ES1057921U - Zocalo for kitchen furniture, bathroom and the like. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Socket for kitchen, bathroom and similar furniture, of the type that form a rectangular band of indefinite length designed to be fixed to the legs of the furniture modules and to be established between the lower base of the latter and the floor, characterized because the socket itself is materialized in a metal sheet, preferably made of stainless steel, which adopts a fluted configuration, with a "U" section, with its concavity oriented towards its rear face and with its lateral branches bent orthogonally inwards, determining a guide for sliding a plurality of runners, numerically coinciding with the legs of the line of furniture to which the base is to be fixed, skates of prismatic-rectangular configuration, of height in accordance with that of the middle branch of the profile constituting the socket properly said, and freely moveable along the guide defined by the latter, being solidarity to each of said skates a pinzaelºstica, of any conventional type, for its attachment to the corresponding leg. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Skirting board for kitchen, bathroom and Similar.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a socket, of those used in modular furniture, such as furniture from kitchen, bathrooms and similar, intended to be established between the base bottom of the module and ground alignment, hiding the legs of these modules and improving the aesthetics of the set.

The object of the invention is to achieve a socket that allows an easy and fast fixation of the same to those mentioned module legs, whatever the relative positioning of these last.

Background of the invention

In the field of furniture, such as in that of kitchen furniture, prismatic modules are used, of different dimensions, each of which rests on the floor with the collaboration of four legs, usually in length adjustable for perfect settlement and stabilization of the module.

The furniture line is topped with a socket bottom, materialized in a panel of width coinciding with the distance between the lower base of the furniture modules and the floor, which hides the mentioned legs, as well as the space defined under the modules, panel that should be conveniently fixed in working position.

The fixing of this panel must have a character removable, both for periodic cleaning of the space located between the modules and the floor to use this space, eventually, in the storage of small objects that are not of everyday use

In practice this fixation is carried out with the collaboration of elastic clamps that, duly in solidarity to the rear face of the panel, they are coupled frontally and under pressure to the legs of the modules, allowing the disassembly of the socket by simple front wheel drive on it.

This solution, perfectly valid from the theoretical point of view, presents in practice problems important assembly, since the distance between the legs of the furniture modules is not constant, and consequently each elastic clamp must be attached to the face back of the board at a very specific point, fixing that it is usually carried out by means of screws, so that a error in the assembly of any of these clamps causes the face the socket to the furniture line, the clamp corresponding does not face the corresponding one leg, so the fixation is defective or impossible.

On the other hand, there is a tendency to stainless steel participation in this type of furniture, of so that when the socket is intended to materialize in a sheet metal the problem described above is accentuated, due to the difficulty of fixing said elastic clamps to a metallic element

Description of the invention

The socket that the invention proposes belonging to the second group of those mentioned above, that is to say to the group of those that materialize in a metal sheet, such as a stainless steel, aluminum or similar sheet, solves shape the problem described above is fully satisfactory, allowing an extremely fast and simple assembly of the socket, with an easy adaptation of its fixing and positioning clamps relative between the legs of the furniture modules.

For this and in a more concrete way, said socket is it materializes in a corrugated profile, of indefinite length, with a "U" section and with its lateral branches provided with internal orthogonal, symmetrical couplings, determining a strangulated mouth groove, intended to constitute the inner face of the socket, so that these marginal folds and longitudinal thereof stiffen very considerably the constitutive plate of the socket.

The aforementioned profile is complemented by a series of prismatic-rectangular skates, which optionally they can be materialized in a rectangular market tube, the length of said skates coinciding with the distance between the lateral branches of the "U" profile mentioned above, while its thickness is adapted to the distance between the branch middle of the grooved profile and the strangulated mouth of it, so that said profile constitutes, in addition to the socket proper, a guide that allows displacement longitudinal and free of said skates.

Complementarily each of the aforementioned skates incorporates in its center a hole for fixing, by screwing, riveting or by any other means, of a clamp similar to those commonly used for the same purpose of make the fixation to the furniture legs.

According to this structuring, it is only it is necessary to mount on the longitudinal profile as many skates as furniture line legs should receive the socket, and move on said profile the mentioned skates until they are faced to the respective legs, so that any small error in this situation of confrontation between tweezers and legs is corrected automatically by sliding the skate to the position of correct confrontation with the complementary leg.

It only remains to point out finally that the special configuration of the longitudinal profile allows to carry out in its branches lateral miter cuts or with any other angle that allow in turn establish in the socket straight couplings or with any other angulation, without the front face of the socket lose your continuity

Obviously, when it is a layered socket, all the clamps that participate in it must be oriented in the same direction to allow its assembly, for which purpose it has been planned the existence of profile skates in "L", so that through one of its branches are coupled to the corresponding guide profile, while on its other branch the clamp, this last branch being significantly shorter than the first, so that it does not interfere with the coupling of the skate to socket, and said skateboard being reversible so that it can be placed interchangeably to work left or to right.

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being made and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical implementation thereof, a set of drawings is attached as an integral part of said description. for illustrative purposes and not limitation, what
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Figure 1.- Shows a profile of the base piece constitutive of the socket itself, in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2.- Shows a front elevation, a profile and a floor of one of the skates intended to move on the guide constituted by the profile of the previous figure.

Figure 3.- Shows three views similar to those of figure 2 corresponding to the complementary skate clamp of the previous figure.

