EP0098899A1 - Arretiervorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP0098899A1
EP0098899A1 EP82303200A EP82303200A EP0098899A1 EP 0098899 A1 EP0098899 A1 EP 0098899A1 EP 82303200 A EP82303200 A EP 82303200A EP 82303200 A EP82303200 A EP 82303200A EP 0098899 A1 EP0098899 A1 EP 0098899A1
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David Gerald Leck
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B65/00—Locks or fastenings for special use
    • E05B65/0014—Locks or fastenings for special use to prevent opening by children

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  • the invention concerns catches and particularly but not exclusively safety catches which prevent drawers, doors and the like being easily fully opened to enable access to be made, by infants, to potentially hazardous articles and materials stored therein.
  • Catches which enable a drawer or door to be partially opened and which then require further manipulation by an opener to .enable the drawer to be fully opened.
  • the purpose of such a catch is to prevent access to potentially dangerous articles and/or materials being made by infants who, it is assumed, will have neither the mental ability nor physical dexterity to both manipulate the catch into a releasing position and open the drawer or door on which the catch is operably mounted.
  • catches of this type provide a catch including a flexible element which, once the drawer or door has been partially opened, may be manually pushed by an opener, to a door or drawer releasing position and then held in that position whilst the door or drawer is fully opened.
  • An aim of the invention is the provision of a catch meeting or substantially alleviating the noted problems of the known catches and proposals for catches.
  • a catch comprising a stop element and a hooked element which elements are mountable on parts of a piece of furniture movable relative to one another and are when so mounted engageable one with the other to prevent extended relative movement of those parts
  • the hooked element comprising an elongate member having a first hook portion formed at one end thereof and at least one second hooked portion formed part way along the length thereof, the first hook portion and each of said at least one second hook portions extending in different directions from the axis of the elongate member, the other end of said elongate member being adapted for mounting on one of said parts in a number of differing predetermined orientations such as to enable the stop means to engage one of said first and at least one second hook portions to prevent extended movement of said two parts by more than a predetermined amount determined by the mounting orientation of the hooked element.
  • the hooked element and the stop means are made of a moulded plastics material, for example nylon.
  • the hooked element is formed with two hook portions on an extended elongate flexible part thereof, the hooked portions facing in mutually opposite directions.
  • the catch shown in Figure 1 comprises a body 10 formed with apertures 12 through which screws (not shown in Figure 1) may pass to fix the body to a piece of furniture.
  • Body 10 includes a triangular tongue portion 13 having a stop face 14.
  • Surface 15 of body 10 and the stop surface 14 may each be roughened, for example by the formation thereon of a series of ridges or serrations 16 whilst the body is being formed.
  • Figure 1 also shows a hooked element 20 comprising a base 21 slotted at 22 to enable the passage of screws (not shown in Figure 1) there-through to fix the element onto a piece of furniture on which the catch is to be mounted.
  • Element 20 including a flexible elongate member 23 carried on base 21 and formed at the end thereof spaced from base 21 with the first hook 24 having a face 25 which can cooperate with stop face 14 of element 10.
  • Part-way along the length of member 23 element 20 is formed with a second hook 26 having a face 27 is also, in certain circumstances engage the face 14 of element 10.
  • the faces 25 and 27 are provided with ridges or serrations 28 for cooperating with the ridges 16 on stop face 14.
  • the elements 10 and 20 are preferably formed by moulding from a flexible plastics material (for example nylon) which enables the elongate portion 23 of element 20 to be readily pushed away from the position which it normally adopts in use by the application pressure thereto by, for example an adults finger.
  • a flexible plastics material for example nylon
  • Figure 2 shows a three-drawer cabinet 30 having drawers 31, 32 and 33.
  • a stop element 10 such as shown in Figure 1 is fixed to the undersurface 34 of the top element 35 of the furniture unit 30 by screws 36.
  • a hooked element 20 is mounted on the rear surface 37 of the front of drawer 31 by screws 38. The elements 10 and 20 associated with the drawer 31 unit are so mounted that the hook 26 is uppermost and the elements 10 and 20 are aligned such that the face 27 engages with the face 14 of member 10 when the drawer 31 is partially opened.
  • the catch provides that the drawer 31 is openable to the extent shown but cannot be opened further unless the drawer is closed slightly (that is to say pushed slightly in the direction of the arrow C) and the flexible element 23 depressed such that the face 27 is moved below - out of alignment with - the face 14 of element 10. Whilst holding the flexible element 23 in the depressed position the drawer 31 may be fully opened.
  • Drawers 32 and 33 have elements 20 mounted thereon as shown, that is to say with the element 20 rotated . through a 180 0 with respect to the position adopted by the element 20 attached to the drawer 31. It will be appreciated that if the elements 20 were positioned with the same orientation as that attached to the drawer 31 the space between the fronts of drawers 31 and 32 (or 32 and 33) when lower most drawer is opened as far as is enabled by the catch would be significantly less than that provided when the front of drawer 31 is partially opened between the drawer front 31 and the element 35.
  • the elements 20 are therefore mounted on the backs of the fronts of drawers 32 and 33 with their hooks 24 uppermost such the surfaces 25 are engageable with the faces 14 of the elements 10 attached as shown to structural members 39 within the drawer unit 30.
  • the elements 10 are attached to the structural members 39 by screws 40.
  • the drawer for example drawer 33
  • the drawer 33 must be slightly closed - that is to say pushed in the direction of the arrow C and the flexible element depressed to move face 25 out of alignment with face 14.
  • the drawer 33 may then be opened whilst the element 26 is held in depressed by a person opening the drawer.
  • the elements 10 and 20 are preferably moulded from a plastics material such as nylon.
  • the element 20 is provided with two hooks 24 and 26 enabling the efficient use of the catch in two orientations namely with the drawer to which it is being fixed uppermost (the arrangement of drawer 31) or with a drawer to which it is being fixed below one or more similar drawers (the arrangement of drawers 32 and 33) in Figure 2.
  • the spacing between the.hooks 24 and 26 along the elongate element 23 is such as to take account of the average thickness of drawer fronts in use in furniture units produced today - say 20 mm.
  • first portion 23' of member 20 running from the base 21 to the hook 26 diverges from the normal to the base 21 through a small angle (approximately 1 degree) to increase the height of the hook 26 to the base 21.
  • the further extension 23" of the member 20 from the hook 26 to the hook 24 preferably runs at an angle of 16° to the axis of the portion 23'. This means that the hook 24, when the member 20 is attached as shown to the drawer fronts 32 and 33 of. Figure 2 lies slightly above the normal to the base 21 of the member 20.
  • further hook members may be provided on the flexible element at varying distances from the base 16 at mutually different orientations to provide that the hook member 20 is applicable for use in a variety of different situations.
  • a modified form of hook member usable in such an arrangement is as shown in Figure 3.
  • both parts of the hook member corresponding to the hook member shown in Figures 1 and 2 are given the same reference numerals.
  • the hook member 20 is provided at four locations at predetermined spacings along the length of the flexible member 23 for hook members 50.
  • Each hook member 50 having a face 51 for cooperating with the stop face 14 of the element 10.
  • the hook member 20 may be positioned in any one of four different orientations to enable a drawer to which it is attached to be opened partially by any one of four different mounts enabling the insertion of a users finger through the gap so proposed to push down the elongate member 23 and enable the further opening of the drawer.
  • the elements 10 and 20 may be located on other parts of a piece of furniture which are movable relative to one another and which it is wished to secure, for example the units may be fitted with sliding and/or hinged doors, windows and the like.

