Classifications

• • 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
  • A47B47/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or building-up from elements
  • A47B47/0025—Horizontal connecting members adapted to receive and retain the edges of several panel elements
• • 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
  • A47B57/00—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions
  • A47B57/30—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports
  • A47B57/54—Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features for adjusting shelves or partitions with means for adjusting the height of detachable shelf supports consisting of clamping means, e.g. with sliding bolts or sliding wedges
• • 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
  • A47B87/00—Sectional furniture, i.e. combinations of complete furniture units, e.g. assemblies of furniture units of the same kind such as linkable cabinets, tables, racks or shelf units
  • A47B87/02—Sectional furniture, i.e. combinations of complete furniture units, e.g. assemblies of furniture units of the same kind such as linkable cabinets, tables, racks or shelf units stackable ; stackable and linkable
  • A47B87/0207—Stackable racks, trays or shelf units
  • A47B87/0223—Shelves stackable by means of poles or tubular members as distance-holders therebetween
  • A47B2087/023—Shelves stackable by means of poles or tubular members as distance-holders therebetween the shelves being held in intermediate connection elements between the tubular members
  • A47B2087/0238—Shelves stackable by means of poles or tubular members as distance-holders therebetween the shelves being held in intermediate connection elements between the tubular members the intermediate connection elements supporting more than one shelf

