FR2539609A1 - KNIVES RATELIER WITH FRONT SLOTS - Google Patents

Abstract

THE INVENTION RELATES TO A KNIFE RACK EQUIPPED WITH FRONTAL SLOTS. IN LEDIT RATELIER 10, SEVERAL SLOTS 26 BLADE RECEIVERS EXTEND INWARD FROM A FRONT FACE 14 AND DOWN FROM AN UPPER FACE 12. RECEPTABLES 64 WITH KNIFE HANDLES, ASSOCIATED WITH EACH SLOTS 26, ARE LOCATED NEAR THE SAID UPPER FACE 12. A SLOT 60 FOR RECOVERING THE BLADES IS LOCATED NEAR THE LOWER END AND A FRONTAL REGION DISCOVERED BY EACH SLOT 26. A SLOT 40 RECEIVING AN INSTRUMENT EXTENDS INTO THE INTERIOR FROM A SIDE FACE 18, AT THE REAR OF SAID RECEIVING SLOTS 26. APPLICATION ESPECIALLY TO STORING KITCHEN KNIVES.

Description

Knife rack with front slots.

  The present invention relates, in a manner

  general, to knives or racks with

  both slots receiving blades to support

  removably kitchen knives.

  The prior art has many examples

  racks with knives intended to rest on a surface

  This support such as a table or counter, or adapted to be hooked to a wall near a work area in a kitchen Such racks knives according to the prior art typically have a body with a upper face from which knife blade receiving slots extend into the body This upper face is either horizontal with vertical slots extending into the body, or inclined with slots extending

  vertically oblique in said body and, when

  that a knife is inserted into a slot, the end of the handle of the knife from which the blade is supported on or against said upper face The length of each slot is equal to or greater than that of the blade of a knife in front of to be supported and, therefore, when a knife is to be removed from the block, it must be removed along the axis of the slot until

  that the tip of the blade emerges from the upper extremity

  top of this slot on the upper face of said block.

  As a result, racks with knives of the type

  cited may not be usefully placed under a storage cabinet or shelf, unless the clearance between the top end of a knife handle and the underside of the cabinet or shelf greater than the minimum distance the blade of a knife supported by the rack must be lifted vertically to pass away from the upper end of the slot when it is

removed, for example.

  The prior art is illustrated in the patents

  US-2,955,703, US-2,338,303, US-1,746,503, US-2,495,866,

  US-2,238,324, US-2,924,410, US-2,517,972 and US-2,413,169.

  In accordance with the present invention, it is

  proposed an improved rack to support

  with multiple slots for removable support

  several kitchen knives or similar knives

  of different sizes and configurations.

  knife binding is designed to rest on a surface such as a workbench or kitchen table, or to be suspended from a wall adjacent to a kitchen work area This rack is adapted to removably support knives of the type comprising a handle and a blade (thinner than said handle) extending from one end of the handle Said rack generally has a body comprising a face

  superior, an anterior surface extending

  to this upper face, as well as a plurality of substantially vertically extending blade receiving slits extending into said body from both

  aforementioned faces Each slot has an indented region

  dull in length at least equal to that of the blade of

  knife it receives, and a frontal region

  which is closer to the frontal face of the body than is said internal region of the slot A

  covering member of the blades is arranged

  tee of the lower end of each slot on the

  frontal area uncovered from this cleft or in the

  swimming from the said frontal region The distance between the

  upper surface of the body and the covering member of the blades is smaller than the length of the knife blade The receptacles of the knife handles are located along the upper end of each slot and are preferably in the form of

  an elaborate projection on the upper face of the body.

  In use, a knife blade is introduced

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  in the frontal area of the cleft at a fair height

  sufficient to avoid the recovery body

  after which the tip of this blade is slid behind said cover member and the handle of the knife is brought into abutment against the upper face of the body behind the handle receptacle To remove a knife, it is lifted until the sleeve is clear of the receptacle and until the tip of the blade passes away from the cover member, then said knife can be tilted or moved horizontally (tip downward) through the front region of

slot.

