EP3491966A1 - Dispositif de raccordement et meuble ou appareil électroménager - Google Patents

Dispositif de raccordement et meuble ou appareil électroménager Download PDF

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EP3491966A1
EP3491966A1 EP18209757.6A EP18209757A EP3491966A1 EP 3491966 A1 EP3491966 A1 EP 3491966A1 EP 18209757 A EP18209757 A EP 18209757A EP 3491966 A1 EP3491966 A1 EP 3491966A1
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Gabriel Auer
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    • 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
    • A47B88/00—Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
    • A47B88/40—Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor
    • A47B88/407—Adjustably or detachably mounted drawers
    • 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
    • A47B88/00—Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
    • A47B88/40—Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor
    • A47B88/423—Fastening devices for slides or guides
    • A47B88/427—Fastening devices for slides or guides at drawer side
    • 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
    • A47B88/00—Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
    • A47B88/40—Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor
    • A47B88/49—Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor with double extensible guides or parts
    • A47B88/493—Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor with double extensible guides or parts with rollers, ball bearings, wheels, or the like
    • 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
    • A47B88/00—Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
    • A47B88/40—Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor
    • A47B88/423—Fastening devices for slides or guides
    • A47B88/427—Fastening devices for slides or guides at drawer side
    • A47B2088/4272—Fastening devices for slides or guides at drawer side ensuring a correct connection at the moment when the drawer is coupled to the drawer rail
    • 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
    • A47B88/00—Drawers for tables, cabinets or like furniture; Guides for drawers
    • A47B88/40—Sliding drawers; Slides or guides therefor
    • A47B88/423—Fastening devices for slides or guides
    • A47B88/427—Fastening devices for slides or guides at drawer side
    • A47B2088/4276—Fastening devices for slides or guides at drawer side at drawer front via latch means or locking lever
    • 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
    • A47B2210/00—General construction of drawers, guides and guide devices
    • A47B2210/0002—Guide construction for drawers
    • 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
    • A47B2210/00—General construction of drawers, guides and guide devices
    • A47B2210/0002—Guide construction for drawers
    • A47B2210/0051—Guide position
    • A47B2210/0054—Adjustment of position of slides

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  • the rails are telescopically movable to each other.
  • a push element such as a drawer, a shelf, a food support or the like is slidably received via exactly two separate, similar units of a partial or full extension.
  • the respective assembly of the drawer guides is preferably attached to an inside of a furniture body or a housing of a household or kitchen appliance.
  • Object of the present invention is initially described furniture or connecting devices for connecting a push element of a piece of furniture or a household appliance, such.
  • a kitchen appliance with a guide rail of a guide system of the furniture or household appliance in particular with regard to the function, the operability and economic production to improve.
  • the invention relates to a device for connecting a movable push element of a piece of furniture with a guide rail of a guide system of the furniture or for connecting a movable push element of a household appliance, such as a kitchen appliance, with a guide rail of a guide system of the household appliance or kitchen appliance.
  • a device for connecting a movable push element of a piece of furniture with a guide rail of a guide system of the furniture or for connecting a movable push element of a household appliance, such as a kitchen appliance, with a guide rail of a guide system of the household appliance or kitchen appliance.
  • it is a positionally correct and secure and / or releasable connection of thrust element and guide rail with the device.
  • the device is preferably fixedly but releasably attachable to the pusher such as screwed with screwing.
  • the device is preferably formed as a separate unit to the thrust element and the guide rail, which is effective between the thrust element and the guide rail.
  • the device is in particular first attached to the pusher and then placed together with the pusher when it is attached to the guide rail of the guide system, which is already mounted in particular on furniture or household appliance, with the guide rail in releasable mounting contact or latched thereto.
  • the device is also tuned so that a connection between the thrust element and the guide rail can only be established when the thrust element and the guide rail are aligned in the correct position to each other.
  • mutually matched portions of the connecting device on the one hand and the guide rail or an attached to the guide rail adapter on the other hand are prepared prepared.
  • the device comprises adjusting means, wherein the adjusting means comprise latching means, an operating element and a height adjustment element, wherein the latching means latching teeth and a latching member, wherein the latching teeth are arranged along a lateral surface, wherein the latching member connected to the control element is, wherein the locking member engages with the locking teeth, wherein the height adjusting element is formed like a disk, wherein the height adjustment is pivotally, in particular rotatably provided on the device, wherein the operating element is connected to the height adjustment, and wherein the device in the arranged state, the thrust element so with the guide rail connects that a change in position of the height adjustment element causes a change in position of the thrust element relative to the guide system, in particular a change in distance of the thrust element relative to the guide rail.
  • the at any time after the connection of the thrust element vorappelbare with the guide rail distance change of the thrust element relative to the guide rail refers in particular to a vertical distance in the assembled state of the thrust element on the guide rail.