Definitions

• the invention relates to a connecting element for the releasable connection of plate-shaped components with columns.
• the invention is therefore based on the object of specifying a connecting element of the type described at the outset with which it is possible to form plattsn-shaped elements
• connection element specified at the outset the object is achieved according to the invention by an axially displaceable
• Multi-part clamp body the individual parts of which are sector-shaped with respect to the column axis and can be connected to one another on the circumference of the column and, after the connection, are held in a form-fitting manner in the radial direction and have at least one groove on their outer Ura catch for inserting and locking the plate-shaped components.
• Such a clamp body can be retrofitted to columns or other support elements, without the end for pushing on the clamp body
• Clamping screw can be effected, which also clamps the parts of the clamping body against each other and thereby fixes them.
• the plate-shaped components are then inserted and locked in the at least one groove on the outer circumference. If the groove is a so-called circumferential groove or circumferential groove, then the plate-shaped components can also be arranged in any direction (based on the column axis).
• Both the column and the clamping body can have very different cross sections.
• the column can have a cylindrical surface, but can also be designed as a polygon and, for example, have a square cross section. It is then only necessary to give the clamping body a complementary internal cross section.
• Clamping body is formed in two parts and one
• Parting line has, through its main level E-E
• the direction of insertion of the dovetail connection runs parallel to the column axis, the individual parts, guided through the column, can be pushed into each other up to a preferably existing stop, which is arranged inside the clamping body.
• the two parts of the clamping body are identical.
• they can be made with one and the same tool, for example by die casting or injection molding, and it is only necessary to have a single type of parts for the construction of a Keep clamp body in stock. The relevant, mutually identical parts are then only pushed into one another "on cover".
• Figure 1 is a perspective view of a
• Figure 2 is an exploded view of the
• Figure 10 is a perspective view of a
• Figure 11 shows a connection point of a clamping body with a plate-shaped component
• Figure 12 is a plan view of a whole
• Figures 13 and 14 are a side view and a
• FIG. 15 shows a side view analogous to FIG. 13, but using columns which are bent twice,
• Figures 16 and 17 are a side and front view of a
• Figure 18 is a plan view of a
• Figures 19 and 20 are a front view and a plan view of a showcase with plate-shaped attached on both sides
• the column 1 penetrates a clamping body 2, which is composed of two identical parts 2a and 2b, which abut each other at a diametrically extending joint 3, in which the column axis A-A also lies.
• the clamping body 2 is rotationally symmetrical in the assembled state, i.e. as a body of revolution
• Flanges 5 and 6 are arranged. Between the upper flange 5 and the lower flange 6 there is a circumferential groove 7 for the insertion of one or more plate-shaped components, which are shown in the following figures. In each of the flanges 5 and 6 there are, distributed over the circumference, a series of threaded bores 8 with which the plate-shaped
• Components can be clamped in the groove 7.
• FIG. 2 shows the clamping body 2 after it has been removed from the position shown in FIG. 1 along the arrows 10
• dovetail-shaped projections 11 which can be inserted in two recesses 12 which are complementary to the projections in the axial direction (A-A).
• Embodiment have an identical shape, each of the parts has in addition to the two dovetail-shaped projections 11, which are assigned to the flange 5, also two complementary recesses 12, which are assigned to the other flange 6.
• Part 2b in FIG. 2 can be thought of as if part 2a had been folded around 180 degrees about a diametrical axis lying in the main plane E-E.
• Figure 3 shows a side view of the clamping body 2a with the clamping screw 9 visible in the groove base. It can be seen that the groove 7 is of plane-parallel inner walls the flanges 5 and 6 is limited. One or more plate-shaped components are then in this groove
• Figure 4 shows - based on Figure 2 - one
• FIG. 5 also shows the position of a using a radial section along the line C-C in FIG. 5
• stepped shoulders 13 and 14 are located on which the projections and recesses according to the axial
• FIG. 8 shows a section along the line B-B in FIG. 7, while FIG. 9 shows a section through FIG. 7 along the line D-D in the region of the dovetail connections in order to better illustrate paragraphs 13 and 14.
• Figure lo shows a perspective view of three plate-shaped components 15, which can consist of glass or any other resilient material and fixed between three clamping bodies 2 are. There are a total of seven in the present case
• Figure 11 shows a further embodiment of the application of the connecting element according to the invention.
• the plate-shaped component 15 has a thickness that is greater than the width of the groove 7.
• a receiving profile 16 which is inseparable from the component 15 is connected.
• the receiving profile 16 forms, as it were, an edging of the component 15 and is provided on the side facing away from the component 15 in the region of its yoke with a web 17 which has a thickness such that it can be inserted into the groove 7 without further ado. In this he is replaced by a
• Threaded holes 8 is used.
• This clamping screw can be made of metal. However, if a glass plate is to be clamped, a clamping screw 18 made of a high-strength plastic is preferably used.
• clamping bodies 2 are only represented by small circles and are not described in detail. To a certain extent, they form the nodes of a space latticework consisting of vertical columns and horizontal plate-shaped components 15, which can have practically any shape. So shows Figure 12 a shelf landscape from (in plan view) four rectangular plates 15a, three square
• Plates 15b three approximately triangular plates 15c and four circular plates 15d. From this it can already be seen what design diversity the
• FIGS. 13 and 14 show a table 19 which has a table top 20.
• Fasteners connected to the table top 20, they have feet 21 at the lower end.
• the storage plate 23 which is connected to all the columns 1 by the clamping bodies 2 according to the invention. It can be seen from this that the storage plate 23, which here represents the plate-shaped components 15 according to FIGS. 10 to 12, is infinitely variable in height. It can in particular be used retrospectively, and it is also possible, in turn, retrospectively
• the table 24 according to FIG. 15 differs from that according to FIGS. 13 and 14 only in that the columns 1a are cranked twice. If the clamping body were formed in one piece in such a case, it would not be possible to move it from the ends of the columns to the middle, recessed part of the columns. Because of the two-part design of the clamping body, assembly is also possible on columns whose ends are not accessible at all for sliding the clamping body on.
• FIGS. 16 and 17 On the basis of FIGS. 16 and 17, it is explained in what way an entire cupboard or shelf wall can be constructed using the clamping bodies 2 according to the invention.
• the ceiling of the otherwise unspecified room is designated 25, and in the present case a total of six columns 1 extend from the floor to this ceiling, between which numerous plate-shaped components 15 are inserted in the manner already described.
• a cabinet element 26 with two doors 26a and 26b is inserted in the upper area (left in FIG. 17).
• the lower area is designed as a desk 27, and a roller chair 28 is assigned to it. So that the desk 27 receives a larger projection towards the front, three further columns 1b are connected upstream of the front row of the columns 1, to which the part of the plate-shaped components 15 protruding towards the front is fastened in the manner already described. A number of drawers 27a are integrated in the desk 27 and are mounted in guides (not shown here).
• Figure 18 shows the cross section of a in the center
• Clamping bodies 2 are also used in this case, plate-shaped components 15, the dimensions of which are determined by those of the support bracket 29 with the mirror elements 30. It can be seen that the
• the support bracket 29 can have any cross section, for example also a square cross section.
• Figures 19 and 20 show a showcase 31, which is in the center of a space grid of columns 1 and
• plate-shaped components 15 is arranged and has a glass door 32.
• the display case 31 is also divided in height by plates 33, which are of no interest here, however.
• the plate-shaped components 15 consist in the present case of approximately triangular glass plates, so that in the manner specified
• the exemplary embodiments shown show only a few of the practically infinite number of possibilities for using the subject matter of the invention.
• the clamping body can be made of plastic (then preferably glass fiber reinforced), but also made of metal, and their surface can be refined, for example
• a multi-part clamping body is arranged on a single column and that the parts engage in a form-fitting manner in such a way that they are subjected to tensile stress in the circumferential direction.
• it can be fixed in relation to the column by means of a pressure screw which is clamped against the column, and it is not necessary to let a tension screw pass through the column or to connect each clamping element to two columns which are at a distance from one another at the same time.

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