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
  • A47B21/00—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards
  • A47B21/06—Tables or desks for office equipment, e.g. typewriters, keyboards characterised by means for holding, fastening or concealing cables
• • 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
  • A47B2200/00—General construction of tables or desks
  • A47B2200/0011—Underframes
  • A47B2200/002—Legs
  • A47B2200/0026—Desks with C-shaped leg

Definitions

• the invention relates to a cheek for office furniture.
• modern office furniture programs are usually made up of a few structural components, which are assembled in different arrangements in the manner of a modular system to form the individual pieces of office furniture that form a complete office furniture program, such as desks, work tables and shelves.
• the use of coordinated construction components enables, above all, the construction of different workplace combinations.
• the main components of numerous office furniture ranges are the vertical side panels as load-bearing components.
• work tables of different sizes and designs consist of two side cheeks with feet, between which a worktop is attached.
• Counters or shelves can be constructed in a corresponding manner, in which the stacked shelves, shelves or closed cabinet elements are supported by the two side cheeks.
• the cheeks form the Stand for all pieces of office furniture in a uniform office furniture range.
• the side cheeks consist of square steel tubes which are connected to one another by welded-in intermediate pieces and are provided with a sheet metal cladding.
• the inner cavity of the cheek accessible through a removable cover, forms a cable duct.
• the production costs for these welded and sheet metal-clad cheeks are relatively high.
• extruded profiles as posts or cheeks of office furniture programs which have vertical undercut fastening grooves in their side surfaces. These enable an adjustable connection with the components to be connected in a particularly simple manner.
• Extruded profiles with a larger cross-sectional area which enable the formation of cable ducts with a sufficiently large cross-sectional area, are very expensive to manufacture, in particular because of the required tool costs.
• the object of the invention is therefore to provide a cheek for office furniture, on the one hand a large extent, the use of extruded • allows, but then without allowing excessive manufacturing costs, the formation of appropriately sized cable channels in the cheek.
• the cheek has two vertical edge profile bars which are connected to a web wall extending therebetween, that the fields lying on both sides between the edge profile bars are each covered with an insert wall, and that the edge profile bars each have one in their two side surfaces have vertical undercut fastening groove.
• the web wall represents a stable connection between the two edge profile bars; however, it takes up very little space in the area between the two edge profile bars. Cheeks of different widths (deep) can be produced in a simple manner and at low additional costs by producing the web wall and the insert walls in different widths. The edge profile bars to be produced with a complicated cross-sectional design and thus higher tool costs remain unchanged for cheeks of different widths and can therefore be manufactured in large quantities and thus economically.
• the load-bearing function of the cheek is only taken over by the two edge profile bars on which the fastening grooves for the subsequent components are located. Therefore, the web wall in between can be made relatively thin. Because of this design, the weight of the cheek is low despite its high load-bearing capacity and stability.
• the cable ducts are easily accessible over the entire height of the cheek after the insert wall has been removed, so that the cables can be inserted easily and also replaced later.
• the web wall is connected to the two edge profile bars in a particularly simple manner by means of screws, each of which is screwed into a nut which is located in a vertical undercut groove of the edge profile bar.
• the web wall each has two web wall sections which are offset opposite one another in relation to a central plane of the cheek, each of which has one of the two edge profile bars through an angled flange connected is.
• This arrangement in which one web wall section on one side of the cheek and the other web wall section on the other side of the cheek is offset from the central plane, so that there is an axially symmetrical cross-sectional structure of the web wall, a cable duct of sufficient is obtained on both sides of the cheek Large cross-sectional dimensions that are deeper than half the thickness of the cheek.
• this arrangement makes the screws in the central plane of the cheek more accessible for connection to the edge profile bars, because the adjacent web wall section is offset on one of the two sides in relation to the central plane.
• Fig. 2 is an enlarged horizontal section along the line II-II in Fig. 1 and
• FIG. 3 is an enlarged partial view in the direction of arrow III in FIG. 1st
• the work table shown in Fig. 1 has a table top 1 which is supported by two side cheeks 2. Each of the two cheeks is connected to a foot 3. As shown in Fig. 2 in detail, each cheek 2 has two vertical edge profile bars 4, which are designed as light metal injection molded profiles (extrusion profiles).
• the two edge profile bars 4 are connected by a web wall 5 extending between them.
• the web wall 5 consists of two web wall sections 5a, 5b, which are offset opposite one another with respect to a central plane 6 of the cheek 2.
• the respective web wall section 5a or 5b, which is adjacent to an edge profile bar 4 is connected to this in each case via a flange 7 which is angled perpendicular to the central plane 6.
• the flange 7 rests on the edge profile bar 4 in front of a vertical, undercut groove 8.
• the web wall 5 has in its central region a central wall strip 11, for example at 45 ° to the central plane 6, which connects the two web wall sections 5a and 5b to one another.
• the middle wall strip 11 continues on both sides beyond the respectively adjoining web wall section 5a or 5b in a rib 12.
• the web wall 5 is also performed as an extruded profile.
• the fields lying on both sides between the edge profile bars 4 are each covered with an insert wall 13, which is designed as a flat extruded profile and how the web wall 5 can be made of light metal or plastic.
• the two insert walls 13 have the two on their Edge profile bars 4 facing edges each have an inwardly projecting locking strip 14, which can be locked with a slightly angled section behind a locking edge 15 of the adjacent edge profile bar 4.
• a cable channel 16 is formed, which is intended for receiving ascending cables for electrical or electronic devices.
• the edge profile bars 4 have in their two side surfaces 17, which lie approximately in the outer surface of the insert walls 13, each have a vertical undercut fastening groove 18, which are used for connection to subsequent components of the office furniture pieces.
• a horizontal cross member 19 (FIG. 3) is fastened to the cheeks 2 by means of connecting pieces 20 which engage in the vertical fastening grooves 18.
• the cross member 19 supports the worktop 1 via brackets 21.
• the edge profile bars 4 each have a central longitudinal bore 22, which is used at the lower end of the cheek 2 for receiving a plug-in connection for the foot 3 and at the upper end for receiving attached end pieces 23 (FIG. 3). Between the end pieces 23 of the two edge profile bars 4, an upper end profile 24 is inserted, which closes the interior of the cheek 2 at the top.
• edge profile bars 4 are rounded on their outside facing away from the web wall 5 with a radius which corresponds to half the thickness of the cheek 2.

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• Details Of Indoor Wiring (AREA)

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• 1990
  • 1990-05-02 DE DE4014083A patent/DE4014083A1/de not_active Withdrawn
• 1991
  • 1991-04-25 WO PCT/EP1991/000798 patent/WO1991016835A1/de active IP Right Grant
  • 1991-04-25 EP EP91908229A patent/EP0527161B1/de not_active Expired - Lifetime
  • 1991-04-25 DE DE91908229T patent/DE59100911D1/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
• 1992
  • 1992-10-28 FI FI924894A patent/FI924894A/fi not_active Application Discontinuation

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