EP0195527A1 - Verstellbares Regal - Google Patents

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EP0195527A1
EP0195527A1 EP86301232A EP86301232A EP0195527A1 EP 0195527 A1 EP0195527 A1 EP 0195527A1 EP 86301232 A EP86301232 A EP 86301232A EP 86301232 A EP86301232 A EP 86301232A EP 0195527 A1 EP0195527 A1 EP 0195527A1
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shelving
collet
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Kenneth James Gutteridge
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N Greening Ltd
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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
    • A47B57/26—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
    • A47B57/265—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 clamped in discrete positions, e.g. on tubes with grooves or holes

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  • This invention concerns adjustable shelving which may be readily adjusted to various desired heights or readily assembled and disassembled.
  • Adjustable shelving in which support posts pass through corners of the shelves or through members on the corners of the shelves, the )helves being secured by means of screws or bolts through the shelf corners or members that engage the support posts.
  • adjustable shelving split collets are positioned around the support posts and have an internal rib that engages a selected one of a series of grooves of the support post.
  • the two parts of the collets are held together by a ring thereabout.
  • the combined collets are in the form of truncated cones and corresponding openings in the shelf corners enable the shelf to sit on the combined collets.
  • Fitting of the split collets can be awkward and time consuming in view of the need to secure the collet parts together with a split ring first.
  • the object of this invention is to provide adjustable shelving that may be more readily assembled and disassembled than the above-mentioned shelving types.
  • adjustable shelving it is proposed for adjustable shelving to use a one piece collet that can engage a support post at a selected position and on which a shelf can rest.
  • the preferred collet is generally tubular but has a longitudinal split so that it can be opened out for ease of movement up and down a support post.
  • the collet will have an annular rib on its inner surface and the support post will have a series of circumferential grooves along its length for selective engagement of a collet therewith.
  • the collet may also have longitudinal slots therein that are not the full length collet but which will aid opening out thereof for movement along a support post.
  • the collet may be weakened, say by thinning longitudinally on the opposite side thereof to the longitudinal split. That weakening forms a sort of hinge that facilitates opening out of the collet for fitting onto the post.
  • the collet preferably has a flared outer shape say of truncated cone form.
  • the shelves can then have correspondingly shaped openings at or near the corners or sides thereof. These openings may be formed in the material of the shelves themselves or preferably corner pieces may be provided in the corners of or at the sides of the shelves which pieces are internally shaped to match the external shape of the collets. The pressure of the corner pieces on the collets thus enhance engagement between the collets and the support posts to provide a firm shelf.
  • the corner pieces may be of metal or of plastics material. Those made of plastics material, in particular, may be designed to give a neat appearance to the shelves and to be readily incorporated in the shelves say by means of longitudinal slotting to facilitate squeezing thereof through and into openings in the shelves.
  • the shelving of the invention may be suitable for free standing shelving or for trolleys.
  • the support posts are preferably hollow at least at their lower ends so that wheels or feet can be fitted thereto, as desired.
  • the shelving of the invention is readily adjustable by removal of the shelf to release the collets, which are themselves easily moved along the support posts to engage other grooves at the desired position, and repositioning of the shelf.
  • a shelf 10 is mounted on a support post 12.
  • the support post 12 has circumferential grooves 14 at spaced intervals along its length.
  • the shelf 10 has openings 15 at its corner in which are fixed corner pieces 16 of metal.
  • the corner piece 16 tapers upwardly but ends with a lip 18 that overlies the edge of the opening 15 in the shelf 10.
  • Each corner piece 16 rests on a collet 20 of plastics material that engages a groove 14 of the support post 12 by means of an internal annular rib 22.
  • the collet 20 has a longitudinal split 24 so that it can be opened out sufficiently for moving along the post 12 to engage a different groove 14 if the height of the shelf is to be altered.
  • the collet 20 also has longitudinal slits 26 therein which extend only partially along the length of the collet. These splits 26 are to assist opening out of the collet.
  • the resilience of the collet due to its material of construction helps it to engage the support posts but also it has an external tapered shape that corresponds to the internal shape of the corner piece 16, so that, when the shelf is put onto the support posts, the corner pieces compress the collets to ensure firm engagement with the support posts.
  • the rib 22 of the collet of Figures 2 to 4 is near the lower end of the collet as fitted but that the rib may be at any other position relative to the ends of the collet.
  • the rib may be nearer the upper end of the collet.
  • the collet 20 of Figures 5 to 7 differs from that in Figures 1 to 4 in that the rib 22 is near the upper end of the collet as fitted. This is particularly useful for the lowest shelf in any shelving system or trolley as the lowest groove in the support posts can be higher up the post than otherwise. As the grooves are usually pressed into the tubular support posts, that leaves a greater length of tube below the last groove in which a trolley wheel or shelf foot fitting can extend so that the fitting can be more secure (see Figures 11 and 12).
  • corner pieces 16' of the Figure 5 embodiment are of plastics material rather than of metal.
  • the corner pieces 16' have longitudinal slits 30 therein to allow compression of the corner pieces for fitting into the appropriate openings of the shelves.
  • the corner pieces 16' also have upper and lower flanged ends 32 and 34 respectively that are bevelled and which give a neat appearance to the corners of the shelves.
  • FIGs 11 and 12 the embodiment of Figure 5 is shown with a trolley wheel 40 fitted and with a support foot 50 fitted respectively.
  • the trolley wheel and support foot fittings are of known design.