  • the preferably annular disc-shaped height adjustment element has over the extension of the effective in the possible adjustment positions in the different pivot positions effective section, for example, continuously changing thickness.
  • the height adjustment element is accordingly preferably wedge-shaped with a minimum thickness at a z. B. free front end of the height adjustment element and a maximum thickness at the opposite end of thetexnverstellelements.
  • another portion of the height adjustment is effective and thus a different thickness of the height adjustment between For example, a contact surface on the thrust element and an opposing contact surface on the guide rail moved into the area between the contact surfaces or pivoted into it.
  • the contact surface on the guide rail is fixed in position, so that the thrust element is vertically adjustable, with simultaneous support or support on the height adjustment on the contact surface of the thrust element.
  • the height adjustment element or its wedge section is present in such a way that the height adjustment element, on the one hand and / or on the underside, preferably comes to rest on an upper side of the guide rail and on the upper side in abutment with an underside of the push element.
  • the height adjustment element squeezes with the pivoting horizontally moving between these two contact surfaces.
  • the pivoting takes place in the use state, preferably around a vertical or vertical spatial axis.
  • the thrust element is located in the front region of the sliding element rail liftable vertically upwards on the upper side of the guide rail, under the effect of own weight and a loading weight.
  • the pusher is offset relative to the guide or sliding element rail up or down when pivoting the height adjustment in a pivoting direction, in opposite pivoting direction.
  • the upward adjustment is a push-up and is done by overcoming the dead weight of the pusher.
  • the lowering of the pusher requires no effort, due to the effective weight of the pusher.
  • the thrust element always supported on the guide rail, wherein the height adjustment element between or sandwiched between the two contact surfaces on the thrust element and the guide rail is present. Only in a minimum or passive position of the height adjustment on the This connection device is not intervening between the contact surfaces on the thrust element and the guide rail present, but at least substantially present or pivoted within an outer shape of the base member.
  • the height adjustment element Since the connecting device in the use state is mounted substantially next to the longitudinal side of the guide rail, preferably in the front end region of the guide rail, the height adjustment element is present in the maximum pivoted minimum position on the device and is therefore not distance-changing effect.
  • the height adjustment element does not engage in the horizontal gap region between the underside of the push element and the top of the guide rail.
  • the push element floor rests directly on the top of the guide rail.
  • the adjacent contact surfaces, in particular the SchubelementSchseite and the thrust element guide rail top, are preferably horizontally and parallel to each other in the use state.
  • the wedge thickness varies over the extension of the height adjustment preferably z. B. between 0.1 millimeters at the free end of the wedge portion and, for example, about 3 to 5 millimeters at the other end of the wedge portion, which is forced in a maximum pivotal position of the invokenverstellelements between the contact surfaces.
  • This allows the thrust element underside and thus the thrust element maximum z. B. raise by about 3 to 5 millimeters in the vertical height of the furniture or relative to the positionally fixed in the vertical direction guide rail, with lifting by reversing the2020s in the other direction is reversible so recoverable and thus the pusher be lowered again or any intermediate positions possible are.
  • other desired maximum adjustment values can be realized. Basically, a non-continuous or non-linear z. B. curved or stepped training of Slope of the wedge section not excluded.
  • the adjusting means With the adjusting means according to the invention, a user-friendly, finely adjustable height adjustment of the pusher element is made possible.
  • the entire possible rotation angle of the rotational movement of the height adjustment pushes this wedge-shaped between the respective contact surfaces and thus depending on the maximum thickness of the intermediate portion of the wedge or the mecanicnverstellelements the distance between the contact surfaces and thus the height position of the thrust element to the guide rail or at the furniture.
  • the height adjustment element preferably comprises a flat wedge side extending obliquely thereto in relation to a plane horizontal wedge side which is in the useful state, the distance between the contact surfaces can be varied steplessly.
  • the height adjustment of the pusher is usually done with negligible in practice, small stages, depending on the distances between adjacent ratchet teeth and thus the distance between the locking device and the respective next or previous ratchet teeth of the ratchet teeth can be established latching.
  • the ratchet spacing and the pitch of the wedge portion of the height adjustment are, for example, matched to one another such that the vertical or height adjustment of the pusher element in relatively small steps of preferably about 0.5 to 1.0 millimeters vorappelbar.
  • the first horizontal wedge side of thedoinverstellelements is in the mounted state over the entire sweeping when constitunverstellelements sweeping angle preferably in contact with the contact surface of the thrust element and the underside thereof.
  • the vertically opposite inclined second wedge surface which is spaced apart from the wedge surface over the wedge groove, is free to rotate about sections of the device, ie without contact or friction at these sections.
  • the sloping wedge surface comes in the swung-out state preferably in contact with the contact surface or the top of the guide rail.