  In some embodiments, the roasting

  bind to knives is also intended to support amo-

  vibly an instrument such as another knife, a pair of scissors, a sharpener or the like and therefore has one or more instrument receiving slots which extend inwardly

from one side of the body.

  A knife rack according to the invention

  offers many advantages over the prior art.

  For example, since it is not necessary to

  move a knife vertically a distance equi-

  worth at the length of its blade when introduced

  in the rack or removed from it, such interventions

  easier to perform.

  tying of this type can be arranged or hung below a storage unit attached to a wall and presenting

  a smaller free space than that which would be required

  in other cases to accommodate most types of knives racks of the prior art This rack

  has receptacles with sleeves that prevent from

  A rack knife can inadvertently or accidentally slip out of the rack through the front region of the slot. Said rack may have an instrument receiving slot which, horizontally arranged, increases its usefulness and, because no free space

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  vertical is not required by this slot, the aforementioned problem due to free space is avoided The knife rack is in the form of a large series article that can be manufactured from many preformed components, such as pieces of

  wood or plastic joined together by adhesives

  nails, screws, or other means of attachment;

  alternatively, it can be realized as a single piece

  block made of a molded plastic material.

  The invention will now be described in more detail by way of non-limitative examples with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing

  the anterior face, the upper face and a lateral face

  of a first embodiment of a knife rack according to the invention;

  FIG. 2 is an elevation in front of the rake.

  link from Figure 1; Figure 3 is a side elevation of this rack of Figure 1; Figure 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Figure 2; FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing

  the anterior, superior, and lateral

  In a second embodiment of a knife rack according to the invention, FIG. 6 is a front elevation of the rack of FIG. 5;

  Figure 7 is a side elevation of the rake.

  link from Figure 5; Figure 8 is a section along the line 8-8 of Figure 6;

  FIG. 9 is an illus-

  trant anterior, superior and one

  side view of a third embodiment of a rake

  bind with knives according to the invention; FIG. 10 is an elevation from

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  rack of Figure 9; Figure 11 is a side elevation of this rack of Figure 9;

  FIG. 12 is a section along the line 12-

12 of Figure 10;

  FIG. 13 is a perspective view

  sensing the anterior face, the upper face and a side face of a fourth embodiment of a knife rack according to the invention; and Fig. 14 is a section along line 14-14

of Figure 13.

  Figures 1 to 4 relate to a first embodiment according to the invention, wherein the rack is referenced 10; FIGS. 5 to 8 relate to a second embodiment of a

  rack 210; Figures 9 to 12 deal with a third

  seventh embodiment of a rack 310; and Figures 13 and 14 relate to a fourth form of

  realization of a rack identified by 410 In the

  following description and the accompanying drawings, the ele-

  identities in the different forms of reali-

  are referred to by the same numerical references

  c. In FIGS. 1 to 4, reference numeral 10 designates

  a knife rack according to a first form

  embodiment of the invention This rack 10 presents

  a body 11 comprising an upper face 12, an anterior face 14 extending transversely to said face 12, opposite side faces 16 and 18, a rear face 20 and a lower face 22 The upper face 12 is inclined upwards progressing backwards from its anterior edge 21 which joins the upper edge of the anterior face 14 The rack-10 may, in use, be supported by a table or a workbench (not shown) resting on the latter by its lower face 22, or be hooked to a wall (not shown) Dar a moven of

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  fixation such as a hole 24 made in the posterior face.

20 of this rack.

  The rack 10 has a plurality of receiving slots

  knife blades (eg four slots), such as slot 26, which extend inwards

  from the upper face 12 and the anterior face

  14 and are thus able to removably support several knives (four for example), such as a

  knife 30 shown in Figures 2 and 4.

  The knife 30 comprises a handle 32 and a blade 34 The handle 32, wider and thicker than the blade 34, has an end edge 36 and an opposite end 37 whose blade 34 projects as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, The end 37 of the handle 32 is inclined and of decreasing section, respectively The blade 34 has a length L-measured from a point 35 of this blade to the lowest part of the end 37

of the handle.

