EP3635295A1

EP3635295A1 - Cabinet

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Publication number: EP3635295A1
Application number: EP19710391.4A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Ulrich Wilhelm Siekmann
Original assignee: Siematic Mobelwerke GmbH and Co KG
Current assignee: Siematic Mobelwerke GmbH and Co KG
Priority date: 2018-04-10
Filing date: 2019-03-11
Publication date: 2020-04-15
Anticipated expiration: 2039-03-11
Also published as: CN111094847B; US20210153653A1; WO2019197092A1; EP3635295C0; EP3635295B1; DE202018101927U1; US11191359B2; ES2977167T3; CN111094847A

Abstract

The invention relates to a cabinet (1) having at least one front part (2), which closes access to the inner region of the cabinet and is mounted movably relative to the cabinet carcass, and also having, in particular supporting, inner walls (3) or side walls (3) or at least one side cheek (17) arranged vertically in relation to the floor on which the item of furniture is standing. An access opening (5) is formed between the front part (2) and at least one side cheek (17) or between the front part (2) and at least one further front part (2) or between the front part (2) and an upper side (4), which in particular is formed as a table top. The access opening (5) is used to allow a user to reach with a hand behind the at least one front part (2) from a narrow side thereof, and the front part (2) is used to make the inner region, which is covered by the front part (2), accessible by movement of the front part. A profile (60) is arranged to the rear of the access opening (5) such that it is impossible to see into the inner region of the cabinet (1) through the access opening (5). The profile (60) has a first part (60a) and a second part (60b) connected thereto or formed in one piece therewith. The first part (60a) has a first face (61) visible through the access opening (5), and the second part (60b) has a second face (63) visible through the access opening (5). The two visible faces (61, 63) are arranged relative to one another such that a shadow gap (7) is formed therebetween.

Description

CABINET FURNITURE ·

TECHNICAL AREA

The invention relates to a cabinet furniture according to the preamble of claim 1.

STATE OF THE ART

Corresponding furniture has long been known. Especially in the kitchen a whole series of cabinet furniture are used, which are equipped with furniture fronts to create a uniform picture. Carcass furniture in the sense of the invention is understood to mean a piece of furniture which has at least one furniture carcass or a plurality of furniture carcasses.

The furniture fronts are usually open to make the interior of the cabinet furniture accessible. The furniture fronts can therefore be parts of pull-outs, drawers or cupboards. To open furniture fronts, for example, have handles, alternatively, such cabinet furniture can operate with handle-less variants. For this purpose, an intervention opening is usually provided next to the narrow side of a furniture front, behind which a privacy protection profile is arranged, which conceals the further view into the interior of the furniture. Typically, this privacy profile to C-profiles or ü-profiles, usually made of plastic or metal, so that mam seen from the outside behind the engagement opening can recognize a flat surface.

THE INVENTION

Object of the present invention is to provide a cabinet furniture of the type mentioned above, which offers new design options in the area of the handle.

This object is achieved by a cabinet furniture with the features of claim 1. Advantageous embodiments can be found in the dependent claims.

The cabinet furniture according to the invention has at least one, the access to an interior of the cabinet furniture closing and relative to the body of the cabinet furniture movably mounted front part. For this purpose, the furniture comprises, in particular, supporting inner walls or side walls, which are arranged vertically to the erection floor, or at least one side wall.

It is

i) between the front part and at least one side cheek or

ii) between the front part and at least one other front part or

iii) between the front part and a, in particular designed as a worktop top formed an engagement opening.

The engagement opening serves to engage behind the at least one front part via one of its narrow sides with the hand of an operator and to enable the front part to make accessible the concealed by the front part inside area by moving the front part. In this case, a profile behind the engagement opening is arranged so that it obscures the viewing in the interior of the cabinet furniture through the engagement opening.

This profile is formed from two interconnected or integrally formed parts and, according to the invention, has a first part and a second part connected or integrally formed therewith. The first part handles thereby a first, visible through the engagement opening visible surface. The second part has a second, visible through the engagement opening visible surface. The two visible surfaces are arranged relative to each other so that between them a shadow gap is formed.