  • the paintable maximum rotation angle of the arbitrarily reversible back and forth schwenkbarencardinverstellelements that is determined between stops for the height adjustment and / or the locking member on the connecting device is preferably about 80 to 100 degrees, preferably about 90 degrees.
  • the locking means are provided ,
  • the adjusting means for adjusting the height of the push element on the furniture or on the household appliance or the operating element such.
  • an operating lever with a Andrückober II are preferably in the fully assembled state of the pusher furniture or household appliance for one person easily accessible and operable, although advantageously not visible from the front or from an operating page in the use state, but concealed by the pusher.
  • the connecting device is therefore preferably positioned adjacent to a rear side of a front element of the push element or thus in the front end region of the guide system or the push element guide rail, for example bolted to the push element bottom and / or the front element.
  • the thrust element guide rail usually extends with its front end to or close to the front element, so that from the front of the furniture by reaching under a lower edge of the front element by hand, the control element is easily accessible.
  • the operating element is preferably designed to be haptically advantageous for good operation, for example with an external roughening or corrugation.
  • the underside of the push element is accessible from below in its front end area for manual operation of the adjusting means or of the operating element.
  • the pusher element for example, something from the fully retracted to the furniture position or pulled out of the closed position to the front.
  • the thrust element rail is then displaced slightly or relative to a carcass rail or middle rail compared to the collapsed guide system.
  • the person can then access the connecting device on the forward plane projecting to a front plane of the furniture, which is done on the underside of the push element on the front.
  • the control can be manually operated, which is possible with a simple handle.
  • the operating element is preferably adjustable without appreciable force and a comparatively short adjustment distance, for example in the millimeter range or in millimeter increments up to, for example, about 30 millimeters relative to a circumferential line of the operating element to the pivot axis of the height adjustment element, preferably with the pivot or. Adjusting axis of the operating element coincides.
  • the guide rail is for example or preferably a sliding element rail, in particular a drawer rail of a partial or full extension with telescopic guide rails.
  • the invention relates to a furniture drawer connecting device or a household appliance drawer connecting device.
  • connection device in particular, for example, a front image of a piece of furniture or household appliance can be fine tuned, which concerns horizontal positions on the furniture, which in particular a uniform joint image on Furniture or household appliance is possible.
  • a front image of a piece of furniture or household appliance can be fine tuned, which concerns horizontal positions on the furniture, which in particular a uniform joint image on Furniture or household appliance is possible.
  • a non-horizontal edge profile can be remedied by the adjusting means of the connecting device on the left structural unit of the guide system on the thrust element and the adjusting means on the right structural unit of the guide system on the thrust element are used so that the thrust element is aligned horizontally.
  • the front image of the furniture is uniformly adjustable on uniform front column with uniform vertical gap width, based on the respective horizontal edge of the adjacent thrust element or other furniture horizontal edges with exact alignment parallel to the horizontal.
  • the connecting device on Rastkuppelstoff with which the connecting device, in particular in the attached state on the thrust element, on a mating contour which is provided on the guide rail of the guide system or an intermediate piece, can be coupled latching, so that a detent coupling for secure but detachable and positionally correct connection the pushing element is provided on the guide system.
  • the connecting device according to the invention is therefore preferably designed in particular as a height adjustment detent coupling.
  • the height adjustment element, the control element and the locking member are integrally formed.
  • the connecting device according to the invention can be produced economically advantageous.
  • the actuation component 54 that can be detachably attached to a basic component of the device has, for example, in one Area around the pivot axis around a central portion which is connected to the height adjustment element and the operating element.
  • the central region may comprise an annular region for embracing a pivot axis element on the base component. At the central portion is preferably a z.
  • a separate adjusting member 54 is formed, which has the height adjustment element, the control element and the locking member.
  • the adjusting member 54 and the base member are preferably made of a plastic material or are each an injection molded part.
  • the connecting device comprises exactly two components which are in each case one-piece and can be plugged together for completion, the basic component and the adjusting component 54.
  • the basic component and the actuating part advantageously each have a different coloration, the basic component for example light gray and the setting part green.
  • On the base member further functionalities are preferably present, such as fastening means for positionally correct attachment of the connecting device to the thrust element and the guide rail.
  • the locking teeth are arranged along a conical surface.
  • the conical surface is to be understood in the geometric sense as the conical surface. This is advantageous for a compact design and a mechanically reliable locking.
  • the locking teeth on the conical surface are integrally formed therewith.
  • the respective tip or each increment of a ratchet tooth preferably extends along an associated generatrix of the respective cone.
  • the conical surface is formed for example by an outer side of a cone or a truncated cone.
  • the latching teeth are designed along a conical surface.
  • the conical surface is preferably a partial circumferential surface of a conical surface.
  • the ratchet teeth are preferably designed web-like or rib-like, the webs or ribs are each formed like a line and similar to each other on the conical surface.
