EP4088877A1 - Réservoir destiné à contenir des fluides et armoire accouplée audit réservoir - Google Patents

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EP4088877A1
EP4088877A1 EP22162854.8A EP22162854A EP4088877A1 EP 4088877 A1 EP4088877 A1 EP 4088877A1 EP 22162854 A EP22162854 A EP 22162854A EP 4088877 A1 EP4088877 A1 EP 4088877A1
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Luca Milani
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25H—WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT, e.g. FOR MARKING-OUT WORK; STORAGE MEANS FOR WORKSHOPS
    • B25H3/00—Storage means or arrangements for workshops facilitating access to, or handling of, work tools or instruments
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25H—WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT, e.g. FOR MARKING-OUT WORK; STORAGE MEANS FOR WORKSHOPS
    • B25H3/00—Storage means or arrangements for workshops facilitating access to, or handling of, work tools or instruments
    • B25H3/06—Trays
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B81/00—Cabinets or racks specially adapted for other particular purposes, e.g. for storing guns or skis

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  • the object of the present invention is a tank for containing fluids, known here also as liquids, and a cabinet coupled with said tank.
  • each cabinet has a parallelepiped shape of variable height, width and depth, and has an opening on one side to permit an access area for picking up or unloading the objects or the materials contained therein.
  • the open side is generally provided with a closing element that in some cases can be defined by a gate wall, or a pair of sliding wings or also a pair of hinged wings.
  • the closing element is provided for protecting the content stowed inside the cabinet from dust, sunlight, humidity or preventing the access of unauthorized persons.
  • a cabinet may be originally purchased to contain work tools and over time may be intended to contain bags of paint or another fluid material that is always used in daily work or hobbies.
  • the manufacturer can thus intervene on the newly manufactured cabinets designed for this purpose, but he cannot intervene on those already sold that are not provided internally with containing tanks or shelves.
  • a user who has purchased, even recently, a cabinet provided with suitable openings to enable an electric supply wire to be connected inside the cabinet in order to take electric energy to tools stowed inside the cabinet cannot, unless he decides to ignore the aforesaid standards, change the intended use of the cabinet and store therein paint containers (after duly removing the wired tools).
  • the paints, not remaining inside the cabinet would tend to exit therefrom with heavy consequences of pollution for the environment surrounding the cabinet or hazard to the safety of the persons operating near the affected area.
  • the user has two possibilities: either storing the paints in another place that protects the environment from possible risks of contamination or changing the preceding cabinet for a new one that can avoid or limit this hazard.
  • cabinets for general use on the market are structural steel cabinets or cabinets originating from plastic moulding processes that by the nature of the manufacturing process and the use thereof do not require manufacturing tolerances that are able to define a liquid-tight chamber inside the cabinet.
  • the technical task of the present invention is thus to make available a tank for containing liquids and a cabinet provided with said tank that are able to overcome the prior-art drawbacks which have emerged.
  • One object of the present invention is thus to provide a tank and relative cabinet that in the event of an accidental exit of liquids can prevent the spread of the liquids by containing the liquids inside the volume subtended by the tank.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a tank that can be adaptable to pre-existing cabinets and permits coupling with pre-existing cabinets, avoiding the need to have to replace the cabinet.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a tank and corresponding cabinet that, in the event of containing liquids that have accidentally leaked from the cabinet, is easy to empty and/or to maintain.
  • the specified technical task and specified objects are substantially achieved by a liquids tank and cabinet coupled with said tank comprising the technical features disclosed in one or more of the appended claims. Further characteristics and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the indicative and thus non-limiting description of an embodiment of a tank for containing liquids and of a cabinet coupled with said tank.
  • 1 indicates overall a tank for containing liquids and 100 indicates a cabinet that is couplable with said tank 1.
  • the cabinet 100 is preferably made of metal or alternatively of plastics.
  • the cabinet 100 is defined by a pair of flanks 101, each preferably sheet-like and of rectangular shape, which are parallel to one another and define the width of the cabinet 100. Behind the pair of flanks 101 it is connected to a back 102, which is also preferably sheet-like and of rectangular shape, defining the capacity depth of the cabinet 100. The pair of flanks 101 is then connected above to a top 103 and to a bottom 104, which together with the back 102 and with the flanks 101 define a box structure 105 of the cabinet 100, in the form of a parallelepiped open on one side 106.
