EP3153066A1 - Dispositif de liaison amovible d'un tiroir de meuble guide mobile dans un corps de meuble par une unite de guidage comprenant ladite unite de guidage - Google Patents

Dispositif de liaison amovible d'un tiroir de meuble guide mobile dans un corps de meuble par une unite de guidage comprenant ladite unite de guidage Download PDF

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EP3153066A1
EP3153066A1 EP16190720.9A EP16190720A EP3153066A1 EP 3153066 A1 EP3153066 A1 EP 3153066A1 EP 16190720 A EP16190720 A EP 16190720A EP 3153066 A1 EP3153066 A1 EP 3153066A1
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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
    • A47B88/427Fastening devices for slides or guides at drawer 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
    • A47B88/407Adjustably or detachably mounted drawers
    • 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
    • A47B2088/4278Quick-release clip
    • 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

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  • the invention relates to a device for releasably connecting a in a furniture body of a piece of furniture via a guide unit movably guided furniture drawer with the guide unit, with a base part to which a belonging to the device, a plurality of relatively movable components comprehensive adjustment is arranged by a position of the with the guide unit associated furniture drawer relative to the guide unit in at least one spatial direction with respect to the guide unit is adjustable, and wherein stop means are provided which limit a travel of the adjusting device.
  • a device of this kind is for example from the EP 0 695 523 B1 or alternatively from the DE 20 2011 104 673 known. Such devices are used for coupling the guide unit with a furniture drawer, so that the furniture drawer, such as drawer, can be separated if necessary from the guide unit.
  • Such devices are used in addition to the coupling furniture extract and guide unit in addition to adjusting the position of the furniture drawer in relation to the guide unit. This is important to set at the front of the furniture drawer in its closed position a uniform joint pattern or uniform gap widths between the edges of the front of the furniture drawer and the surrounding furniture body. For this purpose, it is possible to adjust the furniture drawer over the device in height or laterally. Furthermore, a tilt or depth adjustment of the furniture drawer with respect to the guide unit is conceivable.
  • the device is mounted so that play is present between the bottom of the furniture drawer and the guide unit, in particular the associated running rail in the vertical direction.
  • this game in the system is a hindrance.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a device of the type mentioned, which is functionally reliable compared to conventional devices.
  • the device according to the invention is characterized in that the adjusting device has resiliently biased pressing means, whereby the device is pressed in an assembled state of use of the guide unit.
  • the pressing means are designed such that a relative mobility between the furniture drawer and the guide unit in the height direction to enable a height adjustment of the furniture drawer with respect to the guide unit is present. It is therefore possible to overpress the spring-elastic pressure means in the reduction of the distance between the furniture drawer and the running rail occurring as a result of the height adjustment.
  • the pressing means comprise at least one spring element or are formed by at least one spring element. It is for example the combination of spring element and rigid, acted upon by the spring element pressure piece possible.
  • the adjusting device has a side adjusting unit for adjusting the position of the furniture drawer relative to the guide unit transversely to a longitudinal direction of the guide unit, wherein the components of the side adjusting a movable element and a relative to the actuating element, with the guide unit comprise coupled or couplable coupling member for lateral adjustment of the furniture drawer with respect to the guide unit.
  • the adjusting device may additionally or alternatively have a height adjustment unit for adjusting the position of the furniture drawer in the height direction to the guide unit.
  • the adjusting element is designed as a thumbwheel and the coupling member has a base portion for coupling with an associated portion of the guide unit and a threaded shaft on which the thumbwheel is screwed.
  • the pressing means are associated with the side adjusting unit, in particular its coupling member, in such a way that in the use state of the device, a support of the pressing means on a support surface on the guide unit and the side adjusting unit is pressed together with the device to the guide unit ,
  • the pressing means are components of the coupling member, in particular formed on the coupling member.
  • the coupling member made of plastic.
  • the pressing means are integrally formed on the coupling member.
  • the spring element of the pressing means protrudes in the height direction of the coupling member and is supported in the use state of the device on the support surface of the guide unit.
  • the spring element is formed by a particular of the material of the coupling member spring leg, which is resiliently mounted on the rest of the coupling member.
  • the invention further comprises a piece of furniture, with a movable relative to a furniture body, guided over a guide unit furniture drawer, wherein the furniture is characterized by a device according to one of claims 1 to 9.
  • FIGS. 1 to 3 show a preferred embodiment of the device 11 according to the invention, which serves to detachable connections in a furniture body of a piece of furniture via a guide unit (not shown) movably guided furniture drawer with the guide unit.
  • the device 11 is explained below using the example of a designed as a drawer furniture drawer.
  • the drawer is slidably mounted on the at least one guide unit relative to the furniture body. It is expediently provided a plurality of guide units, two of which are associated with each other opposite side edges of the drawer.
  • the guide units may be components of a so-called underfloor guide, in which the guide units are assigned to the drawer bottom. Alternatively, it would be possible to integrate the guide units in the side wall or frame of the drawer.
  • the device 11 according to the invention serves as a link between the guide unit and the drawer. Therefore, the device 11 could also be referred to as a clutch.
  • the device 11 has a housing-like base part 12, which consists of plastic and is advantageously made by means of plastic injection molding.
  • the base part 12 has a base plate 13 with guide openings 14 for attachment to the bottom of a drawer by means of suitable fastening means, such as screws.