  • the ratchet teeth have grid increments and detent recesses which are alternately or alternately side by side on the conical surface circumferentially configured to the axis of rotation of the height adjustment element. For example, 15 to 20 increments and in each case between two adjacent elevations each have a depression provided to the axis of rotation of the height adjustment over an angular range of about 90 degrees. Except for preferably at least one retaining tooth of the locking teeth, such as a first and / or last locking tooth in the row of locking teeth, preferably all locking teeth are designed to be identical or identical. This is advantageous for a z. B. positive connection of a locking member with each of the locking teeth.
  • the lockable with the ratchet teeth or engaging in the locking teeth locking member preferably has a grid increase and on both sides thereof the grid increase limiting locking member flanks.
  • the grid elevation and the latching organ flanks are designed such that in a latching state of the latching member with a portion of the latching teeth, the latching member fits and abuts flat on the surfaces of the grid elevation and the latching recess of the tooth contour of the associated or relevant latching tooth.
  • the locking member preferably has the matching counter-shape of a formed between two raster increments locking recess of the ratchet teeth.
  • the Rastorgan flanks of the locking member fit and engage in surface contact in a locking recess of the ratchet teeth.
  • the ratchet teeth are arranged side by side in a row.
  • the locking teeth are arranged along the circular cross-section of the lateral surface contour of the lateral surface.
  • the lateral surface has an axial extent or depth to the axis of rotation of the height adjustment element, via which the locking teeth are preferably formed continuously through their axial length to the pivot axis.
  • the latching teeth have latching surfaces, wherein the latching surfaces include a locking angle, wherein the locking angle of the latching teeth is identical.
  • the locking angle preferably all locking teeth are identical to each other.
  • this provides a toothed or helical tooth profile, for example in the manner of a sawtooth profile.
  • a latching tooth accordingly has tooth flanks which converge towards one another and merge in a latching tooth tip.
  • the ratchet tip forms the end of the grid elevation.
  • the latching surfaces form sections or flanks of the grid increments or the latching depressions of the latching teeth.
  • the locking angle is for example between 40 and 60, preferably 50 degrees.
  • the latching teeth comprise a holding tooth, wherein the shape of the holding tooth differs in each case from the shape of the remaining latching teeth.
  • the remaining ratchet teeth are preferably identical to each other.
  • the holding tooth for comparatively stronger locking of the locking member in z. B. a transport position of the device, such as provided for a delivery state of the device to a customer.
  • the height adjustment is not in an operative position or in the minimum position in which the height adjustment element is located in a maximally pivoted-in position on the connecting device.
  • the holding tooth is designed so that compared to an operating and adjusting force, which is necessary for canceling a locking position of the locking member with one of the remaining locking teeth, the lifting of the locking of the locking member on the holding tooth is higher.
  • the locking of the locking member can be repealed in the transport position only with a comparatively greater effort or is a larger detent resistance established.
  • a latching surface with two different latching surface sections is provided with the holding tooth.
  • the two locking surface portions form the opposite flanks of the retaining tooth, wherein the two flanks converge in a tip of the retaining tooth.
  • One of the two latching surfaces on the holding tooth preferably has two differently aligned straight latching surface sections.
  • the surface normal of the one latching surface section is different from the surface normal of the other latching surface section or the two latching surface sections each have a different pitch.
  • a latching surface section encloses an angle with the further latching surface of the holding tooth, which angle is identical to the latching angle of the remaining latching teeth.
  • the holding tooth is in the radial direction to the axis of rotation of the height adjustment element in particular slightly z. B. about a millimeter or a fraction of a millimeter longer than the remaining ratchet teeth.
  • the tip of the retaining tooth is accordingly more radially spaced from the pivot axis than the respective tip of the remaining latching teeth.
  • the ratchet teeth are arranged in a row next to each other, wherein the holding tooth is arranged in the row on an outer side.
  • the holding tooth is thus a first and / or last tooth in the row of all ratchet teeth.
  • the holding tooth is accordingly preferably provided at a beginning of the latching area with the latching teeth, in particular at a first and / or last position of the latching teeth, on which a first or last latching position or latching with the latching member is possible.
  • a first latching surface of the latching teeth viewed in a first adjustment direction of the latching member has a greater pitch than a pitch of the second latching surface of the latching teeth viewed in a second adjustment direction of the latching member.
  • an adjustment of the locking member can be made difficult in a first direction, which is favored, for example, due to the acting weight of the pusher in the use state, which concerns an automatic or unwanted adjustment.
  • a larger pitch of the respective locking surface and thus a higher adjustment in this direction counteracts an automatic adjustment of the locking member.
  • a latching surface of a latching tooth forms in particular a stop for the latching element.
  • the latching member and the latching surface of each latching tooth are tuned so that a self-locking surface contact of sections of the latching member and the latching surface in the latching state is made possible.
