CA1127699A - Furniture construction system - Google Patents

Furniture construction system

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CA1127699A
CA1127699A CA237,032A CA237032A CA1127699A CA 1127699 A CA1127699 A CA 1127699A CA 237032 A CA237032 A CA 237032A CA 1127699 A CA1127699 A CA 1127699A
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plate element
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Claus Winter
Peter B. Andresen
Siegfried Hendel
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INBAUPRODUCT INTER-IP AG
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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
    • A47B47/00Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or building-up from elements
    • A47B47/04Cabinets, racks or shelf units, characterised by features related to dismountability or building-up from elements made mainly of wood or plastics
    • A47B47/047Modular arrangements of similar assemblies of elements

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE
A furniture construction comprising a plurality of plate elements arranged horizontally and vertically according to choice, of the same thickness and each having hole rows in the region of two oppositely lying edges of the plate element and of angle brackets for fixing the plate elements to one another with the aid of screws or the like, the distance be-tween the centers of the holes in the hole rows being the same as the thickness of the plate elements and the first and last holes of at least one plate element being at a distance from the edge of the plate element equal to the thickness thereof and the first and last holes of at least one other plate element being at a distance from the edge of the plate element of half the thickness of the plate element.

Description

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- This invention relates to a furniture construction system which consists of plate elements arranged as desired vertically or horizontally, of the same thickness and with rows of holes in the region of two adjacently lying edges of the plate elements, and of angle brackets for fixing the plate elements to one another wlth the aid of screws or the like.
It is known to build the walls of cupboards and furni-ture by means of previously prepared vertically running row~
of holes in the wall parts as well as cut scre~s fitting therein and angled brackets.
With the aid of these elements, varied covered wall, shelving and furniture combinations can be made up using pre-viously manufactured contructional parts ~rhich can be erected by the user. By the use of self-tapping fixing screws, only simply bored holes ~ithout a thread are necessary. ~he plate-shaped side or intermediate walls are provided with vertical rows of fixing holes, the interhole distance being about double that of the wall thickness of the material or chosen at will.
These known cupboard, wall and furniture construction systems have the disadvantage that t~o vertical rows of fixin~
holes lack the arran~ement for a simple wall thickness. Further-more this arrangement of hole rows forbids the building in of vertical intermediate walls according to choice, the building in of doors as vertically opening flaps and v~ce versa accor-ding to choice, unless additional chanGes to the constructional parts are undertaken.
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The present invention seeks to provide a furniture con-struction system which can gi~e many combination possibili-ties with only a few constructional parts, particularly such a system enabling vertical intermediate walls to be installed S according to choice. The furniture construction system according to the invention makes it possible to construct furniture of combinations of both vertical and horizontal plate elements.

According to the present invention there is provided a furniture construction comprising a plurality of plate ele-ments arranged horizontally and vertically according to choice, of the same thickness and each having hole rows in the region of two oppositely lying edges of the plate element and of angle brackets for fixing the plate elements to one another with the aid Or screws or the like, the distance between the centers of the holes in the hole rows being the same as the thickness of the plate elements and the first and last holes of at least one plate element being at a distance from the edge of the plate element equal to the thickness thereof and the first and last holes of at least one other plate element being at a distance from the edge of the plate element of half the thickness of the plate element.

Using the two types of plate elements, various combina-tion pieces of furniture can be made. Furthe~rmore between two given vertlcal and two given horizontal plate e]ements, intermediate walls can be arranged either vertically or hori-zontally without the need for other constructional elements as is the case with known types of construction. The pres-ence of 1~7~

horizontal hole rows parallel to the edges of horizontal construction parts enables vertical intermediate walls and flaps to be inserted as desired in the furniture construc-tion system of the invention.
~n important feature of the invention arising from the arrangement of the holes in the hole rows consists in`the ability to construct a satisfactory cross-connection of four wall plates, two Or each type. '~le plates may also be joined together using brackets to form T-connections and an~le con-nections. Because of the spacin~ of the holes from the edges, a cro~s-connection can bc made in which the holes in both horizontal and vertical fixing hole rows are equidistant from the central planes of the two pairs of plates.
The new furniture construction system which is erected with the aid of angle brackets matchin~ unitarily with the hole row arrangement and self tapping scre~s fitting therein ~ives rise to a plurality of combination possibilities with much diminished storage requirements. All sorts of arrange-ments can be constructed from pre~orm~d plates, ev~n by the do-it-yourself constructor,without additional alteration of the constructional parts, without subsequent working on the~
and without having to store a number of special constructional parts.
The use of a basic shape of plates with rows of holes in it for horizontal and vertical construction of parts enables both the customary building in of doors and the mounting of vertically opening flaps of any size and the exchange of doors , . ..

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for flaps and vice versa without suhsequent working or special parts. As well as mounting cross, T- and angle connections, division into a number of yertical or horizontal compartments as well as the arrangement of incomplete vertical intermediate walls is possible in economi~c fashion with the aid of the new constructional system.

