EP0141827B1 - Wandelement für regale, schränke oder karren - Google Patents

Wandelement für regale, schränke oder karren Download PDF

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EP0141827B1
EP0141827B1 EP19840901582 EP84901582A EP0141827B1 EP 0141827 B1 EP0141827 B1 EP 0141827B1 EP 19840901582 EP19840901582 EP 19840901582 EP 84901582 A EP84901582 A EP 84901582A EP 0141827 B1 EP0141827 B1 EP 0141827B1
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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

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  • the invention relates to a wall element for side walls of shelves, cupboards or transport trolleys, particularly for storage and transportation of laboratory and/or medical products, said element being formed in one piece as a profiled plate member with protruding guide members for supporting shelves or trays.
  • Laboratory and medical equipment and other products for use in hospitals are often stored in stationary shelves or cupboards or in cupboard or transport trolleys accommodating an arrangement of shelves, trays or baskets, some of which may have a relatively great depth.
  • An easier access to removal together with a relatively great storing capacity may be obtained by arranging the shelves, trays or baskets in inclined positions tilting downwards against the front side of the shelves or cupboard.
  • the shelves or trays are usually placed in guide rails which may be formed integrally with the wall element such as known from DE-B-1529721, or they may possibly be removably fixed to the vertical side walls.
  • guide rails In order to avoid vibrations of the shelves or tray such guide rails have usually a relatively narrow longitudinal track for edge rails or flanges on the shelves or trays.
  • the shelves or cupboard arrangement gets a permanent character since displacement of the rails secured to the side walls is difficult and time-consuming. Normally it must be determined beforehand whether the shelves or trays are to be positioned horizontally or inclined or there should possibly be both horizontal and inclined shelves or trays.
  • a wall element for vertical side walls of shelves, cupboards or transport trolleys particularly for storage and transportation of laboratory and/or medical products
  • said element being formed in one piece as a profiled plate member with protruding guide members for supporting shelves or trays, characterised in that said guide members are evenly distributed over the plate member in the height and longitudinal directions thereof and form a matrix-like arrangement for providing a set of parallel horizontal tracks and at least one set of parallel inclined tracks to accommodate side edges or flanges on said shelves and/or trays, the guide members having a prismatic shape for forming facial supports for both horizontal and inclined tracks.
  • the guide members formed integrally with the wall element may be positioned with a relatively greater separation than corresponding to the track width of the usual guide rails and may additionally be formed with relatively softly rounded edges, a considerably improved cleaning comfort is additionally obtained.
  • said guide members may have a substantially parallelogram-shaped cross-section. Thereby two opposing sides of each guide member will be horizontal and the two other opposing sides will be inclined with an inclination that will determine the inclination of the inclined tracks.
  • a preferred embodiment of a wall element according to the invention is characterized in that said matrix-like arrangement comprises a first and a second set of guide members arranged in alternating rows and columns to provide two sets of parallel inclined tracks with opposite, equal inclinations, the guide members of said first set having a pentagonal cross-section with a horizontal top face and two pairs of mutually opposed inclined faces with inclinations corresponding to each of said sets of parallel inclined tracks, whereas the guide members of the second set have a triangular cross-section with a horizontal bottom face and two inclined faces with inclinations corresponding individually to each of said sets of parallel inclined tracks, whereby each horizontal track is defined downwards by top faces of guide members of said first set and upwards by bottom faces of guide members of said second set, whereas each inclined track is defined downwards by alternating inclined faces on guide means of said first and second set, respectively, and upwards solely by inclined faces on guide means of said first set.
  • a wall element in this design has two sets of inclined tracks with opposite, equal inclinations, the same wall element may be used in both the right-hand and left-hand sides of a shelves structure or a cupboard.
  • the inclined faces on guide members of said first and second sets defining the inclined tracks downwardly have a greater inclination to the horizontal than the inclined faces on guide members of said first set defining the inclined tracks upwardly.
  • the said further guide members are formed with such a polygonal cross-section as to additionally form stops for the upper ends of the inclined tracks.
  • horizontal top and bottom edges of the profiled plate member are equally separated from the horizonal top faces in the row of guide members of said first set closest to said top edge and the horizontal bottom faces in the row of guide members of said second set closest to said bottom edge, respectively, said separation being equal to half the height of the horizontal tracks.
  • each horizontal track a further guide member is formed as in integrated part of the member with upwardly protruding stop bead forming an abutment for the end of side edge or flange of a shelf or tray inserted into the horizontal track.
  • a stop member formed integrally with the plate member is provided at the lower end of each inclined track.
  • the wall element is formed as a single plate member to be fixed to the inner side of a supporting wall.