  The rack 10 also has a slot 40

  to receive an instrument, which extends into the

  from the lateral face 18 and is intended to house the support, an instrument or a part of the latter, for example the folded blades 41 of a

  pair of scissors 42 illustrated in FIG.

  As shown in Figure 4, slot 26 receives

  The blade end comprises an upper end 50, a lower end 52, an inner region 54 and an exposed front region 56 which is closer to the anterior face 14 of the rack 10 than is said inner region 54. , shown in Figure 4 open at its lower end 52, is at least as long as the length

L of the blade 34 of the knife 30.

  A member 60 for covering the blades is preferably

  seen near the lower end 52 of the slot 26 facing the inner region 54 of this slot and 2539609 i on its open front region 56 or in the vicinity thereof The distance between an upper side 62 of the cover member 60 and the upper face 12 of the body 11 of the rack 10, contiguous to the lower part of the handle 32, is smaller than the length L of

the blade 34 of the knife 30.

  Sleeve receptacles, in the form of a projection 64, are provided in the vicinity of the upper end 50 of the receiving slot 26 and

  near the edge 21 on which the upper face

  re 12 and the front face 14 of the body 1 i meet or intersect each receptacle 64 comes into contact

  with the end of the handle 32 of the knife 30 to prevent

  dear the latter to slip and fall forward

  out of the slot 26 1 when it is put in place.

  The rack 10 is used as follows: it will be assumed that this rack 10 rests on a surface such as a table or a counter (not shown), or it is suspended on a wall (not shown) thanks to

at hole 24.

  To introduce the knife 30 into this rack, the user grasps the handle 32, inserts the tip 35 of the blade 34 in a slot 26, in any position above the cover member 60; it slides the tip of the blade down into

  said slot and in the space or region

  said covering means 60; then it brings the end 37 of said handle 32 against the upper face 12 of the body 11 behind the receptacle 64 on

  said face 12, as illustrated in FIG. 4.

  To remove the knife 30, it is necessary to grasp the handle 32 and lift it vertically until its end 37 emerges from the receptacle 64, then to continue this vertical lifting (concomitantly, if desired, to switch the knife forwards or counter-clockwise with respect to Figure 4), until the tip 35

  of the blade is located above the covering organ.

  60 and may move away from the latter, after which-said knife may be wholly extracted from the

  rack 10 without any other vertical movement.

  As can be seen in FIG. 2, the blades 41 of the pair of scissors 42 are grasped and introduced into the slot 40 or extracted from the latter in the

axial direction.

  The knife workshop 10 shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 is made of pieces of wood (or

  possibly of plastic material) which are section-

  The racks 10 have a posterior plate 70 in the form of a single one, with the appropriate dimensions and shapes and connected to each other by a suitable adhesive (or small nails or wallpaper seeds) in the many joining areas. and a single piece of wood in the inner face of which an L-shaped groove or recess is cut or molded

  to delimit the slot 40 receiving an instrument.

  A group of five spaced blocks 72 is attached to the inner surface of the posterior plate 70 to delimit

  four slots 26 Each block 72 is provided with one end

  upper inclined mite 74 forming the upper face

  12 The upper edge of each block 72 adja-

  100 to a slot 26 is stripped or beveled at 73, for example, to match the shape of the end 37 of the handle 32 of the knife On their posterior faces,

  the blocks 72 have the same height as the posterior plate

  Each block 72 is provided with a front plate

  tale 80 of the same width, but of shorter length

  block 72, the upper corner of each frontier plate

  adjacent to a bevel 73 which then constitutes the receiver.

  tackle 64 of sleeves A wooden batten 82 extends across the front face of the lower ends

  blocks 72, below and at a distance from the boundary plates

  80, so as to form the cover member 60

blades.

  Referring to FIGS. 5 to 8, numeral 210 designates a knife rack in accordance with FIGS.

  to a second embodiment of the present invention;

  This rack 210 also comprises a body 11 comprising an upper face 12 inclined upwards,

  an anterior face 14 substantially vertical and extends

  transversely to said upper face 12, opposite side faces 16 and 18, a rear face

and a lower face 22.

