CA2561392C - Cabinet with multi-compartment cabinet body - Google Patents

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CA2561392C
CA2561392C CA2561392A CA2561392A CA2561392C CA 2561392 C CA2561392 C CA 2561392C CA 2561392 A CA2561392 A CA 2561392A CA 2561392 A CA2561392 A CA 2561392A CA 2561392 C CA2561392 C CA 2561392C
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Samuel Klassen
Matthias Krueger
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47BTABLES; DESKS; OFFICE FURNITURE; CABINETS; DRAWERS; GENERAL DETAILS OF FURNITURE
    • A47B96/00Details of cabinets, racks or shelf units not covered by a single one of groups A47B43/00 - A47B95/00; General details of furniture

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The invention concerns a cabinet provided with a cabinet body (10) comprising at least one vertical row of superimposed compartments (F1, F2 Fn) which are separated by means of shelves (13) and which can be opened and closed with compartment doors (25.1, 25.2) articulated on the cabinet. The invention aims at simplifying and substantially reducing the cost of parts and for mounting said cabinet. Therefor, a joint rod (20) extending over the height of the cabinet body is assigned to each vertical row of compartments; the shelves (13) are guided by means of a shoulder (14) in the hinge zone having the joint rod and are fixed vertically on the joint rod by means of flange sleeves (16, 17) overlooking the upper and/or lower side of the shelves and their shoulder;
the compartment doors adjusted to the heights of the compartments bear, on their rear surface, in the hinge zone, housings (29) for the flange sleeves and capable of being covered with a shroud (30); and the compartment doors can be installed, via the housings, on the flange sleeves oriented towards the compartment shelves and can be pivotally fixed on the flange sleeves by means of shrouds mounted on the compartment doors.

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Cabinet With Multi-Compartment Cabinet Body The present invention relates to a cabinet with cabinet body that has at least one vertical stack of storage compartments situated one above another that are divided by means of compartment bottoms and are opened and closed by means of compartment doors hinge-s mounted to the cabinet body.
The known cabinets of this type require a considerable number of parts and a considerable amount of assembly effort for affixing the compartment bottoms in the cabinet body and for attaching the compartment doors to the cabinet body in pivoting fashion. This is further complicated when the storage compartments must be of different heights.
The object of the present invention, therefore, is to embody a cabinet of the type mentioned at the beginning in such a way that the number of parts and amount of assembly effort required for affixing the compartment bottoms in the cabinet body and for hinge-mounting the compartment doors to the cabinet body are significantly reduced without losing the possibility for creating storage compartments of different heights.
This object is attained according to the present invention by virtue of the fact that each vertical stack of storage compartments is associated with a hinge rod extending over the height of the cabinet body; the compartment bottoms are guided by means of a shoulder in the hinge region and are vertically mounted onto the hinge rod with flange bushings that protrude beyond the upper and/or lower side of the compartment bottoms and their shoulders; the compartment doors, which are matched to the heights of the storage compartments, have recesses for the flange bushings on their back sides in the hinge region, which can be covered by means of a cover; and with their recesses oriented toward the storage compartments the compartment doors can be placed onto the flange bushings and be attached to the flange bushings in a pivoting fashion by means of the covers that are then mounted onto the compartment doors.
The flange bushings thus perform not only the function of affixing the compartment bottoms, but simultaneously also serve as hinge elements for the compartment doors.
This eliminates the need for numerous functional parts on the cabinet body and the compartment bottoms. In addition, it simplifies and facilitates the hinge-mounting of the compartment doors to the cabinet body.

