EP0043168B1 - Armoire, rayonnage ou similaire - Google Patents

Armoire, rayonnage ou similaire Download PDF

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EP0043168B1
EP0043168B1 EP81200720A EP81200720A EP0043168B1 EP 0043168 B1 EP0043168 B1 EP 0043168B1 EP 81200720 A EP81200720 A EP 81200720A EP 81200720 A EP81200720 A EP 81200720A EP 0043168 B1 EP0043168 B1 EP 0043168B1
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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 cupboards, book shelves or the like as are generally defined in the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention primarily relates to book shelves but may also be applied to cupboards, storage racks and other units and pieces of furniture for storage purposes.
  • a book shelf or the like of this general kind forms the subject matter of FR-A-711639 which discloses a shelf structure comprising walls provided with vertical rails or columns having shoulders facing upwardly. Each of these columns has a substantially sawtooth shape as seen in a vertical section. Each shoulder is intended as a support for a one shank of a bracket which substantially has the shape of a Z as seen in a cross section and whose other oppositely directed shank forms a support for a shelf or platform. Each shelf which extends between two adjacent walls of the piece of furniture in question is supported by two pairs of Z-brackets. When a shelf of this old structure is to be shifted in the vertical direction it is necessary to shift the brackets individually, independent of the shelf proper.
  • US-A-2 967 625 discloses a standard and bracket assembly comprising shelf supporting brackets. These standards are, in the shelf supporting condition, substantially similar to the rails of FR-A-711639. The principal features of the shelf supporting brackets of this US disclosure resides therein, that each bracket is integral with its standard and united thereto by a resilient tongue.
  • DE-B-1 265 369 discloses a shelf which is provided with a pair of double, plastic strips or ribs each pair extending along the entire length of one of the lateral ends of the shelf.
  • Each double rib comprises two wedge-shaped parts which are united by a flexible yoke.
  • One rib part is provided with a tongue engaging a corresponding groove in the appurtenant shelf.
  • the outside of the other rib part is provided with tooth-like projections.
  • the intention is that the shelf is to be supported by the wedge action between the rib parts when the tooth-like projections engage an adjacent wall of a book shelf or the like, being retained purely by friction. In this structure it is impossible to displace the shelf downwards without removing it entirely from the cabinet.
  • DE-B-1 128 614 discloses a shelf structure comprising vertical posts or rails having longitudinal grooves and wedge-shaped recesses in one of their longitudinal lateral surfaces for supporting the shelves. These have pivotable supporting brackets at one of their ends and stationary supporting brackets at their other end. The brackets which are all rigid do not project beyond their respective lateral ends of the shelf and are horizontal in their shelf supporting position. Since the shelves are provided with pivotable brackets only at one of their ends, it is not possible to adjust the height position of the shelves while maintaining the shelves in a horizontal position.
  • the principal object of the invention is to eliminate these drawbacks and to provide a cupboard, book shelf or the like 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 cupboard, book shelf or the like 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 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. As is most clearly shown in Fig. 2 the saw-teeth 11 suitably have a broken 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 possibly 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.
  • FIG. 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 primarily is intended for sheet-metal 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 then 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 channel 32 (two in Fig. 11) for a rail 7.

