FR2515493A1 - MODULAR ELEMENT FOR FURNITURE AND FURNITURE COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE SUCH ELEMENT - Google Patents

Abstract

THE INVENTION CONCERNS THE FURNITURE INDUSTRY. IT IS A MODULAR ELEMENT FOR FURNITURE, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT IT IS CONSTITUTED BY A FLAT QUADRILATERAL FRAME 1 OF WHICH AT LEAST TWO OF THE OPPOSING SIDES ARE PROVIDED EACH OF AT LEAST ONE MORTISE 2 ENDING ON THE MAIN FACES OF FRAME 1 AND WITH A DRILLING 3 ORTHOGONALLY CROSSING THE CORRESPONDING MORTISE (S) 2. THE INVENTION FINDS ITS APPLICATION IN THE MAKING OF FURNITURE.

Description

Modular element for furniture and furniture including at least

such an element.

  The invention relates to the furniture industry and more particularly to the manufacture of KITS furniture sold as spare parts to the user and assembled by the latter.

without special knowledge.

  We already know many furniture marketed in kits Unfortunately the component parts of each of them are specific to a piece of furniture which prevents: the manufacturer to make profitable its production tool on a large number of pieces the user to use to d other purposes of the rooms

  having temporarily constituted a particular piece of furniture.

  The present invention makes it possible to overcome these drawbacks

  through the use of a modular element

  a large number of pieces of furniture, the modular element being

  used by the user for the production of different types of furniture.

  from the originally mounted one.

  The subject of the invention is a modular element for

  bilier, characterized in that it consists of a four-dimensional frame

  flat drilateral of which at least two of the opposite sides are provided

  each of at least one mortise opening on the main faces

  the frame and a hole crossing orthogonally the (them)

mortise (s) corresponding (s).

  According to one characteristic of the invention, each of the

  The main faces of the frame are cleared between two of the oppo-

  4 S to form a housing extending between the inner edges of said sides to the outer edges of the other two sides,

  the housing of each main face being oriented by Ldicu-

to the other side.

  These housings can each receive a filling element, which can be only a utility panel (to form for example a tray), a decorative panel or in a vertical position constitute support amount for

shelves or drawers.

  According to a provision of the invention the frame is in

  wood, each of its sides consisting of two

  in thickness, hairpinning, at each of their

  extremities, one of the flights on each adjacent side, the

  on each side being separated in the central part of said side by a wedge whose thickness corresponds to that of the flights

adjacent straddled.

  Of course, each frame can be made of

molded plastic.

  The above box can alone or in several examples

  res, enter into the realization of many furniture In these,

  two frames facing each other may be

  by struts to constitute particular table legs, armchairs etc.

  The invention will be better understood on reading the

  following description and examination of the annexed drawings, in the-

what:

  FIG. 1 is a front view of the modular element

re of the invention,

  FIG. 2 is a left view of the modular element

in Figure 1,

  FIG. 3 is a view from below of the modular element

  1 is a perspective view of a coffee table comprising two modular elements according to the invention; FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a chair comprising two modular elements according to the invention, Figure 6 is a perspective view of a table comprising three modular elements according to the invention, Figure 7 is a perspective view of a shelf unit. The modular element for furniture according to the invention, and as represented in FIGS. 1 to 3, is constituted by a flat quadrilateral frame 1, here rectangular, of which two at

  fewer opposing sides each have at least one mor-

  2 (here two mortises 2 a, 2 b) and orthogonal drilling 3

  crossing the mortises 2 As shown more particularly

  1, mortises and holes on both sides

  opposites are situated on one of the two transverse planes of symmetry

  They might as well be dissymmetrical

  with respect to this plane or symmetrically from

on the other plane.

  In this embodiment of the invention, shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the frame is made of wood, each of the sides comprising two vanes 45 offset in thickness (FIG.

  the relative arrangement of the 4-5 sides flaps will be described only

  B refers to those shown in Figure 2.

  The longitudinal stays 4a and 5a are assembled by interlocking with the transverse leaves 4b and 5b on the one hand, 4c and 5c on the other hand the longitudinal flights 44 and 5d are of course assembled in the same way with the same flights

transversal 4 b-50 and 4 c-5 c.

  Between each pair of battens 4-5 a c 8 tee of the frame is inserted and retained a shim 6 having the thickness of the

  Stacked flight on each adjacent side This hold 6 is

  paid by mortises 2 and orthogonal drilling 3.

  The joining of the flights 4-5 between them and with the wedges 6 is provided by any suitable means such as gluing. The arrangement of the 4-5 flights, relative to each other

  to others, is such that each main face of the

  takes a housing 7, either longitudinal 7a (fig 3), or trans-

  versal 7b (fig 2) extending between the inner edges of two

  opposite sides to the outer edges of the other two sides.

  In each frame, the housings 7 a-7 b of the main faces are

  oriented perpendicular to each other.

  Each of these housings 7 can receive a filling element ("functional" or decorative tray of any desired material, wood, glass, etc.) whose upper surface extends

  in the plane of the adjacent free surface of the corre-

  to form a continuous face.

  The modular element according to the invention and as shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 can be used alone or with others in the production of furniture. Four embodiments

  are shown in Figures 4 to 7.

