DE29711197U1 - Transport container device for installation in motor vehicles, in particular for installation on the seat back in passenger cars - Google Patents

Description

The invention relates to a transport container device according to the preamble of claim 1. Such a transport container device, namely a ski bag device, has become known from DE 34 47 323 C2.

According to DE 34 47 323 C2, a fastening arrangement is provided in the form of a fastening frame, which material

30 locking tongues and locking abutments that are connected as one piece. Using these locking abutments, the fastening frame is inserted into a recess in the rear wall and then pressed into a recess in the rear wall or trunk wall until the locking tongues snap into place.

35 This allows the mounting frame to be attached quickly and without tools. Disassembly can also be carried out without tools by directly operating the locking tongues, which, however, do not require any special

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have different operating handles (cf. DE 34 47 323 C2 Fig. 1).

To secure the mouth area of a ski bag, the fastening frame of the known transport container device according to DE 34 47 323 C2 has a support surface in a groove into which a support frame, namely a plug-in frame, can be inserted to hold the ski bag mouth area. The ski bag mouth area and the support frame thus form a counter-support surface that rests against the support surface of the fastening arrangement (fastening frame).

Based on DE 34 47 323 C2, the aim of this invention is to further develop the known transport container device so that it can be used much more universally than before.

According to the invention, this object is achieved in that the fastening arrangement forms two contact holding surfaces arranged at a distance from one another and pointing in opposite directions, namely a first and a second contact holding surface, to which a counter-contact holding surface of a holding frame can be placed in each case or alternatively, and in that at least one latch is assigned to each contact holding surface for the detachable fixing of the holding frame to the respective contact holding surface.

Essential for the transport container device according to the invention is first of all the fastening arrangement to be attached to the vehicle. This forms two spaced apart, ¹ opposite directions further

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send system holding surfaces, namely a first and second system holding surface.

Applied to the example of a car sedan, if the fastening arrangement is installed on the seat back or trunk wall, the first system holding surface could, for example, point forward in the direction of travel, i.e. into the passenger compartment, and the second system holding surface could point rearward, i.e. into the trunk.

The invention has thereby created the possibility of, for example, joining a transport container with the counter-supporting surface of its support frame from the trunk to the second support-supporting surface facing backwards and releasably securing it there using at least one latch. Such a container mounted on the trunk side, e.g. a cool box, could then be accessible via a specially provided flap via the through-loading opening on the seat back and/or trunk wall side.

On the other hand, the invention opens up the possibility of joining the counter-supporting surface of a container on the holding frame side from the passenger compartment to the first support-supporting surface facing forward and securing it there using at least one latch. Such a container could, for example, accommodate utensils from a portable office, such as a fax machine, a telephone system, a laptop or the like. The through-loading opening leading to the trunk can also be used in such a transport container, even if only for passing through electrical cables. Of course, transport containers are also conceivable that do not require the use of the through-loading opening.

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Finally, the invention also allows the possibility of releasably securing a transport container on both the passenger compartment side and the trunk side by means of the fastening arrangement according to the invention.

For the purposes of the invention, the term "transport container" is to be understood as any suitable container, whether it is completely closed or partially open, whether it has solid walls or whether it has flexible walls.

A preferred embodiment according to the invention consists in that the fastening arrangement has at least two hollow profile-like components arranged at a parallel distance from one another, whose cross-sectional profile is essentially U-shaped and whose profile webs, connected to one another by a profile base, form the first and second contact-holding surfaces with their outer surfaces. The profile opening of the respective hollow profile-like component expediently faces outwards.

An advantageous variant of the invention consists in that the two hollow profile-like components are connected to one another by two connecting struts extending at right angles to them to form a closed fastening frame. Furthermore, the invention provides that the two hollow profile-like components are mounted essentially horizontally on the vehicle side.

It is expedient for the respective latch to be operated by means of at least one actuating handle. In this context, the invention initially provides that the latch has a

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A swivel bolt or a sliding bolt which engages behind the holding frame resting on the contact holding surface at a point facing away from the counter-contact holding surface of the holding frame.
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According to another variant of the invention, the latch is formed by a spring-loaded locking lug, which can be part of a leaf spring element.

The locking lug must be releasably locked in its locking position behind the holding frame.

To operate the latches, the invention initially provides that each latch is assigned an operating handle.

The actuating handle for the respective latch can be arranged on the side on which the attachment holding surface of the fastening arrangement assigned to the latch is also located. If a transport container is therefore mounted from the passenger compartment, the actuating handle can be operated from the passenger compartment in accordance with the inventive features described above.