  The rack 210 has a plurality of receiving slots

  knife blade blades (eg, five slots), such as a slot 26, which extend inwardly from the upper face 12 and the anterior face

  14 and are therefore able to support removable-

  several knives (five for example), such as

the knife 30 of Figures 2 and 4.

  The rack 210 has two slots 40 and 44 instrument receivers, which extend inwardly

  from the side face 18 and each of which is des-

  designed to house, by supporting it, an instrument or

  part of the latter The slot 40 is designed to receive

  see the folded blades 41 of the pair of scissors 42 of Figure 2 and the slot 44 is studied to accommodate

  a stepping stone (not shown), for example.

  A member 60 covering the blades is provided near the lower end 52 of the receiving slot 26, facing the inner region 54 of this slot and on its exposed front region 56, or

neighborhood of this region.

  Receptacles for knife handles,

  sensing in the form of a projection 64, are developed in the vicinity of the upper end 50 of the receiving slot 26 and close to the edge 21 on which the upper face 12 and the anterior face 14 of the body

they meet or cut each other.

  The rack 210 shown in FIGS.

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  8 is made of pieces of wood (or possibly

  of plastics) which are cut to appropriate dimensions and shapes and connected to each other, to the many junction areas, by a suitable adhesive (or small tips, or even

  upholsterer seeds) Racket 210 also has

  A posterior plate 70 in the form of a single piece of wood A series of six spaced blocks 72 is subject to the inner surface of this

  posterior plate 70 to delimit five slots 26.

  Each block 72 has an inclined upper end

  born 74 which delimits the inclined upper face 12.

  The posterior faces of the blocks 72 have the same height as the posterior plate 70 Grooves or recesses

  are cut or molded into the inner surface of

  blocks 72 to delimit the slots 40 and 44 received.

  instruments Each block 72 is equipped with a

  front plate 80 which is solidary and which pre-

  It has the same width, but a shorter length than said block 72, the upper corner of each end plate 80 adjacent a slot then constituting the receptacle 64. A wood lath 82 extends across the front face of the lower ends of the

  blocks 72, below and at a distance from the frontal plates

  80, so as to form the body 60 of covering

blades.

  In FIGS. 9 to 12, reference numeral 310 designates a knife rack according to a third

  embodiment of the present invention.

  telier 310 also comprises a body 11 comprising an upper face 12 inclined upwards, an anterior face 14 extending transversely to said upper face 12, opposite side faces 16 and 18,

  a rear face 20 and a lower face 22.

  The rack 310 has a plurality of receiving slots

  knife blades (eg five slots), such as a slot 26, which extend inwards

  from the upper face 12 and the anterior face

  14 and are therefore able to removably support several knives (five for example), such as the knife 30 of Figures 2 and 4 Each slot 26 comprises an upper section 26 A, an intermediate section 26 B and a lower section 26 C. The rack 310 also has two slots and 44 instrument receivers, which extend inwardly from the side face 18 and

  are intended to receive, by supporting it, an instru-

  The slot 40 can accommodate the folded blades 41 of the pair of scissors 42 of FIG. 2 and the slot 44 can house a grinder (not shown). A member 60 covering the blades is provided near the lower end 52 of the receiving slot 26, in front of the inner region 54 of this slot and on its open front region 56

or in the vicinity of the latter.

  Sleeve receptacles, in the form of a projection 64, are made near the upper end 50 of the receiving slot 26, close to the edge 21 marking the junction or the intersection of the upper face. 12 and the face

previous 14 of the body 11.