According to a preferred embodiment, the hinge rod is mounted spaced apart from the front side of a wall of the cabinet body or a vertical dividing wall of the cabinet body; it is fastened by means of support elements to the front side of the bottom wall and top wall of the cabinet body. This makes the hinge locations of the compartment doors easily accessible.
According to one embodiment, the connection between the compartment bottoms and the flange bushings is carried out so that the flange bushings are inserted snugly and in nonrotating fashion into openings in the shoulders of the compartment bottoms and the flange bushings have a through bore for the hinge rod.
If the through bore of the flange bushings and the outer diameter of the hinge rod are also matched to produce a press fit and the flange bushings are thus secured to the hinge rod in nonrotating fashion, then the compartment door can be easily pivoted on the hinge rod. It is also not difficult when constructing the cabinet to adapt the storage compartments to different heights and close these with correspondingly adapted compartment doors.
1 S The compartment doors can be structurally designed in any number of ways:
the compartment doors can be embodied in the form of solid doors with recesses on the back for the flange bushings or the compartment doors can be embodied in the form of basic boxes that are open at the back, with filling plates inserted into the back sides.
According to one modification, in order to close the storage compartments, the compartment doors have a closing element on the vertical side oriented away from the hinge side and when the compartment doors are closed, these closing elements come in contact with counterpart closing elements that are attached to a vertical wall of the cabinet body or a vertical dividing wall of the cabinet body. An extremely wide variety of closing elements and counterpart closing elements can be used, which, in addition to the pure closing function, can also perform safety functions.
The alignment and adjustment of the compartment doors in relation to the storage compartments is achieved by simple means in that the compartment doors and/or the covers are provided with fastener recesses embodied in the form of horizontal slots. It is thus possible to move and therefore adjust the compartment doors to a limited degree in the horizontal direction.
After the connection between the compartment doors and the double-walled cover is produced, access to the fastening points can be prevented by means of stoppers or the like.
The invention will be explained in detail in conjunction with an exemplary embodiment shown in the drawings.
Fig. 1 is a partial front view of the cabinet with a plurality of storage compartments that are divided by compartment bottoms and can be closed by means of hinge-mounted compartment doors, Fig. 2 is a partial view with the hinge rod and the affixed compartment bottoms, Fig. 3 is a partial view of the back side of a compartment door, with the cover for forming the sockets for mounting the flange bushings on the hinge rod, Fig. 4 is a view of the hinge side of a compartment door with an attached cover, and Fig. 5 shows the compartment doors on the back side that is provided with closing elements.
1 S The cabinet shown in a perspective, partial front view in Fig. 1 has a cabinet body 10 that is comprised of a vertical wall 10 and a dividing wall 12 and includes a vertical stack of storage compartments F1, F2, ..., Fn. This stack is enclosed at the bottom by a bottom wall and is enclosed at the top by a top wall of the cabinet body 10. The cabinet body 10 can also have a plurality of such stacks of storage compartments F1, F2, ..., Fn, which are then in turn enclosed on the right side with a wall 11 of the cabinet body 10.
Spaced apart from the front side of the wall 11, a hinge rod 20 extending over the entire height of the cabinet body 10 is provided, which is attached spaced apart from the front side of the wall 11. To that end, securing elements are fastened to the bottom wall and top wall. Depending on the desired number and height, compartment bottoms 13 divide the space between the wall 11 and the dividing wall 12.
As the perspective partial view according to Fig. 2 shows in detail, the compartment bottoms 13 protrude partially out from the cabinet body 10 and are guided by means of shoulders 14 in the hinge region with the hinge rod 20. These shoulders 14 are provided with through bores 1 S so that the hinge rod 20 can pass through them. Flange sleeves 16 and 17 are inserted into these through bores 15 and are preferably attached to the hinge rod 20 in nonrotating fashion. The through bores 15 of each of the compartment bottoms 13 can accommodate two respective flange bushings 16 and 17 that protrude from the upper and lower side of the compartment bottom 13. Since the flange bushings 16 and 17 with their bores for the hinge rod 20 are adapted to the outer diameter of the hinge rod 20 so that only a press-fit is possible, these flange bushings 16 and 17 can fasten the compartment bottoms 13 to any location on the cabinet body 10 or on a dividing wall 12 without requiring additional fastening elements. The division of the stack in the cabinet body can then be easily adapted to the desired number and height of compartments, as depicted by the compartment bottoms 13.1 and 13.2 in Fig. 2.
As is already clear from Fig. l, the storage compartments F1, F2, ..., Fn are closed by individual height-adapted compartment doors 25.1 and 25.2, which are hinge-mounted to the hinge rod 20. On the vertical side oriented away from the hinge, the compartment doors 25.1 and 25.2 are provided with closing elements 26 that can be brought into operative connection with counterpart closing elements 22 fastened to the dividing wall 12. It is thus possible to select any number of embodiments and to thus adapt the function and security of the closure to the desired requirements. The backs of the compartment doors 25.1 and 25.2 have recesses 29 in the region of the closing side so that they can be slid onto the flange bushings 16 and 17 that are affixed to the hinge rod 20 and protrude into a storage compartment Fl, F2, or Fn. Then the recess 29 of the compartment door 25.1 or 25.2 is closed by means of a cover 30, thus completing the support for the flange bushings 16 and 17. If the cover 30 is attached to the compartment door 25.1 or 25.2, then it is supported in pivoting fashion on the flange bushings 16 and 17.
This is shown in the view in Fig. 4, although in this instance, the flange bushings 16 and 17 are depicted in the finished support receptacles of the compartment door 25.1.
It should also be mentioned that the cover 29 can be embodied in the form of a profile section that can be embodied as double-walled (31, 32). As is clear from Fig.
3, the addition 34 for producing the support receptacle for the flange bushings 16 and 17 is formed onto the wall 32. The cover 29 is fastened to the back side of the compartment door 25.1 by means of the fastening points 35 of the cover 29 and the fastening points 19 of the compartment door 25.1. The fastening points are embodied for cabinet connections; in the wall 31 of the cover, the fastening points 35 embodied in the form of horizontal fastening slots are situated in cup-like recesses 33 and are then covered by means of stoppers or the like after the connection has been produced. These slot-shaped fastening points 35 can be used to horizontally align and adjust the compartment door S 25.1.
This type of hinge-mounting of the compartment doors 25.1 and 25.2 has the advantage that the hinge rod 20 and the compartment bottoms 13 can already be assembled and aligned before the hinge-mounting of the compartment doors 25.1 and 25.2. The subsequent hinge-mounting of the compartment doors 25.1 and 25.2 onto the flange bushings 16 and 17 already affixed to the hinge rod 20 and the compartment bottoms 13 can then be carned out with little assembly effort.
As can also be inferred from Figs. 4 and 5, the present invention offers numerous possibilities for the construction of the compartment doors 25.1 and 25.2. The compartment door can be embodied in the form of a solid door plate or can be embodied in the form of a base part, which is open at the back and is equipped with bent edges 27, into which a compartment plate 28 is inserted. In any case, as shown in Fig.
S, except for the flange bushings 16 and 17 and the cover 29, the compartment door 25.1 can be a prefabricated part and can be mounted onto the hinge rod 20 and, with the fastening of the compartment door 25.1 to the cover 29, can be hinge-mounted in pivoting fashion onto the flange bushings 16 and 17 affixed to the hinge rod 20.