For other applications, the invention provides an embodiment according to which the actuating handles for both latches are provided on the same side of the fastening arrangement. This means that the actuation for the latch of the first attachment holding surface and the actuation of the latch for the second attachment holding surface take place from the same side, e.g. from the passenger compartment or from the trunk.

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It is also advisable to combine the two bars into one assembly.

The invention does not necessarily require that latches provided with actuating handles be provided, for example, on two opposite sides, e.g. of a closed fastening frame. The invention can also be implemented if, for example, the lower side of the fastening frame is held in a form-fitting manner, e.g. with a plug-in fastening that allows a pivoting movement. In this case, it will be sufficient to provide at least one latch on the upper side of the fastening frame.

A particularly easy-to-use embodiment of the invention consists in that at least one latch is arranged on one side of the fastening arrangement, e.g. at the top, and at least one latch is also arranged on the opposite side of the fastening arrangement, e.g. at the bottom, at least one actuating handle for at least one latch is arranged on one side of the fastening arrangement, e.g. at the top, and the latches provided on the diametrically opposite side of the fastening arrangement are coupled to one another for movement.

If an actuating handle provided, for example, at the top of a fastening frame is operated in the release direction of the latches assigned to it, the latches arranged on the lower side of the fastening frame are also operated in the release direction at the same time via a movement coupling, e.g. via a Bowden cable or a rod.

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In the drawings, preferred embodiments according to the invention are shown in more detail, it shows

Fig. 1 is a more schematic sectional view through a passenger car rear seat backrest with a transport container device; for reasons of graphic representation, the seat backrest is not shown in an inclined, but in a vertical position,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail of the upper part of the illustration according to Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail of the lower part of the illustration according to Fig. 1,
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Fig. 4 - 7 based on the illustration in Fig. 2 different applications or embodiments,

Fig. 8 and 9 show modified applications or embodiments based on the illustration in Fig. 3,

Fig. 10 shows another modified embodiment based on the representation according to Fig. 2,

Fig. 11 an additional fastening for special applications,

Fig. 12 based on Fig. 1 an overall view of a modified embodiment,
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Fig. 13 is an enlarged detail of the upper part of Fig. 12 and

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Fig. 14 is an enlarged detail of the lower part of Fig. 12.

In the drawings, a transport container device, regardless of its respective embodiment, is always designated with the reference number 10.

According to Fig. 1, a transport container device 10 is installed in the rear seat back 11 of a passenger car sedan and is arranged with respect to the direction of travel x behind a pivoting armrest 13, the rest position of which can be seen in the solid representation and the pivoted-out operating position of which can be seen in the dashed representation according to Fig. 1.

A seat back frame 12 made of pressed steel profiles also forms the trunk wall 15, which is provided with a panel 14. The trunk can therefore be imagined as 16 and the passenger compartment as 17.

A recess 18 is made in the trunk wall 15 to accommodate a fastening frame 19 of the transport container device 10. The fastening frame 19, a plastic injection-molded part, for example, is fastened to the edge 20 of the recess 18 in a manner not shown in detail, in particular screwed.

The fastening frame 19 has an upper and a lower hollow profile-like component 21, 22. The hollow profile-like components 21, 22 are U-shaped and have

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with their respective profile opening 23, 24 facing outwards, i.e. upwards and downwards.

Each hollow profile-like component 21, 22 has a profile base 25 and profile webs 26, 27 that are angled outwards in a step-like manner.

As can be seen in Figs. 2 and 3, for example, the profile webs 26, 27 form contact-holding surfaces AH1 and AH2, which point in opposite directions. The first contact-holding surface AH1 points towards the passenger compartment 17, while the second contact-holding surface AH2 is directed towards the trunk 16.

In Figs. 1 and 3 it is shown that a holding frame H with a front counter-supporting surface GAl rests against the rear supporting surface AH2 of the fastening frame 19.

In principle, it would also be conceivable that the holding frame H with its second, rear counter-supporting surface GA2 rests against the front support holding surface AHl and is engaged there by the locking projection 37 of a swivel bolt 28 in such a way that the latter engages behind the front counter-supporting surface GA1 with its locking surface.

Two swivel bolts 28, 29 are always combined to form an assembly and are pivotably mounted on a common bearing axis 30 within the hollow profile-like component 21. The bearing axis 30 is attached to the component 21 or 22 by means of at least one bracket 61. Both swivel bolts 28, 29 are designed as double levers, which are each operated by

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have a relatively short lever extension 31. Each lever extension 31 is surrounded by a separate actuating handle 32, 33. When the actuating handle 32 is pressed in the direction Fl, the actuating handle 32 engages the lever extension 31 of the pivot bolt 28 and lifts it upwards from its locking position and in this case releases a pivoting flap 34 which is used to handle a textile ski bag 35 when it is still in a storage space 36. The holding frame H described above therefore serves in this case to detachably fasten the textile ski bag 35 to the fastening frame 19.

