US3797905A - Furniture or container unit - Google Patents

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US3797905A
US3797905A US00239044A US3797905DA US3797905A US 3797905 A US3797905 A US 3797905A US 00239044 A US00239044 A US 00239044A US 3797905D A US3797905D A US 3797905DA US 3797905 A US3797905 A US 3797905A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D1/00—Pinless hinges; Substitutes for hinges
    • E05D1/02—Pinless hinges; Substitutes for hinges made of one piece
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47B—TABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B43/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features enabling folding of the cabinet or the like
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
    • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E05Y2900/20—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for furniture, e.g. cabinets

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  • the present invention relates to the manufacture of furniture such as wardrobes, shelves, bookcases or the like as well as of containers of various kinds at least parts of which are in the course of manufacture assembled to form structural units each of which comprises a rear or main wall and side walls which are connected by hinges to this rear wall and may be pivoted so as to extend substantially parallel to the rear wall and to each other to permit this unit to be stored and shipped within the smallest possible space, while when this unit is to be erected for practical use. these walls may be locked at certain angles to each other.
  • This object may be fully attained according to the invention by making the hinges of a flexible sheet material which is coated on one side with a suitable adhesive and may be glued by pressure preferably upon the inner surface of the rear or main wall of the unit which is intended to form a piece of furniture or container or to be assembled with other parts into a piece of furniture or a container. Since the new hinges may be secured to the respective walls merely by an adhesive,.the timewasting operations of screwing normal hinges to these walls are no longer required, and each of the new hinges or even a plurality of them may regardless of their length be firmly secured in a single operation by merely pressing the adhesive-coated sheet or strip of a flexible material forming the hinge or hinges upon the adjacent walls. After being thus applied, each of these new hinges forms a dustproof seal of the entire joint between the adjacent walls. For this reason it is advisable to make each adhesive sheet or strip of a length equal to the height or width of the rear wall of the furniture or container unit.
  • each side wall of the furniture or container unit is preferably connected to the rear or main wall so as to be pivotable about a hinge axis which is located within a plane coinciding with the inner surface of the rear wall and within a plane extending parallel to the respective side wall.
  • these two side walls may be pivotable flat against the inner surface of the rear wall.
  • fittings are secured to and project from the inner surfaces of these side walls, for example, for mounting shelf boards thereon which when these side walls are pivoted to right angles to the rear wall and parallel to each other also secure these side walls rigidly to each other, the hinge axes of these side walls must be spaced from the inner surfaces of the side walls at a distance at least equal to the length or height of these fittings.
  • the rear wall must be divided into a wide central part and two outer narrow parts, the two outer narrow parts must be pivotably connected by the hinges according to the invention to the central part, and the outer ends of these narrow parts must be rigidly secured to the two side walls.
  • the two side walls cannot bepivoted into alignment with each other but one must be pivotable over the other. Therefore, the outer narrower parts of the rear wall which are pivotably connected to the central part of the rear wall by the hinges according to the invention must be made of different lengths so that the hinge axis for a first of the two side walls will be spaced for adistance at least equal to the height of the fittings thereon from the inner surface of this wall, while the hinge axis for the second side wall is spaced from the inner surface thereof at a distance at least equal to or larger than the thickness of the first side wall and the height of two fittings, that is, of the fittings on both side walls.
  • the hinges according to the invention have the further advantages that they are practically invisible, also because if applied in the form of flexible adhesive strips, these strips may be made of a color so as to blend with the color of the walls which they connect, and that even though very tough they may be made so thin that, when applied to the inner side of a piece of furniture, they practically do not project toward this inner side and therefore also do not, like normal hinges, require recesses to be cut into the walls to be connected into which the two hinge plates of each hinge are fitted so as not to project from the surfaces of these walls.
  • FIG. 1 shows a rear wall and two side walls of a fumiture unit which are connected to each other by hinges according to the invention
  • FIGS. 2 to 4 are perspective views of a rear wall and three side walls of a furniture unit, the fourth side wall of which is omitted for a better illustration, and which are shown in three different positions relative to each other.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a part of a wardrobe, bookcase or the like which consists of a rear wall 1 and two side walls 2a and 2b which together form a structural unit in which the side walls 2a and 2b are pivotably connected to the rear wall 1 by means of hinges in the form of flexible strips 4a and 4b of plastic which are coated on one side with an adhesive.
  • the side walls 2a and 2b are pivoted to the positions as shown in solid lines in which they extend at right angles to the rear wall 1, while for taking up as little space as possible when this unit is being stored or shipped, the side walls 2a and 2b are pivotable toward the rear wall 1 to the positions as shown in dotted lines in which all walls extend substantially parallel to each other.
  • hinge axes 3a and 3b of these adhesive strips 4a and 4b are disposed within a plane which coincides with the plane of the inner surface of the rear wall 1 and also within a plane which extends parallel to the side walls 2a and 2b.
  • suitable fittings 5a and 5b are secured to the inner sides of these side walls.
  • the invention provides that the axis 3a or 3b of the hinge for each side wall is spaced from the inner surface of the latter at a distance which is at least as large as the height of the fittings.
  • the rear wall is for this purpose divided into. a wide central part and two narrow outer end parts'la and 1b which are pivotably connected to the central part by the hingelike adhesive strips 4a and 4b which are glued upon the inner surface of the rear wall 1.
  • the end part la of the rear wall 1 is rigidly secured to the sidewall 2a and the other end part lb to the side wall 2b.
  • each end wall 2a and 2b is considerably smaller than one half of the width of the end wall 1
  • the two end parts In and lb of the rear wall 1 which are severed from its wide central part and connected thereto by the adhesive strips 4a and 4b may be made of the same width, namely, the width of the end part lb, and the two side walls may then be pivotable into alignment with each other. If, however, the side walls 2a and 2b have a greater width, for example, as illustrated in FIG.
  • the two side walls must be pivotable over each other toward the central part of the rear wall 1 and the end part la of the rear wall 1 which is rigidly secured to the side wall and pivotably connected by the adhesive strip 4a to the central part of the rear wall must beat least twice as wide as the other end part lb.
  • the pivot axis 3a of side wall 2a must be spaced from the inner surface of this side wall at a distance which is at least equal to the thickness of side wall 2b plus twice the height of one of the fittings 2a or 2/).
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a similar piece of furniture in its position ready for use.
  • the main central part of the rear wall carries the upper and lower side walls 12 and 13 and the left side wall 14 which are pivotable about the hinge axes l5, l6 and 17 which are formed by strips of adhesive tape as previously described.
  • the fittings 5a and 5b as shown in FIG. 1 and the right side wall of the boxlike piece of furniture are omitted in FIGS. 2 to 4.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the piece of furniture as shown in FIG. 2 after the side walls 12 and 13 have been pivoted so as to extend parallel to the rear wall 10, while the side wall 14 still extends at a right angle to the rear wall 10. Contrary to FIG. 1 it is assumed in FIGS.
  • each side wall 12, 13 and 14 is smaller than the height of one half of the central part of the rear wall 10 so that all side walls may be pivoted toward the central part of the rear wall so as not only to extend substantially parallel to this central part and to each other, but so that the opposite side walls, that is, the walls 12 and 13 and also the wall 14 and the opposite wall, not shown, will be substantially in alignment with each other. From the erected position of the piece of furniture as shown in FIG. 2, the side walls 12 and 13 are therefore the first to be pivoted toward the rear wall 10 and thereafter the other side wall 14 and, if provided, the opposite side wall, not shown, are pivoted over the side walls 12 and 13.
  • a foldable unit comprising: a main wall, two pair of side walls pivotally connected to said main wall, said walls being provided with inner and outer surfaces, said main wall consisting of a central part and at least one pair of end parts pivotally secured thereto, said side walls being pivotable to an erected position to form a boxlike structure in which a first pair of side walls, disposed on opposite edges of said main wall, extend substantially parallel to each other and at a certain angle to the side walls of said other pair of side walls and also at a certain angle to said main wall, said other pair of said side walls being rigidly attached to said at least one pair of end parts, said other pair of side walls being adapted first to be pivoted from said erected position towards said main wall so as to extend substantially parallel thereto and said first pair of side walls being adapted thereafter to be pivoted thereover said other pair of side walls so as to extend substantially parallel to thelatter, each side wall of said first pair of side walls being provided with a ledge rigidly secured to and projecting at substantially a right angle from each of

