EP0931483B1 - Meuble d'assise ou de couchage - Google Patents

Meuble d'assise ou de couchage Download PDF

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EP0931483B1
EP0931483B1 EP98124430A EP98124430A EP0931483B1 EP 0931483 B1 EP0931483 B1 EP 0931483B1 EP 98124430 A EP98124430 A EP 98124430A EP 98124430 A EP98124430 A EP 98124430A EP 0931483 B1 EP0931483 B1 EP 0931483B1
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Matthias Dipl.-Designer Fischer
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C17/00—Sofas; Couches; Beds
    • A47C17/04—Seating furniture, e.g. sofas, couches, settees, or the like, with movable parts changeable to beds; Chair beds
    • A47C17/12—Seating furniture, e.g. sofas, couches, settees, or the like, with movable parts changeable to beds; Chair beds changeable to beds by tilting or extending the arm-rests

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  • the invention relates to a piece of seating or reclining furniture with a base frame and with a sitting or lying surface and with at least one support part which adjoins the sitting or lying surface and is aligned in a leaning position in a plane inclined relative to the sitting or lying surface, whereby the support part is designed as a component separate from the base frame, the support part being movably assigned to the base frame about a central axis of rotation between the leaning position and a lying position rotated by at least approximately 180 ° by means of a holder and being fixable at least in the leaning position and the lying position relative to the base frame, wherein the axis of rotation is aligned such that the axis of rotation of the seat or lying surface - seen in a plan view of the seat or lying furniture - is at least approximately halved and - in a front view - is flatter than the plane of the reclining position, and wherein the holder is a mechanical Sicherun gs device for fixing the support part in the leaning position and
  • Such seating or reclining furniture is known from CH 656 296 A5.
  • a plurality of support parts are connected to one another via central coupling elements in such a way that a rotation of two adjacent support parts relative to one another by 180 ° causes a change in the angle of the seat or lying surfaces of both support parts relative to one another.
  • a locking pin is actuated in the immediate vicinity of the coupling elements of the rotary coupling, which releases the rotary movement of the support parts relative to one another.
  • sofas or loungers Other seating or reclining furniture in the form of sofas or loungers is generally known.
  • Known sofas have a seat upholstery which serves as a seat and is flanked on both sides by an armrest which serves as a support part.
  • Such a sofa has a back on the back.
  • the support parts are separated from the base frame in order to create mobility for the support parts. It is known to tilt such armrests by tilting mechanisms in relation to the seat.
  • couches it is known to adjust the inclination of the head and back support areas, which serve as support parts, with the aid of tilting mechanisms relative to the rest of the couch surface.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a piece of seating or reclining furniture of the type mentioned at the outset which enables variable use in an ergonomically advantageous manner.
  • the securing device is assigned an actuating element arranged on an outer surface of the support part for releasing the securing device, the actuating element being arranged on a front end of an actuating rod which is guided in a linearly movable manner in the supporting frame in parallel to a lateral frame part of a supporting frame of the supporting part. This achieves an ergonomically favorable actuation of the safety device.
  • the support part can be designed as an armrest for a sofa or as a head or back support part in a lounger.
  • appropriately designed support parts in the form of armrests are preferably provided on both sides of the seating or reclining surface.
  • the axis of rotation is flatter than the plane of the support part in its leaning position when the support part is rotated by 180 °, a flatter inclination is achieved in the lying position, which is preferably horizontal and thus flush with the seat or lying surface.
  • the position of the axis of rotation - seen in a front view of the seating or reclining furniture - preferably corresponds to the bisector between an upper support surface of the support part in its reclining position and a horizontal plane having the seating or reclining surface, as a result of which the support surface facing downwards in the reclining position Support part forms the upper, approximately horizontal contact surface in the lying position.
  • the bracket can be designed either as a detachable plug connection or as a swivel mechanism.
  • the support part is simply removed from the leaning position from the base frame and reinserted in the lying position reversed by 180 °, as a result of which the support part is aligned at a flatter angle to the seat or lying surface, preferably aligned approximately horizontally to the sitting or lying surface ,
  • the support part can - as described below - advantageously around the central one
  • the axis of rotation can be rotatably mounted.
  • stops are preferably provided in order to achieve defined end positions for the support part.
  • the central axis of rotation represents an imaginary, geometric axis.
  • the central axis of rotation can be realized in real terms by corresponding journal or sleeve bearings for a corresponding bearing shaft.
  • the bearing shaft can also be designed as a hollow shaft.