  • the front side of the base plate 13 is widened with respect to the rest of the base plate 13, wherein on the substantially perpendicular to the base plate 13 end face through holes 15 are provided on the attachment to a projecting down over the ground side wall or at the front, in particular front panel that drawer is possible.
  • a bearing portion 16 of elongated shape rises.
  • a lever-like adjusting element 17 which is integrally formed on at least one solid-state joint 18 to the bearing portion 16 of the base part 12.
  • the adjusting element 17 is likewise made of plastic and was molded onto the base part 12 during production.
  • the actuator 17 is made the same plastic material, whereby the manufacturing cost, since it can be produced by one-component injection molding, are low.
  • the actuator 17 is pivotally mounted on the bearing portion 16 via the solid-state joint 18.
  • the actuator 17 has a manually operable operating portion 19 which is designed like a handle.
  • the operating portion 19 is located on one side of the solid-state hinge 18, on the other side of an engaging portion 20 is provided, which is provided for engagement in complementary engagement means (not shown) on the guide unit.
  • the handle-like operating portion 19 is designed wedge-like, wherein on the outside of the actuating portion 19 an optionally curved extending actuating surface 21 is provided for gripping by means of fingers of the user.
  • the engaging portion 20 is provided on the other side of the solid-state joint 18 with locking means in the form of ratchet teeth 22.
  • the locking teeth 22 on the engagement portion are locked in the assembled state of the device 11 with not shown complementary locking teeth on the guide unit, whereby the drawer is coupled to the guide unit.
  • the actuator By exerted on the user's finger pressure on the actuating surface 21, the actuator can pivot in the clockwise direction around the solid-state joint 18, wherein the engaging portion zuschwenkt with the ratchet teeth 22 in the direction of the bearing portion 16 of the base member 12, thereby locking teeth 22 on the actuator 17 from the complementary Disengage ratchet teeth on the guide unit.
  • the device 11 further includes an adjusting device 23, the plurality of relatively movable components includes.
  • the adjusting device 23 By means of the adjusting device 23, a position of the drawer connected to the guide unit can be adjusted relative to the guide unit in at least one spatial direction with respect to the guide unit.
  • the device 11 is formed as a so-called 2D coupling.
  • the adjusting device 23 comprises a side adjusting unit 26 for adjusting the position of the drawer relative to the guide unit transversely to a longitudinal direction of the guide unit.
  • the components of the side adjustment 26 include an actuator 27 and a relative to the actuator 27 movable, coupled to the guide unit or couplable coupling member 28 for lateral adjustment of the furniture drawer with respect to the guide unit.
  • the actuator 27 is designed as a thumbwheel.
  • the coupling member 28 has a threaded shaft 29 on which the thumbwheel is screwed.
  • the coupling member 28 in addition to the threaded shaft 29 also has a base portion 30, from which on the one hand, the threaded shank 29 extends and on the other hand, a wedge-shaped coupling portion 31 is attached.
  • the coupling member and the screwed thumb wheel are like the base part 12 plastic injection molded parts.
  • the setting wheel In the intended mounting state, the setting wheel is received in a particular cuboid formed both to the mounting side 33 and the operating side open receiving chamber 24.
  • the receiving chamber 24 has two opposite longitudinal walls 60a, 60b, which are upstream in a direction of one and in the opposite other direction of the other end face of the thumbwheel.
  • the setting wheel can therefore not move in the longitudinal direction of the threaded shaft.
  • the base portion 30 of the coupling member 28 may be formed as a hollow body, which is reinforced in the example shown by extending in the longitudinal direction of the threaded shaft 29 ribs. This leads to a material saving in the production of the coupling member 28.
  • the wedge-shaped coupling portion 31 has a transversely, in particular perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft 29 extending receiving slot 32.
  • the receiving slot 32 serves to receive a receiving portion of the guide unit, in particular a wall portion of a running or drawer rail of the guide unit.
  • the adjusting device 23 further comprises pressing means 70, whereby the device 11 is pressed in an assembled state of use of the drawer rail of the guide unit.
  • the pressing means 70 on a spring element 71 As in particular in FIG. 2 illustrated, the pressing means 70 on a spring element 71.
  • the spring element 71 has a spring limb 72 formed on the coupling member 28, which spring element projects from the coupling section 31 of the coupling member 28 projects in the height direction obliquely downwards away.
  • the spring leg is integrally formed on the coupling portion 31 in the example shown. It therefore also consists of plastic material.
  • the spring leg 72 is located on a support surface (not shown) of the drawer rail, so that the side adjustment unit 26 is pressed together with the device 11 and coupled drawer to the drawer rail.
  • the adjusting device further has a height adjustment unit 40 for adjusting the position of the drawer relative to the guide unit in the height direction.
  • the height adjustment unit 40 has, as in particular in the FIGS. 1 and 2 shown, a wedge-shaped, approximately semicircular ramp 41 which is mounted pivotably about a pivot axis on the mounting side 33 of the base part 12 in the region of the bearing portion 16.
  • the effective wedge surface 42 of the ramp 41 engages in the space between the top of the drawer rail and the drawer bottom.
  • the ramp 41 can be adjusted by means of a radially outwardly projecting handle 46 located on the ramp 41, as a result of which a section of the wedge surface 42 which is larger or smaller in height direction projects into the intermediate space and thus increases or decreases the distance between the drawer Floor and the running rail leads, which allows the drawers to be adjusted in the vertical direction.
  • a detent is provided, with a plurality of ratchet teeth, which cooperate with projections formed on the base plate 13. This makes it possible to fix the set position of the height adjustment unit 40.
  • the height adjustment unit 40 When adjusting the height of the drawer with respect to the drawer for adjusting the clearances on the front, the height adjustment unit 40 is operated as described.
  • the pressing means 70 in particular the spring leg 72, do not hinder, since overpressing is possible.
  • the spring leg 72 can be pressed in the direction of the coupling portion 31.
  • To adjust the side position of the drawer can be by turning the thumbwheel generate a movement of the threaded shaft in one or the other direction, whereby the drawer is adjusted relative to the drawer rail.

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