  The knife rack 310 shown in FIGS. 9 and 12 is made of pieces of wood (or

  possibly made of plastic) which are

  with appropriate dimensions and shapes and are

  related to each other, to the many junction zones, by a suitable adhesive (or small spikes, or even seeds) This rack 310 also has a back plate 70 in the form of a single piece of wood The lower block has a groove or a cut-out recess

  molded into its inner surface so as to delimit

  miter slot 40 receiving an instrument A block

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  upper 72 is subject to the inner surface of the rear plate 70 and is cut by cutting to define five sections 26 A slots This block 72

  has an inclined upper end 74 which delimits

  mites the sloped upper face 12 Block 72 is

  shorter than the posterior plate 70 The upper block

  The grooves 72 define the upper portions 26 A of the slots There is provided a single, lower block in which lower sections 26 C of slots are shaped by sawing. The slot section 26 B is in the space between the upper blocks. 72 and the lower block 75 The block 72 is provided with an integral front plate 80 having the same width and the same length as the front face of said block 72, the upper corner of each adjacent front plate 80

  to a slot then constituting the receptacle 64 of man-

  A wood lath 82 extends across the front face of the block 75, below and away from the upper blocks 72, to form the lapping member 60.

blades.

  In FIGS. 13 and 14, reference numeral 410 designates a knife rack in accordance with a

  fourth embodiment of the present invention.

  This rack 410 has a body 11 comprising an upper face 12 inclined upwards, an anterior face 14 extending transversely to said upper face 12, opposite side faces 16 and 18, a face

  posterior 20 and a lower face 22.

  The rack 410 has a plurality of receiving slots

  knife blades (eg five slots), such as a slot 26, which extend inwards

  from the upper face 12 and the front face

  re 14 and are therefore able to support

  several knives (five for example), as

the knife 30 of FIG.

  The rack 410 is also equipped with a slot

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  receiver of an instrument, which extends into the

  1 to a housing or part of the latter, for example the folded blades 41 of the pair of scissors 42 shown in FIG. slides is provided near the lower end 52 of the receiving slot 26 facing the inner region 54 of this slot and on its exposed front region 56, or

neighborhood of it.

  Sleeve receptacles, in the form of projections 64, are provided in the immediate vicinity of the upper end 50 of the receiving slot 26 and near the edge 21 marking the junction or intersection of the upper face 12 and the face

previous 14 of the body 11.

  The rack 410 shown in FIGS.

  14 is made of a plastic material molded with di-

  This rack 410 has the desired dimensions and shape.

  a posterior plate 70 in which an L-shaped groove or recess is developed to delimit the receiving slot 40 of an instrument. A series of six blocks 72 spaced apart from each other delimits five slots

  26 A plastic part 821 extends in

  towards lower ends of the slots 26 for

  give birth to the member 60 covering the blades.

  It goes without saying that many modifications can be made to the rack described and shown,

  without departing from the scope of the invention.

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Claims (2)

  A knife rack manufactured as a mass-produced article for removably supporting a plurality of knives, each knife comprising a handle and a blade extending beyond one end of said handle, said rack characterized by comprising a face   upper part (12), a lower face (22), side faces   rales (16, 18), a rear face (20), and an anterior face (14) extending transversely to said upper (12), lower and lateral faces; in that said upper face (12) is inclined upwards while progressing in the direction away from   said anterior face (14) and towards said posterior face   re (20); in that several slots (26) receive   blades, each receiving slot extending without interruption   inward rupturing from said anterior face   (14) and downwards from said upper face   (12), said receiver slot comprising a region   (54) extending vertically and a frontier region   said slot (56) extending vertically and is closer to said anterior face than said inner region, said slot further having upper (50) and lower (52) ends, said inner region ( 54) of said slot extending down a predetermined distance; in that receptacles (64) of sleeves, associated with each slot (26), are located close to said upper face (12) and extend upwardly thereto in the vicinity of the place where said slot extends in this upper face; in that a single and only member (60) for covering the blades,   associated with each slot, is close to the end   lower slot (52) of this slot and near the open front region (56) of said slot (26), the distance between said upper face (12) and said blade covering member (60).   being smaller than the predetermined distance above   tioned; and in that at least one slot (40)   receiver of an instrument extends axially towards the in-   from a side face (18) to the rear of said blade receiving slots (26), in order to   removably supporting an instrument (42).   2 rack according to claim 1, characterized   in that it comprises another slot (44) receiving   this instrument that extends axially inward from a side face, in front of the slots (26) receiving blades.