  • the first to 3 represents a sofa 1 which is provided with a seat 2 and a backrest 6.
  • the seat 2 is achieved by a seat upholstery and the backrest 6 by a back upholstery, which are each attached to corresponding frame parts.
  • the entire unit is referred to as the base frame, the base frame being positioned on four feet 5.
  • the frame parts are preferably made of metal.
  • a stable seat frame 4 is provided as the frame part, which extends over the entire seat surface of the sofa and to which the feet 5 are firmly attached in a manner not shown.
  • the frame parts of the base frame can also consist at least partially of wood in the same way.
  • the sofa 1 corresponds to a customary and known structure.
  • the sofa 1 has two separate components which represent side parts 3 serving as support parts. Both side parts 3 each have a support frame 11 which is padded as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. Both side parts 3 are each connected via a pivot bearing 10, 12 to the seat frame 4 and thus to the base frame of the sofa 1.
  • the pivot bearing is defined on the one hand by a stub shaft 10 coaxial with the axis of rotation D and on the other hand by a bearing bush provided in a bearing block 12.
  • the stub shaft 10 is rigidly arranged on the support frame 11 of the side part 3 and the bearing block 12 is rigidly arranged on a corresponding support profile of the seat frame 4.
  • the stub shaft 10 is fixed on the support frame 11 in that the stub shaft 10 is inserted through a correspondingly precisely fitting hole in the corresponding profile section of the support frame 11 and is secured axially and rotationally by a welding point on this profile section.
  • the backup can also be implemented in a different way.
  • the bearing block 12 can be welded to the support profile of the seat frame 4 or rigidly connected in some other way.
  • the axis of rotation D is provided approximately at half the depth of the seat surface 2 and the side part 3, so that the position of this central axis of rotation D seen in a plan view runs centrally to the seat surface 2 and to the side part 3 along the transverse extension of the sofa 1 between the two side parts 3.
  • the axis of rotation D is inclined relative to the seat surface and thus relative to a horizontal plane to which the seat frame 4 is parallel, the angle to the horizontal preferably being between 10 ° and 30 °.
  • each side part 3 is inclined more relative to the horizontal with respect to the axis of rotation D, so that the support frame 11 and thus also each side part 3 relative to the seat surface 2 and thus relative to a horizontal plane is steeper than the axis of rotation D.
  • the angle is of the side part 3 and thus the Support frame 11 relative to the horizontal approximately twice the angle of the axis of rotation D to the horizontal, so that the axis of rotation D forms approximately the bisector between a horizontal and the installation plane of the support frame 11.
  • the side part 3 lies against an approximately flat side surface of an also approximately flat side surface of the base frame, so that the two side surfaces have a common contact plane A (FIG . 2) define.
  • This contact plane A is at least approximately normal to the axis of rotation D, so that a rotary movement of the side part 3 relative to the base frame around the axis of rotation D does not result in crushing of the upholstery, but rather can be carried out relatively smoothly.
  • Each side part 3 is by means of the central pivot bearing 10, 12 between the leaning position shown in solid lines in Fig. 1, in which the side part 3 is erected obliquely relative to the seat surface 2, and a lying position shown in dash-dotted lines in Fig. 1, in which the side part 3 is aligned approximately horizontally in alignment with the seat surface 2, rotatable by 180 °.
  • a further rotational movement beyond these end positions is prevented by two stops 13 on the bearing block 12, against which a stop pin 14, which projects radially from the stub shaft 10, strikes.
  • the stop pin 14 is fixed on the part of the stub shaft 10 projecting over the bearing block 12 opposite the support frame 11.
  • the stops 13 are provided on both sides of the stub shaft 10 on the rear of the bearing block 12, wherein they are designed in the form of a pin and are positioned according to a 180 ° rotatability of the stub shaft 10 (FIGS. 2 and 3).
  • the stop pin 14 also serves as an axial securing device for the stub shaft 10 in the bearing block 12, the stub shaft 10 together with the side part 3 being able to be inserted into the bearing bush of the bearing block 12 in a simple manner. Subsequently the stop pin 14, which can be designed as a screw, is introduced into a corresponding radial bore of the stub shaft 10, so that this stop pin 14 has a double function.
  • a securing device in the form of a latching arrangement 18, 19 which can be moved by an actuating device 7, 15 to 18.
  • the locking arrangement has a locking pin 18, which is guided axially parallel to the stub shaft 10 at the height of the bearing block 12 in the support frame 11 in a linearly movable manner.