  • the wall element may be designed as a self-supporting plate member and be provided at its vertical sides with means for securing it to vertical tubular or rail members of a frame structure.
  • the wall element 1 in Figs. 1 and 2 is designed as a profiled single plate member made, e.g. of a plastic material and adapted to be secured against the inner side of the supporting wall.
  • the element 1 is formed in one piece with an integrated matrix-like arrangement of prismatic guide members 2 and 3 protruding from the inner side of the element 1 to provide a set of parallel horizontal tracks 4 and, in the illustrated embodiment, two sets of parallel inclined tracks 5 and 6 having opposite equal inclinations.
  • the wall element 1 constitutes a rectangular module member having horizontal top and bottom edges 7 and 8 and vertical side edges 9 and 10.
  • the element may be used both in the right-hand and the left-hand side of a shelves structure, cupboard or transport trolley.
  • the tracks 5 tilting downwardly to the left will serve inclined arrangement of shelves and trays and when used in the right-hand side the tracks 6 tilting downwardly to the right will serve this purpose.
  • the above- mentioned matrix-like arrangement comprises in the embodiment shown a first set of guide members 2 and a second set of guide members 3 arranged in alternating rows and columns.
  • the guide members 2 in the first set have a pentagonal cross-section with a horizontal top face 11 and two pairs of mutually opposed inclined faces 12, 14 and 13, 15 respectively with inclination corresponding to each of the sets of inclined tracks 5 and 6 respectively.
  • the guide members 3 of the second set have a substantially triangular cross-section with a horizontal bottom face 16 and two inclined faces 17 and 18 having inclinations corresponding to each of the track sets 5 and 6.
  • Dependent on the inclination of the inclined tracks some of the guide members 3 may be formed however with bevelled corners as shown at 3'.
  • the horizontal tracks 4 will be downwards defined by the top faces 11 of the guide members 2 of a row in the matrix-like arrangement and upwards by the bottom faces 16 of the guide members 3 of the adjacent overlying alternating row.
  • the inclined tracks 5 and 6 will be downwards defined by inclined faces 12, 17 and 15, 18 respectively of the guide members 2 and 3 in alternating order of succession, said inclined faces having an inclination corresponding to the track in question, whereas they are defined upwards by one of the downwards facing inclined faces 14 and 13 respectively on the guide members 2.
  • the guide members 2 and 3 in the embodiment shown are formed so that the inclined faces 12, 17 and 15, 18 on the guide members 2 and 3 respectively defining the tracks 5 and 6 downwardly have a little greater inclination than the inclined faces 14 and 13 on the guide member 2 defining thetracks 5 and 6 upwardly.
  • the heights of each of the inclined tracks will decrease in the upwards direction so that a certain wedge effect is obtained when introducing shelves or trays in these tracks.
  • each of the inclined tracks 5 and 6 there is provided a hook-like stop member 19 formed as an integrated part of the element 1 and covering part of the track height at the opening.
  • a further guide member 20 which is likewise formed as an integrated part of the wall element 1 and has a stop bead 21 formed as a stop for the horizontal track.
  • the wall element 1 is designed as a module to be combined with other corresponding wall elements in that the horizontal top edge 7 and the horizontal bottom edge 8 have the same separation from the top face 11 of the guide members 2 in the upper horizontal row and the bottom faces 16 of the guide members 3 in the lower row respectively, said separation being equal to half the height of the horizontal tracks 4.
  • the guide members 3 are designed as shown in Fig. 3 with open inwardly facing ends as short prismatic pins. However nothing prevents the inwardly facing ends from being closed.
  • Fig. 3 a modification relative to the embodiment in Figs. 1 and 2 is shown in which the wall element 22 instead of being designed as a single plate member requiring fixing to a supporting wall is designed as a double-walled self-supporting cavity member provided at its vertical sides with means 23 for fixing it to vertical tubes of a frame structure not shown.
  • This embodiment is well suited for transportation trolleys of the kind designed as cart frames.
  • a single plate member may be designed to be self-supporting.
  • FIG. 4 a simplified embodiment relative to Figs. 1 and 2 is illustrated showing a wall element 24 having only set set of inclined tracks 25 in addition to the horizontal tracks 26.
  • the guide members 27 may have a substantially parallelogram-shaped cross-section as mentioned in the foregiong.
  • one and the same wall element may only be used in one side of a shelves structure or a cupboard.

