EP2168456B1 - Guidage d'extraction de meuble - Google Patents

Guidage d'extraction de meuble Download PDF

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EP2168456B1
EP2168456B1 EP09171187A EP09171187A EP2168456B1 EP 2168456 B1 EP2168456 B1 EP 2168456B1 EP 09171187 A EP09171187 A EP 09171187A EP 09171187 A EP09171187 A EP 09171187A EP 2168456 B1 EP2168456 B1 EP 2168456B1
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guide rail
furniture
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Uwe Sobolewski
Andreas Hoffmann
Steffen Jaekel
Oliver Schael
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47BTABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B88/00Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
    • A47B88/40Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor
    • A47B88/423Fastening devices for slides or guides
    • A47B88/43Fastening devices for slides or guides at cabinet side
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47BTABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B88/00Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
    • A47B88/40Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor
    • A47B88/423Fastening devices for slides or guides
    • A47B88/427Fastening devices for slides or guides at drawer side

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  • the present invention relates to a furniture pullout guide for a furniture pullout part, such as a furniture pullout piece.
  • a drawer comprising a guide rail fixed to a side wall of a furniture carcass and a slide rail slidable along the guide rail with a furniture pull-out member such as e.g. a drawer couplable running part, wherein the length of the running part, which is coupled exclusively in the rear end of the furniture drawer part with this, is a fraction of the length of the guide rail and that in the front end portion of the guide rail a support means for bottom support of a furniture drawer part is arranged.
  • a furniture drawer guide of the generic type is for example from the EP 0 577 885 A1 known.
  • the present invention has for its object to provide a furniture drawer guide of the generic type, which is particularly inexpensive to produce without affecting their functionality.
  • the running part is provided at a distance to a fishing hook with two pins which extend perpendicular to the direction of upward and one of which is inserted into a bore of a side wall or the like of a furniture drawer part and laying down the Guide rail on a side wall of a furniture carcass mounting bracket are provided with perpendicular to the mounting plane extending arms, wherein the arms engage in approximately C-shaped grooves of coupled to the guide rail end caps or profile pieces.
  • back and front are used, which are intended to indicate that in relation to the installation position of a corresponding furniture drawer guide in a furniture body, the areas designated by the term “back” facing the back wall, while those with the term “front” “designated areas facing the front of a furniture body.
  • top and top used are to be understood as referring to an upper floor of a furniture carcass, that is, these areas are in the installed state of a corresponding furniture drawer guide facing the top floor of a furniture carcass.
  • the running part is shorter than half the length of the guide rail executed.
  • a particularly high material savings in terms of the running part results when the length of the running part is about one quarter of the length of the guide rail or less than a quarter of the length of the guide rail.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention provides that the guide rail has a non-circular, preferably rectangular cross-section and that the running part adapted to this cross section and is designed as a slideway enclosing the guide rail.
  • the carriage is thus arranged virtually non-rotatably on the guide rail by the choice of a corresponding cross-section, so far as no special measures for preventing rotation of the carriage relative to the guide rail are required.
  • the carriage may be slidably mounted on the guide rail slidably, there is also the possibility of supporting the carriage with the interposition of rollers, rolling elements or the like on the guide rail, resulting in a particularly low-friction displacement of the carriage relative to the guide rail.
  • FIGS. 1 to 4 is - as in the other embodiments - designated by the reference numeral 1 a total of a furniture drawer guide for a furniture drawer part such as a drawer.
  • the furniture drawer guide 1 comprises a guide rail 2 which can be fixed fixedly to a side wall of a furniture body and a guide rail 2 which can be displaced along the guide rail 2 and is provided with a furniture pull-out part, e.g. a drawer coupling run part. 3
  • the guide rail 2 can be fixed in its front end region via a mounting bracket 4 on a side wall of a furniture body.
  • the mounting bracket 4 is provided with a perpendicular to the mounting plane of the mounting bracket 4 extending tongue 4a, which in a correspondingly shaped, in cross-section approximately C-shaped groove 5 a of an end cap 5 engages, which in turn is pushed onto the front end of the guide rail 2.