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1. Armoire, bibliothèque ou analogue, comportant des étagères, plates-formes ou analogues (5), horizontales et déplaçables, supportées à leurs extrémités par deux parois opposées (3) terminales ou intermédiaires qui sont sensiblement similaires l'une à l'autre et comportent, sur leurs faces mutuellement en regard, des colonnes verticales (7) d'épaulements (10) qui sont dirigées vers le haut et sont de préférence de largeur uniforme, les épaulements adjacents de chaque paire étant reliés entre eux par deux surfaces, l'une au-dessus de l'autre, la surface supérieure étant sensiblement parallèle au plan de la paroi tandis que la surface inférieure est inclinée vers le bas et vers l'intérieur par rapport au plan de la paroi adjacente, de manière que, en coupe verticale, la colonne présente une forme sensiblement en dents de scie, les épaulements de chaque colonne étant situés entre une paire de surfaces de liaison sensiblement verticales qui sont situées sensiblement dans les mêmes plans verticaux que les deux bords latéraux extrêmes de l'épaulement respectif et s'étendent au-dessus de chaque bord latéral extrême, au moins un support (13) étant prévu pour chaque extrémité de l'étagère, plate-forme ou analogue, caractérisée en ce que chaque support est fixé de manière amovible par une partie de fixation à ladite extrémité, ou est constitué d'une seule pièce avec cette dernière, une languette élastique (15, 19, 25, 28), d'une seule pièce avec le support et présentant une épaisseur au plus égale à celle de l'épaulement, la mesure étant faite perpendiculairement au plan de la paroi, faisant saillie au-delà de l'extrémité de l'étagère, plate-forme ou analogue et définissant un angle obtus avec le plan de l'étagère, plate-forme ou analogue quand celle-ci est libre ou supportée, l'extrémité de la languette reposant sur l'épaulement pour le support de l'extrémité respective de l'étagère, plate-forme ou analogue, la languette pouvant pivoter élastiquement autour d'un axe qui est sensiblement parallèle à l'extrémité de l'étagère, plate-forme ou analogue, sur une amplitude telle qu'elle forme avec le plan de l'étagère, plate-forme ou analogue un angle sensiblement droit et qu'elle ne dépasse pas sensiblement au-delà de l'extrémité de celle-ci, l'ensemble étant tel qu'il est possible de soulever l'étagère, plate-forme ou analogue, tout en la maintenant horizontale, pour dégager les languettes d'un premier ensemble d'épaulements et les amener en contact avec les parois planes, pour pousser ou tirer l'étagère, plate-forme ou analogue horizontalement de manière à soulever ou à baisser celle-ci tout en la maintenant horizontale, puis de tirer ou de pousser celle-ci horizontalement pour faire coopérer les languettes avec un autre jeu d'épaulements situés dans un plan plus haut ou plus bas.
2. Armoire, bibliothèque ou analogue selon la revention 1, caractérisée en ce que les épaulements (10) et les paires de surfaces de jonction des épaulements adjacents sont prévus dans des rails (7) qui s'étendent sensiblement verticalement et qui sont fixés auxdites parois (3).
3. Armoire, bibliothèque ou analogue selon la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que le nombre de rails par paroi, de même que le nombre de supports (13) par extrémité d'étagère, est égal à deux.
4. Armoire, bibliothèque ou analogue selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que chaque support comporte deux plaques (14, 15) qui sont constituées d'une seule pièce et dont l'une (15) constitue ladite languette et l'autre (14) comporte un organe de coopération (16) en forme de tige qui fait saillie de l'une des surfaces de la plaque (14) et qui peut être insérée dans un trou prévu à une extrémité de l'étagère, ce trou présentant une section qui correspond à celle de l'organe de coopération (16).
5. Armoire, bibliothèque ou analogue selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que les supports (13) comportent deux plaques (18, 19) qui sont reliées l'une à l'autre par un voile (20) et qui définissent entre elles un espace (21) délimité par deux surfaces planes, de préférence parallèles, et un organe (22) en forme de tige qui est de préférence cylindrique et qui est d'une seule pièce avec l'une (18) des plaques, l'axe longitudinal de l'organe (22) formant un angle obtus avec l'autre plaque (19), cette dernière présentant une surface de support, de préférence plane, agencée pour reposer sur l'un desdits épaulements (10) (Fig. 7).
6. Armoire, bibliothèque ou analogue selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que les supports (13), qui sont destinés à des étagères peu épaisses, en particulier des plaques de verre, comportent des rails courts profilés, présentant une section sensiblement en forme de F, la branche horizontale inférieure (24) du F formant un angle obtus avec la jambe (25) du F et étant agencée pour constituer une surface de support pour l'extrémité de l'étagère, la branche supérieure horizontale (26) du F, qui est plus courte que la branche inférieure, étant agencée pour entourer l'extrémité de l'étagère en coopération avec ladite branche inférieure, et l'extrémité inférieure de la jambe (25) du F formant une surface de support, de préférence plane, agencée pour s'appuyer sur l'un des épaulements (10) (Fig. 8).
7. Armoire, bibliothèque ou analogue selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que les supports (13), qui sont destinés principalement à des étagères (5) en métal en feuille, comportent un bloc (27) sensiblement parallélépipédique et une languette flexible (28) qui fait saillie obliquement à partir de celui-ci et qui présente un bord extrême libre, celui-ci constituant une surface de support, de préférence plane, qui est destinée à s'appuyer sur l'un des épaulements (10) (Fig. 9).
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