WO2015155615A1

WO2015155615A1 - Hanging cupboard with extractable inner shelving

Info

Publication number: WO2015155615A1
Application number: PCT/IB2015/051458
Authority: WO
Inventors: Roberto PROVASI
Original assignee: Provasi S.R.L.
Priority date: 2014-04-08
Filing date: 2015-02-27
Publication date: 2015-10-15
Also published as: ITMI20140137U1

Abstract

The present description concerns a hanging cupboard (1) suitable for being mounted canti-levered on a vertical wall (10) of a room. A characteristic of the hanging cupboard is that it comprises a parallelepiped hollow body (2), at least one first pair of guides, arranged projecting horizontally from said vertical wall (10), on which guides said parallelepiped body is mounted to slide from and towards said vertical wall (10), at least one second pair of guides arranged inside said parallelepiped body (2) and arranged in a vertical direction and perpendicular to that of said first pair of guides, a shelf body (5) housed in said parallelepiped hollow body (2) and connected to said second pair of guides for vertical sliding along them from a position in which said shelf body is completely inside the parallelepiped hollow body to a position in which it is substantially outside of it and vice-versa.

Description

DESCRIPTION

Title: "Hanging cupboard with extractable inner shelving"

Technical field

The present description refers to a hanging cupboard suitable for being mounted canti-levered on a vertical wall.

Particularly even if not exclusively the cupboard to which the present description refers has an application as a hanging element of fitted kitchen furniture.

State of the art

According to the technology currently in use, hanging cupboards are generally provided with one or more front closing doors and inside them it is possible to house some shelves that constitute a shelving unit on which various objects to be used in the kitchen are placed.

Not always are the aforementioned shelving units easily accessible for the user since they can be at a high level, in relation to the height of the user himself, causing serious inconvenience.

The purpose of the finding is to avoid said inconvenience by bringing the shelves of the shelf body to a level at which it is convenient for the user to take the objects that are placed on them.

The purpose is accomplished, in accordance with the present invention, through a hanging cupboard suitable for being mounted canti-levered on a vertical wall, according to the following independent claim.

In particular, a characteristic is to have a parallelepiped hollow body equipped with at least one first pair of guides, arranged projecting horizontally from said vertical wall, on which guides said parallelepiped body is mounted for sliding from and towards said vertical wall,. Moreover at least one second pair of guides is foreseen, arranged inside said parallelepiped body and arranged in a vertical direction and perpendicular to that of said first pair of guides. There is also a shelf body housed in the parallelepiped hollow body and it is connected to the second pair of guides for vertical sliding along them from a position in which said shelf body is completely inside the parallelepiped hollow body to a position in which it is substantially outside of it and vice-versa.

Brief description of the drawings

The finding will now be described more with reference to the attached drawings, given only for indicating and not limiting puiposes, in which:

- figure 1 schematically shows the cupboard according to the finding in position against the vertical wall of a kitchen;

- figure 2 shows the hanging cupboard according to the finding in horizontally advanced position with respect to the vertical wall of the kitchen;

- figure 3 shows a perspective view of the hanging cupboard according to the finding with the shelf body partially out from the parallelepiped body;

- figure 4 shows a perspective view of the cupboard according to the finding with the shelf body completely projecting outside of the parallelepiped body.

Detailed description

With reference to the aforementioned figures, reference numeral 2 indicates the parallelepiped body of the hanging cupboard wholly indicated with 1.

The hanging cupboard, in the example shown on the drawings, constitutes an element of a fitted kitchen alongside other hanging elements one of which has been indicated with 3.

The body 2 does not possess any conventional door on its front part whereas it comprises an opening 4 at its lower horizontal side.

Inside the parallelepiped body 2 a shelf body is housed, wholly indicated with 5 having shelves 6 and 7 on which objects used in the kitchen are rested, like for example those schematically indicated in figure 4 with 8 and 9.

The body 2 is connected to the vertical wall 10 of the room in which it is mounted through a pair of horizontal guides positioned canti-levered, not visible in the drawings, on which said body 2 can slide from and towards said vertical wall 10 positioning itself with respect to it as shown in figures 2, 3 and 4.

At least one second pair of guides, also not shown in the drawings, is arranged inside said parallelepiped body 2 and arranged in a vertical direction and perpendicular to that of the first pair of guides.

The shelf body 5 is connected to said second pair of guides in order to be able to cany out vertical sliding along them from a position in which it is completely inside the hollow body 2 and a position in which it is substantially outside of it and vice- versa.

The movements of the body 2 and those of the body 5 are preferably earned out through electric servo-motors with control arranged outside the cupboard 1.

Safety devices are also foreseen to interrupt the movement of the bodies 2 and 5 in the case of need or danger, for example if an obstacle were to be located between said shelf body and said opening 4 of the hollow body 2.

From what has been described above, it is clear that in accordance with the finding the shelf body can be brought to a convenient level for the user, allowing the predetermined puipose to be achieved.

The materials as well as the sizes can of course vary, without for this reason departing from the scope of the finding as described above and claimed hereafter.

Claims

1. Hanging cupboard (1) suitable for being mounted canti-levered on a vertical wall (10) of a room, characterised in that it comprises:

- a parallelepiped hollow body (2),

- at least one first pair of guides, arranged projecting horizontally from said vertical wall (10), on which guides said parallelepiped body is mounted for sliding from and towards said vertical wall (10),

- at least one second pair of guides arranged inside said parallelepiped body (2) and arranged in a vertical direction and perpendicular to that of said first pair of guides,

- a shelf body (5) housed in said parallelepiped hollow body (2) and connected to said second pair of guides for vertical sliding along them from a position in which said shelf body is completely inside the parallelepiped hollow body to a position in which it is substantially outside of it and vice-versa.

2. Hanging cupboard (1) according to claim 1, wherein motor means are foreseen between the first pair of guides and a parallelepiped body and second motor means are foreseen between said shelf body and said second pair of guides, said first and second motor means being electric and able to be controlled from outside said cupboard.

3. Hanging cupboard (1) according to claims 1 and 2, characterised in that said parallelepiped body (2) has an opening (4) at its lower horizontal side.

4. Hanging cupboard (1) according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterised in that the sliding of said shelf body (5) takes place in a vertical direction through said opening (4) of the lower horizontal side of said parallelepiped body (2).

5. Hanging cupboard (1) according to any one of claims 1 to 4 characterised in that it comprises safety devices that stop at least the movement of said shelf body (5) in the case in which an obstacle is positioned between said body and said opening (4) of the horizontal side of the parallelepiped body.

6. Hanging cupboard (1) according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterised in that it constitutes an element of a fitted kitchen.