  • the guide rail 2 which has a substantially rectangular cross-section, is provided in the region of its two side flanks 2a in the front end region with latching recesses 2b into which (not shown) latching projections can engage the corresponding inner flanks of the end cap 5, so that the end cap 5 is secure against displacement is fixed on the guide rail 2.
  • the end cap 5 is what, as well FIG. 4 very clearly shows equipped with two arms 5b, which are provided with bearing slots 5c for the bearing pin 6a of a roller 7 bearing axis 6.
  • the diameter of the roller 7 and the depth of the bearing slots 5 c are matched to one another such that the roller 7 projects slightly beyond the surface of the end cap 5.
  • the running part 3 the length of which is only a fraction of the length of the guide rail 2, is intended to be coupled only in the rear end region of a furniture extracting part such as a drawer with this.
  • the running part 3 is on the one hand equipped with a catch hook 3a extending in the direction of displacement, which can engage in a rear-side opening of a petauszugs learnerss and beyond, the running part 3 on opposite sides retaining pin 3b, which extend vertically upwards and of which Depending on the installation position of the entire furniture drawer guide 1 (left or right side of a furniture body) engages in a bore of a side wall of a furniture drawer part.
  • the catch hooks 3a and one of the retaining pins 3b thus a furniture extracting part such as a drawer is fixed both in the direction of displacement as well as perpendicular to the direction of displacement over the running part 3.
  • the running part 3 has a total of a rectangular cross-section and a lower-side longitudinal slot 3c, the latter being bounded by two longitudinal webs 3d. These longitudinal webs 3 d engage in lateral longitudinal grooves 2 c of the guide rail 2, so that the running part 3 is guided against rotation on the guide rail 2 and secured against lifting off the guide rail 2.
  • a guide roller 8 is mounted within the running part 3, which rolls on the top of the guide rail 2.
  • a cap 9 On the back of the guide rail 2, a cap 9 is pushed, which has a mounting flange 9a to set the guide rail 2 via the end cap 9 on a rear wall of a furniture body can.
  • this can in turn be provided in its rear end with recesses 2b, in which corresponding latching projections on the corresponding inner edges of the cap 9 can engage.
  • a furniture extracting member is coupled in its rear end portion with the running part 3, as described above.
  • the furniture drawer part is supported on the bottom side on the arranged in the front end region of the guide rail 2 roller 7 on the bottom side.
  • the running part 3 replaces a total for comparable furniture drawer guides hitherto used running rail, the length of which corresponded approximately to the length of the guide rail 2.
  • the running part 3 is preferably made as a one-piece plastic injection molded part, so that despite the relatively complicated shape with the many functions, an inexpensive production of the running part 3 is possible.
  • end cap 5 in the front region of the guide rail 2 as the cap 9 in the rear end region of the guide rail 2 are preferably formed as plastic injection molded parts.
  • the mounting bracket 4 is preferably made of metal for stability reasons.
  • the roller 7 can be replaced in the front end region of the guide rail 2 by sliders, it is important here, first of all, only that there is a stable support means for a furniture extracting part in its bottom area. It is also conceivable, the support means, whether in the form of a roller 7 or a slider or the like, form height adjustable to allow an exact horizontal alignment of a furniture extracting part.
  • the length of the running part 3 is what the FIGS. 1 to 4 make clear, shorter than half the length of the guide rail 2, preferred is an embodiment in which the length of the running part 3 is about a quarter of the length of the guide rail 2 or less than a quarter of the guide rail 2. It is clear that here results in a considerable material savings compared to previously used rails with a length corresponding to the length of the guide rail 2 total length.
  • FIGS. 5 to 9 an embodiment of the invention is shown, in which the guide rail 2 can be fixed both in its front end region as well as in a central region via mounting bracket 4 on a side wall of a furniture body.
  • the arrangement in the front end region is identical to the arrangement according to the embodiment of the FIGS. 1 to 4 , so that in this respect can be dispensed with a repetition and referenced to the aforementioned embodiment.
  • the mounting bracket 4 in the central region of the guide rail 2 engages with its tongue 4a in a profile piece 50 with a C-shaped groove 5a corresponding to the groove 5a on the end cap 5 a.
