ES2644531T3 - Anchoring device for panels - Google Patents

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DESCRIPTION

Anchoring device for panels

The present invention relates to an adjustable anchoring device for wall mounting of cover panels.

A further object of the present invention relates to a cover panel equipped with at least one adjustable anchoring device in accordance with the present invention.

These adjustable anchoring devices are typically used for wall mounting of wood paneling panels, for example for wood paneling or the like, which are hung parallel to the wall, vertically.

Once these panels, supported by the aforementioned adjustable anchoring devices, have been prepared, they must be correctly positioned (making them coincide in position), and this leads to the need to make use of a fine regulation and an anchor.

Devices such as those described, for example, in European patent application EP2199488 in the name of LEO-NARDO S.r.l. They have been designed to carry out the regulations of the panels.

This device has a possibility of vertical regulation, which can be obtained with a screw that moves a slide allowing so! the vertical movement of the panel to which the device is attached.

Although this type of regulation is effective, it has limits, however, when the panel is mounted on walls that are not perfectly vertical and / or when adjacent panels must be aligned, which may have to be arranged in non-straight or aligned portions of the same wall.

Other devices are also known, somehow similar, that allow a plurality of regulations, but which can only be used in the case of wall cabinets intended to be hung on a wall.

These devices cannot in fact be used with panels intended to be visibly mounted on walls, as in the case, for example, of panels intended for the production of wood paneling.

What has been specified above derives mainly from the fact that these devices, mounted between the rear panel of the wall cabinet and the wall, can only be adjusted by having access to the adjustment screws through an access opening (for insert a screwdriver or wrench) that must be available for this purpose in the back panel (or lining) of the wall cabinet.

The presence of this opening is only acceptable in the case of a wall cabinet, since when it is closed it is not visible, but it is unacceptable in all cases in which the panel is to be visibly mounted on the wall in order of not endangering the final result.

In addition, these devices are manufactured to be anchored on the side flanges of the wall cabinets, since the coating of the latter is not thick enough to support the weight of the wall cabinet itself; these devices are consequently shaped so that they are placed in contact with the flange of the wall cabinet and discharge the load on the latter.

Therefore, these devices are not suitable in the case of panels that must be visibly hung on a wall, substantially parallel to the wall itself.

According to EP707815 A2, an adjustable anchoring device comprising a panel anchoring plate and a coupling for anchoring to a wall is also known, a slide that slides linearly with respect to the said plate in a first direction, the coupling being associated at least partially with the slide and being removable with respect to the latter in a second direction, substantially perpendicular with respect to the first direction.

The present invention proposes to solve these and other drawbacks by providing an adjustable anchoring device for wall mounting of a cover panel that can be fixed directly to the panel, without having to drill the latter in the front.

This objective is achieved by an adjustable anchoring device for wall mounting of cover panels produced in accordance with the first of the appended claims.

Other advantageous features are the subject of the accompanying dependent claims, which should be considered as an integral part of the present specification.

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The idea as a basis for the present invention is to provide an adjustable anchoring device for wall mounting of cover panels that has the possibility of being regulated according to various directions, without having to pierce the front part of the panel to access The regulatory bodies.

In this way, it is advantageously possible to regulate the panel in an extremely versatile manner, since a plurality of adjacent panels can be easily positioned and aligned.

To realize this idea, the device object of the present invention advantageously comprises a plate intended to be fixed to the panel that must be fixed to the wall and a first slide that can be moved linearly with respect to the plate to regulate the vertical position of the panel; said first slide in turn comprises means for regulating the position of the coupling of the device.

The movements of the first slide and the horizontal adjustment means of the panel are advantageously obtained by means of adjustment screws with an axis parallel to each other and parallel to the panel when mounted on a wall, so that the position of the panel It can be regulated, both vertically and horizontally, acting on the same side of the device, without the need for front holes in the panel.

Other features and additional advantages will be more apparent from some examples of realization of the invention with reference to the attached figures, in which:

- Figure 1 is an exploded view of an embodiment of a device according to the present invention;

- Figure 2 is a sectional view of part of the device of Figure 6;

- figure 3 is a perspective view of the device of figure 1;

- Figure 4 is a sectional view of the device of Figures 1 to 3 in an assembled condition;

- Figure 5 is a perspective view of the device of Figures 1 to 4 in a condition mounted on

a panel;

In the description that follows, the adjustable anchoring device of the present invention will be described.

With reference to all the attached figures, the examples of the device 1B presented in the present specification and in the following have the characteristic of comprising an anchor plate 2B to a panel P and a coupling 12B for fixing to a wall M.

Each device 1B also comprises a slider 5B that slides linearly with respect to the plate 2B in a first direction F, while the coupling 12B is at least partially associated with the slider 5B and can be moved relative thereto in at least one second direction F1 substantially perpendicular with respect to the first direction.

In this way, a regulation of the panel P is obtained according to two directions F, F1 perpendicular to each other, specifically vertical (in height) and horizontal (in depth), overcoming the drawbacks of the known technique that has been described more above. In general, each plate 2B of the example described in detail herein and in the following comprises fixing holes 3B for fixing to a panel P and sliding rails 8B; each slide 5B comprises sliding glides 11B intended to cooperate with the respective rails 8B to guide the sliding of the slide 5B in the first direction, preferably in a vertical direction in a mounted condition, this direction being substantially perpendicular to the axis of the holes of fixing 3B.