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EP82303200A 1982-06-18 1982-06-18 Arretiervorrichtung Expired EP0098899B1 (de)

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AT82303200T ATE15522T1 (de) 1982-06-18 1982-06-18 Arretiervorrichtung.
DE8282303200T DE3266178D1 (en) 1982-06-18 1982-06-18 Catches
EP82303200A EP0098899B1 (de) 1982-06-18 1982-06-18 Arretiervorrichtung

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EP0098899B1 EP0098899B1 (de) 1985-09-11

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DE29807857U1 (de) * 1998-04-30 1999-09-30 Haussels Berthold Einhak-Verschlußstück
WO2021055623A1 (en) * 2019-09-18 2021-03-25 Elbee Pty Ltd. Cabinet lock

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DE2932123A1 (de) * 1979-08-08 1981-02-26 Creativ Patentanstalt Vorrichtung zum verhindern des unbeabsichtigten oeffnens einer schublade eines moebels durch ein kind

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE2932123A1 (de) * 1979-08-08 1981-02-26 Creativ Patentanstalt Vorrichtung zum verhindern des unbeabsichtigten oeffnens einer schublade eines moebels durch ein kind

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE29807857U1 (de) * 1998-04-30 1999-09-30 Haussels Berthold Einhak-Verschlußstück
WO2021055623A1 (en) * 2019-09-18 2021-03-25 Elbee Pty Ltd. Cabinet lock
US11680425B2 (en) 2019-09-18 2023-06-20 Elbee Pty Ltd. Magnet responsive cabinet lock

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DE3266178D1 (en) 1985-10-17

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