EP2374370B1 - Attachment device for attaching a panel to a furnishing element - Google Patents

Attachment device for attaching a panel to a furnishing element Download PDF

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EP2374370B1
EP2374370B1 EP11159925A EP11159925A EP2374370B1 EP 2374370 B1 EP2374370 B1 EP 2374370B1 EP 11159925 A EP11159925 A EP 11159925A EP 11159925 A EP11159925 A EP 11159925A EP 2374370 B1 EP2374370 B1 EP 2374370B1
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Giancarlo Formenti
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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
    • A47B88/00Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
    • A47B88/90Constructional details of drawers
    • A47B88/944Drawers characterised by the front panel
    • A47B88/95Drawers characterised by the front panel characterised by connection means for the front panel
    • A47B88/956Drawers characterised by the front panel characterised by connection means for the front panel for enabling adjustment of the front panel

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  • the present invention relates to a device as defined in the preamble of claim 1 for attaching a panel to a furnishing element.
  • a drawer as a furnishing element, whereby the device of the invention allows attachment of the front panel of a drawer to the body of such drawer.
  • furniture In the field of furniture manufacture, furniture is generally manufactured and assembled with the drawers already in their natural locations, but without equipping such drawers with their front sides. This is because while the bottom, the sides and the back of a drawer have a standard finish, the finish of the front changes according to particular needs and may be highly differentiated.
  • the requirement to be fulfilled is to allow simple and quick mounting of the drawer front, so that such drawer front is caused to engage the rest of the drawer, preferably in a guided straight insertion direction, perpendicular to the drawer front. This kind of insertion is strongly desired to prevent damages to the drawer front during mounting thereof to the drawer body.
  • Spring-loaded insertion devices are widely used in the prior art, and allow the engagement member integral with the drawer front to be forcefully pulled against a receiving part, attached to the drawer sides.
  • One example of this device is disclosed in the prior art document EP-A-0740917 .
  • This invention is based on the problem of conceiving an attachment device for attaching a panel to a furnishing element, which has such structural and functional characteristics as to fulfill the above need, while obviating the above prior art drawbacks.
  • numeral 1 generally designates an attachment device of the invention for attaching a panel (not shown) to a furnishing element (not shown).
  • the attachment device 1 comprises an engagement element 2 which is designed to be fixed to the front of the drawer and a receiving part 6 that may be conveniently fixed to the body of the drawer.
  • engagement element 2 in the illustrated embodiment it is shown to comprise a pin 3, here extending horizontally, which is supported near its opposed ends 3a by two parallel and mutually facing flanges 4, perpendicularly projecting from a base plate 5.
  • the engagement element 2 is designed to be fixed to the inner side of the drawer front so that said base plate 5 abuts against the inner side of the drawer front.
  • the base plate 5 includes holes for screws or other fastening elements.
  • ends 3a of the pin 3 laterally project to a predetermined limited extent from both of said flanges 4, which ensure support and proper positioning thereof relative to the base plate 5 and, as a result, to the inner side of the drawer front.
  • the receiving part 6 of the attachment device it is shown to comprise a support frame 7 through the receiving part 6 may be firmly fixed to the body of the drawer. Namely, the receiving part 6 is typically fixed to a side wall of the drawer, otherwise such receiving part may be either fixed to the bottom of the drawer or to a lateral guide thereof.
  • the support frame 7 consists of a box-like body having a substantially rectangular section and a small thickness, so that the receiving frame 6 is adapted to be frontally held in a built-in arrangement in the end of a drawer side, whereby the front wall/end 7a of the box-like body is substantially flush with the front end of the drawer side.
  • the above described box-like shape corresponds to a preferred embodiment, and different shapes of support frames may be provided.
  • the engagement element 2 has such a shape as to allow insertion thereof into the receiving part 6 to a secure engagement condition, while ensuring the possibility of separating the engagement element 2 from the receiving part.
  • the parts have such shapes as to ensure that such insertion occurs as a guided front insertion, namely so that a predetermined guided insertion path is created, which causes insertion of the engagement element to occur in the predetermined insertion mode, to the condition in which the engagement element 2, namely the pin 3, is firmly held.
  • Such predetermined guided insertion path is also defined by the presence of guide means 11, which are formed in or associated with the support frame 7, for engagement by the engagement element 2 during insertion thereof into the receiving part 6.
  • said guide means 11 extend perpendicular to the front side 7a of the box-like body 7 along the side walls 7b and 7c of the box-like body. Particularly:
  • the longitudinal slot 11a and the corresponding longitudinal recess 11b have such sizes, distance and positions that the two flanges 4 of the engagement element 2 fit in a substantially precise manner between the two side walls 7b and 7c of the box-like body 7, while said opposed ends 3a of the pin 3 engage the longitudinal slot 11a and the longitudinal recess 11b respectively to be guided thereby.
  • said guide means 11 allow the engagement element 2 to fit into the receiving part 6 along a straight insertion path extending in the box-like body 7 from the front wall 7a and perpendicular thereto.
  • the receiving part 6 comprises a movable slider 8, which is supported by the support frame 7 through interposed connection means, which allow said slider 8 to move between a backward position and a forward position.