  • the height adjustment element is designed such that it has an increasing or decreasing thickness in the direction of extension, preferably has a continuously increasing or decreasing thickness.
  • the changing thickness relates at least to the part of the height adjustment element which can be brought by pivoting or twisting of the height adjustment element partially or over the entire extension between the contact surface of the thrust element and the contact surface of the guide rail.
  • height adjustment is an alternative to Pivoting or twisting the height adjustment element a linear movement of the height adjustment element or a superimposed linear and non-linear movement of the height adjustment also conceivable.
  • the height adjustment element is in the form of a circular disc, in particular in the form of a partial disc, wherein a thickness of the circular disc along a circular path around the pivot axis of the height adjustment is around increasing or decreasing.
  • the height adjustment element is designed in the form of a wedge-shaped partial annular disk or partial annular disk.
  • the partial annular disc is formed over a circumferentially to the pivot axis of the height adjustment over an angular range of preferably about 90 degrees and in the radial direction from a distance to the rotation axis spaced inner radius up to an outer radius, ie in the form z.
  • B. a quarter-circle or a partial annulus At the front free end of the respectivelystellelements the thickness of theracenverstellelements is minimal and in the circumferential direction to the pivot or rotation axis other end of the height adjustment, the thickness of theracenverstellelements is maximum.
  • the operating element has an elastic member, wherein the operating element is connected via the elastic member with the height adjustment element.
  • the locking member is present on the operating element.
  • the locking member is resiliently mounted on the device.
  • the locking member is elastically biased in Verrastungscardi or urged with a spring force in the direction of abutment against the respective portion of the locking teeth, preferably under the action of the elastic member.
  • the latching member may, via the elastic member or via spring means for providing a spring force, such as a resilient arm, to a remaining portion of the Adjustment be added.
  • a resilient mounting of the locking member is arranged, which is designed such that by pressure from the outside on the operating element in the direction against the effective direction of the spring force, the locking member from a realized by means of the spring biased detent position on the locking teeth can be brought out. Thereafter, the pivoting or rotational adjustment of the locking member is possible.
  • the arrangement is adjusted so that the locking member without force from the outside on the control forcibly comes in exactly the selected adjustment or latching position on the ratchet teeth.
  • After removal of the externally acting operator or adjusting the control element is a comparatively short way from z. B. traveled 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters of the locking member. This path corresponds to the route previously overcome manually by the operator.
  • the locking member moves resiliently back from the unlocked position according to the newly selected rotational position of the height adjustment in the new position of the locking member between the locking teeth, so that the locking member is then locked again.
  • the operating element is provided offset in the direction of the axis of rotation of the height adjustment element to a surface of the height adjustment element, wherein the operating element is movable relative to the axis of rotation of the height adjustment element.
  • the operating element has two directions of movement or degrees of freedom, first recoverable via the elastic member from the radial relative position to the pivot axis recoverable and secondly via the pivotal mounting of the adjusting member 54 about the pivot axis and circumferentially swinging back and forth to the actual height adjustment.
  • the operating element is present parallel to the axis of rotation of the height adjustment element projecting from a surface of the height adjustment element, wherein the operating element is provided in a direction toward the surface and / or movable away from the axis of rotation.
  • the invention relates to a furniture or household appliance such as a kitchen appliance with a device according to one of the above-mentioned embodiments.
  • the push element is for example a drawer.
  • the pusher is for example a food support or a storage grid.
  • FIG. 1 shows a highly schematic an inventive furniture 1 in a state of use with a hollow cuboid furniture body 2 and designed as a drawer 3 thrust element, the drawer 3 is slidably received on the furniture body 2.
  • the furniture body 2 comprises two opposite vertical side walls 4 and 5, between which the drawer 3 via an inventive guide system with telescopic guide means or a first rail full extension 6 and a second rail full extension 7 from a housed inside the furniture body 2 state in horizontal Direction from the furniture body 2 according to P1 can be pulled out and pushed in the opposite direction according to P2.
  • the drawer 3 is shown in the maximum or completely moved out of the interior of the furniture body 2 state. This allows access to the storage volume of the drawer 3 almost unhindered from above.
  • the drawer 3 in the maximum far out moving state can not move so far out of the interior of the furniture body 2 in the direction of P1, as with the rail full extension 6, 7 as shown in FIG Fig. 1 is possible.
  • the front element 12 is then closer to the open front side of the furniture body 2 than that in the drawer 3 according to Fig. 1 is shown.
  • the drawer 3 has opposite drawer side walls 10, 11, which each comprise a constructed hollow chamber frame.
  • the drawer 3 comprises a front element 12, a rear wall 13 opposite thereto in the horizontal direction, and a horizontally extending drawer bottom 14 which extends toward or is connected to the drawer side walls 10, 11, the front element 12 and the rear wall 13.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 show in the region of a carcass side wall 5 a section of a drawer 3 with a drawer bottom 14 and designed as a hollow chamber frame 15 drawer side wall 11 and a rear wall 13.