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1. Wandelement für senkrechte Seitenwände in Regalen, Schränken oder Transportwagen, insbesondere zur Aufbewahrung und zum Transport von Labor- und/oder Medizinalartikeln, welches Element in einem Stück als ein profiliertes Plattenelement (1, 22, 24) angefertigt ist mit herausragenden Führungsorganen zur Unterstützung von Fächern oder Trägern, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Führungsorgane (2, 3, 27) über das Plattenelement (1, 2, 24) in dessen Höhen- und Längsrichtung gleichmässig verteilt sind und eine matrizenähnliche Anordnung bilden zur Erzeugung eines Satzes paralleler, waagrechter Spuren (4, 26) und zumindest eines Satzes paralleler, schräggestellter Spuren (5, 6, 25) zur Aufnahme von Seitenkanten oder -flanschen auf den Fächern und/oder Trägern, wobei die Führungsorgane prismatisch ausgebildet sind um Flächenunterstützungen für sowohl waagrechte als schräggestellte Spuren zu bilden.
2. Wandelement nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Führungsorgane (27) einen im wesentlichen parallelogrammförmigen Querschnitt aufweisen.
3. Wandelement nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die matrizenähnliche Anordnung einen ersten und einen zweiten Satz abwechselnd in Reihen und Säulen angeordneter Führungsorgane (2, 3) umfasst, zur Bildung zweier Sätze paralleler, schräggestellter Spuren mit gegenüberliegenden gleichen Neigungen, wobei die Führungsorgane (2) des ersten Satzes einen pentagonalen Querschnitt mit einer waagrechten Oberseite (11) und zwei Paar einander gegenüberliegende Schrägseiten (12, 14; 13, 15) aufweisen, deren Neigungen einem jeden Satz paralleler, schräggestellter Spuren entsprechen, während die Führungsorgane (3) des zweiten Satzes einen dreieckigen Querschnitt aufweisen mit einer waagrechten Unterseite (16) und zwei Schrägseiten, deren Neigungen jede für sich einem jeden der erwähnten Sätze paralleler, schräggestellter Spuren (5, 6) entsprechen, sodass jede waagrechte Spur nach unten durch Oberseiten (11) von Führungsorganen (2) des ersten Satzes und nach oben durch Unterseiten (16) von Führungsorganen (3) des zweiten Satzes abgegrenzt wird, während jede Schrägspur (5,6) nach unten abwechselnd durch Schrägseiten (12, 17; 15, 18) von Führungsorganen (2, 3) des ersten bzw. des zweiten Satzes und nach oben lediglich durch Schrägseiten (14, 13) von Führungsorganen (2) des ersten Satzes abgegrenzt wird.
4. Wandelement nach Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Schrägseiten (12,17; 15,
18) auf den Führungsorganen (2, 3) der erwähnten ersten und zweiten Sätze, welche die schräggestellten Spuren (5, 6) nach unten abgrenzen, eine grössere Neigung zur waagrechten haben als die Schrägseiten (14,13) auf Führungsorganen (2) des die schräggestellten Spuren nach oben abgrenzenden ersten Satzes.
5. Wandelement nach einem jeden der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass zumindest an dem einen Ende einer jeden waagrechten Spur (4) als integrierter Teil des Elements (1) ein zusätzliches Führungsorgan (20) mit einer herausragenden Sperrwulst (20a) vorgesehen ist, die als Anlage für das Ende einer Seitenkante oder -flansches eines in die waagrechte Spur eingeschobenen Faches oder Trägers dient.
6. Wandelement nach Anspruch 3 oder 4, und Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die zusätzlichen Führungsorgane (20) einen derartigen vieleckigen Querschnitt aufweisen, dass die zusätzliche Sperren (21) für die oberen Enden der schräggestellten Spuren (5, 6,) bilden.
7. Wandelement nach einem jeden der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass ein als integrierter Teil des Plattenelementes (1) ausgebildetes Sperrorgan (19) am unteren Ende einer jeden schräggestellten Spur (5, 6) vorgesehen ist.
8. Wandelement nach einem jeden der Ansprüche 2-4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass waagrechte Ober- und Unterkanten (7, 8) von den waagrechten Oberseiten (11) in der der Oberkante (7) am nächsten liegenden Reihe von Führungsorganen (2) des ersten Satzes bzw. von den waagrechten Unterseiten (16) in der der Unterkante (8) am nächsten liegenden Reihe von Führungsorganen (3) des zweiten Satzes in gleichem Abstand gehalten werden, welcher Abstand die Hälfte der Höhe der waagrechten Spuren (4) beträgt.
9. Wandelement nach einem jeden der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es als ein einziges Plattenelement (1) zur Befestigung auf der Innenseite einer Stützwand ausgebildet ist.
10. Wandelement nach einem jeden der Ansprüche 1-8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es als ein selbsttragendes Plattenelement (22) ausgeformt ist und an seinen senkrechten Seiten Mittel zu dessen Befestigung an senkrechte, röhren- oder schienenförmige Elemente in einer Rahmenkonstruktion aufweist.
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