EP1010382B1 - Suspension à ressort pour matelas ou autre - Google Patents

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EP1010382B1
EP1010382B1 EP99124902A EP99124902A EP1010382B1 EP 1010382 B1 EP1010382 B1 EP 1010382B1 EP 99124902 A EP99124902 A EP 99124902A EP 99124902 A EP99124902 A EP 99124902A EP 1010382 B1 EP1010382 B1 EP 1010382B1
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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
    • A47C23/00—Spring mattresses with rigid frame or forming part of the bedstead, e.g. box springs; Divan bases; Slatted bed bases
    • A47C23/06—Spring mattresses with rigid frame or forming part of the bedstead, e.g. box springs; Divan bases; Slatted bed bases using wooden springs, e.g. of slat type ; Slatted bed bases
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C23/00—Spring mattresses with rigid frame or forming part of the bedstead, e.g. box springs; Divan bases; Slatted bed bases
    • A47C23/06—Spring mattresses with rigid frame or forming part of the bedstead, e.g. box springs; Divan bases; Slatted bed bases using wooden springs, e.g. of slat type ; Slatted bed bases
    • A47C23/061—Slat structures
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47C—CHAIRS; SOFAS; BEDS
    • A47C23/00—Spring mattresses with rigid frame or forming part of the bedstead, e.g. box springs; Divan bases; Slatted bed bases
    • A47C23/06—Spring mattresses with rigid frame or forming part of the bedstead, e.g. box springs; Divan bases; Slatted bed bases using wooden springs, e.g. of slat type ; Slatted bed bases
    • A47C23/062—Slat supports

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  • the invention relates to a spring base for mattresses of reclining furniture, upholstery Seating or the like according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Seating and reclining furniture generally have a single spring base so-called slatted frame.
  • the slatted frame of the spring base has a plurality of strips lying next to one another in parallel, in particular female connectors.
  • the female connectors or the like are connected to longitudinal bars by supporting bodies.
  • the longitudinal bars preferably form part of a frame, the part of the slatted frame, that is the spring base, or the seating or reclining furniture.
  • the support bodies are assigned opposite ends of the female connectors. she enable resilient mounting of the female connectors on the longitudinal spars.
  • the support bodies are designed so that the Female connectors are easily movable in the vertical direction to the seat or lying surface and the ends of the female connectors when they bend their angle in one can change the plane perpendicular to the seat or lying surface.
  • This Known support body have for slat base or slatted frames with rectangular Base, i.e. parallel longitudinal spars, has proven itself.
  • a support body is known from DE 1 958 100, in which the female connectors are in each case rest on a rollable gag, the gag attached to the longitudinal bars is, by means of a flexible anchor. If a female connector is in the plane perpendicular to the lying surface is loaded and moves in the longitudinal direction Moved on the outside, the resilience of the anchoring enables this movement Outside.
  • slat bases or slatted frames are required, that do not have a rectangular base.
  • the longitudinal spars run here anti-parallel to each other.
  • the support body must be anti-parallel Be adapted to the course of the longitudinal spars.
  • the longitudinal spars are more or less oblique to each other, in any case adapted support body required.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object of a spring base to create for mattresses or the like that are not specific to the course of the Longitudinal bars adapted support body required.
  • a suspension system for solving this problem has the features of claim 1 on.
  • the support body of the spring base according to the invention is the same between each of the longitudinal spars and the female connectors any inclination of the longitudinal spars to each other. Let the support body - with in other words - any misalignment of the female connectors to the Longitudinal spars in the level of the spring base or slatted frame to.
  • the support bodies are preferably designed as ball joints. These allow any changes in the angles of the longitudinal axes the female connectors to the longitudinal axes of the longitudinal spars, and in different - not just opposite - directions. In this way, the support body not only leave an adjustment the female connectors to different courses (parallel or antiparallel) of the longitudinal spars to each other; rather they can Female connectors like their known supports caused by a deflection of the female connectors Direction in a plane perpendicular to the level of the spring base or change the slatted frame.