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EP86301232A 1985-02-23 1986-02-21 Verstellbares Regal Expired EP0195527B1 (de)

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AT86301232T ATE44859T1 (de) 1985-02-23 1986-02-21 Verstellbares regal.

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GB858504735A GB8504735D0 (en) 1985-02-23 1985-02-23 Adjustable shelving
GB8504735 1985-02-23

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DE (1) DE3664553D1 (de)
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GB2190282A (en) * 1986-05-16 1987-11-18 Amco Corp Adjustable rack of shelves
DE9303534U1 (de) * 1993-03-11 1993-06-03 Rieberwerke Heinrich Rieber KG, 72770 Reutlingen Regalsystem
WO1997023150A1 (de) * 1995-12-22 1997-07-03 Sikora Guenther Konstruktionssystem zum aufbau von dreidimensionalen gebilden
US7984680B1 (en) * 2010-07-02 2011-07-26 Everglide Caster Corp. Knockdown shelf structure
CN102772837A (zh) * 2012-08-16 2012-11-14 上海市杨浦区中心医院 折叠式多功能输液架

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US4852501A (en) * 1986-05-16 1989-08-01 Amco Corporation Adjustable rack of shelves
ES2150133T3 (es) * 1995-06-15 2000-11-16 Metro Ind Inc Sistema de soporte con ensamblaje de soporte de ajuste rapido.
DE19838995A1 (de) * 1998-08-27 2000-03-02 Heitlinger Karl Leo Regalsystem

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US4138953A (en) * 1977-09-16 1979-02-13 Philip Tashman Adjustable shelf assembly
GB2109671A (en) * 1981-09-11 1983-06-08 Craven And Co Limited Richard Improvements in or relating to supports
FR2526648A1 (fr) * 1982-05-17 1983-11-18 Hyvert Yves Clips support associe a une tablette et un cordage

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US4138953A (en) * 1977-09-16 1979-02-13 Philip Tashman Adjustable shelf assembly
GB2109671A (en) * 1981-09-11 1983-06-08 Craven And Co Limited Richard Improvements in or relating to supports
FR2526648A1 (fr) * 1982-05-17 1983-11-18 Hyvert Yves Clips support associe a une tablette et un cordage

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2190282A (en) * 1986-05-16 1987-11-18 Amco Corp Adjustable rack of shelves
DE9303534U1 (de) * 1993-03-11 1993-06-03 Rieberwerke Heinrich Rieber KG, 72770 Reutlingen Regalsystem
WO1997023150A1 (de) * 1995-12-22 1997-07-03 Sikora Guenther Konstruktionssystem zum aufbau von dreidimensionalen gebilden
US6062150A (en) * 1995-12-22 2000-05-16 Gunther Sikora System for producing three dimensional structures
AT408054B (de) * 1995-12-22 2001-08-27 Guenther Sikora Konstruktionssystem zum aufbau von dreidimensionalen gebilden
US7984680B1 (en) * 2010-07-02 2011-07-26 Everglide Caster Corp. Knockdown shelf structure
CN102772837A (zh) * 2012-08-16 2012-11-14 上海市杨浦区中心医院 折叠式多功能输液架

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ATE44859T1 (de) 1989-08-15
ES296072U (es) 1987-07-16
GB2171291A (en) 1986-08-28
GB2171291B (en) 1989-06-21
ES296072Y (es) 1988-01-16
DE3664553D1 (en) 1989-08-31
GB8604188D0 (en) 1986-03-26
ES296406U (es) 1987-10-16
ES296406Y (es) 1988-04-16
EP0195527B1 (de) 1989-07-26
GB8504735D0 (en) 1985-03-27

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