  • the open side 106 is inspectable, to access the inside of the cabinet 100, through a pair of wings 107 that promote opening and closing of the open side 106.
  • the pair of wings 107 is coupled with the pair of flanks 101, preferably by hinge coupling, thus making what is defined in the industry as a hinged door.
  • the open side 106 of the cabinet 100 can be opened and closed with any alternative means to the hinged door like, for example, a gate wall or a pair of sliding wings.
  • the tank 1 is defined by a box body 2. Said box body defines a containment volume V for containing possible liquids that could accidentally escape from the cabinet 100.
  • the box body 2 is in turn defined by a base 3 from which a plurality of peripheral walls defining a closed boundary extend.
  • a pair of lateral walls 4 that are parallel to one another extend away from the base 3.
  • the pair of lateral walls 4 is joined on a front side to a front wall 5 and on a rear side to a rear wall 6.
  • the front wall 5, rear wall 6 and the pair of lateral walls 4 define in plan a rectangular contour, most cabinets having a preferably rectangular shape in plan.
  • the tank 1 can have in plan any geometric shape provided that the condition is respected according to which the vertical walls define a closed boundary.
  • the front wall 5 ends with a fold 7.
  • the fold 7 defines an acute angle ⁇ preferably comprised between 10 and 80 degrees with respect to the front wall 5 from which it extends. In substance, the fold 7 is angled relative to the front wall 5.
  • the fold 7 faces the rear wall 6 and when the tank 1 is coupled with the cabinet 100 it faces the pair of wings 107.
  • the direction of extension of the fold 7 is substantially oblique and extends from the front wall 5 to the base 3.
  • the fold 7 acts as a conveying slide for conveying liquids that exit from the cabinet 100 so that in the event of an accidental escape (for example below the pair of wings 107), the liquids are conveyed inside the tank 1.
  • the latter subtends a plane K-K that is substantially oblique to a plane X-X, which is substantially horizontal, and subtended by the base 3.
  • the extension of the aforesaid oblique plane K-K is incident on the plane X-X.
  • the fold 7 has a planar shape without interruptions of the continuity. It is understood that, without departing from the scope of protection of the present invention, the fold 7 can have a comb conformation or be defined by shelf portions that are tilted and interrupted with empty portions.
  • the fold 7 ends with an end edge 8 that in association with the pair of wings 107 and with the structure of the cabinet 100, when the tank 1 is associated with cabinet 100, defines a slit 9 for the passage of liquids exiting from the cabinet 100.
  • Said at least one hole 10 has a triple function: it can act as an "overflow" alert if the cabinet was left unattended for a long time; it can enable the inside of the tank 1 to be inspected and if it is suitably coupled with suitable vacuum means it enables the liquids accumulated in the tank 1 to be emptied from the containment volume V.
  • Each lateral wall 4 has an edge of the fold 11 that is folded inside the containment volume V.
  • a first edge of the fold 11 is folded inside the tank 1 and faces reciprocally.
  • the pair of edges subtends an inner distance defining a spacing for centring the cabinet 100 inside the tank 1.
  • each fold 11 can abut against a respective flank 101 that the fold 11 faces.
  • Each fold 11, in the extension thereof along the lateral wall 4 that goes from the rear wall 6 to the front wall 5, has an interruption of the continuity that defines a window 12 that also has the function of facilitating the construction of the tank 1.
  • Said interruption of the continuity generating the window 12 is located near the end edge 8.
  • a hole can be present, which is not illustrated in the attached figures, which is closable by a discharge cap for facilitating the operations of emptying the tank 1.
  • the tank 1 further comprises a spacing body 13 placed on the base 3.
  • Said spacing body 13 can be solidly constrained to and integrated with the base 3 or removable from the latter.
  • Said spacing body 13 is preferably defined by a parallelepiped located with an orientation that is parallel to one of the lateral walls 4.
  • the tank 1 can contain two spacing bodies 13, each located near a respective lateral wall 4.
  • Said spacing body 13 when the cabinet 100 is coupled with the tank 1, enables the cabinet 100, and more precisely, the bottom wall 104, to be maintained raised from the base 3 of the tank 1 so that the cabinet 100 does not occupy a good part of the containment volume V inside the tank 1.