  • the ball socket is designed so that it has a detachable, Allows positive reception of the bearing ball.
  • a closure means is assigned to the ball socket. When the closure means is open, the bearing ball can be inserted into the Ball socket can be inserted. Then the closure means closed the ball socket or locked in any other way, the bearing ball is form-fitting, but on all sides pivotable, held in the ball socket.
  • an anti-rotation device which is formed in this way is that the bearing ball is not in the ball socket can rotate, and thus also the respective female connector around their Longitudinal axis is not tiltable.
  • the female connectors stop this way their relative orientation forming a flat lying surface to each other. For the rest, the bearing ball is in the ball socket can be pivoted as desired, so that the anti-rotation device the ball joint function of the support body is not impaired.
  • Bearing ball made of an elastic material, preferably one elastic plastic, for example a polyurethane or another rubber-like elastomer.
  • the support body acts as an elastically deformable bearing ball kind of rubber spring that deflects the female connectors as in known supports.
  • the support body receives a spring-like effect.
  • the spring base in the illustrated embodiment of the spring base according to the invention it is a slatted frame 10 for a piece of furniture, for example a bed. 1 shows a top view on a lying surface 11 of the partially shown Slatted frame 10.
  • the slatted frame 10 has a frame 12 made of two longitudinal spars 13, 14 and two connecting the ends of the longitudinal bars 13, 14 Cross bars, of which only one (shorter) in FIG. 1 Querholm 15 is shown.
  • the longitudinal bars 13 and 14 run anti-parallel to each other by the longitudinal bar 14 under a acute angle to the opposite longitudinal spar 13 runs.
  • the slatted frame 10 thus has a trapezoid-like base.
  • each support body sits down 20 together from a ball socket 21 and a bearing ball 22.
  • the bearing ball 22 is on one end of the female connector shown 16 attached, preferably by friction, by the Bearing ball 22 is attached to the end of the female connector 16.
  • the bearing ball 22 with the end of the female connector 16 can also be glued.
  • the ball socket 21 is fixed with a longitudinal spar, specifically in the representation of FIG. 2 with the left longitudinal spar 14 connected. This is preferably done by resting.
  • the ball socket 21 has a corresponding one to the bearing ball 22 trained receptacle 23 for the most of the bearing ball 22.
  • the support body 20 By forming the support body 20 from the ball socket 21 and the bearing ball 22, the support body 20 provides a kind of ball joint This enables an inclination of the longitudinal axis 17 of the female connector 16 to the longitudinal axis 18 of the respective Longitudinal spars 13 and 14. This movement can be in any direction respectively.
  • the angle of the longitudinal axis 17 the female connector 16 to the longitudinal axis 18 of the longitudinal spar 14 in the Level of the lying surface 11 can be changed.
  • the different Angle between the longitudinal axes 18 of the longitudinal bars 13, 14 and the longitudinal axes 17 of the female connectors 16 are thus of the Support bodies 20 balanced use without different support bodies to have to.
  • the frame 12 can be practically any have any footprint.
  • the inclination of the longitudinal spars 13, 14 to each other can be of any size and it can even the longitudinal bars 13, 14 run parallel to one another, the same support body 20 always being used can. There are only correspondingly long female connectors 16 required.
  • the formation of the support body 20 as a ball joint enables in addition, a change in the angle of the ends of the female connector 16, if it deflects under load on the slatted frame 10.
  • the support body 20 enables an articulated movement of the Female connector 16 in the plane of the lying surface 11 and vertically to.
  • the holding section 24 of the ball socket 21 has a Vertical wall 26 forming the rear of the receptacle 23 a flat back 27.
  • This back 27 is at Longitudinal beam 14 attached ball socket 21 on the inner, vertical Wall of the longitudinal spar 14.
  • At the top of the Wall 26 of the holding section 24 closes a horizontal one Top wall 28.