  • the movable slider 8 comprises a guide slit 9 extending into the slider from a front opening 9a, through which the engagement element 2, namely its pin 3, may fit into the receiving part 6, as explained above.
  • the receiving part 6 also comprises elastic means 10, which act upon the slider 8 to urge it toward said forward position with a predetermined preload, and stop means for releasably holding, i.e. retaining the slider 8 in said backward position against the action of the elastic means 10.
  • said guide slit 9 comprises at least an intermediate section, i.e. in this example the first section from the front opening 9a that extends in a direction transverse, not perpendicular to said guided insertion path.
  • said abutment wall is included so that an angle of at least 90° is defined between:
  • such path for guided insertion of the engagement element 2 into the receiving part 6, which is defined by the guide means 11, is a straight path, perpendicularly extending from the front side 7a of the box-like body 7 and said abutment wall is defined by an end section of the guide slit 9 extending perpendicular to said straight guided insertion path.
  • connection means connect the slider 8 to the support frame 7, to allow the slider 8 to translate transverse to said guided insertion path.
  • the connection means connect the slider 8 to the support frame 7 so that the first section of the initial guided path imposed by the connection means to the slider to move from the forward position toward the backward position is tangent or at least parallel to the abutment wall 12.
  • the displacement of the slider 8 from the forward position to the backward position consists in a translation parallel to the abutment wall 12.
  • connection means provide at least one double pin 14 and slot 13 connection between the slider 8 and the support frame 7, the slots 13 being parallel in a direction transverse, preferably perpendicular to the guided insertion path.
  • said stop means for releasably holding the slider 8 in said backward position against the action of the elastic means 10 comprise a lever 15 which is pivotally linked in 16 to the support frame to be able to rotate about an axis perpendicular to the plane in which the slider 8 from the backward position to the forward position, in which:
  • the displacement of the lever 15 from the operating limit stop position to the spaced away position in which it allows the slider 8 to move to the forward position is caused by the engagement element 2 during its guided insertion into the receiving part 6.
  • the elastic means 10 of the slider 8 exert a stronger elastic action than that exerted by the elastic return means 17 that act upon the lever 15.
  • the receiving device has no lever 15 and elastic return means 17.
  • connection means are still of the pin 19 and slot 18 type, they allow the slider 8 to an initial displacement from the backward position toward the forward position comprising a displacement component parallel to said guided insertion path.
  • the initial displacement of the slider 8 from the backward position toward the forward position consists of:
  • connection means form at least one double pin 19 and slot 18 connection between the slider 8 and the support frame, wherein:
  • both the above embodiments of the attachment device 1 include actuation means that can be reached from the outside to move said slider back into said backward position against the action of elastic means.
  • actuation means that can be reached from the outside to move said slider back into said backward position against the action of elastic means.
  • a tool such as the tip of a Philips screw driver may be used on said slider 8 to move the slider 8 back into the backward position against the action of elastic means 10.
  • said actuation means that can be reached from the outside include:
  • such toothing 20 is closed at the back, i.e. at the side wall 7c of the box-like body 7, by a bottom wall having an increasing thickness at the portion of such toothing that is located at the opening 21 when the slider is in the backward position.
  • Such increasing thickness profile of the bottom wall causes the insertion depth of the tool tip into the toothing to decrease as the slider 8 comes closer to the backward position, thereby preventing any sticking thereof.
  • the toothing 20 has solid teeth at the portion of such toothing that is located at the opening 21 when the slider is in the backward position. This causes the slider to translate toward the front end 7a, so that the first pin 19 comes back to engagement of the first section 18a of the slot 18.
  • the attachment device of the present invention fulfills the above mentioned need and also obviates prior art drawbacks as set out in the introduction of this disclosure.
  • the guided insertion of the engagement element into the receiving part causes insertion of the pin into the front opening of the guide slit and release of the slider by the stop means, as well as full insertion of the pin into the slider, which is caused by the elastic means that act upon the slider. It should be noted that, when the pin is fully inserted in the guide slit, said abutment wall prevents such pin from moving toward the front opening of the guide slit.
  • the force opposed by the abutment wall to movement toward the front opening of the guide slit is independent of the elastic action exerted by the elastic means that act upon the slider, as it caused by the restraint reaction that the connection means may exert upon the slider to prevent such movement.
  • a further advantage of the attachment device of the present invention is its simplicity and structural and functional strength.
  • Yet another advantage of the attachment device of the present invention shall be recognized in the feature of automatic disengagement of the engagement element 2 from the receiving part 6 in response to an action of the tip of a tool on the engagement device, namely the movable slider of the receiving part.

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ITMI2010A000611A IT1399617B1 (it) 2010-04-10 2010-04-10 Dispositivo di fissaggio per il fissaggio di un pannello ad un elemento di arredo

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