  • the drawer 3 is about two structural units of a guide system according to the invention on the furniture body 2 and an inventive Rail full extension 16 on the side wall 5 and in the same way on a further hollow chamber frame of the drawer 3 at the in Fig. 2 not visible side wall 4 was added.
  • the recording takes place via another unit or another full extension according to the invention, whereby the drawer 3 is linearly displaceable horizontally in the directions P1 and P2.
  • the hollow chamber frame 15 preferably made of a bent sheet metal material has an outer housing 15a and an inner structure 15b, so that the full extension 16 in the inner volume of the hollow chamber frame 15 is sunk accommodated. On an inner side of the hollow chamber frame 15 in its lower portion, this is designed to receive a longitudinal edge of the drawer bottom 14.
  • the full extension 16 according to the invention formed as an assembly of the guide system comprises three mutually telescopic guide rails or a carcass rail 17, a middle rail 18 and a sliding element rail 19th
  • the center rail 18 is formed as a hollow profile according to the invention.
  • a thrust element to be moved such as the drawer 3, is coupled or connected to the thrust element rail 19, for example fixed to the hollow chamber frame 15, whereas the carcass rail is connected to the stationary part of the furniture.
  • the full extension 16 is used as an underfloor guide, an underside of a push element or its bottom is supported on an upper side 19 a of the push element rail 19.
  • a hook member 19b projecting upward at the rear end of the pusher bar 19 forms a stopper for a portion of a rearward side of the pusher, and for accurate positioning, a portion of the hook member 19b angled parallel to the top 19a engages a suitably prepared recess in the rearward outside of the pusher , This is in Fig. 4 also fixed to the use state rear portion of the full extension 16, in Fig.
  • the full extension 16 comprises a first or lower carriage 20 with bearing bodies arranged thereon, wherein the carriage 20 acts between the carcass rail 17 and the middle rail 18 for a load-transmitting relative movement of the rails 17, 18.
  • the full extension 16 comprises a second or upper carriage 21 with bearing bodies arranged thereon, wherein the carriage 21 between the middle rail 18 and the thrust element rail 19 for a load-transmitting Relative movement of the rails 18, 19 acts.
  • the carcass rail 17 includes two L-shaped fastening elements 33 and 34, wherein the fastening elements 33 and 34 serve for fastening or fixing the full extension 16 on an inner side of the side wall of a carcass, such as the inside 5a of the side wall 5 of the furniture body 2 of the furniture first
  • the fastening elements 33 and 34 have a width that is greatly shortened in horizontal width with the width B0.
  • a distance of the outside of the hollow chamber frame 15 can be minimized to an inner side 5 a of the side wall 5, which maximizes a receiving volume of the drawer 3.
  • the guide rails 17, 18, 19 are preferably made of a sheet material which, starting from the flat sheet material, for example, by a punching and bending process to the final product of the respective guide rail is formed.
  • the bearing bodies received on the carriage 20, 21 run on the outwardly directed sides of the center rail 18 and the horizontal wall sections 23, 24 and the side wall sections 25-28.
  • the lower carriage 20 engages with his Bearing body bearing portions 20 a and 20 b outside the horizontal wall portion 24 and the side wall portions 27, 28th
  • the upper carriage 21 engages with its bearing body carrying portions 21 a and 21 b outside the horizontal wall portion 23 and the side wall portions 25, 26th
  • the respective associated bearing bodies of the lower carriage 20 roll on the distal side of the lower horizontal wall portion 24, on the outer side of the side wall portion 27, and on the outer side of the side wall portion 28.
  • the respective associated bearing bodies of the upper carriage 21 roll on the distal side and the outside of the upper horizontal wall portion 23, on the outside of the side wall portion 25 and on the outside of the side wall portion 26.
  • the bearing bodies of the carriages 20, 21 are preferably outer cylindrical bearing bodies or roller bearing bodies such as bearing rollers or bearing needles.
  • the middle rail 18, which is formed from an initially flat flat metal sheet, is formed as a hollow profile and has a cohesive connection or a welded connection or narrow weld seam 29 over the length according to the longitudinal axis S.
  • the hollow profile shape of the center rail 18 enables a mechanically highly stable, in particular bending and torsionally rigid center rail 18.
  • the middle rail 18 is also compact and saves space and saves material according to their shape.
  • Fig. 5 shows the furniture 1 according to Fig. 1 Without a seen from the front left portion from below or in bottom view with the extended in the direction of P1 drawer 3.
  • the connecting device 37 is used for vertical or height adjustment of the drawer 3 relative to the furniture body. 2
  • a corresponding inventive connecting device 37 acts.