  • the cabinet 100 has a passage hole 110 at the back 102.
  • the passage hole 110 can be used to place inside the cabinet 100 an electric wire connected outside to an electric network to supply if necessary electronic devices stowed, at rest inside the cabinet.
  • the box structure 105 defined by the coupling of the walls of the cabinet 100, is not liquid-tight.
  • the pair of wings 107 defines below a lower slit 108 located above the bottom wall 104 and at the lower region of the pair of wings 107.
  • the pair of wings 107 defines a lateral slit 109 with the respective flank 101 with which the wing 107 is coupled.
  • the pair of wings 107 defines at opposite ends a pair of lateral slits 109 that are each contiguous with a respective flank 101.
  • the aforesaid slits perform the (undesired) function of exit routes for the liquids from the cabinet.
  • the liquids exiting from the aforesaid slit can overflow frontally from the cabinet 100 and knocking the fold 7, be conveyed, passing through the slit 9 inside the tank 1.
  • the fold 7 faces the pair of wings 107 when the cabinet 100 is coupled with the tank 1.
  • the pair of wings 107 defines one side of the slit 9 and the end edge 8 of the fold 7 defines the other side of the slit 9.
  • the liquids exiting from the aforesaid slits can overflow laterally from the cabinet 100 and be conveyed inside the tank 1, through the pair of windows 12 obtained from the respective interruptions to the fold edges 11 and between the cabinet and the edge of the fold 11.
  • the rear wall 6 is a protection against a possible accidental escape of liquid from the passage hole 110.
  • the rear wall 6 has a height extension, that is away from the base 3 of the tank 1, so as to cover the passage hole 110 entirely.
  • the wall 6 would convey the liquid by channelling the liquid between the wall 6 and back 102, inside the tank 1.
  • the present invention is able to overcome the drawbacks which have emerged from the prior art.
  • the tank 1 enables the liquids to be collected that may accidentally exit from the cabinet 100 and the environment to be thus safeguarded from possible environmental contaminations and the workplace to be kept safe (for example by preventing slips on oil spilt on the floor).
  • the conformation of the tank 1 enables the tank 1 to be applied to existing cabinets 100, once the correct distance between the fold edges 11 is defined or once the tank 1 and the spacing body 13 have been suitably sized, that is able to receive internally the spacing subtended between the pair of flanks, without the need to change the cabinet itself.
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US4408642A (en) * 1981-06-01 1983-10-11 Jeruzal Thomas M Portable workbench
US5782368A (en) * 1996-10-04 1998-07-21 Roberge; Gaetan Rack for receiving objects delivering liquids and dirts
US5795043A (en) * 1996-11-01 1998-08-18 The Protectoseal Company Corrosion-resistant storage cabinet
US5924921A (en) * 1997-11-26 1999-07-20 Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation Apparatus for storing volatile chemicals
WO2001031269A1 (fr) * 1999-10-28 2001-05-03 Yoo-Pyung Corporation Contenant pour effets personnels de type armoire/ applique murale necessitant une basse temperature
US20130222143A1 (en) * 2012-02-29 2013-08-29 Santiago J. Martinez Shelf arrangement for fluid drainage
WO2020055640A2 (fr) * 2018-09-07 2020-03-19 Apex Brands, Inc. Armoire pour site de travail, résistant aux flammes

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4408642A (en) * 1981-06-01 1983-10-11 Jeruzal Thomas M Portable workbench
US5782368A (en) * 1996-10-04 1998-07-21 Roberge; Gaetan Rack for receiving objects delivering liquids and dirts
US5795043A (en) * 1996-11-01 1998-08-18 The Protectoseal Company Corrosion-resistant storage cabinet
US5924921A (en) * 1997-11-26 1999-07-20 Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation Apparatus for storing volatile chemicals
WO2001031269A1 (fr) * 1999-10-28 2001-05-03 Yoo-Pyung Corporation Contenant pour effets personnels de type armoire/ applique murale necessitant une basse temperature
US20130222143A1 (en) * 2012-02-29 2013-08-29 Santiago J. Martinez Shelf arrangement for fluid drainage
WO2020055640A2 (fr) * 2018-09-07 2020-03-19 Apex Brands, Inc. Armoire pour site de travail, résistant aux flammes

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