If the rear operating handle 33 is operated in the pressure direction F2, the lever extension 31 of the swivel bolt 29 pivots to the left, so that the locking projection 37 of the swivel bolt 29 moves upwards into its release position (not shown) and releases the holding frame H together with the ski bag 35. The ski bag 35 with the holding frame H can then be removed from the trunk 16 by opening the rear swivel flap 38.

Fig. 3 is only intended to show how the holding frame H rests on the lower part of the arrangement.

The arrangement according to Fig. 4 differs from the representation according to Fig. 2 only by a different embodiment of the actuation. In fact, the actuating handles 32, 33 shown in Fig. 2 are combined in a single actuating handle 39 in the embodiment shown in Fig. 4 (see also Fig. 5 and Fig. 10). The actuating handle 39 is coupled in terms of movement to both lever extensions 31 of the pivot bolts 28, 29 via a fork 62.

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pelt. The downward-pointing lever extension 31 belongs to the swivel bolt 28, while the upward-pointing lever extension 31 is in one piece with the swivel bolt 29.

The function when the actuating handle 39 is pressed in the direction of F2 is clear in itself without further explanation. According to Fig. 4, a rigid container 40, e.g. a cool box, is attached to the rear system holding surface AH2 with the counter-supporting surface GAl of its holding frame H and is releasably locked by means of the locking projection 37 of the swivel bolt 29. The rigid container 40 can therefore be inserted into the fastening frame 19 from the trunk 16.

According to Fig. 5, a rigid container 40 is inserted into the fastening frame 19 from the passenger compartment 17. Accordingly, the holding frame H according to Fig. 5 rests with its rear counter-supporting surface GA2 on the front supporting surface AH1 of the fastening frame 19 and is held there releasably by means of the locking projection 37 of the pivoting bolt 28.
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In the embodiment according to Fig. 6, in contrast

For the illustration according to Fig. 4, instead of the holding frame H of a rigid container 40, the holding frame H of a textile ski bag 35 is shown, as already shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 7 corresponds to the embodiment according to Fig. 4 when applied to a rigid container 40 that can be inserted from the trunk 16. However, the pivot bolt 29 according to Fig. 4 is replaced by a sliding bolt or sash 41, which can be moved upwards in a translational manner in the pressure direction F3 against the restoring force of a helical compression spring 42.

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and at the same time moves the pivot bolt 28 into its release position via a pressure finger 43.

In addition to the illustrations in Figs. 5 and 6, Figs. 8 and 9 show the fastening of the rigid container 40 by means of spring-loaded locking lugs 44, 45 in the lower area of the arrangement. As indicated in Fig. 8, the locking lug 44 can in principle be releasably blocked with a locking rod 46 on the fastening frame 19. A similar arrangement is also conceivable in connection with the spring-loaded locking lug 45.

It should also be mentioned that the locking lugs 37 and the locking lugs 44, 45 penetrate the profile webs 26, 27 of the components 21, 22 in openings 47.

Fig. 11 shows that, in the case of particularly heavy containers 40, their holding frame H can be anchored by means of knurled screws R both to the fastening frame 19 and to the seat back frame 12.

In Fig. 12 - 14 a movement coupling between the upper pivot bolts 28, 29 and lower pivot bolts 28U, 29U is shown.

The two hollow profile-like components 21 and 22 are connected to one another by means of vertical connecting struts 48 to form a closed fastening frame 19. On the outside of these connecting struts 48, a push rod 49, which has an axial guide slot 50, is connected to guide cams 51, which are formed on the respective connecting strut 48, in a translational manner according to the double-

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arrow is guided so that it can move up and down. If the actuating handle 39, which is pivotably mounted on the axis 52, is actuated in the pressure direction F2, the actuating handle 39 engages behind a lever extension 53 of the swivel bolt 29 with a lateral projection 54 and lifts this into its release position. The swivel lever 29 presses with its lever extension 31 at the same time on the lever extension 31 of the swivel bolt 28 in order to also move this into its release position. During this movement, a lifting finger 55 lifts the push rod 49 upwards by its cam 56. At the same time, the push rod 49 lifts the two lever extensions 31 of the lower swivel bolts 28U, 29U with its lower cam 57 and thereby actuates them in the release direction.