  • the connecting device 37 is preferably made of a plastic material or a light metal material.
  • Fig. 6 shows alone the fully compressed rail full extension 6 from above with functionally correct arranged thereon connecting device 37 which is in a minimum position, which will be explained below.
  • the drawer 3 is supported accordingly with a respective lateral part of the underside of the drawer bottom 14 on the two rail full extensions 6 and 7 and on the respective top 19 a of the sliding element rail 19.
  • the drawer 3 is adjustable on both sides in the height position relative to the furniture body 2. For this purpose, a person manually actuates the two existing below the drawer 3 connecting devices 37 from below, for example, when the drawer 3 according to Fig. 1 and 5 completely extended.
  • the connecting device 37 is at the bottom of the drawer 3 or on an underside of the drawer bottom 14 in the area a front bottom corner portion screwed, for example, with screwing means such as two screws 38 which engage through prepared openings in the connecting device 37 and are screwed on the bottom side in the drawer bottom 14.
  • screwing means such as two screws 38 which engage through prepared openings in the connecting device 37 and are screwed on the bottom side in the drawer bottom 14.
  • An attachment of the connecting device 37 on the back of the front element 12 is also possible.
  • the connecting device 37 comprises adjusting means 39, wherein the adjusting means 39 locking means 40, a control elements 41 and a height adjustment element 42 have.
  • the locking means 40 have a plurality of locking teeth 43 arranged in a row and a locking member 44.
  • the locking member 44 cooperates with a portion of the row of locking teeth 43, depending on the setting of the connecting device 37.
  • the latching teeth 43 are arranged along a lateral surface 45 on a base component 46 of the connecting device 37.
  • the latching member 44 is connected to the operating element 41 and projects therefrom in the direction of the lateral surface 45 with the latching teeth 43.
  • the locking member 44 is formed integrally with or on the operating element 41 in the illustrated embodiment.
  • the operating element 41 is arranged in the region of a curved recess 55 of the base member 46 arranged back and forth.
  • the base member 46 is preferably a provided with webs and cavities narrow, in the basic shape z. B. plate-like plastic part, preferably z. B. hollow sections or separated from the edge and inner webs chamber sections.
  • the upper-side flat narrow ends of the webs of the base member 46 span a plane of a top 37a of the connector 37 (see FIG. Fig. 7 ), via which the connecting device 37 rests against the flat bottom of the drawer bottom.
  • On the upper side 37a is also a pivot bearing 53 of a control member 54 and the height adjustment element 42 configured.
  • the height adjustment element 42 has an upper side upper-side planar end portions, which are aligned with the upper-side ends of the webs of the base member 46 and lie in the plane of the top 37 a.
  • the operating element 41, the locking member 44 and the height adjustment element 42 is formed integrally or form the separate adjusting member 54, which is preferably detachably connected to the base member 46.
  • the adjusting member 54 has in an in Fig. 7 apparent central section z. B. an opening through which, for example, a divided peg-like pivot bearing portion extends to the base member 46.
  • the adjusting member 54 is largely hidden in the figures, only in FIGS. 7 and 9 is the adjusting member 54 with the entire height adjustment element 42 can be seen.
  • the operating element 41 is connected via an elastic member 41a (see FIG. Fig. 14 ), such as spring means such as a spring arm elastically or resiliently movable in the directions P6 and P7 received at the central portion of the adjusting member 54. Via the spring means the operating element 41 is biased in a direction P6, so that the locking member 44 automatically in a latching with one of the locking teeth 43 passes and remains there, as long as it is not acted upon from outside or manually to the operating element 41 accordingly.
  • the latching is self-locking with the spring force of the spring means or the elastically biasing member 41a. In the axial direction of the axis of rotation S, the operating element 41 is displaced by the distance V relative to the height adjustment element 42 via the elastic member 41a.
  • the height adjustment element 42 is pivotable about a pivot axis or axis of rotation S on the base member 46 limited by stops 47 and 48 back and forth pivotally or rotatably, which manually by acting on the control element 41 from the outside done by an operator.
  • the axis of rotation S is perpendicular to the plane of the top 37a.
  • the attached to the central portion of the adjusting member 54 and integrally there existing height adjustment element 42 is disc-like, preferably annular disc-shaped according to a partial ring formed.
  • the partial ring according to the illustrated embodiment of the height adjustment element 42 has, for example, a radial width of about 10 millimeters with an outer circumference of about 35 millimeters.
  • the circumferential extent ⁇ of the partial ring or the height adjustment element 42 relative to the axis of rotation S is approximately 80 to 100 degrees, preferably approximately 90 degrees (see FIG. Fig. 9 ).
  • the height adjustment element 42 has at a front free end 42 a a minimum thickness of z. B. zero to 0.1 millimeters and at its other non-free end 42b has a maximum thickness, for example, about 3 to 5, preferably about 4 millimeters.