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US4579401A (en) * 1984-06-14 1986-04-01 Mears Joyce L Collapsible cabinet
US5340207A (en) * 1993-02-11 1994-08-23 Shern Diau Enterprise Co., Ltd. Foldable assembly cabinet
WO1995020894A1 (en) * 1994-02-07 1995-08-10 Byggelit Ab Lit A device for furniture industry
US6039418A (en) * 1998-11-03 2000-03-21 Omni International, Inc. Folding wardrobe
US8459755B1 (en) * 2011-05-31 2013-06-11 Stephan A. Shupe Space saving wardrobe or closet
WO2018004418A1 (en) * 2016-06-30 2018-01-04 Ikea Supply Ag Pre-mounted furniture module
US11229307B1 (en) * 2020-10-30 2022-01-25 Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. Hanging apparatus

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US1576284A (en) * 1925-06-18 1926-03-09 Jones Charles Allan Folding wardrobe, cupboard, and the like
US2442154A (en) * 1946-04-19 1948-05-25 Vunovich Eli Foldable cabinet
US3034253A (en) * 1959-10-05 1962-05-15 Phillips Petroleum Co Portable folding lectern
US3442415A (en) * 1964-10-06 1969-05-06 Cava Ind Foamed plastic container with hinged closure
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FR524485A (fr) * 1920-08-13 1921-09-03 A D C Amar Armoire à étagères coulissantes, démontable et pliante dans deux lits jumeaux formant caisse à claire-voie
US1576284A (en) * 1925-06-18 1926-03-09 Jones Charles Allan Folding wardrobe, cupboard, and the like
US2442154A (en) * 1946-04-19 1948-05-25 Vunovich Eli Foldable cabinet
US3034253A (en) * 1959-10-05 1962-05-15 Phillips Petroleum Co Portable folding lectern
US3442415A (en) * 1964-10-06 1969-05-06 Cava Ind Foamed plastic container with hinged closure
US3445052A (en) * 1966-08-22 1969-05-20 Phillips Petroleum Co Hinged laminate

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4579401A (en) * 1984-06-14 1986-04-01 Mears Joyce L Collapsible cabinet
US5340207A (en) * 1993-02-11 1994-08-23 Shern Diau Enterprise Co., Ltd. Foldable assembly cabinet
WO1995020894A1 (en) * 1994-02-07 1995-08-10 Byggelit Ab Lit A device for furniture industry
US6039418A (en) * 1998-11-03 2000-03-21 Omni International, Inc. Folding wardrobe
US8459755B1 (en) * 2011-05-31 2013-06-11 Stephan A. Shupe Space saving wardrobe or closet
WO2018004418A1 (en) * 2016-06-30 2018-01-04 Ikea Supply Ag Pre-mounted furniture module
US11229307B1 (en) * 2020-10-30 2022-01-25 Omachron Intellectual Property Inc. Hanging apparatus

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