EP0669878A1

EP0669878A1 - Depository apparatus for a suspension depository system

Info

Publication number: EP0669878A1
Application number: EP94930156A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Walter GRÖBLY
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1993-09-17
Filing date: 1994-09-16
Publication date: 1995-09-06
Also published as: WO1995007825A1; DE4331661A1; DE4331661C2

Abstract

Described is a depository apparatus for a suspension depository system wherein a number of depository items (4) can be moved in a containment space between two guide tracks (1, 2) that are mounted opposite each other in a housing and that have a mechanism (10, 11) for at least one-way extension in the direction of travel, said guide tracks being displaceable in the housing itself.

Description

STORAGE DEVICE FOR A HANGING STORAGE

Description:

The invention relates to a storage device for a hanging storage according to the preamble of claim 1.

So-called suspension registers are known in which there are two parallel guide rails, between which so-called suspension registers are suspended. Each suspension register consists of a cardboard-like pocket, which is supported on its upper sides by metal webs, which webs each have recesses on the outside, which engage over the guide rails.

In this way, the webs, together with the hanging registers attached to them, are arranged to be displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the guide rails. The cardboard registers are filled with paper material from above

Such hanging files have proven themselves and are used in many ways.

It has now been found that the suspension registers are filled up with increasing use, which leads to the entire registry being overfilled after a certain time. This means that the individual suspension registers can no longer be moved on the guide rails because the folders located in the front and back of the suspension registry strike the assigned stops specified by the customer.

This makes the hanging file difficult to access because you have to pull out each hanging file to make it accessible for use. The invention is therefore based on the object of developing a suspension file of the type mentioned at the outset in such a way that good access to all the suspension files is provided even when filled.

To achieve the object, the invention is characterized by the technical teaching of claim 1.

An essential feature of the invention is that the space available in the suspension file is now enlarged by a corresponding extension device. It is characteristic of this that the guide rails are designed to be extendable forwards or backwards or in both directions.

This has the essential advantage that the available space can now be increased as desired, if you ensure that the guide rails can be extended accordingly to the front and / or to the rear (viewed in the pull-out direction of the drawer).

In another embodiment of the invention it is provided that the guide rails are not arranged in the pull-out direction, but that the guide rails are arranged in the transverse direction to the pull-out direction and accordingly the guide rails are also lengthened in the transverse direction to the pull-out direction.

The field of application of the present invention is, however, not restricted to hanging files, but to any hanging storage devices, so that not only pieces of paper can be stored in such hanging files, but the hanging files can be used as storage trays, as storage trays, as trays or the like. be trained.

Accordingly, the field of application of the present invention is not limited to hanging filing for filing documents, but the present invention includes all possible embodiments such. B. the arrangement of such a hanging system in a refrigerator, in a wardrobe, in a desk or the like. More.

Corresponding foods can be stored in so-called hanging trays in a refrigerator, which can then be pulled forward with the device according to the invention when the refrigerator door is opened.

In a closet, for. B. ties or other objects are kept hanging, which can then be pulled out in the manner of the enlarger described here at the front.

The extension device can be driven by various measures.

In a first preferred embodiment it is provided that the user himself carries out the corresponding extension of the guide rails in order to create the space necessary for pulling out the hanging registers.

In another embodiment of the invention it is provided that the enlargement (extension) of the Guide rails are driven by an opening mechanism itself, e.g. B. in which one draws the front panel on a drawer, which front panel then automatically performs the required extension of the guide rails when pulled out.

The same applies to the refrigerator door or the wardrobe door, so that when the refrigerator or the wardrobe door is opened it is provided that the extension device is actuated by the opening mechanism at the same time so that the guide rails of the suspension file are extended.

For the sake of simplicity, the present

Description in the future referred only to a suspension file, although the invention is not limited to this.

The drive principle according to the present invention is not only limited to pivoting doors which are pivoted in two superimposed, vertical axes on one side of the piece of furniture, but the present invention also provides for such a pull-out device to be arranged on a so-called pharmacy cabinet, in which the entire The door leaf lifts forward at the same distance from the front of the piece of furniture.

The present principle of the invention can also be based on

Folding doors are used in which the swivel hinges are arranged next to one another in a horizontal line, as is customary with flap doors. In all opening mechanisms it is provided according to the invention that the extension device according to the present invention is actuated simultaneously with the opening of the corresponding door or flap.

The basic principle of the present invention thus lies in an extension of the guide rails, which are arranged parallel and at a mutual distance and on which the guide hooks of the hanging registers are slidably received.