  • the latching pin 18 has two latching holes 19 in the bearing block 12 for alternatively receiving the latching pin 18 in the different end positions of the side part 3.
  • the locking bores 19 are arranged in the support plane containing the axis of rotation D.
  • a lever arm 17 is articulated on the locking pin 18 in the form of a simple connecting rod.
  • the connecting rod 17 is pivotally mounted about halfway on a pillow block 16 fixedly connected to the support frame 11 and is articulated with its front end opposite the locking pin 18 to an actuating rod 8 which is guided in a linearly movable manner in the support frame 11 parallel to a lateral frame part of the support frame 11.
  • the actuating rod 8 has a free end protruding outward beyond the support frame 11, on which a push button 7 serving as an actuating element is provided.
  • a coil spring 15 is assigned to the push button 7, by means of which the actuating rod 8 is held in the position shown in FIG. 3.
  • the push button 7 is guided through the padding of the side part 3 to the outside of the side part 3 and either arranged visibly on the outside of the side part 3 or only covered by a cover.
  • the locking pin 18 By a pressure load on the push button 7, the locking pin 18 from the moved respective locking bore 19, whereby the side part 3 can be pivoted into the end position rotated by 180 °. In this end position, the locking pin 18 automatically engages again in the opposite locking bore 19 due to the compressive force of the helical spring 15, so that the side part 3 is again locked in the desired end position without further manipulations.
  • the push button 7 is pressed in a simple manner, as a result of which the latching is released. Subsequently, the side part 3 can be rotated so far about the axis of rotation D until the support surface of the side part 3 previously forming the underside forms the upper side aligned with the seat surface 2 and the stop pin 14 strikes the corresponding stop 13 on the opposite side. In this lying position, the locking arrangement 18, 19 is automatically locked, so that the lying position is secured.
  • the seating furniture is designed as a couch similar to FIG. 1, in that a backrest 6 is completely dispensed with.
  • a divan-like reclining sofa the side parts of which can be transferred from a steeply upright reclining position into a flat reclining position in the same way as described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.
  • the feet 5 of the base frame can instead of the angled outward orientation shown in FIG. 1 also be correspondingly angled outwards. All that is essential is the relocation achieved as a result the center of gravity in order to be able to prevent a person sitting on the side part 17 in the lying position from causing the sofa to tip over.

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  1. Meuble pour s'asseoir ou s'étendre avec un cadre de base ainsi qu'une surface pour s'asseoir ou s'étendre et au moins une partie coussin adjacente à la surface pour d'asseoir ou s'étendre et dressée dans une position d'adossement dans un plan incliné par rapport à la surface pour s'asseoir ou s'étendre, sachant que la partie coussin est conçue comme un module séparé du cadre de base et que ladite partie coussin (3) est mobile par rapport au cadre de base (2, 4, 6) autour d'un axe de rotation central (D) entre la position d'adossement et une position couchée pivotée d'au moins environ 180° au moyen d'un dispositif de maintien (10, 12-14, 18, 19), et qu'elle peut être au moins fixée dans la position d'adossement et dans la position couchée par rapport au cadre de base (2, 4, 6), que l'axe de rotation (D) est orienté de telle manière que ledit axe de rotation (D) réduit au moins environ de moitié la surface pour s'asseoir ou s'étendre (2) - vu dans une élévation du meuble pour s'asseoir ou s'étendre (1 ) - et - dans une vue frontale ― s'étend de manière moins inclinée que le plan de la position d'adossement, et que le dispositif de maintien présente un système d'arrêt mécanique (15 à 19) pour fixer la partie coussin (3) dans la position d'adossement et dans la position couchée, le système d'arrêt mécanique (15 à 19) étant conçu pour pouvoir être débloqué manuellement,
    caractérisé en ce qu'un élément de commande placé sur une surface extérieure de la partie coussin pour débloquer le système d'arrêt (15 à 19) est affecté au système d'arrêt (15 à 19), l'élément de commande (7) étant placé à une extrémité d'une tige de commande (8) mobile linéairement qui est guidée parallèlement à une partie latérale d'un cadre de soutien (11) de la partie coussin (3) dans le cadre de soutien (11).
  2. Meuble pour s'asseoir ou s'étendre selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'élément de commande (7) est conçu comme un bouton-poussoir qui traverse un rembourrage de la partie coussin (3) pour sortir sur un côté extérieur de la partie coussin (3) et est placé de manière visible sur le côté extérieur de la partie coussin ou est recouvert par une garniture.
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