The profile of the invention gives the cabinet furniture in the handle bar a completely new visual impression. By creating a shadow gap in this area, the grip strip area is provided with an additional optical depth, which has a lasting effect on the overall impression of the body furniture. According to an advantageous embodiment, at least one of the visible surfaces is planar or has at least one planar region. Of course, other forms such as rounding or radii are conceivable. Preferably, the shape of the visible surfaces is adapted to the shape of the rest of the body furniture.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is provided that both viewing surfaces are angled towards one another. In this way, a special optical depth can be generated in the profile. For this purpose, it can be provided, in particular, that the viewing surfaces, starting from the longitudinal edge of the profile, run obliquely toward the center of the profile and obliquely toward the rear of the body furniture. Thus, the greatest depth is reached in the middle of the profile and the viewer's gaze is directed by the oblique guidance of the visible surfaces in this deeper area in the direction of the shadow gap formed there.

According to a further particular embodiment of the present invention, it can be provided that the one viewing surface has a, in particular free, end section. This end portion may be formed so that its free narrow side faces the other visible surface. In this embodiment, therefore, the narrow side of the one visible surface runs on the other visible surface and forms in this way the shadow gap.

The education of the shadow gap has a whole set of further advantages. For example, the shadow gap be illuminated according to a particular embodiment of the present invention. This is preferably done from the rear, ie * t the bulb is not visible to the viewer from the outside itself. According to an advantageous embodiment of the present invention, provision is made for a lighting device, in particular an LED lighting device, to be arranged in a rear area of a visible surface opposite the engagement opening. Of course, other lighting means can be used. This Beleuchtungseinrichtxmg therefore ensures a discreet but indirect illumination of the shadow gap, which is perceived by the viewer from the outside as a light strip. A further preferred embodiment provides that the one viewing surface, viewed through the engagement opening, partially covers the view onto the other viewing surface. By means of this overlapping, for example, the invisible part of the one visible surface can be illuminated, for example, by the illumination device described above, so that the light generated thereby is reflected in this region from the hidden part of the visible surface into the joint between the two visible surfaces. Partial blanketing also makes it virtually impossible for the viewer to see from outside through the shadow gap into the interior of the carcass.

The possible applications of the profiles according to the invention are diverse, they can be processed at different locations of the cabinet furniture. This requires that parts For example, the profile can serve to form a stop for a furniture front. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is provided that the first part of the profile has a first profile limb bounding the profile to one side. This profile leg is preferably arranged perpendicular to the closed furniture front and can therefore serve as a lateral boundary of the profile according to the invention and be formed at this point as an extension of an intermediate wall or side cheek.

Likewise it can be provided that the second part of the profile has a second profile limb bounding the profile to one side.

As already mentioned, the mentioned profile legs can also serve to form a stop for the front part. For this purpose, it can preferably be provided that at least one profile leg has a stop profile on which a front part rests or can rest. Such a stop profile is preferably formed in the manner of a rubber lip or rubber seal or at least of a dense material, so when closing the furniture front the same spared on the one hand and on the other an unnecessary noise during closing is avoided.

As mentioned above, different applications of the profile according to the invention are conceivable, it can be provided according to a particular embodiment of the present invention that in the cabinet furniture according to the invention the profile terhalb a carcass shell, in particular an upper side, preferably a worktop, is arranged and extends with its main longitudinal extension direction parallel to the floor or to the top of the carcass furniture.

The profile may be fastened in different ways in this embodiment. A preferred variant is that the inner wall or inner walls of the carcass furniture has / have a recess in / to which the profile is received and supported. In the other variant, the profile can for example be easily placed on the body.

According to another use variant of the profile according to the invention can be provided that the carcass furniture has two spaced apart inner walls, between which the profile is inserted. These inner walls can also be the respective outer walls of two juxtaposed furniture body. The profile is preferably arranged at least partially between these two inner walls and at this point also preferably at least positively - fixed.

In another embodiment of the present invention can be provided that the profile is inserted into a space between an inner wall and a side cheek of the carcass furniture. Thus, the profile of the invention is also suitable for cabinet furniture with handles in the side wall. According to a preferred embodiment, in the two last-mentioned variants, the profile runs with its main extension direction perpendicular to the upper side of the body cabinet.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIGURES

The invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to the exemplary embodiments shown in FIGS. 1A to 3B.