There are several application examples for the extension of these guide rails, all of which are intended to be encompassed by the present invention.

In a first embodiment it is provided that a swivel bearing is arranged on the respective end face of the guide rail, on each of which a swivel rail is pivotably mounted. In the swiveled-in state (idle state), the swivel rail is swiveled away from the guide rail and requires little space so that it does not protrude from the front of the drawer, while in the use state the swivel rail is swung out to the front, so that the respective guide rail is forward to extend. This makes it possible to pull the suspension registers beyond the previous front of the drawer, it being preferred that the front panel is moved forward as well. As a result, the available space can be increased significantly because the suspension registers can then be moved out onto the swivel rails and there is a significantly improved access to all suspension registers. Instead of the swivel rails described here, the guide rails can also be extended telescopically to the front in order to likewise ensure an extension of the guide rails in the axial direction.

Link guides can also be provided, with corresponding rails being arranged laterally parallel to the guide rails, which are then pulled forward via a corresponding link guide and likewise extend the guide rails axially towards the front.

In a modified embodiment it is provided that the guide rails for holding the hanging registers are not arranged in the pull-out direction of the drawer, but rather in the direction perpendicular to this. The inventive extension of the guide rails in the axial direction to the front and / or to the rear then takes place via a corresponding transverse displacement, i.e. the rails are extended perpendicular to the drawer's pull-out direction.

The subject matter of the present invention results not only from the subject matter of the individual claims, but also from the combination of the claims with one another. All of the information and features disclosed in the documents - including the summary -, in particular the spatial design shown in the drawings, are claimed to be essential to the invention insofar as they are new to the prior art, individually or in combination.

In the following the invention based on several Drawings illustrating execution paths explained in more detail. Here, from the drawings and their description, further features and advantages of the invention that are essential to the invention emerge.

Show it:

Figure 1: schematically shows a front view of a storage device in a first embodiment;

Figure 2: the storage device in a second embodiment;

Figure 3: the storage device in a third embodiment;

Figure 4: the storage device in a fourth embodiment;

Figure 5: the storage device in a fifth embodiment;

Figure 6: the storage device according to Figures 1 and 2 in a modified embodiment.

The suspension file according to the present invention essentially consists of two mutually parallel, approximately horizontal guide rails 1, 2, which are each connected on the transverse sides by a corresponding holding rail 3. However, the holding rail 3 is not necessary for a solution. The end of the guide rails 1, 2 can be mounted directly on the furniture body, on the rear wall of the drawer or on another part. A receiving space is defined between the guide rails 1, 2, in which suspension registers 4 are suspended. These suspension registers 4 are only shown schematically and are carried by upper web-like rails which have guide hooks 6, which are guided on the guide rails 1, 2 in the pull-out direction 5. The pull-out direction 5 is, moreover, both the pull-out direction of the hanging registers 4 to the front or back and the pull-out direction of a drawer in which the entire hanging file could be arranged.

According to the invention, a pivot point 8 is now defined on the end face of the respective guide rail 1, 2, to each of which a pivot rail 10, 11 is articulated.

Here, the pivot rails 10, 11 touch approximately in the middle 9 and can be pivoted outward in the direction of the arrows 12, so that they assume their positions 10 ', 11' in the pivoted-out position.

The length of the guide rails 1, 2 is thus substantially extended towards the front, because the suspension registers 4 can now be pulled forward in the pull-out direction 5 onto the swivel rails 10 ', 11', which creates a much larger access space.

In another embodiment, the extension device 7 according to FIG. 1 according to FIG. 2 is designed such that a substantially increased length of the guide rail 1, 2 is achieved. The pivot rails 13, 14 overlap one another in the pivoted-in state, so that they are pivoted out State in the positions 13 ', 14' have the length of the full drawer width and accordingly there is a substantial extension of the guide rails 1, 2.

Of course, it is provided in all embodiments that the extension of the guide rails 1, 2 not only takes place towards the front, but also towards the rear towards the rear of the piece of furniture.

It can also be provided that the guide rails 1, 2 are themselves displaceably arranged in a drawer box and the entire suspension file is moved forward when the drawer is pulled out, so that pivoting the pivot rails 10, 11 forward and pivoting out further pivot rails 10.11 backwards is guaranteed.

In Figure 3 another embodiment is shown, which shows that the guide rails 1, 2 as

Telescopic rails are formed, on which further telescopic rails 16, 17 are slidably guided, which also ensure an increase in the access space when pulled out of the guide rails 1, 2. It is provided that the front wall 15 of the

Drawer, which closes the suspension file to the front, is pulled out with the telescopic rails 16, 17 to the front and then assumes the position 15 '.