  • a sliding block 10 Connected to the profile piece 50 is a sliding block 10, whose cross section corresponds to the cross section of the guide rail 2 and thus makes it possible to be inserted into the guide rail 2.
  • the profile piece 50 can thus be moved over the sliding block 10 together with the mounting bracket 4 along the guide rail 2 and fixed at any point on a side wall of a furniture body.
  • the running part 3 is in the embodiment of the FIGS. 5 to 9 running even shorter than in the previously described embodiment, but has the same functions, ie, the running part 3, which in turn is coupled in the rear end of a furniture drawer part with this is with a fishing hooks 3a and with vertically upwardly extending pin 3b Fixing a cottonbergsmaschines equipped.
  • the guide rail 2 has a deferred cap 55 in its rear end, which is latched via locking recesses 2b in the guide rail 2 and corresponding latching projections on the corresponding inner edges of the cap 55 end on the guide rail 2.
  • This cap 55 is analogous to the end cap 5 in the front end region on the underside with an approximately C-shaped groove 5 a, into which the arm 4 a of the rear mounting bracket 4 can engage.
  • the cap 55 in the embodiment of the FIGS. 10 to 13 Both the clean rear end of the guide rail 2 as well as to be able to set the guide rail 2 in its rear end on a side wall of a furniture body.
  • the running part 3 corresponds in terms of its design and function in turn the running part 3 of the embodiment of the FIGS. 1 to 4 ,
  • FIG. 14 an embodiment of the invention is shown, in which the mounting brackets 4 are formed as L-shaped angle pieces, wherein a leg turn for attachment to a side wall of a furniture body and the other, here perpendicularly angled leg 4a engages in each case in a groove 5a of a profile piece 50, which as in the embodiment of the FIGS. 5 to 9 described, is held on a sliding block 10 in the guide rail 2.
  • the mounting brackets 4 are formed as L-shaped angle pieces, wherein a leg turn for attachment to a side wall of a furniture body and the other, here perpendicularly angled leg 4a engages in each case in a groove 5a of a profile piece 50, which as in the embodiment of the FIGS. 5 to 9 described, is held on a sliding block 10 in the guide rail 2.
  • a furniture pullout guide 1 in a furniture pullout guide 1 according to the embodiment according to FIG. 14 can the guide rail 2 are moved relative to the engaging in the interior of the guide rail 2 sliding blocks, if no measures have been taken to avoid such a shift. It follows that in the embodiment according to FIG. 14 a cottonberg can first be moved over the running part 3 to its stop on the end cap 5 relative to the guide rail 2. Subsequently, the running part can be moved along with the guide rail 2 along the sliding blocks 10 in the extension direction further, so that a full extension is possible here.
  • FIGS. 15 to 17 It is shown that a furniture drawer guide 1 according to the invention can be equipped in a simple manner with a tumbler.
  • this tumbler bevel 2d is chosen to be somewhat larger than the width of the guide roller 8 otherwise running on the upper side of the guide rail 2, so that this guide roller 8 reaches the area of the tumbler bevel 2d with the furniture pull-out part displaced to the rear and the angle of inclination thereof is lowered downward, wherein the inclination of the tumbler 2d can certainly also be chosen so that when fully shifted back to the running part 3 this rests directly on the top of the guide rail 2.
  • the tumbler is thus primarily determined by the forces required to lift the guide roller 8 from the lowered position in the region of the tumble slope 2 d to the top of the guide rail 2. By tilting the tumbler can be further strengthened.
  • FIGS. 15 to 17 the rear end plug 11, as in FIG. 14 shown, not shown, but it is clear that such an end plug 11 is required to limit the displacement of the running part 3 in the direction of the rear end of the guide rail 2.