  • the height adjustment element 42 has an upper side 42c relative to the assembled functional state, or is preferably provided with a planar support edge running perpendicularly to the rotation axis S and with a slope oblique to the rotation axis S on the upper side.
  • the slope of the thickness of the2020nverstellelements 42 is determined by an angle ⁇ , which is preferably between about 5 and 9 degrees, preferably about 7 degrees (s. Fig. 13 ).
  • the change in the thickness of the140nverstellelements 42 is preferably carried out continuously and / or preferably evenly. Thus, a wedge-like or ramp-like shape of the height adjustment element 42 is provided.
  • FIGS. 13 and 14 show the connecting device 37 and the drawer bottom 14 only partially and in schematic outlines and dashed lines indicated.
  • Fig. 13 shows the minimum position of the connecting device 37 according to Fig. 8 , wherein a vanishing distance a0 of zero millimeters between the bottom of the drawer bottom 14 and the top 19a of the sliding element rail 19 is established.
  • the drawer bottom 14 is accordingly supported directly on the sliding element rail 19.
  • the height adjustment element 42 is pivoted back completely on the connecting device 37 in the direction of P5 and therefore does not grip between the underside of the drawer bottom 14 and the upper side 19a of the sliding element rail 19.
  • H see FIG. Fig. 14
  • the drawer 3 according to Fig. 13 in a lowest height position on the furniture body 2 and the furniture. 1
  • the height adjustment element 42 is rotated in the direction P4 and pushes with its sections whose thickness from the free end 42a to the end 42b In the maximum position, when the locking member 44 abuts against the stop 48, a maximum distance a1 between the underside of the drawer bottom 14 and the top 19a of the sliding element rail 19 of z. B. 4 millimeters achieved.
  • the drawer 3 In the vertical direction or in the height direction H, the drawer 3 is in a highest height position on the furniture body 2 and the furniture. 1
  • a corresponding intermediate height position is adjustable, with a distance a between the minimum distance a0 and the maximum distance a1 between the bottom of the drawer bottom 14 and the top 19a of the sliding element rail 19th
  • Securing the locking member 44 in a parking position by locking the locking member 44 at the relevant section along the row of locking teeth 43 is automatically at discharge of the pressure on the operating element 41 by the resilient bias on the locking member 44 in the direction P6 with the elastic member 41 a and realized the spring arm on which the control element 41 is received resiliently and recoverably deflectable.
  • the locking teeth 43 are preferably arranged along the lateral surface 45 or a conical surface or conical surface.
  • the associated on the base member 46 formed part-cone 50 is designed as circumferentially to the cone axis on a limited, for example, with about 90 degrees truncated cone, on the lateral surface 45, the locking teeth 43 are arranged aligned parallel to each other.
  • the cone axis of the associated Truncated cone preferably coincides with the axis of rotation S.
  • the conical surface of the part-truncated cone narrows in the direction of the top 37 of the connecting device 37. Over the length of the ratchet teeth 43 z. B. a strength of the locking action of the locking member 44 with the ratchet teeth 43 are influenced.
  • the locking member 44 comes with a first locking tooth in latching connection, which is designed as a holding tooth 49 and is positioned in the row of locking teeth 43 in the direction P4 in the first place.
  • the stop 47 is formed adjacent to the holding tooth 49.
  • the holding tooth 49 has on the tip of the holding tooth 49 tapered tooth flanks, which preferably have a smaller angle to a radial direction to the rotation axis S than the flanks of the respective remaining latching teeth 43.
  • a resistance to unlatch the latching member 44 from the latching on the holding tooth 49th comparatively enlarged compared to a resistor for unlocking the locking member 44 from the latching with one of the remaining latching teeth 43, which are preferably identical to one another or identical with each other preferably similarly shaped flanks of the respective latching teeth 43.
  • the stronger locking action of the locking member 44 on the holding tooth 49 is particularly for the in FIG. 10 shown minimum or transport position of the connecting device 37 advantageous.
  • Each of the locking teeth 43 has two opposite latching edges or latching surfaces 51 and 52 (s. Fig. 12a ), wherein the locking surfaces 51 and 52 include a locking angle ⁇ , wherein the locking angle ⁇ of all locking teeth 43 is preferably at least almost equal, z. B. at about 40 to 60 degrees, in the illustrated embodiment is preferably at about 50 degrees.
  • the locking surface 51 is inclined at the angle ⁇ 1 and the locking surface 52 with the angle ⁇ 1 with respect to the larger angle ⁇ 2.
  • the angles ⁇ 1 and ⁇ 2 complement each other to the locking angle ⁇ .
  • the latching surface 51 has a greater pitch or is oriented steeper than viewed as a pitch of the second latching surface 52 in the adjustment direction P4, or the second latching surface 52 is oriented more flatly in the direction P4.

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