IL23005A - Cupboards - Google Patents

Description

Cupboards Gil WEISS PLYWOOD he present invention concerns cupboards and has for its object to enable the construction of cupboards from relatively thin of plastic material and the Hereinafter the invention will be described for plicity with reference to the use of plywood it being understood that the invention is not confined to the use of this particular The use of plywood panels for the construction of cupboards is prima facie because of the tendency of such panels to hitherto cupboard doors have been made of massive wood frames to which plywood panels were applied from both possibly with the insertion of a filler material in between the two While such a door construction is satisfactory from a statical point of view requires the application of a considerable amount of material and increases the costs of the cupboard which is a disadvantage in particular in case of mass produced cupboards intended to be as cheap as Also the side walls and at least some of the partitions of known cupboards had to be of massive struction out of similar In accordance with the present invention there is provided a cupboard or cupboard assembly comprising side vertical partitions and doors constructed of thin panels normally liable to said doors being hinged to at least part of the side walls characterized in that all side walls and partitions that are liable to warp fitted at their vertical reinforcing rigid ledge tensive each door being hinged to such a reinforcing led e element and in that each door reinforced alon its 3 If partitions and side walls to which no door is hinged may also be reinforced in the same accordance with the invention it is possible to make a single Cupboard comprising two side walls and one or two or a cupboard assembly with a partition and a plurality of In the latter case these be partitions to which no door is hinged in which case the reinforcing ledges may be It has been found that the door hinges also constitute an efficient reinforcement for the hinged edge of the together with the reinforcement of the opposite edge of the prevents the door from in spite of the fact that it is only made of a thin panel such as pl The reinforcing ledges of the side walls and partitions of the cupboard constitute separate rigid elements which provide necessary statical strength for the support of the cupboard and its They may be applied onto the edges of the side walls partitions by any known conventional means and as a support the drawers and the It is thus seen that the invention enables in a simple efficient manner the construction of cupboards and cupboard assemblies from plywood The reinforcement of the edges of the doors can be effected in various for it is possible to apply to this edge a continuous metal strip that may project beyond the outer face of the door and serve at the same time either as a handle proper or as means mounting a handle it is also possible suitably distanced from which all connected by a suitable bar that also serves a Many Variations of this reinforcement are and all are to be within the scope of the present invention long as they are of preventing the door from invention by way of example in the accompanying drawings in 1 is a fragmentary elevation of a cupboard assembly according to the 2 is a Bide view of the assembly according to 3 is a section along line of and 4 and 5 show constructional details of the door The cupboard assembly herein illustrated consists of a plurality of units t eaoh comprising two lateral walls 2 eaoh of which either a partition or a side wall of the a wall 3 and doors 4 and e assembly is covered from above by a common top plate 6 and rests on a plurality of screwingly adjustable supports By properly adjustin these supports the top plate 6 is made to bear on the ceiling of the room whereby the cupboard assembly becomes fixed its If assembly ma serve as a partition between two parts of a room or between two lateral wall of the assembly is reinforced ledge Each ledge 8 also serves as a connecting member between partition 2 and tho adjacent rear wall or walls 3 while the front lodges 9 with the exception of tho extreme left one reference to serves for hinging thereon doors 4 and She manner in which the doors 4 and 5 are hinged on a ledge 9 is illustrated in and shown each door and 5 is hinged to the associated ledge 9 by means of a plurality of hinges As can bo from each lower door 5 is hinged to the associated ledge 9 by means of hinges 0 whereas each upper door 4 is hinged by means of two In addition to their function as door suspensions the hinges 10 also serve as reinforoemen s of the rear vertioal edge of each door and thus contribute to preventing the doors from Each door 4 and 5 is further reinforced at its opposite vertioal At the upper doors 4 2 and such reinforcement is brought about by a continuous metal strip which is with the vertioal edge of the door and projects beyond the outer face of the serving at the samo time as mounting for a handlebar At the lower doors 5 2 the reinforcement is brought about by a plurality of plugs fitted in the door near the free vertical edge at regular Intervals and projecting from the outer face All plugs 1 are connected by means of a handlebar and in this manner the reinforcement is brought the annexed and the description the cupboard according to the invention described with one pair of doors 4 and 5 being hinged to if it is also possible to have two pairs of doors 4 and 5 to one and same which imply that in the cupboard assembly partitions with suspended doors on both sides will alternate with partitions with no suspended doors at partition may in certain cases be dovoid of reinforcing while in the foregoing description and annexed drawings the cupboard assembly according to the invention is shown to have back walls those back walls may be dispensed in case the assembly is attached to a As a furthe the back walls 3 oan be replaced by doors similar to the front doors 4 and an arrangement may be desirable in cases where a cupboard assembly according to the invention is used as a partition between two in the embodiment described hereinbefore eaoh unit comprises an uppe door 4 and lower door 5 this feature is subject to possible modification in that it is possible either to have only one single door on the other to have more than two individual doors associated with eaoh unit of The interior of each cupboard according to the invention may be arranged in any desired conventional manner and may thus comprise suspension bars and the All these elements are know per so and are Notwithstanding any possible variations in oupboards or cupboard assemblies to the the following will always walls and partitions of thin with reinforcing at the two vortioal of at least those walls and partitions on which doors Doors equally of thin mounted on said Suitable reinforcement at the vortical of eac doo in order to prevent is seen from the above that in accordance with tho invontion it is possible to oupboards from a small number of prefabricated struotural whioh bo By this the mass production of eupboardo considerably simplified whioh is of great economic and technioal insufficientOCRQuality

Claims (3)

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1. A cupboard or cupboard assembly comprising side walls,, vertical partitions and doors construeted of thin panels normally liable to warp, said doors being hinged to at least part of the side walls and/or partitions, characterized in that all side walls and partitions that are liable to warp comprise, fitted at their vertical edges, reinforcing rigid ledge elements, coextensive therewith, each door being hinged to such a reinforcing ledge element, and in that eaoh door is reinforced along its Outer non-hinged edge by one or more rigid rein€ording longitudinal members so as to prevent warping of the door,

2. , A cupboard or cupboard assembly according to Claim 1, wherein the reinforcement of the non-hinged edge of each door Is designed to be used as a handle or handle mounting.

3. A cupboard or cupboard assembly according to Claim 1 substantially as described with reference to the annexed drawings. CiSS