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  1. Guidage d'extraction de meuble (1) pour une partie d'extraction de meuble, telle qu'un tiroir, comportant un rail de guidage (2) pouvant être fixé de manière stationnaire sur une paroi latérale d'un corps de meuble, et une partie de roulement (3) pouvant coulisser le long du rail de guidage (2) et pouvant être couplée à une partie d'extraction de meuble, telle qu'un tiroir par exemple, sachant que la longueur de la partie de roulement (3), qui peut être couplée à la partie d'extraction de meuble exclusivement dans la zone d'extrémité arrière de cette dernière, comporte une fraction de longueur du rail de guidage, et qu'un système de soutien servant à soutenir côté fond une partie d'extraction de meuble est disposé dans la zone d'extrémité avant du rail de guidage (2), caractérisé en ce que la partie de roulement (3) est pourvue à une certaine distance par rapport à un crochet d'attache (3a) de deux tourillons (3b), qui s'étendent vers le haut de manière perpendiculaire par rapport à la direction de coulissement et dont un tourillon peut être introduit dans un alésage d'une paroi latérale ou similaire d'une partie d'extraction de meuble, et en ce que des angles de montage (4) dotés de bras (4a) s'étendant de manière perpendiculaire par rapport au plan de fixation sont prévus pour fixer le rail de guidage (2) au niveau d'une paroi latérale d'un corps de meuble, sachant que les bras (4a) viennent en prise dans des rainures (5a) approximativement en forme de C avec de caches d'extrémité (5, 55) ou de pièces profilées (50) couplés au rail de guidage (2).
  2. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la partie de roulement (3) est plus courte que la moitié de la longueur du rail de guidage (2).
  3. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que la longueur de la partie de roulement (3) correspond à environ un quart de la longueur du rail de guidage (2) ou moins d'un quart de la longueur du rail de guidage (2).
  4. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le rail de guidage (2) présente une section transversale non arrondie, de préférence rectangulaire, et en ce que la partie de roulement (3) est adaptée à ladite section transversale et est réalisée comme un chariot accrochant le rail de guidage (2).
  5. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que le chariot est logé de manière à glisser ou de manière à pouvoir être coulissé sur le rail de guidage (2) en intercalant des galets (8), des corps de roulement ou similaires.
  6. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les pièces profilées (50) sont reliées respectivement à un coulisseau (10) qui est disposé de manière à pouvoir être coulissé longitudinalement à l'intérieur du rail de guidage (2).
  7. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le cache d'extrémité avant (5) présente deux bras (5b) dotés de fentes de support (5c), dans lesquelles peuvent être insérés des tourillons de support (6a) d'un axe (6) portant un galet de roulement (7) et formant un système de soutien.
  8. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce qu'un système de soutien de préférence réglable en hauteur sous la forme d'une pièce de glissement est disposé dans la zone du cache d'extrémité avant (5).
  9. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'un cache (9) doté d'une bride à visser (9a) servant à fixer le cache (9) et ainsi également l'extrémité arrière du rail de guidage (2) sur une paroi arrière d'un corps de meuble est enfiché sur l'extrémité arrière du rail de guidage (2).
  10. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'un bouchon de fermeture (11) doté d'une bride (11a) dépassant le contour extérieur du rail de guidage (2) est inséré dans l'extrémité arrière du rail de guidage (2), sachant que la bride (11a) fait office de butée d'extrémité pour la partie de roulement (3).
  11. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la partie de roulement (3) tout comme le rail de guidage (2) présentent une section transversale de préférence rectangulaire et sont pourvus côté fond d'une fente longitudinale (3c) traversante, laquelle est délimitée des deux côtés par des entretoises longitudinales (3d) qui viennent en prise avec des rainures longitudinales (2c) du rail de guidage (2) ou qui viennent en prise par le dessous avec le rail de guidage (2).
  12. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que le rail de guidage (2) est fixé dans la zone au moins d'un coulisseau (10) après le montage du guidage d'extraction de meuble (1) par rapport audit coulisseau (10), par exemple par serrage.
  13. Guidage d'extraction de meuble selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'un biseau d'arrêt (2d) chutant en direction du côté arrière est formé dans la zone d'extrémité arrière du rail de guidage (2), dans lequel un galet de guidage (8) roulant autrement sur le côté supérieur du rail de guidage (2) et logé dans la partie de roulement (3) peut arriver à rouler en abaissant la partie de roulement (3) dès lors que la partie de roulement (3) est déplacée jusque dans la zone d'extrémité arrière du rail de guidage (2).
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