  • An underside 29 of the same is also just trained. It lies on an upper side of the longitudinal spar 14 on.
  • Upper wall 28 is a hook projection 30 pointing downward integrally formed, which engages in a holding recess 31 on the engages upper, outer corner of the longitudinal spar 14.
  • At the back 27 of the wall 26 is a cylindrical projection 32 with Holding ribs 33 formed on its circumference.
  • This projection 32 engages positively in one not shown in the figures Blind hole in the inner vertical wall of the longitudinal spar 14 a.
  • the ball socket 21 is consequently with the holding section 24 through the projection 32 and the hook projection 30 form-fitting, in particular immovable, on the longitudinal spar 14 held.
  • the connection of the ball socket 21 with the Longitudinal spar 14 is made latching.
  • the ball socket 21 on the opposite, oblique longitudinal beam 13 be attached, which is of the same design, in particular has the same cross section.
  • the hinged cover 25 On the top of the top wall 28, the hinged cover 25 is the Ball socket 21 formed with a film hinge 34. Thereby the hinged lid 25 can be folded up from the one shown in the figures Open position of the ball socket 21 to the front by 90 ° be pivoted against the receptacle 23. The ball socket 21 is thereby closed for the positive reception of the Bearing ball 22. In the closed position, the hinged cover 25 on the ball socket 21 held by two opposite Locking tongues 35, which are formed in a corresponding manner Engage openings 36 in the wall of the receptacle 23.
  • Bearing ball 22 which has an essentially spherical lateral surface
  • Bearing ball 22 has depressions 38 distributed around the circumference and two opposite longitudinal grooves 39. Furthermore has the bearing ball 22 via a central, blind hole-like franking 40.
  • This franking 40 corresponds to the cross section the female connector 16 is formed and takes an end portion of the Female connector 16 is non-rotatable relative to the bearing ball 22.
  • the franking 40 is arranged in the bearing ball 22 that the longitudinal axis 17 of the female connector 16 in the middle the bearing ball 22 extends and a slightly curved top the female connector 16 flat against the lying surface 11 of the Slatted frame is aligned (Fig. 2).
  • the Bearing ball 22 below the clearance 40 via hollow chambers 42.
  • three hollow chambers 42 are underneath the franking 40 is arranged.
  • the hollow chambers 42 are preferred formed like a blind hole, namely extend over the entire length of the franking 40. If necessary, the Hollow chambers 42 but also longitudinally through the entire bearing ball 22 go through.
  • the bearing ball 22 has through the hollow chambers 42 below the franking 40 only over relatively thin material webs, which is an elastic deformation of the below the franking 40 ensure lying section of the bearing ball 22.
  • the bearing ball 22 By forming the bearing ball 22 from one elastic material, especially an elastic thermoplastic Plastic or an elastomer, is achieved that the bearing ball 22 below the franking 40 resilient Features that when the female connectors 16 not only cause them to bend, but also a deflection of the support body 20, which to a certain extent the entire female connector 16 is opposite the longitudinal spars 13, 14 can lower.
  • one elastic material especially an elastic thermoplastic Plastic or an elastomer
  • the described support body 20 allow the formation of Slatted frames 10 with any footprint too. That's why it is Invention not on a slatted base with the in Fig. 1st shown footprint limited; it is rather suitable for Any slatted frames 10.
  • the invention is suitable on for slat bases in which the longitudinal bars 13, 14 Are part of a piece of reclining furniture by the spring strips 16 with the support bodies 20 directly on corresponding longitudinal spars a piece of reclining furniture, for example a bed.
  • the invention is also suitable for seating and reclining furniture preferably the spring strips 16 forming the spring base and support body 20 directly on the frame or frame of the seat or Loungers are attached. Then the slat base can be a arched seat or lying surface or separate lying surface in the different levels.