  The coffee table of FIG. 4 illustrates the most common use of the modular element: arrangement of two modular elements face to face and assembly by one or more spacers. In the table of Figure 4, two frames 1 such as

  shown in Figures 1 to 3 but provided with filling elements

  8, in the housings of their upper faces, are

  killed one above the other and assembled to one another by two spacers 9, only one of which is shown, the other being

  symmetrical transversely to it.

  the ends of each spacer 9 are shaped

  so as to present as many tenons as mortises 2

  cevant, made in the corresponding side of each frame 1

  with which the spacer 9 cooperates.

  Here each end of the spacer 9 carries two

  cooperating with the two mortises 2 a-2 b on the correspon-

each frame 1.

  the maintenance of the spacer assembly 9-frame 1 is obtained by a pin engaged in the corresponding bore 3 of the shim 6 and in corresponding holes passing through the

tenons of each spacer 9.

  The mortise and tenon mechanical connection may

  It must be reinforced by gluing in the case of a definitive realization. In the chair of Figure 5, two frames 1 arranged

  vertically facing each other are united by three

  toises 9 each of which may, to present> as shown, a lower thickness than that used in the table of Figure 4, be provided at each end with only one stud Frames 1 and spacers 9 constitute the structure of the chair on which the seat 10 is fixed and

the backrest 11 of said chair.

  The seat 10 comprises: two cross members 12 slid each

  one in the free space between the flights of each of the vertical ribs of each frame 1 and resting on the two

  6 of these frames, and a flexible band 15 carrying to its ex-

  tremities two transversal loops in each of which extends

a crosspiece 12.

  The backrest 11 comprises a backsplash 14 hinged on two supports 15 each having a base inserting into the free space between the flaps of the corresponding ect of the frame and

  being retained in it by gravity.

  The backsplash 14 includes a flexible strip extending

  between two articulated uprights on the supports 15.

  The flexible strips of the seat 10 and the backrest

  14 may be of any suitable material such as textile fabric

the, plastic canvas, leather etc

  In the table of Figure 6, the base and the

  The base consists of two frames 1 facing each other and assembled by two

  spacers 9 one lower, the other higher (not shown

TEE).

  the tray includes him a frame 1 provided in his

  top of a filling panel 8.

  The frame of the tray can be fixed to the base by any suitable means, either on the upper spacer 9, or

  directly on the vertical frames 1.

  Of course, a coffee table can be made in the same way by using the vertical frames in the other direction, the tray being then aligned with the longitudinal sides.

frames of the legs.

  In the cabinet of FIG. 7, two vertically facing frames 1 support a plurality of crosspieces 16 which can constitute shelves, trays, or

drawer supports.

  To support the sleeper 16, the furniture comprises,

  in each frame, blades 17 parallel and juxtaposed, inserted

  in pairs between the battens 4-5, blades 17 having in their edges adjacent notches 18 fo = mant mortises in which engage the tenons carried by the ends of the

sleepers 16.

  The invention is not limited to the embodiments described and shown. If necessary, other modes and other forms of realization can be used without departing from the scope.

of the invention.

Claims (7)

Claims.   1 modular element for furniture, characterized in that it is constituted by a flat quadrilateral frame 1, at least two of the opposite sides are each provided with at least one mortise 2 opening on the main faces of the frame 1 and a piercing 3 orthogonally crossing the mortise (s) corresponding 2.   Modular element according to claim 1, characterized   characterized in that the mortises 2 and holes 3 of two c 8 tees op-   poses of frame 1 are located on one of the transverse planes of symmetry of said frame 1.   Modular element according to any one of the   1 and 2, characterized in that the frame 1 is of tangulaire.   4 Modular element according to any one of the   1 to 3, characterized in that each of the main faces   The blades of frame 1 are disengaged between two opposite sides for   forming a housing 7 extending between the inner edges of the   said sides to the outer edges of the other two ects, the   housing 7 of each main face-being oriented perpendicularly to the other side.   Modular element according to any one of the claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the frame 1 is made of wood,   each of its sides consisting of two 4-5 decks   in thickness, bunching, i each of their   extremities, one of the flights on each side   4-5 on each side being separated in the central part of the   said side, by a shim 6 whose thickness corresponds to that of adjacent flights mounted.   Modular element according to claim 5, characterized   characterized in that in each c 8 tees provided with at least one mortise 2 and a bore 3, each mortise 2 and drilling 3 cross the hold.   Modular element according to any one of the   1 to 4, characterized in that each frame 1 is in molded plastic.   8 Furniture comprising at least two modular elements   according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized   the frame elements 1 are located face to face and are connected by at least one spacer 9, each end of which cooperates with the mortise (s) on the corresponding side of the frame 1. 9 Furniture according to claim 8, characterized in that it comprises at least one filling element 8 in at least one housing 7 of one of the main faces of one of the modular elements.   Furniture according to any one of claims 8   and 9, with two vertical modular elements according to the claim   5, characterized in that it comprises, inserted between the   lines 4-5 opposite the horizontal sides of each frame 1,   least one pair of blades 17, parallel and juxtaposed, presented   both in their adjacent edges of the notches 18 facing each other,   mortise, and, extending between the frames 1, at least one   16, bearing tenons at its ends and supported horizontally   horizontally by the blades 17, by engagement of the tenons in the mortise notches 18.