FIG. 4 shows a so-called link guide, where it can be seen that telescopic rails 16, 17 cannot be pivoted within the profile or on the profile of the guide rails 1, 2, but that these telescopic rails are in the manner of a link guide are arranged next to the guide rails 1,2 and then pass into a stepped pivoting movement in the direction of the arrow 18 in the extension of the guide rails 1,2 and take this case then the positions 16 ', 17 ^■.

FIG. 5 shows an exemplary embodiment modified compared to FIGS. 1 and 2, it being possible for all the features described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4 to be transferred to the embodiment according to FIG.

5 shows that an extension of the guide rails 1, 2 in the pull-out direction 5 of the drawer is not necessarily necessary, but the drawer can be extendable in the pull-out direction 5, but the guide rails 1, 2 are perpendicular to the pull-out direction of the drawer arranged in the drawer box and are accordingly extended perpendicular to the pull-out direction 5 by the extension measures described.

In the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 5, it is shown here that the swivel rails 13, 14 are swiveled outward transversely to the pull-out direction and assume their position 13 ', 14' here.

Accordingly, the front of the drawer box is no longer moved, but rather a side wall of the drawer box.

There does not even have to be a side wall, there could also be an opening in the drawer side wall through which the extension of the swivel rails 13, 14 or the Rails 10, 11 take place so that the hanging registers 4 can be pulled out of the drawer side.

Here, the guide rails 1, 2 can be supported from below by a corresponding (not shown) U-profile in order to achieve the necessary stability.

Of course it is possible to

To implement pull-out principle according to Figure 5 on both sides of the drawer box.

FIG. 6 shows a further modified exemplary embodiment compared to FIGS. 1 to 5, in which it can be seen that the swivel rails 10, 11 are not mounted approximately horizontally according to FIG. 1, but are vertically in the pivoted-in state (that is to say parallel to the plane of FIG Front of the drawer) and then pivoted into a horizontal pivoted position about the pivot point 8.

The invention also includes further developments of the hanging register principle in the following manner that if such a hanging register is used for the storage trays in a refrigerator, then corresponding covers include the hanging register or and the extendable part in order to prevent the refrigerator from escaping immediately . DRAWING LEGEND

1 guide rail 2 guide rail

3 holding rails

4 hanging files

5 Extension direction

6 guide hooks 7 extension device

8 pivot point

9 middle

10.10 'swivel rail 11.11' swivel rail 12 arrow direction

13.13 'swivel rail 14, 14' swivel rail 5.15 'front wall 16.16' telescopic rail 17.17 'telescopic rail 18 arrow direction

Claims

Claims:

1. A storage device for a hanging storage of a number of folders, which are movable in a storage space between two opposite guide rails (1,2), which are arranged in a body, characterized in that the guide rails (1,2) have a mechanism for extension - possess in at least one direction in the direction of guidance.

2. A storage device according to claim 1, that the guide rails (1, 2) are self-displaceable in the body and have a mechanism for extension.

3. Storage device according to claim 1 or 2, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t that the mechanism for extending the guide rails

(1, 2) each consists of a swivel bearing, which is arranged at the end of the guide rails (1, 2) to be extended, and is coupled to a swivel rail (10, 11, 13, 14) that can be swiveled into the body.

4. A storage device according to claim 1 or 2, that the mechanism for extending the guide rails (1, 2) consists of telescopic rails (16, 17) which can be pivoted inside or on the profile of the guide rails (1, 2).

5. Storage device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the Mechanism for extending the guide rails (1, 2) consists of a link guide, in which the telescopic rails (16, 17) are arranged parallel to the guide rails (1, 2).

6. Storage device according to one of claims 1-5, characterized in that the pull-out direction (5) of the guide rails (1, 2) from the body and the course of the guide rails (1, 2) are perpendicular to one another and the mechanism for extending the guide rails ( 1,2) additionally has a device for transverse displacement.

7. Storage device according to one of claims 1-6, that means that the

Extensions of the guide rails (1,2) can be swung in at any angle.

8. Storage device according to one of claims 1-7, d a d u r c h g e k e n n z e i c h n e t that the

Mechanism for extending the guide rails (1,2) is connected to the opening mechanism of the body.

9. A storage device according to claim 8, so that the opening mechanism is a pull-out device, a pivoting door, a hinged door, a sliding door or a simple locking device.

10. A storage device according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the mechanism for extending the guide rails (1,2) with further elements for partial or complete coverage of the extended receiving space is coupled