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  1. Suspension à ressort, en particulier pour matelas de lits ou coussins de sièges, comportant plusieurs lattes, en particulier des lattes élastiques (16), placées à la suite à distance les unes des autres, et des corps supports (20) pour l'appui des extrémités des lattes (16) sur des longerons (13, 14) d'un cadre (12) ou du meuble, caractérisée par le fait que les extrémités des lattes (16) sont tenues par les corps supports (20) de façon telle qu'au moins les angles entre les axes longitudinaux (17) des lattes (16) et les axes longitudinaux (18) des longerons (13, 14) puissent être modifiés, de façon qu'une position inclinée des longerons (13, 14) l'un par rapport à l'autre soit possible.
  2. Suspension à ressort selon la revendication 1, caractérisée par le fait que les corps supports (20) sont du genre articulation sphérique, et de préférence, chaque corps support (20) présente une cuvette sphérique (21) et une rotule sphérique (22).
  3. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que la rotule sphérique (22) du corps support (20) est placée à une extrémité de la latte correspondante (16) et/ou la cuvette sphérique (21) du corps support (20) est jointe au longeron correspondant (13, 14).
  4. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins selon la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que la jonction d'une part de la cuvette sphérique (21) au longeron correspondant (13, 14) et d'autre part de la rotule sphérique (22) à une extrémité de la latte correspondante (16) est immobile, en particulier solide et/ou pratiquement rigide.
  5. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins selon la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que la cuvette sphérique (21) est faite pour recevoir la rotule sphérique (22) avec coopération de forme, et de préférence, la rotule sphérique (22) est encastrée avec coopération de forme dans la cuvette sphérique (21).
  6. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins selon la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que la cuvette sphérique (21) présente un moyen de fermeture qui, à l'état ouvert, permet l'introduction de la rotule sphérique (22) dans la cuvette sphérique (21) et l'enlèvement de la rotule sphérique (22) de cette dernière et, à l'état fermé, tient la rotule sphérique (22) dans la cuvette sphérique (21) avec coopération de forme, et en particulier, ce moyen de fermeture est articulé ou formé sur la cuvette sphérique (21), de préférence en faisant corps avec celle-ci, par une charnière pliante (charnière en bande souple 34).
  7. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins selon la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que le moyen de fermeture est un couvercle basculant (25) qui présente au moins un organe de blocage qui maintient le couvercle basculant (25) en position fermée, le couvercle basculant (25) présentant de préférence deux organes de blocage formés de doigts d'encliquetage (35) qui, lorsque le couvercle basculant (25) est fermé, sont engagés dans des creux d'encliquetage correspondants, en particulier dans des trous (36), faits dans la cuvette sphérique (21).
  8. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins selon la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que la rotule sphérique (22) est logée dans la cuvette sphérique (21) sans liberté de rotation autour d'un axe longitudinal de la rotule sphérique (22) qui de préférence correspond à un axe longitudinal (17) de la latte correspondante (16), et/ou la rotule sphérique en question (22) est fixée sans liberté de rotation sur les extrémités ou les parties d'extrémité des lattes (16).
  9. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins selon la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que chaque rotule sphérique (22) présente un dégagement (40) qui reçoit, de préférence avec coopération de forme, une partie d'extrémité de la latte (16).
  10. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins selon la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que les rotules sphériques (22) sont à ressort et/ou déformables élastiquement et de préférence, pour cela, présentent au moins une chambre vide (42) sous leur dégagement (40).
  11. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins selon la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que les surfaces latérales des rotules sphériques (22) présentent des évidements (37) et/ou des creux (38) qui sont de préférence également répartis sur la surface latérale.
  12. Suspension à ressort selon l'une des revendications précédentes, au moins selon la revendication 2, caractérisée par le fait que les rotules sphériques (22) sont formées d'un élastomère, plastique ou caoutchouc déformable élastiquement et/ou les cuvettes sphériques (21) sont formées d'un thermoplastique, en particulier d'un thermoplastique pratiquement non élastique ou de forme stable.
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