Figure 1A - shows a perspective view of a

Part of a body furniture according to the invention according to a first embodiment,

FIG. 1B - shows a side view of the view from FIG. 1A,

Figure IC - shows a perspective view of one

Part of a body furniture according to the invention according to an alternative of the first embodiment,

FIG. 1D shows a side view of the view from FIG. 1B,

FIG. 2A shows a detail of a body cabinet according to the invention in a perspective view according to a second embodiment of the present invention,

FIG. 2B shows a plan view of the detail according to FIG. 2A,

FIG. 3A shows a detail of a body cabinet according to the invention according to a third embodiment of the present invention; tion form of the present invention in a perspective view,

FIG. 3B shows a plan view of the detail according to FIG. 3A.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

FIG. 1A shows a first embodiment of the present invention using the example of a kitchen appliance 1. On the top 4 is in the example shown, a worktop. The front of the cabinet furniture is closed to the interior with a front part 2. Between the countertop 4 and the front part 2, an engagement opening 5 is shown, the part of the furniture facing towards the inside is covered by a profile. In the example shown, this profile 60 rests on a corresponding recess 31 of the inner wall 30.

As can be seen in FIG. 1B, the profile 60 according to the invention is designed as a multi-part profile. It comprises a first part 60a and a second part 60b. The two parts 60a, 60b are connected to each other, this can be done by a detachable or permanent connection. Also, the two parts can be integrally formed This also applies to all in this description to be discussed embodiments.

In the example shown, the second part 60b to the drawing in the horizontally extending webs 66, 67, which with corresponding locking projections 64, 65 enter into a snap connection on the other part 60a. Of course, this connection must not be designed in the manner of a snap connection. Any other type of connection is also conceivable. At the front of the profile 60a, a visible surface 61 is arranged, which is visible to the viewer, who viewed the furniture 1 through the engagement opening 5. The visible surface 61 has a free end 62, which faces with its narrow side of the visible surface 63 of the other part 60b. Between the free end 62 and the visible surface 63, a gap 7 is formed, which is perceived in the absence of illumination in the interior of the furniture 1 from the outside as a shadow gap. Between the profile 60 and the engagement opening 5 an engagement space is formed, which is designed to go in the hand of a user. In the example shown, the front 2 is still formed on its narrow side region facing the engagement opening with an engaging portion 21 which the user can grasp to open the front, be it an extract or a flap.

Preferably, the two visible surfaces 61 and 63 extend at an angle to each other and tilt at an angle to the rear portion of the body cabinet. In this way, the viewing direction of the viewer is directed in the direction of the joint 7. Behind the one part 60a, a region 8 surrounded here by the walls 67, 68 and 69 and covered to the visible side by the end 62 can be provided. In this area 8 can be accommodated at a suitable location, for example, a lighting medium, which then the joint 7 of backlit. The illumination means may be provided, for example (but not exclusively), in the form of an LED strip which is advantageously applied to one of said walls 67, 68 or 69.

In the figures IC and ID, an alternative cabinet furniture of the first embodiment is shown. Here, instead of the upper side designed as a worktop, there is a body upper part 4, which may for example also have compartments and which is advantageously closed with a front 2. In this embodiment, all of the profile 60 relevant features are the same as above, only the inner wall 3 shown here extends over the entire height of the cabinet furniture and the profile 60 is embedded in a corresponding recess 31 and rests on it.

The second embodiment shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B relates, in particular, to cabinet furniture having a plurality of inner walls 3. In the example shown, the profile 60 according to the invention is introduced into the joint area between two inner walls 3 and thus prevents the region between the two inner walls 3 Insight can be taken. Again, there are the two parts 60a and 60b, which have the visible surfaces already described above in connection with the first embodiment.

This is shown in more detail in FIG. 2B. Again, a first visible surface 61 has a free end 62, which with its narrow side in the direction of the visible surface 63 of the other ren profile part 60b points. The two profile parts are in the example shown via form-locking elements 64 and 66 joined together and introduced between the inner walls 3. The attachment can be done in different ways, so the profile parts can be glued or screwed, for example, with the inner walls.

In front facing the fronts 2 towards the front part of the profile 60 according to the invention limbs are provided, on the one hand prevent the inspection of the interior of the adjoining the profile 60 body parts, on the other hand also form a stop for the furniture fronts 2 on both sides of the engagement opening 5. For this purpose, corresponding stop profiles 9 are preferably provided at the free end of the legs, which in the example shown in cross section have a cross-sectionally O-shaped lip. Preferably, the profiles 9 are elastic profiles made of rubber or a plastic.

The illustrated embodiment of the profile 60 according to the invention is therefore particularly suitable for use in the connection region between two furniture carcass or two inner walls. The visible surfaces 61 and 63 are employed in the example shown obliquely to each other and converge in the direction of the profile center, wherein they run starting from the front of the two profile legs starting obliquely backwards into the interior of the cabinet. In this way, the shadow gap 7 is moved backwards and it arises by the obliquely backward running visible surfaces 61 and 63 an additional depth effect. Of course, here in the area 8 behind the visible surface 61, a lighting means may be arranged again. For this purpose, reference is made to the above statements accordingly.