Again generically speaking, the various examples of the device 1B comprise adjustment means for controlling the sliding of the respective slide 5B with respect to the plate 2B and these means preferably comprise: a threaded seat 9B located on said slide 5B, a corresponding fin 6B integral with the plate 2B that extends perpendicularly to the rails 8B and a regulating bolt 10B that cooperates with the corresponding fin 6B and with the threaded seat 9B to effect the sliding of said slide 5B in the first direction.

In all the examples that have been explained, each device 1B comprises activation means for controlling the movement of the coupling 12B in the second direction; These activation means generally comprise a drive bolt 13B housed at least partially in the slide 5B and arranged parallel to the regulating bolt 10B.

In this way, the horizontal and vertical movement of the panel can be advantageously regulated by acting only on one side, and without having to create additional visible holes in the panel itself.

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As can be seen, the exemplary embodiments have the same characteristic that the coupling is a linearly movable hook 1 2b along the second direction only, after activation of the drive bolt 13B.

An example of device 1B is shown in Figures 1 to 5.

It comprises a 2B plate equipped with 3B fixing holes.

The holes 3B are intended to receive screws 4B that can be seen in Figure 5, for fixing to panel P.

The plate 2B comprises a corresponding fin 6B and an opening 7B whose opposite side edges 8B form the sliding rails of the slide 5B, which can be moved linearly along said rails 8B thanks to the glues 11B located on the sides of the 5B slide.

The slide 5B comprises a threaded seat 9B for the means for adjusting the position of the slide 5B, which in this example again comprises a bolt 10B, the axis of the threaded seat 9B being perpendicular to the corresponding fin 6B and parallel to the rails 8B and the glues 11B.

The vertical adjustment is carried out as follows: in summary, the bolt 10B cooperates with the threaded seat 9B and with the corresponding fin 6B to cause the movement of the slide 5B with respect to the plate 2B; a unscrewing or screwing of the bolt 10B causes a movement of the slide 5B with respect to the plate 2B and finally a vertical movement of the panel P when the device 1B is in an assembled state, as shown in Figure 4.

The actuation means of the coupling to the wall M comprise the hook 12B which cooperates with the T-bar fixed to the wall with pins or similar elements.

The hook 12B can be moved with respect to the plate 2B in a direction perpendicular to the movement of the slide 5B, thus obtaining! the desired horizontal and vertical regulations.

The hook 12B is coupled only to the slide 5B and the drive means in this case comprise an adjustable elbow mechanism.

The latter in turn comprises the levers 15B, two ratchets 14B and the relative pins.

The ratchets 14B have threaded holes 23B that cooperate with the drive bolt 13B housed, like all the components of the drive means, in the slide 5B, which is provided with suitable seats for this purpose.

The hook 12B is connected to the levers 15B, which are attached thereto and paired with the ratchets 14B, whose threaded holes 23B are applied to the drive bolt 13B.

In this way, the rotation of the bolt 13B moves the ratchets 14B closer and further, causing the levers 15B to tilt and determining a consequent horizontal movement of the hook 1 2b according to F1.

Also in this case, the threaded seat 9B and that of the drive bolt 13B are arranged parallel to the slide 5B, with advantages. In the solution presented so far there are other optional features such as, for example, holes for the passage of tools intended to operate bolts 10B and 13B or the like.

Other variants or equivalent modifications are also possible, all of which are included in the scope of the present invention as defined in the claims. Therefore, the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims.

Claims (4)

5 10 fifteen twenty 25 30 1. An adjustable anchoring device (1B) for wall mounting (M) of cover panels (P), comprising an anchor plate (2B) to a panel (P) and a coupling (12B) for anchoring to a wall (M), said device (1B) comprising a slide (5B) that slides linearly with respect to said plate (2B) in a first direction, said coupling (12B) being associated at least partially with the said slide (5B) and being removable with respect thereto in at least a second direction, substantially perpendicular to said first direction; drive means (13B, 14b, 15B) suitable for controlling said movement of said coupling (12B) in said second direction; said actuation means comprising a drive bolt (13B) housed at least partially in said slide (5B), said drive bolt (13B) being arranged parallel to said regulation bolt (10B); said coupling being a hook (12B) linearly movable only along said second direction, after an activation of said actuation bolt (13B), said device is characterized in that said actuation means further comprise an adjustable mechanism elbow, comprising levers (15B) articulated to both ratchets (14B) with threaded holes (23B) and to said hook (12B), said ratchets (14B) being applied in said actuation bolt (13B), in order to move said hook (12B) in said second direction after the rotation of said drive bolt (13B). 2. The device (1B) according to claim 1, characterized in that said plate (2B) comprises fixing holes (3B) for fixing to a panel (P) and sliding rails (8B), and in the that said slide (5B) comprises sliding glues (11B), said rails (8B) and said glues (11B) being suitable to cooperate with each other to guide the sliding of said slide (5B) in at least the said first direction, said first direction being substantially perpendicular to the axis of said fixing holes (3B). 3. The device (1B) according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises adjustment means (6B, 9B, 10B) suitable for controlling the sliding of said slide (5B) with respect to said plate ( 2B). 4. The device (1B) according to claim 2 or 3, characterized in that said regulation means comprise: a threaded seat (9B) produced in said slide (5B), a corresponding fin (6B) integral with said plate (2B) that extends perpendicularly to said rails (8B) and a regulation bolt (10B) that cooperates with said corresponding fin (6B) and with said threaded seat (9B) to make the slide of said slide (5B) in said first direction.