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1. A cabinet with a cabinet body, having at least one vertical stack of storage compartments situated one above another that are divided by means of compartment bottoms and are opened and closed by means of compartment doors hinge-mounted to the cabinet body, characterized that each vertical stack of storage compartments is associated with a hinge rod extending over the height of the cabinet body, the compartment bottoms are guided by means of a shoulder in the hinge region with the hinge rod and are vertically mounted onto the hinge rod with flange bushings that protrude beyond the upper and/or lower side of the compartment bottoms and of each associated shoulder thereof, the compartment doors which are matched to the heights of the storage compartments, have recesses for the flange bushings on their back sides in the hinge region, which can be covered by means of a cover, and with their recesses oriented toward the storage compartments, the compartment doors can be placed onto the flange bushings and be attached to the flange bushings in a pivoting fashion by means of associated ones of the covers that are then mounted onto the compartment doors.
2. The cabinet as recited in claim 1, characterized in that the hinge rod is attached spaced apart from the front side of a wall of the cabinet body or a vertical dividing wall of the cabinet body and is fastened to the front side of a bottom wall and a top wall of the cabinet body by means of support elements.
3. The cabinet as recited in claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the flange bushings are inserted snugly and in nonrotating fashion into openings in the shoulders of the compartment bottoms and the flange bushings have a through bore for the hinge rod.
4. The cabinet as recited in claim 3, characterized in that the through bore of the flange bushings and the outer diameter of the hinge rod are embodied to produce a press fit and the flange bushings are thus secured to the hinge rod in nonrotating fashion.
5. The cabinet as recited in one of claims 1 through 4, characterized in that the storage compartments and the compartment doors have different vertical heights.
6. The cabinet as recited in any one of claims 1 through 5, characterized in that the compartment doors are embodied in the form of solid doors with recesses on the rear for the flange bushings.
7. The cabinet as recited in any one of claims 1 through 5, characterized in that the compartment doors are embodied in the form of boxes that are open at the back, with filling plates inserted into the back sides.
8. The cabinet as recited in any one of claims 1 through 7, characterized in that each compartment door has a closing element on the vertical side opposite from the hinge side and when the compartment doors are closed, the closing element of each of said compartment doors comes in contact with a counterpart closing element that is attached to a vertical wall of the cabinet body or a vertical dividing walI of the cabinet body.
9. The cabinet as recited in any one of claims 1 through 7, characterized in that the compartment doors and/or the covers have fastener openings embodied in the form of horizontal slots.
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