In the edge region of carcass furniture, a profile 60 according to the invention can also be used and also achieves a depth effect there. Here, in the example of FIGS. 3A and 3B, the profile 60 according to the invention is arranged in the region between an inner wall 3 and an outer side wall 17. Again, the two profile parts 60a and 60b are joined together via joining surfaces 64 and 66. For the individual mounting options, reference is also made to the above embodiments. In the example shown, the two visible surfaces 61 and 63, the free end 62 and the space 8 arranged behind the free end can again be seen, which in turn can also be illuminated with illumination means in this example. The profile part 60 a has a leg which can be provided in the manner already described above with a corresponding stop profile 9.

The three embodiments of the present invention, which are shown in Figures 1A to 3B, can also be combined quite well on a cabinet furniture.

Claims

1. cabinet furniture (1) with at least one access to an interior of the cabinet furniture, relative to the body of the cabinet furniture movably mounted front part (2) and, in particular, vertical to the floor arranged interior walls (3) or side walls (3) or at least one Sidewall (17), where

i) between the front part (2) and at least one side wall (17) or

ii) between the front part (2) and at least one further front part (2) or

iii) between the front part (2) and a, in particular designed as a work surface, an engagement opening (5) is formed, which serves to at least one front part (2) via one of its narrow sides with the hand of an operator engage behind and allow the front part (2) to make accessible by the front part (2) hidden inside area by moving the front part,

wherein the profile (60) is disposed behind the engagement opening (5) so as to obscure the view into the interior of the body cabinet (1) through the engagement opening (5),

characterized,

the profile (60) has a first part (60a) and a second part (60b) connected thereto or integrally, wherein the first part (60a) has a first one visible through the engagement opening (5) Visible surface (61) and the second part (60b) has a second visible through the Bingrifföffnung (5) visible surface (63), wherein the two visible surfaces (61, 63) are arranged relative to each other so that between them a shadow gap (7) is trained.

2. cabinet furniture (1) according to claim 1,

characterized,

in that at least one of the visible surfaces (61, 63) is flat or has a flat area.

3. Cabinet furniture (1) one of the previous claims,

characterized,

that both visible surfaces (61, 63) are angled to each other.

4. cabinet furniture (1) according to claim 3,

characterized,

that the visible surfaces (61, 63), starting from the longitudinal edge of the profile, extend obliquely towards the center of the profile (60) and obliquely toward the rear side of the body furniture (1).

5. cabinet furniture (1) according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized,

in that the one visible surface (61) has an end section (62).

6. Carcass furniture (1) according to claim 5,

characterized, in that the free narrow side of the end section (62) faces the one visible surface (61) of the other visible surface (63).

7. cabinet furniture (1) according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized,

a lighting device, in particular an LED lighting device, is arranged in a rear area of a visible surface (61) opposite the engagement opening (5).

8. carcass furniture (1) according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized,

in that one viewing surface (61), viewed through the engagement opening (5), partially covers the view onto the other viewing surface (63).

9. cabinet furniture (1) according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized,

in that the first part (60a) of the profile (60) has a first profile limb bounding the profile to one side.

10. cabinet furniture (1) according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized,

in that the second part (60b) of the profile (60) has a second profile limb bounding the profile (60) to one side.

11. carcass furniture (1) according to any one of claims 9 or 10, characterized

in that at least one profile limb has a stop profile (9) against which a front part (2) rests or can rest.

12. cabinet furniture (1) according to one of the preceding claims,

characterized,

the profile (60) is arranged below a body upper part (4), in particular an upper side (4), preferably a worktop, and runs with its main longitudinal extension direction parallel to the bottom or top of the upper part of the body (4).

13. carcass furniture (1) according to claim 12,

characterized,

in that its inner wall or inner walls (3) have / have a recess (31) in which the profile (60) is received and supported.

14. carcass furniture (1) according to one of claims 1 to 10,

characterized,

that it has two spaced apart inner walls (3), between which the profile (60) is inserted.

15. carcass furniture (1) according to one of claims 1 to 10,

characterized,

the profile (60) is inserted in a space between an inner wall (3) and a side wall (17) of the body cabinet (1).

16. carcass furniture (1) according to claim 14 or 15,

characterized,

that the profile (60) runs with its main longitudinal direction perpendicular to the top (4).