30, which are provided pairwise and form the longitudinal, vertical end edges of the walls and are interconnected by means of end panels or cross bars 31, which are embraced by a pair of flanges 33 on each post.
  • Each post 30 has at least one chanel 32 (two in Fig. 11) for a rail 7.
  • each interior wall face only one central, suitably wider rail instead of two rails at a distance from each other, the pair of brackets 13 which are located near the ends of a common end edge of a shelf being of course replaced by a single, central bracket just opposite said single rail.
  • new embodiments which are also covered by the claims may be created by combinating details taken from different ones of the exem- plificatory embodiments described above. It is also within the scope of the invention ot let the brackets 13 and the rails 7 change places with respect to their function, i.e.
  • shelves or the like also comprises other displaceable elements than shelves, e.g. drawers and drawer pidestals.

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EP81200720A 1980-07-01 1981-06-25 Schrank, Bücherregal und dgl. Expired EP0043168B1 (de)

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SE8004845A SE435128B (sv) 1980-07-01 1980-07-01 Anordning vid skap, hyllor o d med flyttbara hyllplan e d

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Cited By (7)

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AU648413B2 (en) * 1991-07-23 1994-04-21 Anders Reinli Container intermediate floor
FR2725480A1 (fr) * 1994-07-19 1996-04-12 Demaret Gerard Bati a hauteur ou largeur ajustable
FR2754988A1 (fr) * 1996-10-31 1998-04-30 Roll Dispositif de manutention et de presentation d'articles
US20140048500A1 (en) * 2012-08-17 2014-02-20 Lawrence D. Brookes Shelving system
CN106820654A (zh) * 2017-03-21 2017-06-13 安徽师范大学 新型图书架
CN109335437A (zh) * 2018-11-06 2019-02-15 蓝思科技（长沙）有限公司 一种料仓及一种自动机台
KR102384534B1 (ko) * 2021-12-07 2022-04-08 주식회사 중앙씨엠아이 선반의 탈부착이 간편한 사물함

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AU2821289A (en) * 1987-12-23 1989-07-19 Jouko Ilmoni Set of shelves

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FR711639A (fr) * 1930-05-23 1931-09-14 Dispositif pour la fixation des tablettes d'armoires et meubles similaires
US2967625A (en) * 1958-04-21 1961-01-10 Don R Hoogenstyn Shelving bracket
DE1128614B (de) * 1957-01-08 1962-04-26 Theo Schwarz Dipl Ing Regal
DE1265369B (de) * 1966-02-10 1968-04-04 Kuechenmoebelfabrik G M B H Halteleiste fuer Zwischenboeden u. dgl. in Schraenken

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR711639A (fr) * 1930-05-23 1931-09-14 Dispositif pour la fixation des tablettes d'armoires et meubles similaires
DE1128614B (de) * 1957-01-08 1962-04-26 Theo Schwarz Dipl Ing Regal
US2967625A (en) * 1958-04-21 1961-01-10 Don R Hoogenstyn Shelving bracket
DE1265369B (de) * 1966-02-10 1968-04-04 Kuechenmoebelfabrik G M B H Halteleiste fuer Zwischenboeden u. dgl. in Schraenken

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
AU648413B2 (en) * 1991-07-23 1994-04-21 Anders Reinli Container intermediate floor
FR2725480A1 (fr) * 1994-07-19 1996-04-12 Demaret Gerard Bati a hauteur ou largeur ajustable
FR2754988A1 (fr) * 1996-10-31 1998-04-30 Roll Dispositif de manutention et de presentation d'articles
US20140048500A1 (en) * 2012-08-17 2014-02-20 Lawrence D. Brookes Shelving system
CN106820654A (zh) * 2017-03-21 2017-06-13 安徽师范大学 新型图书架
CN109335437A (zh) * 2018-11-06 2019-02-15 蓝思科技（长沙）有限公司 一种料仓及一种自动机台
CN109335437B (zh) * 2018-11-06 2020-11-24 蓝思科技（长沙）有限公司 一种料仓及一种自动机台
KR102384534B1 (ko) * 2021-12-07 2022-04-08 주식회사 중앙씨엠아이 선반의 탈부착이 간편한 사물함

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