All swivel bolts 28, 29, 28U, 29U are spring-loaded in the direction of their locking position, for example by means of the leg springs 58 shown in Figs. 13 and 14.

0 It should also be added that/3 in Fig. 10 the holding frame H is part of an adapter plate 59 to which any container 40 can be attached, for example by means of a knurled screw connection 60.

Claims (16)

Peter Butz GmbH & Co. Management-$p* 'tt* \ Claims 1. Transport container device (10) for installation in motor vehicles, such as a through-loading device, in particular for installation on the seat back or trunk wall in passenger cars, with a fastening arrangement (19) to be attached to the edge (20) of a vehicle-side through-loading opening (18), which forms at least one contact-holding surface (AH1, AH2) extending in one plane for a counter-contact-holding surface (GA1, GA2) of a holding frame (H) of a transport container (35, 40), such as a ski bag (35) or the like (40), characterized in _that the fastening arrangement (19) forms two contact-holding surfaces (AH1, AH2) arranged at a distance from one another and pointing in opposite directions (at 17, at 16), namely a first (AH1) and a second (AH2) contact-holding surface, to which in each case or alternatively a counter-contact-holding surface (GA1, GA2) of a holding frame (H), and that for the releasable fixing of the holding frame (H) to the respective system holding surface (AH1, AH2), at least one latch (28, 29; 28U, 29U; 41) is assigned to each system holding surface (AH1, AH2). 2. Transport container device according to claim 1, characterized in that the fastening arrangement (19) has at least two hollow profile-like components (21, 22) arranged at a parallel distance from one another, the cross-sectional profile of which is essentially U-shaped and the profile webs of which are connected to one another by a profile base (25) Peter Butz GmbH & Co. VerwaltungsTite *..* J (26, 27) with their outer surfaces form the first (AH1) and the second (AH2) contact holding surface. 3. Transport container device according to claim 2, characterized in that the profile opening (23, 24) of the respective hollow profile-like component (21, 22) points outwards. 4. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the two hollow- Filament-like components (21, 22) are connected to one another by two connecting struts (48) extending at right angles to them to form a closed fastening frame (19).
15 5. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the two hollow profile-like components (21, 22) are mounted essentially horizontally on the vehicle side. 6. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the latch (28, 29; 28U, 29U; 41) can be actuated by means of at least one actuating handle (32, 33, 39). 7. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the latch is a pivot latch (28, 29; 28U, 29U) or a sliding latch (41) which engages behind the holding frame (H) resting on the abutment holding surface (eg AH2) at a point (GA2) which faces away from the counter-abutment holding surface (GA1) of the holding frame (H). · Peter Butz GmbH & Co. Verwaltungs-G* * _t /» Z - 16 - 8. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the latch is formed by a resilient locking lug (44, 45). 9. Transport container device according to claim 8, characterized in that the resilient locking lug (44, 45) is formed by a leaf spring element. 10. Transport container device according to claim 8 or claim 9, characterized in that the locking lug (44, 45) can be releasably blocked (at 46) in its locking position engaging behind the holding frame (H). 11. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that each latch (28, 29) is assigned an actuating handle (32, 33). 12. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that the actuating handle (32, 33) for the respective latch (28, 29) is arranged on the side on which the contact holding surface (AH1, AH2) of the fastening arrangement (19) associated with the latch (28, 29) is also located. 13. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that the actuating handles for both latches are provided on the same side of the fastening arrangement. 14. Transport container device according to claim 13, characterized in that both actuating handles Peter Butz GmbH & Co. Managed by JST&G ·,.· * ''//· \ a single operating handle (39) which operates both latches (28, 29) simultaneously. 15. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that at least one latch (28, 29) is arranged on one side of the fastening arrangement (19), e.g. at the top (at 21), while on the side of the fastening arrangement diametrically opposite the latch, e.g. at the bottom (at 22), only one positive locking receptacle is provided which holds the holding frame (H) on the fastening arrangement (19). 16. Transport container device according to one of claims 1 to 14, characterized in that on one side of the fastening arrangement (19), eg at the top (at 21), at least one latch (28, 29) is arranged, and that on the opposite side of the fastening arrangement (19), eg at the bottom (at 22), at least one latch (28U, 29U) is also arranged, that on one side of the fastening arrangement, eg at the top (at 21), at least one actuating handle (39) for at least one latch (28, 29) is arranged and that the latches (28U, 29U) provided on the diametrically opposite sides (e.g. at 22) of the fastening arrangement (19) are coupled to one another for movement.