Figure 4.- Shows, according to a representation schematic in perspective, the set of the previous figures properly mounted.

Figure 5.- Shows some of the possibilities of angulation of the socket of the invention, maintaining a single piece character for the socket itself.

Figure 6.- Shows a detail in perspective of a special skate for lateral fixing of the plinth to the furniture.

Figure 7.- Shows, finally, a schematic representation in plan of a path socket in "U", intended to be adapted simultaneously to the face front and two side faces of a module or group of furniture modules.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

In view of the figures outlined you can be observed as in the socket that the invention proposes participates as a fundamental component or socket itself, a piece longitudinal (1), of constant profile, materialized in a sheet of steel or other similar metallic material, with a configuration general "U" strangulated mouth, whose middle branch (1) it has a width (in height mounting situation), variable, according to the expected distance between the module line of furniture and the floor, and whose lateral branches (2) are finished off in internal orthogonal couplings (3) that determine the aforementioned strangulation in its mouth and that turn the profile (1) into a kind of guide, oriented backwards, that is to say towards legs of the furniture modules, for which they are sliding a plurality of skates (4), materialized each of them in a prismatic-rectangular body, wide coinciding with the bottom of the groove defined by the guide or profile (1), and which in practice can materialize in a tube market, cut to the length defined by the distance between the lateral branches (2) of the profile (1).

Each skate (4) centrally incorporates a hole (5) provided for fixing said skate (4) of a elastic clamp (6), endowed in its middle branch with a hole (7) intended to face said hole (5), for fixing both elements, skate and clamp, with the collaboration of a rivet or by any other means deemed convenient.

The clamp (6) can also be metallic or plastic nature, and in any case its lateral branches will be elastically deformable so that its strangulated mouth (8), of smaller width than the diameter of the legs of the modules furniture, force said clamp to deform elastically during the coupling maneuver and determine that said clamp remains stably fixed to the leg, conventionally.

It is achieved in this way that the different skates (4) corresponding to the respective legs of the line furniture, can move freely along the guide defined by the socket itself (1), which facilitates the assembly of the latter is very considerable, while the fastening means of the clamps to the socket itself affects the aesthetics of the latter at all, that is to say your face front or exterior, as there are no welding points or others mechanical fixing means.

The special structuring and configuration of profile (1) constituting the socket itself, allows make in its lateral branches cuts (9) at 45 ° or with any another angulation, as shown in Figure 5, so that said profile (1) can be folded by its middle branch (1) and so that the socket form straight or obtuse couplings, as well as shows said figure 5.

Specifically for cases like the one represented in Figure 7, in which the longitudinal piece (1) or socket proper is finished off by its ends and after two orthogonal couplings in respective end sections (1 '), with the skates (4) located on its front branch (1) collaborate special skates (4 '), as shown in detail in the figure 6, who adopt an "L" profile, so that through their branch corresponding to said reference (4 ') are sliding by the corresponding guide or profile (1 ') constituting the socket proper, while its other branch (10), perpendicular to the previous one, shorter than her and duly attached to it, is which constitutes the direct support for the elastic clamp (6), which is thus oriented in the same direction as the tweezers elastic (6) of the front branch (1) of the socket, as follows from the observation in figure 7.

In this way and despite the location of the different clamps (6) on different planes, the same orientation at the mouth of them allows the socket in its set is coupled to the legs of the furniture in a simple frontal approach maneuver.

Obviously in the case that the front branch of the socket form with its lateral branches an angle different from that of 90 °, as for example in the case shown at the bottom of the Figure 5, the two branches (4'-10) of the skate will form in turn an angle other than 90 °, appropriate for the mouths of the tweezers (6) are all oriented in the same sense.

Claims (4)

1. Socket for kitchen, bathroom and similar furniture, of the type that make up a rectangular band of indefinite length intended to be fixed to the legs of the furniture modules and to be established between the lower base of the latter and the floor, characterized because the socket itself is embodied in a metal sheet, preferably stainless steel, which adopts a ribbed configuration, with a "U" section, with its concavity oriented towards its rear face and with its lateral branches angled orthogonally inwards, determining a guide for sliding of a plurality of skates, numerically coinciding with the legs of the furniture line to which the base is to be fixed, skates of prismatic-rectangular configuration, of height consistent with that of the middle branch of the constituent profile of the socket itself said, and freely scrollable along the guide defined by the latter, being in solidarity with each of December hos skates an elastic clamp, of any conventional type, for coupling to the corresponding leg. 2. Skirting board for kitchen, bathroom and similar furniture, according to claim 1, characterized in that each skate is materialized in a metal tube, of rectangular and market section, provided at its midpoint with a hole for fixing the complementary clamp, by riveting, screwing or by any other conventional means. 3. Socket for kitchen, bathroom and similar furniture, according to previous claims, characterized in that each clamp is materialized in a piece of injected plastic, or in a properly stamped metal and elastic sheet, of dimensions appropriate to the diameter of the furniture legs. 4. Socket for kitchen, bathroom and similar furniture, according to previous claims, characterized in that special skates, "L" configuration, participate in it, so that the corresponding guide or constituent profile is coupled through one of its branches of the socket itself, while the other clamp is fixed to its other branch, so that all the participating clamps in the socket, both those of its frontal and middle branch and that of its branch or lateral branches, have their mouthpieces oriented in the same sense.