The furniture construction system according to the inven-tion is also suitable for room dividers made of modular con-struction parts.

For the furniture construction as mentioned above it isnecessary to use at least two plate elements, one plate ele-ment having a distance between hole centers equal to the thickness of the plate element, and the first and the last hole in the hole row having a distance from the edge of the plate element of the thickness of the plate element. The other plate element has a distance between hole centers equal to the thickness of the plate element and the first and the last hole in the hole row has a distance equal to half the thickness of the plate element to the edges.

To avoid the use of two different plate elements it is possible in accordance with a further embodiment of the present invention to have the pitch of thc holes in a hole row equal to ha]f the thickness of the element and to have the distance of the first and the last hole in the hole row of the plate element from the edge equal to half 1~7~9 the thickness of the element. In accordance with this embodiment of the present invention only one form of plate elements is necessary.
Embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of Example in the drawing in which:
Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a wall cupboard incorporating a writing table;
Figure 2 is a perspective view of a wall unit according to the invention with non-continuous vertical intermediate wall and exchangeable door and echangeable flap;
Figure 3 is a cross-section of a T-connection according to the invention, Figure 4 is a cross-section of a cross-connection according to the invention, Figure 5 is an angled bracket shown in situ, and Figures 6, 6a and 6b show the three different plate elements in part in accordance with the present invention.
In the figures vertical walls 3, 3a, 4 and 4a are pro-vided with vertical hole rows 2 and 2a which have a hole distance S which corresponds to the wall thickness S1 of plate elements 3, 3a, 4, 4a ~..7, 7a. The plate elements are put together in desired fashion with the aid of angle brackets lo, loa, lob, loc and self-tapping screws 12, 12a, 12b. Thus angle or T-connections according to Figure 3 and horizontal or vertical cross-connections according to Figure 4 can be assembled with the same 1~7~9~

similarly produced parts without change or subsequent work.
Because of the arrangement of the holes relative to the edges of the plate elements, cross-connections can be made in which the rows of visible holes each commence at a distance A ( = 1.5S) from the centre of the connection (where planes XX and YY in Figure 4 intersect). The T-connection shown in ~igure 3 is made in the same way though using a different part of bracket lo for engagement with self-tapping screws 12a.
The vertical fixing hole rows 2, 2a serve both for fixing horizontal walls 5, 5a or shelves 8 and for building in doors 6, 6a, 6b by means of door hinges 11 and the self-tapping screws 12, 12a, 12b which cut their thread themselves on introducing into the holes.
As well as the vertical hole rows there are also horizontally running hole rows 1, la on the preferably hori-zontally mounted construction parts although their use is also possible as vertical walls.
With the aid of the horizontal hole rows 1, la, vertical intermediate walls 4, 4a or vertical partitions 9 can be built in at any place desired between horizontal walls.
As is e~pecially evident from Figures 1 and 2, the horizontal hole rows allow doors 6a, 6b or flaps 7, 7a to he mounted according to choice and to be exchanged.
As shown in the figures 6, 6a and 6b there are three embodiments of plate elements in accordance with the present invention whereby S is the thickness of the plate elements.

Fig. 6 shows a plate element with a distance between hole centers and the distance between the first and the last hole in the hole row and the edge of S.

Fig. 6a shows a plate element with the same distances be-tween hole centers S but with a distance between the edges and the first and the last hole in the hole row of S/2.

Using plate elements like these a plurality of combina-tions is possible and only two different forms of plate ele-ments are necessary.

Fig. 6b shows a plate element having the same plurality of possible combinations but needing only one form of plate elements because the distance between hole centers and the distance of the first and the last hole in a hole row from the neighbouring edge of the plate element are identical, namely S/2.

Claims (2)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:-
1. A furniture construction comprising a plurality of plate elements arranged horizontally and vertically according to choice, of the same thickness and each having hole rows in the region of two oppositely lying edges of the plate element and of angle brackets for fixing the plate elements to one another with the aid of screws or the like, characterized in that the dis-tances between centres of the holes in each hole rows being identical to half of the thickness of the plate elements and the distance of the first and the last hole in a hole row from the edge of the plate element being also half of the thickness of the plate element.
2. In a furniture construction system in which furniture is made from a plurality of plate elements arranged horizontally and vertically according to choice, of the same thickness and each plate element having hole rows in the region of two oppositely lying edges of the plate element, angle brackets for fixing the plate elements to one another and fixing elements for fixing the brackets to the plate elements the improvement comprising at least one first plate element and at least one second plate element both of which plate elements are identical and in which each row of holes in each plate element including holes spaced from adjacent edges of the plate member and holes spaced from each other by a distance equal to half the thickness of the plate elements, whereby alignment between rows of holes in opposite parallel plate elements may be achieved with a minimum of said elements.
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